their lies and truths that run rampant and wild

[bowandblade]

Characters: Archer [AU3] and you! (open)
Setting: Floor 25, Dorm Floor 1, and a general all-over-the-tower bit
Format: Using action brackets, but will match in threads.
Summary: So the week started well enough. And then these strange messages started appearing around the tower... (If you want to react to the ever-changing 'Lancer and Archer' rumor, feel free to pick any version.)
Warnings: Nothing at the moment.

Floor 25 - Meadow - prior to the rumors appearing

[Ever since he visited the meadow to watch V/V's concert, Gilgamesh found himself returning to the floor whenever he found himself wanting to enjoy something simpler. It was quiet and free of irritants (the "monsters" of the tower), so he could remain there as long as he wished, whiling away his time.

Not that he has anything to do out there. Not really. But sometimes idle fingers fiddle with the longer blade of grass, or pluck flowers out of the grass to twist at the stems.]


All over the tower

[The message on the wall in the first dormitory level is the first that he sees. At the time, it had been nothing more than a small amusement -- something to smirk at with mild puzzlement, as he didn't know either of the people mentioned on the message. But he soon becomes aware of the other messages-- graffiti, as people began editing them-- on the different floors.

So what does he do? He goes on out there to look around and see just how many obvious messages there are. With so many floors, that's bound to take awhile.]


Dormitory Floor 1

[...It's almost ironic that he finds himself back on the first dormitory level, staring at the same patch of wall he had seen at the beginning of the week. The message keeps changing, and every time he walks off to find something else to do, he just seems to come back to find it changed again.

Maybe he should stick around to see who's changing the rumor. That sounds like a good idea.]

Comments

floor 1

[puppy_lancer]

[You're in luck, Archer. Lancer happens to take offense at the latest iteration of the rumor, so he's scratching it out and writing a new one.]

Dammit, you'd think putting my name with his should be bad enough...

[He mutters to himself. Where the hell did the idea that he killed happy people or families come from!?]

When I find that asshole, I'll...

[One hand goes to rub at his butt, the unfortunate location of the new rumor that he's carving.]

[bowandblade]

[Archer had wandered off from his 'post' for awhile before returning in his spirit form, and he laughs to himself when he sees that Lancer is scratching out the newest form of graffiti on the wall. He walks over, materializing with his usual golden flair.]

You will what, hound?

[His tone is almost ... pleasant.]

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer yelps and spins around.]

The fuck, Archer!

[He scowls and rubs at his bum again.]

Kick their ass, of course!

floor 31

[chainsawn]

[ As he's going around the tower looking at stuff, he might find Urotsuki staring at one of the rumors on the wall as well. More specifically it's the one that says "A GIANT FLYING WHALE IS TRYING TO MATE WITH THE TOWER" on the thirty-first floor. When she hears footsteps she turns her head though, her expression blank as always as she peers at him. ]

[bowandblade]

[Archer has been going through the different floors rather quickly, and likely would have missed the girl completely if not for the nature of the floor and its ability to cancel out powers. Such floors tended to sour his expression; even before he was a Servant with physical abilities far beyond the strength of mortal men, he had powers in his original life. To go without was strange and rather vexing.

But his lips lift as he sees the familiar blond.]

Hah. Fancy seeing you again, girl!

whoops i meant on the floor and not on the wall in the last tag stupid typos

[chainsawn]

.. Ah. It's you.

[ She looks up and looks at him instead when she spots him standing there, giving him a tiny nod to acknowledge his presence here. ]

It's like the tower is a little different now, isn't it..?

dormitory floor 1;

[swordedpast]

[And then there's another Archer there, his arms crossed, regarding the rumor on the wall with an unimpressed face.]

Jeez. They could at least say which Archer.

[bowandblade]

[Gilgamesh glances over when he sees his fellow Archer arrive, standing with his arms akimbo as he looks at the message again.]

I would suspect the culprit only knows one of us.

[swordedpast]

...and what does that mean if it's true about these rumors? What a pain. I want nothing to do with this, you know.

Dorm floor 1- latest version of the rumour

[savedbyasong]

Shion was headed down to do some more foraging, he hadn't slept, how could he sleep when he knew Sephiroth would invade his dreams.

When he saw his roommate stood near the rumour that he passed most days, and it often changed, yet he never quite believed he raised an eyebrow. "Did you write that?"

[bowandblade]

A sound in the negative passed Archer's lips before he shook his head. It was almost troubling how many times the rumor had been rewritten. The changes had apparently never moved away from not mentioned 'Lancer and Archer.'

"It is difficult to tell what was the original graffiti, now that there are so many iterations."

Dormitory floor 1

[vermicompost]

[Kariya has no intention of changing the rumor, but he's seen it. He's believed two rumors about Archer now: first that he and Lancer are cheating on each other, and secondly, that they kill happy couples and families, which rumor he is currently believing. He's a little confused.

He glares at Archer when he catches sight of him.]

You should leave Lancer alone.

[Since obviously, everything is Archer's fault.]

[bowandblade]

[It's hard not to smile when he sees such a petulant display of anger aimed in his direction. After all, he had already acknowledged the pallid magus as both stubborn and brave -- so the anger was easy to dismiss as trivial.]

Which Lancer are you referring to?

Floor 25

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko, after finishing up her library duties, had decided that she wanted some time to read without her stalker of a retrieval unit following her. So, she had gathered up five books-The Demon Pond, An Urgent Appeal, The Snow Goose, and I, Robot-before running around the Tower and taking the elevator on the 81st floor. When she wandered into the meadow, she was out of breath, but when she saw the man sitting in the meadow, pulling out some flowers, she recognized him from V/V's concert, and waved to him.]

