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ʀɪɴ ᴍᴀᴛᴏᴜ ([personal profile] angramaintsu) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-05-26 11:41 pm

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Characters: [personal profile] Dark Rin & YOU!
Setting: Dormitories, Floors 25, 41, 90, 99, and room 1-15.
Time: Backdated to May 23rd and the 26th during the event when this rumor manifests itself.
Format: Quick to start, will match.
Summary: Archer keeps screwing things up and unfortunately Rin suffers for it. He just needs to get a hint already.
Warnings: Character death, also angst.
Note: Her death is already decided on, so even if your character would like to kill Rin specifically, I ask we find a way around that somehow. You can PM this account if you need to discuss how a thread may go as a result of this. Additionally, this is kind of an open-log where if you want to make your own prompts to have your CR respond to in reaction to these monsters, that's cool too. Just be sure to label if it's open or not.

    ►►► DORMITORIES;
[ Sometime during the day of the 23rd, Rin notices that there's something wrong with her. Something that's always lay dormant within her seems to be stirring to life now and while she always ended up rejecting those thoughts (because how can something evil be inside of her, that's just silly), today is proven otherwise. When it manifests itself into a physical form before her, at first she's in too much shock to react properly. This initial reaction lasts for approximately ten seconds before she identifies the creature as a threat and eliminates it herself with a burst of flame from her palms. In between the crackle of flame she hears the drips and sees coagulated mud forming around her feet. No, it's coming from her feet?

Funny.

This entire time she thought she couldn't be a monster. Wasn't her life here in the tower proof that she can be something non-destructive? All those images she saw in her mind--that was really her, wasn't it? Taking responsibility for an unknown monster seemed the right thing to do, but now that she's starting to see with her own two eyes just how real the monster was?

What a serious pain in the ass. ]


    ►►► FLOOR 25;
[ When she decides that this "corruption" pouring out of her is a hostile threat, Rin retreats the best she can, eliminating what tries to get away from her. So far she's doing well, but when she makes it to this floor, she's already showing signs of exhaustion. It must be from using magecraft over and over again while keeping up this hastened pace to get away. She takes a small breather here in order to clear her head, to come to a better idea of how to combat this. She'll need to go to a floor more secluded than the others just to keep it out of the sight and mind of those who have associated themselves as her ally. A frustrating task, but better than the alternative of asking for their help. When she does leave, there's a smaller monster left behind in her absence. ]

    ►►► FLOORS 41, 90;
[ Much like on floor 25, the process continues to repeat itself. Rin's growing sloppy in her tiresome attempt to contain these foul evil, but once again she finds asking for help to be something that she can't do. Traveling through a floor that disables powers doesn't seem to stop it, so why? Why does this keep happening?

She doesn't spend much time on this floor however. There's a guilt that infests her much like the vermin around her (those conversations with the bug girl are starting to show) and when even they suffer due to her, she's quick to retreat. She might spare an apology later for anyone who happens to find something here for being sloppy, but it really isn't her fault.

... Although she does let loose a couple in the lagoon for good measure on her way up the tower. Fuck you, mermaids. ]


    ►►► FLOOR 99;
[ When all else fails, retreat to the highest point of the tower and corner them. If there's a floor Rin can call her personal battlefield, it's the one where she's created crystallized stone familiars to do her bidding. For the first hour, she puts up a good fight, killing each and every monster that emerges from her with howling laughter and a taunt to boot.

Something begins to wear her down though.

This is when she begins to realize that her efforts are futile. She's not sure why this is happening to her (or why it's happening now), but this has to be why she has no allies in this place. They all saw what was within her when she herself was unable to. Here is when her emotions get the better of her. A significant chunk of the cavern is covered in thick goop that's clearly come from her (but how much of it is actually from her, one might wonder) and even herself lays in the middle of it in a lethargic manner. Murmuring about how pointless it is or that she should just give up might be warning sign enough, but don't let that distract you from the fiends swarming around her. Even the crystallized bats and owls she's created are covered and seem to be just as ominously threatening; a possible influence of the disgusting mud that's around her perhaps?

