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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: (Grim)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
...That doesn't sound promising.

But we're pretty good at surviving...

[It's part of their game title, even.]

Nyarlathotep is supposed to be able to take on a lot of different forms. He might be hiding in this place in disguise - maybe we're supposed to sniff him out and bring him back to Hinoto-Ri somehow.

...

Do we want him in Hinoto-Ri?
belfire: (suspicious side squint)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-09 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Not if one of his forms has tentacles.

[Because ew no, Hinoto-Ri is anime enough]

How do we go about sniffing someone like Nyarloth-la- Nyarly out, anyway? Isn't he powerful as well? I mean, I guess we could kick his ass if we all ganged up on him, but...

...like you said, do we want someone like him in Hinoto-Ri? I think this counts as one of those times where 'keeping your enemy close' doesn't apply.
Edited 2013-02-09 02:05 (UTC)
otakuro: (Mr. Corner)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
You'd think if he needed our help so much, Philemon could give us better instructions... Maybe he's left hints and clues scattered around this place or something. A supernatural treasure hunt.

...

Or maybe we're just supposed to destroy him. For good.
belfire: (pouting...)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-09 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Well, he did mention chasing, so that's probably it...

[Kazuya sighs]

And this was such a great vacation too... now it's back to killing Gods and shit.
otakuro: (Default)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
...

[The adrenaline pumping back through his veins had not been missed, true. The same old feelings were resurfacing - confusion over the situation, growing panic at the severity of what might happen... But tempered by the fact that this was, in effect, a Round 2... Just the knowledge that they had already gone through a Round 1 was enough to give him something important he hadn't begun the lockdown with - faith in his own power, and in that of Kazuya's.

Peaceful days have come and gone.
Let's survive.
]


My parents always told me that I wouldn't appreciate the vacations as much if I didn't work once in a while.

Let's try to get back to our vacation soon.
belfire: (HAPPY!)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-09 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah...

[Kazuya's brief downcast expression lifted, and he smiled a bit at Atsuro, giving him a friendly punch on the shoulder. They had done this once, and although it was just him and Atsuro, and not the group they had before...well, Atsuro he trusted to stick by him no matter what.

Nyarly... nah, he couldn't match up to six Bel demons and Babel, or even God, right? This'll be a piece of cake]


Let's try to rustle up some clues then!
otakuro: (Starry)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Kazuya, Atsuro, and Yuzu. It had started with the three of them, and through thick and thin, it would be the three of them no matter what.

...Or so he thought, anyway.]


Right!

...

I found one!

Every time the lights flicker, I die a little inside. It might be some sort of manifestation of his powers.
belfire: (ugh)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-09 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
...

[...]

Atsuro. Please.

[Although he had to admit, the visions were a bit creepy. If he hadn't spent some time in the Demon World, he would've been a bit freaked out by it all]
otakuro: (Embarrassed)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
...Hey, some of us still operate under an emotion called 'fear', OK? You remember fear, right? It's that basic survival mechanism most vertebrates have?

Seriously, though... can we find better lightbulbs?
belfire: (irritable glare)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-09 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think it's the lightbulbs' fault. More like the shitty electricity, or bullshit horror mechanic #2.

[Kazuya just grunted when he turned his head and saw a demonic surgeon reach out to stab him in the eye with the scalpel. The vision vanished before the blade could connect, but still, wow, that was pretty creepy, he guessed]

It's starting to give me a headache though, like strobe lightning.
otakuro: (Happy)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe we should learn to navigate with our eyes closed.

[Atsuro will proceed to do just that while groping around with his hands.]

I read that humans can learn how to use echolocation. Maybe there's a Persona skill.
belfire: (dangerous)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-09 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kazuya just watched Atsuro stumble about with his eyes closed, before very silently creeping over to him. He didn't say anything - that would ruin the creeping - and reached out veeeeeeery carefully, and veeeeeeeery slowly to Atsuro's hat]
otakuro: (Angry)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[At the last moment, Atsuro will lunge towards Kazuya and flail at him like some sort of strange zombie.

Obviously he had been cheating.]
belfire: (bwuh?!)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-10 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
GAH! OI, HEY!

[Kazuya almost fell flat on his ass in surprise - oh, scratch that, he did. He banged into the corner of a nearby table, and with a yelp, tumbled to the floor with a solid sounding thump.

Owwwwwww....]
otakuro: (Embarrassed)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-10 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoops.

[...Atsuro will hastily rush over to help Kazuya to his feet.]

Ah... Er. Sorry.

...Wow, look, I must be really good at the echolocation thing.
belfire: (nervous smile)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-10 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeeeah... ooowwwww....

[Kazuya climbed to his feet with Atsuro's assistance, and rubbed his side where he'd caught it. Ow, that hurt more than the falling did]

Uh, but, um, maybe we should stop fooling around and actually do something useful, ha...
otakuro: (Sad)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-10 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
......I can't think of anything useful to do right now except wander around until they bring the oatmeal.
belfire: (ugh)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-10 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Ergh, oatmeal...

[Kazuya mimed gagging]

I'd rather eat this table.
otakuro: (Surprise)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-10 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder what is it they're slipping into it for us to eat...... Your enhanced demon senses can't tell that sort of thing, can it?
belfire: (hm? side look)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-11 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
My sense of smell is a lot higher than a human's, so I can smell poisonous stuff if it gives off a scent.

[Although if you're gonna be a good assassin, you pick poisons that don't have scents. They exist!]