01 - The Beginning Of Things

[fashionfairy]

Characters: Kanaya and everyone!
Setting: Starting off at room 2-07 then continuing to anywhere
Format: I'll follow you
Summary: Kanaya wakes up and starts exploring
Warnings: None yet, but may involve green typing if text is involved



[A young woman, barely more than a girl, with gray skin and candy corn horns steps out of room 2-07 after taking the time to change from the bodysuit into a nicer outfit that seems to coordinate with the color. If she must wear the unfortunate thing, there was no reason to have it clashing with her outfit. There's a small amount of fear and uncertainty in her eyes but she puts on a calm and friendly face. Generally better to not start out in an unfamiliar place by running around like a squawkbeast with its head cut off. Instead she calls out in a clear, enunciated voice.]

Hello? Is there anyone around that could provide me with some assistance?

[If there is no answer, she continues to explore the tower, an inconspicuous bottle of lipstick clutched in her right hand. Some systematic wandering may turn up some answers, right?]

Comments

[alephbet]

[Person in distress!

Aleph was just about to return to his room nearby when he heard her call, and instead stops and answers her.] What do you need?

[fashionfairy]

[What is this person? Where were their horns? They can't be a troll unless they had some kind of tragic accident that had also changed their skin color. She has to remind her self that it's very rude to stare, or worse: bring up some terrible memory, especially since he is offering assistance and does seem friendly.]

To put it quite simply, what is this place? How have I been brought here? And for what purpose?

[restitchtime]

[Kanaya might not turn up answers, but in the lounge on the fourth floor she'll find one (1) Rose Strider sprawled out on a couch and keeping herself busy with a thick book. she doesn't seem to notice the new arrival, but as the pastime she's absorbed in is a pleasant one she looks actually approachable for once.

want to try your luck, girl?]

[fashionfairy]

[She doesn't recognize this strange hornless person but a fellow lover of thick, many paged tomes must not be all bad.]

Excuse me, but might you be able to help me? I'm afraid that I am unfamiliar with this place but as you do not seem to be in any haste may I assume that you are more informed about it?

[restitchtime]

Christ, and here I thought that I might be able to get away from the dumbass new people by not checking the network for a while.

[hahahaha oh Kanaya you naive girl you. Rose doesn't look up from her book, voice flat and disinterested.]

Whatever. The letter's a bunch of shit, the tower gets off on making us as miserable as possible, you can't die, and you can't leave. Did I use too many words for you or is that good enough?

[fashionfairy]

[Well, that was unexpected. Kanaya is affronted but attempts to hide it. Ticking off the first sentient being one meets of a new species is generally considered a bad idea. Or worse, bringing out the chainsaw.]

My apologies for whatever it is I've done to incur your animosity. I simply wished to know more about this place and those who have also been abducted as the letter you mentioned was somewhat vague. It was not entirely deceitful as my world was just destroyed and I honestly I feel that anything would be an improvement from where I just came.

[restitchtime]

[she rolls her eyes behind the sunglasses]

There's a difference between a literal world and the entire fucking universe, which is what the letter's talking about. Anyway, you'll learn a lot more by looking up that shitty guide somebody cobbled together than walking around nagging people.

[fashionfairy]

[How does she always end up with people like this? At least she's had practice.]

I find that speaking to people is a much more reliable way of judging a situation. I'm afraid we haven't been properly introduced however, I'm Kanaya Maryam and it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, for what it's worth.

[restitchtime]

[that gets her to look up briefly. she snorts, muttering 'typical' lowly under her breath before raising her voice to reply]

Rose Strider. Not too encouraged about your analytical skills if you think talking with biased idiots is better than getting some more concrete information.

[grislytragedian]

[John was returning from yet another trip to the library with two fairly hefty leather-bound books in hand. He really should slow it down with the ghost and horror stories, or else he'll go through everything the library has to offer in no time and wouldn't that just be the worst thing?]

[Yes. It would.]

