towerofanimus | First Blood; Arrival and Exploration

Characters: Merciless and you
Setting: Dorm room 1-17, the 99th floor, the 30th floor staircase, and the 1st floor cafeteria, all on the 14th.
Format: Prose, but use whatever you like and I'll respond in kind
Summary: A confused death cultist finds herself in the Tower
Warning: Blood, gore, decapitated head, possible crazy talk about death being a wonderful thing. Also, shadow child, but she's ignoring hers.

Room 1-17
The door's been left open. What looks like a teenager in a violet collar and the white jumpsuit is sitting on a previously unused bed, hugging to herself like a teddy bear the decapitated head of a woman with short blonde hair. Next to her, the introductory letters're laid out on the bed, and she appears to have an expression of deep thought. One of the shadow children showed up while she was still reflecting on the letters she'd read, and it's now next to her going on and on, saying things only she hears like "My blood's on your hands", "We were friends and you killed me", "You couldn't save your people", and so on. She's completely ignoring it, after a brief experimental swipe of her hand had passed harmlessly through it.

Floor 99
By now, she's ventured out to explore the floors below. The last two floors'd confused her and she'd written off floor 100 in particular as more foul trickery like the shadow child. But this one was so utterly unlike the other floors that she could only step out onto the crystalline floor from the elevator and stare around herself in amazement at the crystal caves. For this moment, her expression's filled with nothing but simple wonder at this strange and beautiful environment. Not even the ever-present shadow child could distract her.

Floor 30, Staircase
Blood is smeared everywhere in the staircase, which's littered with assorted monster corpses she'd dragged out.from the floor after being forced to retreat the first time. Said corpses bear wounds looking like something'd cut perfectly through them, and many're in a messy state of dismemberment. Much of the blood on the walls forms what seems like random scribbles of things like suns and houses and people and monsters. There're also illegible glyphs, as well as written warnings consisting of "The stairs here are fragile. Dangerous creatures prowl inside the darkness, some with an untouchable nature." The writings squirm strangely, seeming to change into more easily understandable forms as you look at them.

In the midst of this mess, she stands bloodstained, working on another set of writings. This one starts with "She walked though the hallways, and in the midst She entered the valley of death. Revelations filled Her eyes, and She saw the blood that needs to flow, the bodies that need to be broken, the world that needs Her bloodied touch. And thus She..."

Floor 1, Cafeteria
She walks in, blood covering much of herself and her formerly white jumpsuit from head to foot. To shut out her shadow child's tedious prattling, she'd plugged her ears with little bone pieces carved out from the earlier monster corpses, However, she's now removing the bone plugs as it hadn't done anything to block out the shadow child. Unmindful of her gruesome state, she looks around as if searching for something.

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"What would kill many worlds and even the gods themselves?"

"Dunno. Administrators call it a 'virus'."

There was only one answer Merciless could muster to that.

"That is truly absurd as an explanation."

"It's not like I'm an expert here, all right..."

Don't ask him for all the answers! He just knows as much as anybody.

"I have already seen insidious deceptions in this tower, such as the floor that appears like home except it cannot be touched. Or this creature." She gestures at the shadow child behind herself.

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"Oh, yeah. What is that? They're new." Ryuunoosuke has one following him, but he hasn't spoken yet.

"It utters foul and twisted words in the voice of a friend I once had." Merciless extends her arm through the shadow child. "If I could slay it to end its lies, I would."

"Oh, so it's a tower thing meant to get us down." Ryuunosuke nods. "Seems like every other month."

"Is this that frequent an occurrence?"

"Basically! Seems like if the admins aren't doing something, we are."

"'And their hearts were divided and they knew disharmony. Until the ways of blood came to them, and they knew the enemy and they knew the gods and they knew the ways of blood.'"

It sounds a lot like she was quoting from something.

"Where's that from?"

"The Book of Blood and Flesh."

"Never heard of it, but it sounds cool!"

"Would you like me to recite from it?" Her tone is clearly eager.

"Sure?" Go for it, weird lady.

"Very well. It will take about three hours."

"...I don't want to stay here all that long."

"Do you wish a different setting, then?"

"Where can you sit comfortably for three hours?"

"There is our rooms. I also noticed a few floors that appeared comfortable enough, but I do not know whether that is yet another of the Tower's deceptions. I saw a few floors with sitting furniture, a meadow, and the floor of flesh. I would certainly think the last one a fitting enough setting."

"If you poke the flesh floor too hard it spits acid everywhere and you die, which puts a cramp on readings."

Just saying.

"Truly, this tower can only be described as ridiculous. Flesh floors do not react in such a way."

She seems more bothered by that than the existence of entire floors of flesh.

"Let us then find a place to sit that won't behave in such a manner. Are you aware of any improbable threats on the fourth floor? It is the closest."

"Oh, fourth floor's fine."

Ryuunosuke stretches a little before heading upstairs, towards the lounge.

Once at the lounge, Merciless settles into some comfortable seating then begins to give a reciting, of which the general gist is this. If not interrupted at any point, she'll continue for the whole three hours.

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