Ad Visitatores

[animusmods]

Characters: anyone participating in the event
Setting: floor 56 and eventually other areas of the Tower
Format: either
Summary: Welcome to the Tower.
Warnings: horror/creepiness/potential danger/generally unfortunate things all possible
Notes: PLEASE GO HERE TO MAKE NEW POSTS.

A few minutes before anything happens, Ruana's voice rings out over the Tower's intercom--it manages to be louder than anything the residents happen to be doing. "Hey, everyone, there's something exciting going on at floor fifty-six! Go make sure they don't get themselves killed!"


You arrive, stepping or tumbling, in a surgical suite. It looks abandoned, with dust collecting on the table and floors. The lights flicker, and for a moment blood dripping off the table, puddling on the floor--but no, the lights are back, and surely that was your imagination. It's quiet, eerily so, but nothing hinders you, and you're free to spread out and explore. There are multiple rooms here, like in any hospital, and it's all a bit confusing. Occasionally the lights flicker, and it's a bit frightening as Things appear that shouldn't exist. Shadowy creatures stitched together and reaching for you, doctors brandishing phantom surgical tools, blood splattering the walls or floor or ceiling, how did it get there--but none are real, and all of them vanish when the lights return. Eventually you find the staircase, spiraling up and down into darkness. Approach it, though, and the thing glitters with a barrier that will push back any attempts at climbing the thing.

A girl, a teenager dressed in red and black, appears. And she does simply appear, inserting herself into the space, nearly pushing it aside to make room in it for where she is now. Her face beams with unconcealed excitement, and her words tumble out on top of themselves. "You can't go there! Yet, I mean. You'd all die!"

The girl steps onto the staircase, passing through the barrier as if it weren't there, and sits on the steps to address everyone. "Hi! I'm Ruana. You didn't show up the normal way, so the Tower can't support you yet. We got this one floor ready when I saw you were coming but, well, the Tower's kind've big, so getting all of them set up is taking a little longer than I thought." She smiles, sheepishly apologetic in a carefree sort of way. "I've got everyone coming here to visit you--or at least they know they can visit you--and I'll have someone bring food up for you. It'll be oatmeal, and oatmeal is super boring, but you have to eat it, okay? Then you can have whatever you want! The cafeteria's down on the first floor if you get hungry. We should have everything ready in a few hours. I've gotta go help with that, so you guys wait here.

"Don't worry, the monsters can't get to this floor as long as that barrier is up."

And then she's gone, blinking out of existence. The barrier will remain for three hours.

Comments

Ferrus Ferric the wonderful WH40K OC...

[technomaturgist]

There were three or so things that were important to Ferrus: one, the strange conditions of the floor. Two, the declaration about oatmeal. And three, the barrier.

These were all important, sure, but he chose to approach them by looking around and examining the floor. He's unfazed by the shadowy scares after the first one - or at least, he appears to be.

It's scary, sure, but ehh. It's not hurting him, and he needs to be aware for the things that might.

[greyerrant]

"Ferrus." Cerberus rumbles. "Can you tell us anything about the barrier?"


He seems quite comfortable with the change in circumstances himself, for the most part. But that is the beauty of being unable to know fear.

[technomaturgist]

Cerberus, please. He's already considered the barrier - "...As far as I can tell, it's impenetrable. But, there doesn't seem to be any food here - and the woman mentioned food, besides the oatmeal that's being brought. So... It should go down. At some point."

He doesn't have any idea of when, tho. And no idea about the barrier itself.

[greyerrant]

"Imprisoned again!"

He snarls, then stalks around like an angry canid for a moment or two before halting.

"Damn. Well, we've got a task ahead of us. Are you ready?"

[technomaturgist]

"...I am, yes."

He didn't know what their task was yet but hey

couldn't hurt to just agree to it without thinking about it, nope.

Re: Ferrus Ferric the wonderful WH40K OC...

[likethewolf]

Well, this weird person in a cloak and gas mask staring at the ground looks strange enough to fit is with all the other weird goings on. Seems like a good enough candidate for this 17 year old to point her guns at and try to extract some information out of.

"You! Stop right there!"

[technomaturgist]

Wow, not okay! That 17 year old will be in for a bit more then expected - his hands draw up and he's pointing twin magnums back at her, which she may or may not have noticed in the holsters around his waist, along with several other pistols.

Ferrus was not being caught with his hands in the air here.

Sorry about that.

"Why?" Simple response, given they're both pointing guns at each other.

[likethewolf]

That went less as expected. In hindsight people dressed as soldiers do usually tend to be armed. Oh well, she can think about that as she fires off two shots and dives into a spare examination room.

[technomaturgist]

Hey there that's not okay.

He's going to move to avoid the shots, diving to the left to avoid them before sort of... staring at that doorway into the spare examination room.

Should he just flashbang and leave or let her try and continue, is the question.

[technologic]

"I've heard of there occasionally being an explosion of newcomers, but this is really going overboard."

The comment comes from a small, scruffy redhead who has a rifle slung over her shoulder, and she stands outside the barrier and gives everyone on the other side of it a curious look.

"Guess this is what Ruana was up to..."

[technomaturgist]

Oh, hi there. Have a techpriest staring at you through the barrier, April, before lightly placing his hand against it and very obviously looking at you.

"...Do you know where this is?" It's worth a question.

