[Open] Stumbling into the unknown

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Characters: Veronica and YOU
Setting: Room 1-17, floors 100, 90, and 2.
Format: Brackets.
Summary: A confused Frankenstein girl tries to adjust to suddenly being in a giant tower.
Warnings: Not really.



Room 1-17

[Veronica Madaraki was confused. Never before had she been this confused. One moment, she was in the estate with Fran arguing about the hitmen she had just slaughtered. The next, she was lying on a bed in an odd room with three other beds, and a letter in her hands was saying that her world was destroyed. Calling bullshit, she crumpled it up and tossed it away. She was mildly shocked to find herself changed out of her usual clothes, the collar elected an angry reaction. Probably another of her sister's weird experiments.

Finding the trunk at the base of her bed, Veronica quickly donned her normal clothes and stowed her weapons inside her cloak. Time to figure out what the hell was going on.]

Floor 100

[Anyone going through this floor will see two thing. An incredibly big mansion. And a girl standing at the front doors, desperately trying to grab the doorknob but failing every time. The girl starts calling out different names, trying to get a response from someone who isn't there. She eventually tries punching through the door but her hand just passes through.]

What the hell is wrong with this place?

Floor 90

[The Blue lagoon was a surprise to Veronica, who was already quite shocked at everything that was going on. The golden sand under her boots was kicked up in frustration. What was this place? Where was the way out? With her fury spent, Veronica eventually just sits down at the edge of the beach, slowly running a scarred hand through the crystal clear water as she thought. A mermaid that got too close got a dose of paralysis poison from Veronica's needle tipped fingers and is floating face down in the water next to her. Don't let this weird you out.]

Floor 2

[Thank God this place had an elevator. You might see a young, horrifically scarred, girl walking into the infirmary, watching everything with a confused look. At the very least, even if it wasn't her own, the infirmary gave Veronica a familiar feeling.]

Comments

Second Floor

[godheals]

[Raphael practically lived in the infirmary, since he was an angel of healing, and the best place to heal people was where most of the medical equipment was. Usually, people wandered into the infirmary because they were doctors looking to heal or patients who needed help, so Raphael smiled a little as he spoke to the girl, looking rather calm. Her scars didn't look good, but he could try and heal them, if she wanted to.]

Good afternoon. Are you injured in any way? I am a healer, so if you wish, I could try and heal you if you are.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Huh?

[She looks up from whatever she had been inspecting at Raphael. The moment she saw him he seemed... off. None of Veronica's senses could nail it but something about him was different. She shook her head slowly.]

I uh.... no, I'm fine, for once. Actually, I'm just really confused.

Where am I exactly?

[godheals]

[Ah..so this girl was a newcomer. It was good that she had been saved..but it was also sad that another world and its inhabitants had met their end.]

I am glad to hear that you are alright, and you are in the Tower of Animus. The note you received upon arriving here is true, I'm sorry to say.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Tower of Animus?

[Weird name. Not something she'd name a tower, or anything for that matter. Did she mention this place was weird, because it was.]

So the letter about my world being destroyed...

[She shakes her head.]

Sorry, but I call bullshit. There's no way my world would be-wait, "my world"?

[godheals]

[To many, this place was strange. Raphael had seen far more fantastical things, so he just though of this place as dangerous, due to the monsters and Administrators.]

I know it is hard to believe, but if you wish, I can show you proof. And yes, your world. I come from a different world than yours.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

D-different world? That's insane.

And yes, it's hard to believe that my entire world would be destroyed.

[But still.... if it was.... No, she shook her head at that thought.]

But sure, show me proof.

[godheals]

I do not see how it is crazy. I have met people here who were not from my world, and it is quite common to see people that are not of your world. However, if you wish to see proof, please follow me.

[With that, Raphael would get up walk out of the room, and climb up the steps until he reached the fifth floor. There he would wait for the girl to catch up with him before pointing to the viewfinders.]

Steel yourself and look into those. What you see will be proof, but it will also be painful.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Sorry, but I've never met anyone from another world before. I didn't even know there were other worlds.

