Tower Aspera » Roleplay

WHO: Hollis and Simone
WHAT: making sense of it
WHEN: early evening, Day 21
WHERE: P6 Seance Room
WARNINGS: tbd

( tower chaos tended to get in the way of plans a lot )

Who: Nathan Johnson
When: After the hospital
Where: Between The Hospital and Lake Acta Aurora
What: Nathan tries to reconnect, and thinks he's broken

( This was different from the foot room. )

WHO: Alexis & Ford
WHAT: Rescuing a princess
WHEN: Day 21, after foot torture
WHERE: Outside the hospital/Felicitas
WARNINGS: ?

( I just want to go home )

Who: Leya & Marco
When: Morning
Where: Leya's room

( Friendship is magic, but magic is also magic )

Who: Julie, Poe, Theo, Sabina
When: Morning
Where: Endurance testing

( It's just a pedicure, it's just a pedicure... )

Who: Warinder and Eris
What: Arts and Crafts and Self Disclosure
Where: Art & Crafts Room on P4
When: Day 21, around 2pm

( Peace through art... )

Who: Cricket and Tanner
Where: North Lounge (P3)
When: Day 21, early afternoon
What: Reading, Writing, Inspiration
Warnings/rating: tbd, probably language

( distraction... )

Who: Alexis, Ravi, Nathan, and Birdie
What: Endurance test
Where: A rather nice room. It is small, but clean and bright. A circular room with warm-toned recessed lighting, and neutral colored textured walls and dark marble floors.
Warnings: TBD, but foot business to start.

( Hey. Hey there. Hey, you okay? I'm Nathan Johnson. )

Day 21.

Weather: It’s a dreary day, with a chill permeating the air everywhere you go. The rainfall is steady, though not quite a storm.

Events: The natural healing abilities of vampires and werecreatures have returned to normal, though vampire blood is still not healing the injuries of others. Healing magic has a slightly higher success rate today, but it’s still failing more than succeeding.

A lot of things are happening all over the tower today!

Regardless of where everyone fell asleep, they will wake up in their own rooms - except for Sabina, Poe, Theo, Julie, Alexis, Ravi, Nathan, and Birdie. More on them later. For everyone else, they are locked in their rooms until a prompt is answered on the network. They will awaken around 8 AM. The message reads:

“It is said it takes 21 days to make or break a habit. Some of you have been here that long now. If you’re to be here an additional 21 days, what is a habit you would like to make or break?”

In the past, when this happens, people have been able to submit any old answer and call it good. Not this time. If a character does not give some sort of actual answer, they receive a jolt through their implant. That’s all, only a short one - as if to say answers in the future might need a bit more consideration.

Gwen, Winter, Ram, Felix, Hollis, Lucy, Simone, and Shep receive an additional message, but this one comes in later - about 10:30 in the morning. It reads:

“Was there anyone in your endurance test that you feel deserves to be punished?”

Answers are NOT posted to the network, but disappear after being given. Answers should be posted as a comment to THIS post, with all comments screened. Answers should be given in-character, how they themselves would type them.

Now, on to the new eight!

They have been moved in the night, and will wake in a new place. Sabina, Poe, Theo, and Julie are in one group. Alexis, Ravi, Nathan, and Birdie are in the second.

Each group wakes up in an identical room. At a glance, it appears to be rather a nice room. It is small, but clean and bright. A circular room with warm-toned recessed lighting, and neutral colored textured walls and dark marble floors. In the center of the room are four comfortable swivel chairs facing each other around a large black panel in the floor. There is the indent of a door in one of the walls, but no handle, and it does not open.

A few minutes after everyone in the group wakes up, a pre-recorded voice places from unseen speakers.

“You will be taking an endurance test over the next two hours. We require that each of you sit in one of these chairs, and remove any shoes and socks. Once this is done, the panel will open, and you will need to insert your feet into the space below. You must keep your feet submerged as long as you possibly can. If you panic and withdraw, we require that you collect yourself and try again. At the end of two hours, whoever performs best may be rewarded. Those who fail to cooperate will be punished.”

Once all four have taken their seats, yes, the panel opens, but they still can’t see where they’re putting their feet. Two circular holes open up in front of each chair, each just large enough for a person to stick their feet through. And once they do, they’re in for a world of unpleasantness. They will feel vaguely insect-like things squirming and crawling over their feet, rising and falling water levels of varying temperatures, slimy sensations, and the occasional bite. Are those really tentacles wrapping around your big toe? WHO KNOWS! Fantastic. And yeah, if you go more than five minutes without your feet in there, ZAP!

After two hours of this, the door slides open and the occupants are free to go. The circular chambers lead into a small concrete room with an elevator. There are no buttons to push on the elevator; its doors open for the groups and automatically takes them to an unknown floor. Which turns out to be the lobby of the hospital.

Once each of the eight test subjects returns to their room for the first time, the door will lock and they will have to answer the network prompt to leave again. Didn’t think you were getting off that easy, did you?

Finally, the pool is a pool again. The ball pit is gone. Sadface.