Endgame: Gathered on This Beach of the Tumid River

[animusmods]

Characters: open
Setting: all around the Tower from the 25th of May to the 1st of June
Format: any
Summary: A general mingle for all characters throughout the Tower.
Warnings: Standard Animus warnings; please note anything specific in the subject headers of your threads

[The Tower is stagnant, the only signs of activity confined to the second block. There isn't much time left; it might be a good idea to rest and do whatever strikes your fancy before the timer hits zero.]

Comments

various dates - floors 12, 48, 20, and 41

[gloomyapoplectic]

1. 25th-27th, staircase by floor 20 or floor 41

[Well, those retrieval units are an unfortunate development. Kanaya has never known the red-collared drones to be particularly friendly, but especially now that things are coming to an end and Ruana is no doubt upset, it can't be very safe to wander around where all the drones are.

So, Kanaya stands guard on the staircase for a few days; occasionally before where the second block starts, and occasionally after where it ends. If someone looks like they are going to pass by her, she offers a word of caution:] Please proceed carefully. There is an unusually high concentration of retrieval units this way.

2. 29th, floor 12

[Karkat once admonished her for spending time on this floor, but Kanaya can't help it. It invites contemplation in a way that few of the other floors do, at least in her case. It makes her think of the Scratch, and the fact that even if their worlds are restored, there is nothing left for her in the Veil.

She sits on the floor and watches the destruction of many universes dozens of times over, at least when the glamour isn't glitching. If anyone lingers on the floor, she presents a thought.] I hope we will have a choice in going home.

3. 30th, graveyard

[She's always been pretty wordy. There's a plentiful reservoir of words, big and small, in her well-read sponge.

But when it comes to the important ones, she can never just spit them out.

She stands at the grave of one Vriska Serket, the one she knows to be of brown blood, as the headstone appeared when she vanished.

Kanaya has to take a deep breath, even now, even knowing that Vriska couldn't possibly hear her now, will never hear her from wherever she is.] ...I love you. I am sorry that I was always too cowardly to tell you.

Floor 41

[wrigurun]

Huh, is there?

[Wriggle hadn't been planning on going any lower than this floor anyway but it was still good to know. For someone who spent most of her time in the tower totally clueless she's starting to sharpen up]

They're not gonna come up here are they?

[gloomyapoplectic]

There are.

[Kanaya casts a cursory glance down the staircase, considering Wriggle's question.] I do not think so. I have been able to stand guard here without provoking confrontation. [She assumes that if they were going to come up any higher, they already would have.]

I am not sure they would not give chase if someone led them this way, but I am not going to take it upon myself to investigate.

2.

[knightime]

Don't we all?

[Not that he's trying to be gloomy about it, but he's sure everyone here wants to go home. Well, maybe mostly everyone. He's sure there's a few people that might think otherwise.

Back home meant going back to SBURB, but he's been behind on events for awhile and he didn't go through all of that to not see to it to the end.] Got shit to do back home, yeah?

[gloomyapoplectic]

[Kanaya turns her head up towards Dave. She searches his face for a moment, but it's hard to read him with the tinted protective bulbgear obscuring his gaze.

Her shoulders heave with the weight of her sigh.] No, actually. I will cease to exist if I return to my restored universe. [Even though it's been awful here, at least she's gotten to live. She's made new friends and come closer to accepting herself. She doesn't want to go home just to die, after all that.]

[knightime]

[That kind of hurts to hear. It reminds him of the Doomed timelines. The idea that they will eventually cease to exist if they aren't the alpha timeline.]

Would you stay here if it were a viable option? [It's a hard question for some. This place wasn't great, but it also wasn't always terrible. The people made it endurable and enjoyable at some points.]