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[morituramfides]

Characters: Jin (or what's let of him), Sayaka, and anyone on the Third Floor
Setting: Third Floor Library, September 2nd
Format: Starting prose, can do whatever~
Summary: Jin and Sayka got Zo in trouble with Jason, and are now dealing with the consequence. The third floor has been sealed off, and Jin has transformed into a blood-thirsty monster, mentally tasked with killing a powerless Sayaka.
Warnings: Body horror/general horror, death, blood, injuries, all that good stuff. IF YOU TAG THIS POST YOUR CHARACTER WILL MOST LIKELY BE EITHER MAIMED, INJURED, OR KILLED.

The day started out perfectly fine. Jin and Sayaka had once again gathered in front of the computer, the first time in a few weeks, to go over their notes. A message had appeared on their post. Jin had chatted up Zo while Sayaka had stared in shock. Jason hadn't been too happy about this contact, and rather than allow the kid to get punished, Jin and Sayaka took the punishment-- they very well dared him, in fact.

A transformation had occurred. The third floor was now sealed away from the rest of the tower, inescapable, and everyone inside trapped. It probably wasn't hard to notice the commition at their terminal; there was still ink all over them and on the ground, and anyone whose attention had been drawn to that could've easily seen Jin's transfiguration into the cat-like beast that stood here now, hunched over on all fours, and staring Sayaka dead in the eye.

Sayaka hadn't had much time to react. Her powers were gone, but his eyes were trained on her. The intellect he usually boasted about had melted away, and now all he felt was a bloodlust-- the same kind he could feel from Moros, but this time he felt it. The desire to kill, to rip something apart, to spill blood.

He lunged at her; she didn't have much time to start running.


(OOC: Remember, it is not immediately obvious that Jin's target is Sayaka. He has, as of now, been transformed into a mindless killing animal, and he will not stop until she is dead which means if your character gets in his way, they will likely be maimed or killed so that they are out of his way. If Sayaka dies within the first three hours, Jin will continue rampaging in the library until the time has run out. If the three hours pass without her dying, once she is killed, Jin will also be stopped. While Sayaka is alive, Jin cannot be killed; he will simply heal and come back until she is dead. If he is killed after she is dead, he will die. NOTE: Sayaka's mun has stated that Sayaka will eventually smash her soul gem if they find out that she is Jin's target.

Please feel free to contact either of us if there are any questions or concerns!)

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[heartfeltfancy]

[Crashing? Smashing? Okay, she heard ssomething. She'd been relaxing, reading a book, but instantly her mind drops all pretenses of "safe" and "calm", her body instantly kicking into overdrive. The flash of pink magic from her transformation goes off instantly, she heads off running in the direction of the commotion.]

Hello? Hello?! What's going on? Is someone hurt?!

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[Sayaka stumbles rapidly backwards from the initial attack, one hand clenched tight to her bleeding shoulder - and what's the most startling is that it's still there. She hasn't seen herself bleed like this in months and months.

She's not quite processing this yet. She'd expected - well, she'd expected, at worsr, getting a treatment a bit like what he'd done to Roxas. That was the extent she could imagine happening at Jason's hands from range -

It's not fair he can just do things as bad as this to them whenever he wants. It's not fair, it's not fair it'snotfairit'snotfair--

whoops hi there Madoka she just kind of retreated right into you]</sub>

[morituramfides]

[He hardly reacted towards Madoka's presence; just another person to deal with. Easily.

Actually, her presence was negligible, because either way, his eyes were train forward, and he lunged for both of them.]

[songofsoaring]

Link had decided to spend the day exploring. It was his second day in the tower. Whatever was going to happen to him there, he should at least know the layout. He'd started on Floor 1, in the cafeteria, and made his way up. Unfortunately, Floor 3 - the Library - had sidetracked him.

He couldn't read, only recognize a few words by rote picture memory, and had never been encouraged to do so. Even with the bomber's notebook. A fairy had always ended up doing that for him. So slowly wandered the isles, left hand out, not quite touching the surface of the shelves he passed, in complete awe of the wealth of knowledge. He could touch them if he wanted. Maybe? No one had expressly given him permission, but no one had said he couldn't either. Back in Hyrule, and even Termina, he'd never been allowed to touch books.

Link's wistful wandering was brought short by the commotion near the strange boxes some of the others had been sitting in front of. He hurried out of the isle he was in to look over and then reacted without thought. His sword was out and his shield was up and he was running to put himself between the beast and Sayaka, to let his shield take the first hard blow and give her time to run. However this monster got there, he was going to do his damnedest not to let it hurt anyone.

