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

[fools_journey]

[ That... is a very good idea. Minato is glad to know that there is at least one person who can communicate with personas. Having Fuuka do that before was super useful, after all. So he's sure to approach Aqua when she's done to ask a couple questions. ]

Ah - Aqua... do you know what your range is?

[destinedwaters]

[Aqua had a long time to think on her own, and knew how valuable communication was with missions like this. The reason her own circle of friends failed back home was because they couldn't, so she didn't want it to happen again. Though when asked that, she thinks on it.]

Hey, Minato-kun. ...I'd say ten to fifteen floors each way above and below us clearly with CommLink for a larger group. Though I could communicate across the entire city before. A stronger skill may be able to reach farther.

[It's as far as she could see with Enemy Radar, too.]

[fools_journey]

[ He nods, pondering that a moment. It's around what Mitsuru had been able to sense, as he recalls. ]

That's a pretty good range, though, even so. If there are more people here with that ability, it's enough to keep groups in contact, provided everyone's spaced right.

[destinedwaters]

Mm. I know my apprentice picked up an Intel Persona in the Velvet Room before we came here, and I know I picked a stronger one. If a few others have them, we should at least be able to have a few groups exploring.

Though we should probably set up a rendezvous point, too...

[Preferably a safer floor...]

[fools_journey]

That would be a good idea. Maybe we can get an idea of some of the safer floors from the people already here... They can probably tell us floors that would be good for that.

[destinedwaters]

I'll have to talk to my brother if he's still here. [...Well, a version of her brother, anyway. It's Complicated.] This 'him' has been here for a while, apparently.

[...Oh boy. As if her worrying nature wasn't more obvious.]

[fools_journey]

I see. [ He pauses, almost hesitating for a moment. ] There is another um... me here. He seems to have been here a while and would be worth asking, too, if you can't find your brother.

[ He doesn't even question that Aqua has a brother, though, 'complicated' or not. It is not as if he knows her life story, so to hear that she has family? No big deal. ]

[destinedwaters]

Another...? [And with what she gathered so far... it isn't a pretty thing, what this place does to them (thanks Romeo).] I'll keep that in mind.

[and thenthe end of the event happens and it's suddenly a big deal]

[fools_journey]

He said he doesn't think anyone's managed to make a map, but that doesn't mean no one knows which floors are safer than others.