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Characters: Fayt Leingod and whoever runs across him.
Setting: Dormitory room 2-08 and various first block floors.
Format: Action. I’m also willing to follow along prose if you prefer that.
Summary: Fayt arrives in the tower.
Warnings: He's not exactly going to be very happy about this.

Room 2-08 and dormitory levels
[To be waking up in a strange room, in a strange place, wasn’t exactly the outcome Fayt had expected after everything that had happened recently. Not that he even knew what he expected to happen after they couldn't stop that program, but this didn't feel like it at all.

The first letter, when he opens it, is like a punch in the gut. The message was short and simple, almost horribly cheerful, for the information it contained. Fayt didn't want to believe it. There had to be another explanation, because he was sure the last thing he remembered hadn't been completely emptiness.

So of course, the first thing he does after reading through both letters is to change out of the awkwardly tight outfit he'd woken up in into something more familiar from the trunk at the foot of his bed and try to find someone who knows more than he does. He'll be wandering the halls of the dormitory, seeking out anyone he comes across for answers. Maybe he could find whoever was sharing that room with him... the other sections of the room did look occupied.]

Floor three library
[After spending some time on the dormitory level, Fayt takes to exploring the tower, taking the long elevator ride to the bottom. He’ll be lingering in the library on floor 3 the longest, hoping to find some more information. Fayt will be browsing determinedly through the shelves trying to find something on this place, but he’s failing, much to his frustration. Some of the books do seem interesting, though, and he can occasionally be found picking his way through the shelves, a pair of reading glasses perched on his face as he glances over random books.]

Cafeteria
[A while later he makes his way to the cafeteria to get a bite to eat, but he’s hesitant about the oatmeal. Why the insistence on eating that first? It seemed pretty odd, really. Fayt’s going to be deliberating on that for a bit before he decides what to do. Someone should probably stop him before he does something he’ll regret.]

Floor four
[He makes his way to floor four after that, and he takes in the view of the world outside the windows for a while, glancing out over the clouds and hoping to see something besides the obscured view. It was a roomy lounge, but he really would have preferred to see something of their surroundings. Was this really all that was out there?]

Floor five
[On floor five, Fayt wanders around a bit before finding the viewing stations. He spends some time eyeing them, wondering if he honestly wanted to know what sights they contained yet, let alone if he could trust them. He wasn’t sure what to believe, if the viewing stations were genuine or not, but he knew what he didn’t want to believe.]

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[As usual, Tohko was taking care of her library duties, cleaning up old messes, organizing books, and trying to ignore and dodge her retrieval unit of a stalker. However, when she saw a boy browsing the shelves, she couldn't help but walk up to him with a smile on her face. The stalker, sadly, had followed her and was watching the two from a distance.]

Good morning! Need help finding anything?

[Fayt looks up from the shelves, and while he does look mildly frustrated, he offers the girl a small smile and a quirk of the brow.] Hey. I don't suppose there are books on this place, are there?

[His eyes trail over to the person a ways behind her, looking a bit confused for just a moment at the stare that they seemed to be directing their way. Who was that? A friend of hers?]

[Not really..but Tohko had put up with her 'friend's' presence for so long now that she had grown used to dealing with him. However, at the question, she sighed.]

I'm sad to say that there aren't. The Administrators pulled any books that had to do with this place, and no one had been able to find them yet. However, if you want, I could tell you everything I know about the Tower. That way, you'll be prepared for later!

Seriously? [It just figured a place like this wouldn't want anyone figuring out anything so easily. But it did mean they had plenty to hide.] I'd really appreciate that, actually.

I know..I'm not a fan of that fact either, but I'm sad to say that until we find the books, we can only rely on the network and what we find out from our own searches. However, I'm happy to tell you everything I know.

[And with that, Tohko would take a deep breath and begin 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 cannibalizing 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.

[That....

was a lot to take in. Fayt listens as she speaks, though, taking note of the names given at first and at the mention of death and revivals, reaching up to touch the collar. This thing was keeping him here? Memories of that darkness, that emptiness from before creep to the forefront of his mind. He wanted to deny the fate of his universe still, even with this girl saying it.

It takes a bit for Fayt to respond to it all.] That's quite a lot. Are you sure all of this is accurate? I mean.... how do you know for sure?

I know it's hard to take it all in..but trust me, this is all accurate. I've known people that have gone back to their destroyed worlds, and while those could be just simulations, I met a boy named John Egbert who caught the soul extraction process on camera. I'm sorry..but it's the truth.

They've gone back? And they saw it? [It was true, though, that it could be a simulation. More high tech then anything in Fayt's world, maybe, but still a simulation.

...He didn't know how to respond to the soul extraction information, though.]

They have. Several people I know have, including one of my best friends here.

And they think it wasn't a simulation, or something else designed to make them believe it?

People used to think that it might be a simulation..but after the recent soul situation, that theory had been tossed out the window. I really wish I could have heard whether those people had collars on their own bodies or not though. That would have helped.

So you really think there's no other explanation?

..To be honest, for six months, I thought that there was one. But when the only Administrator that was kind to the populace and died for them says that they're destroyed, you tend to believe him..especially after finding out that this isn't even your real body.

So what... you expect people to just give up? [He shakes his head. She was obviously more experienced about this situation than he was, but....] I can't do that.

Without seeing proof with my own eyes, I can't accept it. [He couldn't just give up and accept that his universe was gone.]

[At that, Tohko actually smiled a little.]

Don't worry. Even though our universes are destroyed, I'm not telling people to give up and lose hope. After all, there might be a way to save the universes. To repair them.

There is? Have people found one here? [He looks more than a little hopeful. Frankly it seems like this whole business never ends, but he'd grasp at whatever he could get here.]

[At that, Tohko sighed.]

Not yet..but we're working on finding one, since one of the more trustworthy Administrators said he was.

Not yet, huh? [He looks contemplative for a moment.] It's still worth a shot. What have we got to lose, anyway?

Other than our own lives and the idea that other universe may fall if we don't succeed? Nothing.

[Yes, Tohko is smiling as she says this.]

[......Wow.]

That's a cheerful thought.

Well, if you think about it that way, it isn't really. However, if you change the question to this, it does become a little uplifting:

What do we have to gain?

Our homes. Our friends and families back. [Huh. She was kind of strange, but in a good way.] Guess you're right.

[Tohko was rather strange, but she was also very optimistic and stubborn.]

I am! If we succeed, we'll be able to restore everything to how it was, and maybe improve it in some ways as well. So, by struggling and surviving, I'm sure we'll prevail someday.

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