[ during individuation event ]

[immortalia]

Characters: Anyone!
Setting: Workshop, briefly, but library for the overall setting.
Format: Action most likely.
Summary: After everyone has received their packages in the mail, Sertoria gets to work on distributing messages to people so that they can try to figure this out. Feel free to hijack threads and mingle around as you want! Sertoria will still be around if anyone wants to talk to her.
Warnings: Usual tower warnings, but mark them as needed in your post.

Sertoria had "woken" up early that morning to do her normal routine: Do a little morning patrol to see if anything changed in the tower overnight before checking her mail and the network (she found that the network was unreliable right now when trying to send any messages), and then if she didn't find anything, go work on some projects in the workshop.

However, she found an item in her box and froze while reading the nametag.

CXEV5001.

Either this was someone's cruel idea of a joke or--

Wait a second, didn't Waver say he received something weird in the mail? Sertoria was sure that no one she told about her designation would do something like this to her, so it had to be that. She slipped the nametag in to her robe's pockets and ran down to the workshop to begin writing a message on pieces of paper to distribute.

Everyone will be receiving a slip of paper under their doors roughly in the mid-morning when she's done with the slips of paper, her hands slightly marked with ink. It will read:



image reads: Did you receive something weird in the mail?

If yes, please meet me in the library so we can figure this out.

- Sertoria Cani

After that, she'll be waiting in the library for people to come around.

[ Library ]

Once Sertoria was done distributing her message, she was sitting down on one of the chairs with her legs crossed and head bowed. She was holding the nametag in between her fingers, wondering why this was her "package." Well... Whatever it was, she was sure the tower's residents could figure it out. After all, she believed in them.

When someone does show up, she'll put the nametag away and greet them, forcing a small smile on her face.

"Hello. Shall we get to work?"

Comments

library

[axeforasong]

[because walking in with an axe and a bloody pony's head is always the best first impression]

...They sent me the head of my pony.

[ocariness]

[ An elf-looking person (it's a bit hard to tell their gender) garbed in green and decked out in sword, shield, bow and quiver seems to be observing that with... less than minor shock.

And, their stomach churns painfully with a pitiful sort of feeling of both loss and hurt. Epona... ]

H... how could they do this?!

Re: library

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer shrugs and holds up the head of a giant dog.]

Tough. Guess I should be glad it wasn't my horses.]

Library

[stitchedupbodyguard]

[A young girl walks into the library at a brisk pace, not speaking to anyone, wearing an icy glare on her face. There's a package tucked under her arm, and what was inside made her artificial blood boil.

She scans the room briefly before noting Sertoia at one of the tables and walks over.]

You have a package as well?

Library

[immortalia]

[ Sertoria nods her head in greeting to the girl, glancing at the package as her shadows whisper her inconsequential things that she pays no mind to. ]

I do. I am to believe most, if not all of us, received one.

[nobarnacles]

[ He had responded to finding the picture with brief confusion, then rage, which has simmered down to a moderate anger by the time he finds Sertoria's note under his door. Both the note and the picture are crumpled up and shoved into his pocket as he storms his way to the library.

When he finds her sitting quietly by herself, he pulls out her crumpled note and tosses it onto a nearby table. ]

I've gotten enough strange messages for today. What do you know?

[immortalia]

[ Her eyes follow the note that's tossed on to a nearby table and Sertoria braces herself for whatever is to come from this individual. ]

What I do know about these packages we received is that it is not a coincidence. I am not sure why we are being sent these, so that is why I have called a meeting so we can figure this out.

[bashfulshifter]

[Hello again, Sertoria! It's your favorite person in the Tower, here to come pay you a visit! Of course, based on the way he shambles across the room, disheveled face still hot and wet with tears, it's not a casual affair.]

[He was initially planning to take another crack at patching his clothes after breakfast, but noticed surplus activity in the mailroom and realized that he hadn't even bothered to check and see if he had a mailbox, let alone if he'd received any packages since arriving. After discovering what was left for him, Rick immediately regretted ever having this revelation and, in a surprising show of angry frustration, promptly took a lead from Waver and threw the organic part of his package (wrapped in his old sweater, good riddance) into the incinerator on floor 55.]

[...Rick doesn't remember a lot about what happened after that. There was probably vomiting and ugly crying involved, but that was a given. He does remember, however, opening his eyes in his bed after finally catching his breath, the salvaged wedding ring gripped so tightly in his hand that the small gems studding its surface drew blood--and seeing Sertoria's note slid halfway under the door.]

[She might be angry at him, but finding out what's going on--why it's happening--is the only task Rick has to motivate himself to even leave his room again, let alone bathe or eat. He can't tell Sertoria this because his throat burns and he's too terrified of rejection to try and draw her attention to him. So he'll just kind of...stand over here...stare at the floor for a bit...fiddle with the ring in his hand...]

