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

[rememberstime]

Well, we had a choice to go or not. They just didn't really tell us where we were going. [But like hell Dave wasn't going. Doing shit is what he's good at.] I don't think any of us got those. [Since they didn't arrive here normally.]

Yeah. You know him? [And the unasked question is whether he's here or not.]

[turntechtrainer]

I know him, but he's not here. Last I saw him was with his friends and just chilling. [He sounds a bit relieved at that. Dirk is happy and safe in poke land. Which leaves this to be sorted out.] You know me. [It isn't a question.] But, I've only heard of you.

[From Dirk, from Jake. Dave doesn't shy away from the concept of this larger than life figure from their history. He just nods once, accepting it. He's met alt Daves before and this is less jarring than he thought it would be.] Shit, they just want a Dave party here. You make number three. We're beating out the versions of Bro.

[rememberstime]

Last I saw him was where I came from. I don't know if he's in this crowd at the moment. A lot of us arrived and there's a lot of you around here. [The way Dave says it. Considering the last time people were a thing, they were dying by the millions.] Know you is kind of stretching it. He mostly told me what's up from his point of view I guess.

[He tilts his head slightly.] I hope nice things have been said.

There's another Dave around here? Is he the same as you? [He's getting used to a bunch of younger Daves at the very least.

[turntechtrainer]

Mostly the same, he's been in this hell tower for a year. I was somewhere else for months and landed here right behind my friends. Anyway, yeah nice things were said, the word 'legend' got thrown around a bit. [But he doesn't seem intimidated or bothered by that. It's just a fact.]

Bro is here somewhere. He's always mysterious so you might see him. Might not.

[rememberstime]

I get the feeling you guys are more used to the whole multiple you shtick than I am.

Well, I guess the movies did make me something, but I didn't think there was much of a society left to turn someone into a legend.

I don't think meeting is a great idea. [He barely knows anything about Dirk, much less know how to deal with Bro then.]

[turntechtrainer]

Whether it happens or not, is up to him and what he decides. Take it from me, if he makes up his mind. It never is changed and nothing escapes him. [He says it with the kind of absolute certainty of those who have been on the business end of such an attitude. It beats talking about the hell of his counterpart's life.]

Yeah, we're way more used to doubles of ourselves than you might be able to handle. [If he didn't walk time, he'd never be able to understand.]

[rememberstime]

Does he even know I'm here? It sounds like he has enough Daves to keep him busy. He doesn't really need to know I'm here since it's temporary anyways. We're probably not here for the whole shebang. [He doesn't want any kind of attachments happening.]

I think I can handle it fine enough. I got to meet Dirk when it wasn't possible before. I think I'm good.

[turntechtrainer]

Of course you're rolling with it just fine, you're a Dave Strider. [Now he just has to figure out what the fuck is going to happen here.]

I have no idea what he knows. He's always been a mysterious mother fucker and that hasn't stopped since he came back into my life. [After, you know. Being dead.]