27 January 2013 @ 07:43 am
[After a long month spent gathering information, pouring over the guide to the Tower he found, and generally just trying to gather his bearings, Mello decides to turn to the network at long last. He never did like the idea of a completely solitary investigation.]

How's it going, Tower? Everyone been having fun? Great. Down to business.

First off, let me say that you're just about the craziest bunch of kidnapping victims I've ever had the displeasure of living with.

I mean, come on. Weddings? Birthday celebrations? I know that people have an innate need to try and make unmanageable situations as normal as possible, but surely there are better things you all could be doing with your time.

Now, this might come as a shock, but I'm not content to sit here and leave myself to the mercy of my kidnappers. I've already read that guide that some of you have put together, so don't bother explaining how dangerous the place is to me, or how there's no way out, or blah, blah, blah. However, if anyone has info on hand that hasn't yet been added to the guide, feel free to cough it up. If our hosts have allowed you to write up that guide in the first place, I'm sure they won't mind my asking for a little more elaboration, right?

Information is key, especially in a place where nothing seems to make sense. I fully intend to make use of it and find a way out. You're free to join me, if any of you are up for it.

All right, now time for a question.

I've heard that we all come from different worlds. That isn't normally something I'd believe, but since I've arrived here, I've seen a ton of strange things, so I'll bite. In the interest of finding out which "universe" I'm from, give me an answer: have any of you heard of a mass murderer named Kira? He kills people - criminals - with heart attacks. Just in case any of you are from one of those "alternate timelines" and Kira hasn't yet reared his ugly head, have any of you heard of a detective named L?

Regards.

-M
 
 
23 January 2013 @ 12:33 am
[ seeing as how its body isn't actually made for speech, the voice in this post is telepathic projection and can easily be recognised as such. Bitties will just receive the post in their heads thanks to Kyuubey's agreement with the bitty brigade to provide eternal hivemind reception.

YOU'RE WELCOME. ]


Greetings! My name is Kyuubey. I've been here for some time now, but I need advice from you all... Well, primarily from the humans amongst you. Namely, what should my purpose be in this universe, when my job was to save mine? If I am the result of a failed line of causality, and this a place that collects the detritus from inadequate realities, what is the purpose of our continued existence? We cannot cease to exist from our own desire, which would imply that we are meant to be, but can anyone claim to have contributed something to this reality? Does anyone believe they have a future, or any potential whatsoever, as long as they exist in this tower?

I'm asking only because as unbalanced, emotional species, you are much more likely to produce a rationale for your existence! The logical answer - that we have no future and no present - doesn't really work, does it? We're gonna keep going anyway... I thought I'd find out what you thought, and see if there was something I can do.

Well, it doesn't matter much. Since I have as little meaning here as you guys, let's all be friends!
 
 
27 March 2012 @ 08:59 pm
attention all tower residents!
willow and i felt that after all the bad stuff thats happened around here we should have a friendship affirmation party
which originally was just a ploy to get our mystery other roomie to come out of hiding
so naoto shirogane if you are here you have to come to this okay?
i want you to be someone more than a name on a screen

anyway
thats how it started but then we decided we would instead open it to everyone
because theres a lot of people here and lots of friendships being made and thats good
so
we will be taking over the fourth floor for a party!
you are all invited
and sollux i dont care if you dont like being around people youre coming with me if i have to carry you there!
same goes for you eridan!
jade eridan i mean
willow can make sure other eridan comes
otherwise i will see you all at the party!


[ooc: log is here]
 
 
09 March 2012 @ 11:10 am
hey uh.
ii thiink ii'm gettiing 2iick or 2omethiing.
they called me down two the iinfiirmary and diid 2omethiing wiith my collar, but now ii feel liike 2hiit.
probably not a good iidea two 2ee me for a biit.
ju2t two warn you.
 
 
02 March 2012 @ 06:01 pm
[Aradia's in front of one of the library terminals, clutching her brand new teddy bear which is her reward for losing a game she was never signed up to play in the first place. This somehow translates as a win for her, which is why she's carrying it around with her rather than tearing it apart or burying it at the bottom of a trunk never to be seen again.]

