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

[unlimited_shipping_works]

[She shrugs.]

I guess if he's around, someone will spot him.

[So unconcerned.]

So what's with this place? How many floors are there? And are they all different?

[puppy_lancer]

This place is a Tower, so we've got lots of floors. The elevator says there's a hundred of them. All of them are different.

[unlimited_shipping_works]

A hundred? Wow, that's gonna take me forever....

Have you been to them all yet?

[puppy_lancer]

Nope, haven't been to all of them yet. And you? How many have you been on? Gone to the cafeteria to get your oatmeal yet?

[unlimited_shipping_works]

I just started. I have a pretty long way to go.

You know it's funny you should mention the oatmeal. They brought us some while we were all stuck on zombie-hospital-floor. They said we had to eat it. But they didn't say why....

[puppy_lancer]

If you skip it and eat anything else, you end up puking. That's why.

[unlimited_shipping_works]

Seriously?!? What do they put in all the other food?

[Ugh. Messing with the food seems kiddie show level villainy. Sort of disappointing.]

[puppy_lancer]

Don't think it's anything they put in the food. Even freshly hunted food makes people puke unless they've eaten the oatmeal.

[unlimited_shipping_works]

Any idea why?

[puppy_lancer]

[He sighs.]

I've got nothing. Try asking one of the cooks or something.

[unlimited_shipping_works]

Hmm...

[She considers it for a minute, then decides it's not that important right now.]

So you seem like you've been around a while, what are the best floors to visit?

[puppy_lancer]

I like the outdoor floors. Forest, meadow, aquarium. They aren't half as unsettling as the other stuff.

[unlimited_shipping_works]

Outdoor? Some of the floors are outside?

That's pretty cool....

[puppy_lancer]

They look like they are. You wouldn't be able to tell they were in the Tower unless you see the stairs or run into a wall.

[unlimited_shipping_works]

So it's just a simulation? Figures. It's still kind of cool though.

[She laughs.]

I don't suppose there's a floor filled with piles of manga?

[puppy_lancer]

Unfortunately, I don't think we have a comics floor. We have a library, though.

[unlimited_shipping_works]

I guess I could start there. There's a few light novels I've been meaning to pick up.

What floor is that?

[puppy_lancer]

Floor three, I think.

[unlimited_shipping_works]

Thanks, I'll make sure to check it out.