[Massive Infiltration Plot] || [Semi-Open]

[great_king_of_evil]

Characters: All the characters who signed up for this infiltration, too many to write them all here. Characters who stay behind and do not infiltrate can tag into the mingle thread.
Setting: The Cafeteria, then the Elevator's Shaft and finally the Administrative Floors. The 29th of July, in the morning.
Format: Action most likely.

Summary: A month ago Ganondorf planned an infiltration to go and pay a visit to Riki's floor-- Given what has happened these last weeks, the 'Evil Alliance' has accepted to allow Enoch and the people he gathered to use the infiltration in order to do their own thing. Namely, retrieve scientific instruments from Jason's laboratory, so as to study the Collar Fluid. The infiltration will begin on the 1st floor, the Cafeteria.

The first thread is a traditional mingle thread, happening before the infiltration and briefing begin; anyone can tag into it. The second thread is a quick briefing before the infiltration starts, where Enoch and Ganondorf will explain to everyone what to do and what to expect in case they don't already know. Then there are the seven group threads, one for each individual team infiltrating.

The OOC post is here for more information. If you have signed-up but didn't pick a group yet, please do so here. While the infiltration takes place, the villains who stayed behind are unleashing a distraction on the tower and those who don't go.

Warnings: Administrative floors, danger, death, horror. Anyone tagging here is probably going to die, or at the very least meet with a terrible fate.

Mingle || Briefing || Meanwhile, in the Cafeteria...

Group 00 (Ganondorf, Sephiroth [OU], Veigar, Ocelot and Jin)
Group 01 (Enoch, Lancer [AU3], Patrick Dawn, Tohko, Raven and Ryoji)
Group 02 (Xion, Fon Master Ion, Yu Narukami, Asch, Luke, Jonouchi Katsuya, Dark Pit and Sheba)
Group 03 (Nesir Aeser, Zett Takajo, Kain Highwind, Solas and Minato Arisato)
Group 04 (Kyoko Sakura, Amelia, Shepard, Homura Akemi, Terra, Sephiroth [AU2] and Labrys)
Group 05 (John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, Naoya Toudou, Dave Strider, Riki [AU3], Sora and Riku [OU])
Group 06 (Zelda, Ruler [AU1] and Saber [AU5])

Comments

[bashfulshifter]

[...Yes, these devices don't look useful at all. At least, not for their purposes--though it might be worth remembering that they're here.]

[Nevertheless, Rick can't help but feel disappointed. With a paranoid glance at the shifting beds, he abandons observing the machine and starts pawing at the floor-mounted cabinets at its base.]

[Lancer's comment doesn't go unnoticed. He flicks his ears with clear curiosity; Rick hasn't heard about any administrator-based experiments, or at least none that would be done in a place like this. He thinks to ask what Lancer is talking about...but shifting just to inquire seems a little drastic. Maybe later.]

[In the meanwhile, Rick manages to pop open a cabinet with his front paw and teeth and is immediately extremely happy by what he finds. Beakers! These could definitely be useful!]

[...]

[Okay, so it's a good start. The tiger backs away and tosses his tail with anxious excitement, trying to motion as best he can for someone to come pick up what he's found.]

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch has already gotten a beaker from one of the cabinets he's opened. Real containers are useful things! He goes over to see if Rick's found anything different...and stops, staring at the twitching beds. How...disorienting.*

The label said this was a "recovery room". And next to what must have been a beautiful garden... I feel like that means this was for after those experiments.

*He didn't catch Doc's video, oops. At least he's been here long enough to know about Ruana.*

[tohko_amano]

[These labels were for identifying the subjects they experimented and mutilated then. However, at the twitching beds, Tohko paused, biting her lip to calm down before turning away from the label and speaking, thinking about trying to pick up one of the machines as she did so.]

It..probably was..but I'm not sure how many got to see it. Or..how many just thought of it as torture. Enoch, Doc showed me..footage of an experiment from..subject number nine. She was..a little girl with healing powers..but, during testing..they went too far. The girl..tried to heal, but couldn't react fast enough..for the amount of damage they put her through, and..she died.

And, for the record..normally, I would be against ghosts. But..when we're seeing blood out..of nowhere, footprints in the dust..and when a hand came out of your mouth..it's..not an entirely silly idea..even though the possibility of it being Ruana and illusions..still exists.

