Player Plot: The Mysidian Tower!

[jadethenecromancer]

Who: Everyone who signed up for the plot!
What: Jade is taking a team to explore the Mysidian Tower before it'd swallowed by the Calamity.
When: February 8th-12th
Where: The Mysidian Tower on the Continent of Ruin.
Warning: Everything that can be expected of surprise monster encounters. Beyond that, whatever people bring with them.

The Enterprise brings everyone involved to the tower on the afternoon of February 8th. Thankfully the early floors have already been cleared by previous explorers, making the initial entry easy and relatively safe. Once the Heroes start reaching the upper floors, however... Who knows?

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OOC info post
Ground Floor - Campsite
Friendly Monster
Floors 30-39
Floors 40-49
Floors 50-59
Floors 60-69
Floors 70-79
Floors 80-89
Floors 90-99
Floors 100-101 will be open at a later date.

Comments

Floors 60-69

[jadethenecromancer]

[If the previous floors were used for research, these ones clearly used to have another purpose entirely.

Rows of containment units fill the rooms, holding within them things that bear a resemblance to robots. They are all mechanical, some of them gripping weapons – blades, staves, guns – while others seem to have weapons built directly onto their appendages. Some are outside of their containment units, lying still on the floor. Most are roughly human-sized, but the further up the Heroes go, the larger the mechanical monstrosities get.

Thankfully, they’re all inactive, and in any case their mechanisms must be immensely old. It should be safe to proceed… shouldn’t it?]

[they_call_me_sonic]

Sonic let out a whistle as he saw the various robots as they climbed higher. "Man, look at all of this. If I didn't know better, I'd say we'd discovered one of Eggman's fortressses!"

[soldierofloveandbeauty]

Eggman? Sounds like a giant egg that has become human somehow.

[That was not the point of what he said at all, but as Minako looked around, she had wanted to say something.]

But ones gotta ask what is the point of all the robots? Sure probably to fight but these look like they could fight an army or something.

[shinrasfinest]

[Eggman, not that he knows who Sonic refers, isn't the first thing that comes to Sephiroth's mind as he works his way through the containment bays, apprehensively edging around a robot which has fallen in the hallway.

There are a couple of soldiers with him, this time, but most others are on previous floors securing ground, helping to complete more exploration or back on the ground floor keeping camp.]

Hm.

[He agrees with Minako's comment, but keeps to himself his own thoughts on what exactly a mechanized army could have been kept here, for...]

[not_most_days]

[The name that Sonic tosses out is returned by a raised eyebrow by the pirate turned mage, but she says nothing of it. Instead she focuses on their surroundings, eyeing those weapons with a critical eye.

She stops at a fallen one by the containment units, crossing her arms as she looks them over.]

Something or someone was being kept here. And this looks like some sort of jailbreak. Whatever they were keeping here they needed something equally strong to guard it.

[She frowns as she looks for any sign of what it may have been. At least it doesn't seem like it's still here...maybe.]

[thegreatninja]

[Yuffie looks over at Kidd curiously.]

Do you think that something is still in here?

[Considering how trashed the first floors were it might have left.]

[jadethenecromancer]

Hmm...

[Jade kneels down to study one of the humanoid machines. It's not easy in the dark, even with his magic giving off some light.]

It looks like most of them have run out of power rather than been outright destroyed. I doubt there is anything living here after all this time, but... Let's proceed with caution, just in case.

[At least, there doesn't appear to be anything stopping them from making their way up... Though the darkness is making it rather annoying to find the stairs.

Should they look for a light switch, perhaps?]

[soldierofloveandbeauty]

So...if there was power here then they would come back on?

[It was a guess on her part either way as she kept walking. She had no idea what to do or even where the light switch was really.]

[shinrasfinest]

[Though he's not stopped to look particularly closely at the one that Jade has stopped to study, Sephiroth takes the conversation going on between the others on board all the same. He pauses to turn back, lifting his torch back in the direction they've come from; it glints off the metal that makes up the humanoid machine disabled on the floor, affording Jade a little more light even though Sephiroth is keenly aware of the fact that it leaves darkness in front of him.]

Who knows. Just from the looks of this place though, it's been powered down for a significant amount of time.

[Perhaps it might help them to know one way or the other, though; proceeding with such caution in the dark like this only makes progress slower. Sephiroth slowly turns his torch upwards, towards the ceiling, in an attempt to make out what sort of lighting this floor might have if they were to find a way to turn it on.]

