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towerofanimus2013-03-09 03:16 pm
plumesofdusk) wrote in towerofanimus2013-03-09 03:16 pm
It's great to meet you! ... maybe.
Characters: Ryoji Mochizuki and you!
Setting: Various Floors, starting in his room and winding up on floor 90 starting Wednesday
Format: Any - will be starting with prose.
Summary: Getting used to the tower and people, and then becoming a terrible mermaid! Open all week!
Warnings: Typical tower stuff; also warning for turning into a mermaid and dying later...
Dormitory Floor 3, Room 10
The last thing he remembers is closing his eyes and turning away from a freshly made grave. To call the sensation of waking up - especially when he hasn't slept in a very, very long time - combined with the inability to move disorienting and disconcerting is certainly an understatement. But he doesn't have any other words for it, and when he finds he can move again, he sits up abruptly, wide-eyed in surprise and uncertainty. What… is going on?
It doesn't take much searching to find the letters and from there, the chest. Opening it, he is amused (and … maybe a little relieved) to find his scarf and a couple changes of clothes (this white jumpsuit is… not what he'd choose to wear). But pulling these out, he finds something else he's a lot more mixed to see. Aigis' papillon heart… Two of Nyx's Plumes crossed together. He pulls it out and holds it, watching the soft, shifting blue glow for several moments before pressing it to his own chest. He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath before carefully placing it back inside the chest, wrapping it carefully in his spare clothing.
"I'm sorry…," he whispers, and then all that's left is to change and go exploring.
He's not sure what to make of this place, of how it feels, of what the letter tells him. That his world is destroyed is no news to him, but to be taken here, to another world…? And to once again be among other living beings…? He… isn't sure how to take it, but he is filled with curiosity about this strange, new tower…
So out the door he goes, to explore the dormitory and beyond!
First Floor, Cafeteria
At the prompting of the explanatory letter, he has come to the cafeteria for his oatmeal! But… it's the middle of lunch, and there are more people than he expected. Almost shyly, he lingers on the edge, staring in amazement and wondering if he can remember how to properly interact.
Well, he can't linger forever, so forward he goes, lips twitching into a smile that isn't entirely fake - after all, he has very much missed living people, and to be among them again, even in a place like this, is an unlooked-for blessing, whether he was ready to rest or not. But this oatmeal… Once he has a bowl, he finds himself playing with it more than eating it. He's never had oatmeal before, but even so he's pretty sure it's not supposed to be this… sculptable?
Thirteenth Floor, Cathedral
As nice as living people are, it's a little overwhelming at first, and Ryoji is grateful to find a quiet, peaceful place like this. He's been in many cathedrals like this, as they are some of the few buildings to truly stand the test of time well, and this one is just as peaceful as the others. He spends a bit of time the first few days he is here just sitting, enjoying the peace. Sometimes he's like some dark angel himself, when he decides to stretch out his wings, draping them across one of the pews in a comfortable sprawl. But alone or not, he probably wouldn't mind a bit of company…
Twenty-Fifth Floor, Meadow
This is a lovely, peaceful floor, too, and Ryoji also spends quite a bit of time here, among the flowers. You might catch him making a daisy chain or maybe just relaxing.
Floor Ninety, Mermaids - Forward dated to Wednesday through Friday.
Ryoji has a thing for peaceful floors, it seems. Unfortunately this one is… deceptive, and he has not yet learned to be wary of everything and anything in this tower! The mermaids he sees swimming below make him curious, and he tries to talk to them, and well…
He can't drown. He doesn't really need oxygen to live, after all, but caught off guard like this, he is unable to escape, and before he knows it, he's changing. His legs are becoming a tail, and he's getting covered in scales, and it hurts and all he wants to do is drag other people down with him into these painful, dark depths.
Do you see that flash of yellow in the water? Isn't it pretty and bright? Beware, though - if you draw near to it, a half-transformed, half dark shadow, hald mer-creature will drag you down to join it!
But this will only last for so long before on Friday he crawls onto the sand and, spasming with the last vestiges of the transformation, he dies.
Setting: Various Floors, starting in his room and winding up on floor 90 starting Wednesday
Format: Any - will be starting with prose.
Summary: Getting used to the tower and people, and then becoming a terrible mermaid! Open all week!
Warnings: Typical tower stuff; also warning for turning into a mermaid and dying later...
Dormitory Floor 3, Room 10
The last thing he remembers is closing his eyes and turning away from a freshly made grave. To call the sensation of waking up - especially when he hasn't slept in a very, very long time - combined with the inability to move disorienting and disconcerting is certainly an understatement. But he doesn't have any other words for it, and when he finds he can move again, he sits up abruptly, wide-eyed in surprise and uncertainty. What… is going on?
It doesn't take much searching to find the letters and from there, the chest. Opening it, he is amused (and … maybe a little relieved) to find his scarf and a couple changes of clothes (this white jumpsuit is… not what he'd choose to wear). But pulling these out, he finds something else he's a lot more mixed to see. Aigis' papillon heart… Two of Nyx's Plumes crossed together. He pulls it out and holds it, watching the soft, shifting blue glow for several moments before pressing it to his own chest. He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath before carefully placing it back inside the chest, wrapping it carefully in his spare clothing.
"I'm sorry…," he whispers, and then all that's left is to change and go exploring.
