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towerofanimus2013-07-10 04:34 pm
duplicitousringleader) wrote in towerofanimus2013-07-10 04:34 pm
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001 - well there's a song on the radio that says "let's get this party started"
Characters: A newly-arrived Dio and whatever poor saps are unfortunate enough to meet him!
Setting: Room 04-14, Floor Five, and Floor Fourteen
Format: Action brackets to start with, but I'll switch to prose if you want!
Summary: Dio wakes up and discovers that he's moved from one horrific environment to another. Oh, well. Could be worse. Maybe he'll find more shit to sabotage here.
Warnings: Spoilers for VLR may come up while interacting with Dio; let me know if you'd like me to avoid them. Also, he's a huge jerk. If he treats your character rudely, it's not because I dislike you, it's because he's just that kind of person.
[Room 04-14 - closed to Quark.]
[This has got to be the worst sleep he's had in a really long time. Considering what he's been through lately, that's really saying a lot. Dio is not comfortable when he's conscious enough to realize he's in a bed, probably because he can't fucking move. If he could speak, he'd probably be cursing up a storm. There's a hard glint in his eyes that makes it pretty clear he's screaming obscenities in his mind.
Finally, he can sit up and take a better look around the room. Beds. Trunks. And not too far away - a person. And a familiar one, at that.
Quark. That little shit.]
Oh for fuck's sake - this is where you ran off to? We were looking all over, you little bastard!
[Don't tell him he's in a weird white jumpsuit yet, Quark. Let him figure that out for himself.]
[Floor Five]
[He's wearing his own clothes now (and thank god, because Dio in skintight clothing is probably something no one wants to see) and he's already had his obligatory bowl of oatmeal (and he didn't enjoy it). Now he's wandering, and the fifth floor looks interesting enough that he steps off the staircase and wanders further in.
At first, he ignores the viewfinders. They don't interest him much; he's more intrigued by the security station. But he doesn't get much out of the worker units staffing it, and after a few absolute failures at starting a conversation, he rolls his eyes and walks away. He starts for the stairs, but pauses and looks back at the viewfinders once more.
He wanders over to them and studies them with a contemplative expression. To look or not to look? That is the question...]
[Floor Fourteen]
Now this is more like it.
[He scoops up a remote and flops into a couch in the media room, pointing it at a television with an empty movie case nearby and turning it on. If there's already a movie in there, that saves him some time. What comes up seems to be some sort of a romantic tragedy, from the incredibly overdramatic breakup scene that Dio is greeted with. He raises an eyebrow as the girl on the screen begs her lover not to leave her even though she's pregnant with another man's child.
So much for this being more like it.]
Ooookay then. Gonna have to have a talk with whoever picked this movie. Talk about shitty tastes.
[Don't mind him as he just casually leaves the movie on while he starts looking through the rest of the selection.]
Christ, isn't there anything good to watch in this place? Just one stinking movie. That's all I'm asking for here!
Setting: Room 04-14, Floor Five, and Floor Fourteen
Format: Action brackets to start with, but I'll switch to prose if you want!
Summary: Dio wakes up and discovers that he's moved from one horrific environment to another. Oh, well. Could be worse. Maybe he'll find more shit to sabotage here.
Warnings: Spoilers for VLR may come up while interacting with Dio; let me know if you'd like me to avoid them. Also, he's a huge jerk. If he treats your character rudely, it's not because I dislike you, it's because he's just that kind of person.
[Room 04-14 - closed to Quark.]
[This has got to be the worst sleep he's had in a really long time. Considering what he's been through lately, that's really saying a lot. Dio is not comfortable when he's conscious enough to realize he's in a bed, probably because he can't fucking move. If he could speak, he'd probably be cursing up a storm. There's a hard glint in his eyes that makes it pretty clear he's screaming obscenities in his mind.
Finally, he can sit up and take a better look around the room. Beds. Trunks. And not too far away - a person. And a familiar one, at that.
Quark. That little shit.]
