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towerofjamjars2013-10-24 10:04 pm
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1. [Setting: Floor Twenty-Eight] There are musical instruments all around this floor, with a grand organ taking the center stage. It could be a good place to pick up a new skill or two! But wait... what's that? You hear music playing? Well, maybe there's someone already on the floor. Or maybe not... sometimes the instruments play themselves, after all.
2. [Setting: Floor Forty-Five] The walls on this floor are made of glass, which would be nice if there were anything to see. Sadly, there's not much, as the clouds are so thick at this height that you really can't make out if there's anything out there, anything below you, or anything above you. If you hear a skittering sound, that's just the faceless humanoid creatures crawling around on the outside windows. Don't worry, they can't get in... but they will skitter around to watch your every move.
3. [Setting: Floor Eighty-Eight] There's a bar here, and you better hope there's not any alcohol. Most of the time there isn't no matter how hard you look - but sometimes there is, and more often than not even a little bit of it will make you violently sick from alcohol poisoning. But if you're really lucky, you'll just get drunk. There's a pool table in the center of this always-smoky floor, so even if you can't drink you can still act all adult and sophisticated.
4. [Setting: Floor Twenty-Two] Are you a cultured person? Then this is the floor for you. It seems to be an art gallery, and there are paintings from many different worlds on display here - maybe even one or two from yours! But don't get lost, because if you do, you may not like what you see. Paintings of the worst atrocities known to mankind have been known to be on display around here, and if you're really unlucky, you'll stumble across an entire section filled with paintings of the things you fear most.
5. [Setting: Floor Ninety-Four] This is a darkroom, and it's okay if you don't own a camera, because there are a few old-fashioned ones you can borrow to take pictures. Maybe this is a good time to pick one up and try your hand at photography. Or maybe you've turned off the lights, but if that's so, don't look too closely at the shadows. They'll sometimes become humanoid figures that will follow you around, and if you look directly at them they'll possess you, crawling into your throat - you won't be able to leave the floor, and you'll try to kill anyone who enters, but this will only last until you are killed or the lights are turned on.
6. [Setting: Floor Three] A bookworm will feel right at home here, among the towering shelves filled with books of all kinds. You won't find anything about the history of the Tower, though, and you certainly won't find anything about the world you or anyone else here came from, but if you're looking for a tale to read or something to study up on, you're in the right place.
7. [Setting: Anywhere] Uh-oh. That's a monster, or maybe more than one of them. You might be equipped to handle it or you might not. But the question is, what do you do? Do you face it head on... or do you flee? Or maybe the monster has already spotted you, and you're in need of a rescue. That's alright. It happens quite often here.
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Well, I'm certain I saw a young liger a couple nights ago.. and I've heard there's been at least one dragon. Some shadow creatures. The mermaids that'll drown and eat you given the chance.. Mm. The ones like wild animals, but who can breathe fire or are really smart..
[And hey, now he doesn't have to explain i, because Gilles just brightened up a lot. This subject takes less explaining!]
Maybe! Is he a rather enthusiastic young man, about this tall- [There's a gesture; a bit taller than Lorelei himself, who is not that tall] -with reddish blond hair? If this sounds similar it might be him!
[How many people could have the name Ryuunosuke? Maybe it was the Tim of Earth, he doesn't know. He shakes his head at the question of dying, however.]
No. Some are, so it's not uncommon, but a lot were alive. I didn't even have a physical form to get killed before being brought here.
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Yes, yes, he is very much like that, a most enthusiastic and perceptive young man! He has a great love for life, a passion few can match! If it is truly him, then that is good news! Ah, to be reunited with him again... [He certainly seems happy about it.]
You did not? [This new fact catches Gilles attention.] Then what might you be?
[[ooc: I'm really enjoying our thread! If I'm accepted, would you like to make it game canon/continue it?]]
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Such self-delusions allow him to continue without so much as a blink, cheerful.]
I'm certain he'll be thrilled to see you as well! It seemed when we last spoke that he might like the company, at the very least. It's hard to really be enthusiastic about life and adventure when there's no-one to share it with.
[Poor Ryuunosuke had nobody but Lorelei to explore hazardous floors with, and Ryuunosuke still doesn't know that tiny little cheagle can sometimes be a person.]
If you head for the cafeteria you might be able to spot him at mealtimes, that's when everyone goes there.
[The Aggregate pauses, when asked what he is. How to explain it to people who don't know what fonons are?]
I ... am what happens, on my world, when so much elemental energy of one type collects in one spot, it becomes self-aware. My element is 'sound'; in my world I am sound. ..I hope that makes sense, I can try again if not.
[Which might be why he was rather fond of Gilles' abuse of that organ there. All sounds is good sounds.]
[[OOC bit: Sure! 8D It's a lot of fun and how can things POSSIBLY go wrong?? I do hope you get accepted!]]
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There is almost no one dearer to me than Ryuunosuke! He should not be alone. I will see that his every need is met. Ah, for his enthusiasm to flag, there could be few greater tragedies... A great artist should know only the joy of creation!
[It's only the existence of Jeanne that adds the "almost" to "no one dearer" and prevents Gilles from calling this the greatest tragedy.
At Lorelei's answer, Gilles stares. That sounds--incredible.]
A--sound? You are noise? A being of pure loudness!
[It might not have made sense to an ordinary person, but Gilles, delighted by the strange news, seems to catch on at once and, remembering Lorelei's fondness for his playing, suddenly starts to scream at the top of his lungs.]
[[ooc: Excellent! Of course, nothing ever goes wrong when Gilles is around!]]
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It sounds like we should make sure you two cross paths as soon as possible then! I'll help as I can but it's best that such reunions remain private between friends, isn't it?
[Then they can hug and cry or whatever, without having to worry about being ashamed because strangers are watching!]
All sounds! Loud sounds, soft sounds. Babies crying, thunderstorms, crickets, avalanches..
[Lorelei has yet to encounter a sound he didn't like. It was silence that put him on edge. So when Gilles begins screaming as if he's the newest murder victim of the Tower, Lorelei isn't even remotely phased! Sound is a good thing! It's nice to see someone else appreciate it too!]
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[Gilles has no shame.]
How marvelous! That a person can be sound. I enjoy music. And the human voice...
[Gilles enjoys making noise, so he screams some more, then returns to the organ, to accompany his screams with his playing. The end result is a truly hideous concert, but fortunately Lorelei won't mind!
He wonders if a person who is sound is the same on the inside as a normal human... If you cut sound open, does it make a sound?]
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I was sound. Now I think I'm just meat with some sound related skills.
[Lorelei pokes at his own leg a little, frowning. It did seem awfully meatlike to him, and not at all a proper fonon cloud.
That this is a bad idea and might well be enhancing Gilles' desire to see what the inside of him looks like. Lorelei himself was curious but he also wasn't terribly fond of pain. Pain hurt.
For now there is the distraction of pure unadulterated noise. Noise that for anyone else might be ear-bleedingly bad, but by the way the redheaded man laughs in obvious delight and applauds, yeah his idea of good noise vs bad noise is terribly skewed.]
It's so wonderful to meet a human that actually likes sound in all its forms! I like you. Let's be friends.
[Sometimes his methods of operation are a little.. simple. Still, his words don't quite interrupt the screaming and mashing of the organ, audible over it without disturbing it. Controlling sound has its perks.]