Dies Irae

[terreifying]

Characters: Rei, Hojo, Jade!Eridan, and the rest of you
Setting: Floor 27, then the rest of the tower
Format: any
Summary: Rei has finally fully embraced her Angelic side. Details here.
Warnings: Body horror, possible graphic violence

Floor 27 (locked to Hojo)

There was no warning when Rei Ayanami's body changed. The girl didn't even have time to gasp before her mind and her body finally gave out before the overwhelming energy of her core.

Her body collapses into a white, constantly shifting mass. The only thing it has in common with her form seconds ago is its mouth filled with jagged teeth and the thousands of eyes that litter whatever shape it takes. Sometimes it has wings, other times arms and legs spouting at strange angles, and other times spines and tentacles. Once, the center of the mass even turns into Rei's normal eyes and face. No matter how it shifts, the glow of its core shines from within its body. It is too bright. It seems to be something that might explode any second.

Heeee~ey. Brothers? Where are you?

The gaping maw sings in a language unfamiliar to the ears, but all too comprehensible to the mind

Come back. Come stay with me. Let us all be one.

It reaches out, trying to find its brethren. At the same time, it is listening for anyone to possibly respond to its message.

Throughout the Tower

The thing that once was Rei creeps through the tower, sometimes walking on strange limbs, other times shuffling forward because it can't hold a form. Those in the area may feel the heat radiating from its body. Every few "steps," it stops, as if it has thought of something or entered a familiar place.

Those are the only moments that "Rei" can actually think. But what remains of the girl's mind has too many questions and too few answers. What is she now. Where is she. What is she doing. And even that moment is all too brief before the Angel's songs fill her mind again, leaving her with only on urge.

She has to take her brothers back. Back to the womb of their Mother. All of humanity must be one existence again. Even if she must destroy their bodies, she will take them back.

When she encounters a human, her body will shift and lash out. If they are unfortunate enough to get too close, she will devour them with her jaws or envelop them with the ever-changing mass of her body. But her core glows. It is like what remains of Rei is giving those who would resist a chance to stop her.



[OOC: Jade!Eridan will be the one to finally kill Rei]

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Floor 45

[egotist]

Somewhere in the observetory floor, Togami is wondering about. He hasn't covered all the floors yet in this tower... and part of him didn't want to. Some of them were just unsettling to be around, contrasting towards the others that appeared perfectly normal. Hell, it made his own school look almost normal as even some of the mystery rooms had nothing on this place.

As he stands now, up against the large transparent glass wall looking outside. Nothing was in sight, as he already theorized, but there was a strange feeling he got just now.

Unfortunately for him, wherever he is; his back is facing the transformed Rei.

Re: Floor 45

[terreifying]

Maybe he can feel the heat from behind him. Or maybe he can hear the strange song. Or maybe he can even see the reflection of the shifting mass in the glass. But Rei has marked him as a human. One of those who needed to be saved. One of those who needed to return to Mother.

I am the deliverance. I am she who forgives all. I bring you paradise.

Still singing the song that fills her mind, her tentacles begin reaching for him

[egotist]

When he spots her coming from the image reflected off of the towering glass wall, he whips around to... that... uh.

He really can't do more than just stand there, horrified at the sight of this monster. A mythical creature he's never seen outside of posters of horror films. But this was far too real. Frozen in shock, he can't do more than stay silent as her tentacles wrap themselves around him.

[terreifying]

If her heat was perceptible even when standing at a distance, then her tentacles would feel so hot as hurt him, though they won't burn him outright. They pull him toward her open mouth, and as he gets closer, the light from her core might sting his eyes while the heat could actually burn his face.

[egotist]

He tries to get away, perhaps in vain by squirming. He can only let out a scream of pure terror once he sees what she plans on doing to him. But is there really anything he can do besides struggle?

Floor 25

[lightofhumanity]

chaos had heard something calling out a few moments ago. It wasn't like the Song of Nephilim or Lemegeton..but it was something that could only be heard with the mind, something normal ears wouldn't register. And that made chaos worry. As he climbed the Tower, he sensed something that wasn't human..but not a Gnosis either. It was like something similar to a Realian that had gone haywire in one of the worst ways imaginable.

He felt some heat in a floor nearby, and he ran into that room, determined to help, to save lives, to calm down whatever was going haywire.

Re: Floor 25

[terreifying]

He will find a nightmarish scene laid before him. A white beast with thousands of eyes, constantly shifting its form, sings with its bloody maw. The second he enters, the thousands of eyes shift and then focus on him.

When the day of doom comes and the world is dissolved in ash, my mercy alone shall overcome. Mother's embrace shall surround you. No sin, no pollution, no grief. Come back the paradise that Mother creates.

Floor 25

[lightofhumanity]

chaos had seen worse things, but the sight still made him pause for a moment. The room felt hot, but it didn't bother him, just like the cold didn't bother him. He sighed and gave the creature a sad smile.

"I am sorry..but Earth in my universe did not dissolve in ash. Perhaps I am wrong, but I do not think the Earth in your universe will either. While peace and happiness are a good goal for the universe, I do not think taking people before their time is a good idea. It leads to sorrow, to rejection. And I am sorry..but I must stop you from hurting others. Please, forgive what I am about to do, and calm yourself."

And with that, chaos will jump into the air, summon a ball of ice as big as a mountain boulder, and toss it at this thing before dropping back to the ground. Whether it actually hits the creature or not is another story.