[Three shadow children follow eagerly at his heels. One of them looks rather perturbed.]

[immortalia]

[ After Sertoria's conversation with chaos, she found herself debating what to do for Rick when she saw him next. It's true that she's still rather angry at him, but what he said wasn't his fault. He was possessed, after all, and she believed well enough that he wouldn't say those things to her if he wasn't possessed by a creature around here.

So, instead of being angry at him, she'll just smile pleasantly and decide now would be a good of a time as any to give him a present, especially when she believes this event would not be as kind to them. Then again, with the tower, was kindness and compassion to be expected with how awful it truly could be? ]

Hello Rick.

[ Sertoria gets up and rifles through her cloak to give him a shirt. She didn't know his correct measurements, so she went with her best guess. ]

Here. Um... It is to make up for me yelling at you.

library

[fionnuisce]

[Waver was already in the library when Sertoria had been sending her message out (and had been since late the previous night). The ponytailed magus sat in a chair focused entirely on a book of mythology. He had to remind himself that what he'd read and immediately burned was all a lie.]

[He was very calm, at least visibly. It was only in the faintest lines of an often hard and cold expression that one could detect hints that he was absolutely livid just under the surface.]

[Behind him lingered no less than five shadows, ignored and unremarked upon.]

Library

[thelordsage]

[Sephiran strides into the library, a certain heft to his steps that makes it sound like he's almost stomping. What he received (heron feathers, heron feathers and blood everywhere, the blood of his people, the people of Lehran of the Heron tribe) sent waves of rage boiling through his body. All the memories came back: hearing of the Apostle's assassination and who was blamed for it, the rush to get to Serenes Forest, the screams of the massacred herons, then the discovery of the medallion... all the things that pushed him over the edge and brought him to decide that his world was better off ended. "This world does not need Beorc. And the Laguz... are deeply flawed." He remembered saying those words, and the sentiment was slowly flowing back into his mind (even though he was around mostly Beorc- humans- in this tower).

Well, Sertoria was technically not a human, human-like though she was. She would have his trust for now, though he'd probably be a bit edgy towards "true" humans for a bit. So was his state of mind when he went to the library to meet Sertoria.

Two shadow children followed him in, though he paid them no heed.]

Greetings, Sertoria. I take it that you wish to discuss the rash of packages that everyone seems to have received?

Library

[summonsimulacrum]

[Upon receiving the message under her door, Sephira made her way to the library. She took a seat and began to look over the pamphlet of propaganda once more. She felt relieved that she had received something only mildly disturbing; mostly, the the pamphlet simply made her feel glad that she had chosen to discard the Simulacrum System. Those were some rough times spent being torn between duty and justice, but it was over now... along with everything else. The pamphlet made her miss her friends among the simulacra, but she found it quite interesting. She always had some difficulty understanding the simulacra's viewpoint, so any piece of their point of view was important to her. Furthermore, it was a souvenir from home of sorts. She would definitely be keeping it.

For now, she just sat somewhere in the library, looking over the pamphlet again and again. Six shadow children sat in various places around her.]

This is really rather enlightening.

library

[fuhgeddaboudit]

[There were so many shadows trailing behind Labrys that it would be forgivable to mistake them for one enormous one. The tower had not been kind to her in general lately; after receiving her own mail, the android had been so distracted as to fall to one monster or another--she didn't know which and didn't really care.]

[Labrys lingered in the stairwell, clutching a tattered piece of fabric to her chest. No--she shouldn't be here. She couldn't smile like this, couldn't help anyone that needed it. What was the use of this life that survived instead of all the others if she couldn't smile for people that needed it?]

[She spun around in a flash of metal and flourish of a silver-blue ponytail, eyes shut tightly as she tried to escape back to her dorm room.]

Re: library

[greyerrant]

[ A huge figure in the lirbary stands over Labrys protectively, facing the shadows with a bared chainsword. ]

We meet again. Time to bring light to the darkness once more.

[slightlyoblivious]

Labrys?

[Yukiko caught a glimpse of the familiar ponytail and ran towards her friend.]

Wait! Labrys, hey. It's me! Calm down, okay...we're gonna get you through this.

library

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer actually looks pretty dang pleased as he holds his "present." Every so often, he turns around to look at the two shadow children following him, and he beams with pride as he shows them the dog's head bigger than even his own head.]

See? This was what I was up against. And I wasn't even half the size I was now!

[He looks at one of the shadows.]

In fact, I don't even think I was your size.

[chainsawn]

[ Urotsuki's eyes are more heavy than usually today. Instead of looking blank like she usually does, it's almost more like she's looking.. strangely empty. She's clutching onto something in both her hands right next to each other, but it's so tightly that it's impossible to tell what it is.

