[OPEN] standing dumb in the light

[glowsferatu]

WHO: Kanaya Maryam and YOU!
WHERE: Dormitory levels
WHAT: Kanaya wakes up, she is not at all fond of her circumstances. And so the Tower receives a glowing alien girl conspicuously and shiveringly sneaking through the hallway.
HOW: Action

[ thirty seconds of sleep paralysis is a hell of an introduction to a new setting. by the time it's worn off, kanaya has found plenty of time to begin panicking. it doesn't look like any memory she's ever had, so the most reasonable explanation is that it must be someone else's. it's a dream bubble, right? it has to be. that doesn't explain the collar. something is wrong here. who put her in this ugly jumpsuit? who would even make such an ugly outfit?

once she's on her feet, she spares a moment to wonder if she should make the bed before deciding that there are bigger problems at hand, and ends up missing her introduction letters in the process. she elects to sneak out into the hallway instead, only to find it's cold. unreasonably cold, especially in this miserable outfit. her best hope is to keep moving, see if the bubble doesn't change if she does, stopping at each corner to peek around it. you never know what you might encounter in these things. ]

Comments

[glowsferatu]

If I'm being forced to cohabit with them, I should think we'll have to meet eventually. I'd rather not share a block with complete strangers.

[ depends on the fight, depends on how it's going. she might be more open to the possibility once she knows she's rooming with jade. ]

[geometry]

I guess. Whatever you want to do.

[Aww, he wants to be in the Space room too. 8( ...The fight, by the way, was between the Grand Highblood and this guy.]

[glowsferatu]

[ she lets out a sigh. ] I'm sure I'll figure something out. It isn't as though I have any choice otherwise.

[ well there is absolutely nothing pretty about that fight.

and sorry bro it is strictly No Boys Allowed. but they can always form a Space Club outside of it. ]

[geometry]

[There isn't. Every Kanaya within three hundred universes would be deeply offended.]

...Well... do you need help with anything else? Like, uh, finding something? Getting around the Tower is. Really. Really time-consuming. It's best to know where you're going.

[glowsferatu]

I...don't know. Every hallway I've passed thus far has been identical to this one. I imagine if that pattern were to continue, it must be quite disorienting.

[geometry]

...Well, yeah. [He folded his arms, looking at the hallways in question to avoid looking at the glowing jadeblood in front of him.] I guess it is.

Uh, just keep turning right until you've found an elevator, and take it down to the first floor, that's the cafeteria. There are five dormitory levels or so, so going on the stairs really won't do you any good -- it's either to another dorm or to a floor that promotes the long way down, which you really don't want to take on the first day.

[glowsferatu]

[ she looks in the same way he had, weighing her options. ]

Where are the stairs? That is what had brought me to where I am to begin with, so I'm a bit afraid that another method would only bring me further within this labyrinthine system.

...What is it on the lower floors that I should put so much effort into avoiding?

[geometry]

They're in the same place on every floor... near the center. You'd be better off with the elevators.

Uh, well, firstly, there's about forty-five of them. They stop in some places, and it's too easy to fall off... monsters are on all of the floors that aren't dormitories or the cafeteria, and if you fall, they will jump on you. Uh. The stairs actually stop in a lot of places, and-- ...you're a Space player, right?

[glowsferatu]

...Yes. A Sylph, but it...it doesn't really mean anything anymore. I don't know that it ever did.

[geometry]

Just be careful around some of the floors. They don't really... conform. To physics.

So if you have any powers, they might be affected by that or something.

[glowsferatu]

Then I suppose it's lucky that I was essentially useless in my role, as I drew no power from it to speak of. But I will heed the warning, and appreciate it being given.

[ she frowns and looks around the hall again. ] So, uh, which way is it the the floor's center?

[geometry]

It's alright. All I seem to do is get headaches.

[He looks around a bit.] Um, that way. [He points down one of the halls.] Take the first left, and then walk straight. You should run right into it.

[glowsferatu]

[ she's about to go, she even half turns to the direction he told her, but instead stops herself and looks back at him. ]

You...you were a Space player also?

[geometry]

I never... stopped being one, but yes.

[glowsferatu]

Well there isn't really much to continue it with. What do we really have left once the frogs and Prospit are gone?

[geometry]

...There was a God Tier Space player in here at one time. She had no duties left, either, but she was certainly able to keep her aspect in prominence.

[glowsferatu]

Ah, well... That's also a god tier. Lacking godhood myself, my own position in relation to the aspect is far more moot.

...Or had you attained godhood as well?

[geometry]

Me? Oh. No, no. Not me.

[He shook his head furiously.]

Only the Life player achieved God Tier in our session... it was Vriska.

[glowsferatu]

Vriska as a Life player? Well that's a thought I find difficult to resolve.

[geometry]

Well, she was extremely effective with us...

[glowsferatu]

I suppose she tended to be...in her own way. Though that way could be extremely volatile for the rest of us.

A Thief of Life would be a horrific combination, but I could hardly imagine it not to be effective.

[geometry]

Thief?

...Oh, n-no, you misunderstand. She's a Knight. Knight of Life.

[glowsferatu]

You're [ fucking ] kidding me.

Vriska Serket?

[geometry]

...Yes?

[Quiiiietly shrinking into himself.]

[glowsferatu]

[ she rubs the bridge of her nose, trying to think her way through this. ]

Alright. So.

You're a goldblooded Equius. Inexplicable as that is, that couldn't be the only difference on your timeline, if something so drastic has changed. The question then is how this would have reflected in her.