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

Re: Zelda, Purse Owner version

[imperialsun]

[His head was spinning. At first from just those in the tower to suddenly twenty...not perhaps thirty or more new Persona users brought Naoya to clutch his head. When he heard Ruana's voice he almost practically ran down and the sight, for one of the rare times in his life, surprised him completely. But wait...]

Miss Zelda?

[Wait.]

...Did you say Philemon?

[sageprincess]

Hm...?

[There is absolutely no recognition in her expression as she turns to face the young man who said her name - in fact, she seems just as surprised that he knows it.]

... Yes. He is the one who brought us here, as far as I can tell.

[imperialsun]

Why would Philemon bring anyone here...

[But while that in itself is strange, the fact she has no idea who he is is stranger still...until he notices she has no collar.]

...Oh. I see. I mistook you for another Zelda. [He points to his own collar.] There is a Zelda here as well.

[sageprincess]

I... see.

[No, no she really doesn't. But she has a mission she needs to focus on, and so she's going to rationalize this impossible information as best she can. Perhaps he means another one of her family...? (Though that then begs the question as to what someone of her family is doing here and augh-- focus.)]

We are to search for someone, I believe... [She closes her eyes, going over what he said in her head. Dreams have always been significant to her, and she learned to recall their contents quickly. This is no exception.] Something was found that can bend space and time, and we were brought here to stop "Him" before "He" could destroy the balance of time and space.

[Of course, not knowing who they're supposed to be looking for puts a bit of a damper on those plans. Thanks Philemon.]

You know of him?

[imperialsun1]

[He strokes his chin deep in thought. "He" could mean many things and he couldn't say he liked any of them. Why would Philemon send so many of them here. But he knew at least one who could break time and space.]

Nyarlathotep? He was here before, but collared just like us.

...as was Philemon...

[sageprincess]

[There's a headtilt at the strange name. Nyarlathotep...? He was here, but collared? That doesn't sound too dangerous, if the powers could put a collar on someone willing to break space and time. But...]

Perhaps he found an alternate way into this place, as we have. I cannot say for certain - admittedly I am beyond unfamiliar with who and what we are dealing with.

[imperialsun]

I mostly know about them through the stories of a fellow Persona user, Tatsuya Suou and his team, Jun, Eikichi, Lisa, Maya and his brother, Katsuya.

Unfortunately, only Katsuya is currently present. That is if your opponent is Nyarlathotep. Philemon must have a good reason for all of you to be here...