One thing's for sure. People who are familiar with all the evils of the world just might recognize this presence high up in the tower. At this point, she's really not doing much to hide it. ]


    ►►► ROOM 1-15 (May 26);
[ Rin's gone for the next couple days. She doesn't return like many of the other inhabitants do after their death, but when she does revive, it's still with the same problem as before. Once more, this corruption of her's begins to seep out, but this time she doesn't even care to fight it. If this is going to become the norm, she's decided, why not just sit here and let the people who supposedly care about her just come kill her?

Fortunately for her, it doesn't last long. Did she return in time for the end of whatever madness plagues the tower or is it because she now accepts who she truly is that it decides to remain within her? Uncertain, she doesn't seem to draw the attention of the few strays that have wandered off to wreak havoc on the first floor dormitory. Sorry roommates, she's been a very messy person this week. It goes well with the mess that are her emotions. ]

Floor 99

[personal profile] scorchedchivalry 2013-05-27 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[It resonated within her. She could feel it and her rage grew. She mentally clamped a hand on it, suppressed it as much as she could, though the red lines marking her spread more across her as she headed directly toward the source of that energy.

It was Rin. She knew it had to be Rin. Something had happened and she had a duty, given to her by her master, and of her own accord.

Clad in full armor minus the visor, Saber entered the crystal floor and steadily headed toward the center. The darkness, the vileness, the evils... They were all there.

And she walked straight through the mud, unaffected as she was a tainted as the magus laying on the floor. Standing over her, Saber looked down at her.]


Rin.

[personal profile] scorchedchivalry 2013-05-27 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
I will endeavor not look at them.

[Kneeling down, Saber went to scoop the girl up out of the mud, one hand brushing her hair back from her face.]

You need to tell me what has happened.

[personal profile] scorchedchivalry 2013-05-27 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[One arm cradling Rin, Saber reaches her other into the mud and brings a handful of it up. She watches it slip through her fingers to drip back down.]

I am uncertain what you could have done. Can you control the mud?

[Sakura had been able to control it. Saber distinctly remembered it engulfing her when she was the silver knight.]

[personal profile] scorchedchivalry 2013-05-27 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
[That didn't make any sense to Saber.]

Where did it start?
destructiveprinciples: (☠ heads must fall)

Floor 99

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-05-27 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Familiar? Yes, this presence was innately familiar to Avenger. It had leaked from a few other individuals in this Tower, like a mass of threads or smears of paint, but never had it flowed so powerfully as this did. What had changed? This. evil vileness rancid vices darkness, he knew it quite well. It came from him, but it didn't.

Angra felt something heavy in him, tugging him towards it, that pulled for uneven breath. It pulled for the sudden hitch of inhales. So quiet, that it seemed indiscernible. Curious, he turns from his prior course, dematerializes and heads for the source of the taint radiating from the 99th floor.

He arrives early, shortly after Rin understands the futility of her efforts and fell down in the center of the cavern, but before a certain tainted knight comes to find the female magus. The revolting mud, he walks straight through, and if the sheer, sickening rejuvenation that thrummed through his form the moment his skin touched the inky blackness didn't confirm his status as a monster, nothing would. It felt like a breath of car fumes and general mugginess that tasted good. He crouched down several feet from her limp, worn-out body.

The fiends swirling around ignore him.
]

... This is a rare sight.

[ His comment is toneless, lacking either glee or accusation. Bare feet sink down into the dark goop as he idly dips his hands into the mud, relishing it. ]
puppy_lancer: <user name=aicons> (One sword at least)

floor 25

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-05-27 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
...Rin?

[Lancer has to fight to not cover his nose with a hand, or to shiver from disgust. The Grail smell was stronger and nastier than before.]

[Rin Matou's corruption will emerge and be slain]

[So why did she reeks even more strongly of corruption than before?]
cherrygrail: (pic#6056130)

[personal profile] cherrygrail 2013-05-27 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The surge of power is something that Sakura couldn't ignore even if she tried. Plus, according to her, it was either going to be Avenger, her own servant, or Rin behind that power. Two of those people were precious to her, people who she'd try to defend no matter what.

