intro | open!

[red_tea]

Characters: Sakuya and OPEN
Setting: Around the tower; see options.
Format: [like this]
Summary: just this girl's intro. She decides to get a feel of the place first and try to find people she might know.
Warnings: none yet

[ Option A: Sakuya wakes up in her assigned room, 3-05, shaken. Her first instinct is to get up and simply find who's done this to her. Feeling captured and incapacitated is nothing she'll ever be fond of. It makes her sick. So as soon as the sleep paralysis is over, you can be sure she will be getting right to her feet. If you're in the room with her or just happen to be passing outside, she'll be pointing a knife right at you threateningly and demanding answers. ] Who are you and where am I--? [ A hand will reach to her neck where she feels the violet collar. ] What... what is this? Answer me!

[ Option B: Floor 22, the Gallery. The click, click, click of her boots echo along the hall. If you actually run into her, you may notice that she's... wearing a maid outfit. As if she came straight from a maid cafe. In fact, she blends in quite nicely with this gallery, like something right out of a Victorian novel. She's still on edge, but she can spare you a polite, if somewhat uncertain, nod as she passes you.

If you happen to catch her staring at a painting from her world, she'll strike up a conversation: ] At least they had the culture to save these paintings as well, mm...

[ Option C: Dormitories, later. Sakuya's got a job as a maid! At least that's something that does happen to be familiar. There's just something so calming in cleaning (at least she thinks so). Perhaps it's the repetitiveness of the motion of washing, drying, ironing, and folding fabric. She'll be going to rooms to provide your beds with clean sheets. Even making them for you with perfect hospital corners! But before she enters, of course she'll knock and ask: ] May I enter...?

[ Option D: Floor One, Cafeteria. Just... looking at her oatmeal. Oh come on. This is horrible food! ]

[ Option E: Floor Twenty. So here's one opening to the outside, but for some reasons her flight powers don't work here. With arms folded across her body, she'll simply be gazing at the outside, trying to see if she can spot anything through the clouds. ]

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Option A

[doesnotgetit]

[It figures. One of the few days Hakuno decides to sleep in, to try and sleep away the stuffed feeling in her head and the uncomfortable heat pressing in on her body, she wakes up only moments before being held at knifepoint. Immediately her hands raise in a gesture of surrender, a look of shock on her face.]

You're in the tower! Well. A tower. I don't think it has a name. [She stares warily down at the knife pointed at her, and ever so slowly motions with one of her hands to her own neck, where a collar similar to the one Sakuya is currently wearing is.] And I'm the same as you. A prisoner.

[red_tea]

[ She lowers the knife somewhat, narrowing her eyes still. ] How can I be sure you're telling the truth?

[doesnotgetit]

[This girl has nowhere near the intense aura of the Servants Hakuno has met and faced before, but she still feels a shudder run down her spine at that glare.]

You'll have to trust me. [Which is probably a horrible thing to say in this scenario.] I... I've been here for a while. I still don't know a lot, but I can try earning that trust by answering any questions you might have. Is that okay?

[red_tea]

[ As a maid, Sakuya makes it a point to make her aura be... nonexistant and human. Easier to be humble and do her job that way. She continues to hold a knife, Sakuya addresses her calmly and politely. ] Then... please tell me what you know.

[doesnotgetit]

[Why does it kind of feel like she's being mugged...? This mess feels a bit less threatening now, but the knife is still out, so...]

You're stuck in a tower... nobody really knows if it has a name or not, I think. There are over forty floors, most of them are dangerous in some way, and almost all of them have some sort of monsters roaming around. You need to keep an eye out.

[There's a pause as she coughs, momentarily covering her face with her bedsheet as she does so. Her head may feel achy and stuffy, but she still has sense enough to try and prevent her flu from spreading to another.] The people in charge are called the administrators, and from what I can tell, most of them are pretty bad. They like to experiment on us once a month... if you see a whole bunch of people acting strange for some reason or another, chances are, it's because of the people who run this tower.

[red_tea]

[ Listening carefully!! ] ....Administrators, mm? What sort of experiments?

[doesnotgetit]

One time we all switched bodies. Our minds were still the same, but we were stuck in the body of someone completely different... and after a while, we started believing we were the other person. Another time, we were instructed to collect candy, and if we didn't we'd be crushed. Literally.

[Her voice sounds grim, and she frowns.... obviously there are some bad experiences here.]

[red_tea]

That does sound rather... harrowing.

[ So she says, but it doesn't seem like anything worse than what another youkai would plot to do against another, just for fun. In any case, she lowers her knife. ]

[doesnotgetit]

[Hakuno lets out a sigh when the knife is lowered. It quickly twists into a cough, but nothing too serious.]

It is... I've been through a lot back in my world, but the things I've seen here... they definitely take the cake.

[red_tea]

Mm. I suppose... [ Okay, now she withdraws the knife completely. ] And we share this same room?

[ YOU'RE LIKE A SENPAI HERE OR SOMETHING. ]

[doesnotgetit]

[She nods.] We do. There's four to a room... [She motions to the other beds.]

But I haven't seen the others in a while. You don't have to stay here every night if you don't want to, so that's probably why.

[red_tea]

Is there any way to find out their names...?

[doesnotgetit]

[She points to the door.]

There's a list outside, by the door.