So, these little guys are kind of cute when they're not trying to kill us. I feel like I should give him a name but I can't decide...I'm sure it'll come to me.

Is everyone okay, though? I didn't last long into the evening so I'm not really sure what happened for a lot of it but it sounds like things got pretty messy. If there's anything I can do to help, let me know.
 
 
24 February 2012 @ 07:55 pm
WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE?
WAS THAT ONE OF THOSE EXPERIMENTS I'VE BEEN SO EAGER TO EXPERIENCE?
OR DID EVERYONE AND THEIR LUSUS SUDDENLY FEEL LIKE GETTING THEIR WICKED MURDERTHIRST ON ALL AT THE SAME TIME?
MAN, WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
A BIG OLD COINCIDENCE, SURE.
I BELIEVE THAT INSTANTLY, TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY.
DO THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPEN OFTEN? AS GREAT AS BEING CHOKED IN THE HALLWAYS WAS, I'D RATHER NOT HAVE TO DO THAT AGAIN.
SELFISH REQUEST I KNOW.
HOW DARE I.
 
 
19 February 2012 @ 09:44 am
 
[A familiar green font as returned to your screen]

It Seems That My Departure Was Not Long Lived By Which I Mean I Have Returned To The Tower
Things Appear To Be In The Same Conditions As They Were When I Was Sent Home
Forgive Me I Have No Information On How To Return Home Or What I Did To Deserve Being Sent Home
I Have Even Less Information On Why I Have Returned
I Would Appreciate Being Filled In
What Has Occurred In My Absence And Has the Pattern Or Small Horror than Large Horror Repeated Again
Have We Found New Ways To Prepare Ourselves
This May Seem Like Many Questions For Someone Who Has Just Arrived So Let Me Introduce Myself
I Am Kanaya Maryam And I Have Been Here Before
How Much Time Has Passed Between My Departure And My Arrival I Am Unsure Of Although There Must Be People Here To Fill In That Gap

Has Everyone Been As Well As They Can Be While In The Tower
 
 
oka wait this isn't going to work >:(

um, is this better?? wait wait ta-da!!!

oh right, um! this is amadeus! i want to ask something that has to do with font!

i know there's a lot of AUs
or OUs
or...whatever you'd prefer i call you!!

but, why does everyone use the same font? doesn't that strike anyone else as weird??? i mean, i don't know why dick (our DM!!!) was insistent, but i'm just curious, is all!

maybe if we didn't all type in courier we wouldn't have all those sad accidents of people mistaking others by fonts or whatever!

not that i think anyone is entitled to keep theirs over anyone elses!

okay maybe this was a bad idea
 
 
09 February 2012 @ 05:04 pm
Something tells me that my world’s not actually been destroyed. Because my world? It’s pretty destructo-proof. We’ve proven that. A couple times, actually. We’re like cockroaches, cut off our heads and we come right back. And some letter saying that you saved me from the big bad--

[ a beat ] Hold on. Who are you supposed to be, anyway? You and your little letter with your little words. Because if you’re not Buffy then i’ve gotta wonder if you’re trying to be her and i’m not sure she’s ever been too big on imitation or flattery being the highest art of anything.

And anyway, if my world had been destroyed, you would’ve saved Buffy, not me. Probably Will, too. I’m not usually the guy that gets picked for these sort of things -- it’s like how I always picked last for dodgeball and put on the bench. I’d probably get picked last for who gets to live in the brand new world order, too.

So, uh, you maybe wanna tell me what’s actually going on? ‘Cause the fake letter really isn’t gonna cut it.
 
 
06 February 2012 @ 10:39 pm
[Teal text appears on the screen, but it is not accompanied by capital letters or numbers.]

I hλve λ problem!
Ψhoever is in chλrge of this tower, I'd lichen it if you could lend λn eλr.
It is λ big problem. I just don't know ΨHλT I'm going to do with this bλd little seed.
You see, this isn't λt λll where I'm supposed to be.
This L-ΣTT-ΣR is λ LI-----Σ! I think it's wreλthsonλble thλt I'm λ little bit UPS---ΣT!

