[General Log] Tuning Towers, Sept. 22 onward.

[theearth]

Who: Any and all!
Where: The site of Tuning Towers (and/or en route accordingly), at the heart of the business district in Locke City's downtown.
When: September 22nd and onward.
What: Following that mysterious buzzing sound to its strongest point! Perhaps you made plans with numbered associates for a trip downtown, or perhaps you went a-wandering alone to follow the noise yourself - surely you'll hardly be the only one.



[Tuning Towers, the third-largest building in the United States and Locke City's most prominent feature, from a tourist perspective in one sense and quite literally by another - look up and marvel, if you will, should you not be a bit too distracted by the circumstances.

Even if you needed to focus to tune into the buzzing in your brain at the start of whatever trip you took, you'll find that by the time you come close enough to the tower to feel a rising sensation of tremors beneath your feet - unnoticed, as far as one can tell, by the crowds, which almost never lack presence around the building - you'll be able to hear it very easily without even trying. It isn't terribly intrusive in the first couple of days after the return of the lights in the sky. As September moves on and into October, however, the intensity will grow all the more overbearing.

It is, indeed, even worse if you enter the building - only the ground floor is accessible to the unauthorized by the tower's maintenance and management or personnel of the companies making use of it. Apart from that, among the indoor crowds, you'll find nothing unusual on the ground floor - and if you'll find that the buzzing loses its strength the higher you go if you take a trip up to one of the observation floors.]

Comments

[metalbent]

Nah, just worried you'll run off randomly, Pep. You have that sort of feel to you.

[ You know, the shounen hero runny off sort. ]

...So, did you figure out it was a just-us thing before talking to anyone about it?

[unimpressive]

H-hey, I'm not gonna go and get lost! No way! [AW, COME ON, HE... totally would run off, probably.]

...I didn't, though. I was just gonna go look anyway! [A short laugh, more of an exhale than anything else.] All the exciting stuff's been happening to us anyway.

[metalbent]

Well, you'd better not! I'll have to track you down, then, and no one wants that. [ SHE KNOWS YOUR TYPE, PEPPY. ]

Yeah, I'm just thrilled over here. Shining lights! Oh boy!

[unimpressive]

[HE'S INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY... WHICH IS QUICKLY ENOUGH.] Jeez! You won't have to, you won't have to! Trust me.

[Wait, what's that? Just what in the world is she talking about--

...Ohhhhh. And because tact is hard:] Oh, you couldn't see them, huh? But you don't need to see anything for this yet!

[metalbent]

[ Vaughn is so lucky that Sophie actually appreciates bluntness. And is not yet a horror who punches people all the time, although she will gain the ability to aim later on. Yes. ]

Yeah, so you can imagine how interesting all the "wow lights did you see the lights wow gosh" posts were. But this? This I don't need eyes for yet, you're right.

[ She taps the ground with her cane once, for emphasis, before going back to using it to, you know. See. ]

[unimpressive]

[He's safe from painful punches. For now.]

It's just that weird buzzing now, right? That's the important thing! So whatever's making it probably isn't that important to look at. Don't worry about it! [...He hasn't yet perfected the ability to pull inspiring words out of his ass, okay.

Seeing that tap though, he focuses on moving forward for the moment. Boy, the buzzing sure does seem to be getting a little louder.]

[metalbent]

[ SOON. soon. ]

We're in the business district, right?

[ She's trying to mentally keep tabs on where she is, yes. ]

[unimpressive]

[His downfall.

Eyebrows raised, he looks around them, before settling back on Sophie.]

Yep! I guess it wouldn't be that weird if something in here was making the noises, huh?

[metalbent]

Depends. Does anyone look remotely concerned? I don't hear anyone talking about it...

[ and no matter what the location, if no one else but them seems to be responding to something, it's weird. ]

[unimpressive]

[He shakes his head then, remembering she can't actually see that...]

No. [A laugh.] It's kind of weird... It's just getting louder and louder and they don't even flinch!

[metalbent]

Then I think it's pretty weird, yeah. Whatever's making it happen, it can't be natural.

[ she's a bit miffed about that, since she first mentioned "what the hell is that noise" to her mom. ]

[unimpressive]

[Awkwaaaaard...]

You think it's gotta do with... [He pauses, frowning.] It's probably like the water and all of that, huh?

[metalbent]

Probably. I mean...

...unless it's something completely unrelated, but what're the chances of that?

[ seriously tell her the chances of that. ]

[unimpressive]

[He's never been that good at math]

Nothing's impossible! There could be something else only we can hear! [A beat.] ...But I guess if we haven't found anything like that yet, it probably isn't.

[metalbent]

Exactly. And even if it were something only we could hear...

[ She snorts. ]

...Wouldn't it obviously still be related? What else do we all have in common besides the thing?

[unimpressive]

Nothing that I know about! So it's gotta be that! [He's perfectly cheerful now as he says it. Heeeyy, it is still pretty exciting.]

The only question is... Why this noise? What's it gotta do with all the other things?

[metalbent]

They're trying to annoy us to death?

[ Sophie thinks this sounds legitimate. ]

See anything likely? [ don't mind her prodding your arm with a finger. ]

[unimpressive]

If that's what they wanna do, there's just got to be an easier way to kill us than this.

[He huffs when she prods at him, but doesn't protest too much... yet.]

I don't know, I don't know! It all looks the same as ever to me! But if we keep going this way, we're gonna end up running into the Tuning Towers.

[metalbent]

Yeah, but they'd have to find us first, right?

[ And apparently they're not too bad at the stealth thing. Sort of. ]

Tuning Towers? Ugh. We went there once for school; it was boring. ...I guess "tuning" sounds sort of like something that'd have to do with noise, though?

[ She shrugs. ]

[unimpressive]

[...Point.] Ha, I guess so! And as long as we don't tell them anything, they can't really find us.

[As for the towers though...]

Like tunes or something, right? [--No, like tuning.] So that noise could be coming from there!

[Or not. What does he know]

[metalbent]

Well, if that's where you think they are. ...Honestly, I'm not too clear on where we're at. I haven't been down this way often.

[ So it's lucky she ran into someone who could see...

...Who she trusted enough to tag along with. ]

[unimpressive]

[He'd be so flattered if he knew.]

I don't know. I've only been here a few times, too. But we're not gonna find out unless we go check! [A pause.] And even if it's coming from there, at least we'll know we can look somewhere else!

[metalbent]

Well, lead the way, Peppy.

[ THAT SOUNDED PARTICULARLY PEPPY, REALLY. She's so spot on. ]

[unimpressive]

[He can't escape the pep, no matter what he does. Doomed, really.]

Okay, okay, come on! I'm going now!

[True to his word, he's off, at just a slow enough pace to, hopefully, not leave Sophie behind.]

It's just a few more blocks! [he calls back, still moving steadily.]

[metalbent]

[ Sophie isn't having too much trouble keeping up - as long as he doesn't start running, she can follow the leader pretty well. IT'S ALMOST LIKE HE'S A VIDEO GAME PROTAG, OR SOMETHING.

But no, she's keeping pace pretty well, though going with her cane and following the sound of Vaughn. ]

Coming, coming. Geeze, hold your horses!