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[redwhiteandhero]

Characters: Alfred F. Jones, Open
Setting: Room 3-10, Cafeteria, various floors
Format: I'll match you
Summary: The first thing to do when waking up in a strange place is take in your surroundings
Warnings: None yet, except some strong language


[For a second he thinks he's back at Hogwarts. It wouldn't even be that strange to end up there, all things considered. But he quickly realizes, even before the sleep paralysis wears off, that that isn't it, and this isn't any place he's seen before. As soon as he can move he bolts up, instinctively reaching for his wand-- which isn't there, shit. He's not even dressed in the pajamas he was wearing to sleep. Something is definitely going wrong here.

... Is that trunk at the foot of his bed meowing?]



[After finding his cat, but more importantly right now his wand and a change of clothes, Alfred sets off to explore the tower. If you run into him, he looks like he's just wandered out of a LARP. The effect is even more pronounced if you catch him interacting with any of the tower's technology-- he seems both fascinated and utterly perplexed by all of it.]



Eurgh, oatmeal? Don't they have anything better around this place? At least some cereal maybe? Gross.

Comments

Cafeteria

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko had wandered into the cafeteria to grab a nutrition bad-she still had keep up appearances after all-when she heard a blond-haired main in some interesting clothes complaining about the oatmeal. Another newcomer. She smiled.]

Sadly, right now we don't have any cereal. Even if we did, you would still have to eat that oatmeal anyway. If you try to eat anything else before finishing it, you'll throw up. But don't worry! You can add things to it to improve the taste, and you can eat whatever you want once you're done.

[redwhiteandhero]

[He frowns at the oatmeal.] I've never thrown up 'cause of something I ate. I got an iron stomach y'know?

...So is there any strawberries or something?

[tohko_amano]

That may be the case, but it will happen to you if you don't eat your oatmeal first. I've seen it happen to two people, and someone warned me about it when I first got here.

[Tohko sighed.] I'm sorry. We don't have any strawberries right now. Right now, all we have are nutrition bars, nutrition bars, and more nutrition bars.

[redwhiteandhero]

So you're sayin' I can put anything I want in the oatmeal, only there's nothin' to put in it. [He pokes at the goop with his spoon.] It's not poisoned or anything, is it?

[tohko_amano]

You could put meat in it! There are animals in the Tower that you could kill and cook, if you wanted. [Tohko smiled at that, reminded of a similar comment made by Prussia.]

No, it's not. It's just one of the weird rules in this Tower.

[redwhiteandhero]

[... That sounds like too much effort when he's hungry now. That and he's never had to kill his own meat before.]

Jus' eat it I guess...

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko sighed and scratched her head.] Alright then..sorry I couldn't be of more help. If you want, I can tell you about the Tower, so you'll know what you're up against.

[redwhiteandhero]

[He picks up a spoonful of the oatmeal and pops it in his mouth. It's... mealy.]

So you know about it? Who runs this place? Whad'they want from us?

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko thought as she spoke.]

I know a bit about it. Not everything, but some. As far as I know, four people run this Tower-which is called Animus. Dax, who is a pretty humane guy, Riki, who is pretty mysterious, Jason, who loves to experiment and torture the residents, and Ruana, a childlike person who is at least a thousand years old and sees her experiments as just games.

As for what they want, Dax seems to want to help us, Jason just wants to torture us, and Ruana..wants to be friends with us, even if she's going about it in the wrong way. Anymore questions?

cafeteria

[colonial]

We hav'to eat bars this month.

[America, wandering by with one of the aforementioned nutrition bars, says this as if it were a literal death sentence; even the oatmeal people who are new to the Tower get looks preferable. Even if it doesn't really taste like anything at least it's closer to real food.]

[redwhiteandhero]

[Oh my goodness tiny cute baby. Who... looks unreasonably familiar. Hopefully it isn't one of his weird babies from the future or whatever who knows anymore.]

Bars? Like... what kinda bars?

[colonial]

[America holds one of the uneaten nutrition bars up, though he keeps a grip on it so it doesn't get taken from him.]

These! But you can't eat it yet 'cause you need to eat the oatmeal.

[redwhiteandhero]

Are there always this many rules about the food here? You gotta eat the bars, but first you gotta eat the oatmeal. I thought they had better food than this even in prison.

[colonial]

Some people call it prison. [America climbs up onto a chair to sit down.] But if you don't eat the oatmeal you throw up and we only eat the bars 'cause there's nothing else.

[redwhiteandhero]

[Alfred pokes at the oatmeal and then takes a few halfhearted bites. It tastes about as boring as it looks.] This sucks.

[colonial]

Sometimes there's better food. [Still, America eats his nutrition bars pretty glumly.] The Tower isn't a lot of fun though.

[redwhiteandhero]

Doesn't seem like it would be. Your parents here too?

Cafeteria

[mostremaining]

[Gilbert enters the cafeteria for his usual munchies when he spots the familiar face.]

You're here now, too? I guess it's nice that the higher-ups are gathering nations.

[redwhiteandhero]

[Okay, the last part makes no sense to him, but the face is familiar-- albeit it's been a while.]

Beilschmidt?

[mostremaining]

Yup! That's me! Your eyes don't deceive you! This is me, Gilbert Beilschmidt, in the flesh! I'm sure you've got questions, so where do you wanna start first?

[redwhiteandhero]

The hell are you doing here?

[mostremaining]

Alright, time for me to tell you some stuff you're not going to believe. You've been whisked away from our world to this tower, and so have lots of other people. I wish I could tell you just what I was doing here, but the only answer I've got is "they took me here."

[redwhiteandhero]

Who's they? And whaddaya mean 'gathering nations?'

[mostremaining]

"They" are the people running this tower. And gathering nations... well, I know there's a few others of us here than just you and me. I know Francis is here, for one.

[redwhiteandhero]

Y'mean Uncle Francis is here too?

[Yes, he just said that.]