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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
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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.

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[This was all too much. First there had been waking up in Hinoto-Ri, and Nagisa had just barely wrapped her head around that when she'd had that second strange dream.

Waking up from this one wasn't nearly as pleasant as waking up in the city had been, though. Nagisa woke with a start and a scream at the sight of blood dripping off a nearby table, a doctor looking at her with a scalpel looking for a place to stick it. Then the lights flickered, and that was gone.

Gone, and then it was quiet, but creepy. Nagisa's Kirara fluttered out, lighting on her shoulder for a moment, but then it was gone, as if making sure it wouldn't get hurt.

Then, the girl showed up, said all of that, and -- monsters?]

Hey! Wait! Come back, I don't understand...

I want to go home...

Edited 2013-02-09 01:06 (UTC)

[With a soft puff of displaced air, a jackal-headed creature suddenly appears in front of her, scowling and tensed as if ready for a fight- only for his harsh expression to melt into confusion as he stares at the crowd.

Whatever he had been expecting, it wasn't this.]

....Oh Fourfold Furnaces, what now?

[Nagisa jumps back, startled by the sudden appearance. The scowl doesn't help, but as soon as it fades, her own surge of tension fades.]

I'm just as confused as you are about it. I just got pulled from home to a city called Hinoto-Ri after one weird dream, and I wasn't settled there a night before I had another weird dream. That weird dream said that I was needed here, and then when I woke up, I was here.

I'm sorry if I gave you a fright, my dear. The only warning we were given about any of this was 'make sure they don't get themselves killed'.

I don't suppose you can recall anything more of that dream?

No, no, that's okay! I'm not hurt or anything, and you're not hurt or anything, and that's what's important.

The first dream was kind of vague. There was a man with a blue butterfly, saying something about being chosen, and how the first place I woke up in, Hinoto-Ri, needed me.

The second dream, the one right before I woke up here, had the butterfly man in it again. At first, he said something about someone finding something in Hinoto-Ri that could bend space and time, and that the journey it would send some of us on would be dangerous, but that we needed to do it. Because there's a force that's out to disrupt the balance, and the ones of us that are called here need to work together with the ones of you that are here, form some kind of bond, and stop it.

I don't understand it, not completely, and I won't lie and say I'm not a little scared. But I...I wouldn't have had the dream if it wasn't for a reason, I don't think...

And nary as a whisper as to what you've been chosen for, either time... poor sod.[He shakes his head.]

I don't understand this either, and I'm sorry to say that your fears are well warranted, but whatever help or information I can provide is yours for the asking. There has to be a purpose to this, even if we've yet to tumble to it.

[Something happening on floor 56? Wasn't that... the creepy hospital ward? That can't be good.

After grabbing his sword, Kidou hurried to the stairs, prepared to attack anything and even prepared to die if he had to. Once he reached the floor, he came to a stop and stared.

... Well, Ruana did say to make sure they didn't get themselves killed.. but he wasn't expecting to see a lot of new arrivals. Where to even start...]

[A particular arrival caught his interest; A girl who looked quite depressed and confused. Kidou approached her a bit cautiously, as he didn't want to startle her or anything.]

Hey, are you alright?

I - I think so? I'm not hurt, at least. I'm just confused. I had one weird dream and wound up in Hinoto-Ri, and then another weird dream and wound up here. Hinoto-Ri wasn't scary like this, even if it was kind of confusing to suddenly not be back home anymore.

[Nagisa lets out a little nervous laugh, straightening up and approaching with a shy smile. What was this, letting her manners go? She would have a lot of people fussing at her for letting her smile slip back home. Idols always smiled when it got tough.]

Ah! I'm so sorry, I should introduce myself. My name is Nagisa Motomiya! It's nice to meet you.

It's a pleasure to meet you too, Nagisa. My name is Kidou Yuuto. [He offers a smile back.]

I'm sorry you had to arrive to this place... it's a lot worse than it currently looks. [He sighs and then leans in a little, curious.]

... That's strange... when people arrive, they have these collars around their neck. [A hand goes to the collar around his own.]

I wonder why you guys don't have them.

It's worse? That has to be why the person in the dream apologized for sending us here.

[Nagisa instinctively reaches up to her neck, but there isn't anything resembling a collar there.]

I wonder why...maybe it has something to do with the COMP I have? I don't really get how it works, but a few minutes after I woke up, the COMP found me. It lets me use the network, with the watch I have.

[She pushes her sleeve back a little so she can show him.]

[He takes a look and crosses his arms.]

Well, whatever the reason is, it's very odd. Do you know the others who arrived with you? [Because if not then it's even more weird that none of them have collars.]

I'm still new to the city, but the person that welcomed me and gave me the tour is here. I think I've seen some of the others in passing, at least. I'm pretty sure everyone that just got here was in Hinoto-Ri, anyway.

[Nagisa looks around again, just to check, and nods.]

What kind of a place is this?

So you all came from the same place? [Ok.. that makes it a bit easier to try to figure things out. He looks thoughtful for a moment, before remembering her question. His expression turns very serious.]

This place is Hell.

[She nods, starting to say something, but the seriousness of his expression makes her forget her words. When he says that, she immediately goes to check something, breathing a sigh of relief when she finds a microphone at her waist.

Wait. A microphone?

The reason why Nagisa's relieved becomes a bit more evident a moment later, when she turns it around, holding it like a sword and hitting a button. A beam of light comes out of it, and she nods once before putting it away.]

The micsaber is really meant more to defend than to attack, but if this place is that bad, then I'm glad I have a way to do it. And a way to...mm. If this place is bad, then maybe it needs something I can do. Maybe that's what the dream meant.

[Nagisa thinks about it a minute, and she turns the micsaber back around and starts to sing.] She trusts that there's some way to translate it, even if she's singing in Japanese.]

Edited 2013-02-12 00:49 (UTC)

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