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]

Minato isn't convinced - but to be fair, even if Ryoji were the best actor in the trade, Minato still wouldn't be convinced even without knowing what's happened to this Ryoji so far. Still, he doesn't want to make Ryoji feel badly or anything, so he forces a small smile and nods.

"If you're sure... it's nice to see you again, in any case."

Never mind that he probably saw Ryoji just about every day in Hinoto-Ri - it doesn't change the fact that he likes seeing his yellow scarfed friend.

[notsogrimreaper]

Ryoji knows by now that he really isn't good at faking it around Minato, and he would be honest, but Minato is going through a lot already, coming here, and Ryoji shouldn't force his own problems on his old friend.

"It's nice to see you too! There's another Minato here, but still.

A-Anyways, he hasn't..."

Ryoji trails off, a little nervous. What if this Minato hasn't become the Seal either? He doesn't want to upset his friend. It would be hard, knowing when you were going to die.

[fools_journey]

Ryoji, you can't say something like that and then not finish your sentence! Now Minato is really curious and blinks, tilting his head a little.

"Yeah, I met him earlier. But... he hasn't... what?"

Minato can make an educated guess as to what the tower's Minato hasn't done, but as there are multiple possibilities of what Ryoji is referring to, he can't be sure until Ryoji actually says.

[notsogrimreaper]

"Hasn't become the Seal yet. I, um, didn't want to tell you in case you didn't know either..."

There, he finished his sentence, as worried as he is.

[fools_journey]

Ah. That.

"... I see." An odd expression steals over his face - somewhere between rueful, almost amused and pensive. "Before I was brought to Hinoto-Ri, I had already become the Seal. So you... needn't worry about telling me my future."

[notsogrimreaper]

Ryoji's not surprised, but hearing that, even if he knows it's a fact he can't change, hurts.

"I understand. I hope you're alright now... At least you're alive again? It's not too dangerous there, right?"

[fools_journey]

"It's a wonderful second chance." His smile brightens a bit here. "I've gotten to spend time with people I didn't think I'd see again." The dangers there are totally worth it for that - and especially for being with his sister again.

[notsogrimreaper]

"I'm so happy for you. Are most of your friends there with you?"

Wait, Minato why did you not tell Ryoji that you had a sister? He isn't going to flirt with her that much, he swears!

[fools_journey]

"Some of them are. Even Koro-chan, though others I haven't seen at all."

Because she's not here, so there's clearly no need!