Arrival

[regenleif]

Characters: Capell and you
Setting: Starts in room 1-18 and then the elevator, floor 81, or chose an adventure he is looking for his friends!
Format: Both!
Summary: Capell wakes up
Warnings: May contain spoilers for infinite undiscovery, please let me know if you wish to avoid them.
[Room 1-18] Panic. That was the first thing Capell felt because he couldn't move, couldn't breathe. Couldn't scream. It didn't last long but it was long enough. With a gasp he sat up in bed.

Bed... that wasn't right. Why would he be in bed? He was cutting the chain... He looked round the room, squinting at the harsh, seemingly unnatural light. This looked like no inn he had ever been in before, even ignoring the fact him being in an inn was impossible.

He was dressed in some tight, restrictive material and he had something around his neck. A collar of some sort.

There was a note on the side and he picked it up, reading the two lines quickly before sitting heavily back on the bed.

His world... destroyed. No. Capell crumpled the letter. It couldn't be so...

[Elevator] At least this was something he understood, even if it was much slower than the ones he had known. Slower and strange. He stood silently, wondering why it stopped every twenty floors, and what was between them. He should have probably taken the stairs, he needed to look at the whole of this place, to look for his friends.

[Floor Eighty One] Capell stood by the window, not sure he was brave enough to step onto the glass. He stared up at the stars, not recognising any of them at all and then down into the fog. So far though he had seen many people, he knew none of them. If he had been rescued, surely his friends, who had been so close to him would have been too.

He couldn't give up hope, he had not gone far, there were many other places to look yet.

Comments

Floor 81

[lightofhumanity]

While the stars here were false, they were still nice to look at, so chaos often came up to the eighty-first floor in order to stargaze and think things over, which was something he had been doing a lot more nowadays, since the recent shadow incident.

However, when he saw and sensed the person looking at the stars, he smiled and spoke to them, walking up to them from behind.]

Enjoying the stars?

[regenleif]

"Huh?" Capell hadn't heard anyone approach, so lost in thought he was, but he smiled softly at the white haired boy. "Yes, they are very nice."

Agh...sorry for the style slip-up up there..><:

[lightofhumanity]

"They are, even if they are artificial. It is much better than looking at them constantly being destroyed on the twelfth floor."

That would probably puzzled Capell a little bit, if he hadn't been down to that floor yet.

[regenleif]

"Artificial?" Capell looks confused, unsure what the white haired boy means. "The twelfth floor? Destroying stars?"

[lightofhumanity]

Ah..this person must be a newcomer.

"Yes, artificial. What we are seeing right now is nothing more than an illusion. And if you go to the bottom of the Tower and walk up twelve floors, you shall see an illusion of universes being destroyed over and over again."

[regenleif]

"An illusion?" He blinked at the man and looked back out the windows. "The stars?"

[lightofhumanity]

At that, chaos sighed inwardly and nodded, still smiling calmly.

"Yes. The stars are an illusion, as well as several other things."

[regenleif]

"Several other things?" Capell repeated, blinking at the man. "Like what?"

[lightofhumanity]

"For one, our bodies are not actually made of flesh and blood, but miremesh and collar fluid. Your collar is the only thing on your body that is not covered up by the illusion."

[regenleif]

Wait... what...

Capell had had a lot of shocking truths thrown at him over the last few days... but this... "What do you mean?" He looked at his hands, they looked real, they looked just like his hands always had. "I don't understand."

[lightofhumanity]

chaos knew that it was a lot to take in..but there was no easy way of telling this person about the Tower without worrying them a little bit. After all..this Tower was not wholly nice place.

"There are technological systems in the Tower that are preventing you from seeing the truth. They can sometimes flicker in and out, on occasion, so if you stay here long enough, you shall see that I am correct. Others will verify what I told you, if you do not believe me."

[regenleif]

"I believe you." He literally just defeated a moon god, his suspension of belief is pretty far fetched.

"I just... don't understand. How are we alive if we are not real?"

[lightofhumanity]

Not that chaos knew. He was cutting back on his habit of looking into other people's heads, but he was happy that this person believed him.

"Our bodies are not made of flesh and blood. However, our souls were what was saved here. Our consciousnesses have not been altered here. Merely placed in a different shell."

[regenleif]

"Our souls?" He blinked, "But not our bodies?" It was hard to believe and he looked at his hands again.

"So where are our bodies?"

[lightofhumanity]

"Yes, just our souls. Our bodies lie back in our destroyed universes. They are not here, but they are still intact. Otherwise, people would not be able to vanish and come back from time to time."

[regenleif]

"People vanish?" He blinked, "And go back to their worlds?" He tried to understand what the boy was telling him.

[lightofhumanity]

"On occasion, they do. I believe it is something similar to an organ transplant. When you are transplanting an organ, the body sometimes rejects it, thinking that it is a foreign invader and attempts to expel it. In this case, our souls are attempting to reject these bodies and go back to where they belong."

[regenleif]

Capell had no idea what an organ transplant was, though he could guess through context. He blinked running the thoughts through his mind. "So our souls want to go back, but are somehow trapped..."

[lightofhumanity]

Which was made things easier for chaos. While he could have explained what an organ transplant was, it probably would have made the explanation even more messy than it already was.

"Yes, either through the fluid in our collars or by some other method that we do not know about yet. Or a combination of things."

[regenleif]

"What happens to those who go back to their bodies?" Surely they couldn't live on a destroyed world.

[lightofhumanity]

"What do you think happens to them?"

In short, yes, that is exactly what happened to them.

[regenleif]

So they died... Capell blinked sadly and nodded. "How many worlds are represented here?" He asked instead, trying to draw the conversation away from such sad things.

[lightofhumanity]

Well, with Ruana on the prowl, some of them might have died. It was really hard to say that this point in time.

"I have not made any attempt to count, but a great many different universes are represented here, as well as alternate universes and different timelines. You should always be careful with the people here."

[regenleif]

Capell had no idea what the difference between a different universe and an alternate universe was but he nodded. "Careful?" He guessed not everyone would be nice who were pulled here.

"How many people are usually rescued from each world?"

[lightofhumanity]

If Capell asked, chaos would be happy to explain the difference to him.

"Yes, careful. So that you do not make the wrong assumptions about anyone you meet or accidentally think that they are from your universe. However..only one person from each universe is rescued."