circle one: arrival

[featherdarting]

Characters: Ayaka Sajyou and you, maybe!
Setting: Room 1-07, then elsewhere.
Format: Any!
Summary: A stranger explores a strange land.
Warnings: Aside from Ayaka being Ayaka, none.


[Room 1-07]

[Ayaka wakes up in a room that isn't hers. That immediately sets off all her alarms. She puts on her glasses (as much to hide behind them as anything) and looks around. She sees the notes, reads them.

....Ayaka sits still, motionless. Maybe she's in shock, roomies?]

[Cafeteria]

[Okay, so, first things first - she has to eat the oatmeal. That's a thing that needs to be done. It's not the most unpleasant task in the world, even if the oatmeal does taste like...well, nothing.

Maybe anything would taste like nothing after that shock to the system earlier...

At least there's nobody trying to snap her out of her thoughts just yet. Not that she's worth the concern or even expects it, of course, but there's usually someone...For now, she'll enjoy the peace.]

[Floor 3 Library]

[Who's surprised that Ayaka ended up here? Nobody, that's who. As of right now, she's at one of the terminals, investigating it in between darting back and forth to the shelves, investigating them.

It's quiet and peaceful. She likes that.]

[Floor 99]

[....Okay, so this place is quieter. It's dazzling, and like most people she can't really resist gazing at something awe-inspiring like this.

Maybe she can get to work here? Yeah, that sounds about right. It isn't that difficult to injure herself, not with a knife pilfered from the cafeteria. It wasn't that difficult to obtain the knife, either. Just palm it up the sleeve, then into a pocket....

No, it isn't that difficult to set things up. Thank god she's still got her ring, or this would all be in vain - also, she wouldn't be able to defend herself.

And after that conversation with Feferi Peixes, that seems to be a very, very important thing. Especially as her Saber doesn't appear to be here. ... She'll have to protect herself, for now.]

Comments

Library

[featherdarting]

[She's not good with people, she knows that. She's actually really bad with people, but in this case...well, you do what you gotta do. Right?]

I would appreciate it, thank you.

Library

[tohko_amano]

[Not that Tohko really knew that. Sighing, she nodded and took a quick breath before giving her usual infodump.]

This is the Tower of Animus. Four people now run it-Riki, a secretive man who builds the Tower and is in charge of the records, Zo, a small child who can bring souls here, Jason, a sadistic medical doctor who sometimes experiments on the residents. He, I believe, helps transfer your soul when you die. Finally, there’s Ruana, a woman who has been here for thousands of years and doesn’t quite understand human empathy or emotions, and hates it when people go against her. She may seem sweet, but she is capable of removing free will and canalizing her own Administrators.

There used to be a fifth Administrator named Dax. He was the most humane of the bunch and did his best to protect us from Jason and the monsters here. He even managed to sneak people down to the Administrative levels in order to let them know more about this place. However, when he tried to go against Ruana..she killed and ate him, possibly absorbing his powers in the process. He was a good man.

Death isn’t permanent here. If you die, you’ll just wake up in your bed the next day. However, don’t throw your life away for foolish reasons. For one thing, you’ll probably get punished if you die too many times, and for the other…your body is made up of recycled parts. Only your soul was pulled to this universe. Your body, and the ones you’ll have afterward, are not your original body. That’s why you have the collar. It helps make sure your soul safely stays in your body.
I’m sorry to say that your universe is destroyed. You may see people you know here, but they won’t be from your own universe or point in time. I don’t know exactly how our universes were destroyed, but I do know that it was caused by Ruana watching our universes, for some reason.

If you haven’t been to the cafeteria yet, make sure that you eat the oatmeal when you do. If you don’t, you’ll throw up anything else you try to eat until you finish it. However, you can eat anything you want afterwards, and you can add things to the oatmeal to improve the taste.

Monsters roam the Tower at night, and some of the higher floors have monsters that attack if you get too close. If you can’t fight, then I would suggest learning. There are plenty of people here who would be willing to teach you.

[featherdarting]

[She listens carefully, eyes wide as she hears about Ruana. Feferi mentioned her too...More than one person says it happened. It's likely true.]

I...I see. This is all a lot to take in, but...thank you for telling me just the same. I've already been to the cafeteria, so...

[...Wow.]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko smiled and nodded. She knew it was a lot to take in..but better to try and take it in rather than miss out on some vital information for later.]

You're welcome..and it's good that you've already been to the cafeteria. Hopefully you didn't have any bad experiences there.

[featherdarting]

[That is indeed true. She may have to remind herself of some of it later but, well, as long as you're in the same place...]

Confusing experiences, yes, but not bad ones. Apparently I've been here before.

[tohko_amano]

Well..at least one version of you. The Administrators are able to pull people here from alternate universes, so an alternate version of you might have been here before.