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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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"No... that can't be true. I know people from our world, they're in our future. If what the admins said is true then those people wouldn't exist! You didn't go back home, i-it must have been an illusion. Minato died to make sure that didn't happen. Minako did too! She did, didn't she?"
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"What do you mean he died to make sure that didn't happen?"
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Please, tell me you remember."
If he doesn't, then... Ryoji doesn't even want to imagine what happened in his world.
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"I brought Nyx, and she came. Minako... she killed me, allowing me to take their memories and let them have happiness before a peaceful end." He smiles very faintly, though the smile doesn't quite reach his eyes. "No one is suffering anymore... Everyone was at peace."
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He swallows, taking a step back and letting go of the other boy. Maybe this meant that this Ryoji's world was the only one that really ended, but that didn't make him happy at all.
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He doesn't understand. He doesn't understand how this happened. He doesn't understand how it would work.
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Maybe this counterpart could have been happy. At peace.
"Minato refused to kill me. He believed that even if Nyx was undefeatable, he had to try to fight, and he wasn't going to forget about the people that were important to him. I told them Nyx would descend on January 31st, and then I left them...
When Nyx came, they fought her. They still couldn't stop the Fall with weapons alone, and Minato took it into his own hands. He sealed both Nyx and myself away, so that we couldn't fulfill those human desires.
Doing that was too much for his body, and he ended up passing on... but I can speak to him there. I can't see him, but he's told me that this is what he wanted. He's okay with this if it means his friends are safe... When I met him here, even though he hasn't experienced it yet, he told me the same thing. He would do anything to protect his friends and the rest of the world. I... I think, if Minako had been given more time, she would have wanted to do the same."
He finally falls silent, watching the other with a steady, yet worried, gaze. He knows how confusing this must be, how painful. He'll do anything to comfort Ryoji if he needs it, and he already wants to apologize for saying all of that, even if the other had specifically asked him to tell it.