[On his way up to the forth floor however, he can't help but notice the grey girl and stop two floors early. Clearly he's dealing with another member of Karkat's species here. Trolls, right? Yes. Though not the kind that live under bridges. He makes a small detour in his trek upstairs in order to go talk to the grey alien girl instead.]

You wouldn't happen to be a friend of Karkat's by any chance, would you?

Hi there cutie face! 8D

[fashionfairy]

[Yes, reading all the books on the subject that the tome collective had to offer too would be a terrible thing to occur. What else is there to do after such an event than to start writing the stories oneself.]

[But a strange hornless person! At least this one seems friendly. She smiles warmly at him...and then proceeds to talk his ear off.]

You know our fearless leader? Yes, he is a friend of mine. Is he here then? The last I saw him he was shouting about our forthcoming interactions with the humans but then I seem to have lost consciousness and awoken in this strange place. Do you know much about it? The letter I found by the oddly shaped and slimeless recuperacoon was terribly vague and uninformative about.

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[Oh well that certainly sounded like her roommate. She was amazed to hear Kanaya actually getting out of the room, not gonna lie, and being the oh-so-helpful person she tries to be is, Jade makes her way down the hallway towards the source of the voice.]

'Sup.

[Huh. That...kind of looked like Kanaya, it did sound like her....

...]

Where'd you get the new duds?

[fashionfairy]

[Oh hello there strange person. This is not the Kanaya you are looking for but she's more than happy to find someone that may be able to aid her in her quest for information. ...even if she is speaking in a very odd manner.]

New...duds? To what are you referring? This is a preexisting outfit of mine, only slightly altered to cover the strange collar I awoke with as there seemed to be no simple way to remove it. And orange is such an audacious color, it is very difficult to coordinate much to it.

[There she goes rambling again.]

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[Squinting

behind glasses

She already talked a lot more nicer/formally than her roomie did, although she still rambled just as much.]

Isn't your zodiac symbol usually red though? Apparently it was a Big Fuckin' Deal.

[fashionfairy]

[She blinks, even more confused than before.]

Red? No, it has always been this particular shade of green. While perhaps not a "Big Fuckin' Deal," I do consider it to be some matter of pride being one of the rare, few Jadebloods.

hello! ouo

[grislytragedian]

[Screenplays are more his style, really. His attempts at ghost stories are...well they leave a bit to be desired and therefore must never see the light of day.]

Not very well, I only spoke to him once and that was on the day I arrived here. It's just that you are a troll as well so I figured there was a chance that you two knew each other. Anyway, I am fairly new to this place myself so I far from the master of the tower's mysteries or whatever. But I do know a few things.

[He starts counting off on his fingers as he lists off the random tidbits he's learned over the past few days.]

For starters, there are monsters that roam the tower though they are far more active at night. They can't get into dorm rooms for some reason though so it's best to stay inside after dark. The tower seems to be run by five people and possibly some shadowy lab men on the side, nobody's really sure. They sometimes do really deranged "experiments" [Air quotes for good measure.] many of which have the unfortunate side effect of horrible and painful death. For your first meal you have to eat oatmeal otherwise you will puke and nobody wants that. The collars [He tugs on the violet tubing around his neck, which is sadly still not blue. Which, in addition to being the best color there is would match his suit wonderfully.] have to be checked on certain days and if you don't go willingly, you will be knocked out and dragged there anyway. Let's see, what else? Oh! There's a media room on the fourteenth floor though their movie collection leaves a lot to be desired and two libraries: one on the third floor and one on the nineteenth floor.

[thornythaumaturge]

Oh! [[She looks like that troll boy she met only a girl and not exactly like him. But troll like! Hope you don't mind her bouncing her way up to you, Kanaya.]]

Hi there! Are you lost? ...not that I would really be able to help much with that but hey, we could get lost together and therefor find our way around together. And that would be better than nothing, correct?

[fashionfairy]

[Someone this cheerful and excited was not at all what she expected from such a dreary place but it's certainly not unwelcomed.]

Perhaps not lost so much as I don't know where I am to begin with but I agree that being lost together is more enjoyable than being lost alone.

