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towerofanimus2013-02-03 08:56 pm
bloodyashes) wrote in towerofanimus2013-02-03 08:56 pm
[Iiiit's explorin time]
Characters: Asch and Luke/Sheba/Guy/Jade/whoever else
Setting: New floors time! Spread across the first few days of the month as needed.
Format: Look can I just permanently say I don't care; starting in actionspam I guess.
Summary: Exploring the new floors, and also everyone and their mindreader talks about fonon separation, ahoy!
Warnings: Aside from the usual redheads yelling, talk of death, near-death, and depression.
[Floor 100 and descending - open, probably the first or second]
[Anyone who decides to take the trip down from the dorms into the new floors will find Asch just off the staircase on floor 100, staring at whatever it is he's seeing. He takes a step forward, hand raised as though to open a door or a gate, before turning away with a disgusted expression and stomping further down the staircase.
Care to go after him?]
[Other floors, via elevator]
[Given how much the Tower's expanded, it only makes sense to take the elevator down to explore the lower sections of the new floors. Unfortunately, the elevator is also used by virtually everyone in the Tower, which means running into some people he does like, and some he doesn't.
Luckily, he doesn't know how to work that door close button. Be stuck in an elevator with a grumpy redhead, y/y?]
Setting: New floors time! Spread across the first few days of the month as needed.
Format: Look can I just permanently say I don't care; starting in actionspam I guess.
Summary: Exploring the new floors, and also everyone and their mindreader talks about fonon separation, ahoy!
Warnings: Aside from the usual redheads yelling, talk of death, near-death, and depression.
[Floor 100 and descending - open, probably the first or second]
[Anyone who decides to take the trip down from the dorms into the new floors will find Asch just off the staircase on floor 100, staring at whatever it is he's seeing. He takes a step forward, hand raised as though to open a door or a gate, before turning away with a disgusted expression and stomping further down the staircase.
Care to go after him?]
[Other floors, via elevator]
[Given how much the Tower's expanded, it only makes sense to take the elevator down to explore the lower sections of the new floors. Unfortunately, the elevator is also used by virtually everyone in the Tower, which means running into some people he does like, and some he doesn't.
Luckily, he doesn't know how to work that door close button. Be stuck in an elevator with a grumpy redhead, y/y?]
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[He shrugs slightly.]
Hopefully, the place doubling in size isn't a regular occurrence.
[Otherwise there soon won't be time for anything but exploring floors... Then again, documenting them might be a good idea, anyway.]
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...I hope the kind of food they've got in the cafeteria this month isn't a regular occurrence, either.
[Because seriously? Gross.]
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Is that a tactful way of asking me to do your cooking, too?
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So, where were you headed? Any particular floor?
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And I was going to start from the sixty-first, since that's where I left off before...
[And oh boy, was exploring floors with Jade the best experience of his life or what.]
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[She's quiet for a moment or two, trying to decide whether or not to invade his privacy-- err, read his mind. But then she shrugged it off. His face said it clearly enough.]
Would you mind company? I haven't been to those floors yet either, and it's better safe than sorry around here, I think. I won't make you take me with you if you'd rather go alone, though!
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[That's an answer to both questions, by the way.]
I'm not sure I could handle two students at once, though. Especially when one of them is Luke.
[Guess how the last time he tried to teach the idiot something went. Go on, guess.]
Plus apparently he intends to bring Guy along, so... [Frown.]
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[She smiles brightly at him and manages to keep from giggling too much. From what she's seen in his head already, Luke learning to cook from Asch of all people is a disaster waiting to happen.
But the giggles die out and her expression becomes a little more serious as Asch continues. The frown says quite a bit already - she doesn't need to read his mind to know the prospect of Guy tagging along bothers him at least a little bit.]
...well, two's company and three's a crowd, so I guess four would be something along the lines of a riot, right? [Her smile is smaller, but definitely sympathetic.] If you want any help handling them, you know where to find me.
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[Still frown.]
I can handle Guy, but he's not a person I'd like to blackmail. Life would be easier if he'd just tell Luke things himself.
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[She can't quite keep up the teasing tone, though. She bites her lip.]
Tell him... what sort of things? Or is that sort of stuff private?
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[The elevator dings to a stop, the doors opening slowly.]
When Luke "lost his memory," Guy was the one assigned to raise him. The two of them are as close as you'd think, and Guy would never hurt Luke willingly, but there's an arte on his arm that could activate and cause him to re-experience those feelings of revenge. Luke doesn't have any idea about the whole thing.
[He steps out of the elevator. Sheba's smart, she can fill in the blanks.]
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That's horrible... for everyone involved.
[Including Asch. Based on prior conversations - and prior forays into Asch's mind - she has a sneaking suspicion that Van, or someone under his control, may have something to do with it, but... it seems like a touchy subject, and she doesn't want to make Asch dwell on it for too long.
She just doesn't know what to say, though, and it's written all over her face.]
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I already went downstairs with Jade, so I suppose we're headed up.
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[She glances out at the grass as she and Asch make their way to the staircase to go up. Then she looks up at the sky, and frowns a little at the clouds. Eyes... okay, that's just freaky. Her pace quickens a little.]
It gets stranger and stranger the further up we go.
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[The windows are a bit weird, but unless you're scared of heights they're nothing terrible.]
And this one doesn't seem so bad, aside from the eyes.
[He doesn't like being watched, though, so UP THE STAIRS WE GO.]
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...the eyes are freaky enough, though.
[Hustle hustle-- OH LOOK, THE OCEAN. Sheba can't help but raise an eyebrow at that.]
The Administrators never fail to astound me.
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[...Sup, it's a beach.]
I imagine this floor will be quite popular in the summer.
[Right now, though? The ocean breeze is cold as fuck. The sound of the waves is still pretty relaxing, though. And off in the water...
Wait, didn't he see the staircase back in the sand? Asch turns on the spot, looking puzzled.]
Two staircases?
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[She sort of has a hard time believing that. She shivers a bit and shifts her cloak to pull it around her arms. It surprised her how unfamiliar it felt - hadn't she spent the better part of the last few months journeying on Piers' ship? ...that felt so long ago...
She's snapped out of her thoughts by Asch's turning, and her expression mirrors his puzzlement as she looks between the two staircases.]
...should we check the staircase out there? [She nods to the stairs coming up from the shallow water.] That's definitely not something I've seen here before.
[She's not sure what to expect from it, but the whole point of exploration is to see new things, and a second staircase counts as new.]
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We can always check the other one later.
[He's really glad his boots are waterproof, though, because the water over by those stairs is up nearly to his knees and sure to be freezing cold.]
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[While she's not really looking forward to the inevitable chill of the water, she doesn't think it can be too terrible. She sets off for the stairway at a brisk pace.
...in spite of the fact that she'd tried to prepare herself for it, she still shivers as she steps into the water, and hustles up to the stairs to get out of it as quickly as she can.]
Maybe we'll get lucky and whatever's up there will be much warmer.
[Famous last words...]