She glances over to Lancer though, specifically looking at the dog's head, even if she doesn't comment out loud. ]

Lu-lu-lu-library... obviously

[ocariness]

[ ... The burnt Ocarina had been tucked into their pocket with a solemn look. Link was one of luckier ones, and seeing the note had put a new fervor into the Hero of Time's heart. If ever they were going to try harder to help others here and unite them as one, now would be the time.

... For Saria's sake. For the sake of all those in their home they failed. So, the green-garbed Hylian can be found quietly standing off to the side against a bookshelf, decked in the usual--sword, shield, etc. Link is quiet for a moment before greeting Sertoria and anyone else who might wander in. ]

... So it was not just me. I imagine they are 'punishing' us for our rebellion. I... received something rather troubling and reminiscent of my home, only destroyed in some form, as if to remind me it was gone.

Re: Lu-lu-lu-library... obviously

[puppy_lancer]

...Is that what you think, little lady?

[Lancer looks down at the dog's head in his hands.]

Guess Jason's changing his methods.

library; warning for slow orz

[slightlyoblivious]

Yukiko clutched Chie's jacket like a lifeline as she passed through the halls on the way to the library. In a way, it was a lifeline; a connection to her past and her best friend. She wasn't quite as bad as some people she'd seen in the Tower - and she can thank close friends for that - but this was getting to her.

"Yes," she answered, as soon as she approached the table, setting the jacket down - though she kept one hand on it for the moment. "There's not much to figure out here. This belongs to my best friend, back home. The bloodstains won't come out, and believe me, I've tried. I...whatever it was that attacked Chie, it had to have been bad."

A Shadow, she thought to herself. Bird claws, like the ones her own had.

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Veronica stared at the jacket, her own grip on the package held protectively under her arm tightened.

"I know how you feel."

[evokingfool]

After seeing the message, Minato quietly entered the library. Under his left arm was a shoebox diorama. Followed behind him are many shadows, which Minato is...well, he's not verbally remarking on them on the outside.

On the inside? People just need to ask.

"I received a diorama of my friends. If it's a punishment, then it's emotional in nature."

[chainsawn]

[ Urotsuki doesn't even need to be followed by the shadows. Even without them she looks.. strange. She doesn't look blank like usually, it's almost more like she's hollow herself. Empty. Her gaze is heavy, and she's clutching onto something so tightly with both her hands right next to each other that it's impossible to tell what it is.

She mutters though when she hears Minato speak up, although it's apparently not aimed at him. ]

Punishment..

[notachickenhawk]

Tobias walks in, looking a little twitchy. He's managed to find one of his changes of clothes, so he's at least not dressed in the white skintight suit again. He left the container shoved in his trunk - he can decide what to do with it later.

He scans the room, trying to determine threats with his weak human vision. It's difficult, but he just stands sort of nearby the main crowd of people, hanging on the edges. He's still not great with lots of people.

Library

[bowandblade]

[It seemed that the library had become quite the hotspot today. Archer leans back in one of the chairs and props up his feet on the corner of a table, fiddling with the "present" he had found in his mailbox.

He had seen Ayaka in the Tower. Had known that she had left. And now there were her glasses, mangled and broken and left to taunt him. He had glowered at the worker units as he had left, had sought out a place where he could cause damage in a somewhat satisfying way.

And now here he was, pensively looking at Ayaka's glasses. For the most part, he ignores the shadow children that had followed him into the library; they had seemed to grow in number since the single one that had appeared yesterday morning.]

Re: Library

[puppy_lancer]

[Still holding the dog's head, Lancer goes over to the other Servant. He notices that Archer seems to be contemplating something.]

...What's that in your hand?

library; warning for slow posting

[cullscuttlefish]

[Feferi hadn't taken her box with her to the library. A box full of blood and tentacles could mean a lot of things and none of them anything good. It would be more likely to be disturbing.

...she thought to herself about how much she'd changed, to go from a place where finding a box of tentacles might have been kind of cool once to this, where she had a better handle on what was and wasn't too disturbing to go showing off.

Still, she stood around, looking for someone she could at least discuss it with.]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Excuse me?

[Staring quizzically at the box.]

Your box seems to be... leaking.

library

[marriedthebloke]

[Sola-ui holds the photo of her family in between her middle and index fingers, sticking her arm straight out to keep it far from her face. She stares at it in disgust before slamming it down on a table.]

Yes. You can tell me who exactly is responsible for this.

[kindofademon]

[Ryuunosuke is nonchalant as he fiddles with the family photo he got.]

Do you know these people? I sure don't.

LMAO THAT... PHOTO...

[axeforasong]

[s'up I have an axe and the torn off head of a pony

Mayu peers at it]

No, not met before. Is lost?