01 | or that look of surprise

[grancenturio]

Characters: Nessiah and you!
Setting: Room 1-04, Floor 98, Elevator, Cafeteria, Floor 3
Format: Will match yours.
Summary: Nessiah makes his entrance to the tower, discovers no-powers floors, and goes to get some food and research.
Warnings: Eye squick before he puts on his faceplate.

[Room 1-04]
[Nessiah had been displeased upon waking up here, but not frightened. There were few things that could frighten him after so many years of death and rebirth: a simple kidnapping would not accomplish it.

He read the letter and put it away, skepticism clear on what remained of his face. There were of course ways to destroy a world, but not many to do it instantaneously, without warning. He would have known that something was coming.

That done, he rooted in his trunk for his clothes and the chains that properly covered him. At the very least, he should put on his faceplate before anyone but his roommates saw the empty holes where his eyes should be.]

[Floor 98]
[The dormitories offered little interest to him, and the staircase seemed the obvious way to proceed. He avoided the glowing step of floor 101, briefly explored the crystalline caverns, then returned to find the next floor down.

The moment his foot left the staircase his vision went black as the spells he used to see were cut out suddenly. He stumbled, tumbling onto his knees as he landed on the pipe floor.

Nessiah tried to feel his way back to the staircase with his hands, but the pipes were unfamiliar territory and it would be too easy to fall into a hole...]

[Elevator]
[Having bee rescued, Nessiah wisely decided not to take the walk down past many other floors that could easily blind him, and took the elevator instead. He wasn't one to strike up a conversation himself, but he wouldn't be opposed to something to fill the half an hour it took to get from the top of the tower to the bottom.]

[Cafeteria]
[Nessiah was presented with terribly mediocre oatmeal, but at least it looked better than whatever else was being served. He took an out-of-the-way corner of the cafeteria and began to slowly eat, watching whoever else was desperate enough to come to the cafeteria for nutrition.]

[Floor 3]
[Despite having most of his face covered, Nessiah has no trouble reading, and has a large stack of books in front of him on one of the tables. It's quite curious.]

Comments

Elevator

[technologic]

[Luckily the other person in the elevator is pretty chatty.]

What floor are you getting off at?

[grancenturio]

I believe the cafeteria is at the bottom, yes?

[Someone must have told him by now.]

[technologic]

Yup, it is. [She glances over at him, and while the faceplate makes her curious, she doesn't ask. Yet anyway.] I'm gonna guess you're new here, right?

[grancenturio]

[He nods, and his chains jangle.] I see no reason to hide it yet.

[technologic]

[Nod, nod and she tilts her head.] Have you been told much about this place yet?

Third floor

[tohko_amano]

[While Tohko worked in the library, she spotted a boy who was reading quite well, even though most of his face was covered. Curious, Tohko couldn't help but approach him with a question.]

How are you able to read so quickly with your face covered like that?

[grancenturio]

Magic.

[It's a simple answer, and Nessiah turns to face her as precisely as he would have if he'd had eyes.]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko believed him, but that didn't mean she would let the issue die there. She loved magic and always wanted to know more about it when it was brought up, so, smiling, she threw out another question.]

Oh, what kind of magic? How does yours work, if you don't mind my asking?

[grancenturio]

My sight spells are simply one of many magics I can perform. The idea behind them is that words set together have a power of their own. It's the most common form of magic in my world - what are you used to?

[tohko_amano]

That..sounds like an interesting form of magic.

[It sounded like something out of Earthsea, but Tohko didn't mention that. There was no way the mage would know what she was talking about.]

Actually..magic doesn't exist in my universe, so that's why I was asking. I love hearing and learning about it though! If you don't mind..could you teach me a little, if it's possible?

Floor 98

[darkestsatisfaction]

[Kiryu isn't much of a fan of no-power floors himself; while it can't be avoided to enter them from time to time, it still feels like something vital is ripped from him whenever he looses the presence of his god from the back of his mind, when the black in his eyes recedes into white and he becomes bitterly aware of his vulnerabilities. While he hardly needs Ccapac Apu's help to hold his own, after years of being his chosen servant, he supposes their connection runs to deep for him not to feel at least just a little affected by its loss (however temporary it may be).

He is about to leave the floor in favor for the next one, when he notices the kid shuffling around, looking quite a bit lost. Well. He supposes, he can keep lingering a moment longer.]

Well, well... aren't you quite clumsy.

[grancenturio]

[Nessiah turns only slightly towards the voice - he's long out of practice with true blindness and cannot pin down exactly where Kiryu is.]

I suppose I ought to have brought a cane.

[darkestsatisfaction]

[A cane, eh? Now that's almost entirely too easy.]

Feeling that old already?

[grancenturio]

Only feeling a bit lost.

[darkestsatisfaction]

[Not taking the bait, eh? Pity.]

Obviously.

[Otherwise he wouldn’t be stumbling around like a fool, right?]

Elevator

[shortstature]

Yata had been exploring the tower, having only been here about a month or so and particularly keen to leave his room except to eat, shower, and go to the collar check ups. He'd just happened upon the elevator at the same time as this stranger. Not particularly wanting to be rude or stand in awkward silence or the ride, he attempted to make conversation with the stranger.

"Hello. This elevator ride is kinda long, isn't it? This whole tower is bullshit in my opinion, but I haven't been here long enough to really get a feel for the place. I've only been here a month or so."

[grancenturio]

Nessiah shrugged his shoulders, causing a slight jangle of chains. "You have more experience in this area than I do - today is my first day."

[shortstature]

Closer inspection of the other person in the elevator piqued Yata's interest. His clothes were colorful and his face was covered. Was he some kind of performer or magician? Maybe both? Yata just couldn't say for sure. He did, however, want to continue this conversation.

"Are those chains you're wearing?"

[Yata, it's rude to stare at strangers, especially when you don't know their names.]

[grancenturio]

"They are. I could take them off, but I suspect you wouldn't want me to."

These were not the Chains of Conviction themselves that bound his original body somewhere in his destroyed world, but he found it convenient to reproduce them.

[shortstature]

"What would happen if you took them off?"

Yata's definitely curious now. Mainly because he had been out esxploring, and wasn't the purpose of exploring investigating new things you found interesting?

"By the way, my name's Misaki Yata. Call me Yata. And you are...?"

Library

[repeatingsun]

[It's a good thing that one of the other people in the library has seen - and, in fact, is - weirder. Don't mind Solas, she's just going to be peering at the spines of the books to find out what the titles are and why they're so interesting.

...and don't try to "look" too closely. True form drives humans mad and all that.]

[grancenturio]

[The books are all nonfiction - mostly about magic, some about weaponry, and occasionally a few about human development.]

I could spare some of these, if you're interested.

[repeatingsun]

Oh, it's all right! I was just wondering why you had so many books here, but...it looks like you're researching something, huh?

[Human development. This is a thing that, admittedly, she only really knows the biological side of. You're born, you go through puberty and hormones make you act irrationally, you live on, your body passes its prime and withers, and you die.]

[grancenturio]

[That may be true, but humans from a thousand years ago lived differently from humans now in Nessiah's world live - lived.]

I am usually researching something - I see no reason to stop while I'm here.

[repeatingsun]

[That is true! And it has always been a joy to watch. Well, up until that incident with the magitech and the kaboom.]

That makes sense! It's good to have something to do around here.