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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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There are all kinds of people here. They aren't all human. I don't know everyone, so I can't say for sure how many different kinds of people there are.
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[He'd rather have her feel hopeful about that. It's good to have hope, and it's not in vain. After all, his own family had arrived here--in a way.]
Is that where you're from, the temple?
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...Sort of. I owe the nun in charge, so I'm staying there for a little while.
[It's a complicated situation. Not that she does much to help herself there.]
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[He doesn't really see, not entirely, but he guesses that makes sense. It's nice of the nun to let her stay there, if she has nowhere else to go.]
You might also want to ask on the network we have here. They have computers everyone can use to communicate. It's a good way to contact people. [Well, when it's working.]
It's nice to meet you. My name's Kariya Matou.
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[If he's so willing to help, why not take advantage of that? She feels abruptly wary of giving her identity away, if she has the chance to avoid it, but knowing how to work something like that couldn't hurt.]
[She debates whether or not to give him her real name or not, but if he's going to be looking out for other people for her...]
...I'm Nue.
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Nue, that's a pretty name. [He smiles at her, then offers his hand.]
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Is it? [She doesn't sound particularly pleased with his comment on her name. She doubts humans called her by that name because it was pretty. Maybe modern humans really have forgotten about her...]
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I like it, anyway. It's nice.
The terminals are this way. You can follow me. [And, still smiling, he turns toward them.]
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Doesn't it make you think of anything? [She says this like she's trying to jog his memory. Come on.]
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[He thinks for a minute.]
There's a magical creature called that, isn't there? I can't remember too well.
[He used to love stories about folklore, but his memory isn't what it was.]
Look, there they are. [He points toward the two computers farther down the hall.]
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[That blow is a direct strike on her pride. If it sounds like she's taking it personally, it's because she is.]
Is it really that obscure now?!
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Maybe not.
[He gives her an apologetic look, but he can't really make himself remember.]
It could be that a lot of people know about it. I might just have a bad memory.
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Just show me how to use those "terminal" things already.
[Not that she's sulking or anything.]