Good..morning! How are you?!

[bowandblade]

[Archer had just plucked out a wide blade of grass when he heard the voice coming from the direction of the stairs, and he glanced over. It takes him a moment to recognize the girl; while he knew he had seen her before, he had not spoken directly to her and so there was actually little to remember there.

But he soon enough raises a hand in greeting as well.]

Hah, it is a good morning. Looking for a quite place?

[He doesn't answer her question, as he sees it as being a little superfluous when he smiles the way he does.]

Dormitory Floor 1 am I late ;;

[heavenscorpse]

[V/V finds Gil near some later iteration of the rumor - it doesn't really matter which one since she doesn't believe any of them.]

Does this mean you're popular?

not at all <3

[bowandblade]

[Unfortunately, Gilgamesh is affected by whichever rumor is up, but he regards V/V with some amusement.]

Perhaps! I cannot say I have experienced something like this before.

Dorm floor 1

[warriorscribe]

*This time, it reads "Lancer and Archer are complete morons who can't do anything but what the tower tells them." Enoch can't believe it because he's under the influence of the one four floors down, something about a flower and dying if you do something to it.

...This time, it seems one of the people in question is looking at it.*

This must be the fourth time I've seen a statement about you two.

[bowandblade]

[Archer rubs at his forehead with no small amount of agitation, still looking at the growing amount of ... graffiti on the wall. It was one thing to make romantic or fear-inducing rumors -- he could find some entertainment in such things.

But "complete morons"... Well, there was at least one "positive" thing to be said about that.]

Someone must enjoy having a long message like that on their body.

dorm floor 1;

[holyswordwielder]

[ Saber has very conveniently avoided the first floor of the dormitories ever since he struck out the rumor that was written on one of the walls there and wrote another. It was supposed to be a harmless experiment at the time — the results of which would be at the expense of his fellow Servants, yes, true — but once it was done, it became obvious that absolutely nothing that happens inside the Tower is harmless. The King of Knights has proof of that scratched into his side, as if the rest of the madness this week caused by these rumors isn't testament enough of that.

As he's following the progression of the rumor, he notices that each iteration seems to get worse and he's silently glad no later version of it has come to pass (or so he thinks). Saber feels a little guilty that something he did out of carelessness nearly caused the deaths of many people and he frowns to himself as he takes a step back from the writing.

PEOPLE ARE OBSESSED WITH LANCER AND ARCHER. Well, that's not so bad... yet. ]

...At least two of these people happen to be Lancer and Archer themselves.

[bowandblade]

[Archer had almost taken to a scheduled patrol of the message written on the first dormitory floor. After seeing how many times it had been written over, it seemed natural to think that things would just get worse if he did not keep an eye on it.

There was also the simmering angry and desire to kill whoever had started this ridiculous stream of messages, but that was more of a secondary objective than anything else.

He purses his lips and looks over at Saber when he sees him by the wall.]

You would do well to step away from the wall, holy sword wielder.

dorm floor 1; I'm sorry for adding to your ProtoGil mountain :(

[proteusmoon]

[ Cecil wasn't paying the rumors much attention until one in particular caught her eye. The only reason it's done so is because it mentions two people she knows. Seeing how the writing on the wall has escalated with all the scratch-outs and new sentences, the latest version has her eager to strike it out and try to protect both of the men it involved:

"LANCER AND ARCHER ARE WISE, INTELLIGENT HEROES AND ALLIES"

So far so good. She's just about to talk away when there's a searing, sharp pain on her chest, directly beneath her collarbone. Cecil claps a hand over the area on reflex and her body tenses from the pain. Once she's calmed down enough to take her hand away, she undoes the top two buttons on her gambeson and quickly checks for injuries. The white cotton of the garment is already stained with blood and her stomach churns with worry.

"PEOPLE ARE OBSESSED WITH LANCER AND ARCHER"

The words freshly carved into her skin glisten red and wet and her eyes snap back to the wall. Her sentence has changed too, reflecting what's been written on her body. ]

hahaha, no worries. <3

[bowandblade]

[Archer is never too far away from the first dormitory floor; after seeing so many changes to the message written there, is it really a surprise? So he pauses when he sees the somewhat familiar woman standing in front of the messages, eyes narrowing as he gets close enough to see what she is writing.

...And what her message is ultimately changed into.

So it should come as little surprise that, when he appears in a flurry of gold dust, he is lightly applauding.]

The best of intentions.

Floor 25 wow look I'm finally tagging you, it's happened

[nonacquiescent]

[Waver had come to the meadow for somewhere quiet to read. It was a common place to find others, but generally they all had the same idea of sitting quietly, so it wasn't all too bad.

The one person he wasn't prepared to find, however, was Gilgamesh. Really, tower? The thick, hardcover book drops from his hand and lands on the grass beside him as he debates running away.]

And I get to this a ridiculous amount of time later. I'm sorry!

[bowandblade]

[Archer is in the middle of plucking through a few longer pieces of grass when he catches sight of someone just within his peripheral vision. Nothing wrong, right? Just some boy who looked like he should be off studying in some modern school instead of hanging around in this tower.

It's when he catches sight (and sound) of the boy's heavy book hitting the ground that he turns his head towards him. He silently assesses the look on his face--shock, disbelief--before smirking.]

That is an expression I have not seen for awhile.