How do I know it is a lie?
Because this isn't what I agreed to.
No, no, not at all.
I was working with plenty of time to spare.
You didn't save me!
Nothing could have saved us.
Except...
Well, you must already know if you've already gone and... interrupted it.

And to be honest, that's making me pretty angry.
Really angry.

I knew exactly what I was doing, and you'd dare to


[The text suddenly cuts off as if the writer has tried to gain a grip on their anger. When it returns, the tone is decidedly more cheerful.]

I hλve no interest in stλying!
So if λnyone could point their fork towλrds the exit, I'd be releλfed. :)


[It then switches to video. A young female troll is shown on the screen. Nothing out of the ordinary for those familiar with her kind.

Except, maybe, for the fact that she looks like she's splattered with a rainbow of paint. Huh. There is a strangely dreamy look on the girl's face, and she gazes at the camera in an unfocused manner, a smear of dark red on her cheek.]


I am Feferi, by the way. I almost forgot my shrubbin' manners!

translation for text )
 
 
25 January 2012 @ 06:24 pm
i dont use this netwwork vvery much
but i guess i should do this or so it seems i dont knoww

i just havve a question an i dont really knoww anyone to ask so maybe some fuckin strangers can answwer it wwhatevver
this is probably a bad idea

so uh
howw does romance wwork for humans?
i knoww you dont havve quadrants
but i thought i should check if theres more to it than that since i find myself in a certain position wwith a member a your species

an dont tell wwilloww i asked this
i knoww she asked a similar question a the collectivve you about troll romance but she didnt tell me until later an i hadnt thought to ask myself so i wwant to keep this on the dowwn loww for obvvious reasons
 
 
12 January 2012 @ 12:23 pm
It has come to my attention that the greater part of you [humans, he means--] remain completely and inconcevviably ignorant of the fundamentals of troll romance. WWhile this is not all together surprising, considering the lack of reading material pertaining to our culture, are you incapable of making any sort of inferences wwhatsoevver? I didn't think it especially difficult to assume an alien species wwould also havve alien customs, nor is observvation from afar a particularly arduous task.
If you still fail to comprehend my forthcoming explanation of a single aspect of our culture, ask a lowwblood to further elaborate; howwevver grueling that may be.

Matespritship is of the flushed quadrant. I expect this to be the easiest for you to grasp, as it is the most similar to human romance. Howwevver, the concept of 'pity' takes more prevvalence. It is concupiscent.
Moirallegiance resides in the pale quadrant. It typically occurs wwhen twwo trolls devvise something of a pact wwith each other in order to counterbalance their traits. As insinuated, one is the instigator, wwhile the other is the pacifier.


[INSTIGATOR OF... WHAT. sure is being inexplicit here]

Kismissitude, in contrast to matespritship, is a rivvalry; though it is also the other of the reproductivve quadrants. It is considered to be caliginous. This seems to be the most difficult for humans to wwrap their thinkpans heads around, as it lacks a more distinct parallel. Consider it synonymous to havving someone you loathe dearly, though also find attractivve-- the description in itself provving to be a markedly shalloww comparison, but that's a necessity. Generally, as it is a rivvalry, it requires the acceptance of equality.
Thus, I suggest you refrain from ostentatious displays of hatred for another of my species here, lest they get the... wwrong idea.


[hint fucking hint. ahem.]

Auspicitization occurs wwhen a third troll intervvenes wwith the relationship abovve. This is to prevvent one another from outright murdering each other, wwhich wwould obvviously vvoid the possibility of a successful filling. It is also to prevvent unitentional infidelity, as a kismissitude can quickly become destructivve to nonparticipants. Its quadrant is the ashen one.
And this concludes the summarization of a sypnopsis.

As for the lesser of the trolls here: Do go on embarrassing yourselvves wwith your purposeful naivveté; it isn't as if there is an entire exposition of the superficiality of human culture in the form of a library a feww floors awway.


[locked to [personal profile] agoodoffen2e]
Some questions regarding your flawwed reality. I suggest you answwer them.
 
