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Merciless ([personal profile] sacrament_of_blood) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-08-14 01:01 pm

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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Room 1-17

[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Veronica had come back to her room to put her package with the trunk. She paused in the doorway at the sight of the rooms newest member. She knew there was four beds in the room, but she hadn't seen anyone else in here before.

"Uh... h-hello?"
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Veronica could smell death in her own way. Her heightened senses had picked up the scent of blood before she saw it and left her on edge. The girl made Veronica a little nervous as well, what with her dark look, not to mention the severed head in her lap.

"I, uh..." she stood awkwardly in the doorway, not sure if she should enter or not. The shadow child got a quick glare. "I guess you just woke up, right?"
Edited 2013-08-15 02:50 (UTC)
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
"You can't hurt them." Veronica sighed and shook her head. "The most you can do is try to ignore and avoid them. They're not actually anyone you know."

She walked in to her bed and set the package down. Her own shadows were gone, for the moment anyway. She turned to Merciless and bowed respectfully.

"My name's Veronica. You are?"
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Merciless? I've never heard that name before."

She stares for a minute at the head.

"I uh... not really, but thank you for asking. Why do you have a severed head with you?"

Veronica briefly wonders if it's another, badly timed roommate. She ignores it for now.
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
"..."

Veronica sits down on her own bed, keeping an eye on Merciless at all times.

"...You sleep with a severed head."

It wasn't really a question, more of a statement just so she could be sure she heard it like that.
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
It takes Veronica a moment but she starts nodding slowly.

"Y-yes, that's true. She is most likely dead. It's just... I've never met someone who is so... friendly with dead things."

Unless that head was about to come to life or something. Then it would all be okay.
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
"You talk to the dead? That's amazing."

The talk of gods and spirit speakers was a surprising turn for Veronica. She had never really believed in things like this, Fran would be astounded.

"We don't have stuff like that in my world, you're just able to do that?"
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The surprise was noted with a small smirk.

"Death really does hold beauty, no matter who it claims."

She shook her head. "I guess I forgot to tell you. You're now in the Tower of Animus."
stitchedupbodyguard: (Huh?)

[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Veronica's head tilted in confusion. "Spirit? That's what it means? Well it makes sense since we're all trapped here."

She explained further. "Everyone here is from a different world, even you and me. That's a little hard to believe, isn't it?"
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know what kind of world this place is." Veronica shrugged. "I think it might be just this tower."

Which sounded pretty bad when she thought about it. Nothing but this tower? What a horrifying thought.

"Where I'm from? I'm from Earth, specifically Japan. Well, my own earth I guess. This place is pretty strange, but honestly, back home was a little stranger."
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Veronica shrugged. "I don't know, maybe we're from the same world."

Could she be from Veronica's world? Was that possible? "What happens in your earth?"
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy war? Then it was impossible wasn't it? Veronica shook her head.

"Sorry, last time I checked, my world didn't have a holy war going on."
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[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2013-08-15 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"In my world there's nothing threatening our souls, it's mostly normal life. Humans are usually fighting and killing each other for whatever reason though. I'm the protector of my home and my sister, who's a doctor."
Edited 2013-08-15 17:29 (UTC)

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