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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: (Embarrassed)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Gosh. I'm touched. It's like they want us to feel welcome in their deathtrap.

[He'd gotten the rundown from Aleph a few moments ago - it was easy now to identify who originated from the Tower. Just take a look for the collar.]

Hey, uh... You mind if I ask something? How are you guys going in and out of that thing?

[He will gesture to the barrier.]
morituramfides: (And we know Not what We Do)

[personal profile] morituramfides 2013-02-09 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah-- they're a real sunshine brigade. [With that begrudging tone of voice, can't you tell he's just so enthusiastic?

Jin glanced back at the barrier with curiosity, before looking back to Atsuro.]


Just walked through. I guess it's only up to keep you guys in.
otakuro: (Mr. Corner)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Atsuro's eyes will flicker between Jin and the barrier before he slowly edges towards the barrier with a disbelieving expression on his face. He will not-so-confidently move to take a small step through...]

...Ow.

......I guess staying in this room is safest for the moment, anyway. Are the monsters pretty much... everywhere?
morituramfides: (From the Sky)

[personal profile] morituramfides 2013-02-09 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Well. That was amusing. Don't mind the slight smirk at your expense, Atsuro, though it's not like he was trying to hide it.]

Yeah, that's right-- on just about every floor, and we've got at least 100 of them. They come out more often at night, but the dorms are safe.
otakuro: (Surprise)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-09 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
...





A hundred floors?!

[Atsuro makes a choked sound of disbelief - somewhat louder than he really intended it to be.]

We have to go through a hundred floors...?! We're going to be here... weeks. If not months. Oh, geez...
morituramfides: (To the ground)

[personal profile] morituramfides 2013-02-10 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Honestly, the floors have become so normal to him, he just meets Atsuro's disbelief with a look of curiosity.]

There's an elevator that goes to a few floors, but not all of them. It'll get you to the dorms and the kitchen.

[Yeah he...didn't...expect much from these "visitors."]
otakuro: (Embarrassed)

[personal profile] otakuro 2013-02-10 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[...]

I was thinking along the lines of... a straight-up dungeon-crawl or something. Never mind.

Wait, so you've all already gone through the tower before?
morituramfides: (We were Alright)

[personal profile] morituramfides 2013-02-13 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
What do you think this is, a video game?

[He scoffed. Preposterous!]

Not all of it; not long before you guys showed up, there were only about 50 floors. I guess the builder went into overtime recently and decided to double it.