 
EB: hey everybody!
so i guess we're all stuck here for a little while?
according to that letter i got, anyway. did anyone else get a letter like that?
i guess you all must be from the new session. there sure are a lot of you, though...
in any case, hi! i'm john!
i created you, kind of.
not really.
i actually kind of don't know!
but i guess this place is pretty cool.

oh yeah, also!
if you see anyone named:
dave strider
rose lalonde
or jade harley

then can you tell me?
it's really important!
thank you!
 
 
15 December 2011 @ 01:49 pm
[Text]

a message to my captors
good morning!
or if its evening then good evening
bit hard to tell what with the lack of fenestration, you really ought to do something about that
anyway hello
to be perfectly level i havent a clue whether this message will actually reach those responsible for my detention
but if anybody does happen to see it id like to request further information
before you ask yes i did see the letters
and yes i did read them!
but they were very short and singularly unsatisfying.
for instance they failed to mention who you are or why i am being imprisoned
or whats become of my companions
or for that matter what in the giggly hell youve got me wearing.
i swear kanaya would go into conniptions if she saw me in this thing :T
anyway please respond asap so we can get all this baloney worked out.
yours truly (for the moment),
- The Emissary

secondary:
a message to my Captor
... and my Nitram too i just couldnt resist that pun :)
where have you boys gotten off to?
dont go hiding just because you look ridiculous!
hehehe at any rate
it looks as if our last adventure may take a little longer than anticipated.
i hope youre not too tuckered out to carry on!
im sure weve all had a nice long nap by now so no excuses
meet me by 2-07 if you can
if youre not here in five shakes im coming after you
this is not negotiable ;)
- TA


((OOC: let me know at any point if you'd prefer I didn't use the red courier fdsakf;jl))
 
 
14 December 2011 @ 01:47 pm
[Molly is still a bit upset from what she saw in her nightmare world but she smiles at the camera anyway]

I'm pretty sure it's December now, that means Christmas! Or Hanukkah. Or Kwanza. I don't think there are other holidays in December. [she looks like she's trying to think of more December holidays, but she shakes her head, nope, no more] We should give each other gifts or something. Maybe do a secret Santa! Or whoever gives gifts on Hanukkah and Kwanza. Do you get gifts for Kwanza? Anyway we can make each other gifts with stuff in the tower!

Anyone wanna do it with me?

[there is a long pause]

...Do trolls even have Christmas?
 
 
07 December 2011 @ 01:42 pm
AC: :33 < *ac paws at the thing around her neck uncomfurtably*
:33 < *she really wants to take it off but is not sure if that is a good idea* :((
:33 < *the mighty huntress also wonders if this is where we go after death*
:33 < *beclaws this is a very strange place to be in!*
:33 < *she pawnders on this fur a moment before making a decision*
:33 < is equius here?
:33 < the two of us were together before i woke up here
:33 < and can we take off these things on our necks?
:33 < mine is purrtty itchy DDX
 
 
11 November 2011 @ 10:01 am
okay, iit doe2n't exactly make up for everythiing.
but all of you troll2 can ju2t go ahead and be jealou2 of my recuperacoon, biitche2.
ii'm gettiing 2uch a fuckiing good niight 2leep toniight, you ju2t watch.
2ucker2.


[Locked to Psiioniic]

thii2 ii2 2ort of embarrassiing.
are you okay?


[OOC: um. What hiatus?]
 
 
14 October 2011 @ 05:21 pm
im fuckin useless and despicable and you dont know that for some reason and aras makin me tell you so im tellin you
in my vversion a things you broke off bein moirails wwith me to go off wwith sol to be matesprits and spend all a your time on pee dee ehs right in my face right in evverybodys face but especially mine
because i wwas alwways flushed for you but you didnt evven care
you didnt care about me at all i guess you wwere just tryin to savve the other trolls or somethin so i dont knoww wwhy i wwas evven clingin to you here wwhen i knoww you dont fuckin care
anywway i had a plan to savve both a us and join up wwith the guy keepin us all trapped in the vveil and i didnt evven care that youd left me i still asked because wwere both seadwwellers
but you didnt wwant to and you and sol came after me to probably kill me
so i stopped you
only i sort a killed you like a fuckin complete failure idiot
so i get it
you dont havve to answwer this
actually no please answwer this so i knoww if youvve seen it because i dont wwant to alwways be wwonderin if you saww it or not
but you dont evver havve to talk to me again after that i get it
im a miserable piece a jetsam
if i wwasnt stuck here id seclude myself awway from evveryone else forevver
its not like it wwould make any difference really
nobody really evver wwants me there anywway