[She watches the strange thing bounce around a moment longer before asking,]

Are you by any chance one of the humans? My intent is not to be rude but I cannot help but notice that you lack horns. Unless you lost them in an accident in which case I am deeply sorry to have brought up such a sensitive topic.

[The lack of grey skin was another matter entirely. You can't just ask someone why they're white afterall.]

[reddeadvirtuoso]

What.

[But...isn't Eri the... and she say you the other day with a broken horn and...

Finally though, it clicks.]

Oh wait. You're from one of those hippy dippy alternate universes, aren't you? 'Cause in my universe, Eridan has jade blood and the cat named Kanaya has red.

[hystericull]

[Gamzee's been wandering the dorm halls as of late. He can't seem to get off of this fucking floor, no matter how hard he tries. He hasn't been in his room, hasn't been to any of the other floors he used to frequent, condemned to walking these corridors and plastering himself to the network terminals in search of nothing in particular. It was at this very uneventful and uninteresting moment, his 358th pace back down the hall, that he caught a glimpse of some horns he hadn't seen in a long while.]

[At least, not in tact.]

[Kanaya looked confused. Lost. It had been so, so long since he'd seen her in the Tower - and even then, they hadn't interacted. The only time he really got to speak with her was briefly through text before she disappeared. He wasn't really certain how the whole "sent back" thing worked. It would be interesting to find out - if he wasn't feeling so God damn atrocious.]

[A spark of energy flitted through him, before abruptly dying out. The innocent, hyperactive boy he used to be wanted nothing more than to run up to her, honking all the while, welcome her back, and offer to show her around the place, babbling nonsensically through the entire tour.]

[But as soon as he thought about that, he thought about how he wouldn't be able to do it. He couldn't even muster up the enthusiasm to greet an old friend. One he'd been worried for since she'd gone.]

[He didn't even know if he wanted her to notice him.]

[But really, how could she not, with glow-in-the-dark pink hair. But that's beside the point.]

[alephbet]

This tower - I don't think it has a name - kidnaps people from all kinds of worlds, informs them that their worlds have, apparently, been destroyed, and then runs experiments on them and tries to kill them at every turn. I'm not sure what the overall purpose of it is.

Ohmygod baby ;3; Come to Kanmama. No wait...that's next post. In the meantime:

[fashionfairy]

[She hears a well known, shuffling step behind her and turns. Even if there had always been something a little strange about Gamzee she's still overjoyed to see a familiar face. She begins to greet him before she sees him entire-]

GREAT HOLY MOTHER GRUB YOUR HAIR!

[fashionfairy]

[Kanaya feels the sudden desire to sit down. Have more of this face.]

Alternate universe? To what are you referring? Eridan is quite boastful of his place on the hemospectrum being second only to to the highest and I am most certainly not a quadrupedal meowbeast, red blooded or otherwise.

[fashionfairy]

[Ghost stories are meant to be read in the dark anyway.]

There are indeed very few of us left, only twelve survived the Vast Glub so it would stand to reason that we are all very familiar with each other. But yes, Karkat is a dear friend of mine.

[Oh how little she knows of who exactly he's talking about. She begins processing each bit of information as it comes.]

You seem to be a great deal more knowledgeable about the tower than you asserted. But what is the purpose of experiments that kill the occupants of the tower. I was under the impression that the tower was to keep us safe after the destruction of our worlds. And what is this meal of oats? Does it contain some soothing property?

[She has to laugh a little at the comment on the media room and library after all the terrible things.]

I can imagine that Karkat spends a great deal of time in the media room. And for a place like this to have two libraries, it must not be entirely dreadful.

[reddeadvirtuoso]

[Eridan being boastful about anything that wasn't him being right over Jade's idiocy what--]

Nah nah, see-- there are literally separate universes and timelines where things are all flippy and different. Like I said, the Eridan I know's the Jadeblood and-- you were probably friends with Rose too, right? The Rose I know was named Egbert and typed in blue text.