She hesitates, looking at all of the muck, trying to peer in. Sakura gets a glimpse of Saber and Rin and that's all she needs. Sakura needs to get Rin away from this so she can blast it away all in one shot... hopefully, it'll work. ]


Saber! I order you to bring Rin to me!

[personal profile] scorchedchivalry 2013-05-27 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not know what--

[Saber cut herself off as she felt her master's presence and the order reached her. She stroked Rin's hair once more before fully scooping the magus up bridal style and carrying her to where Sakura was.]

She cannot control it, Master.
puppy_lancer: <user name=cu-chulainn> (my love and I did stand)

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-05-27 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Just...checking up on you.

[He glances around the floor.]

Your corruption hasn't emerged yet?
swordedpast: ♦ official art: miscellaneous ((the sword is the axis of the world))

floor 25;

[personal profile] swordedpast 2013-05-27 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Even in her weakened state she can feel his presence when Archer comes close, right?

Right. He materializes out of spirit form not far from her, his swords already in his hands as he lashes out at some of the amorphous monstrosities crawling around her. ]


I hope you haven't been too worried, Rin. I'll take care of this just fine.
cherrygrail: (guilttrip)

[personal profile] cherrygrail 2013-05-27 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I know she can't. Don't worry.

[ She slightly turns towards Rin and Saber. ]

I won't leave you. You never left me, remember?

[ She rolls up one sleeve. ]

My magic is perfect for taking care of this. Maybe... Maybe this is finally my chance to help you, even if it's just temporary.

[personal profile] scorchedchivalry 2013-05-28 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Saber's grip on Rin tightens a bit when the magus protests.]

Be careful, Master. I do not recall this happening to you.
swordedpast: ♦ anime 2006 (reason will not decide at last;)

[personal profile] swordedpast 2013-05-28 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ Another shadow forms. This one's not black and muddy, though; it's red and bitter. ]

I'm not interested in how "rare" it is. You won't touch her.

[ Archer is on the brink of giving up on saving Rin. He can't do it. Hasn't he always known he can't do it? But he can at least protect her from more of the corruption, and that's what this being feels like. ]
destructiveprinciples: (☠ my mouth is dry and claims blood)

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-05-28 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, yeah. It's me. Are you still mad about the fish? [ He cranes his neck, taking in the devastation the mud that had sought upon the floor. It'll be cleaned eventually, sure. The Tower maintained itself, but in the meantime: ] Wow, what a mess.

[ Then the magus' Servant speaks up, threateningly, hostile.

Archer's abrupt appearance, a phantom of dull red in the midst of the roiling darkness, earns him a disinterested look in his direction and a rather insolent grin. He doesn't back away, but he doesn't move any closer than where he's currently crouched. A mean-sprited snicker escaped him.
]

Down, boy.

[ Avenger had no reason nor intention of lying a finger on Rin. He'd came here because he was curious. ]
cherrygrail: (Default)

[personal profile] cherrygrail 2013-05-28 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Illusion or not, you're hurting. That's real as anything else.

[ She knows that she should be careful, but Sakura feels like time might run out quickly. For everyone. Plus, none of them have any idea what will happen when the corruption is destroyed.

Sakura holds out one hand, and mutters an incantation in german. A black beam shoots from her palm. Both sources of darkness fight each other until both obliterate each other. ]
swordedpast: ♦ official art: anime (verily man shall not taste of victory)

[personal profile] swordedpast 2013-05-28 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
I hate to say it, Rin.

[ He doesn't sound like he hates to say it. His voice is toneless as he speaks to her. ]

But you're being an idiot. It's simple. This guy is everything that's wrong with you, can't you smell it on him?

[ But he can't get much closer. The darkness around Rin is no longer easy for him to step lightly around, slaying its manifestations. Like her, it's a mess. ]

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