Re: Floor 25

[terreifying]

Rei can only catch one or two words of what he said. Even then, her mind cannot string them together into coherent concepts. Thus, his words go unanswered.

But hr eyes do catch the ball of ice. A hundred or so arms rise out of the mass to catch the ice before it can impact with the main body.

[denigrator]

He stares.

For once, even Hojo is taken aback by the sudden, stark transformation. But he's not alarmed. No, he's fascinated, alarming as the creature is. He wonders what he can learn about it. It's not unlike one of the monsters he created with Jenova cells. He remembers being something like that, before he died. Something monstrous, warped, and no longer human.

The voice is unsettling, but that means little to Hojo. Brothers. Perhaps this entity desires reunion. That's familiar, too.

He shields his eyes and keeps his distance but smiles. "If you're looking for your kindred, perhaps I can help you."

[terreifying]

"Ah...?"

The creature speaks with a deep voice. He is human, which means he is her brother. She has to take him into her. However, the remnants of the girl's mind are trying to process his words

Help? Would he aid her? Did he wish to delay his own salvation to ensure the salvation of others? That's right. She didn't know where anyone else was.

"Uh-uh."

With what little thought she still has, "Rei" makes a noise of affirmation.

[denigrator]

"There are many people here, in this tower. I'm sure some of them may be your brothers. You must leave this floor, for the others." The directions were simple, and simple enough to give.

Hojo simply wanted to find out what would happen. "I can show you."

[terreifying]

"Uh..."

The creature makes another affirming noise. Rather than work individually, she would rather had much of her work done at once. After all, it wouldn't be fair to welcome one or two people before all of the others.

A random floor~

[maidenidrial]

Idrial had been minding her own business walking through the Tower at her leisure. She usually does this throughout the day. It gives her the opportunity to encounter people she might not usually encounter if she stuck to her own dorm floor and changes in the Tower are also quickly noticed.

She could sense the creature before she saw it, a benefit of her elven senses. As she rounds the corner the already has her swords drawn. Her eyes widen ever so slightly as the creature is devouring another person but only for a moment as she moves into a defensive position.

"Do not come any closer foul creature. Go back to where it is you came from!"

Re: A random floor~

[terreifying]

With one last gulp, the creature finishes its gruesome meal.

If there is foulness, let it come to my embrace. I will purify it. I will wash away its sins. I will forgive.

It crawls toward Idrial, not heeding her warning.

[maidenidrial]

Idrial has her sword pointed in the creatures direction, unaware of how little use it will actually be. She suddenly has an intense feeling to flee but that is not what she was taught and it's not how she became one of the best warriors of Lothlorien.

She does however take a few steps backwards as the creature approaches but otherwise stands her ground.

"You shall not devour any more innocent people today." And she changes her stance from on of defense to one of attack.

[terreifying]

Tentacles start reaching out at the maiden.

I welcome the guilty and the innocent. If they are corrupted, I will purify them. If they are pure, I will embrace them.

Floor 1

[warriorscribe]

Enoch had overheard mention here and there of a new creature out and actively attacking people Determined to protect the innocents in this place, he searched Animus over for it, and finally encountered Rei in the cafeteria. A mealtime will be soon. He had to get rid of this thing before the floor became crowded with people.

His cloak thrown back over his shoulders and his hood down for the sake of having peripheral vision, Enoch approached, the Arch out and open, holy energy surging between its protrusions in the shape of many pointed blades.

Re: Floor 1

[terreifying]

The white mass is wiggling around, trying to find any humans that might be on the floor. To her disappointment, it seems there is no one left. No humans, at least.

But there is something else. Something that feels like another one of her kind. One of those who had come from Father and Mother both. Why had they come? Were they here to watch her complete her great task?

The thousands of eyes shift to focus on the Angel. Then, it starts moving toward him.

[warriorscribe]

Enoch hesitates as the monster approaches. It doesn't seem to be in a hurry, or rushing to attack. Though there is a holiness to his armor and weapon, he himself seems mostly human...but with a trace of that same holiness like a thread that binds him and his armor.

He raises his Arch, stepping into battle stance as it draws near.

And then something in its mass catches his eye. Something not white. Something familiar before it's covered by the shifting again.

"A collar...?"

[terreifying]

She stops in front of him, and then a head forms around her mouth, giving Rei a face resembling her human form. She blinks at Enoch, and continues staring at him.

Did he just say something to her? But for a being like herself, why was he speaking in human tongues?

Which one are you?

The sounds that her mouth emits are not understandable to human ears. In fact, they might even be painful to hear. But the meaning that she sends to his mind should be clear enough.

And then it ends with a BANG.

[chronomancer]

[Coming down the stairs, Eridan stopped as he saw the... the thing that was Rei, slowly moving forward.]

Oh fuck.

[Give him a moment, he needs to swear profusely to get his point across.]

Re: And then it ends with a BANG.

[terreifying]

[Here was a being unlike the others. Not one of Mother's children, not one of Father's children. She has to stop for a second and stare at him.]

What...what are you?

[chronomancer]

Someone who's having a really fucking shitty day.

[Slowly, backing away. The rifle is a thought away, just a twitch and it'll be in his hands, but he's waiting. He always waits. He always listens. Maybe it's not what it seems. When is it ever what it seems.]

[terreifying]

For some reason, the being's voice is familiar to her. She must have known him during her limited human existence, even if she cannot recall his name.

I know of you, you who are neither Adam's bone nor Lilith's flesh.

She speaks to him with her mind even as her mouth continues her song. She is currently debating whether or not to absorb him.