In Comes An Angry Bird

[birdinthehand]

Characters: Ankh and you! (Open)
Setting: Room 1-16 and around the dorms, Floor 1 cafeteria, Floor 19 library
Format: Either is fine.
Summary: Just the usual waking up in a weird place and reacting poorly to it.
Warnings: Possible violence, as Ankh is irritable and likes to hit things.


[Option A - Room and Dorms]

The new resident of room 1-16 is reacting poorly to... well... just about everything. He's scowling the moment he's free from the sleep paralysis, he's sneering as he reads the letter that was left atop him, and he's shouting as he lashes out at the room around him.

"What the hell is this?!"

If there's no one present to give him an answer, he'll storm out into the hall, still in the default white bodysuit and still clutching that letter.

"Hey! HEY! What the hell's going on?! Eiji? EIJI?!"

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[Option B - Floor 1 cafeteria]

By the time he makes it down to the cafeteria, Ankh has calmed down a tad. He had gone back to the room, found his trunk, changed into some proper clothing, and decided to explore this place that fate had plunked him into. An elevator trip to the very bottom floor had gotten him down to the first floor, and thus to the kitchen and cafeteria that was there. Okay. Sure. He could go for something to eat after all of that yelling. Like ice cream.

He refused the bowl of oatmeal that had been handed to him. (Which is to say that he simply dropped it on the nearest table and walked away from it.) Instead he hopped the counters and sidestepped any kitchen staff, and went right for the freezers. Freezers that held nothing but disappointment.

"There's nothing?" Nutrition bars. Nutrition bars as far as the eye could see. Perhaps you'll find him still staring in shock. Or instead, after the shock wears off, you'll catch him angrily tossing boxes and piles of bars aside, desperate to locate so much as a freezer-burnt popsicle.

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[Option C - Floor 19 research library]

With the cafeteria and its lack of frozen treats behind him, Ankh had continued on his mission to explore the tower. He had made it higher than here, sure, but had come back down again when some weird force kept him from manifesting his wings for far longer than he'd have liked. Screw that. A library was a fine enough place to perch for now. It had shelves he could sit atop, and books he could attempt to peer through for information. If he couldn't fly out and couldn't see an exit, then he'd sit and watch and learn everything that he could.

If you're wandering by, you might get hit by a flying book when he gets frustrated with a dry and boring text that isn't telling him what he really wants to know.

Comments

1-16 MEET YOUR ROOMIE, ANKH

[lamentless]

It took him a moment to throw his blanket off, but by the time Ankh was metaphorically flapping his gums, Roxas had actually stopped trying to cover his face and sat up.

"Eiji hasn't been in this room for a while, okay? If you're looking for his things, we lost them."

...and then right back to laying back down in his bed, pillow over his eyes.

YAY a roomie!

[birdinthehand]

"What?!" Even though it all didn't make a lot of sense, this guy claimed to know Eiji. He bounded from his bed and snatched the pillow away from Roxas's face, leaning in to demand answers.

"Where is he, then?! Why would you lose his things?! Tell me!"

[lamentless]

Oh my god he forgot how goddamn noisy this not-bird was, and he'd barely spoken to him before. Rox laid in bed with the most deadpan expression he could muster, holding up his hands as he counted like he was talking to a five year old.

"One. Eiji roomed here, he left, we don't know where people go when they disappear. Two, we borrowed some of his clothes from his trunk because he sort of owed us, and they got lost in the whale attack. Three, don't ask about the whale attack."

And then a pause as he grabbed for his pillow. "Four- damnit, we sleep in late in this room, so can you at least squawk later in the day? Please?"

[birdinthehand]

It's only partially evident to him through the haze of panic and rage that Roxas is being patronizing. Still. He's getting information on the situation. That's good. Even if none of the news is any good.

"His clothes." That gets a snort. "You needed ugly underpants?"

The pillow is snatched back! And Ankh attempts to snatch it again. "What do you mean, whale attack?" What? He wasn't supposed to ask about that? Bah, if he wasn't supposed to, that was all the more reason to.

casually tags back way late like a failderp

[lamentless]

Okay fine, he gives up, Roxas is sitting up. He's clearly not going to get to go back to sleep any time soon. Doesn't mean he isn't keeping a damn vicegrip on his pillow, you grabby vulture.

"Not his underwear, that's gross." Even other canons view the pantsu with contempt. "He had all these weird ponchos and things, and it was cold last winter so we borrowed them. Then he disappeared." Man, the upcoming winter was going to suck in retrospect. How was he going to keepw arm without a hobo clothing pile?

"A giant whale thing attacked, it was really stupid, and a lot of things got damaged. The place is mostly fixed up, but the admins weren't nice enough to reimburse the items we lost."

Welcome to your one-stop shop for Admin Bitterness.

Option B

[alwaysataclimax]

Momo had come down here for...some reason. He didn't really remember what at this point, because, well. He found himself faced with someone he never expected to see again after investigating a ruckus in the kitchen. Momo just stares for several seconds before calling out to Ankh, pointing as he did so.

"...jackass turkey, what the hell are you doin' here?!"

Option B - oh man oh man oh man :D

[birdinthehand]

Nutrition bars? Surely he wanted more nutrition bars. They're... full of... nutrition, yeah.

The moment he heard that familiar voice call out to him, Ankh froze. Then he made a choking sound and turned about, staring in confused shock.

"Me? What the hell are you doing here, you big red moron?!"

Woosh, he was away from the shelf and sweeping spilled bars aside, gesturing dramatically and angrily with that weird hand of his.

