Angels and fairies

[warriorscribe]

Characters: Enoch and anyone
Setting: Floor 86, may span out into multiple floors.
Format: Doesn't matter!
Summary: Enoch decided to take a look at the new floors. And then he encountered a Weeping Angel.
Warnings: ...it's a Weeping Angel. And this is the fairy meadow floor. Watch out for those fairy circles! Any and all characters in this log may die

Enoch had seen the extra buttons in the elevator and decided to go exploring after breakfast. So after the, uh, rather sweet and very pink breakfast, Enoch took the elevator back up to the dorm floors and, cloak around his shoulders but pushed back like a cape, he set off down the stairs, into new territory.

It was largely uneventful. That is, until he hit the summery meadow. He didn't realize it wasn't another power-loss floor, and while he was wary of it, something out there caught his attention. A winged stone figure. Tentatively, though he feared traps, Enoch stepped off the stairs and began to make his way towards it curiously. And then he realized there were mushrooms here growing in a perfect circle. How strange. Enoch knelt down to examine them for a moment.

...Was someone watching him? Enoch stood up and looked around again. Strange, wasn't that angel statue hunched over a moment ago...?

Maybe he should get out of here. He turned to leave, and when the feeling came back stronger than ever he began to run.

It was a flash of movement in front of him, and Enoch skidded to a halt so quickly he fell, luckily keeping him from meeting its eyes. He scrambled to his feet and ran a short distance away, looked over his shoulder. ...and stared. It didn't move. Until he blinked, and the distance between them was cut in half.

...Okay. Okay that was its game. Enoch would just...start trying to edge around it...

Is anyone here to help? Anyone fae-savvy enough to let him know he's about to step into a fairy circle?

Or will you leave him to be distracted by the fae for the split second it would take for the Weeping Angel to kill him?

Comments

[tohko_amano]

Upon hearing Enoch's plan, Tohko nodded and stepped up behind him.

"Alright then. The dorm rooms should be safe..and that's fine with me. I won't fully close my eyes! Don't worry..I'll be alright."

..Or so she said. She probably would be, but who knew if that statement would hold true in the future?

[warriorscribe]

"All right. Move slowly, we can't afford mistakes. Here we go..." Enoch took a deep breath...and looked away from the angel, leading Tohko carefully up the staircase, back up through the floor with the poppies. The moment the angel was out of sight, the next time Tohko would see it is when it suddenly appeared in her field of vision again...hopefully that didn't make her flinch.

[tohko_amano]

"I will.." Tohko kept looking at the statue as Enoch lead her along, and was careful not to trip down the stairs. When it didn't appear on the stairs and when they reached the poppy field, she thought they would be rid of it..until it appeared around a corner, in her field of sight. It made her flinch, but she managed to keep one eye on it as she did so.

She was not going to lose here, right when they were so close.

Let's hear it for the monster-free floors! /throws another thing to scare them in

[warriorscribe]

And just in case she did, Enoch glanced over his shoulder every so often...

But so the slow chase continued, with the two switching off as they needed. Up through the smoky bar, through the hotel lobby and the lagoon. Aside from a moment where the monster was incidentally delayed by a drone in the hotel, it stayed perpetually just around the corner.

The empty floor, the tomb, through the hallway...up through the ball pit, the blindingly white room...

Where there had been nothing but an endless expanse of skyscrapers in all directions when Enoch had been coming down, a noise drew his attention...and his stare.

A giant Miniblin was climbing the side of a skyscraper.

...despite Enoch taking his eyes off the staircase, the angel didn't actually seem to be following them.*

Huzzah!~ And yay for more things to scare them and possibly kill them!

[tohko_amano]

However, Tohko kept an eye on the staircase. She may not have been able to see the angel statue..but that didn't mean it wasn't following them somewhere. However..she could hear something huge crawling on one of the skyscrapers. She drew 'Wendy' out of her belt with her free hand.

"Enoch..we should probably move on before that thing attacks."

[warriorscribe]

"Where did the other monster go?"

Enoch looked up at the staircase above them then, leading Tohko along a little faster. If it was leaving them alone, he wasn't going to complain!

[tohko_amano]

Tohko quickened her pace as Enoch moved along. She wasn't going to complain either..but she had a feeling that something like that wasn't going to give up so easily.

"I don't know..maybe it grew too. Don't monsters in here grow rather large?"

[warriorscribe]

"I don't know...this is the first time I've seen monsters on this level."

He falls silent as he leads Tohko back up, through the floor with the pipes, and to the floor with the crystals...where his armor finally reforms.

Enoch looks down at himself before letting go of Tohko's hand. So the monster itself nullified powers...