[not_most_days]

Given our luck as Heroes it's a chance we need to be prepared for.

[She looks around cautiously, mentally prepping a spell just in case they need to fling themselves into action. She keeps her eyes on the shadows, not watching for specific shapes but for motion. If something is there it matters more that they knew it existed than what is is.

Still Jade and Sephiroth do seem to have a point. Even if something has escaped it likely happened so long ago that hopefully it was no longer alive or functional.

But then, with Precursor artifacts who could ever tell?]

[thegreatninja]

[Yuffie looks at everyone for a moment and then quickly tosses in her opinion.]

When it comes to old stuff... it probably will turn on and then yield nothing useful.

[That's just what she's used too.]

[jadethenecromancer]

Better useless than actively trying to kill us. Shall we move on?

[Walking past the unmoving machines, they do eventually run into the next set of stairs. It's cramped and steep enough that climbing up in little more than torchlight is a test of patience.

Up on the next floor, there is a sense of empty space, suggesting the room is quite large. Still no windows for any light to come through, and the torchlight doesn't reach far.

What they do see near the top of the stairs, however, is the next elevator. At the moment it's quite useless... unless they go around it to the small generator in the back and restore the power to these floors.

What next?]

[soldierofloveandbeauty]

[Minako walked quietly, keeps her arms close to herself for the time being. More empty space more of nothing if she had to admit it to herself really. Nothing interesting at all.]

So...we have an elevator, which we should turn on... Any volunteers?

[shinrasfinest]

[That staircase was surely a test of patience, especially for one of his size when they had others with them, like Minako and Yuffie, who were smaller.

Comparatively the sense of open space spreading out from them on this floor is like a red truck in its difference. The fact that the torchlight doesn't reach very far into the room either, delivers a sense of unnerving. As they spread out, Sephiroth turns back towards the stairwell and shines a light onto the wall where one might expect a light switch to be.

Running the light along the wall it's not long before the elevator box comes into view.]

Has anyone engineer equipped? It might prove to make this quicker...

[Still, he's striding towards the elevator, with the intent to check out the generator anyway with the two soldiers flanking behind him by a few paces. If anything was to dive out of the darkness, there are plenty of eyes to see it.

That darkness though...]

[not_most_days]

[Kidd follows Sephiroth to the generator, not because she's watching out for him but because the device captures her interest. She's made a habit of learning about all the unfamiliar technology she comes across so that she's not left so far behind by the advancements beyond her own era.]

Afraid not.

[She moves to stand by the generator, giving it a good look over, but she's not about to mess with it herself.]

[jadethenecromancer]

[Reactivating the generator turns out to be a fairly simple matter. The elevator emits a soft hum as it becomes operational again, and in just a few more seconds, the lights turn on and the Heroes can see the entire room.

The good news is that there are no legions of mechanical puppets coming to life anywhere in the room.

The bad news is that a hulking lump of metal that had appeared to be merely a part of the wall is now vibrating, causing dust to come cascading on the floor, and slowly starts rising, unfolding itself until it looms over the Heroes. Light flickers in the two small eyes at the top.

Emitting a low rumble, the Iron Giant finally reaches its full height and raises its enormous sword.]

Well, well. [Jade steps back and quickly casts Enlightenment on everyone.] This should be fun.

[shinrasfinest]

[Whereas most others might have been relieved to have the lights come on not to reveal a horde of enemies that particular good news has the edges of Sephiroth's nose flaring; he'd much prefer a fight against however many multitude of enemies rather than picking around in a dusty tower not knowing what's what.

Doesn't stop him from dragging his gaze across the vast space that has appeared before them as his eyes adjust and soon fixating on the Iron Giant as it unfolds itself from where it had been part of the wall nearby.

Enlightenment would have been his first call, as part Scholar, but Jade seems to have beaten him to it this time and so instead Sephiroth takes a couple of long, steady strides away from the generator so that he has ample room to unsheathe his katana. It's shorter than Masamune but he's long since learned the knack of re-adjusting his style for a shorter range.

Stretching out into a battle stance, Sephiroth only glimpses down the line of Heroes who might have formed to battle the Iron Giant, before launching a first-

Power Break - sings along the edge of his sword as he darts in for the first strike; even a glancing blow would lower the physical power, at least. Make it less of a risk for everyone.]