We come in peace, April! Also, you can cross past the barrier, April.

[technologic]

She ain't trusting that barrier man, admins put it there.

April blinks at him, and then gives him a nod at the question.

"Yeah, this place is called the 'Tower of Animus'... Though I've got new clue why you're here since this... isn't how new people are usually brought here."

And that's confusing and unnerving.

[technomaturgist]

Good point. Also, do they know it's called the Tower of Animus, or just the Tower?

It was a good thing Ferrus had some idea of how they were brought here. "According to what we were informed of by some kind of... 'god', so to speak... we were brought here through time and space by some sort of strange artifact."

No world destruction here, April.

Have a Phantasy Star OC?

[photonicfighter]

Dakki is doing some exploration of her own, and treating each twitchy shadow and trick of the light like a possible threat. When she slips into a new hallway and spots Ferrus, she stiffens and reflexively readies herself for a fight. "Hazmat...?"

But to actually look at him, to step forward and let the shadows move away... no. He's nothing of the sort. He's one of the other dreamers, isn't he? Still cautious, but far less visibly so, she starts to approach.

"Hey. Find anything?"

I will take this.

[technomaturgist]

Oh, someone's approaching! He seems to notice her, but doesn't move directly in her direction until she says something. He stands and looks over at her - "...No, unfortunately."

He's kind of curious about her, from exactly how she looks. Very technical. Also purple. Xeno? Probably. ...Still, Kais wasn't terrible, and he was an xeno...

Argh, whatever. "Have you?"

[photonicfighter]

It felt good to hear a real voice coming out from behind a gas mask. Her Mayfield presumptions wouldn't work here. She'd do well to set them aside. She slows her approach when she nears a doorway, then stops, then quickly moves herself so that she can see in, training both of her guns on whatever may be in there.

Which is a whole lot of nothing. She lowers her weapons.

"...no. Just shadows that don't act like shadows should. And optical glitches."

[technomaturgist]

"A-ah, yes. I'd noticed that, as well." He nodded to a table nearby which had, seconds ago, appeared to be covered in blood.

"They... don't seem to be real, at least. No risk of hurting us, as far as I can tell."

He's stopped caring about the shadows and optical glitches - it's a scare tactic, nothing more.

[heavenscorpse]

V/V isn't intimidated by Ferrus's appearance. It never occurred to her to be. Right now he's any other confused person.

"Hello. Do you need to know anything about the tower?" she asked, approaching him. "I've been here a little while, so I can probably help."

haha sorry for waiting until today to respond, needed to figure out how Ferrus would react to V/V

[technomaturgist]

Ferrus couldn't help but stare at the winged human before him. He'd... never quite conceptualized one (given that he'd never seen Pit or imagined Avitus as a human), so it's mildly surprising. Her words ground her in reality, though, and he considers for a moment-

"...Is there anything you could tell me that would help me stay alive, once we're free to roam?" Most important thing to Ferrus. He has a single revival, best not to waste it.

<3

[heavenscorpse]

"Don't stay out at night. Monsters are worst then."

Too many dangerous floors to list all of them.

[idkworldruler]

Well, it looks like his theory of this being a carnivorous universe might have been proven correct, to a point anyway. He had an idea that something big was going to take place, but he couldn't have predicted something like this.

For now he may as well gather what information on the visitors that he could. Of course he took the proper precautions of wearing his own gas mask, just in case they had brought along something that he did not want to catch. Which was why he was drawn to the techpriest.

"...Nice gas mask bro."

[technomaturgist]

"...Same to you?"

Dude, please. He isn't sure about how this universe works - and honestly, he's surprised this happened at all. But whatever, he's here now.

He doesn't recognize you at all, and sort of just looks over the the other. "Are you from Hinoto-Ri, or here?" A simple enough question to ask - he's never seen you before, fellow gas mask wearer.

[idkworldruler]

Obviously he's never seen you before either. But the other guy is also rocking the gas mask chic apparently. So he couldn't be all that bad, right?

"Define here. Here as in always lived here? Or here as in from another place, just misplaced here?" Of course there were quite a few other here's that he could come up with, but just didn't feel like it at the moment. Though at least this new compatriot had given him his first clue about the new comers, some place called Hinoto-Ri, or something.

Sounded Japanese, and more like a city, than a planet.

[selematpagi]

Oh wow is this guy an illusion too?

He looks super real though??

He also seems to be looking at the floor. Yukko can't tell for sure, what with the gasmask, but with his head tilted down towards the floor like that...! Yukko has very little in the way of observational skills but the gasmask is pretty hard to miss.

She waves from nearby but he... doesn't notice her. Or at least he doesn't appear to notice her. He must be an illusion! She even goes so far as to wave a hand in his face just to prove it. (Like he can't already see a weird girl hovering over him...)

i took forever to tag and my apologies, hopefully you don't mind a backtag.

[technomaturgist]

Ferrus was mostly examining the floor at this point as a whole - examining the tiled floor itself was just a side effect. He hadn't noticed her wave her hand, of course - floors were obviously too engrossing (or, rather, he was just distracted in thought.)

When she waved her hand in his face, his head turned almost suddenly towards her - mostly because she'd surprised him, a hand going for his magnum, before he stopped, and a confused voice emanated - "...What are you doing?"

Sorry, Yukko. Apparently Ferrus was going to scare the shit out of you.