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
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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

"Be more clear about how you're going to help."

Or else the gun wasn't going anywhere. He spent enough time around humans to know they would cower one minute then pick up a gun the next minute.

"Getting you some food that won't make you throw up, a bed to sleep in, and I'll generally explain the workings of the tower. I'll even answer any questions that I can, see, aren't I a nice gue'la?"

She seems honest enough, but really he could just figure this stuff out for himself. Though I'd take time, time that Kais may or may not have.

"First, I'm not a...lesser being to be treated as an idiot. It is you gue'la who are ignorant."

Just getting that out of the way.

"Second, I know most of that. It was explained properly to us. What I need to know is why we are here. This is a mission of sorts."

Oh, great. A Tau without a sense of humor. Her least favorite kind.

"The residents of the tower are here to be experimented on and generally poked fun at by the admins. If that is your purpose here, it wouldn't surprise me."

Amberley can't really think why a bunch of new people would show up in the tower if it wasn't just for another round of experiments.

"No."

He had to take a moment to recall.

"We saw a error laden video filled with people getting harmed so we came here to investigate."

So that was it? But why had Tau forces been sent in?

No, that was wrong, because he was the only Tau that she had actually seen, and she knows that she hasn't seen any Imperium soldiers. At least not yet, anyway.

"Those people on the video were probably us." Though why he came here, she still isn't sure, if he hates humans "Who do you mean when you say we?"

"We as in displaced residents of a certain city. It is made up of many humans who do not know anything of the galaxy and a few non-Tau species whose origin I'm not sure of. But I'm sure you would like to hear that there is a machine worshiper and a Space Marine here with me also."

Yes, that was very helpful news and was tucked away for later in her mind.

"Then it's similar to this place. All of us, similarly, are displaced from our own 'worlds' as they like to call it."

Amberley had no idea that anyone could be in a similar situation as the tower. It was a lot to take in.

"I...see."

It seemed that someone was in the same situation he was in. Kais had to stop to ponder on it.

"Have you heard of a being called Nyarlathotep?"

"I have not, but I can watch for it if you tell me more about it."

With a name like that, it probably needs purging.

"I'm seeking to destroy it, much like I've destroyed what your kind calls a Greater Daemon."

Just throwing that out there.

"I can't give any descriptions but this thing does exist."

What a showoff.

"I will keep it in mind if it is as dangerous as you make it sound." Because really, he just compared it to a Greater Daemon.

Yeah, be scared.

"I believe planetary destruction is a term that is thrown around about its power."

Amberley is not afraid of some Tau scum. Sorry to disappoint.

"It must be stopped at all costs." Even if that includes teaming up with a bluey.

Look how frightening and small he is. SCARY.

"I've worked with your Ultramarines before. A Captain Ardias. I suppose I can work with other humans."

She eats larger meals for breakfast to be honest.

"I'm glad to hear that you won't shoot me in the back."

"We Tau have more honor than you humans in that respect."

Because he didn't trust any of you not to shoot him in the back.

She still didn't trust him, because he's a dirty xeno, but you don't always get to pick your allies.

"Fair enough, I call a temporary truce."

"Do whatever suits your religious rituals."

He's already been at a 'truce' for a long time so he doesn't see a need for another.

Honestly she still thinks he's suspicious as hell. His hatred towards humans isn't lost on her in the slightest.

"Is there anything I can assist with?"

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