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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.
wrigurun: (Shock → PV)

[personal profile] wrigurun 2013-02-10 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Woah, really!?

Back in my world they're practically considered useless! Where did you come from?
belfire: (eating huh)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-10 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, just somewhere called Tokyo. Ants are the bosses there, y'know. Ruining picnics, invading houses...and nightmares...

[Ants are just plain disturbing, okay. Childhood trauma]
wrigurun: (Irritated → IN)

[personal profile] wrigurun 2013-02-10 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Tokyo, Tokyo...

[She grumbles and folds her arms]

I've never heard of it.
belfire: (haha!)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-10 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? Well that's unsurprising. It was levelled when I left.

[Like, no big deal or anything]

So what's up, chicka? I'm guessing you're part of the welcoming committee that, um, Runa, or Ruana, or, that creepy girl, said.
wrigurun: (Oh? → PV)

[personal profile] wrigurun 2013-02-10 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Ruana? Uh...

Oh yeah! I'm not supposed to talk to her. She's really dangerous, or something like that.

I forget what she looks like though. She just said there was something interesting up here so I came to check it out.
belfire: (um okay)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-10 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Really dangerous? Hmm...

[Logging that away for future reference]

Something interesting? Well, yeah, I guess dropping a bunch of aliens into your... [Kazuya looks about] Haunted House is probably interesting.
wrigurun: (Oh? → PV)

[personal profile] wrigurun 2013-02-10 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Haunted house?

[She looks behind her, doesn't really seem haunted to her]

You know, you're not making any-

[Suddenly there's something that caught her eye]

Hey, why don't you have a collar on?
belfire: (coy)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-10 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Should I have one?

[Kazuya blinked, rubbing at his bare neck self-consciously]

I thought your collar was some weird fashion statement.
wrigurun: (Groan → IotMaIotE)

[personal profile] wrigurun 2013-02-10 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It's annoying as hell! I don't wanna wear it but I can't take it off...

Everyone around here has one so...

So you're not from around here are you?
belfire: (so...)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-11 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Obviously. I came with these lot.

[These lot being the crowd of other non-collar wearing individuals milling about]

We come from Hinoto-Ri, another dimension, or world, or...something.
wrigurun: (Groan → IotMaIotE)

[personal profile] wrigurun 2013-02-12 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wriggle nods]

I think a lot of people are like that. It was ages before I met someone from my own world.

Still doesn't explain why you don't have the collars though.
belfire: (haha!)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-13 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe because we're special? Hey, it's a thought!
wrigurun: (Groan → IotMaIotE)

[personal profile] wrigurun 2013-02-16 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't look that special...

[As far as she could see he just looked like a regular human]
belfire: (evil demon king grin)

[personal profile] belfire 2013-02-18 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Wha-! I'm very special! I am a King and a very handsome and cool one at that.

[He even strikes your atypical handsome guy pose from a Shojou manga, cocky smile and all]
wrigurun: (Huh? → IotMaIotE)

[personal profile] wrigurun 2013-02-18 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
King of what?

[She does seem more curious than snide at this point]