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Characters: Sora [OU], OPEN!
Setting: Multiple places, at various points during the week (May 5-11-ish).
Format: Action preferred, but I'm fine with prose as well!
Summary: Sora, bored out of his mind, decides to restart the map-making project he was helping Zack with ages ago. Which means exploring. Which means probably getting into trouble. Meanwhile, Excalibur is looking for new friends!

This log has a few different options, but as Sora will probably be going to or passing by nearly all the floors in-between, feel free to leave a comment set on a floor I haven't made a scenario for (though I'd prefer to avoid floors too far beyond floor 50, since I may do another post with those later). I've been very out of the loop RP-wise lately and I'd really love to rebuild Sora's CR, so any and all interactions are welcome!
Warnings: Nothing so far, but I'm open to fighting/character death if monster fights or whatever end up happening, and will update accordingly.

[For the next few days, people who are wandering around may run into a young boy, wearing clothes that are now a few sizes too small for him, carrying around a pencil and a few sheets of paper he probably snagged from the mailroom. He's cautiously traveling through various floors, scribbling notes every now and then as he goes. Though he looks busy, he's also probably a little bored - wandering around by himself isn't all that much fun, even if he does have his strange pet, who he's officially named Excalibur, by his side most of the time. Care to bother (or let yourself be bothered by) him?]

[Floor 4 - Anytime during the week]

[Sora seems to be taking a break right now, actually, kicking back on one of the chairs and sorting through the crumpled bits of paper that were in his pockets. Maybe he's trying to put them in order? Anyway, it doesn't look like he would be too bothered if someone wanted to come talk to him.

...and even if you don't, there's a certain strange dog...cat...adorable thing hanging around Sora, on the hunt for more animal and/or people-shaped friends! If you hang around for long enough, and seem friendly, the little guy will probably run up to you looking for affection. Also, if you have a pet of some sort, he'll probably try to greet them, too. Come meet Excalibur?]

[Floor 43, May 7th]

[Thankfully Sora didn't find himself having to spend too much time on the lower floors, since he remembered most of them well enough to not need to explore them again. Some of them he stopped on again, just to check a couple of things, but some of the floors - like the one with all the screaming - he was more than happy to skip over.

But a lot of the higher floors, especially after the second block, he'd left mostly unexplored after they appeared. That was why now he was having to look a little more closely...and despite the dangers, sometimes his curiosity got the better of him. Sometimes, that didn't end so well. Now was one of those times.

If you happen to pass by floor 43, you may be met with Excalibur trying desperately to get your attention and make you stop on the floor. If you stop, the Meow Wow will lead you to one of the cells, where Sora is hanging out behind a closed door, looking not at all happy about his predicament.

Looks like someone accidentally locked themselves in.]

[Floor 47, May 9th]

[This floor is just weird. As much as Sora looks, he can't find anything but sheets and curtains hanging all over the place. What could they be for?

He also had a funny feeling about this floor, like there were things hiding all over the place. Behind the curtains, more like. It gave him the creeps. Who knows what could jump out from behind them?

Still, he wants to find out more before he leaves, and it doesn't even occur to Sora that it would be safer to just leave the sheets and curtains be. Without even thinking about it he reaches over to pull one of the curtains aside...]

[Floor 50, May 11th]

[So it looks like Sora isn't doing much exploring for the moment. Instead, he's up to something else.]

Fire!

[A burst of flame escapes from his Keyblade, landing harmlessly against the rock. He keeps firing off other spells - Blizzard and Thunder mostly - over and over again as well. Once he finds himself needing to recharge before doing more magic he practices some attacks, swinging his Keyblade towards imaginary opponents.

Want to help him practice?]

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Suzaku!

[When he hears Suzaku Sora perks up, clearly relieved that someone finally came. Meanwhile Excalibur is bouncing up and down, proud of himself for finding someone.]

I...er, kinda got myself stuck. Think you could let me out?

[He's still kinda mad at himself - I mean, really, what did he think would happen, walking into a cell in this place - but he had a good reason! Or, well, he thought it was a good reason. Besides, at least now he could write in his notes with 100% certainty that the cells were empty and boring and really just not worth being curious about at all.]

How did you manage that? [He found the release button and pressed it, opening the cell and looking Sora over, to check he wasn't hurt.]

[Suzaku will find that he's perfectly okay, and more than happy to finally be out.]

I don't know! I just walked in and the door shut. Weird, huh?

[Well, okay, not that weird compared to the rest of the tower, but still.]

You should be more careful. [He seemed satisfied that Sora wasn't hurt so stepped back.] I haven't seen you in a long time.

Yeah, I guess you're right...but at least I wasn't stuck in there with a monster or something!

[That wouldn't have been fun at all, especially since he hadn't been able to summon the Keyblade in there - he'd tried once he realized the door was locked, but it had been no good.]

I know. I haven't been wandering around much lately.

[Apart from visiting people, he'd been keeping to a fairly simple routine, trying to sort through everything that had been on his mind. But sitting him around had been making him feel worse instead of better, so he'd found something more distracting to do instead.]

But I got bored, so now I'm trying to keep busy. Have you been up to anything, Suzaku?

That's true, you were lucky. [He thought again that Sora like Riku would benefit from learning to fight unarmed, or with a knife or some sort of small weapon, for the times where their powers didn't work. And reminded himself to mention it.]

Not so much, taking advantage of the relative quiet.

[Sora wouldn't object to the idea, though he probably wouldn't have thought of it himself - he's never fought without a weapon before. Even back on the islands he always sparred with a wooden sword.]

Yeah, it's been kind of nice. The quiet makes me worry a little bit, though...

[He wishes he didn't have to look at it like this, but...the (relative) quiet can't last forever, can it? Not in a place like this.]

Me too, it is unfortunate that we must wonder what's next when things are like this. [He looked serious] But I guess it is all the more reason to take advantage of these times when we get them.

[Sora thinks on that for a second, though there isn't any point to that - he agrees completely. He knows that he does. He likes the idea of having small, quiet moments that they can call their own every now and then.

But...]

I think you're right. We should enjoy the good times while we have them. Still-

[How does he put this? Well...

Nah, it's a silly question. Maybe it's better not to say anything at all. He smiles - or tries to, anyway.]

Nevermind. I guess thinking too much about what could happen doesn't help anybody.

[He notices the tone, and frowns] Speak your mind, what were you going to say? [In a similar tone he uses with Rolo most of the time, trying to encourage him to have opinions and make decisions.]

It's just...

[He still hesitates - he doesn't like dwelling on things that can't be fixed, but he was already thinking about it anyway, so he might as well say it.]

I wish we could do more than just wait for things to go wrong.

[He was supposed to have become a some kind of hero back home, if things had gone right. He knew that from talking to his friends. So weren't heroes supposed to be able to fix things?

But he couldn't. Over a year now, and all he had done - all anyone had been able to do - was a lot of sitting and running around in circles.

He knew that there was a way to fix things and get out. There had to be. But...how long would it take to find it? What were they doing wrong?

(How many more times would he have to watch his friends get hurt?)]

[Suzaku nodded, he wished this too. He had never been one for sitting around waiting for things to happen, he made things happen and often (most of the time) they were the wrong things, bad things and he regretted them, but they had been choices.]

I understand. It's hard.