[beknightedheroine]

Clang!

When that's the sound that rings out, rather than the sick squelch of 'oh boy, looks like she got another nice flesh wound there,' Sayaka wastes a moment to be dazed - and then feel sickened.

To anyone else, this is the picturesque hero saving the damsel from a monster. But that's not how it is. That's not how it is at all and she can't stand seeing people defending her like Jin's just another monster that the tower spat up - she's got to think, think of some way to communicate that she's not the only one who needs saving and in fact, someone's state's a little more concerning than hers right now -

Another clang! from Link's shield. "Stop, stop, stop!"

[warriorscribe]

Enoch hadn't been near the terminals, sitting at a table with a book - standard fare for him, or so it should seem. But when he heard the sounds of distress from elsewhere, he got up, snatching up his open Arch from where he'd propped it against the table and rushing in that direction. When he sees a monster..."monster", was that a collar!? attacking people, he rushes in, leaping twice for the element of surprise and raising the Arch above his head to try and bring it down on the once-resident from behind.

[beknightedheroine]

Sayaka's duck is reflexive, when Enoch rushes in - and of course, it's foregone what he's aiming for, but she can't help but be indignantly - frustrated? Sad? Something - when he leaps in.

Are there really this many hair-trigger heroes in the tower? She wonders if she's like that - and doesn't know whether she should try and restrain herself from it or not. This is a special case, though - a normal monster attack isn't like now, where all she can think is no, all of you leave, because I don't know what's going on but I don't want people tromping their way into it. You'll make it worse!

_{"Why are there so many people here--"}

[savedbyasong]

Shion was in the library as he was every day sorting books onto shelves. It seemed there was always carts piled high with books no matter how much sorting they did. It was an endless job but Shion didn't mind at all.

He was a lot stronger now since he had started training with Reno and it showed in the fact he could carry more books quicker; though his ankle was still sore from the fight against the monsters and he was pretty beat up from his fight with Vanitas.

He heard the crash and moved towards the noise quickly, sometimes the towers of books fell on people. "Is everything alright?"

[beknightedheroine]

"No! There is absolutely nothing alright right now and - don't come any closer!"

Well, he was right about one thing - a few towers of books have been felled, but it seems to have been purposefully. Sayaka had heaved over quite a few of them with her un-torn arm while scrambling distinctly away from.. something. Someone?

[cullscuttlefish]

Feferi had been busy at her own terminal, but then everything changed. One minute, things were fine. The second? Something bad was happening here. She could feel the change in the air and -

"What the hell is that?"

Monsters didn't have collars. Monsters didn't appear in places like that this quickly.

Feferi wasn't armed at the moment, but she was going to rush in that direction anyway.

[beknightedheroine]

"Nononono, other direction, other direction, we are going in the other direction--"

Sup, Feferi, she's just gonna grab your hand and rrrrrruuun this way because okay, she hasn't tried the brilliant idea of fleeing to the stairs yet, that's a good plan! Her powers are off, but hey, what if she can make it to a power disabling floor and it turns what Jason did off, too?!

[puppy_lancer]

[For some reason, as he tried to rush back to the first floor, Lancer found that the stairs had been sealed off, leaving him stuck in the library level. He was ready to try to break the barriers, but the loud commotion behind him attracted his attention.]

Hey, what the hell is going on?

[Were they also trying to create a "special" occassion?]

[morituramfides]

["Special occasion" was certainly one way to describe it; there was a monster that didn't look anything like what the tower normally featured, stalking around a table and leering at a blue-haired girl.

He wasn't stalking for long though, as within the next second, he jumped right onto the table and straight for Sayaka.]

[quarkylass]

[ Jade heard something -- some sort of crashing, or footsteps -- but her eyes had been too glued to the network at the time to even think about leaving or seeking someone out. After all, people dropped books and ran around in here all the time; it could really be nothing.

But then she heard it again -- and again. And again...footsteps, more crashing. She shoved herself away from the computer and went down the nearest shelf row towards the sound. ]

Are you okay? Hello?

[beknightedheroine]

"Not okay. Very not okay. Least okay I've been in weeks and oh damn why did this have to happen here where there's always so many--"

Jade can't see the source of the voice or the noise just yet, but the sudden sharp sound of someone trying not to shriek after getting injured is apparent enough. Sayaka abruptly crashes into her field of vision, sporting a cool new gash on her leg and an improved appreciation for exactly how much that kind of injury hurts, dampening feeling or no.

She's not got much time to dwell, though, considering her pal-turned-pursuer.

