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[lartdelaguerre]

Characters: Big Boss and You.
Setting: Dormitories, Cafeteria, the Graveyard, Storage Room (Floor 40) and Anywhere Else.
Format: Prose or action, whichever you prefer.
Summary: Snake arrives in the tower-- And that after eleven months spent alone on his dead homeworld following his short-lived stay in the tower last year. Big Boss may be somewhat paranoid after this year spent alone; but needless to say this tower is much better than his dead homeworld.
Warnings: This man may teach you how to use a gun if given an occasion. Aka no real warnings.



• Dormitories (Corridors)
A man dressed with a battle dress uniform and holding a handgun could be seen cautiously exiting room 02-20 early in the morning. He looked at his surroundings quite warily, pointing the handgun in whichever direction he looked at. After such a long period of time spent alone on a ravaged planet (nearly a full year now), Big Boss was somewhat more paranoid and cautious than usual.

Upon seeing the same corridors he had seen a year ago, he suspiciously looked around for one more minute or so before finally lowering his gun. Either he was hallucinating (and this was to be expected), either he was back in this weird tower after all that time. Hopefully this was the later-- His situation was bad enough, he could do without hallucinating. Besides anything would be better than his dead homeworld.

After some more looks left and right, Big Boss would finally lean against a wall, pondering on the situation and his miraculous return to this place as he slowly took a cigar from a pocket and was about to light it up...

No lighter.

They gave him cigars but no lighter or matchstick to lit them. Fantastic. He grunted and sighed, finding something to lit his smokes would be his priority now.


• Cafeteria (Floor 01)
Hungry as he was, it didn't take long before he decided to stop by the Cafeteria. Before long Big Boss would be sitting at a table, looking at his lavender meatballs and poking at them with a fork. Now that was weird. Flower food? That couldn't be worse than your average MSF ration, but... Maybe he was really hallucinating all of this.

"You've got to be kidding me..."

Who ate that kind of stuff anyway? Though the true question was, who cooked that kind of stuff? Oh well. He took a bite of it and winced. ... Not exactly to his tastes.


• Graveyard (Floor 48)
This floor was quite disturbing, as were all graveyards to him ever since a certain accident eleven years ago. When he engaged into the floor Big Boss quickly looked over the names on the graveyards-- None of them rang a bell to him. He frowned slightly upon reading the name on one of the headstones: Liquid Snake. Sounded vaguely familiar with his own codename, but this was probably a pure coincidence and entirely unrelated to himself or his world.

Looking at an anonymous tombstone with no name he paused for a moment-- Thinking to one very familiar tombstone he had visited years ago. After a moment standing before that empty tombstone, he would move back to the stairs.


• Storage Room (Floor 40)
Now that was what he was talking about. Boxes. Without a doubt the most interesting floor in this entire tower. Naturally, most residents would probably be disappointed upon finding a floor filled with naught but shelves and empty boxes. Every residents maybe, but not Big Boss-- The empty boxes themselves were this room's treasure.

And what treasure! That was a child-like excitement that Big Boss looked over the various boxes in the search for the perfect cardboard box-- The one that would suit his hiding needs within the tower all while offering proper and adequate protection against enemy fire.

If you are to pass by this floor late enough, you may get to see him trying a cardboard box and hiding under it. After all, that feeling of inner peace you feel when covered by a cardboard box, simply cannot be beaten. Truly there isn't anything a cardboard box cannot do.


• Anywhere Else
Throughout the week, you may find Big Boss with an assault riffle in hands, exploring the various floors of the tower. Either those that did not exist back when he last was here, either re-discovering those he had visited back then.

His exploration method was mostly the same with each floor. Whenever he approached the entrance of a floor, he stopped by the staircase, discreetly looking inside. If there were no apparent danger, he would then walk in with his assault riffle ready to fire, before lowering the weapon once he had confirmed no monsters were in sight.

If there were monsters, he'd try to avoid them. Ammo was hard to come by here.

Comments

Floor 40

[alephbet]

Aleph had just been passing by when he noticed a grown man crawling under a cardboard box.

Which was weird.

"...Uh, excuse me, sir?"

[lartdelaguerre]

Big Boss groaned when he heard a voice call him out. This tower wouldn't allow him to spend a minute alone in his cardboard box would it? At least the voice didn't sound hostile.

With a sigh he lifted up the cardboard box and carefully put it on the side, standing up and looking at Aleph.

"Yes?"

[alephbet]

"Is there a reason you were under a cardboard box?"

He wouldn't be surprised if the answer was 'I'm mentally five'.

[lartdelaguerre]

He pondered for a second before shaking his head.

"I dunno. I think it may just be destiny again." Big Boss simply said as he turned his gaze to the box "I was looking at the boxes here to find a suitable hideout, when I suddenly got this irresistible urge to get inside. I was meant to be inside the box."

[notagiraffe]

Taiki was just going back to his room when a very large, scary looking man came out of it. Taiki's eyes widened and he skittered backwards. "Sorry..."

[lartdelaguerre]

Big Boss stopped in his tracks when he noticed the kid's eyes widening as well as him skittering back-- He couldn't possibly be that scary, could he? He looked back for a second in order to see if the kid had spotted something else... Nope. Well.

"No need to be sorry kid." he finally said to him on a neutral voice "... You're a resident of this room?"

[notagiraffe]

He was when Taiki was so small and scared of everything anyways. Taiki shuffled his feet and nodded nervously. "Yes... sorry... are you new?"

