towerofanimus | Infighting Week One

Infighting Week One

Characters: any character participating in the Infighting event
Setting: pods, week one of the event
Format: any
Summary: All week one Infighting event threads should go in here, to keep things organized.
Warnings: horror, trauma, experiment results, impossible geometry, cabin fever

[Group Information]
Dax's Pod
Riki's Pod
Jason's Pod
End of Week One

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[ Hope you don't mind a viera intruding into your exploration, Jun.

Well, not obnoxiously. She stood in the doorframe, looking the room over. ]

You are looking for something?

[He jumped slightly in surprised when she spoke up, mostly because he hadn't been expecting to hear anyone. And a bit of the surprise was admittedly due to the bunny ears.]

Oh-- no... There's... something wrong with this room.

[ She cocked her head, then leaned out to survey the main area once more.

Her attention returned to the room. ]

Its size?

[He nodded.] It... I think it's too big?

[Yeah, compared to the size of the common room outside, it was way too big, now that he thought about it. He looked back at the wall that his hand was still resting on.]

And there are corners... [Did that even make sense??]

[ Corners? ]

A sufficient amount of them would lend to the room a circular appearance. [ From his uncertainty, however, that didn't seem to be the case.

She walked into the room, running her hand along the wall as Jun first did. Her expression gradually grew concerned.

This was not how angles worked!! ]

They toy with us.

A circle is made up of curves though-- and it shouldn't have any geometric corners. But...

[Yeah this was definitely not how angles.]

But is it even possible to make something like this? Even just to mess with us?

I once thought snatching others from different worlds not possible.

[ yeeep ]

It may be an illusion. My body tells me there is something amiss.

[OK she had a point there.]

An illusion...? [He hadn't thought of that, admittedly. It could've been, but then it would've had to be a damn good one to fool all the senses.]

Amiss? Can you tell if they're actually tricking us? [He turned his attention back to her curiously.]

Sound does not bounce as it should. [ And there was the hint of a headache forming in the back of her skull. Both, she attributed, to the wonky geometrics of the room. ]

Space is skewed here.

[Sounds and space? Now that was interesting. And not something Jun had noticed right off the bat. He looked around the room a bit, but sadly didn't find anything to test the sound thing. Unfortunately, he didn't have the ears like this woman had.]

With the corners and sound behaving strangely, the geometry of this room must be completely off. That probably relates to the way the space is behaving... Not to mention how everything must be wrong with the physics...

[Those thoughts he kept turning over in his head, however. Jun glanced at the ground, and-- a thought! He took the flower out of his breast pocket and snapped off a small bit off the end of the stem. He replaced the flower in his pocket and dropped the stem-- and watched it roll towards the center of the room with a look of utter bafflement.]

[ She watched it roll, too.

Um!! ]

Do stems often roll from where you come?

[He shook his head, looking utterly perplexed.]

Only downhill...

[ She removed herself from the wall, walked across the room, and then back -- enough to stop next to the flower's stem. ]

It is level. [ A pause. ] It feels level.

[ She felt no magick on her, nothing to make her feel enchanted, but the magic, or simply even powers, of the tower were foreign to her. Accepting that, Fran casts Esuna on herself.

Nope, still wonky as hale. At least her headache's faded. For now. ]

Is it?

[Jun had watched her carefully, and not removed himself from the wall to try it himself. He walked around a few paces and sure enough, it seemed to be completely flat. Just to be sure, he even knelt down and placed his palm flat against the floor. Sure enough, completely flat!]

But... how...? [WHAT HAS SCIENCE WROUGHT.]

[ Science doesn't work this way!! It is but a pale imitation!

Well. Fran was no brainiac, but she was PRETTY SURE it didn't work like this.

What had they been told...

Ah. ]

A competition. They mean to test our endurance with a setting that brings unrest.

[ Sounds legit. ]

They want to test us with corruption of physics ad Euclidean geometry...?

[Well that was...interesting? He supposed it was kind of working, since his rather scientific mind was boggling.

Nevertheless, he stood up from the ground and brushed his hands off a bit.]

I guess that makes sense... Though, then again it still doesn't make sense.

[Siiigh.]

[ Ad Eucliwhat. ]

They are meant to be subtle, I think. A quiet nagging in your mind that something is wrong.

[ The duller senses of a hume worked in their favor. ]

[Fancy math nonsense!!

Though really the thought just made him more sick than the actual space did. He was trying to resist going back to the wall and trying to figure out the corners thing.]

I...guess the point is to just ignore it...?

[ Her gaze flickered downwards for a beat or two. ]

Yes.

[ For how long...? 8|a ]

[He continued staring at the walls of the room, trying to discern the corner visibly and reconcile them with the circular shape he saw but....yeah that was giving him a headache. And, was probably not ignoring it.

So he shook his head to rip his attention away and looked at her sheepishly.]

--Um.. [Right ignoring!!] My name's Jun Kurosu, by the way...

[ She tilted her head in acknowledgement. ] Fran.

[ She shifted again, placing more weight on one foot, and placed a hand at her hip. ] Have you any comrades in this place?

[He smiled and nodded back to her.]

Um, two of my friends are in the tower... I saw them earlier, but I lost them...

[Yeah he kind of. Got nervous from the crowd, whoops.]

Perhaps you ought to find them.

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