[oforder]

[ Wilhelm barely seemed to react at all when that loud crash interrupted his reading of the Compass. He had been carefully observing the events related to the fake surveys, particularly the names 'Zo' and 'Jason.' Oddly enough... they didn't resonate with the Compass. At all. They didn't even appear to be connected to this world's Collective Unconscious.

And that's when he heard that sickening noise. It almost sounded to him like a Gnosis, until he realized what it actually was.

Wilhelm looked down at his chessboard. Carefully, and slowly - perhaps even more so than what would be natural, given the amount of adrenaline everyone else in the room is likely feeling - moved one of the Rooks on his side of the chessboard up four spaces, very nearly putting the opposing King in check. In fact, he could have; but he chose not to. ]

And so, the villain enters the stage.

[ Wilhelm then slowly faded away, and reappeared standing perfectly still on top of a bookcase, observing the fight. ]

{{ Telepathy: }} Allen, if you would kindly join me over here.

[[ OOC: ALSO! If, in the off chance, Wilhelm does any actual fighting... you guys might wanna tag this permissions post. He's... kind of a game breaker. ]]

[temptestament]

*Allen had been toward the back of the library, leafing through technical books and keeping a vain eye out for something that might be useful to understanding where they were. Well, until he'd heard the crash. The sound had earned a groan from the masked man, more irritated than scared if he were to be honest. The book in his hand had flown back up to its spot on the shelf when he heard Wilhelm's voice in his mind.

It was easy for him to locate most people through his connection to the Collective Unconscious, but Wilhelm stood out like a beacon for multiple reasons. In another area of the library...no big surprise. And so, much like the white haired man, he faded out and reappeared on top of the bookcase, looking down.*

What happened this time?

(Likewise, on the chance that Allen does end up fighting, please tag his permissions post.)

[crouching_sin]

[Naoya looks up at the sound of someone running. He's curious, and so he heads towards the noise - when he sees the beast, however, he takes a different route.]

[He casts a Shield All on the girl, before nimbly and carefully climbing up the bookcases. His light frame is an advantage here, and he sits on top of the shelves, watching.]

[morituramfides]

[The Shield All didn't do anything to impair him, nor did he care about the observer. When one bite and swipe didn't work, he just bit and swiped some more until it did. Until he drew blood.]

[colonial]

[America, paging through picture books and trying to pick out words he recognizes, doesn't notice anything is going wrong until he hears the crashing. It sounds like someone is trying to knock over the shelves, or something, and in the Tower America's first thought is monster, of which the building has many.

He darts to safety, which in this case is behind England's legs.]

What's that?

[keepscalm]

[England isn't too far from America, unwilling to let the bitty colony out of sight. He too starts once he hears the commotion, but there is no magical safety zone for him. He can only keep his ears open while he explains to America.]

...I don't know.

[Not that it's much of an explanation.

England withdraws his knife from his belt -- he'd have to see about making a harness for it -- and glances down to America.] Stay close to me.

[That said, he slowly starts to creep to the end of the bookshelf, to see if he can catch a glimpse of whatever it is from around the corner.]

[worldrestored]

What a stroke of bad luck. He'd been on his way to the upper levels when ti closed down, and Naoki found himself stuck inside the 3rd level. He wasn't a huge fan of books and gave a small sigh...until he heard the roar.

Immediately, his blood flared up.

There was something here, and it didn't sound too friendly. He began to move, running until he found the source of the sound.

[morituramfides]

The sound was presently among a sizable pile of fallen bookcases, books scattered and ripped, shelves broken and a few spots of blood, and a twisted abomination of a monster stepping on them with no regard with a low growl.

[fractus_animus]

[ Shit shit shit shit Jin.

He's never far away from his team. Especially not Jin. Not after the promises they'd made. Even if it's just to bug him and make fun of him... he didn't want this. He shouldn't have toyed with what he was toying with. He knew it'd get him in trouble someday.

This leaves Sayaka about to die and he races toward the scene--

And he's horrified by what greets him. His brain takes a moment to process this before the rest of him catches up and his lack of care for his own survival and desire to protect Sayaka kicks in. It hurts, it hurts a lot, but he grabs his Evoker and sends Thanatos in between the monster that used to be his friend and Sayaka. It can take the damage. It's mostly immune. This is purely to protect her.

Come on, Sayaka. We've gotta get you out of here. Now. ]

[morituramfides]

[Thanatos was in the way; once he was close enough, his teeth came baring down on Thanatos' arm, clenching and pulling and whipping his head, trying to rather pull its arm off or try and whip it out of the way so he could continue his pursuit.]