[Having said her pieces and debated long enough, Tohko would do her best to try and pick up one of the heart-monitor like machines with her hand to gauge its weight. If it wasn't too bad, she would try to lift and carry it around, assuming any wires didn't get in the way.]

[animusnpcs]

[Wires trail down from the monitoring device--it's obviously not meant to be carried in this manner. It's heavy, but not so much that it's impossible to lift.

The beds continue to twitch, and the group will be struck with an odd thought: something is moving them. While there's nothing obvious doing so, the thought persists in their minds nonetheless.]

[unkindnessof]

[ From across the room, Raven snorts softly. ] Ghosts are more real than simple unsettling illusions. That doesn't mean that some remnants might not have lingered, though, the way we did...

A recovery room. [ It's derisive. ] For whom, the ones who survived?

[ What was it, experiment 15, subject 9? He pauses in picking up a beaker, looking over to the appropriately labeled bed.

... If they'd been here that long, how many echoes... Ghosts, really... ]

[bashfulshifter]

[Rick listens intently to Tohko's explanation, excitement fading as he gazes at the beds, thinking of what must have gone on in them at some unknown point in time. Someone young, helpless, pushed to the limits of her abilities for the sake of curiosity...the idea that the soul of that person could still linger does cross his mind. It's not like that hasn't happened in his world--his wife, even, was victim to a woman who managed to store her consciousness for far too long in some light fixtures. Could that happen here as--]

[--Tohko what are you doing with that heart monitor! It looks extremely heavy and how does she even expect to lug that around with one arm, this is extremely inadvisable! The tiger quickly limps towards her to gently nudge or grab the dusty device out of her hand...]

[...but he spooks as the beds shift once again. Unease settles into Rick's chest like a rock in his throat and he swings his head around, weary and on-edge. The discussion of ghosts once again strikes a peculiarly logical chord with him.]

[He backs away, towards the far end of the room opposite of the garden atrium. Maybe they should...think about moving forward? If there's a way to move forward? Maybe sooner rather than later?]

[puppy_lancer]

[Like the rest of the group, Lancer notices the bed shaking. He's already on edge from Ryoji's death. Recalling Ruana's mention of the cruel experiments makes him feel outright murderous. Holding his hand out, Lancer manifests his spear.]

Who's there? Get out at once!

[Without waiting for any reactions, he goes over to a bed and stabs the mattress. He plans on doing this to every bed until he can find out what's moving them.]

[warriorscribe]

Lancer, stop! We should leave...

*He starts looking along the walls for another door as well.*

[animusnpcs]

[There are two doors at the end of the hospital ward.

Half of the group will be struck with the thought that going through the right door will be fatal, while the other half will believe the same about the left door.]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko watched as Rick came near her, fully intending to try and keep holding the machine, if the wires didn't cause a problem when she tried to move about, but..when the beds shifted again, Tohko bit her lip and put the machine down. It was..probably best just to grab some beakers and see what else they could safely carry before they left, since the ghosts were showing them that they weren't kidding around.

Which was why she didn't approve of Lancer's act of stabbing the mattress of one of the beds..but when she looked around for a good exit and to see if there were any more beakers she could carry, she thought that..the right door was probably a bit safer. After all, the ghosts could be fond of puns and make the left-hand path quite terrifying.]

Lancer..don't disrespect..the dead. We should gather up..the rest of the beakers..and peek into the right room..before leaving.

[warriorscribe]

The right...? I don't have a good feeling about that door, Tohko. We should look at the left one instead.

*He doesn't know why he has a bad feeling about the other door, but he isn't going to ignore such a strong feeling - he knows better than to argue with intuition.*

[bashfulshifter]

[Yes, Rick couldn't agree more, the left door is a lot more promising. With a nod to Enoch--and a last uncertain glance at Lancer, freaking out by the squirming beds--he moves ahead to the left door and prepares to open it.]

[...That is, assuming none of his teammates stop him first. Which, given the circumstances, they invariably will.]

[puppy_lancer]

Tch.

[Lancer doesn't care for what Tohko is saying. As a Heroic Spirit, he is, by nature, already nothing alive. He puts his spear through another bed, and draws it along the vertical line of the bed, more or less bisecting it. That done, he goes to kick the right door open unless someone would stop him.]

[unkindnessof]

[ In the middle of trying to vanish a set of beakers into dimensional storage, Raven looks over at Enoch when he speaks up about the doors. ] The left? That direction speaks of nothing but...

