towerofanimus | Ad Visitatores

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
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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.

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[Speaking of that there IT... isn't that an older kid who looks suspiciously like Yu, talking with a few others? But nah, it couldn't be. After all, wasn't he still bedridden in the hospital, still recovering from a fight he wasn't yet strong enough for?

Because there is someone there, and he just got the strangest feeling of dread before turning around, and--

...Aw hell. As if the voice hadn't confirmed it, already. Excusing himself silently, he simply walked a little closer. "Sick of hospitals", huh?]

Welcome to a club most of us have been in for months.

[Well. What do now, Adachi-san?]

[Adachi's suspension of disbelief was slowly lowering, but seeing Yu yet again? Nope, that just raised it way, way back up. Because what the hell? If this really was going to be a reoccurring theme, he hadn't been kidding.

The detective is so surprised that he pushes his chair back from the table. However, that greeting...]

'Welcome to the club?' What are you even--

[A quick glance as he noted: he could walk, he didn't have that bandage around his head, and there was that...collar? Yu sure as hell didn't look like that before... Adachi's stomach sank as he processed. This could get bad...]

Wait, why am I even surprised at you saying stuff like that?

[The last time he saw Yu, a nurse had basically escorted him out of his hospital room. Apparently, he'd forgotten the kid's heart monitor would alert the nurses, and seeing as it was dangerous for someone who recently came out of a coma to experience that... To be honest, he never even expected for it to happen, for the kid to even have the ability to get flustered like that. All he had expected was a little visit to 'check up' on the kid he was blackmailing, but he'd ended up with the kid spouting bullshit at him.

So, if his assumptions were correct, this somehow wasn't the Yu he'd seen back in Hinoto-Ri. Tohru Adachi, ace detective, at your service! Man, it sounded like such bullshit, though; but when you stared the facts right in the face, it was pretty difficult to ignore.]

...You sure don't look like you have a brain injury anymore, though. [But testing your theories was never a bad thing.]

Edited (Twi it's 8 am what are you making me do) 2013-02-11 14:08 (UTC)

[And that, my friends, is the natural state of being within the Tower of animus! But no, really, he simply tilts his head ever so slightly to the side as though regarding the other for a moment. Silently, he hoped, that someone else from the investigation team would take notice and warn the others. Though he knew luck never rolled like that, so... improv time.

As it dawns on the older detective, Yu could feel himself wanting to smirk... but no. It was better for everyone if he didn't let slip the mask he always wore. There was a time and place for everything, and if that revival bead necklace was anything to go by... then he likely has an advantage.]

Brain injury? [He raises an eyebrow at that.] Let me guess... A 'me' out there got into something way over his head and paid the price.

[Dammit. This is why he supported as many of his "selves" as he could through time. Not that anyone knew this but himself.]

[The hell is this? This is a whole other plate of confusion, and honestly, Adachi can't... He never quite expected for Yu to ever admit his actions were stupid. For the kid to actually agree with him was like a kick to the face. Is he supposed to feel glad? Because all he knows is that that pit in his stomach is growing and growing...

If this is another joke, he isn't going to be laughing any time soon.]

...Yeah, 'you' pretty much did. [Let's see how far along this can go.] These guys, the Anoli, apparently attacked a sports stadium...and 'you' were part of the people playing hero and got seriously injured.

[This reeks of wrong.] Figures I was right about you being different... [He should really be glad to say that, but... There were people that Adachi never expected to agree with. Yu happened to be one of them.] So, what you're basically telling me is, you don't buy into any of those beliefs?

[This is Animus... this is Animus...

There there, Adachi. It's just a symptom of being in this place. All the fun interactions at the cost of your adrenal glands working overtime. He's just far too used to the things the admins pull and thus is a lot more jaded. Kind of ironic, isn't it?]

...Seems like something I'd do. [Yeah, he won't deny he'd still pull the same things. The only thing is he learned it's all a matter of when. But when he's asked that, the answer is response.]