Staircase outside the graveyard

[lightofhumanity]

chaos occasionally came to the graveyard to pay his respects, so when he saw a large person coming out of the floor, he smiled and nodded at them.

"Are you alright? The graveyard sometimes depresses those who visit."

[lartdelaguerre]

Big Boss nodded back at chaos when he passed by and addressed him, looking back to the graves for a second.

"I think I am." he said, turning back to face chaos "I can't recognize any of the names here, save for a couple historical and biblical names."

[lightofhumanity]

Biblical names..while that was a subject full of memories, chaos didn't touch on it. This person might have met quite a few religious figures, but asking about it and talking about it too much would give away what he really was.

"It is probably because the Administrators forgot to put down graves for anyone close to you."

Graveyard

[notayoungkitten]

She came here often to pay respects to the grave of Liquid Snake. He may not have been the version that she had known well, but he had still been her son. She missed him, more than she would ever be able to admit. They had not been close and she had preferred it that way, but there was still the nagging bit of deep loneliness in the back of her mind, always present.

She stopped suddenly, noticing the man staring at Liquid's grave. No, it couldn't be. She stood stock still, not moving as he turned to leave and she was finally able to get a good look at his face. "Jack?"

[lartdelaguerre]

Ever since his world had supposedly been destroyed, nobody had called him by his actual name. For good reasons, as he hadn't given his true name to anyone in this tower, only his code names when asked for an identity. So it was with surprise that he turned upon hearing someone call him by his real name for the first time in eons--

"Huh?"

... An old lady? And one he was pretty certain he had ever seen before at that. Strange, but this was the Tower of Animus. Did she really know his name or was it just an amazing coincidence? Only one way to find out. He looked surprised and suspiciously at her.

"... Have we met before?"

[notayoungkitten]

He was younger. Of course he wouldn't recognize her. 40, by the looks of it, so there was still a number of years between what he would know and what had happened. "It's me. Ev- Ocelot," she said, hand moving to her pocket. Just in case he was from another world like Liquid, where she was a man.

It was fortunate that she had been returned the old photograph that she had always kept with her. She offered it to him. The photograph itself was very old-- yellowed in places and crinkled in the corners. Big Boss himself stood in the center, unsmiling, with two women on either side of him. The one he would recognize immediately as Eva, and the other was dressed similarly to Ocelot, though she was the spitting image of The Boss.

It was the only proof she had to back up her claims.

Dormitories

[greyerrant]

A huge figure in elaborate grey plate armor, with servomotors whirring and red eyeslits glinting is watching you, Boss. Watching you try to smoke. And he asks, in a voice muffled by his helm, but deeper than a human's should be,

"Something wrong with your Lho-stick, mortal?"

[lartdelaguerre]

Upon hearing the deep voice addressing him, Big Boss looked up at the individual with a slight frown drawing on his face.

"Mortal?"

Can't say anyone called him that before, but that tower was filled with strange beings, so. He'd let it go for now. And he assumed 'Lho-stick' was synonymous with cigar or smokes in general.

"No fire to lit it."

[greyerrant]

"Hm." He pauses for a moment, clearly chewing that over.

"I haven't actually seen much open flame in this place. Though there are places where stone can be procured, and you are carrying metal, so... it should be possible to light it there."

Floor 40; teach this wayward student the way of the box, master!

[sawthelockdown]

[This is odd. Finding a grown man tinkering around with a box? This is not a thing you see every day!]

What'cha doin'?

May the box be with you young padawan

[lartdelaguerre]

[ Again? It's as if people in this tower had never seen a man and a cardboard box before. So cue an answer on the most normal and casual tone: ]

I'm in a box.

[ Which totally should answer the question, right? ]

And may the box be with you as well, Teacher.

[sawthelockdown]

Oh, that's pretty obvious. But I mean...why are you in the box? [...] Are you pretending to be a tortoise or something?

Floor 81

[egotrigger]

Allelujah turned as soon as he heard someone step onto the floor, and at the sight of a man with a weapon ready to fire, he pulled out his pistol, lifting it.

"Please put away your weapon."

He wasn't exactly eager to shoot anyone, but he did have to protect himself.

Re: Floor 81

[lartdelaguerre]

That tower was getting weirder and weirder with each floor. Upon entering the 81st floor Big Boss spotted the young man-- Who pulled out a pistol upon seeing him. Straightening his grip on the assault riffle then, he slightly tilted his head to the right when Allelujah spoke.

"Not sure that'd be a good idea." he replied very calmly "But I've got no intent to shoot at you."

[egotrigger]

"If you have no intention of shooting me, then I'd appreciate it if you'd lower the gun."

Hallelujah was on alert, ready to switch out if things got nasty.

"I haven't seen you around before."

Floor 40

[evokingfool]

[After stepping off the elevator at the forty-first floor (pitch black, not recommended to stay for a very long time in), Minato's simply making his way down the floors and was about to go for the 30s floors...

Only to see a man going under a box.

Minato pauses, before he curiously and cautiously walks over.]

A box?

[lartdelaguerre]

[ Big Boss had hoped Sigint and Kaz had been exceptions who did not understand the effectiveness and awesomeness of the cardboard boxes, but apparently this was much more common than he thought.

With a grunt he replied. ]

Yeah. [He'd get out of the box by then.] What's wrong with that?

[evokingfool]

Nothing. I was curious about what you're doing.

[It's not every day that someone see a man under a box.]