[Fran would probably like to know about that. Veronica made a mental note to tell her and followed Raphael up to the fifth floor. She looks at where Raphael was pointing, and shrugging, she steps up and looks into the viewfinder, not sure what she was expecting.

There's a moment of dead silence as the teen stares into the viewfinder. It doesn't even seem like she was breathing. It lasts for about two minutes before Veronica stumbles back from the viewfinder. Extreme surprise, confusion, and fear were plastered on her face.]

Is... I-is that my...?

[godheals]

[Raphael silently watched the girl as she gazed into the viewfinder, lowering his arm and preparing himself for her reaction. After all, his own had not been that well, and other people he had shown them to had not taken to the sight well.

When she stumbled back, Raphael walked forward and tried to put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. It was a painful experience, knowing that your world, friends, and loved ones were all dead.]

It is. I am so sorry..but it is.

Floor 90

[axeforasong]

[being equally-ish new, wandering about random levels and exploring has become something of a pasttime, despite the dangers. Hey, she carries an axe everywhere...

still, it's nice to see someone of a similar age!]

Hello!

[stitchedupbodyguard]

[Veronica, shaken from her deep thinking, looks up at Mayu. The first thing she sees is the axe, which sets her on edge. The second thing she sees is a person trying to talk to her, which in it's own way was sort of worse.]

Uh... h-hello? My name's Veronica.

[axeforasong]

Ahaha, that's a pretty name! Are new as well, yes?

[stitchedupbodyguard]

I, uh, yeah, I am. I just showed up today.

...This place is really weird.

[axeforasong]

It is... is that a mermaid? [finally spotting the corpse yep]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Hmm?

[Oh yeah, she almost forgot about that. She pokes it to make sure it's still dead. It is.]

Yeah... it tried to pull me into the water. I think it was trying to drown me.

[axeforasong]

[Mayu just sighs]

Are monsters like that all over this place... worse at night, I hear. Have an axe of your own?

[stitchedupbodyguard]

An axe?

[From under her cloak Veronica pulls two weapons. One is a normal broadsword, the other is an odd looking blade that sort of looks like one from a guillotine. Both are able to fit under her cloak somehow.]

I have these, though I usually have more. There's monsters around here?

[axeforasong]

[Mayu nods approvingly yes those look useful]

In Tower in general. Many, many floors. Should be okay though. [if you've got those.]

Floor 100

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch might be impressed by the mansion if the illusion of this floor actually worked that way. But alas, it might be fun to see other peoples' worlds, and the admins can't be having that, now can they? What he sees is a young woman calling out names at a wall in the house he last occupied, though he knows from speaking with other residents that she's definitely seeing something different.

He hasn't been in the best shape lately, emotionally-speaking, making him scarce for the past few days. It's the first time he's ever really ventured onto the staircase beyond going up to the elevator for food since the 8th. He takes a little while to speak to her, doubting for a moment his ability to help. But he sees no one else around on this floor.*

Excuse me... This level is an illusion, I'm afraid.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

*Veronica spins around and stares at Enoch, eyes wide and pupils shrunk.*

It can't be! This is the estate back home! I just need to let Fran know I'm here.

*She turns back to the estate/wall.* Fran! Adorea! Open up! It's me, Veronica!

[warriorscribe]

*For a moment, he's thrown off. He hasn't seen that sort of effect in a long time - the shrunk pupils tended to happen in people who'd had too much opium, but...this didn't seem to be the case.*

Ah...it's... If only it was that easy...

*All the same...he had a bad feeling about being blunt here.*

[stitchedupbodyguard]

*She keeps trying until she finally stops.

The whole room is silent for a single moment before she speaks in a quiet, hurt voice*

....I don't get it. Is this some kind of sick joke?!

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch stays patiently. He doesn't want to leave her all alone when she finally accepts...* I don't know. I don't know what he was thinking when he built this level.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

"He"?

[warriorscribe]

Ah, I'm sorry. Riki, one of our hosts. He's this tower's architect and...furnisher. He'll be watching over us next month.