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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.
evokingfool: (Surprised - Taken back)

[personal profile] evokingfool 2013-02-09 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
...What?

[His eyes widen in surprised. It's one thing for a girl to share the same surname as his senpai (it's not like it's a rare surname in Japan), but combined with her physical features and knowing him...]

Miki Sanada...are you related to Akihiko Sanada-senpai?
helenchanted: (Uhhhh)

[personal profile] helenchanted 2013-02-09 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods at him slowly.]

That would be the same one, yeah...
evokingfool: (Adrift)

[personal profile] evokingfool 2013-02-09 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
...I didn't know he have one.

[Maybe because Minato never have a chance to spend time with him. mamoru you and your star slinking]

But yes, I'm not the Minato you know. [Because the lack of honorifics tipped him.]
helenchanter: Made and drawn by <user name=pixle> DNS (Siigh)

[personal profile] helenchanter 2013-02-09 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Y-yeah...I kinda figured.

Actually the Minato that I know from Hinoto-Ri isn't the Minato I know...

[She laughs a bit bitterly.]

This may sound weird but he was the leader of Strega...
evokingfool: (Surprised - Taken back)

[personal profile] evokingfool 2013-02-09 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
[If anyone, he looks surprised. But not for the reason Miki may suspect.]

Him? [The other Minato, the one he made a decision to always wear his SEES armband around the tower for. He now wears it out of habit, but back when the Strega leader was around, it's a good way of telling them apart.]

Does that mean you know Minami Arisato?
helenchanted: (Seriously Angry)

[personal profile] helenchanted 2013-02-09 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[She narrows her eyes at him.]

I do...how do you know her name?

[While she does look angry, there's hope in her eyes...and fear. She certainly doesn't want her best friend here, from what she's seen so far.]
evokingfool: (Stoic)

[personal profile] evokingfool 2013-02-09 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
She used to be here, so that's how I know her. But Minami...left months ago.

[Judging from his tone, he doesn't sound very happy about that fact.]
helenchanted: (Sad)

[personal profile] helenchanted 2013-02-09 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
O-oh...

[Well..]

That's good, I suppose. Minami was also in Hinoto-Ri with me, but she returned home as well...
evokingfool: (Distance - Dark)

[personal profile] evokingfool 2013-02-09 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
["Good"?]

...Everyone here are supposed survivors of their destroyed world and was brought here for our safety.

["By all account, returning home means going to a dead world." He did not say that, but he hopes she catch the implication.]
helenchanter: Made and drawn by <user name=pixle> DNS (What the hell)

[personal profile] helenchanter 2013-02-09 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
WHAT?! But that's not what happens when we go back in Hinoto-Ri! I know that for sure!

...are you saying anyone who is in this tower's homes are destroyed?
evokingfool: (Akihiko - Sit)

[personal profile] evokingfool 2013-02-09 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
That's right. [Pause.] Maybe the Minami you know is a different version from the one I know.

[Multiple universes and all, even if the differences was very subtle.]
helenchanter: Made and drawn by <user name=pixle> DNS (Siigh)

[personal profile] helenchanter 2013-02-11 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Well it's not really like I could know for sure now.

[But her home wouldn't be destroyed, wouldn't it?]

I'd ask more about here, but I'm already starting to get a good idea...
evokingfool: (Default)

[personal profile] evokingfool 2013-02-11 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
If you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer. But you must know that it's not hard to die here.

[They can ponder about Miki's home world's fate, but Minato want to focus on what's important right now. Survival.]
helenchanted: (Uhhhh)

[personal profile] helenchanted 2013-02-11 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
..well that's...

Not very comforting.

[She holds the beads closer to her neck. Right. Questions.]

Why do we need to eat oatmeal anyway?
Edited 2013-02-11 01:46 (UTC)
evokingfool: (Fool - Blue butterfly)

[personal profile] evokingfool 2013-02-11 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not quite sure. But if you don't eat them, you can't eat other food.

[Well, you can put food in your mouth. You just can't keep them down until you eat the oatmeal.]

Even if you don't like it, finish your oatmeal first before trying anything.
helenchanted: (Are You For Real)

[personal profile] helenchanted 2013-02-13 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
...I'll be honest, that sounds like a trap.

[Maybe those things are pumped with nanomachines of some sort?]

Like giving you medicine before you can eat anything else...
Edited 2013-02-13 03:29 (UTC)
evokingfool: (Default)

[personal profile] evokingfool 2013-02-13 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Probably. But you'll eventually need to eat.

[You know, that necessary and basic need to live. Yeah, that.]