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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See? There's no problem! So you can calm down.

...

We just got transported over time and space to a different place entirely, and yet you say "there's no problem".

Well, there's no problem with your Persona, right? So if you can use that, you've already got a way to defend yourself.

That's a step up from nothing! [OPTIMISM.]

Yes, but, do you fail to realize...ugh, nevermind.

[A slight flippant wave of the hand as he realizes he is going to get nowhere with this kid.]

...Do you know where we are?

Well, if I had to guess... I'd say it's a huge tower.

[Wow, really?]

I heard that eating oatmeal is important, though. If you don't eat it, you'll throw up whenever you try to eat something else! ...Or at least, that's what a girl from here told me.

You'll throw up without eating oatmeal?

[Ugh, he could barely stomach human food in the first place...where in the world was he going to find raw fish and other such sources of coldblooded creatures around here?]

That's odd...I wonder what's in it.

It really makes you wonder, right? But who knows how long we'll be stuck here... I don't think we have much of a choice in the matter right now.

[A sad frown.]

Ugh, I hope not for long...I greatly prefer Hinoto-Ri with its demons and stuff to this place, and I haven't even spent much time here yet.

Well, that probably depends on how quickly we can find that guy. At least, I hope they'll let us go back once we get him...

Ah, that reminds me though - how good are you at hide-and-seek?

What, the butterfly-masked man? Ha, an easy thing to say, considering he might not even be here at all...

[And he tilts his head, giving Hizumi a confused look.]

I'm alright, I guess...what does that have to do with anything?

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No, not him. [He waves his hand impatiently.] Him. The one Philemon - the butterfly-masked man was talking about in that dream.

He said we needed to chase Him where He was hiding or... something like that, right?

Oh. That guy.

[A pause.]

So, we're here on a big scavenger hunt for a missing person here, basically? Why can't he do it himself?

The same reason he can't protect Hinoto-Ri himself? How should I know? [Sigh.]

Yeah, you're right about that.

[He pinches his nose, frowning.]

I didn't need this, I really didn't...what about me said I wanted to be transported over time and space to this creepy place?

If it were up to me, I'd prefer to have stayed back too... Maybe our disinterest was what convinced the Trapezohedron we'd be perfect targets for sending on the job?

What? Our disinterest? Wouldn't that make us the worst people for the job, though?

To kick us into doing some work for once? I mean, you don't exactly do much to help around at Hinoto-Ri either, right?

[Sam certainly doesn't strike him as the type, if his sniveling is anything to go by.]

Well! Um. [He rubs his forearm awkwardly as he stares down at the ground.] Yeah, I don't help out much...

So they basically just want us to stop being lazy, huh?

That's the hypothesis! ...But then again, I've also seen a lot of people who go above and beyond in their contributions. So really, it might just be a matter of bad luck.

[He sounds bitter.]

Oh, bad luck, huh...yeah, I've never had good luck with luck, as funny as that sounds. Good things never happen to me.

Well, if it comes right down to it, I'd say my luck is proooobably...

Half-and-half! [Not so-so, but an even split between the two.]

Good for you. Looks like your bad luck won out this time, though.

It does look that way, doesn't it?

Hopefully my good luck will make it end quickly.

I wish I could borrow some of that good luck, though. [A sigh.] I need it.

Hey-! But if you took my good luck, where exactly would that leave me?

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