Ad Visitatores

[animusmods]

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.

Comments

[idolizer]

Not exactly. I've arrived here a few months ago.

[ She'll sit down somewhere... ]

It's a new occurence, to have you people arrive here instead of your dorm rooms. [ And then she notices. ] You don't have collars, either.

[bondsofsuffering]

Collars?

[He looks down at his revival bead necklace and then back to the collar around her neck.]

...Looks like it. Are those supposed to be important? And what do you mean by "arrived"?

[Mostly because that sounds a little familiar to his own experience, albeit in a different world...]

[idolizer]

Apparently they're important around here. They never told us why we have to wear them. We can't take them off.

[ She touches her collar uncomfortably. ]

I appeared here all of a sudden. Then I was told that my world was destroyed.

[bondsofsuffering]

Hope it doesn't turn out we need one. It'd suck to come all the way here and immediately die because they forgot to give us something vital.

[But knowing his body, it would probably just be the excruciating pain associated with death without the actual... death part.]

That sounds a little like our situation though. Before we appeared here, all of us were brought into this city called Hinoto-Ri to protect it or something.

[A wave of the hand - you can tell he either doesn't think highly of that job, or just doesn't care.]

Our worlds aren't destroyed, though.

[idolizer]

I don't think they would let you go around here without guaranteeing that you'll survive the setting. Maybe they'll give you collars in a second moment.

[ What the hell is Ruana thinking, piling people here like this? Ugh... ]

... Are you saying you're not exactly from that place, originally? [ Gameception, yay... ]

[bondsofsuffering]

Maybe... [He doesn't look too happy with the thought. Oatmeal and collars, what next?]

Yeah, that's right! There's this guy named Philemon who keeps bringing people to Hinoto-ri from all different kinds of worlds. Some of them are normal people like me, but there's also some gods who've been brought there, too. There's some people from earth, but it looks like there's different versions of earth for everybody as well. Heck, Hinoto-ri looks a lot like an earth that's been hit by the apocalypse already...

What about here? Is it the same for you guys, except with the whole world-has-been-destroyed thing?

[idolizer]

[ Monsters and experiments. It's gonna be so fun! :') ]

It's the same thing here. At least I've met at least one person who claimed to be immortal and a demi-god.

[ Sigh. ] I'm not sure if this Hinoto-ri is as horrifying as this tower is, but I'm sorry you all had to be dragged here.

[bondsofsuffering]

We have demons around at night and a creepy tower of our own, but... Only a couple of people ever made it in there. And they got abducted by some tentacle things.

[A pause, as if coming to a realization.]

Actually, that's probably part of why we're here.