Oh for fuck's sake - this is where you ran off to? We were looking all over, you little bastard!
[Don't tell him he's in a weird white jumpsuit yet, Quark. Let him figure that out for himself.]
[Floor Five]
[He's wearing his own clothes now (and thank god, because Dio in skintight clothing is probably something no one wants to see) and he's already had his obligatory bowl of oatmeal (and he didn't enjoy it). Now he's wandering, and the fifth floor looks interesting enough that he steps off the staircase and wanders further in.
At first, he ignores the viewfinders. They don't interest him much; he's more intrigued by the security station. But he doesn't get much out of the worker units staffing it, and after a few absolute failures at starting a conversation, he rolls his eyes and walks away. He starts for the stairs, but pauses and looks back at the viewfinders once more.
He wanders over to them and studies them with a contemplative expression. To look or not to look? That is the question...]
[Floor Fourteen]
Now this is more like it.
[He scoops up a remote and flops into a couch in the media room, pointing it at a television with an empty movie case nearby and turning it on. If there's already a movie in there, that saves him some time. What comes up seems to be some sort of a romantic tragedy, from the incredibly overdramatic breakup scene that Dio is greeted with. He raises an eyebrow as the girl on the screen begs her lover not to leave her even though she's pregnant with another man's child.
So much for this being more like it.]
Ooookay then. Gonna have to have a talk with whoever picked this movie. Talk about shitty tastes.
[Don't mind him as he just casually leaves the movie on while he starts looking through the rest of the selection.]
Christ, isn't there anything good to watch in this place? Just one stinking movie. That's all I'm asking for here!
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[Dio studies Ion's face. Whatever's going on in this place must be pretty fucked up, to get an expression like that on this kid - he can tell just from the way he walks and talks that Ion isn't the malicious type. Ergo, it'll take some pretty bad shit going on to make him that upset.]
I'd rather know the truth about what I'll be dealing with here.
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You're right. Please forgive me if I made any sort of unintentional assumption about your character. If I'm being honest...well, I suppose I agree with you.
[His expression sets in a serious, but downtrodden line.]
I don't appreciate being coddled, either. Especially not in serious situations such as these ones. I want to know the truth as well.
[Ion shakes his head. He'd been trying to become involved and to learn about all that was happening...but it was a lot to take in. Especially when he had been rather out-of-sorts for the past month. If only everything wasn't happening so quickly. If only there wasn't so much he had missed.
If only he wasn't so weak.]
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[It takes everything he has to keep from tacking on a "Spill the beans, kid," to the end of that, but Ion has been pretty civil to him so far. The kid reminds him too much of Luna to be a total jerk.
...even if his voice did remind him enough of Quark to get sort of annoyed. That was probably why he didn't say "Please."]
/SQUINTS AT THIS REPLY I'm sorry
[His expression falls--not sadly, but into something a bit more serious.] But I do know what I've seen for myself...and that's that most of what you see around you is a lie.
[The boy's shoulders sag a fraction. Don't worry, Dio, he's planning on elaborating. That would've been a cruel thing to leave off on.] Or, not a lie so much as an illusion. [Which is just...a nicer way of saying that it's a lie.] The Tower has a sort of...glamour system in place to make the things inside of it appear more real than they really are.
[He might not have explained so much about it if it wasn't for how widespread the knowledge had become on the first of June. Ion figures that Dio would've found out about it sooner or later, anyway. Best for him to know straight-out.] As for why that is, or how it's possible...I can't say. [Not that he didn't wish he knew why the administrators would be so cruel and do such a thing, mind you.]
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His body may not be his, but it sure looks and feels like it. It's hard to panic when his senses tell him that everything is fine.
He supposes that's the point of the glamour - to keep everyone who's penned up in here like chickens complacent enough to be easy to handle. From the way Ion talks, though, it's pretty clear that people aren't really complacent, just worn down and tired.
That's dangerous. They're not broken, so they can still rise up very easily.]
So the people in charge around here are dirty, stinking liars. [He snorts.] What else is new?