towerofanimus | [Dark World Event] || [Infiltration Plot] || [Closed] || [3/3]

Characters: The characters who got recruited to hack the elevator or infiltrate the administrative floors. Look at the tags.
Setting: The Cafeteria-- Then the Elevator and the Administrative Floors.
Format: Action most likely.
Summary: Ganondorf's true plan begins. While the annoying administrators and the heroic heroes are busy dealing with the "Dark World" controlled by Richtofen, Ganondorf and Repliku, Naoya has freedom to hack into the Elevator System and the Team led by Nesir can then use it to infiltrate the lower floors undetected. They will then divide into two teams to cover as much field as possible. Quite obviously this won't end so well.

The official purpose of the mission is to find the Control Room of the tower and the Exit Door mentioned by Ruana long ago, with the ultimate objective being to take over the control room. The truth is that it's a suicide mission with as only purpose to gather intel on the truth and how to take over the tower's control systems.

Warnings: Nearly all characters here are deeply anchored into the Dark Side-- Probably only Ryoji isn't. And the odds to meet one of the administrators while in the lower floors are pretty high, so all the warnings?

Contacted Characters
All characters meant to come will have somehow been contacted and told to come- By either Ganondorf, Naoya, Sephiroth or Nesir. Indeed, each of them will either have been directly contacted in person or will have received a mail in their mailbox (or in their dorm if they have no mailbox just yet).

The transmitted message pretty simple, to come down to the Cafeteria floor, March 5th before mid-day if they have enough of the tower and want to take things in hand personally. There are no particular instructions, except that they must not fear death or the administrators if they decide to the Cafeteria. And obviously, utmost secrecy has to be kept.

• Mingle // Briefing
• Elevator | Team Alpha // Team Omega

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Mello meets her stare with one of his own. Being talked to like he's a disobedient child makes him angrier than Jin's insult did. He bristles visibly, but he doesn't sit up for the time being.]

Don't talk to me like that. [The venom in his voice is palpable.] I'm just trying to make sure I won't be stuck in the most dangerous part of this place with a bunch of complete morons. You don't have to like me, and I don't have to like you, but we all have to work together, so forgive me if I'm a little cautious. Okay?

[His tone drips with sarcasm and barely-concealed anger. He can already tell that working with these guys will be a real treat.]

[She's a good enough judge of character that she can tell that he isn't bluffing. Still, she isn't the least bit threatened by him. Just the same, she drops it, nodding at him, expression still rather stern.]

All right.

[Mello glares at her for a few more seconds, but then he nods, too. He knows better than to intentionally give people reasons to hate him when he could very well end up relying on them in the immediate future.

That doesn't mean he has to like backing down, of course, but he does.]

[ ... The entire time Ganondorf just listen to the conversation, staring at whoever is talking at the moment with much of an implied facepalm. The only ones who didn't get the implied facepalm were Vergil and Ryoji when they spoke.

If there was any hope that this mission would result in anything more than their death, it all but faded. He would just nod to Ryoji and answer his question. ]

The primary objectives are the control room and the exit door of these tower. But in the end, any valuable elements are to be sought.

[ Obviously valuable in the sense it could help them get free. He wouldn't outright say the sole purpose of this mission was gathering intel-- Ruana would just delete their recent memories then. ]

From your previous attempts, have the routes to the control room and door been revealed, or will discovering this be necessary?

[Hopefully they would all be observent enough to take in that sort of information without being told specifically to. Then again... as Nesir watched the bickering she had serious doubts about everyone's capabilities.

She was also shocked, she had a temper on her but never once had she argued in a mission briefing and was surprised Ganondorf let such things pass.

She gave Ryoji a reassuring grin, though she wondered at Ganondorf's motives, putting two people with no leadership experience (from the boys words anyways) in such positions.] No one had found the door yet, and the route to the control room depends on where we can get the elevator to take us.

I see, in which case, are we certain a door does exist?

[For what it's worth, a voice echoes from just behind them all. Sephiroth feels it's important right now to at least inform to the rest of them of some of the details he already imparted to only Ganondorf before. Even though he's selfish enough to only look out for his own survival - future undertakings with any of those gathered here may rest on him being a little more flexible. The fact that he's even here is crossing a line he wouldn't normally approach.]

I can say, at least, that two of us here were involved in the latest venture downstairs.

That's not to say our experience should be relied on, given the circumstances of that adventure. Even if by chance we were to gain access to the same floor Dax clearly allowed us access to, I suspect they have re-arranged massively, as implied by the intended-or-not video feed in the last week.

I would expect at least at some part of this expedition may place us in such environments that will dampen or nullify otherwise innate powers. Regardless, as ever when dealing with this Tower - it would be at your own peril to rely on such abilities alone.

[Sephiroth pauses, considering how to phrase this without sounding patronizing. But then he continues anyway; he's not here to cushion other's egos and being blunt is sometimes called for.]

I would hope all of us here have more sense than to interfere with anything they might find, which they do not know the consequences thereof. I for one do not intend to suffer such foolishness again.

[Ryoji is glad for the reassurance and approval some people are showing him, though he does wish he had more experience in... well, anything. He's not much of a leader, but he also has no real abilities besides his supernatural ones. If Diarmuid is right, he'll be able to rely on instinct to fight for now, but he's unsure if he'll be able to even rely on that without a familiar weapon.

Though what Sephiroth is saying reminds him that he at least has entered the elevator before, so he at least knows a bit about what should and shouldn't be trusted down there.]

I was also down there recently, but I haven't seen the exit door or control room yet, so we won't have much to go on.

[ Ganondorf nodded to all that. ]

Indeed. You should also be expecting reinforced security. Again, if you do not express aggressiveness, the security should not pay much attention to you.

[ After all following their attempt to take over last year, security in the tower had drastically been reinforced and the drones then killed anyone doing the least wrong step. With what happened last week, it was possible security was as such now down there.

Then the white crystal in Ganondorf's hands suddenly turned pitch black and cracked. Ganondorf winced at this and clearly looked unhappy, he had hoped it would not do that before some more time. It could only mean... ]

Richtofen is dead.

[ He sighs. What incompetence, really. ]

I shall be going to reinforce the "distraction". I still should be able to buy you a couple hours, but waste no time.

Plus, since the softie's dead, it probably means that whatever security we do trigger is gonna be more nasty than it would've been last month.

[Tl;dr, yeah, let's none of us actually antagonise anything down there unnecessarily. Even Jin can respect that.

Whatever was going on with Richtofen and that orb though, it seems like that meant it was time to get started.]

That's our cue to get going, right? If we don't wanna waste time, we better get moving, ASAP.

Let's get moving, then. The longer we are idle, the sooner someone will notice that something is amiss.

[She frowns to herself. Richtofen. That had been the man who had looked at her arm when she first arrived.

Hopefully what Ganondorf had planned out had bought them enough time.]

Can't argue there.

[Mello rises from his seat, his half-eaten chocolate bar dangling from between his teeth. If there's one thing he understands, it's urgency. He shoves his hands in his pockets and walks closer to the rest of the group, prepared to enter the elevator as soon as they're able.]

I agree. A single moment may equal ruin.

[And just like Mello, he moves towards the elevator.]

[Well, he had lasted longer than Nesir had thought. But still it meant they were running out of time. Nerves were shoved aside as she nodded] Let us be going then. [And she followed the others to the elevator.]

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