Color me curious but if I offered martial arts lessons or lessons on how to use whatever weapon you've got, how many of you would be into it?

Pretty sure I'm going to do it regardless but I still want to see who'd be into it. Or if someone else is already doing this.

[After the last event, Chloe finally opted to speak to the network openly. Admittedly, she had already seen the requisite reactions to the event, and part of her detested reacting to something like this. It was merely another creature looming over with her, toying with her mind. Whatever lessons she could glean about an eternity spent in this tower meant very little to her.

However, eventually, introductions were bound to be in order.]

This cage is not so gilded as the last one I was drawn to, but I do not know that it is such a bad thing. Our hosts are certainly as prone to entertaining themselves at our expense as those I knew before. The accommodations lack a certain amount of privacy, but I think that I can manage. Still, to my fellow 'guests,' I bid you a welcome if that is the sort of thing you enjoy. If you are to eat the mushrooms, do be careful which side you eat from.

Would anyone happen to have any suggestions on which route to the morgue is preferred?

[And then, her hand wavering near the button to cut the feed off, she turned and allowed herself a nasty, cunning little smile. She felt an old itch that she wanted to scratch today, so why not give into the temptation?]

Oh, and ... Rolo was it? Do not mistake the imaginings of our host's mind alterations for reality. She has always been mine. She always will be. You aren't the first to try to take her away from me, and I do like to think that I learn from my mistakes.

"--was necessary." Riki, looking distracted and hunched over some sort of monitor, doesn't seem to notice that one of the more out of the way displays is now displaying him.

Dax, his back to the display in question, doesn't notice either. "Maybe for you to finish your project, but surely if you had to distract them--"

"Couldn't watch the doors, needed to keep 'em from breaking in."

Dax doesn't seem to want to continue that line of thought--he opens his mouth, sighs, and switches subjects. "Your project isn't really necessary either. And the distribution of materials isn't efficient."

"You always say that." One of Riki's hands stretches out into the air beside him and a holographic monitor ripples into existence. There's a number of charts and status reports on the screen, but it's too small to see and is quickly pulled into Riki's field of vision and out of sight of the monitor. "Gone soft on us."

Dax's sigh then is especially put-upon. "Morality isn't "gone soft". I suppose it could be worse. Ruana's taking over next, after all. She's--worse than Jason, though I don't know if they realize that."

Riki glances sidelong at Dax, pausing from whatever task is at hand. "Shouldn't say that sort of thing."

Looks are exchanged between the two men. Then the display crackles and distorts and for a moment fingers torn and clawing and bleeding on the screen.

Ruana bursts into the room. "Good morning! Is there really going to be a wedding? Oh, that's so exciting! So romantic!" She drapes on Dax--though when did she even hoist herself up onto the taller man? It was as if she'd just appeared there. She smiles at Dax, all lovestruck teenager. "Don't you agree?"

The display flickers again, and hands reach out to Dax, cling and tug and tear and rip and bleed--and then the screen flickers back to normal, and Dax is standing there the same as always.

The video feed turns off.

WHAT WAS THAT?

Did anyone else see that administrator thing?!

Even Ganondork can't exceed that level of freaky freakiness.

It's like ReDeads except worse.

Well, that was... Something. The video, I mean. The, um, "experiment" was interesting too.

[ There's a slight pause. She decides to switch the topic to the experiment since she had nothing to say about the video. ]

Speaking of that, I never got to apologize if I said anything weird or... obsessive during the days I was affected. It was really embarrassing, so I'd like to forget it if I could. I mean, I don't really remember much of the event but I know I said some dumb things about some people and they didn't deserve that.

[ And silence. This is awkward. ]

[It takes a moment for Meiling to realize that the video was on but she doesn't look like she's all there right now. Both the video and someone going missing just hit her hard and she looks quite lost.]

What...What was...

I don't understand why.....Never mind. I'll just go to think.

[She then shakes her head and turns it off. She's going to stick around the terminal for a bit and then take off to the Graveyard floor to sit quietly]

[Xion doesn't check the network a lot, but she does still do it every once in a while, and... to be honest she's glad she did so today. After seeing that network post, from the admins.

It took her a little while to work out what to do, because if Ruana might be coming... She didn't know. But all she knew was that this was the first good thing to happen in what felt like a long time, and she knew Reno was already upset about some of the things that had already happened since her last network post.

After a while, she sets up the feed, then filters it, firstly from Reno and Elena themselves since she's not sure what they'll think, and then from at three people she knows she doesn't want to see this.]

Please... I know that some of you already know about this, and some of you may have heard it just now on that... video, but... there's going to be a wedding, for two of my friends.

I really, really want this to work. A lot of bad stuff has happened lately, even for the Tower. I just want this one thing to go right, even if it's just for a little while.

The wedding is going to be soon, so... I wanted to ask for help. If there's anybody who can be there, to make sure... that things go okay, or at least keep them from getting too bad, then... please let me know. I'll be in the lower library, if you want to talk there.

And... to the admins, I don't know if you're listening but please don't do anything that... [Keep it polite, Xion. Dax was helpful when you asked about stopping the memory absorption] that might hurt them or mess the wedding up. They deserve to be happy. I want them to be happy.

Please.

[[ooc; If your character would like to get involved with the wedding at all, the details/signups are here and here! Also Xion will reply to this network post, but can also be found at the library]]

What wedding? I didn't know there was a wedding...

Are you listening? Hey!

[Wriggle bashes the terminal a few times and leans in closer as if that would help her see them again. She looks slightly uneasy but still curious]

Where'd you guys go? What else were you talking about?

Hey!

[She can barely recall the memories of using the terminal as an adult and she'd been fiddling with one when the video feed had suddenly turned on. It doesn't seem like she has any idea of what she's doing]

I'm going to miss being taller...

[She hesitates for a moment, looking like she wanted to say more... before she turned a brilliant shade of red and reached forward, fumbling with the computer.]

[Private: Yu and Rise]
[And she settles back once it's private to her brother and his girlfriend.]

U-um... onii-chan, Rise-chan... I need to ask you something...