towerofanimus | Something Unexpected

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Something Unexpected

Characters: characters selected to go into the elevator
Setting: the admin levels
Format: any
Summary: The admin elevator has been left open, its destination preprogrammed. Where is it going to take you?
Warnings: general horror warnings for now

The elevator doesn't announce itself when its doors slide open. There's no alarm, no message to be found about it. It sits open and waits for anyone curious enough to enter. There's a barrier on it that locks out anyone without a collar, and it isn't going to stay long, but aside from that there appears to be no security. There's nothing stopping someone--or multiple someones--from climbing into the elevator and going down.

Where's it going? Who knows.

Hub Area
A lounge area with sofas and chairs. It's large enough to hold the entire group, constructed similarly to the dorm rooms, and is connected to five doors.

Door One
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Door Two
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Door Three
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Door Four
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Door Five
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[There's some sort of siren blaring outside--their container muffles it somewhat, but it can be heard through the open door.]

[Siren. That cannot possibly be good, not in a room full of corpses.] What is that? You know what, no.

[Feferi's shaky and feeling like she wants to vomit, but she manages to right herself and make sure there's no viscera on her clothing.]

I guess everyone in the Tower who's died has had their body get down here at some point. That's all we really need to know. I'm more worried about where that noise is coming from, and not being in here if whatever's causing it is on its way to cause trouble.

There's - oh mother Gl'bolgy'b, please don't tell me the door is underneath here. Please tell me one of you sees it on a wall...

[Luckily, it's behind Feferi. It will require climbing across the corpses, though.]

[Meiling is going to look about for the door. She used to help hunt for the food for the Mistresses' but this? This was just creepy and not want she wanted to see right now. Not here, not ever.

Spotting the door, she's going to start climbing the corpses, trying to get to the door.]

I think there is one here...We might want to hurry.

[Last time, creepy noises, i.e. the music box, meant something bad was about to happen. SO- That means time to get out of this before something worse happens.]

[ He's just going to pretend he didn't see his own dead body with the pile and so far-- the denial is working great! They managed to locate the door and he should focus on getting his ass out of here. It was really nice of Gamzee to offer some assistant, but he turned the highblood down. ]

Thanks, bro. I got this!

Let's get out of here.

[ With that said, he starts climbing on the corpses. ]

[Well doki fuckin' doki, look at that kid go. And here Gamzee was preparing himself to ferry a bull on his back over a corpsemountain.]

After your ass, bro.

[He actually wanted to stick around a little longer - take a look at the bodies and try to figure out who they were, how they died, play around a little. But, the siren couldn't have been anything good, and if he had to defend himself, it would just take the thrill out of spelunking in here.]

[So, Gamzee ruefully trudged over the bodies, last in line as they trekked toward the other door.]

[Feferi didn't exactly relish the thought of climbing over bodies, but there was nothing left to do. At least the door was behind her and not underneath them. She breathed out a sigh of relief that there hadn't been a fight over it as she moved towards the door, not taking too long before opening it, motioning to the others to follow.]

[As they climb out, they will be just in time to witness this.]

[She'll watch in horror as the whole thing is done, Because WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT? WAS THAT A SOUL?

She didn't deal with spiritual stuff for the most post, working for vampires does that to one, but she almost feels empty. They were taking souls or whatever that was....She didn't know what to think]

Wha...What is that?

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[There's really not much he can say. This revelation has left him without the flippancy with which he'd proceeded thus far. It was more of the same curious awe he'd acquired after falling into the body pit.]

[For now, all he could do is watch with an intense interest, the bodies being separated and split into light. He took a breath, stepping a little closer to get a better view, but not straying far from the group at all.]

The... fuck...

[And that's when Feferi breaks. She had seen the girl they were carrying up there in the elevator. She didn't know her name, and that felt wrong. But the fact remained, that girl had been alive when they had come down, was dead now, and - that shining thing they'd squeezed out of her. That was her soul, and now someone else had it, and...

...she didn't know when she'd started crying, but she was. And not just little tears, these were broken-sounding sobs. Her words are gasped out through them:]

That girl was - she was in the elevator with us, and that's got to be her soul they squeezed out of her, and I don't know what they did with it, but whatever it is...I didn't even get her name, but nobody. Nobody. Deserves that. I know that she didn't. I need to - we should - if Jason or Ruana has it, they don't need to. They don't...

