The Healer Awakes..

[godheals]

Characters: Raphael and you!
Setting: Around the Tower.
Format: I'll start in prose, but I'll match you!
Summary: Raphael wakes up in the Tower and explores, all while wondering why he can't connect to God.

Technically, Raphael couldn't sleep or feel tired. He was the angel of healing-it would be weird if he had to rest or felt exhausted. So, the fact that he woke up in a bed in an unknown place was troubling, especially with the fact that he couldn't feel a connection to God here. For some reason, somehow, it was cut off. Not one to panic, Raphael looked at the notes that were lying in front of him. The first contained some useful information about this place..but the other..it couldn't have been. He didn't remember God ordering Michael or Lucifel to start the end of the world..but this severed connection to God..could it be that the world had ended? But if so..then why was he here? Puzzled, Raphael got out of bed, not bothered by the fact that he was wearing a white jumpsuit. As long as he was wearing something, that was fine by him. The collar puzzled him though. He wandered out of his dorm floor and onto the hall, looking for other people and some answers. Maybe the other angels had been brought here, even if he couldn't sense them.

While the fact that he couldn't sense any souls from the people wearing red collars, the infirmary was a familiar environment. While there may not have been any sick people here, they may have been a few who knew what was going on, so Raphael will be here, healing whoever he can and trying to find some answers.

The books Enoch had written in Heaven were useful, as they provided quite a bit of information, so if you wander in here, you'll be able to find Raphael, looking over the shelves, trying to find something to explain his arrival here..and his severed connection to God.

Raphael wandered in here and, curious about the viewfinders, looked through one..only to feel a terrible, horrid pain and..sadness overwhelm him. Was the world over? If God had ordered the end of the world, that was fine..but he couldn't feel the connection to God or his other angels..he could only feel the loss of those connections, and..the pain of that loss. It was a new emotion, and not one that Raphael wanted to explore in-depth. He quickly looked away, trying to get control again, trying to calm down a little.

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[warriorscribe]

Enoch looked over his shoulder as he descended, his hand on the side of the tower to ensure his steadiness.

"...I'll make an extra cloak for you, after this."

As they stepped into another open floor, Enoch's armor reappeared and he straightened up a little. The energy from summoning it was, at least, some warmth. "We're on the twentieth floor now. One floor down is the second library, where some of the terminals are."

[godheals]

At that, Raphael smiled.

"Thank you. I would appreciate that. Perhaps you could teach me how to make them so that I could help others in the future who are chilly."

..After all, prevention helped people not get sick in the first place, and with temperatures like these, he was sure a few people would probably come down with colds and the like.

As they wandered into the next floor, a part of what Enoch said slightly stumped Raphael.

"'Terminals'?"

[warriorscribe]

"Didn't I mention-...oh. I named them but didn't explain, didn't I? I'm sorry."

And all these years he thought Lucifel was just being difficult with him when he neglected to explain something...funny how he never even considered this angle. Definitely one of his worse oversights.

"The terminals are the means by which we connect to the network...think of it as a community forum of sorts." Enoch led Raphael down into the library and along its perimeter until they reached an empty terminal. "Those buttons with the letters are used to write, and the button that says "video" makes a m-..."

He's not making that mistake twice. "It captures your image and your sound...I believe Lucifel's phone could do the same."

[godheals]

"It is alright. Don't worry about it."

After all, Raphael knew that Enoch would give an explanation about them sooner or later. He wasn't the type to just mention something important and then leave it alone without a good reason.

Raphael listened to Enoch's explanation as he followed the man down into the library and to an unoccupied terminal. It looked a little odd..but no so strange so that it should pose a challenge. Enoch's explanation helped.

"Lucifel's phone probably could do the same..but he and I were never very close. I never knew what exactly he could do on that phone. However..while I understand your explanation, what does this thing do?"

Raphael tapped on the mouse before asking one more question.

"And I assume that the button that says 'audio' is used to record just my voice?"

[warriorscribe]

"Yes, that's right." Enoch moved the mouse a little, showing Raphael the way it moved. "This...it's like your hand on the network. You can use it to move between conversations, and set filters to them so that you're only talking to one person."

Enoch demonstrated by scrolling a good deal of a ways back to Dax's post during the translation system malfunction.

"It's good that our hosts tend to communicate with us through these. It's easy to review what was said... Though one of them has erased their conversations, once, so... I will be attempting to transcribe conversations that happen with them in the future."

[godheals]

Raphael thought as Enoch moved the mouse and explained what it did. He then read Dax's post.

"It is good that you can contact our hosts in this manner..and while they may delete things, I am sure you will be able to transcribe them quickly. You have done things like that before, after all."

Raphael smiled as he said that..before moving on to more questions.

"However..what is this 'translation process' that Dax speaks of? What problems did affect it? And..what, exactly, is radiation?"

