towerofanimus | This is hardly as fun as playing Candy Crush

Characters: Elena & Open
Setting: Throughout the Tower during the Event
Format: Will match yours
Summary: Catch-all for the "If You Won't" Event
Warnings: Collecting all the candy, feels, and more! I will update anymore content warnings as they happen.

[October 20th – Graveyard | OPEN TO ALL]

[If there was one lesson Elena remembered from her previous time in the Tower, it was that when it was suggested you do something, you did it. Because while there was sure to be repercussions for engaging in the action, not engaging would be far worse. And so she’s very calculating of her search, scanning all areas of randomly selected rooms before searching in narrow crevasses and any hard to reach place. And so far she’s been very lucky in her search, her candy collection growing.

Though…why again did she think it was a good idea to check a graveyard for candy? Oh, right. Because it was coming close to Halloween. Footsteps take her past several graves, eyes reading the names of the fallen. Lost? Fully-dead? More names become familiar, ones uttered on the network about going missing or being fully gone. On one she’d found a little meringue ghost, the irony not escaping her at all. It’s when she comes closer to a familiar row that she stops between a pair of gravestones and just stares.]

….Fuck you Ruana. [The words are a barely whispered hiss, her curious, neutral expression darkening.] That’s not funny.

[Moving forward towards the row of gravestones she’d mentally renamed as Gaia Row, she passes by several familiar names. Reno. Rude. Tseng. Rufus. The whole ShinRa family, lined up in a row. But that wasn’t what had made her stomach sink. It was the pair of chocolate roses resting across the grave of one Cloud Strife. They had made a very amiable connection during his stay in the Tower, working together to keep an eye on Reno, make sure that his head stayed on straight and his nose stayed out of trouble.

Squatting in front of the gravestone, fingers lightly lifted the pair of roses, one after the other, and dropped them into the little bowl she’d found on her bedside. Giving a little sigh, she reached out and brushed pads of her fingers against the etched name, giving the top a little pat as she stood.]

I'll bring you some real ones soon. [Her eyes moves to the rest of the gravestones.] All of you. Promise.

[October 21 - Floor 38 Lounge | OPEN TO ALL]

[Candy collecting was rather hard work, especially in the tower. She had taken a break in the lounge after finding three pieces of blue cotton candy, picking one of the numerous chairs and dragging it closer to the window to look over the scene below. The open fog, the clouds. It could have been a tranquil place to stay if one didn't know that the Tower was on its last legs and their entire environment could shatter around them.

Elena is curled up in the chair, her back pressed into a corner of the wingback, legs hanging over the arm, left foot bouncing to a tune in her head. She would relax here for just a few more moments before going back to the hunt. She didn't want to be lacking in candy when shit hit the fan.]

[October 22nd - Floor 53 Classroom | OPEN TO ALL]

[Since when did the Tower have a classroom? Standing in the doorway, Elena gave an uncomfortable cough before entering, a brilliant red apple sitting on the desk. Fitting. Given the fact she had nothing else to wear by her ShinRa Academy uniform, she looked like she belonged.

But there was just something about the silence of the room, of the desks being upside down, that made her skin crawl. It was a pity she couldn't just leave without finishing her search.]

[October 23rd - Floor 88 Bar | CLOSED TO RENO]

[It been a while since Elena had been to this floor - back when it had been run by dual Reno's and there had been alcohol. Oh, how she missed having alcohol. She wouldn't dare drink the random bottle that might be laying around, still full with questionable contents. That was a risk she wasn't willing to take.

The note had been left on Reno's nightstand, a simple message that would only be discerned by another Turk, after ensuring that all other residents had vacated the room.

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She wouldn't lie, the temptation to lay on his bed for a few moments, but the risk was too great and she was back on the hunt for collecting candy. As the time for their meeting drew closer, she arrived at the location early, scanning the area first for any candy available and then to ensure there no pesky monsters or curious ears.

Once confirmed, she's eying the pool table. There was time for one round of billiards before Reno showed up, right? Right. Balls are racked and then broken with an audible 'clack', Elena engaging in a solo match against time.]

