and I need someone to talk to apart from you

[animusnpcs]

Characters: Zo, open
Setting: floor 001
Format: brackets, party-style
Summary: Zo visits the residential levels of the Tower.
Warnings: none so far

[The elevator dings as its doors slide open--that's not an unusual occurrence, really, for a floor that not only houses one of the elevator stopping points but also the most reliable food sources. What's unusual, though, is the boy who steps out of it.

Zo enters the cafeteria, looking around as if he hasn't seen it in some time, which is true. He's followed by one retrieval unit. While she looks as blank as any retrieval unit, her collar is chipped and she wears glasses. In fact, she might be a bit familiar to some, though she will not respond (but there's something... Unusually alive about her, even so).

Though he's careful not to stray far from his bodyguard, he smiles at the floor in general.]

Um... Hi! Wow, it's been a while since I've been up here!

Comments

[great_king_of_evil]

What things?

[animusnpcs]

The phantoms. [He shifts, uncomfortable.] Those're my fault.

[great_king_of_evil]

The phantoms? They are people you tried to bring with their bodies then...? [He looks annoyed. Thank you for ruining his plan.] Why did you do that?

[animusnpcs]

A while back everybody wanted people from their worlds with them, so I tried that, but it just made phantoms instead.

[great_king_of_evil]

So pulling our bodies isn't an option? [Wonderful.] So tell me boy, how are we supposed to survive past the deadline if you cannot bring our real bodies in and if we won't be allowed to fix your power cores?