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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.
myblueskies: (happiness)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2013-02-13 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good! I'm glad they are nice!
nofairy: (rescue you.)

[personal profile] nofairy 2013-02-14 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Are the people here nice too?
myblueskies: (smiles all round)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2013-02-14 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! There are some bad people but mostly everyone is really nice and friendly!
nofairy: (fight.)

[personal profile] nofairy 2013-02-14 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
... What kind of bad people?

[He's supposed to fight the bad people. There will be no more bad people!]
myblueskies: (thinking hard!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2013-02-14 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
People who like hurting other people or think it is fun. Some of them are good though and just pretending to be bad.

[He sighed] It's really confusing.
nofairy: (Default)

[personal profile] nofairy 2013-02-15 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
... I won't let them hurt people anymore.

[That's what heroes do, right?]
myblueskies: (this can't be happening...)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2013-02-15 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
They are too bad. There were five mister Link's here before! All at the same time and even they all together couldn't stop them!
nofairy: (eh?!)

[personal profile] nofairy 2013-02-16 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Wait what.]

There were... what?
myblueskies: (Alfredo is speaking!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2013-02-16 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Well one of them wasn't really a mister Link, he was just a kid. Littler than me.
nofairy: (uh...)

[personal profile] nofairy 2013-02-16 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wait. Um. Wow. Awkward...]

Was he about ten?
myblueskies: (someone needs help!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2013-02-16 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Um maybe. About that yes. I didn't know him very well.
nofairy: (night.)

[personal profile] nofairy 2013-02-17 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
... That sounds like...

[He pulls out his Fairy Ocarina and the Ocarina of Time.]

Did he have one of these?
myblueskies: (followingdreams)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2013-02-17 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Romeo peered at the instrument and shook his head] The other Link had one of those, and maybe another one as well but the little Link didn't. I don't think...
nofairy: (uh...)

[personal profile] nofairy 2013-02-17 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
... Huh...

[He puts them away.]

I was adventuring when I was little, so maybe it was a... a me that just hadn't gotten bigger yet?
myblueskies: (happiness)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2013-02-17 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe! Some of my friends came back big before already.