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TEST DRIVE MEME

You want to join the game with a (new) character? Maybe you’re simply curious about the premise? Or maybe you just need a sample. Well that’s the meme for you to try and test your character as if they were already in the tower! The meme is open to anyone!

• Reply to this entry with a character you consider apping! Put your character’s name and fandom- Your usual meme thing.
• Comment around with your pups. You can also post and tag with characters already in-game of course!
• Most importantly, have fun!!
• ~~Then feel free to go and reserve and app your character when those open.~~

Have a number of prompts to get you started:

[Floor 29]: This floor has seemed pretty peaceful so far, the maze isn't all that hard and the garden that lies beyond it is rather lovely. Still it seems best to head back now that the sun is about to set and nighttime is approaching fast. ...Is that just the leaves rustling in the wind behind you, or is it something more?

[Floor 56]: Oh this looks definitely like an useful floor - the room stretches into a hospital ward, dusty and old, a surgical suite surrounded by a maze of empty beds. The closer you look, the more you'll find that the first impression is quite deceiving - no medical supplies of any sort, unstable lights and what was that noise just now?! Clearly you are the only one on this floor. Or are you?

[Floor 25]: After all you have seen so far, this just might be the first truly innocent floor you see. But is it truly as trustworthy as it seems...? Many other people seem to think so at least! Come and see what they are up to?

[Elevators]: It's quite a long ride between the Dormitories and the Cafeteria - it probably doesn't help that the minutes and seconds seem to stretch out more and more towards eternity, what a hassle. Are well, maybe there is someone stuck with you and up to provide conversation... or entertainment~

[Anywhere]: Do you still have track of just where you are after spending your day exploring the Tower of Animus? If not, you might want to ask someone... or just start climbing the stairs regardless of where you are! Nighttime is approaching fast...

[Event]: Just earlier this day you have been called for (and/or brought in to) an unscheduled collar check-up, in which the color of your collar was changed. It takes a few hours, but soon you feel the effects of it, feel lightheaded and dizzy, feel all your power slip out of your control. Or maybe you heavy to the point of breaking down on the spot, while just none of your powers seem to work. Either way... hopefully you are at a safe place or in friendly company... That is, if either of these things exist in this tower.

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Princess..!

[Damn. Not fast enough - she can feel the vines around her ankles as she looks to Natalia. She focuses, raises her staff -

She's never been so relieved to see the Spark Plasma Psynergy strike. The vines are the target, and she's putting as much Psynergy as she can into hitting them so they'll at least temporarily back off. It doesn't need to be forever - just long enough for her and Natalia to keep moving.]

Thank you!

[Natalia is deeply relieved as the electricity causes the vines to loosen their grip on her. She jumps to her feet and notches three arrows at once, readying herself to shoot anything that moved, be it plant or animal.

Unfortunately, while Natalia has been freed, Sheba herself isn't too lucky. Staying in place to cast made the girl an easier target for the plants making up the maze, and Natalia notes with some degree of alarm that the plants are going for her. She adjusts her aim and lets the arrows fly.] Look out!

[Getting out on foot isn't working -

Sheba turns her head to look as Natalia's arrows whiz past her, and her face drains of all color when she sees what had almost grabbed her. Even with the arrows, there were still lots of plants - they were coming on Natalia's side too -

Up and out. That's the easiest way. Hover works best in areas where there's concentrated Jupiter Psynergy, which means a quick Whirlwind at Natalia's feet - scaled down, not enough to hurt - and then she casts Hover.

She feels the vines curling around her ankles, up her legs. She's going to have to act fast if she wants to get out of this. But first things first, Natalia needs to get out of here. She can't let someone die on their first day. Unless the princess has moved out of range, she'll probably feel the sensation of being lifted into the air.]

Princess! When you get above the top of the maze, go for the stairs! I'll follow you out!

How are you-?

[Natalia cuts herself off before she has even finished the question. It's obvious: The girl is a fonist, and she's manipulating the fonon of wind. Thanks to Sheba's efforts she finds herself weightless, positively buoyant. She rises above the maze and it's then that she can see the stairs. They aren't too terribly far away.

She hesitantly attempts to take a step forward and to her surprise it works. It's like walking on air, whatever this is. She looks back down and sees that the plants are doing their work fast: The vines are already up to Sheba's waist. She can't see how the girl is going to get out of that.]

But what about you-?

Just keep - ow! - going, and don't stop for anything!

[If Sheba didn't know better, she'd say someone had cast Mad Growth. These vines feel like stinging nettles, and the leaves shouldn't even have teeth, but it feels like there's teeth ripping into her flesh nonetheless. She makes the mistake of looking down when there's a sharp pain and sees the blood.

Damn it--!]

I don't know how long Hover is going to last if this stuff gets me, so go! Get to the stairs, and go down eight floors - there should be an elevator there! Take it to the dormitory floors, it's safer--

[She doesn't get the chance to finish because her words are cut off by a scream as something cuts into her gut. She looks down and there's a gash there, blood seeping out of it and staining the front of her tunic. The nettles drag across it as if enjoying the taste and she bites down hard on her lip to keep from screaming again.

This isn't going to be pleasant and she knows it.]

[It feels fundamentally wrong to simply leave her behind. Realistically, however, Natalia knows that it is beyond her power to save Sheba now.

And Sheba is brave, commanding her to keep going. She's chosen to accept this. If Sheba is willing to die to save her, then she absolutely must not allow her sacrifice to be in vain. She nods and makes a run for the staircase, doing her best to drown out the sounds of the plants eating the young girl alive.]

[Sheba tries to shake off the plants for as long as she can, knowing that if she allows herself to die and the Hover Psynergy cuts out, Natalia will be dropped into the exact same situation as she's in.

But damn it, it hurts - it takes everything in her to not just give up. The faster she dies, the faster the pain will stop, and it's ripping into her flesh, wrapping around her limbs and tightening and ripping and tearing -

As Natalia reaches the staircase, she'll hear a piercing scream, then an eerie almost-silence as the scream echoes. When the last of the echoes fades out, the Hover Psynergy cuts itself off and deposits her on the steps.]

[Natalia doesn't stop to catch her breath when she makes it to the stairs. She simply keeps moving, taking the stairs three and sometimes four at a time until she has cleared enough landings to make it to the elevator. She slams her hand on the button to call it and then finally allows herself to relax as she waits for the elevator to arrive.

It isn't until it does, and the doors slide open and then shut after she steps inside, that she realizes she never asked Sheba's name.

Sheba's scream echoes in her ears and she closes her eyes to attempt to block it out.]

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If I get in, can we say this happened? It gave me an idea for an intro network post.

That's fine with me!

Thank you! :)