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
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.

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Yeah, you're right about that.

[He pinches his nose, frowning.]

I didn't need this, I really didn't...what about me said I wanted to be transported over time and space to this creepy place?

If it were up to me, I'd prefer to have stayed back too... Maybe our disinterest was what convinced the Trapezohedron we'd be perfect targets for sending on the job?

What? Our disinterest? Wouldn't that make us the worst people for the job, though?

To kick us into doing some work for once? I mean, you don't exactly do much to help around at Hinoto-Ri either, right?

[Sam certainly doesn't strike him as the type, if his sniveling is anything to go by.]

Well! Um. [He rubs his forearm awkwardly as he stares down at the ground.] Yeah, I don't help out much...

So they basically just want us to stop being lazy, huh?

That's the hypothesis! ...But then again, I've also seen a lot of people who go above and beyond in their contributions. So really, it might just be a matter of bad luck.

[He sounds bitter.]

Oh, bad luck, huh...yeah, I've never had good luck with luck, as funny as that sounds. Good things never happen to me.

Well, if it comes right down to it, I'd say my luck is proooobably...

Half-and-half! [Not so-so, but an even split between the two.]

Good for you. Looks like your bad luck won out this time, though.

It does look that way, doesn't it?

Hopefully my good luck will make it end quickly.

I wish I could borrow some of that good luck, though. [A sigh.] I need it.

Hey-! But if you took my good luck, where exactly would that leave me?

I'm not saying I'll take all of it. Just some of it, sheesh.

Maybe you should find somebody who has a ton of good luck to spare instead! I don't want to be plagued by even worse bad luck than usual.

But you're the only one here I know! I mean, that'd be mean, taking good luck from strangers...

Oh, so it's okay to take it from me then.

No way! I'm not giving up the good luck I have, sorry!

But you said you have too much! Is it that hard to share??

[WHY ARE THEY ARGUING OVER THIS]

I never said I had too much! I just said that it's about half-and-half.

I'm always either really lucky or really unlucky, so if you take away my luck, I'm seriously not going to make it!

[IMPORTANT THINGS TO ARGUE ABOUT THAT'S WHY.]

I never said I'll take all of your luck! Just some of it? I mean, hello, this is the guy with barely any luck at all...

And I think there's probably better targets out there for luck-borrowing. Why not ask around instead of just leaning on me because I'm the only person you know? Go out and get to know people and all that.

Yeah, but like anyone would just allow a person like me to borrow their luck...I mean, it's-it's not like I have much friends...

As honored as I am to be your only friend here-

Don't you think you should branch out a bit?

You say that like it's easy to just pick up friends. I mean, okay, I guess it is for you, but for me? Not so much.

Then let's make this your first lesson!

[He throws an arm around Sam's shoulders and begins talking conspiratorially.]

Between the two of us, it's all about knowing who you're talking to, you know?

[WHOAH OKAY personal space there! And he'll just stare at Hizumi with wide eyes, as if not fully comprehending what is going on.]

And...how do you know something like that?

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