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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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

[confidentia]

[ Even if there no longer seems to be any need to keep their profiles so low, Ace speaks really quietly, just in case. ]

Makes sense. [ The Tower doesn't seem like the most conventional of workplaces, and it's possible that the researchers rarely ever left it. ] Depending on what we find further in, we might consider relocating our base here for an easier access.

... Depending. [ He repeats, continuing to pay close attention to Kidd's cues as he explores the rooms. ]

[jadethenecromancer]

[The second door Kidd checks leads to a corridor identical to the first one, with more rooms opening up to the sides. These are indeed private rooms, containing beds, closets, and personal items. There isn't a lot of space for everything -- it looks like they were mostly intended for sleeping and little else.

The third door opens up to a larger room, with long tables stretching from one end to the other. There are utensils lying around here and there; a few cups have fallen on the floor. There is a counter in the back, lined up with pots.]

[not_most_days]

Seems to be. There's a kitchen back this way as well. Still, this place seems largely undisturbed compared to all else in here. I don't expect those who occupied this place spent much time here towards the end.

[Furrowing her brow she finally figures out what it is about this floor that bothers her. It's the stillness of the recent occupation, as if people had once been in this place a scant few years ago. Not the centuries that the cycles purport.]

Perhaps it's just me but this place seems in rather good condition considering its age. There's no sign of anyone but...it just feels too recently vacated. Perhaps it's just my own paranoia.

[confidentia]

There's nothing wrong about staying on your toes.

[ Especially in a place like this. All they could do for now is wonder out loud, and so Ace decides to go ahead and give the dining area a better look, heading towards the kitchen. Should there be any food to be found, or, at the very least, remains thereof, it could be an answer as to whether this floor has seen any visitors across the years. ]

[wickedone]

A little close to the Calamity for my taste.

[Albel continued to look around the determined "common area." This was his last choice for a base, even if it was nicely furnished. This close to the front lines, with the Calamity moving -- a Calamity he couldn't fight with his sword, couldn't kill with his own hands. It was infuriating. With an enemy like that, encroaching ever closer, what else could one do but stay away until a real plan was in place? Being here didn't keep the last Heroes from being wiped out.]

[Though... Kidd was right. This was off.]

It's... really clean.

[He gave her a look, brow furrowed.]

How long has this place gone unoccupied? And it still looks relatively... recently used.

[jadethenecromancer]

[There is food in the kitchen... if it can be called that. Something has shriveled up on the bottom of the pots, at any rate. It's so old, it's hard to tell what it used to be.

It doesn't smell very good.

There is another corridor leading out of the dining room. At the end, there are stairs going up to the next floor.]

[not_most_days]

[She shrugs at Albel.]

As far as we've been told [And the weight she puts on the word is telling] we're the first to explore this high in this tower. If that's true then it hasn't been occupied since the last cycle. But then the question is what does resetting the cycle DO exactly?

[Clearly it doesn't clean up after the tower's occupants.]

Ace? Have you found anything?

[confidentia]

[ Still trying to keep his voice low enough, Ace quickly returns to Kidd and Albel, not fully capable of masking his disgust with the discovery that has been made. ]

I would recommend to stay away from the kitchen. It's safe to claim the last meal here was prepared centuries ago. [ He concludes his brief report with a sigh. ]

But I have located another set of stairs, so follow me.

[wickedone]

Ugh.

[Albel wrinkled his nose at the thought. Still, there was something about the quarters that bothered him. He pushed it to the back of his mind for now, but he wouldn't forget it.]

Alright. Let's go.

[not_most_days]

[There is clearly little for them here in this part of this floor. They could continue to search the other rooms later if need be.

The stairs on the other hand might lead to some more solid clues of what is going on here. After all, the tower was drawing them upwards with the implicit promise of answers at the top.]

Lead the way.

[jadethenecromancer]

[The next floor is similar to the last one in that there are hallways leading to more bedrooms. The lounging area, however, looks somewhat different. There are a few armchairs and a table in one corner, but most of the furniture seems to consist of pillows and carpets to sit on, as well as several boxes sitting on the floor. This room has even more empty space than the one below.

Pieces of paper have been tacked or taped to the walls, near another row of computers. There is a flower pot near a window, though its contents have long since died and shriveled.]

[wickedone]

[Albel went first to the papers, hoping for a clue he could actually use. He was useless with computers, after all. The bareness of the room was a little odd, but then again, he'd thought the rooms were odd since the last floor.]

[not_most_days]

[Kidd wouldn't be much help with the computer either. She goes to take a look at the notes and boxes but she fully expects any written clues to be in Ancient, like everything else they've encountered.]