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

[booyaka_boom]

"Oh! Okay, Data." Selphie looked over the shelf, smiling all the more as she paid more attention to the dolls and puppets, "Do you know who makes these? They must be super talented!"

Selphie slowly withdrew her hand, turning her attention more fully to Data, "Oh... Yeah. This place is really creepy. Is this where you actually live?"

[littlelifeforms]

"I assume it must be Riki who is behind the making of these dolls, as he built this floor." Data said and tilted his head "However, the style behind these is more reminiscent of Ruana, the head administrator."

He had never thought about this before in fact. He probably should ask them whenever he can. He then turned back to Selphie and nodded.

"Unfortunately yes. We have been taken from our worlds, with the administrators using as excuse the supposed destruction of our universes."

[booyaka_boom]

"Oh..." Selphie can't help it, her attention drifting back to some wooden puppets this time. She picked one up, holding the strings in her hands. "Ruana... She's that girl I saw, isn't she?"

Selphie dropped the puppet, letting it dangle as she pulled randomly at the strings, "Aww man, that sucks." She blinked, looking down at the puppet and back up to Data, "Do you think I have to live here now? Does this mean that the world I was in before is destroyed?"

[littlelifeforms]

"I have not seen here, but as your mean of arrival here was quite unusual, I have to assume that it was her, yes."

Data looked at her for a second, well she took exceptionally well the possibility her world was destroyed. He looked at the puppet and frowned before replying.

"I do not think the story about our world destroyed is true. Furthermore, you came through different means. I think your world is safe."

[booyaka_boom]

Selphie stopped jiggling the puppet around on its strings, and instead lifted it to cradle it in her hands, "Hmm. I think they're telling lies about the destroyed world thing... I've heard things about that too, but I dunno if I believe it."

She put the puppet back on the shelf, taking down another one instead. She seemed unable to keep away from them, "So how come us lot are different? Why is it any more different to how you guys are here?"

[littlelifeforms]

"I can only advises not to believe it." he said slowly and nodded before answering her question "When we arrive here, we wake up alone in a dormitory. We were summoned to this tower by the administrators. You were not, apparently someone sent you here for unknown reasons."

After saying that, he frowned a bit and looked at the doll with an expression of questioning. he'd never seen anyone before with such an interest in puppets, save for children.

"May I ask, what is so fascinating about these puppets?"

[booyaka_boom]

Selphie nodded slowly at that, her eyes downcast slightly. At least it was good if this guy had decided not to be so pessimistic. "Right. So you think we were sent, rather than pulled? Huh, that's interesting." Selphie hadn't really thought of it in that way before.

"Huh? Oh, I just think they're really cute. There's something...special about them. Like magic. Something life like. Don't you think?"