Teenagers Scare the Living Shit Out Of Me etc. etc.

[dyingtohealyou]

[Characters passing by the bulletin board may notice a new message tacked to it!]

Drinking party at the bar at 8pm. Under 21 only. Adults will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Fun and games included, party hats optional. Don’t be late!

[Sure enough, there’s a gathering of teens (and maybe some not-so-teens?) to be found in the bar! While the posting mentions this is a teen only event, adults are in fact allowed as long as they are cool. OOCLY please be aware there are going to be teens drinking alcohol and possibly smoking! Also additionally, please let the teens/players have fun; again, adults are allowed but only if they’re cool enough to play along without snitching them out!

All party game top levels are going to be made under Ahito’s account but please assume ICly that Akira instigated/explained them! Once the game toplevels are up you can also post your own toplevels to mingle freely if you like IDK IT’S A PARTY HAVE FUN]

Comments

[lighthaus]

I've never been outside the Tower until I came here. All the names you guys mention: Japan, countries, college, earth—they're all things from the old world where the knowledge is spotty.

[dyingtohealyou]

Huh... Then what's it like inside the tower?

[lighthaus]

Way more technology and pretty much any kind of climate you can think of.

[ a beat. ]

Right, our sun and stars are all fake, but you can't tell the difference.

...besides the sunburn.

[dyingtohealyou]

...You guys can fake all that with technology?

[What?????????]

[lighthaus]

Yeah. Why couldn't you?

There's floors which are entirely giant oceans, ones which are cities, others which have mountains...it depends on what the individual administrator wants to do, but there's no real limits with shinsu.

[dyingtohealyou]

...Our tech's not nearly good enough for any of that. What's shinsu, though?

[lighthaus]

It's a type of energy that exists in the Tower. Everything in the tower is made up of shinsu in some form, organic or non-organic. Naturally it powers the tech we have too.

[dyingtohealyou]

...People included?

[lighthaus]

Yeah. Why?

[dyingtohealyou]

...How does that affect you outside of it?

[lighthaus]

I haven't noticed any real difference besides all the tech I had with me not working.

[ meta note: apparently they breathe shinsu oxygen im so tired.

khun pauses though, thoughtful. ]

Well maybe that's why I've gotten taller?

[dyingtohealyou]

[Can't believe Khun's a fucking ghost.]

...How much taller?

[lighthaus]

Nine centimeters, I think. [ he hadn't exactly measured himself right before he came, but they had their biometrics logged before each exam so it should be about that. ]

[dyingtohealyou]

...Does it suppress people's growth or something?

[Nani,,,,,]

[lighthaus]

More like slows it down. [ it doesn't stop it completely, but time and lifespans are weird in the Tower. ]

[dyingtohealyou]

...Why? How?

[What????]

[lighthaus]

I don't know why. Your lifespan's like one eighty years, right? Mine's a thousand or so.

[dyingtohealyou]

[Yeah... definitely around 80... totally.]

It slows it down that much?!

[lighthaus]

I'll become a ranker, so yeah. But even if you don't climb the Tower you live until three hundred give or take.

[dyingtohealyou]

Does becoming a "ranker" change how it influences you...?

[lighthaus]

You become more powerful, so isn't that natural?

[ pretty much tho. ]

[dyingtohealyou]

This is the first I'm learning of any of this stuff, how am I supposed to know?

[lighthaus]

[ shrug! ]

Technically speaking it's more about being able to basically halt the aging process by applying shinsu a certain way, but it all amounts to the same thing.

[dyingtohealyou]

Is it something you have to consciously do?

[lighthaus]

In the beginning, but it becomes natural after a certain point.