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Counter Guardian Arturia @ Tower of Animus ([personal profile] no_longer_a_king) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-12-15 08:36 am

ITP: Tears in reality

Characters: Arturia and OPEN
What: Arturia does her job pre-event and investigates Floor 23 mid-event. Further prompts to be added as the event progresses to avoid spamming the comm.
Where: Circus Floor and Floor 23.
Warnings: Clowns. Possibly other things that come up.


[A: FLOOR eighty; CIRCUS FLOOR; PRE-EVENT]
Two in the afternoon: Time to go to work. As embarrassing and boring as her assigned 'job' in the Tower was, it gave her something constant to do during the day. Busy as she was between the research, her maps, and training Shirou, it was somehow comforting to know she had somewhere to be during the day. Something she had to work her day around, even if in her mind it was entirely optional.

Now if only the ring leader would stop sounding so disappointed about her performance. What did he wish her to do: dance? Her job was simply to take this too-lacey umbrella from one post to the other on a tightrope, nothing else. For a being like her it was a simple matter, something that took less than a minute. The only reason she stayed longer than that was to ensure no one got too close to the clowns. No need for them to make jump ropes out of the audience's intestines, if they had an audience at all that night.

Anyone wishing to speak with her after her minute on the tightrope would find her patrolling just inside the audience's seating, Caliburn in hand, occasionally glaring at a few clowns who strayed too close.

[B: FLOOR 23; Elevators; EVENT]
There was no better chance to map this particular floor than right now, even if she knew she had to be quick about it. There was much to be done and now that Aria was out in the open. Many opportunities, but that would have to wait until Between knowing what they did about the collar fluid now and the fact the chipped units were making a safe house of sorts for them, it felt like things were about to come to a head. In a way they were, as the residents of the tower were surely about to actively oppose Jason.

What looked like a rip in reality itself in the floor did not bode well in any way. It was not too big, no, but there was definitely something trying to push through and for the life of her Arturia had no idea what. Some part of her was thinking Jason, but no. He would be too busy right now. So what was it in there and was it one of the many things they were supposedly being protected from?

Once she was done with a quick sketch of the floor and a few notes on the tear, she knelt down by it, studying it closer, Caliburn in one hand just in case. For all she knew the tear could give way at any moment and whatever was on the other side intended to tear everyone here into a fine paste. If such a thing happened, she needed to stall it for as long as possible.

But what could it possibly be?
fionnuisce: (it was your heart on the line)

floor 23

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2013-12-15 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Waver had found his way to the twenty-third floor as well, largely out of some morbid curiosity. He watched the tear in the floor intently, arms folded and a look of concentration on his face.

"I feel somewhat compelled to ask whether we're actually seeing the same thing here. Given this place's tendency to skew reality on a daily basis, that is." With the glamour system being the most obvious offender when it came to what was being witnessed versus what was reality, Waver thought a healthy dose of skepticism and double-checking might have been a good idea.

"Following from that, what do you think it is?"
neverbeamemory: (Intrigued)

Floor 23

[personal profile] neverbeamemory 2013-12-15 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
For once, that feeling of having passed through a floor that he'd simply forgotten passing through isn't there. Like running into an invisible wall, realizing that, Sephiroth stopped suddenly only two steps up from Floor 23, before backtracking and peering out onto that floor-that-is-never-perceived. It looked terribly foreboding what with all the emergency lighting in the stairwell.

Arturia's head was spotted first in the darkness, next to -what was that? it looked like-

A deep frown distorted Sephiroth's usually well-controlled expression as he ventured out onto the floor and carefully approached that point on the floor.

"That certainly doesn't look healthy."
oathshackledbird: Profile (Profile)

Floor 40 (Pre-Event as planned!)

[personal profile] oathshackledbird 2013-12-15 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Seeing Diarmuid on a patrol is not so unusual. What is unusual is how distracted he seems. There is much on his mind lately. Ever since the fight with Sephiroth, it seems like every time he's turned around there has been a new question in his mind. New questions, but never new answers. Though talking to others like Lancelot and Reno have pushed him closer to finding his answers, nothing solid has settled into his mind yet.

