towerofanimus | 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.

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[He met a younger Rose already, but the purple fox thing is definitely not familiar. Isn't that...forget it. He doesn't even want to know, holy shit. He does tilt his head a bit and looks at it behind the tinted plastic.]

Sounds like you've had experienced. I guess the upside is we're supposed to be allowed back after whatever we're supposed to do.

I have. I've been one other place between here and home, so I know the disorientation you must feel. At least a little. [[That purple fox thing is sniffing this Dave curiously, before sitting at his feet. She glances back at Rose, who stares at her a moment.]]

Good question, Guile. [[Focusing back on Dave.]]

Where exactly did you come from before? Just out of curiosity. Don't leave us hanging here, Mister Strider.

I think it's mostly just unsettling to wake up in what looks to be a horror film hospital. There's a lot of disorienting things that top this. [Like, you know, not being dead anymore.]

Honestly, I want to say Japan, but that's not it. Came from Hinoto-Ri. It's basically a self sustaining city in a pile of problems. [He nudges Guile with his foot very gently. No. Don't sit near him. He will not give into your cuteness. HE WILL NOT GIVE INTO PETTING YOU. Stop.]

[[She's not moving, Dave. She is staring up at you expectantly. Come on. Coomee onnnn. You know you want to pet her.]]

Essentially that's where you are. I am expecting any day now for it to be teeming with demonic nurses, patients screaming in agony, the whole works. You're going to love the rest of the tower. [[Guile bumps his leg with her head.]]

Was it at least interesting? Just a single city, it must get small sometimes.

[Ugh. No. Don't look at him like that. He is going to win, okay. STOP.]

Is that said in a legitimate manner or are you being sarcastic? I just always assume everything you say is kind of sarcastic. [Oh boy. This already sounds so much fun. He's so excited. Look how excited he is. He isn't at all.

He finally kneels down to start petting Guile's head. You win this time.] Well, I guess interesting is a good way to explain it. Things don't work quite right in the city and it gets dangerous at night. But...

[He pauses and his expression softens just a bit. Not that she can see the look since he's wearing fucking shades like the tool he is.] It's a change of pace to see people like this again.

[[Wow fucking tool. But she gets the feeling, because she knows how that is. Rose smiles softly and watches the two as Guile soaks up the attention.]]

I'm sure it is. Partly a relief, perhaps? Well, perhaps not, considering the unfortunate circumstances you now find yourself in.

As for sarcasm, I've toned down on that a little. Though there might have been a hint of that in there at the end.

[Oh no, you're adorable and so fucking pettable. This is the worst. He doesn't want to love you.]

I don't really know the extent of these circumstances, but I should be happy for being alive, right? [Versus being dead.]

Like you could ever truly get over it.

[[No Dave, you definitely want to love her. She is your loving daughter. How could you not want to?]]

Certainly. But with all the monsters that roam this tower, don't be surprised if dying becomes a possibility. Let's not even start on the administrators just yet. [[There's a snort at that last statement.]]

I could if I wanted to.

[But he's going to have to leave eventually. :( But he will keep giving Guile love.]

I'm not really too worried about dying. It's not really one of the things I'm scared of at this point. [If everyone else was in danger...maybe. But himself? He'd just go back to being dead. Not that big of a deal.]

You make it sound like an addiction you can get over.

Mmm... [[She has no comment on that, but perhaps that's because she is overly invested in the well being of Daves.]]

Maybe it is. I can stop this whenever I want. I just don't want to. How about that?

[This Dave just doesn't have a problem for it for lots of reasons.]

You know that's a load of shit. You wouldn't stop even if you tried. You couldn't handle living without it.

I can so. I've lived with a lower amount, I'm sure I can live without it completely.

[[Well, Rose has enough of a problem with it to make up for Dave's lack there of.]]

I don't believe you. You can't completely quit it. It's a part of you.

[There's a slight ache in his heart as he banters with her. He misses the elder Rose he grew up with.

Dave just has a soft spot for Roses.]

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rude

Who, me? Never. :3c

im watching you. SQUINTS

Squints right back.

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stares right back

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