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towerofanimus2012-09-13 12:09 am
pointerpixl) wrote in towerofanimus2012-09-13 12:09 am
Entry tags:
[open / intro]
Characters: Tippi, and anyone especially fascinated by a talking neon butterfly
Setting: September 13th; dorm 3-13 → third floor dorm hallway, OR floor 32
Format: Whatever, although I am much faster at action
Summary: Tippi appears, and finds a particularly rare and valuable item in her RPG Tutorial Treasure Chest, if you know what I mean... Alternatively, being a teeny-tiny little bug is really, really hard when your ability to fly is disabled on certain floors!!
Warnings: None, unless you need a warning for potential sad?
[option 1: dorm 3-13 → third floor dorm hallway]
[Something about this wasn't sitting right with Tippi at all.
For one, she was on an unfamiliar bed. Merlon, kind soul that he was, had offered her her own bed in Flipside for little in exchange but the promise of her well-being, and it was an offer she could not refuse. She found herself needing much less sleep than others, in the end, but when the urge came over her, she would perch on the pillow delicately and drift off. This was not that bed; it looked different, smelled different, and even felt a little too crisp for her liking. Another point against this being anything normal was a tiny little collar fitted behind her antennae, and it certainly hadn't been there before. It didn't feel heavy or intrusive, but was snug enough to be noticeable all the same.
But more than any of that, there was that almost incomprehensible letter.
...Or, Tippi wished it was incomprehensible. She knew what it meant, but didn't want to admit it. A dull wave of sorrow washed over her, causing her wings to droop. The Void... really swallowed everyone? They were all gone? Merlon was gone, and Flipside? Even Mario, and Peach, and Bowser, and Luigi? And... it must have even taken--
Feeling slightly numb, she skimmed over the second letter shuffled beneath the first and absorbed the information. The emotion running through her was still too great to absorb the same way, but she knew, if only vaguely. Without really understanding how, she fluttered over to the chest at the end of the room and flipped it open -- perhaps she'd seen Mario do it enough times now that she could copy him without even thinking about it.
That didn't matter. The numbness subsided into grief instead when she saw the only object that was inside.]
Mario... I...
[Not too long after this, you may find Tippi struggling obstinately to drag a peculiar red cap down the hallway and away. Though it's easily almost double her size, and she can only inch it forward a little bit at a time, she's being exceptionally persistent.]
[option 2: floor 32]
[It was extremely discouraging when Tippi wilted to the floor unceremoniously upon reaching the thirty-second floor, especially when she was still on the stairs. So far, exploring hadn't been so bad, but suddenly, she couldn't get airborne again no matter how hard she tried.
After a while of furiously flapping her wings to no avail, she gave up and starts trying to ascend the normal way -- which is the hard way when you're an insect that's not built to walk or climb. Going up little by little, each bit of progress required a burst of energy for her to flap her wings hard enough to lift her to the next step without whatever Pixl magic had been allowing her to fly so freely before. (She hadn't even known it existed; yet another quirk of being a Pixl she could only learn through trial and error.)
So, if you're going up or down the stairs in the series of floors where flight is disabled, you may either notice her struggling, or not notice at all and almost step on her by accident (and get yelled at for it).]
Setting: September 13th; dorm 3-13 → third floor dorm hallway, OR floor 32
Format: Whatever, although I am much faster at action
Summary: Tippi appears, and finds a particularly rare and valuable item in her RPG Tutorial Treasure Chest, if you know what I mean... Alternatively, being a teeny-tiny little bug is really, really hard when your ability to fly is disabled on certain floors!!
Warnings: None, unless you need a warning for potential sad?
[option 1: dorm 3-13 → third floor dorm hallway]
[Something about this wasn't sitting right with Tippi at all.
For one, she was on an unfamiliar bed. Merlon, kind soul that he was, had offered her her own bed in Flipside for little in exchange but the promise of her well-being, and it was an offer she could not refuse. She found herself needing much less sleep than others, in the end, but when the urge came over her, she would perch on the pillow delicately and drift off. This was not that bed; it looked different, smelled different, and even felt a little too crisp for her liking. Another point against this being anything normal was a tiny little collar fitted behind her antennae, and it certainly hadn't been there before. It didn't feel heavy or intrusive, but was snug enough to be noticeable all the same.
But more than any of that, there was that almost incomprehensible letter.
...Or, Tippi wished it was incomprehensible. She knew what it meant, but didn't want to admit it. A dull wave of sorrow washed over her, causing her wings to droop. The Void... really swallowed everyone? They were all gone? Merlon was gone, and Flipside? Even Mario, and Peach, and Bowser, and Luigi? And... it must have even taken--
Feeling slightly numb, she skimmed over the second letter shuffled beneath the first and absorbed the information. The emotion running through her was still too great to absorb the same way, but she knew, if only vaguely. Without really understanding how, she fluttered over to the chest at the end of the room and flipped it open -- perhaps she'd seen Mario do it enough times now that she could copy him without even thinking about it.
That didn't matter. The numbness subsided into grief instead when she saw the only object that was inside.]
Mario... I...
[Not too long after this, you may find Tippi struggling obstinately to drag a peculiar red cap down the hallway and away. Though it's easily almost double her size, and she can only inch it forward a little bit at a time, she's being exceptionally persistent.]
[option 2: floor 32]
[It was extremely discouraging when Tippi wilted to the floor unceremoniously upon reaching the thirty-second floor, especially when she was still on the stairs. So far, exploring hadn't been so bad, but suddenly, she couldn't get airborne again no matter how hard she tried.
After a while of furiously flapping her wings to no avail, she gave up and starts trying to ascend the normal way -- which is the hard way when you're an insect that's not built to walk or climb. Going up little by little, each bit of progress required a burst of energy for her to flap her wings hard enough to lift her to the next step without whatever Pixl magic had been allowing her to fly so freely before. (She hadn't even known it existed; yet another quirk of being a Pixl she could only learn through trial and error.)
So, if you're going up or down the stairs in the series of floors where flight is disabled, you may either notice her struggling, or not notice at all and almost step on her by accident (and get yelled at for it).]