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Characters: Oz Vessalius and you!
Setting: Floors 22, 25 and 3
Format: Starting action, but I'll match!
Summary: Oz gets his Indiana Jones hat on and... wanders aimlessly
Warnings: N/A

floor 22/25;
[Several days in this place plus multiple explanations concerning how elevators work and Oz still finds himself having a bit of trouble with them, but soon enough he's heading off to poke around a little more in his daily attempt to get some answers. ...Slowly. Even though familiarizing himself with the surroundings and gathering information are his top goals, forty floors is a lot to cover! After finding out just how long traversing even one floor could take on his first day, he had mentally broken the rest down into bite-sized Adventure Chunks, and today it's time to head to the 21st floor. Possibly not the best place to start; in the end, it and the few floors directly above don't yield anything particularly interesting at first glance, and the only ones he actually stops at are 22 and 25.

Anyone in floor 22 can find him staring at what appears to be a sprawling Victorian-era urban landscape with some measure of quiet contemplation. On the other hand, those moseying through 25 will find him gaping from the stairs like this is the best thing he's ever seen.]

Oh, that's really lovely! [...Really suspicious, actually. After just a few of the things he's seen, he's not foolish enough to step off of the staircase yet. Instead, he flags down the nearest person, be they on the staircase or the floor itself.] Excuse me, is it safe to spend time on this floor?

floor 3;
[After his shenanigans on the higher floors come to an end, he takes the elevator to the bottom level and works his way up to the third. He's already passed through this library a few times and took the time out once to look for anything potentially useful, even if that search had turned out to be fruitless. This time, he's come to look around for different reasons— something to keep his mind occupied being chief among them. He had expected to walk out with a few interesting reads to whittle away some hours with. What he hadn't expected to find was the entire Holy Knight series just sitting there in the center of a shelf, begging to be checked out.

SO fine library patrons, you can catch Oz making an impromptu juggling act of himself in the fiction section, trying to balance a good eight or so volumes and still seemingly determined to pick up more. Beware all ye who wander too close, lest the potential book avalanche become a reality...]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[If Felix managed to find some dolphins, Oz would be there in a heartbeat...]

It is! It's one of the best floors I've seen so far, really. I mean, I haven't gone through a huge number yet, but that one stands out. This one, too! [It's even better than the forest! Especially considering the forest is home to like every animal that was in any Disney movie gone awry.]

The flowers, you mean, or the entire floor?

[Hey, if he could figure out how to contact him whenever he does, he totally would.]

I see. This is only the second day I've done any investigation, so I've only seen a handful of the floors. I wonder why it would have such a variety... [It was like Mars Lighthouse but worse! ...Which reminds him of the reason he hasn't been overly outgoing the last few days. Destroying the world will do that to ya.]

Everything. I'm not even sure if these plants have enough soil, unless this floor is deeper than it appears...

[he just needs to close his eyes and tap his heels together three times and say oz get your ass over here there are dolphins]

Who knows! To keep people from growing bored, maybe? [It's not like he hasn't given that question a large amount of thought himself, but he isn't particularly inclined to delve into that kind of serious discussion unprompted.

He digs the toe of his boot into the ground a little after that, not looking terribly surprised when it acts and feels like any meadow plot of land should.] Hm... It's probably the second one, if I had to guess! I wouldn't be surprised if the soil here wasn't real at all or something like that, though. If there's a tank without glass and floating islands, isn't a meadow without real ground a little tame in comparison?

[...Oh, well he did just find some in the future from this post?]

That's possible, yeah. If so many people are being brought here, giving people ways to relax wouldn't hurt.

Good point. It could really be anything when you don't understand this place very well yet. I could try to check, but... [He's not spotting any large areas of open loose soil nearby. Oh well, maybe there was another way to find out if he couldn't find one.]

[THEN SOON AN OZ WILL FOLLOW.]

Well, you know what they say about idle hands, right? They're probably keeping us busy for their own good. [He digs his heels a little further into the dirt before growing tired of trying to measure things that way. Picking flowers is much more fun than wondering where the flowers came from!]

[AND SOON FELIX WILL TAG BACK yay life.]

[He seems slightly confused about that.] I don't think I've heard anything about that, no. You think they're trying to distract us with seemingly impossible things?

[let the dolphin shenanigans commence!

but while he's given that particular possibility some thought before, he shakes his head.]

If they can do things like snatch people up from their own worlds, don't you think distractions like that are a little below their capabilities?

[Yeah, snatched right after he destroyed it... Sigh.]

I don't know. If they're really trying to take our attention away from something, they probably wouldn't want us to see the full extent of their power.

You might be over-thinking it a little. [But he follows that with a quick shrug and holds his hands up to signify that he meant no offense.]

What do you think they're trying to divert our attention away from?

[Unfortunately it was a habit he had picked up going through towers and other dungeons that were full of puzzles. The comment also doesn't deter Felix from thinking about it a bit more, so no harm done?]

I'm not sure yet. But I've been trying to figure out why this place is like this, so that may be the reason.

What else have you come up with?

[He's curious! It may not seem like he's actively trying to figure out the very same thing, but he's already poured through as many even remotely relevant books in the library that he could get his hands on. Even this leisurely exploration is for that same end goal.]