The fact that he over thinks everything isn't helping either and, it's this over thinking that almost causes him to miss her back in the clutter of the storage floor. However, once he does notice her, Diarmuid can't help but stop and call out to her.

"Still working on your mapping, Saber?"

As the words leave his mouth, though, he realizes something if he dares to mention it. He should ask her. Ask her about how deal with the questions that plague him, but...

Diarmuid frowns. Speaking of failed knights and dishonorable actions would upset her, and his problems aren't that important. He shouldn't. This is something that he should be able to do with on his own...
scentofmakai: (we feel so empty)

Floor 80

[personal profile] scentofmakai 2013-12-15 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's trying not to look too obvious about it, but it's hard to blend in when very few people are on the circus floor. So it's pretty plain to see that there's a boy with a pad of paper sketching something, and if Saber comes closer it'll be pretty obvious that it's her.

Sorry. You were mentioned a lot.]
idkworldruler: (Out of the darkness)

[personal profile] idkworldruler 2013-12-15 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
A tear in space and time wasn't exactly anything new for him. The entire reason why everyone was here was most likely do to one such tear. However what drew the gas mask clad, young man here was the feeling and sight of encroaching blackness. Again, nothing new, such darkness and light, always threatened to swallow everything in a moment's notice. But with the administrators being supposedly incapable of viewing what was going on in the lower levels, it sparked a bit of alarm.

And it appears as thou he wasn't the only one taking an interest. "I wouldn't get too close to that." He called out to Arturia.
fionnuisce: (it was your heart on the line)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2013-12-16 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds about right from my perspective." he confirmed, mindlessly fidgeting with the newly-repaired sunglasses in his hand. After a moment's silence he stepped forward, leaning over the tear and scrutinizing it as closely as he dared.

"If this is just an elevator waystation, I'd go so far as to say this isn't what one would call a standard fixture." A deadpan and obvious remark, but one that Waver said regardless even if only to think aloud. "Jason being behind this in a literal sense seems highly unlikely as well. But in a less literal definition of the phrase, do you think he could have opened it for some reason?"
scentofmakai: (we're a different pair)

[personal profile] scentofmakai 2013-12-16 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
It's a nice show, if you ignore the clowns.

[He stops sketching as he talks.]

It didn't seem like you enjoyed your part, though.
idkworldruler: (Interesting)

[personal profile] idkworldruler 2013-12-16 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps the said person was hiding something? Or perhaps they just looked really cool with it on. Either way, it was there and he doesn't look like he would be taking it off any time soon.

That said, he shrugged his shoulders. "Perhaps I am for the moment. Are you well?"
scentofmakai: (they can take our fists)

[personal profile] scentofmakai 2013-12-16 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
For normal humans, it's a pretty difficult challenge to balance and walk on a rope without falling.
fionnuisce: (speak to me)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2013-12-16 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Hm..." Waver didn't speak at any length about what Saber had said; his attention was focused on the rift even as he placed the sunglasses neatly back on his head.

"...Saber, what do you make of the psychoradiation itself?" Even if she didn't have any idea, it was worth asking. Vague concepts were better to form ideas from than nothing at all.
scentofmakai: (but most do not)

[personal profile] scentofmakai 2013-12-16 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
That's his job, to make it sound interesting.
idkworldruler: (Studying)

[personal profile] idkworldruler 2013-12-16 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Riots come and go. It is nothing to worry about. Lets start a riot." His reply was nonchalant and monotone. He didn't care all that much about others dying or being harmed, to him it only served to further the agenda of the administrators, as well as his own. In his eyes there were far more pressing matters at hand in the coming days. "...Dark days are coming...." He muttered to himself under his breath, a bare whisper that she probably wouldn't be able to hear.
scentofmakai: (faces and condensation)

[personal profile] scentofmakai 2013-12-16 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
It's how the job works. You're a little hard on him.

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