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

[evokingfool]

"Around a hundred floor so far. As for a map or a list, I'm not aware of any."

He's not surprised, as people arrived and leave the tower, almost without a pattern. The network is also unreliable, whenever it went down when people need it.

[fools_journey]

"Hm... But people have been to every floor?"

[evokingfool]

"It usually take a while to explore and investigate every floor. More so if there's anything dangerous on it."

[fools_journey]

"Are the floors really that large, then?"

He doesn't yet know how physics bending this tower can get.

[evokingfool]

"Incredibly large and hard to explain. Some floors have their own skies, others have seemingly bottomless pits and so forth."

Frankly, he learned to stop questioning them to focus on other things.

[fools_journey]

"Huh..."

That's... incredibly weird. But he supposes now it makes sense why no one's tried to map. If there are floors as expansive as all that, it's certainly a challenge to map one, let alone all of them.

"Are there safe places to sleep here?"

[evokingfool]

There's some attempts, but it's quite difficult.

"The rooms in the dormitory floors. There should be plenty of empty places for everyone here to stay in." A pause. "Don't stay out too late. Monsters usually come out at night on certain floors."

[fools_journey]

"I'll keep that in mind. What are the monsters like here?'

Gotta keep on collecting the useful information! Besides, you never know when you'll be out in the middle of the night... Besides, how does one even keep track of day and night here?

[evokingfool]

"Monsters that can hide in the shadows or in the open. Some are animal-like." Like that giant yellow chocobo chicken. "While others...aren't quite human."

They're still dangerous monsters out for their blood.

...Some of the floors with their own "sky" sometimes show the night sky?

"There's one where it pretends to be a statue, only to fly out and attack you when you're close enough."

[fools_journey]

"Sounds... unpredictable. I take it the best defense is to always be prepared. ... probably isn't a good idea to travel alone, if you can help it."

Of course, it's not like good ideas are always the most practical to follow.

"Are there any consistent weaknesses?"

[evokingfool]

"That's right." Of course, Minato would...sometimes go out alone. He's been here long enough to learn how to move around quickly.

"No consistent weaknesses. Some are more affected by the elements, others aren't so. I have to switch my Personas around, depending on what monsters I know about."

And, um, he maaaay have discovered some of his information from trial and error.