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Animus Moderators ([personal profile] animusmods) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-02-08 05:03 pm

Ad Visitatores

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.
otakuro: (Sad)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
...

I kind of wish we'd never found that... trapezoid-thing in the first place. How are we even supposed to get back when we're done?
greyerrant: (Angry Garvi)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2013-02-09 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
I can't say, but maybe Ferrus will know something.
otakuro: (Surprise)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Ferrus?

[He will blink at Garviel in slight surprise. He didn't seem like the kind to rely on others and he had mentioned this name twice now...]

Is that a friend of yours?
greyerrant: (There is only war)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2013-02-09 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Garviel gestures towards gasmask-kun ]

He is my ally. My friends are all dead.

otakuro: (Mr. Corner)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Talking to Garviel is, as always, like receiving your daily dose of whatever the opposite of anti-depressants were. Depressants.]

...

OK, sure. Your ally.

From home?
greyerrant: (helmet)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2013-02-09 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. His kind are known to me from my home. [ He nods his head. ]

I think patience will be our ally here. I suspect this will be a long hunt.
otakuro: (Embarrassed)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
...

Do you really think so? Is that why there's no exit portal or anything?

...Maybe we've got to wait for them to reactivate the tetrahedron on their side before we can get back...
greyerrant: (Angry Garvi)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2013-02-09 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Possibly. But I would know more of Nyarlathotep. Our foe.

otakuro: (Serious)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
...

She said there would be... people [he hopes they are people] visiting soon. Let's ask them when we get a chance.
greyerrant: (helmet)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2013-02-09 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Assuming they are in fact people. Look to your war-gear, and be ready for anything.
otakuro: (Serious)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Thanks for reading his mind, Garvy. And being a font of optimism as always. Atsuro will reach for his game system with a nod.]

...Right.

If they've got a cafeteria here, though... it sounds like they should be... human. ish.

Unless we're on the menu.
greyerrant: (Default)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2013-02-09 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
If so, Ferrus and myself will ensure that no-one will be consumed.

[ Unless he eats someone. Omophagea and all]
otakuro: (Happy)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, good. I was just going to let everyone else be eaten and run home while they were distracted, but I'm glad the two of you are around.

[Too late, he remembers that Garviel has No Sense of Humor.]
greyerrant: (Grey Angel)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2013-02-09 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
That would be an act of considerable cowardice, and if I found you later I'd slay you out of hand.

[ None at all. ]

otakuro: (Mr. Corner)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
......I guess sarcasm isn't one of the fortes of the Astartes........
greyerrant: (helmet)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2013-02-10 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Rather, it is not one of mine.
otakuro: (Default)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-10 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just saying... you don't have to assume the rest of us can't take care of ourselves. It's too much of a responsibility on you.
greyerrant: (Angry Garvi)

[personal profile] greyerrant 2013-02-11 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
I'd just rather not see you all use dangerous sorcery.