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

[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.

[warriorscribe]

You sound as if you have more knowledge of this "split soul" idea than I do...

[tohko_amano]

Well..back home, there was a psychological condition where people would have split personalities. Maybe split souls are similar to this.

I don't have any experience to back this up..but some stories have people with more than one soul in a body, and those souls have been shown to trick others, ally with others, and even kill some.

[warriorscribe]

The world doesn't always work the way it does in your stories. But...a condition of split personalities?

[tohko_amano]

[At that, Tohko sighed.]

I know it doesn't..but they're good starting points, and they help me understand things in other universes..and other people.

[She then nodded.]

Right..it's a rare condition, and there are some people who argue that it doesn't exist, but is has been shown that some people, due to trauma, stress, or other things, will build up one or two other identities separate from themselves to shield themselves.

[warriorscribe]

And it isn't the same as simply taking an alias in that...the other identities are self-aware?

[tohko_amano]

Exactly. There's a difference between giving yourself a different name and identity and this condition. The other identities are self-aware, and when one is awake, the others are not, and they don't always know everything that the others do. They can hide, lie, and hurt each other like real people.

[warriorscribe]

So...perhaps this is what Ruana experiences when she's "asleep"...

...But is it normal for them both to have the same name?

[tohko_amano]

No, it's not..but if the other personalities are cruel enough, they may decide to have the same name just so that they can fool us. I don't think the other Administrators are fooled at this point though.

[warriorscribe]

You think they're completely aware? ...It would be what makes her "worse than Jason", wouldn't it? That she has no idea what she does, in the end...

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko nodded.]

It would be hard for her to hide this condition for very long from the other Administrators. They may not have told her though, due to a different personality threatening them. And that would make her worse than Jason..but it also makes her a bit sadder than Jason. At least Jason realizes what he's doing and can stop anytime he wishes.

[warriorscribe]

...So would this personality of Ruana's, if she is her own personality but is only active at certain times.

[tohko_amano]

That's true..I wonder if the other parts of her personality are too weak to fend her off?

[Tohko sighed.]

I wish I could talk to Ruana for a long time and figure this out..if we could send messages to different parts of her personalities, it might help us quite a bit.

[warriorscribe]

Or they simply never know what one another do...

But Ruana shows herself so rarely.

[tohko_amano]

[At that, Tohko nodded.]

That's true..one personality could hide information from the others, or all of them are utterly clueless as to what the others do, since no one has told her about it.

[Tohko then sighed.]

She does..and I hate to say it, but I wish she would show up more so that we could get a feel for her personally.

[warriorscribe]

She and Riki both... With the new floors so varied, I must wonder how much of this was Riki's design, and why he builds it as he does...

[tohko_amano]

A little bit of it was probably Riki's and the other parts were probably Dax's and Ruana's..but there's no way of knowing which parts were his and which one's weren't. And..maybe he likes building things like this.

[warriorscribe]

Perhaps. It's...strange, though, that he wanted to add all these new levels so badly that he felt the need to distract us, instead of adding them a little at a time like he always has...

[tohko_amano]

It is rather bizarre..but maybe he was also working on something else besides the new floors. We did hear a lot of noise coming from beneath the cafeteria. Maybe he was building something else.

[warriorscribe]

More than forty new levels and something else? That seems...as if it would be too much.