towerofanimus | 001 || so we didn't screw up as badly as we could've

Characters: Jade Strider and all of the people
Setting: Room 2-01, Floor 30, Cafeteria
Format: Starting action, but I'll do whatever!
Summary: Jade wakes up in the tower, and has quite the day before she finally makes it to the network terminals.
Warnings: Probably foul language and violence against generic Tower monsters, will update if needed

[Room 2-01]
[Her waking up is rather uneventful. One minute she'd dragging some needles across a giant disc while talking on and off to Eridan, the next minute she's... well, asleep apparently. It's admittedly a bit blurry and blinding since she doesn't have her sunglasses on, so those are the first thing she reaches for.

She simply skims the letters without much of a care (yeah yeah the world is over she's got it whatever), and she makes her way towards the trunk at the end of her bend. She quickly wrestles the white suit off to put on her pants and red atom shirt (she didn't really feel up to Godliness at the moment), and starts shuffling through the trunk for the rest of her belongings.]

[Floor 30-- Perpetual Nighttime]
[In a dramatic stroke of Jade Strider Luck, Jade ended up falling plop down on the floor when the staircase fell, letting out an unceremonious yelp. She recovered quick enough, standing up and... it was a toss up between looking at everything tinted dark and looking at everything blurry, so she hazarded a chance her eyesight might've improved with the whole god tier thing, and propper the sunglasses up on her forehead.

Not that it... helped much, so she just opted to keep walking until she found the staircase. And that was when she noticed she stepped on something and holy shit ow her foot ow ow ow-]

What the--!! [She'd been smart enough at least to bring her gun with her, and immediatelly whipped it out while she tied to clumsily jump away from whatever was at her feet, and started shooting blindly at where she thought the black blob of evil might be.]

[Floor One-- Cafeteria]
[It was quite the trial to actually get down to the cafeteria, and she had dutifully eaten the oatmeal she had been handed because son of a bitch she was hungry. The oatmeal wasn't quite enough to satiate her appetite for the moment though, and now she had an...interesting looking egg in front of her. And it was black and shiney and she was pretty sure it wasn't supposed to be.

Right now she was just kind of poking it and looking at it distastefully.]

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"How strange yet incredibly fantastic!" Elian saw the world in numbers. The probability of breaching anything that passed from one reality into the next was something that he was tested on over and over again, and was nearly broken for it when he couldn't breach his world into the next.

It was odd. Almost too familiar, except there was no game. There was pain. So much pain, and sorrow that coursed through his body at that place where he was born. His once child-like smile faded fast.

"I'm sorry."

"Huh?"

During Elian's thought process from excitement to depression, jade had apparently thought it was a good idea to maybe try the egg because why not. It was about halfway to her open mouth, when she stopped and blinked at him in confusion, lowering the confection away from her mouth again.

"What for?"

He shrugged and sighed. He wasn't meaning to come across as a wet blanket, and without having anything to really compare the basics of their worlds other than words, he was going by a subjective point of view which he knew was wrong.

"I just felt like saying it. Maybe I'm wrong, but didn't you feel pain?"

"Nah, crossing into the Medium? Not really," She lowered the food back down to the table and shrugged. "It was kind of disorienting, but nothing that bad. Just kind of happened. Like you're removed from one world and pasted right into another. No sweat."

Compared to the rest of the 'adventure,' entering the Medium was probably the least painful part of playing that damn game.

"I understand."

For him, being used to try to open the Other Side was a painful ordeal that often killed those that couldn't take the refining process. His head gave a slight nod. To be disorientated was a whole lot better than having their body torn apart from the planar rift.

He picks up another spoonful of the pasty oatmeal with a sigh.

"At least one thing remains constant. Oatmeal is still gross and video games are a good outlet for aggression."

"Hear hear," She said, which she would say she said ironically but was decidedly unironic in tone, as she lifted the fork-and-egg in a toasting gesture. "That's basically a universal law at this point. Can't have a proper world where kids save up their allowance to get oatmeal from the shop down the street.

