[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/uurhDHh.jpg[/img][/center][hr][color=mediumorchid]“Oh, you’d like that, wouldn’t you.”[/color] Before Rose could stray away too far from her would-be companions, she was halted by a voice from the darkness. As if stepping out of the room’s background the air in front of her turned corporal and stared back at her. The [url=https://i.imgur.com/nfG4G9N.jpg]figure[/url] raised two arms up to shoo Rose back down the stairs where she came. [color=mediumorchid]“Wouldn’t want to leave the rest of you hanging, right? Stick around a little!”[/color]

The being draped an arm around Rose’s shoulder before slowly leading her back down to the others. [color=mediumorchid]“See? Everyone’s waking up from their hangover. Crazy kids you are.”[/color] Thankfully it looked like there didn’t need to be too many setbacks. All on their own the kids were beginning to deduce the most logical conclusion, as logical as one could get in Miso City. Where else had they landed in but the Tower of their dreams? Wasn’t this what they wished for.

Letting go of Rose, the mysterious figure turned his head down the line to get a good look at each of the Tower’s newest occupants. Or at least, of the ones who had awakened. [color=mediumorchid]“There should be more of you. Don’t tell me you’re still sleeping on the job,”[/color] he mused. And indeed there were still some of them unconscious on the ground but they couldn’t stay that way for long. Probably.

[color=mediumorchid]“Oh, I like her a lot,”[/color] the mystery man said, pointing at Umi directly. Then he moved on to Tokuda. [color=mediumorchid]“Huuuh….not much of a thinker this one. How come he gets the harem though, lucky bastard….”[/color] His arm was pointed next onto Akiko. [color=mediumorchid]“Wow. You’re kind of scary-looking. Remind me not to poke you at night.”[/color] Last of course was Kanbaru, who the mystery man cocked his head at curiously. [color=mediumorchid]“Sheesh, I think you’re the neediest one here. Nope, nuh uh. Not even touching your business, Sea Salt.”[/color]

The mysterious figure crossed his arms and shook his head, mumbling words under his cloak and ignoring whatever responses the kids could give him. For a certain amount of time that is. [color=mediumorchid]“Hmm? Oh, right, right. To gain is to lose. To lose is to gain. That is the law of the Tower….it’s what I always say.”[/color] The man whirled his arms in a majestic flare of motion.

[color=mediumorchid]“This place is crawling with all kinds of monsters and things that’ll blow your mind sky high! But I wouldn’t be too worried about what’ll you meet. Or who you’ll meet,”[/color] he continued, eyeing certain members of the party. [color=mediumorchid]“Just so long as you don’t have your head in the clouds, you should be fine. The rest is self-explanatory. Oh, right. I almost forgot. Head's up Sea Salt.”[/color] The man cusped his hand before tossing something light and small right at Kanbaru.

Assuming she caught it-this man was full of contradictions today-she would find a blank card between her fingers. [color=mediumorchid]“Whenever you want between travel floors, just think real, really hard to imagine the place you want to go. You’ll get there eventually,”[/color] the man said. With a wave he turned on his heels to leave the kids to their desires. [color=mediumorchid]“Go on, be adventurers. That’s the kind of thing you all wished for, right? It’s what you all wanted.”[/color][hr]