towerofanimus | 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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[So he'd been wandering the group, a little wary of the floor itself though looking for familiar faces. The least he could do was warn them if he did notice anyone, right? Yet he kept the hood of the coat he'd been given for Christmas up; he was sick of people automatically confusing him for the younger Riku. Of course, he also hated the memories associated with it, but...

That's when he noticed her, and she was hurt ~~dammit why doesn't he know Cure~~.]

...Naminé?

[Gee, doesn't that sound like a familiar voice.]

[Naminé snaps her head up so quickly she feels a twinge in the back of her neck, but she hardly even feels it. There's an inflection in his voice that she knows so very well, but it couldn't be him...could it? Is it too much to wish that it is?

...yes, it is.

It only takes two moments for her to look at him again and know it isn't her version of him. The name 'Mera' dies on her lips before she can pronounce the first letter, and she presses her lips together to hide it.

It's not him. But still him at the same time. So she smiles.]

Hi. I haven't seen you in a long time.

[Maybe, maybe not. Because whether it's the same him or not, it's still him. And what he remembers the best is that they were friends. ~~and he maybe had a crush, but was that a lie too?~~

... Nami no don't hurt yourself he'd feel bad.

He hesitates for a moment, but slowly pulls the hood down. It wasn't like he could hide from her, after all. Her or the one from here. And, even if she didn't notice the height difference... the violet collar around his neck was a telltale sign.]

I can see that. [After all, with how much older she seems from even the one who was brought here the way everyone else was...] Guess I can't be too surprised.

[Her eyes start getting suspiciously wet at the corners when he reveals himself to her. It's not Mera, but it's still a version of him. So she smiles, suppressing a hiccup.]

I have a lot more surprises up my sleeve, just you wait and see.

[He sees that tearing up, and can't help but frown slightly at that.]

I'd say I'm surprised, but this place makes you expect a lot. [Nami why you make that face no don't make that face ;_;] ...What happened? Are you alright?

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so about them feels...

quietly sobs

shh it's ok...

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