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Animus Moderators ([personal profile] animusmods) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-02-08 05:03 pm

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.
fools_journey: (uncertainty)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-02-10 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Boring is... not the word Minato would use for it, but it's easier to slide into unenthusiastic joking instead of actually facing how unsettling this place and this situation is. ]

Could be worse. Could be something really nasty instead of just bland.
bondsofsuffering: ([Fear] divine prank?)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-02-10 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
With a place that looks straight out of a horror film like this, there could be all kinds of weird stuff in that oatmeal. Like human fingers!

[The light chooses right then to flicker. Aha, whoops.]

...
fools_journey: (a-aah um)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-02-11 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
... what charming ambiance.

[ The light flickering is not cool. ]

Human fingers might be in keeping.
bondsofsuffering: ([Ow] Recklessly)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-02-11 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
I was joking! Joking!

[He hurriedly waves his hands.]

I don't want to eat the leftovers of some creepy experiment! No way!
Edited 2013-02-11 02:47 (UTC)
fools_journey: (small smile)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-02-14 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Minato almost laughs at his reaction. ]

Be careful if you find any lumps...
bondsofsuffering: ([Ow] Recklessly)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-02-14 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
Nooo way! It's bad enough it's oatmeal, don't make it any worse!

[His voice pitches higher as he whines.]
fools_journey: (a slight upturn of the lips)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-02-16 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Or if it's too slimy...

[ Yes, he is trying to make it worse. But teasing like this should distract from the rest of the awful, right? ]

At least it's only one bowl.

[ He assumes. ]
bondsofsuffering: ([Sigh] Why does a)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-02-16 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It had better be!

[He gives a shudder.]

And the food in the cafeteria had better make up for it, too. Tch, why'd we have to get dragged to a spooky tower of all places...?
fools_journey: (awkward with my sweater)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-02-17 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope it's better than hospital food. But... Maybe the better question is why did whomever we're supposed to be finding come to a spooky tower of all places?
bondsofsuffering: ([Surprise] all the answеrs)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-02-18 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Right, right- Did they even release you before you got dragged here?

If I had to guess, I'd say they picked this place because they want us to get scared and hide instead of looking for him. Especially if it turns out to be even more dangerous than Hinoto-Ri - we'll have more to worry about than just finding him, so it'll serve as a good distraction.
fools_journey: (pic#2220434)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-02-22 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I've been out for about a week. But... hmm... when put like that, this is a pretty good reason to hide in a place like this.

[ And all the more reason they should find whomever it is quickly... ]
bondsofsuffering: ([Sigh] Delusionally)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-02-22 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Right? It's the only logical explanation.

[He still looks fairly displeased, however.]

--What's with that Trapezohedron's picks, though? I really doubt I'll be able to do much to help here.
fools_journey: (uncertainty)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-03-01 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe it flipped a coin for each person or pulled names out of a hat. But I guess you never know...
bondsofsuffering: ([Sigh] Losing everything was)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-03-02 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
That's a pretty handy trick for a hunk of... whatever it's made of.

[Does he even want to know? Probably not.]

Maybe it's just my bad luck...
fools_journey: (another lineface)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-03-03 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess we'll see how good or bad your luck is while we're here.
bondsofsuffering: ([Strain] we see everywhere)

[personal profile] bondsofsuffering 2013-03-04 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Guess so... But I'm also pretty confident in my good luck. Maybe that will be able to pull through?

[The answer is no.]