towerofanimus | Ad Visitatores

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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[A worst part... so many things to chose from. She frowned for a while thinking, but really there was only one answer.] There do be a resteraunt here. Do no be going to it even if you do be hating the food in the cafeteria. They do be asking for you to be fetching something impossible, and then when you can no be they do be taking parts of you.

So one day I did be fine and then without having no warning, I did no be having a thumb, and they did be taking things from inside me. Just like that, they did be gone.

[Heather is stunned by the warning. It takes her a moment to collect herself and speak.]

They... take parts of you? That's... Thanks for the warning...

[She's still not entirely recovered from the tale.]

So then... you only have one thumb?

[She shook her head and held up her hand, she is missing the index and middle fingers of her right hand but both thumbs are there. She points at the missing fingers]

They do be from something that did be happening before I did be coming here, but for the rest... I did be dying and when I did be waking up my thumb did be back, when I did be arriving here a girl did be cutting off my hand, and that did be coming back as well. And I did be losing an eye and a leg and they did be coming back too.

[Heather finds herself a bit speechless.]

So what then? People just go around cutting off each others limbs all day? Like some kinda crazy circus act?

Sometimes, but it did be because of mind control, those that control this place did be turning us into things and making us want to kill or steal or cut off peoples limbs.

[Heather can feel a slight shiver run through her body. It's a chilling thought.]

God...

[This place is going to be worse than she thought.]

[That got an eyebrow raise but she shrugged.] Can you be fighting?

[Heather nods confidently. If she could fight off those monsters there's no way she can't handle some crazy people who want to cut her limbs off... Right?]

Yeah, I'm pretty good at it.

Well that do be good at least.

[She nods again. She can't imagine being in a place like this without fighting skills. For once in her life she's grateful for Silent Hill and all it did to her. She'd never fought a real fight in her life before she went there, and she'd found that she had quite an aiming skill.]

Yeah. It'd suck otherwise. Can you fight?

It would. [She smirked and nodded] I do be a Warrior acolyte, I can be fighting.

[Heather can't deny that she's impressed.]

A warrior, huh? You look kinda young to be a warrior.

[She doesn't doubt that she is, but it seems a little strange for someone so young to be a warrior.]

[She just shrugged, slightly annoyed but not showing it.] That's what the acolyte part do be, it means I do be still training.

[Heather nods slightly.]

Cool. So, what kinda warrior are you anyway?

[There's no way this girl is old enough to be training for the army or anything like that.]

We do be protecting magic users and working with them to be defeating evil.

[There's no way Heather can politely hide her confusion now. Magic users? What? It's not the strangest thing she's ever heard but it's up there on the list.]

Um... magic? Protect them from what?

She nodded, "Magic, given by the gods." Luckily Nesir had met people from non magical worlds, though no one denied the existence of magic after a few hours in the tower.

"We do be protecting them from anything that do be wanting to harm them, and working together as a pair to be fighting evil."

[It didn't seem all that far-fetched after her experience in Silent Hill. If someone could create monsters that filled a town that was, in its own way, alive, then why couldn't there be other magic in the world? Hopefully less sinister magic.]

Sounds pretty cool. Where exactly are you from?

I do be coming from a city called Gauig, the temple I did be training in do be in a mountain range maybe a weeks journey away from that city. It do no be of any particular country and has no affiliation to any of them.

[Heather's not surprised that the girl's from a city she's never heard of. No way it could be somewhere in her own world. She just nods, thoughtful.]

So, how long've you been training?

I did be going to the temple when I did be twelve. So for three years now.

Wow. Seems like you should know it all by now, right?

[There is no trace of taunting or rudeness in her voice. Just honest speculation.

Heather entered Silent Hill and fought her way through it with no prior training, or knowledge of the situation for that matter. She hadn't gotten through it without a bit of trouble though and would have preferred some combat training. But three years seems a bit excessive in her inexperienced mind.]

Not really. It do be taking years to be being a warrior. [Alright so she had been on the longer side of the time scale of becoming a acolyte, but not unusually long.] They do be the greatest warriors in the world.

[Heather's not really in any place to be judging who's the greatest warriors and so she nods.]

What kinda stuff'd they teach?

Fighting, how to be surviving, and then we do be learning history and politics as well, and we can chose to be learning other things if we do be wanting to. Like if we do be interested in healing herbs we can be learning that, or ancient languages.

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