[alwaysataclimax]

Nah, Momotaros has at least some degree of taste.

Maybe. He does drink Naomi's coffee like it's going out of style, though.

"I've been stuck here for who knows how long! I shoulda figured you might have had somethin' to do with it with all crap you already caused!"

Momo's head jerks around like he's looking for something for a few moments before settling on Ankh again. "Where's your buddy? OOOs?"

[birdinthehand]

"Idiot! I didn't have anything to do with this!" He gestures all around him, at the freezer, at the bars, at this horrible tower in general.

"OOOs. Eiji." His arm drops and some of the seething rage leaves him. He's just sneering now. "They said he was here, but he's gone now. Whatever that means. If you're here, then he didn't leave by train, hm?"

[alwaysataclimax]

"Tch... Bet you wouldn't claim responsibility for that Shocker crap either..." Momotaros shakes his head a bit. "If it was possible to leave via the DenLiner, I would've left here a long time ago! If he was here, it must've been before I ever arrived here - I haven't seen him."

B

[chronomancer]

[This is what we call a troll, Ankh. This is what we call a troll eating a nutrition bar and staring at the wall like it holds the secrets of the universe. Or like he's about to fall asleep on his feet. Either or. It's been a long few days weeks months TIME, okay. So he's a little tired and the cardboard food isn't helping much. It takes him a moment to figure out something's wrong, what with the angry shoving of boxes and stuff. And then, because Eridan is Eridan and will never stop being Eridan, he walks into the kitchen, still nibbling on a nutrition bar. Yeah, he's kind of dead on his feet but hey, he could possibly help someone!]

Everythin' okay?

[birdinthehand]

[Ankh has seen all kinds of crazy crap in his time. Horns? Grey skin? Yeah, whatever, just another monster from some kind of intergalactic empire, or forged from the negative emotions of blah blah blah... whatever. He snorts, then tosses one of those stupid nutrition bars at the troll.]

There's no ice cream.

[And he steps forward and over the mess that he made, closing in on the newcomer.]

Who builds a fridge this big and doesn't put ice cream in it?!

[chronomancer]

Ah yeah. The food.

[Eridan shrugs lightly, sighing.]

It's okay, it's just this month.

[Because that explains everything, right.]

[birdinthehand]

What?

[That doesn't make sense. That doesn't explain squat. He kicks another stray nutrition bar at the troll, still advancing.]

"Just this month?" What's that mean?!

[chronomancer]

[He sidesteps that one too, not particularly in the mood to let himself be hit. He's a bit tired, you understand. He doesn't seem overly intimidated by the approach.]

The menu changes every month. It's usually not so bad.

B

[laughingpressurepoint]

You're making a mess in there.

B

[birdinthehand]

[He shoots the girl a look. The kind that ought to wither plants and set small flammable objects on fire.]

You! Where's the ice cream?

[laughingpressurepoint]

[That might actually be terrifying if your hair were not hilariously bad and if you were not dealing with a tsundere]

I really couldn't say. Even if I knew, that isn't going to clean upany of that food.

[birdinthehand]

[I'd say the hair is pretty terrifying all on its own. But Tsun-ness does give her a certain edge.

He snorts and tosses his head, then turns to knock aside another box of bars.]

This is stupid! They expect us to eat this?!

[laughingpressurepoint]

[I've seen worse, and its name is Tsukasa in Hibiki World]

What, so feeding people is stupid now? All you're doing is wrecking things and keeping other people from eating.

Dorms!

[warriorscribe]

Enoch just barely managed to avoid getting hit in the face by the door to the dorm room while he was on his way to the elevator.

"There's...a chance it may not be true," he said, trying to console the angry newcomer. "In fact, there's evidence towards it."

[birdinthehand]

Ankh turns sharply and backs a step away from the man that he almost smacked with the door. He looks him up and down in a way that's quite plainly assessing his threat level.

"So it's a lie? A lie?!" His fist clenches, crumpling that letter nearly into a ball, and he shakes it towards Enoch. "Then where are we? And why?!"

[warriorscribe]

"We're in a tower, I've never heard it called anything else. And...if not as a result of our rescue, I don't know why. There are three hosts watching us in rotation, and each seems to have different designs for us."

As long as he doesn't attack him, Enoch isn't a threat. In fact, the only thing even remotely intimidating right now is his size, unless Ankh recognizes the Arch at his waist as a weapon. It's the same color as his armor, so it might be taken as part of it, instead.

[birdinthehand]

There's a lot of information to take in at once. And Ankh's not even sure that he can trust this guy in the slightest. But he's willing to give answers to questions, so that counts for something. He'll worry about the validity of the answers later. He straightens and steps away from the door, loosening his grip on the letter.

"A tower. Tch. Who are the 'three hosts'? And what do they have in mind for us?"

Ankh's obviously wary, and a bundle of barely-restrained nerves and hostility. His red and armored right hand is clenching and unclenching very visibly. It might be mistaken for just a fancy gauntlet... but he's still in the default white jumpsuit that the tower stuck him in. Conclusions may be drawn from there.

[warriorscribe]

Enoch's focus is drawn to that movement of his hand....which, with the bodysuit, points to him maybe not being human? It isn't as if he hasn't encountered plenty of nonhumans here, at least, but those claws don't look friendly, and neither does he.

"Their names are Riki, Jason, and Dax. Only the latter seems to truly have any sort of respect for us. Riki, I do not understand, but Jason...he's known for...being unpleasant in some very harmful ways. *A grimace, at that. He's been lucky to have not seen any of this so far, but just thinking about what he's done...*