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towerofanimus2013-05-29 03:04 pm
undefines) wrote in towerofanimus2013-05-29 03:04 pm
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Characters: Nue Houjuu and OPEN
Setting: The dormitory floors; the cafeteria; Floor 6 (forest)
Format: Action preferred
Summary: Nue wakes up in the Tower, is annoyed by mysterious sounds, and doesn't care for the cafeteria food.
Warnings: Some goriness in the last prompt.
Notes: You might want to check this out before tagging in!
I. Dormitories
[Nue has a lot of questions about her situation when she comes to. There are the obvious, like where this place is and how she has been brought here, and then there are the more esoteric, like the number of youkai and the number of humans here alongside her. However, as she explores her new surroundings, her thoughts begin to come back to one particular question more and more often.]
[What is that noise?]
[Her pointed ears twitch and lie back like an animal's—not that most people should be able to see that, given the way she has covered herself with one of the few seeds she has access to. (Another thing to wonder about.) She even growls a little. It's seriously irritating, and it doesn't sound like anything she has ever heard before. Her wandering through the dormitory hallways quickly turns from an attempt to get her bearings to a quest to locate the source of that whining. Occasionally, she'll stop and scratch at a wall, as if to dig inside.]
II. Cafeteria
[Sometime later, Nue can be found in the cafeteria. She doesn't look significantly more pleased by the situation here than she did by the one upstairs, but for what is at least in part a different reason. Specifically, she's miffed by the options she has for food.]
[Seriously. As if suffering through the oatmeal wasn't bad enough, her reward is this flowery crap? What kind of self-respecting youkai would be pleased with this garbage?]
III. Floor 6
[Being unable to fly makes taking down a prey animal somewhat more difficult than it would otherwise be, but Nue makes do nonetheless. The loss of her powers and the aggressiveness of what should have been a timid doe catch her by surprise—and she has the bloody shoulder to prove it now—but it isn't hard to entangle the animal's legs with one of her flexible, blade-like wings while the other five slit its throat and rend its flesh. It doesn't take her long to leave it jerking against the ground in its final movements.]
[She doesn't feel like carrying her prize all the way back to "civilization," so when she settles down to eat, it's in the dirt. The scythe-like limbs at her back cut into her meal's still-warm body, and the blue spears opposite of them pry it apart for her. Blood drips down her chin as she gobbles down the meat raw. Unashamedly, she eats like an animal, because there's no one around to tell her she should do otherwise. She doesn't mind it.]
Setting: The dormitory floors; the cafeteria; Floor 6 (forest)
Format: Action preferred
Summary: Nue wakes up in the Tower, is annoyed by mysterious sounds, and doesn't care for the cafeteria food.
Warnings: Some goriness in the last prompt.
Notes: You might want to check this out before tagging in!
I. Dormitories
[Nue has a lot of questions about her situation when she comes to. There are the obvious, like where this place is and how she has been brought here, and then there are the more esoteric, like the number of youkai and the number of humans here alongside her. However, as she explores her new surroundings, her thoughts begin to come back to one particular question more and more often.]
[What is that noise?]
[Her pointed ears twitch and lie back like an animal's—not that most people should be able to see that, given the way she has covered herself with one of the few seeds she has access to. (Another thing to wonder about.) She even growls a little. It's seriously irritating, and it doesn't sound like anything she has ever heard before. Her wandering through the dormitory hallways quickly turns from an attempt to get her bearings to a quest to locate the source of that whining. Occasionally, she'll stop and scratch at a wall, as if to dig inside.]
II. Cafeteria
[Sometime later, Nue can be found in the cafeteria. She doesn't look significantly more pleased by the situation here than she did by the one upstairs, but for what is at least in part a different reason. Specifically, she's miffed by the options she has for food.]
[Seriously. As if suffering through the oatmeal wasn't bad enough, her reward is this flowery crap? What kind of self-respecting youkai would be pleased with this garbage?]
III. Floor 6
[Being unable to fly makes taking down a prey animal somewhat more difficult than it would otherwise be, but Nue makes do nonetheless. The loss of her powers and the aggressiveness of what should have been a timid doe catch her by surprise—and she has the bloody shoulder to prove it now—but it isn't hard to entangle the animal's legs with one of her flexible, blade-like wings while the other five slit its throat and rend its flesh. It doesn't take her long to leave it jerking against the ground in its final movements.]
[She doesn't feel like carrying her prize all the way back to "civilization," so when she settles down to eat, it's in the dirt. The scythe-like limbs at her back cut into her meal's still-warm body, and the blue spears opposite of them pry it apart for her. Blood drips down her chin as she gobbles down the meat raw. Unashamedly, she eats like an animal, because there's no one around to tell her she should do otherwise. She doesn't mind it.]
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[She smiled. Ok, no, there was something very different about the way that Chloe smiled. It wasn't entirely sane. She giggled and grinned over at Nue, winking as one hand reached back and settled the tip of one of her blades on the table while she ate.]
I'm just not the shouting type.
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[Or she was just crazy to begin with. It doesn't really matter to Nue.]
[...She's still novel enough to hold Nue's interest, though.]
What's your name?
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[She was carrying the bowl over, her knife slipping back out of sight. When she settled across from Nue, she leaned over, resting her chin on her hands curiously.]
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[She doesn't protest when Chloe sits across from her.]
You can call me Houjuu.
[This is a fresh start, so she isn't sure if she wants to give away her true identity outright. If the people she wants to see are here, that name should still be enough to get their attention.]
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But, in the meantime it's a pleasure to meet you, Houjuu. Tell me. Do you like to play games?
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It's like you said, isn't it? It depends on the game.
[Not many people enjoyed hers, but she doesn't say that.]
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Well then, tell me what sorts you like to play, if you don't mind a stranger's boredom.
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The sort that make people afraid, mostly.
[She doesn't say it with the flair she usually might.]
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You like to make people afraid, do you? How very delicious. And do you plan to make me squirm in terror, I wonder, just having met me?
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[Either to find what would make her most afraid or just because it could be entertaining... Well, maybe it was a little of both.]
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[She says this like Chloe doesn't have any say in this, like the person she'll be learning about is a non-entity. Which... Maybe she is in Nue's mind, since she has no trouble following around someone she is curious about while remaining unseen.]
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But, I seem to be almost finished. Perhaps you wish to inquire further again someday?
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[She wouldn't pass up an opportunity that presented itself to her, of course, even if she might not actively seek one out.]
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[She smiled at her and rose, winking once before heading her way towards the door of the cafeteria, vaguely remembering this one for future.]