That last question should be..interesting for them both to figure out.

[warriorscribe]

"Apparently, there are...each world has its own language, I suppose. I spoke a strange tongue, and couldn't read anything I had written of Meridian, or Armaros's card.

"But...that's as much as I can answer. I have no idea what 'radiation' is. Something dangerous, I gather." Enoch turned to look at the shelves behind them. This was a library...

[godheals]

Raphael nodded as he thought and took in that information.

"I see..perhaps there is a system here that allows everyone to understand everything in their own language. And radiation does sound dangerous.."

Raphael smiled as Enoch looked at the shelves. "Perhaps it is in one of these books. Where do you suggest we start looking?"

[warriorscribe]

"I'm...not certain. Let's start at each end and work our way towards the middle?"

Enoch looked at the array of books, and the subject labels. It was as good a start as any, considering some sections were missing here. Not that he knew anything about the subjects in question.

[godheals]

"That sounds like a good plan."

Raphael glanced at one end of the shelves and the books those shelves held. He wasn't familiar with some of the subject labels, but he imagine he would become familiar with them in time. However..

"Why are some of these sections missing?"

[warriorscribe]

"Riki couldn't find the books that were meant to be there. I think one of the conversations with Dax addressed that..."

He's already heading over to the other side of the library.

[godheals]

Admittedly, Raphael hadn't looked much more into the network than Dax's first post. He hadn't read any of the responses yet. He had wanted to find out about this 'radiation' first before proceeding so that he could understand the conversation on the network a bit better.

"Ah, I see. I shall have to take a longer look at the network later then."

Raphael moved to the opposite side, looking through the books and for one that mentioned 'radiation'. They all looked quite interesting..but none of the titles mentioned 'radiation'..yet.

[warriorscribe]

Enoch found himself wondering if he shouldn't have sent Raphael over to this side instead. He was in the medical section, and there were so many things he thought Raphael and Gabriel might like here...

...His eyes fell on a title - Nuclear Radiation, a Doctor's Guide. He took it from the shelf and headed over to the other side to find Raphael.

"I think I found something."

[godheals]

Raphael had been walking through and looking at the books in the science section. They all looked very interesting, but none of them seemed to do with 'radiation'. At least, none that he had found so far. He was always a little slow when it came to looking though books. He wanted to make sure he didn't miss a single one.

..And that was when Enoch had come wandering up to him holding a book titled 'Nuclear Radiation, a Doctor's Guide'. This told Raphael two things: one, that he should look at this book, since the reason he existed was to heal people, and two, that Radiation, whatever it was, was quite harmful to Humans.

"This does look like a good book. Where did you find it?"

[warriorscribe]

"In the medical section." Enoch sat down at the nearest table, rubbing his eye. Today was certainly turning out to be...purposeful. It was good to have days like that.

[godheals]

Raphael nodded, making a mental note to look where Enoch had been searching after this. He may have been an angel of healing, but more knowledge never hurt.

Raphael pulled up a chair and sat beside Enoch.

[warriorscribe]

Enoch passed the book over to Raphael, intending to let Raphael read it at his own pace. That and he needed to keep an ear out for monsters, if they were going to linger here.

[godheals]

Raphael took the book and started reading it, making sure to take in every bit of information.

So this was radiation..and the damage it could do. Humans had made some pretty interesting weapons as they progressed. Having finished the book, Raphael closed it and passed it back to Enoch.

Raphael could keep and ear out for monsters while Enoch read.

[warriorscribe]

Enoch was a little surprised at the book being passed back to him, but then...Raphael knew him. He wanted to learn, too.

He had a little trouble, since there were some things that were dependent on knowledge he did not have, but...the description of the symptoms alone was enough.

"Who was experimenting with such energy...?"

[godheals]

After being with Enoch for so long and dealing with his questions, it would be foolish for Raphael to not expect Enoch wanted to learn about this too.

Raphael hadn't understood everything in the book either..but he had gotten the gist of it..especially considering the symptoms.

"I imagine humans were."

He didn't sound mean while saying that, and he didn't mean for it to sound mean It was just a simple fact for him.

[warriorscribe]

"I meant here, in this tower... It was one of the residents, Dax said, but who would be both so knowledgeable and so reckless?"

[godheals]

"Perhaps a doctor or a 'scientist' tried an experiment and thought that they could avoid the consequences when they couldn't."

In short, humans saw in only the short-term again and paid the price.

[warriorscribe]

"There are certainly some of those here..." Enoch sighed and looked down at the table of symptoms again before closing the book.

[godheals]

Raphael did not sigh, but he did look at the table of symptoms before Enoch closed the book.

"Then I shall have to be careful and help out when they cause something like this to happen again."

[warriorscribe]

"One would hope they've learned not to try again, after it apparently failed so badly our hosts stepped in to help."