Something Unexpected

[animusmods]

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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Comments

[justabignobody]

[Riku can't help the nods of agreement, both when Sephiroth decides their path and when Suzaku motions for them to stick together - splitting up at this point really won't do them any good. Besides, strength in numbers, right?

He is glad that his face is hidden when he glances around as they move and sees the bodies, some familiar, most not so much. He is trying rather hard not to think about the implications of it too much.

Not yet. Thinking about it could come later, once they've made it out of this place again.]

[neverbeamemory]

[Though it doesn't actually seem all that dangerous down here, Sephiroth isn't about to let all the bodies in the chutes catch too much attention from him. He cannot afford, given his weakened state, to let it bother him as again he's ended up leading the group down into who-knows-where.

As soon as he noticed just how many worker units were swarming around on the main floor to which they were headed, Sephiroth abruptly stopped. Almost as if waiting for them approach the group and for it then to be game over. They weren't retrievals though, just like the drones upstairs, which then begs the further curiosity; what were they all actually doing on this floor.

He won't make any comment back at the others but surely they may be all thinking the same thing; so many workers, for what? Very slowly so that he could keep his eyes in all directions, Sephiroth began to advance down the rest of the route onto the main floor.]

[notsogrimreaper]

[Ryoji forces himself to look anywhere but the chutes, but his hand unconsciously drifts up to hold his scarf over his collar while they pass. His body wasn't real, was it? He supposes it never was in the first place, even before he came here, but knowing that this wasn't the form Minato had given him, that it was just a copy to be replaced every time his soul tried to escape into death... It's hard to take all the sadness and guilt and frustration that comes along with that revelation.

He knew he didn't deserve a body, and he was right. He'd been given a fake container so he could 'live' here. But why did they want him of all people in the Tower?

He has to stop thinking so hard. Ryoji looks back up to the rest of the group and follows them to the main floor.]

[swordofzero]

Suzaku felt sick, seeing the bodies on the chutes. Knowing that they were people he knew, people who were still in the tower now...

Which meant that ball of light...

Their consciousness perhaps? Their mind...

He walked at the back of the group, looking around, making sure they weren't spotted.]

[justabignobody]

[Riku releases a shuddering breath, even though he's tried to keep his thoughts away from that topic, they still keep drifting towards the bodies...

He clenches his hand after a moment, eyes closing under his hood as he centers himself and whispers.]

The body doesn't matter.

[Not like the heart. Not like the soul. As long as those are intact and unchanged, the body doesn't matter. He's had his body invaded and taken from his will, has been ripped from it and cast into Darkness, has been reunited and struggled with the Darkness inside.

He knows his heart, he knows that it's his own, that that's what is real. And as long as that holds true, nothing else matters.]