[ooc: whiiiiine. Thanks, Sol. :|]
 
 
[OOC: This post is locked to each individual that Signless has ever met or spoken to, even for a short time. He also has locked it to each of the rest of the trolls, and anyone he's ever seen talking on networks. Basically, while it is locked, if you want your character to see it, you can assume Signless has seen you posting around. Or you're welcome to hack it, because Signless is pretty shitty with computers, anyway.

He's trying to make it open to as many of the prisoners as possible in the tower, without leaving it open to the administrators of the tower - though with his current paranoia, he's pretty sure that they'll find out, from the spies who will certainly see it]


ALL RIGHT, ALL OF YOU FUCKASSES LISTEN UP.
TODAY WE GOT OUR MISSING FRIENDS AND COMRADES BACK, AND FOUND THEM HORRIBLY CHANGED.
OUR FRIENDS WERE TORTURED AND EXPERIMENTED ON BY EVIL PEOPLE, AND TURNED INTO MONSTERS. DON'T SAY IT ISN'T TRUE, BECAUSE YOU ALL KNOW THAT IT IS.
NOT ONLY THAT, BUT WE RECEIVED NOTES TODAY INFORMING US THAT IT ISN'T JUST THESE UNFORTUNATE *FIRST VICTIMS* BUT ALL OF US WHO ARE PART OF THIS EXPERIMENT.
AS IF WE DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW THAT.

THE TIME HAS COME TO TO ACCEPT THAT THIS IS NO REFUGEE CAMP.
MAYBE OUR WORLDS ARE DESTROYED, MAYBE NOT, BUT THAT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER, ANYMORE.
ARE WE GOING TO SIT BY AND WAIT WHILE WE'RE TAKEN ONE BY ONE, HAVE OUR HORNS SHORN OFF AND OUR BODIES CORRUPTED FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF A BUNCH OF PSYCHOTIC SCIENTISTS?
I SAY, NO.

THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE HERE, WITH DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES - MAGICAL AND OTHERWISE.
WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER, PUT ASIDE OUR DIFFERENCES, AND WORK TO FIND THE PEOPLE WHO'VE BROUGHT US HERE AND DESTROY THEM.
IF WE HAVE TO STAY IN THE TOWER FOREVER BECAUSE THERE'S NOWHERE FOR US TO GO, SO BE IT.
BUT WE WON'T BE PUPPETS, DANCING AND SHAKING OUR PLUSH RUMPS FOR THEIR AMUSEMENT.
I KNOW THIS POST WILL PROBABLY ATTRACT THEIR ATTENTION TOWARDS ME, BUT I'M WILLING TO ACCEPT THAT RISK.
IF THEY TAKE ME NEXT, PLEASE, ALL I ASK IS THAT YOU MEET WITH ONE ANOTHER, IN PERSON, IN SECRET IF YOU CAN, AND TRY TO FIND A WAY TO FIND ME.
LET'S WORK TOGETHER, ALL OF US, ALIEN AND TROLL, LOWBLOOD AND HIGH, TO STOP THESE PEOPLE.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.
 
 
09 October 2011 @ 10:10 am
[Someone is totally oblivious to the event going on. People missing? Experiments? He's been hermitting and playing HALO, and doesn't know about it, yet. Are there flickers at the corner of his vision? Just more of his brain playing tricks on him - totally business as usual.

He's got another problem, though, which is reaching critical importance.]


ii can't beliieve thii2.
ii need two complaiin two the fuckiing management or 2omethiing.
who the fuck giive2 a job that iinvolve2 2wiimmiing two a troll who'2 never been iin water deeper than hii2 ablutiion trap?
and they 2aiid ii can't change iit and ii have two go!

how hard ii2 iit two learn how two 2wiim?
doe2 anyone who DOE2N'T have giill2 have any iidea how two do thii2?