"...I suppose if it's grown, it can't fit through the stairs."

[tohko_amano]

"I saw one awhile ago..but I managed to run away before it could do anything."

Tohko quickly followed, still looking down the stairs as they ran through several rooms. It was only when Enoch let go of her hand that she looked up at him. However, she smiled at the thought of a large monster smashing through the whole Tower.

"That's true, I suppose..unless it manages to shrink somehow..but we're probably alright for the moment."

[warriorscribe]

"I was thinking to explore these new levels, but...perhaps I will have better luck after that monster leaves."

Finally, he seemed to relax, looking up at the crystals on the ceiling. The relief of being safe came before any other efforts.

[tohko_amano]

"You probably will..it's hard to explore when monsters are up and about. And when you do, make sure you stop at the seventy-eight floor and get a mailbox."

Tohko grinned as she pulled two notes out of her pocket and showed them to Enoch.

"I got these awhile ago..it looks like everything's okay, for the moment!"

[warriorscribe]

...Enoch found himself having to sit down on the steps, relief draining all the tension in his body.

"He got to them first...he found them first..."

[tohko_amano]

Tohko's grin grew even wider as she sat beside Enoch, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"He did Enoch, he did! Everything's alright. There was nothing to worry about..he's going to be alright."

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch let out a long breath, ending on a little huff of a laugh.

He was silent for a little while, letting the fear drain from him. And then he thought to say:*

I wonder how he knew...

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko kept on smiling, and while it wasn't that loud, she chuckled a little bit, thinking.]

I think..it was because he managed to grab the notes before Ruana saw them. Riki manages the records, right? Think back to the video. Riki and Dax were shown together before Ruana showed up. Riki must have passed the notes to him and then never mentioned them to Ruana. Perhaps she can't see everything that goes on with the rest of the Administrators.

[warriorscribe]

Perhaps... There seem to be a lot of things she doesn't know.

...Did you see what happened at the wedding, when I tried to bring up her earlier conversation with us?

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko sighed and shook her head.]

I'm sorry..so much happened..I didn't see what you spoke about with her. I tried to talk to me, but after awhile, she ignored me and walked off.

However..she probably doesn't know a lot of things because other people manage to hide it from her..or because she buries it intentionally in her head. Her past, if I'm right, was pretty horrific. She doesn't want to remember, so she tries to bury as much of it as she can.

[warriorscribe]

When I brought it up, Zo seemed frightened, so I changed the subject. And...

*He takes the second note again, the one with the sentiment that was meant for him.*

[tohko_amano]

And she stayed away from that subject as well, and Zo calmed down. He was trying to warn you..and he was probably frightened, thinking about what Ruana might do.

[Tohko smiled as he took the second note again.]

You can keep that one. It's meant for you anyway.

[warriorscribe]

More importantly, she didn't seem to know what I was talking about. And now we have Dax's warning not to mention what happened...

...She mentioned when she spoke to us that she sleeps a lot. I can't help but wonder if she's truly sleeping.

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko thought as she listened to Enoch's talk, trying to puzzle everything out.]

It's probably because she would really rip into you and everyone else who knew if the information reached her.

..One part of her may be sleeping. The other part of her may be kept awake at other points in time and hides away. Or..maybe she does sleep..but in a state that represses memories and shows her true self. Not any sort of sleep that you or I would know.

[warriorscribe]

I thought it sounded a bit like possession. I haven't seen many forms of possession like this, but then again...I haven't seen successful possessions, either.

*His own experience was limited to the souls of the women bound to the Tower, and he always drove them out before they could take over his body.*

[tohko_amano]

[And Tohko had only ever read about possessions in books, so she had even less real-life experience than Enoch did.

But..books helped, and Tohko nodded at that what Enoch said.]

I've only read about possessions..but it's not a bad guess. This is a Tower of Souls. There may be a few free-floating souls here without bodies, and one of them possesses Ruana, making her do terrible things while she's 'asleep'. Or..perhaps she's quite a complicated person, and, after facing many tragedies, forced her own soul to break off with certain memories and aspects of herself so that she didn't have to deal with the pain. Maybe one part of her does go to sleep..only to have a crueler part wake up.

[Tohko then sighed.]

..Of course, this is all speculation.

[warriorscribe]

But speculation is all we have. The one that we spoke to seemed to be the same one that oversaw us through the costume...events. She had memory of it as a game.

[tohko_amano]

That's true..I just wish we had more than that to go on.

[Tohko sighed, thinking.]

It did look like that..and maybe the other parts of her lie to each other, or alter the memories of the other parts. If the other parts are too weak or young, they could be tricked or forced into that sort of manipulation.