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[Riku usually avoids this floor, he knows what he's fighting for - who he's fighting for - he doesn't need the reminder, but... given the time of the year, and given just who has disappeared from the Tower in the last few weeks (Kairi... Yu...) it seems appropriate, to drop by, to look at the names and remember just how many of them have come by and been send away again.

(So many... way too many... all in danger of being preyed upon by Ruana...)

There is so many graves to visit - Other!Sora, Other!Xion, Ven, Roxas, Terra, Yu, Kairi (and he throws a courtesy glance at Axel's) - all come by (some more than once even) and all gone again. He then stops at the grave proclaiming Master Xehanort... now there is one person he is glad is gone; it's not like there isn't already enough people trying to manipulate things to their favor as is.

He tears his eyes away from that grave to go look for other familiar ones, first frowning, then smiling when he catches the scent of a familiar heart. Chances are that she isn't the same as the one he's known, the one he's asked to take care of Xion in Reno's stead, but he still moves to greet her as if she is, because if she isn't... then well... he'll find out in a second.]

...Hello, Elena.

[Elena had moved, inching down to the tombstone with Reno's name on it. Rusty. That's how they'd differentiated between the pair of Reno's. He'd been something so totally different from the other, a creature she had just barely begun to figure out before he had been taken away. In the quiet of her mind she'd been asking for his guidance, for his help in dealing with the Reno left behind - the one who struggled so hard for all their sakes, no wanting to accept any help.

Footsteps rouse her from what might have looked like a moment of peaceful sleep, eyes opening as her head turns to look at the approaching figure. It takes her a minute to recognize the face, but the voice helps jar her memory.]

....Riku. Its been a while.

Yeah.

[He does look a little different from her last stay probably; his hair is cut short now and his cloths have changed. Still, there is a tiny smile settling on his face when he realizes what her greeting implies.]

So you remember your last time here? [It's not really a question, so...] I'm glad to hear.

[He certainly does, which only adds to the feeling that she's missed so much in her absence.]

I can't decide if that's a good thing or not, to be honest. [A corner of her mouth quirks into a slight grin.] You look like you're doing well.

[Well, she is back now at least; her and not a copy from yet another alternate universe.]

Given what Ruana is planing to do with the people trapped in their homeworlds, I'd actually call it a good thing. [Because at least here they can band together and fight back.] Thanks. I guess, I am.

....You mean Ruana has broken the code of villians and told you what she's up to? [Because nobody has really told her much about Ruana's new level of crazy yet.] That's impressive in its own right, given where we are.

[He snickers at that for a moment, offering her a crooked grin.]

You know, in my experience, if you prod those evil mongers long enough, they just can't help but share at least part of what they are up to.

[It also helps when you are technically part of the council of evil at the time, of course, but that's beside the point.

Anyway, he sobers a second later, because this doesn't actually apply in this case.]

Though, in this case, we have Dax to thank for the heads-up. Turns out he left us some more tasks and clues to help us fight Ruana and Jason.

Huh. I'll have to remember that. Who knows what else we might be able to glean from them.

[Not that she had any intention of speaking to either Jason or Ruana. Zo was one she might consider, if the opportunity presented itself with minimal risk.]

Dax, yes. I've been told about his exploits and what he's done for us. His death as well. Amazing that he turned and helped us all. Its a shame he passed on.

What sorts of tasks and clues did he give us? Any headway made?

[Well, those two may prove exception to the rule anyway from what Riku has observed, which only makes them all the more dangerous. Though, underestimating the admins is a mistake only made once in the tower, at least by anyone with at least a tiny bit of common sense.]

As far as I'm aware what was left to us directly by him has been made sense of, though it's lead to only more questions and there's still a lot of ongoing efforts.

[Delightfully vague, isn't he? It's be come a habit, really; there are only very few places where he doesn't mind talking openly and uncensored about the things that relate to the conflict with their admins for all that it might be information they are already aware of. It's better to be safe than sorry, isn't it?]

This is hardly as fun as playing Candy Crush

Graveyard - I hope this is okay? /o\

This is wonderful yes!

Yay!

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