forgetbeam: (Save it for a rainy day)
Kiyotaka Ishimaru [石丸清多夏] ([personal profile] forgetbeam) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-01-16 12:56 pm

So, about these time paradoxes...

Characters: Ishimaru [replies from [personal profile] eyebrowsareforever] and You
Setting: Various places in the tower
Format: Your pick!
Summary: It's been ten years for Ishimaru, and he's mellowed out a little. The tower's obviously worn him down, but he keeps on trucking! And with all these new arrivals coming in, he figures he should help them settle in. If only he could find those informational pamphlets he wrote up years ago...
(Feel free to establish some kind of pre-existing TYL relationship!)
Warnings: Depends on who shows up.

[Libraries and Study Room]

[The reference books might be a little less popular than the ones on the third floor, but Ishimaru himself has always preferred them. Even after 'graduating' (or the closest thing he could get to it here), he never really broke the habit of sitting and studying for what could often be hours at a time. That's not what he's after today, though! With all the new arrivals in the Tower, he's going to need to bust out the little booklets he made up long ago just in case people started showing up again. Ha! Good thing he thought ahead.

But the only trouble is... where are they? He could have sworn he'd placed them on a very specific shelf here. Did someone take them out and put them back in the wrong place? Did the Administrators take them away? Did someone decide to use them as kindling on a colder month?

Whatever, he's going to do a thorough search of each and every shelf.

This search continues in the study room a floor down, ending in the other library. The longer he's at it the more visibly frustrated he is, frowning and clenching his teeth and all, but he does not give up until he's looked everywhere. He's very likely to ask anyone in his path if they've seen the books, too.
]



[Cafeteria]

[He can't believe he wasted a few hours trying to find something that isn't even there. By this point he's realized that something weird is going on with the Tower again, and doesn't think it's worth it working on new booklets just yet. If there's no change by the end of the month, he'll do it, but for now he'll settle on individual explanations. Of course, most of the other long-term residents have probably taken care of most of it.

Not only is he feeling a little useless after his failed search, he's hungry, so it's off to the cafeteria. It's halfway through the month, and that's always about the time he gets tired of eating the same things all the time, but he knows better than to risk the restaurant. At least it's not those bars again.

But as hungry as he is, it's so hard to force anything down. He doesn't give up, though! Maybe he should try out this hunting business later.
]



[Swimming Pool]

[Hunting's going to have to wait until tomorrow, though. It's getting late in the day and he'd love to get some kind of exercise in that doesn't involve hacking monsters to bits. So! It's time for a leisurely swim!

Except "leisurely" means "doing laps as fast and splashily as possible." Some things haven't changed at all in the last decade.
]



[Elsewhere]

[So maybe you encounter him on a different day, in another place. He could be anywhere from his dorm/the surrounding hallways, watching movies in the media room (he's become That Guy who tries to memorize and speak along with the entire script), clearing monsters from around the stairways on the more dangerous floors, or... wherever, really.]
superprogrammer: (Eh??)

[personal profile] superprogrammer 2013-02-02 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
... they did...?

[Chihiro looks back at him, equally surprised.]
eyebrowsareforever: (It would help if we could SEE the sun)

[personal profile] eyebrowsareforever 2013-02-04 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I... had thought...

[He stares at Chihiro.

Then the bookshelves.

Then back at Chihiro.

Maybe he's gone crazy after all...
]
superprogrammer: (explaining stuff)

[personal profile] superprogrammer 2013-02-07 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
You had thought...? Ishimaru-kun...?
eyebrowsareforever: (Shut up it's a great idea)

[personal profile] eyebrowsareforever 2013-02-08 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
So... Something strange is definitely going on, right? I haven't just gone mad?
superprogrammer: (explaining stuff)

[personal profile] superprogrammer 2013-02-15 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm... [he studies Ishimaru for a moment] ... I don't think so... Perhaps it has something to do with the current experiment?
eyebrowsareforever: (Woke up late and all)

[personal profile] eyebrowsareforever 2013-02-17 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
...That would explain everything.
superprogrammer: (explaining stuff)

[personal profile] superprogrammer 2013-02-20 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
... everything? What other sorts of things have you been experiencing?
eyebrowsareforever: (It would help if we could SEE the sun)

[personal profile] eyebrowsareforever 2013-02-21 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Besides the differences in our memories... Everything about the Tower itself seems off. Things aren't quite where they should be. I don't just mean these books...
superprogrammer: (Eh??)

[personal profile] superprogrammer 2013-03-03 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Really...? What else has been misplaced, Ishimaru-kun?
eyebrowsareforever: (I think it was yellow or something)

[personal profile] eyebrowsareforever 2013-03-05 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Things in my room. The seating in the cafeteria. Some of the blood stains on the floor... I thought I was seeing things before, but...
superprogrammer: (Eh??)

[personal profile] superprogrammer 2013-03-11 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Chihiro nods as he lists all those things then he looks up in shock at...] ... b-blood stains? What blood stains, Ishimaru-kun??
eyebrowsareforever: (Way better than these days)

[personal profile] eyebrowsareforever 2013-03-12 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Mostly... left by monsters.

[Whether the monsters were the victims or assailants, he's not sure in many cases. All he can be sure of is that there have been too many mortalities in the Tower over the years.]
superprogrammer: (looks over)

[personal profile] superprogrammer 2013-03-24 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes, of course. I thought for a moment there that you meant someone else's bloodstains...

Well, someone could have cleaned the bloodstains...