[Meiling is shaking, her hands are tightly curled into fists.A soul..which meant they had messed with everyone she cared about..if they had died, their soul had been messed with.]

They have done this to too many...Any time one of us has died...this has happened?

[A low growl started in her chest at this point. This was unacceptable and she wanted to stop this. She starts to move forward towards this scene.]

[The worker unit has disappeared behind a door with Sheba's soul. The body is travelling along a conveyor belt. Then there's the machine itself, which has a long spiraling path around it which can be followed.]

[He was torn between following the body and following wherever it was the soul went. Was the pile of bodies they'd just come from fresh corpses waiting to be "extracted", or is that where they dumped the old, empty shells?]

[Judging from the fact that the others had seen replicas of themselves, the pile would have had to be just useless trash. After all, what good was a body without a soul? When the essence had already ascended to the utopian fairgrounds, the host from which it came meant hardly anything.]

[He could play with bodies all he wanted later. The act of soul-rending didn't appall him on a moral level - but it did bend him out of shape spiritually. Preventing a soul from gaining admittance to the mirthful ruckus was black science, and the more steps he took toward the door the unit had passed through, the angrier he got.]

[Whether the group followed or not, he was going after that thing, and attempting to open the door it went through.]

Me? Six times, that's been me. And one time is too many, for anyone. And I am not letting them have a crack at someone else for fun.

[Feferi is still crying, but she's got a mission. She's with Gamzee on this one. A machine is a machine, the conveyor belt is probably just going to dump the body back down here, but that little light meant something.

That would now be two highblooded trolls, one troll with hella upper-body strength, if rumors are to be believed, and one strong-looking human ~~so far as Feferi is aware~~ trying to break down that door.]

[Even though she didn't know Feferi before now, just hearing that made Meiling even angrier. She's following along at this point, still shaking and that growl getting louder.]

We have to find a way to stop them...This isn't what anyone need nor wants. No one should ever touch another person's soul.

[She had to..For all of her family that was here in the tower..her friends..and anyone really. So She will be helping try to break down that door!

[The door refuses to budge. It does, however, make noise. Jason, inside, looks up from his work.]

[Yeah, no, he's pissed and curious as fuck, now. He's not going to stop pummeling that door, even if his knuckles are getting stained purple, now.]

[And now is when Feferi remembers she has her trident. It is without the slightest bit of regard for her own safety that she is going to start to use it like a wedge, trying to pop that door open. She has found her point of no return, and this is it.]

[Yeap, Still pounding on that door herself, trying to break it down with her fists. She isn't stopping because it is making a noise. Nope. Anger has it's claws in her and she's not backing down!]

[Jason walks over to the door and looks out the window. He's genuinely surprised, at least--the shock keeps him from doing anything but staring at them for a few moments. Then he slams his hand on a button.

He doesn't come out until the four summoned retrieval units have each of them held down, unable to harm him.]

What are you doing here? [Jason's voice is thin with anger.]

[Gamzee is so used to fighting off the retrieval units, he should probably know it's pointless to resist. However, he shrieks a feral growl as he's apprehended, throwing elbows and snapping fangs until he's thrown to the ground and immobilized.]

[Still writhing beneath the unit's strength, Gamzee's eyes lock on Jason as he finally exits the room he'd been in, standing before them all.]

YOU!!!

[He spits out, trying even harder to slam the retrieval unit with his shoulder. At least this motherfucker sounded thoroughly pissed. It gave Gamzee some slight satisfaction - but he'd be even more satisfied if he could get up and tear him apart.]

[Feferi struggles just as hard as Gamzee, at least at first. That stops when she sees Jason, and just as quick as she started to cry before, she started to laugh.]

What the hell do you think? We're here to punch you in your motherfucking face, Jason!

[She's gonna stay still for now, but if he gets close? She's going to do her damnedest to land a hit.]

[Meiling is STILL struggling against the units, that growl never stopping. So very obvious she's not going to be calm about this.

She's so close...but so far away from punching him.]

I realize that. [Jason rolls his eyes.] But how did you get here? You shouldn't be on this floor, let alone anywhere near my door!

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