Event: Infighting; Sign Ups

[animusmods]

The Tower shuts down for the month of June in a way it never has before--the clear-collared units seen throughout the Tower are gone, and with it all food in the cafeteria and restaurant. In fact, just about everything seems to have stopped working--there is no heating or cooling system available, dust and grime seems to pile up where normally it used to seem self-cleaning, and even collar checkups stop working, leaving characters who remain in the Tower feeling more and more lightheaded as June goes on, to the point of powers deactivating completely or going wildly out of control by the end of the month. Characters still revive if dead, but there's a delay of at least two days, and often they come back still bleeding and half-broken. It's as if no one is watching the Tower at all...

Because they're not. Slowly characters begin receiving short notes directing them to go to dorm level one, two, or three on the fourth. If they don't go on their own, it will quickly become apparent the retrieval units can still be sent out to gather people up. They are being separated into three groups, controlled by Dax, Riki, and Jason, and they will be taken elsewhere to play a game. Participation means being removed from the Tower until the end of the month. You will have until the fifth to sign up. Be warned that Jason's group may bring severe physical and mental trauma to your character more than the other two, followed by Riki. Dax's group will have the mildest level.

Once all selected characters are split into groups, they will be used to prove which one--Dax, Riki, or Jason--is the best at Tower control. Each group will be tended to by one and only one of the controllers; they will control their group however they see fit and compete with the other two groups. The entire operation will be overseen by Ruana, acting as judge for the competitions.

Dax favors a similar level of control as is exhibited in the Tower when it is at its most normal, Riki favors physics-shattering realities that weigh heavily on the sanity of those living within his walls, and Jason favors surgical experiments to enhance his group. Every week various tasks will be assigned; whichever group does worst at the tasks will have to eliminate one or more members of the group: they will vote for the death of one of their own members.

As for the Tower proper, well, there is one person left who can access the controls who isn't busy playing games...

Please fill out this form if you wish to sign up. Characters who do not sign up will remain in the Tower.
<b>Character Name:</b> [AU#/OU] <b>List the groups from most preferred to least preferred:</b> (Note we will try to place you in your most preferred group, but we also wish to keep the groups fairly even.)

Comments

QUESTIONS

[animusmods]

[deathboss]

WHYYYYYYY

[xthearaneae]

Shhhh babby. Sh. No tears. Only mental trauma.

[animusmods]

because I love you

Re: QUESTIONS

[moontothetide]

So, if we kill our characters off, say...today, on the 1st (I'm writing up a post with baby's first death), they'd delay by a couple of days?

[animusmods]

Correct.

[moontothetide]

One more question - Tara knows a summoning spell that can specifically summon "small objects" to hand, provided that object is already known to exist somewhere. Could she use this to get food bits and pieces at a time, or has the tower literally been emptied of food?

[animusmods]

The Tower has been mostly emptied of food--she could summon food from the farmland that other characters have grown there, and if she can summon live animals there are still some that can be hunted.

[moontothetide]

...okay, I lied.

For those who are still stuck in the Tower, is this a state of affairs that's going to continue throughout the month?

[animusmods]

For the most part; there will be a few little mini happenings within the Tower that will be outlined with the rest of the plot.

/Gorse on wrong account

[keyplacement]

Via the power fluctations near the end of June... Xion absorbs memories of others - though most of the time it only latches on Sora or Roxas (or as Mala and I have both assumed, her AU self).

It's not something she can control, rather part of the programming she was made with, though it's something that could probably be affected by the collars. Would it be reasonable, you think, that if her powers in general were to go out of control, this property of hers might too? And in particular, it might absorb some memories that aren't Sora's, Roxas' or AUXion's? This has happened in canon - in one instance where she pulled a memory from Riku, as seen in this scene (and Roxas gets caught up in the equation IDEK this scene is so confusing I'm not sure if anyone's been able to figure it out).

[animusmods]

This would be possible if you'd like, yes.

[fallen_stage]

When you say "removed from Tower" I assume you don't mean removed from play? That is, will those signing up still have RP opportunities?

[animusmods]

By removed from Tower all I meant was from the Tower setting they're used to; they'll be taken somewhere else and will have an opportunity to RP with each other in the plot that will be further explained, ys.

[doc_brown]

I had two questions relating to Doc:

- He is making and pancakes and coffee thanks to machines he has created- If he is still provided with the ingredients (they were unrelated to the cafeteria), will he still be able to make some during the coming month or not?

- Doc has been working on a Home Energy Nuclear Reactor (he's been able to build one out of Western-era material so I assume in the tower he'll succeed?). My question was, if he tries to power up a floor or the network using it (it's not finished yet but he's gonna work solely on that from now on), would it work or would it explode or something?

[animusmods]

1) Where is he getting the ingredients/what ingredients is he using?

2) At best it would just shut down, at worst it would explode.

[doc_brown]

1) He's leaving it up to Marty and his assistants the task to salvage ingredients from the tower and cultivate what's needed on the meadow/forest floors etc. For what cannot be found he tried to recycle what he could from the bars last month. Otherwise when an ingredient could be not be found, he synthesized it using chemical stuff, it just takes forever more time (that's what he's been doing for coffee- Virtually anything can be synthesized or at least he can make Ersatz of what he needs, it's just. Long, complicated and annoying).

2) If ever it explodes, would it cause a floor or more to be overcome by... Nuclear Radiations?

[animusmods]

1) This would be possible.

2) Yes, and it would last until the end of the month unless it blew up on the dorm floor, in which case it would dissipate quickly.

Re: QUESTIONS

[midgarhorizon]

Question about water: do the bathrooms on the dorms still work?

[animusmods]

Yes.

[pauldrons]

All food in the Cafeteria/Restaurant is disappearing, other than Newbie Only-Oatmeal, but what about the berries/nuts/mushrooms/small animals on Floor 32? Obviously if someone wants meat they're going to have to catch it first, and there's always the chance of sickness from the other stuff, but would it still be there or would it have also have been subject to Food Exodus?

Also, Zack came in with some military ration packs and jerky sticks that are still in his trunk. Would they have stayed or are they also gone and he doesn't have that option anymore?

[colonial]

Berries, nuts, small animals, etc. in floor 32 remain in the Tower. Anything that characters have in their trunks will also remain.

Re: QUESTIONS

[speaks_dirty]

So... With powers possibly going WILDLY OUT OF CONTROL, would Siira be able to hear the 'voice' and screams and agony and all around suffering of the world the tower is on?

Or can she hear it very vaguely (like back home) and towards the end of the months it becomes more clear and agonizing/traumatizing for her?

[denigrator]

Question: is the elevator still working? I assume so, since new arrivals can get from the dorms down to the cafeteria on the first floor? But I just wanted to check, since it wasn't specifically mentioned.

[animusmods]

The elevator is working, but there are no lights on inside it.