[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

[blind_devotion]

Um, most of it, I think. That we're all connected to this network...and we have flashbacks to some other life, that we'll start to change...and that we're in danger.

[elfstoned]

And you've been told who to avoid?

[blind_devotion]

The police, right? And...maybe some others?

[elfstoned]

The police, the military, and ThunderCorp. I believe at least some of our city's organized crime is on ThunderCorp's payroll, as well, but I hope you don't need my advice to stay out of that kind of trouble.

[blind_devotion]

I...don't think that will be a problem.

[Seriously, forget conspiracies, if she hears 'organized crime' she's going the other way to begin with.]

I can't believe how...I mean, they've got their fingers in everything. Whoever 'they' are.

[elfstoned]

Not quite everything, only a lot. Just one business, the police, the military, and some of the gangs. The schools are still free, and the media.

[He pulls a breath, then sits back, stretching his legs out straight.]

As for who they are, we've got a couple of faces, a couple of names, and have even communicated with the thing that seems to be in charge. At least, of local operations.

[blind_devotion]

The...thing?

[That sounded ominous.]

So it's not...human?

[elfstoned]

I don't think so. Or at least, what we talked to wasn't.

...it sounded like a machine. A--an auto-responder. If you asked it the same question twice, it would repeat its answer, word for word.

[blind_devotion]

Oh.

[Well, that didn't sound as bad as she'd thought.]

Then I suppose whoever set it up could still be human?

[elfstoned]

It talked about its operations being -- hmm, what was it -- "anything outside the scope of humanity and nature," I think it was. Though I suppose it theoretically could have been of human origin, I doubt it, considering its stated willingness to exterminate humanity.

[blind_devotion]

[On second thought, maybe it was even worse than she'd thought. She pales visibly.]

Exterminate humanity? Oh god. This is...this is really happening, isn't it?

[elfstoned]

[He holds up a hand, and looks a little like he's sorry he frightened her.]

Sssssh! Yes. Yes, it is.

But you need not be involved, if you don't want to be. There's even a way to forget all this, if you choose to.

[blind_devotion]

Sorry.

[She's pretty embarrassed about freaking out like that.]

That's to leave town, right?

[elfstoned]

[No judgment. This is pretty freak-outable.]

Yes, it is. Step outside the city limits, and you'll be outside immediate danger -- nothing they have will be able to detect you were ever more than normal.

[blind_devotion]

But...I don't...everything I have is here. I don't know if I could leave.

[elfstoned]

That's the choice we all face, isn't it?

[blind_devotion]

I guess...but if I forget everything, what's stopping me from coming back?