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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.
screwattack: (statistical)

[personal profile] screwattack 2013-02-09 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Samus nods along with his story. She'd seen Brainstorm among those who disappeared, something that had been mildly bothering her. After all, she hadn't left things off on very good terms with him.]

The mission ended without finding those who disappeared then? [That was... disappointing.] The Trapezohedron. What exactly is the Trapezohedron?
otakuro: (Grim)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Beats me.

In the story I read... it was a tool to summon a... being called Nyarlathotep. In the Mictlan... what happened instead was that it created a trans-dimensional portal of some sort. The missing people came tumbling back out - with a few extras.
screwattack: (looking up through visor)

[personal profile] screwattack 2013-02-09 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
They were recovered, then? [There's a small tone of relief in her voice.]

Who is Nyarlathotep? If the object you found is meant to summon it, perhaps that is who we are hunting down in this world.
otakuro: (Serious)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. They should all be fine. They would've let you guys know if all of this hadn't happened, I'm sure.

[Atsuro gives a shrug. Mysterious dreams that pulled you across dimensions; what could you do?]

Right. That's... kind of what I was thinking, but I wanted to ask the others if they knew anything else about it. Minato and Minako both seemed like they had heard of it before...

Nyarlathotep shows up in these books written by someone named H.P. Lovecraft. He's supposed to be an... undefinable deity of some sort. Cosmic horror, eldritch abomination... that sort of thing. From what I remember, he had all kinds of creepy cults and stuff. In this world, the twins said they had heard that Nyarlathotep stood in opposition to Philemon. If Butterfly Mask is our guide, Nyarlathotep is the one pulling out the signposts and putting demons in their place.
screwattack: (confident stance)

[personal profile] screwattack 2013-02-20 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
I'll be sure to relay to them my relief once we make it back out of this place.

[And she's positive they'll make it out of here in one piece if she has anything to say about it.]

Books... [Hah, books... everything in her world was in a digital format now, books were relics to her. She wondered if such a book ever existed on the Earth of her world.]

I'm assuming Philemon is the one with the Butterfly Mask then. In other words, the one who hired us onto this job. It makes sense then that Nyarlathotep would be the target...

If he's threatening innocent lives then there's no doubt that he must be brought down, though I'd prefer to receive all sides of the story beforehand. Let's try to find out as much information as we can before we jump to any conclusions and kill innocents in the process.