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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

And here I thought that was supposed to be my line.

Also, not a clone. I was born the normal way. ... I think. Anyway, welcome to the Tower of Animus and I'm sorry it dragged more folks in.

Tower of Animus? So it does have a name, huh...

[Kazuya looked about himself, frowning deeply]

So what's up with the creepy monsters playing red light, green light? Starting to give me a headache.

Yeah, we only found out about it recently ourselves. [She is also frowning.]

As for the monsters...I don't know. There's a lot about this tower that nobody knows - except the admins, and they're all jerks. They're the ones in charge, and in all honesty they shouldn't be.

Kicking them out isn't as simple as it would be in the Lockdown, though.

Jerky overlords? Oh man, nostalgia!

[Kazuya laughed a bit, treating this situation with unusual levity]

So, a tower with sadistic masters, and mysteries no one can explain...

[Pause. Well, may as well ask...]

Hey, ever hear of 'The Crawling Chaos'?

Yeah, I know, right? And it's not like we can just punch them out either! I tried.

[Ah, nostalgia indeed.]

Yeah, sounds about right. Oh, and if you stay out after dark, you're liable to get killed. Actually that's a normal thing if you're a resident here. Dying I mean. It's happened twice so far I think?

As for the 'Crawling Chaos'...nope, can't say I have. Maybe I did, but if so I forgot.

Shame.

[Guess he'd have to actually look for the guy...]

Eh? Dying? How'd that happen?

[Kazuya can't really die - well he could but it is... a bit of a grey area for him, considering his, uh, condition. Hell, this one was already a girl, maybe death worked differently for her as well]

A lot more easily than you'd think. [She smirks.] Let's see, the one time I recall was...back at Halloween! First time I died was 'cause I didn't meet the admins' trick-or-treat quota, so my costume cut off my air. Asphyxiation isn't all it's cracked up to be, lemme tell ya. Second time was 'cause the costume... [At this, her smile falls as she remembers.] ...I came back wrong thanks to it, and...Naoya decided to...to end it for me.

[She adjusts her cloak slightly to distract herself from...yeah.]

Oh - he'll probably be glad to see you, by the way. He's from a world where, well, where you're the one running around and not me.

[In other words, where the protag is a dude.]

Oh wonderful, two Naoyas. My day is made.

[Kazuya slumped forwards a little, letting out a low 'ugh'. He seemed very insensitive about his other self dying. Death by costume? That wasn't badass at all... and being killed by Naoya? He could snap his cousin over his knee! That was like getting killed by your- well your shut-in, stick of a brother]

Mn, I'll say hello to him later, maybe. If I run into him - wait, is your Naoya actually normal and sane?

[Oh, you'd be surprised what that jackass is capable of...Asako also seems less than sensitive about having died. Hey, if you get revived whenever it happens...]

Naoya's Naoya. Make of that what you will.

So he's just as manipulative and crazy as ever.

[...it was weirdly soothing. No matter what world or universe he was in, Naoya was still good ol' crazy as a fox Naoya]

Unfortunately! It looks like that's a constant.

[...Ah. Right. Constant. Universes- She'd best not put this off.]

He'll probably wanna see you, by the way.

Ad Visitatores

SUP

NUTHIN' MUCH. YOU

GOT STUCK IN A DEATH TOWER, CAN'T LEAVE

SOUNDS SUCKY BRO

IT REALLY IS

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