Ω → eight [audio; open to action]

[oforder]

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows — not even God.

[ A pause, after reciting an old quote from a certain philosopher Wilhelm may or may not have an attachment to. There's some soft music playing in the background, but the volume, for once, is turned down to where it's barely audible, just loud enough for a listener to know that it's there. ]

This Tower has endured much. The revelations of our true nature here, the Promethean fall of Dax, and the fate of our worlds...

[ Yes - Wilhelm admits he was wrong about the worlds. It appears the Administrators mislead him. Well played, well played. ]

Though there is but one detail that still eludes me. Something I believed inconsequential to the grand scheme, until now.

What exists outside of the Tower?

[ Yes; there is a reason he is asking this. He leans back into his seat, in his small corner of the library he claimed as his own long ago. Those that regularly spoke with him knew where to find him. ]

Comments

[Action]

[sunflowerfairy]

[Sometimes Yotsuba wandered around the library, looking for more wonderful gems, like the stories that Lucifel had told her. Of course, she was also considering taking a few books and reading them to people when they got really sad, so that she could further help the grown-ups and everyone else be happy. Lucifel said that hugs and patting heads worked well and that she was a master of them, but maybe books could help her a little too.

However, those thoughts went out of her head when she wandered into a corner or the library and saw a man with white hair sitting at a desk..with odd music playing.]

What's that music?! Yotsuba's never heard it before!

[Action]

[oforder]

That is called a 'symphony.' It is performed by an orchestra.

[ A child? The Administrators were truly cruel to bring a child here. This one looked no older than six. Of course, six years might as well be a nanosecond to someone as old as Wilhelm. ]

Do you like it?

[Action]

[sunflowerfairy]

I do! It sounds cool! But..Yotsuba doesn't know what a silphany is. Or an orchestraw! Do you know?!

[video]

[sacrament_of_blood]

[The screen shows what looks like an older teenager in the white jumpsuit and a violet collar.]

You seem to know much about this tower. I would like answers about those things you spoke of.

[video]

[oforder]

I believe that I have been here for over a year, now. Though, my perception of time may seem foreign to those who are not like myself.

[ She must be new, here. ]

Which?

Re: [video]

[sacrament_of_blood]

Our true nature. This Dax. The fate of our worlds.

[anontext]

[idkworldruler]

Why don't you make like a bird and find out?

[text]

[oforder]

The Whale that crashed into the Tower before came from outside, didn't it?

[ See what he's getting at now? ]

[Anontext]

[idkworldruler]

Yes, and one has to wonder what it was thinking when it did crash. Maybe it was like the pot of petunias that generated in the atmosphere. If we knew that then we would know more about the Universe wouldn't we?

[He does.]

Though those shouldn't be the only questions left unanswered.

[Video]

[taintedwhite]

Maybe there are the other people from the destroyed worlds who didn't manage to get into the Tower yet?

[Video]

[oforder]

[ Huh. He thought Wretched Egg would be all over this. Oh well. ]

That is always possible.

[Video]

[taintedwhite]

It is, right?

...Should we help them get in, then?

[action]

[fionnuisce]

...Putting aside the overdramatics and the Nietzsche quote, that is indeed the question many seem to overlook. [Waver placed whatever book he'd been holding back on its shelf, glancing over his shoulder.]

I would be inclined to answer 'very little' given what few outward glances this place actually grants. But that would be a vast oversimplification, I'm sure. Just because one hasn't seen much hardly means there's nothing to see.

[action]

[oforder]

[ It wouldn't be Wilhelm if it didn't come with dramatics. Only he can make a creepy monotone sound dramatic. ]

The Tower exterior has been breached before. That would indicate that life does exist outside of the Tower, wherever that may happen to be.

[action]

[fionnuisce]

I would think the pressing question less 'where' and more 'what', personally.

[Video]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

[The video shows a teenage girl, dressed in black with large scars all over her face.]

Funnily enough, I just assumed that nothing was outside the tower.

[Video]

[oforder]

Are you a recent addition to the Tower?

[ The scars don't phase him. He's seen far, far worse. ]

[Video]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

That obvious?

Name's Veronica.

text

[terreifying]

idek
but i lik 2 think its a good place

text

[oforder]

Your optimism must serve you well.

Re: text

[terreifying]

yep it does
hey better than worrying about things taht might not happen

voice;

[chainsawn]

The world.

[ It's a pretty simple answer, but it's just that simple in the girl's mind. This tower is just part of its own world, right? So there's got to be a world outside the tower, just.. surrounding it. No matter what it might look like. ]

voice;

[oforder]

I was looking for something a little more specific than that.

Audio;

[blockspenguins]

Outside...the tower?

[[To be honest, Endou hadn't given that much thought. Whenever it came up, he just sort of assumed...things. Existed. Outside the tower. Something had to exist out there, right? But...well, what was a good question.]]

Hmmm...well...what if nothing exists outside the tower? What if we're just floating around in space!

audio;

[oforder]

I would need to think of an alternative explanation for events in this world's past, then.