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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.

[personal profile] the_usual_stuff 2013-02-10 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Pharos walks over to meet him. c: Having two Minatos is nice.]

The artifact brought you over, too? [Detached worry!]
fools_journey: (saaad with ryojiscarf)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-02-10 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
... Apparently.

You okay? [ he's assuming so because Pharos nearly always seems to be okay, but it doesn't hurt to check. ]

[personal profile] the_usual_stuff 2013-02-10 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
I'm fine. The transport here was... uneventful?

[Except for the flashing lights, tunnel of darkness and stars and zipping past a couple galaxies through time and space, right, very uneventful. But he was rather confused.]
Edited 2013-02-10 05:49 (UTC)
fools_journey: (:| (take 1))

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-02-11 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, good.

... do you have any idea what this place is? [ Pharos does, after all, have more of an idea about strange things than Minato does, he thinks. ]

[personal profile] the_usual_stuff 2013-02-11 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
It's called the Tower of Animus. [Pharos did indeed provide an answer to Minato's question, as he thought he would.]

... It feels wrong. [Vague, but honest.]
fools_journey: (uncertainty)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-02-14 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ He nods and glances up at a spot where blood was dripping a moment ago. ]

I take it you mean in other ways than just the weirdness of this room?

[personal profile] the_usual_stuff 2013-02-14 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pharos looked up at it too, the handprints in blood in another spot, the deception played with flickering shadows. He nodded.]

Yes.
fools_journey: (hmm?)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-02-16 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
What do you sense here?

[ It's worth knowing what Pharos can tell about this place, after all. ]

[personal profile] the_usual_stuff 2013-02-17 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Softly;]

Nobody's dying.

[He means, there are plenty of people getting pushed to the brink or beyond, of death before whatever forces that controlled this place fixed them?? ??? It doesn't make sense.]
fools_journey: (hmm?)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-02-18 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
No one's... dying?

[ That's... confusing and ominous. And he wonders what Pharos means. Should people be dying here? ]

[personal profile] the_usual_stuff 2013-03-03 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Pharos shakes his head.]

I don't understand it.
fools_journey: (uncertainty)

[personal profile] fools_journey 2013-03-03 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe we'll find out why while we're here.

[personal profile] the_usual_stuff 2013-03-03 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a chance we will, yes. [:o]