[ ...Hold up, something's not right here. Why does he feel there's something wrong with the left? They're all on edge because of the illusions (they are illusions, aren't they?), sure, but...

...Illusions. ]

Before we go charging through the doors, does anyone have any way to test the immediate safety of whichever path they choose?

[ He'd rather go right, regardless, but there's no harm in checking. ]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko just sighed inwardly at Lancer's actions, not really willing to put more pain on her mouth by actually sighting. However, she would reply to Enoch and Rick, since Rick had a pretty good point. While they had feelings about which door to go through, they weren't really certain, were they?]

The left-hand path..isn't usually a good one, Enoch. However..we should test them. I could toss my dagger..down one of the halls..or try and..light them up. And Lancer..calm down. Getting..the ghosts mad isn't going to help..and..nor is charging ahead..here.

[warriorscribe]

*He has no idea what Tohko is talking about. In Jason's lab the left path was the one that led them to their ultimate goal for that area. But rather than ask, for once, feeling as if the answer would be more superstition than fact and too uneasy at the illusions to indulge his curiosity this time, he just ignored it.*

...The least we can do is open them and look.

*He watches Rick approach the door. Could he open it in tiger form like that? He follows to help just in case.*

[bashfulshifter]

[...Well, so long as Enoch was backing him up, Rick was willing to head through the left door. With one more apprehensive glance at the rest of the group gathering at the right door (obviously not the correct one, and he desperately hoped they wouldn't open it...for some reason), the tiger would do his best to push open the door. Or...possibly pry it open with his front paws and teeth, if it didn't lend itself to pushing. Yeah, Enoch might have to help him here.]

[animusnpcs]

[Both doors open to the same large, long-abandoned surgical ward. There are various tools here for surgeries--scalpels and bone saws and similar items.

There's someone standing on the operating table. A child covered in a gown dripping blood down its legs all over the table.]

[bashfulshifter]

[Oh, good, the other group didn't instantly die, what a relief--]

[--OH GOD CHILD BLEEDING EVERYWHERE--]

[Rick lunges towards the table as fast as his busted leg will allow him, going ahead of Enoch (who is apparently too startled to move). He's not at all sure what he's going to do when he gets there, but that is an injured kid and that is far more pressing than anything else he can think of right now.]

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer has to hesitate for a second when he sees the child in the middle of the abandoned room. But concern soon over-rides his caution.]

Kid, are you alright?

[He too begins hurrying toward the child.]

[warriorscribe]

Ah...are you... *At first he can't believe what he's seeing. Is this real, in such a place? But his instincts are telling him to help... He steps forward as if to go help, a hand raised when Rick lunges past him.*

W- Rick, don't forget what you are!

*A tiger running at a kid is going to look perfectly safe. Enoch runs after.*

[animusnpcs]

[The child darts off the table, bloody footprints marking its unsettlingly quick pace. In their minds, there's a whisper of a number--015--and the child darts out back into the room they were just in.]

[unkindnessof]

[ But this place looks to have been abandoned for ages, why is there a child of all things here, with freshly bleeding wounds?

Of course, he can't think on that long as other members of the group rush by him, but he himself remains too surprised to move save for looking quickly, warily around at their surroundings for- something. Anything to explain the sight, since he can't very well stop them now.

Or the child, for that matter, who ghosts right past him and has him whirling in the doorway to check the beds-015?-again. ]

[animusnpcs]

[The child is now standing on bed 015. It's completely covered in blood.

And then, in the blink of an eye, the other beds are covered in blood, too. Each one has a child on the bed.

Except for bed 037. Bed 037 is empty and clean.]

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko, of course, had been hanging back, looking over everyone's shoulder to see what they would find before marking the new area as safe. Sometimes, it helped to be scared of ghosts. However, it didn't help when the child zoomed into the room she was in, leaving bloody footprints..and nor did it help when all the beds were covered with blood and children.

Ghosts..bloody ghosts. It usually wasn't a good sign in horror when those showed up, and since these children had been tortured, it was probable that they were out for revenge and didn't care who they got it from. So, trying not to faint, Tohko turned as white as a sheet..and called out to the ghosts, trying to calm them down.]

U-um..we're..we're not here to harm you! We're not scientists, I promise..we're not the ones..you need to get revenge against. So..please let us pass..