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

The Archangel Gabriel Mood: Slightly intrigued

[ontheirside]

[Well, that sure was a transdimensional journey. Fun times. And, apparently there were monsters and oatmeal here, always a good combination.

Really, he wasn't feeling this place. At least in Hinoto-ri he could kick back, man his candy store and do pretty much anything that sounded fun...here not so much.

At least not till he got the lay of the land. So, for now, he was vaguely pacing, lounging on what he could, and playing with a small rubber ball he'd made for entertainment.]

Guess it's always nice to have a little excitement...

[stolemylook]

Excitement?

[Hi there, angel. How did they miss each other in the city?]

[Dark Pit is still on edge, still holding onto his bow so tight his knuckles were white. He paused, glancing over at the guy, not sure if he was being sarcastic or not, so he was assuming not.]

How is this exciting?

[ontheirside]

It's a new place, what are you looking for, fireworks?

[Oh...staring at you now because you look like his 'brother.']

You're Dark Pitt, aren't you?

[stolemylook]

[Dark Pit rolled his eyes at the first part, shaking his head. This person knowing his name drew his attention, however. He glanced up at him, feathers ruffling.]

...take it you know my reflection then. Who are you?

[ontheirside]

[He let his own feathers ruffle, causing a large shadow of a pair of wings to appear on the wall behind him for a moment before vanishing. Yeah, he was posturing a little.]

Gabriel.

Don't like talking about your mirror-verse self, I take it?

[stolemylook]

[...nice trick.]

We have a... weird relationship. I yell at him, he annoys me more.

[ontheirside]

[He shrugs.]

Sounds like typical brother stuff to me.

[stolemylook]

We're not brothers.

[Seriously, don't ever even suggest it again.]

[scentofmakai]

[Huh, that sure feels a little like an angel. Normally that means something interesting, if probably annoying. Well, you take what you can get in the Toer.

Zett pokes his head around the corner of a hospital. It's not an angel this demon knows.]

You now, a lot of people don't think that way.

[ontheirside]

[Woah....demon. Okaaay. Gabe doesn't change his stance at all, just keeps playing with that ball in his hand...but he's definitely alert now.]

Some people can't think beyond the box of 'suddenly kidnapped.' They miss the part where new places offer new things and all new things are exciting.

[scentofmakai]

Oh, no, I definitely agree. Though this place gets old after a few months stuck here. Maybe if you're lucky you'll head back home sooner instead of later.

[ontheirside]

Hey, I certainly hope so, I had a pretty good gig back there. Hopefully this field trip won't last longer than this place provides entertainment.

[scentofmakai]

You don't sound much like an angel, you know.

[ontheirside]

I hear that a lot. You don't really look much like a demon, to be fair.

This thread may be joined by a castmate of Enoch's too. Double the confusing fun y/n?

[warriorscribe]

*This man who came up from downstairs may sense a bit like the Metatron, if Gabriel has such senses. But he is...more or less human, interestingly enough. He's currently scanning the new crowd, looking a little anxious and drifting towards the edges of the room...where he overheard Gabriel.*

Ah...I don't believe you will like this tower's idea of "excitement"...

yyy~

[ontheirside]

[That sure felt like Metatron...but it definitely was not which just made him mentally sigh in relief.]

Hey, maybe not, seems pretty Silent. But it's something new and that's all I'm looking at right now.

And here is the other one

[brbtalkingtogod]

[There is the sound of fingers being flicked close by, Lucifel appearing close to Enoch just at the very same moment.]

Someone's being curious about this place?

Fallen who doesn't fall in lore, not yet ascended, and not yet fallen! Let the confusion begin~!

[warriorscribe]

*At the sound of the fingersnap, Enoch looks over his shoulder, smiling at his dark-clothed guardian's arrival before a more suited expression appears on his face.*

Somehow...Ruana was preparing this place to receive people without collars. I don't understand why, myself. Perhaps they are trying to expand our living environments...?

Allll of the confusion /o/

[ontheirside]

[And another angel, this wasn't shaping up to be Gabriel's day at all. At least he had his blade. Still, maybe they were like Aziraphale and from an alternate world, that would make his life easier.]

Ruana...that girl? I don't know about her, what I do know is I was sent here by a Lovecraftian stone to do...something. Dunno, but I'm going to guess it's messy and not all that fun, really. On the plus, it's probably exciting on some level.

[Got to find the silver-lining, right?]

Yush!

[brbtalkingtogod]

[And not just any angel. But what might be an alternate world to him, is reality to them. Keep talking Enoch, Lucifel being here just recently mean that there is a lot he has to catch up on.]

Let's just wait and see how things will turn out for the time being.

the Holy Maiden meeting an Archangel is totally gunna go over well, right

[faithstaynight]

[Here's someone who's certainly not looking about with the confusion or unease some of the others might be feeling. She's frowning, though - Ruler by no means knows everyone in the tower, but these are all unfamiliar faces. New residents were continuing to show up right now, that was true, but... so many all at once? And all gathered in one place? This means trouble.]

"A little" might be a bit of an understatement, monsieur. Something stranger than usual is happening here, and you would do well to be on your guard.

Oh, yes, absolutely.

[ontheirside]

[Well, aren't there just interesting people around every bend here? He flashes a humorless smirk.]

It was a dimension jump judging from the tingle in my spine. And, based on the feeling this place gives off, 'be on your guard' is good advice.

That said, don't worry about me, I'll be fine.

[When you're one of Heaven's fiercest weapons you're allowed a certain amount of confidence in your skills, right? Even if those skills have become a tad rusty from neglect...]

[faithstaynight]

That is not as strange as you might think. There are many, many other people in this tower than ourselves and the ones on this floor now. That's how everyone shows up, I believe.

[She shakes her head, the frown still firmly in place.] But this floor has been closed off until just now. And... you do not have a collar like the rest of us. [She raises a hand to point to the band of metal around her neck, a tube filled with violet liquid visible on it.]

So I'm not sure this is part of the common experiments that tend to happen around here. If you don't mind me asking... did anything strange happen to you before you woke up here?

[ontheirside]

Collars aren't my style.

[He hums as though thinking about it.]

Well, we all had the same dream in which the guy who first kidnapped us told us we were needed here. Maybe it's got something to do with those experiments. Maybe not.

[faithstaynight]

It's not as if we have a choice. We wake up with them already attached, and they are impossible to remove.

[She tilts her head a bit in confusion as he speaks.] All the people here were kidnapped prior to being transported here? That's... strange.