Oh, I do. It's just a matter of when. [He learned the hard way that jumping in headfirst was a Bad Idea when he tried destroying Jason's toys.] Though I can't say you're wrong about me being different.

[This is a horrible place...

And, yes, that's extremely, extremely ironic. How Adachi is the one shocked and feeling sick. It's just, there's no way in hell Yu should ever, ever be agreeing with him. Didn't that upset what people referred to as 'the natural order of things?' Adachi would never agree to that term, but wow. Wow, this is really taking his head for a spin.

A matter of when, huh? Adachi has his head propped on the table in his hand, raising an eyebrow in turn.]

I'm just not used to you making any sense. [There. Finally. Finally he said it.] That would've clued me in anyhow, you know, besides how you looked. [Part of him is interested now, that sick part that sought out anything interesting, anything entertaining. Still, he knew how skewed this was.]

[Beware of the one with a smiling face...

Welcome to the Karma Train, population: you. Though the coldness in his stare probably was reminiscent of the one he left back in Hinoto-Ri's more vocal outrage. Because, well... remember back when he was supposed to tell you to get off your ass, but instead talked in Junes? Well, he half-agreed then, too.

Too bad he isn't on your side this time.]

Times change. Besides... [Huh. Where did that bus stop sign come from?] How was I supposed to make sense when the you I know always lied.

[and he.

remembers

everything.

:)

Oh, that annoying part of him that wanted to believe in you still... Too bad Izanagi is more vocal in his head now and warning against it. May want to ask him things before it turns ugly.]

Edited 2013-02-11 17:40 (UTC)

[This is fun; let's play a game now...

Well, shit.

Adachi is finally standing, fingers twitching on the table as he's leaning forward, as he's eyeing the bus stop sign. It's his senses as a cop automatically putting him on edge, that automatic paranoia paired with the growing put in his stomach. What if Yu is going to use it on him?

Man, talk about the exact opposite situation at the train tracks!]

H-Hey, where did you get that? [Put the weird weapon back where you got it! Did you pull it out of thin air? How could he hide a bus stop sign.]

And... [What does he make of that?] ...what exactly did that version of me lie to you about? [Because, as far as he knows? He never told Yu a damn thing. That confrontation in the tv had never happened on his end. He never had given Yu that wonderful little speech on how much of a dumbass he was and would always be one.

Hell, the only letter he was even aware of was the threatening letter...

All that talk about ripping his Persona in half, all that bullshit Yu had said in his hospital bed... Part of him was expecting that stupid speech again, though.]

Edited (you didn't see that icon) 2013-02-12 11:16 (UTC)

[Don't you want your teddy bear? ~~because srsly you look like you saw a ghost~~

Oh, don't worry so much. Look, he isn't even going to lift it. Like he'd even do so with this many people present. Though, there was a faint flicker of amusement behind the way he casually leaned it against the table between. What's wrong, Adachi? Have something to hide again?

He didn't take after his uncle for nothing, after all.]

A friend. [Which wasn't a lie. Heck, he actually got it not long after the first you showed up months ago. The sword hanging from his belt wasn't long before that, either.] The way you're acting, I doubt you remember the same things most of us from Inaba do. There are many different timelines, after all.

[~~According to the admins and the Velvet Room residents~~ And in most of them, according to who all is here? ...Someone's, in their own words, "pretty much screwed." Maybe he's simply taking pity on someone he was once able to trust, even if it doesn't seem like it. After all, the tower outside of this room was even worse than any part of the other world.]

...Though is that really a concern you should be having, considering where you've woken up?

[Though he'd admit... the jail cell floor would have been karma. Here, he was barely keeping himself from visibly freaking out.]

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Ad Visitatores

He ain't the only one NOPEING at this event.

A WILD BOWLCUT APPEARS

WHATEVER WILL GRUNT ADACHI DO?

HE USES...A BARREL ROLL BECAUSE FUCK THE JOKE POLICE

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Must. force. self. to. sleep.

GO TO BED, ALREADY D<

Twi I swear... This plus Dreamwidth exploding.

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