He's not sure what to make of this place, of how it feels, of what the letter tells him. That his world is destroyed is no news to him, but to be taken here, to another world…? And to once again be among other living beings…? He… isn't sure how to take it, but he is filled with curiosity about this strange, new tower…
So out the door he goes, to explore the dormitory and beyond!
First Floor, Cafeteria
At the prompting of the explanatory letter, he has come to the cafeteria for his oatmeal! But… it's the middle of lunch, and there are more people than he expected. Almost shyly, he lingers on the edge, staring in amazement and wondering if he can remember how to properly interact.
Well, he can't linger forever, so forward he goes, lips twitching into a smile that isn't entirely fake - after all, he has very much missed living people, and to be among them again, even in a place like this, is an unlooked-for blessing, whether he was ready to rest or not. But this oatmeal… Once he has a bowl, he finds himself playing with it more than eating it. He's never had oatmeal before, but even so he's pretty sure it's not supposed to be this… sculptable?
Thirteenth Floor, Cathedral
As nice as living people are, it's a little overwhelming at first, and Ryoji is grateful to find a quiet, peaceful place like this. He's been in many cathedrals like this, as they are some of the few buildings to truly stand the test of time well, and this one is just as peaceful as the others. He spends a bit of time the first few days he is here just sitting, enjoying the peace. Sometimes he's like some dark angel himself, when he decides to stretch out his wings, draping them across one of the pews in a comfortable sprawl. But alone or not, he probably wouldn't mind a bit of company…
Twenty-Fifth Floor, Meadow
This is a lovely, peaceful floor, too, and Ryoji also spends quite a bit of time here, among the flowers. You might catch him making a daisy chain or maybe just relaxing.
Floor Ninety, Mermaids - Forward dated to Wednesday through Friday.
Ryoji has a thing for peaceful floors, it seems. Unfortunately this one is… deceptive, and he has not yet learned to be wary of everything and anything in this tower! The mermaids he sees swimming below make him curious, and he tries to talk to them, and well…
He can't drown. He doesn't really need oxygen to live, after all, but caught off guard like this, he is unable to escape, and before he knows it, he's changing. His legs are becoming a tail, and he's getting covered in scales, and it hurts and all he wants to do is drag other people down with him into these painful, dark depths.
Do you see that flash of yellow in the water? Isn't it pretty and bright? Beware, though - if you draw near to it, a half-transformed, half dark shadow, hald mer-creature will drag you down to join it!
But this will only last for so long before on Friday he crawls onto the sand and, spasming with the last vestiges of the transformation, he dies.
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[ Ryoji looks over his shoulder at the door, and sure enough there's a sign with names on it, and his is one of them. He looks back at the other Ryoji and smiles tentatively. This... this is incredibly bizarre. And he really doesn't know what to think now, but there's no sense in not being polite. ]
Well... um... I guess 'Ryoji Mochizuki' is your name, too?
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[He's just going to hold off on using the other's name because... saying his own name to speak to someone else just seems weird.]
Did you just arrive here?
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[Which is common, given how often things go wrong.]
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[ This is... quite a bit to throw at a guy, and so Ryoji just stares. ]
Duplicate... bodies?
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[That was stupid of Ryoji, so he's scrambling to change the subject. What can he talk about that isn't really depressing?]
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[ He doesn't really get how this all works yet. ]
This feels like my body...
[ All that's missing is the sense of the rest of Nyx... ]
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L-Listen, we shouldn't talk about this. It's not something you should worry about on your first day here. Not everything is that bad, anyways.
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No. There are always good things to be found, even amid the bad, aren't there?
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[Between training with Diarmuid, exploring, and visiting friends, Ryoji doesn't exactly have a lot of time to get down on himself. Unless, of course, he dies and gets an excuse to hide out for a bit.]
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[That's probably an exaggeration, but when he meets a new person pretty much every day, it's hard to imagine counting them all.]
But as for things to do, there's an entertainment room, an art gallery, a swimming pool and a soccer field... Sometimes people try cooking in the kitchen, but I'm not too good at that. I mainly just explore the different floors.
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[ The other places sound like they'd have lots of people, and he'd rather get used to people more gradually than that, but he's learned to really appreciate museums and art galleries in the time since the Fall. ]
It sounds like there really is a lot here!
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[And seeing that picture, as inaccurate as it was, had led to a pretty uncomfortable conversation with Pharos. He still doesn't understand how the boy can be so apathetic about the Fall. It may seem inevitable, but that didn't mean he shouldn't be upset that so many people are going to die.
Ryoji pushes that memory away and smiles.]
There is. I think there's... 101 floors right now? They're not all safe, though, so you need to be careful.
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[Which he wouldn't have minded if such a thing would have happened in a less dangerous place, but considering the circumstances here, and how utterly worthless he had been the first time he entered the administrator areas, it was a lot better to keep some powers.]
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[ He trails off, frowning a little. ]
It's very strange.
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[He feels a little bad, and tries to switch topics. Maybe hearing about their friends will cheer him up?]
But there's some people we know here. They don't really know us very well, but Akihiko-sempai and Minato are the same as ever.
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Do you mean ... Minako?
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[It'll take him a moment to remember that their universes are going to be different in some ways, so now he just seems surprised.]
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Who is he?
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Did you have someone else like that?
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Mm. Her name was Minako.
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