"So tell me about your weird space station-y lab place, since you got to ask about my pad. Is it all cloning hoo-ha and shovel variables?"

He lifted up his spoon in the same gesture and nodded his head. With an inhale, he thought about his situation and blinked for a moment.

"I think there's some confusion. I wasn't born in a space station. I was born in a lab in the Mainland. My father was the first Alter user captured and they made me and three others like me from his DNA and one other. The second donor is unknown.

The torture I faced is something I don't want to repeat. Emotions were something that marked weakness for a soldier. Needless to say, if I showed any, I was subjected to unbearable pain. So, later when I faced it on the field, it didn't hurt as bad.

I had three brothers. Elian One died. Elian Three and Elian Four were used to block my power from seeing what was going on. I didn't know my father died until I saw him." Elian took in that thick spoonful of oatmeal and sighed after he swallowed it down.

"My father took me out of that place to keep me from being like my two other brothers. I wasn't known in HOLY until later. I was called a system." It was the best way he could explain his power and it was yet to be seen exactly what he can actually do.

"I have seen everything. As long as there is information in a system, I can find it."

"Can you really be a clone of someone if you're one DNA mixed with other DNA?" ....Nooooot, the important part here, Jade. "Does that make you some kind of Super Wikipedia?"

She's still gesturing around with her fork, but all jokes aside....well yeah she went through crap, but she wasn't some kind of...ro...bot...? Or something? Whatever. She would feel worse, but a cool kid didn't get attached to this kind of stuff.

"Sounds to me like you owe those Holly-Pockets a punch to the face. Sure don't look like any system I've seen and I run a lot of systems."

He gave a shrug and stirred around the oatmeal with disinterest. It was really tasteless and he missed having better meals than this.

"I am not a geneticist." He leaned on the table with one arm over the table top with his chin resting on his forearm in a lazy gesture.

"Wikipedia is an invalid source for credibility, though I think I understand what you mean." He's probably the closest thing to a robot without actually being one with one defining factor that sets him apart. He can feel. It takes a lot to hurt his feelings and even longer is his fuse in losing his temper.

He softly scoffed and nodded his head. "I would if I could reach their noses. I could use a ball bat instead."

"Don't diss Wikipedia." She is giving you a total look right now, Eilan. Even though it's probably kind of hard to make out, but she's still giving you a look.

"Eh, genetic's was Rose's shtick, not mine." She let the topic go without much argument, because really. Ectobiology was some weird stupid universal handwave that she was NOT going to get into.

She made a dramatic fist with one hand as she continued speaking, "You could jump up and smack them,"--and that fist eventually evolved into holding her arms up and out with claw-like fingers, as if she were about to pounce on something-- "or jump down from an awning or a rooftop onto their heads like some kind of freaky ninja assassin guy, if you can't find a bat."

He watched closely at her actions and nodded his head in response. So many things were starting to make sense now. It was better not to argue over Wikipedia. His opinions really didn't matter on it due to its limited uses here at the Tower. "I see."

The claw-like gesture and the fashion she used her hands made him blink for a moment. She had a point. Attacking anyone wasn't really his thing, but they certainly had their uses for those that could do it without suffering too badly from the falls. He wasn't going to test that at this moment. "Understood. Ninjas are skilled in their ways. Perhaps taking a page from their book could help us survive."

He had his own freaky ways in handling situations when they called for them, but he'll keep that part to himself.

Jade returned her body parts to a normal position, and for a moment or two she just kind of stared blankly at him. That seemed to be a pretty common thing with her.

And then, she decides to allow herself a little laugh in amusement. "Chill man, I'm just joking around. I'm but a flash-steppin' ninja apprentice."

Yeah at this point she's doing that thing where she lays the fork on the table and is slamming her first down on the head to make it flip. "'Sides, if anyone gets in my way I got my best guns on the job."

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Elian's eyes widened in shock for a moment. The table flipped and clipped him on the chin and sent him falling backward in his chair. He didn't cry out in pain. He just laid there for a moment with a pained wince.

"Then, I suppose it would be fitting for a ninja to learn some quietus."

001 || so we didn't screw up as badly as we could've

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