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towerofanimus2013-04-02 02:25 pm
plumesofdusk) wrote in towerofanimus2013-04-02 02:25 pm
But what do you do when you don't know where to start?
Characters: Ryoji Mochizuki and you!
Setting: Various Floors
Format: Any - will be starting with prose.
Summary: Ryoji wandering about the tower. All April Post?
Warnings: Typical tower stuff; will update as needed.
Dorms
Even when the sleep paralysis wears off, and Ryoji can move again, he doesn't. Not for a long while. Instead, he just lays there, staring up at the ceiling and thinking. Finding himself in the tower again, he almost wants to scream in sheer frustration, but he doesn't. There's no point to it. There's no point to a lot of things now. But there's also no point to just lying around all day, so eventually Ryoji rises again. Briefly, he checks his trunk. It seems to have been a bit water damaged in his absence, but nothing inside is ruined. So, after assuring himself that Aigis' heart is still safe, he closes the trunk again and leaves.
He spends a while wandering around the dormitory floors, as much just assuring himself that there are people and things still here as anything else - and perhaps he checks the network, skimming any entries from the past few weeks, but he doesn't spend too long on it. He hopes to come across his other self, wanting to talk with him, but he doesn't at this time, and so eventually he leaves the dormitory area to wander other parts of the tower. He doesn't return to the dormitory very frequently.
Floor 81: Stargazing
Ryoji spends a lot of time here, in this lounge. The way the windows bulge out, he can simply lean out over them and watch the clouds far below or mostly, he watches the stars high above. They're not his stars. They're not the stars he would have wandered through as Nyx, but -- they're stars all the same, and it's comforting to think that there is at least one place where stars still shine.
Floor 75: Fighting Monsters
For better or worse, Ryoji feels restless, and his restlessness builds up the more he wanders the tower without getting any closer to a solution of what he ought to do with himself, now - especially since everything in this tower seems unhappy anyway, including the monsters. Eventually he comes to the idea that maybe he can at least reduce some of the problems here by reducing the number of monsters, if he can. It saves the monsters from suffering for a time (though he wonders if they are brought back like everyone else here when their bodies are destroyed) and it might make some passage safer for others. He remembers being told about the night patrols around the dorms, after all.
And here, he finds one strange room of the tower that has a great many monsters in it, so here he stays for a while, forsaking his human form for one or the other of his other true forms (or sometimes something somewhere in between) as he tears through them with his own magic or his sword - whichever winds up being more effective at quickly dispatching the creatures.
When there is a lull, though, he wanders inside the empty tower, sliding back into his more human guise.
Floors 22, 19 & 3
As he continues to struggle to figure out what he should do with himself here, Ryoji finds himself turning to the pictures in the gallery - and to books. The paintings provide food for thought, even if they're not always welcome sights, and the books... well, he hopes to find some sort of insight somewhere. Unlike his counterpart, he's more used to wading through even thick, dense volumes, as much of his time before coming to this tower was spent wandering through humanity's left behind libraries.
Unfortunately, the power is out in floor 19, so to read, he winds up calling forth a ball of light or two - contained hama spells. Be careful in touching them, as they might at the very least knock you out...
Setting: Various Floors
Format: Any - will be starting with prose.
Summary: Ryoji wandering about the tower. All April Post?
Warnings: Typical tower stuff; will update as needed.
Dorms
Even when the sleep paralysis wears off, and Ryoji can move again, he doesn't. Not for a long while. Instead, he just lays there, staring up at the ceiling and thinking. Finding himself in the tower again, he almost wants to scream in sheer frustration, but he doesn't. There's no point to it. There's no point to a lot of things now. But there's also no point to just lying around all day, so eventually Ryoji rises again. Briefly, he checks his trunk. It seems to have been a bit water damaged in his absence, but nothing inside is ruined. So, after assuring himself that Aigis' heart is still safe, he closes the trunk again and leaves.
He spends a while wandering around the dormitory floors, as much just assuring himself that there are people and things still here as anything else - and perhaps he checks the network, skimming any entries from the past few weeks, but he doesn't spend too long on it. He hopes to come across his other self, wanting to talk with him, but he doesn't at this time, and so eventually he leaves the dormitory area to wander other parts of the tower. He doesn't return to the dormitory very frequently.
Floor 81: Stargazing
Ryoji spends a lot of time here, in this lounge. The way the windows bulge out, he can simply lean out over them and watch the clouds far below or mostly, he watches the stars high above. They're not his stars. They're not the stars he would have wandered through as Nyx, but -- they're stars all the same, and it's comforting to think that there is at least one place where stars still shine.
Floor 75: Fighting Monsters
For better or worse, Ryoji feels restless, and his restlessness builds up the more he wanders the tower without getting any closer to a solution of what he ought to do with himself, now - especially since everything in this tower seems unhappy anyway, including the monsters. Eventually he comes to the idea that maybe he can at least reduce some of the problems here by reducing the number of monsters, if he can. It saves the monsters from suffering for a time (though he wonders if they are brought back like everyone else here when their bodies are destroyed) and it might make some passage safer for others. He remembers being told about the night patrols around the dorms, after all.
And here, he finds one strange room of the tower that has a great many monsters in it, so here he stays for a while, forsaking his human form for one or the other of his other true forms (or sometimes something somewhere in between) as he tears through them with his own magic or his sword - whichever winds up being more effective at quickly dispatching the creatures.
When there is a lull, though, he wanders inside the empty tower, sliding back into his more human guise.
Floors 22, 19 & 3
As he continues to struggle to figure out what he should do with himself here, Ryoji finds himself turning to the pictures in the gallery - and to books. The paintings provide food for thought, even if they're not always welcome sights, and the books... well, he hopes to find some sort of insight somewhere. Unlike his counterpart, he's more used to wading through even thick, dense volumes, as much of his time before coming to this tower was spent wandering through humanity's left behind libraries.
Unfortunately, the power is out in floor 19, so to read, he winds up calling forth a ball of light or two - contained hama spells. Be careful in touching them, as they might at the very least knock you out...
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He steps up to the window next to Ryoji's, looking at the stars but also taking note of what the other is doing. He's curious, but something tells him not to poke this one too hard.
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"Do you suppose there are other worlds out with those stars?" he asks, softly - as much because Naoya is there as anything else.
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If they can survive long enough to find them... that's a different question.
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He shrugs a little bit. "Though this tower has the designation of Animus, which means soul - so perhaps others study other things."
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Or if they are... if they're habitable for them, or have any further information.
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