The Tower

[marlowe_tops]

The Tower

From lighthouses to watch towers, towers are central features of life in many cultures, and they hold pivotal roles in many stories. Whether you're trapped in a tower, visiting a falconry mews, or enjoying summer from the deck of a water tower, there are all manner of adventures to be had involving towers.




Scenarios:
1. Lighthouse - Ever since ships have sailed the seas, lighthouses have been crucial to the safety of sailors and passengers. If you're a lighthouse keeper, it's your responsibility to keep the fire burning, and you may be isolated on the lighthouse rock for months at a time with only a fellow lighthouse keeper for company. Perhaps you're a guest at the lighthouse, or a tourist exploring the history of the lighthouse. Lighthouses have always drawn their own array of haunted tales, from ghost lights in an abandoned tower to monsters from the deep stalking the lighthouse keepers themselves.
2. Wizard's Tower - Wizards and witches have often favored towers. Perhaps you need the tallest tower in the castle for your astronomy lessons, or you yourself have been imprisoned in a tower in the midst of a dark forest. Perhaps you inhabit or stumble upon a whimsical tower held up by magic or constructed entirely of gingerbread.
3. Water Tower - The water tower is a fixture of many small towns, providing fresh water and good water pressure for the nearby populace. Many summer memories are made of climbing rickety old water towers to sit out upon the deck and watch the view, and there are numerous murder mysteries started by finding a body in a water tower.
4. Building a Tower - In any season, a rainy day's entertainment can be found in building towers of cards, books, jenga blocks, or cardboard boxes. Or you could take this more literally and undertake construction of a literal tower with stones, or bricks, or blocks of ice. 
5. Tower of Treats - There are few things more festive for any special occasion than a tower of cakes or cookies. Trees of macarons and spun-sugar towers decorate the tables of this feast or the counters of this candy shop, or perhaps you're a baker challenged with creating a sugar tower masterpiece. 
6. Ruined/Haunted Tower - There's something so atmospheric about an abandoned tower. It's an excellent place for a tryst, or to hide away from your responsibilities with a book for a couple of hours. But if you go by night, watch out for the ghosts who haunt the tower. They say that one poor soul was bricked up in a wall somewhere in the tower, and another threw themself from the tower.
7. Watch Tower - The tower is one of the most important types of defensive structure. A single tower can defend a valley against an invading army, and towers are good settings for holding watch against the night, all the more so if you have good company.
8. Skyscraper - In the modern age, towers can stretch into the clouds. Skyscraper residents of past and future, tourists to the big city, and giant apes bent on climbing the tallest thing in sight, everyone loves a good skyscraper. If you like your adventures on the steampunk side, many skyscrapers have zeppelin docking bays on their higher stories for setting off on journeys into the clouds. Just watch out for the lightning storms!
9. Tower Prison - The Tower of London is a memorable example, but towers make lonely, and secure places for prisons, whether you're down in the dungeon or at the top of the tower. In any case, it's sure to be lonely. You'll have to befriend your jailer or plot a clever escape with your cell mate, unless you have allies on the outside who are willing to help you.
10. Orc Villa - A black and imposing gothic tower stretches above a blighted landscape, striking fear into the heart of every elf, man, and hobbit for miles. But if you're an orc, it's cosy accommodations! Mud pits, hot springs, torture boutiques, weapons refineries, and an elf re-education clinic. Every amenity that the discerning orc could desire. Make Barad-dûr your next holiday destination.
11. Childe Roland - There's a tower, a knight (or a gunslinger), and a quest that you can never succeed except at great cost. It's a classic story of an ominous tower surrounded by the bodies of all those who have gone before. The tower is different for each seeker, and everyone has their own reasons for seeking it. As for what waits within, well, no one has yet returned to tell the tale.
12. Choose your own Tower - Belltowers, clocktowers, wicker men, falconry mews, there are hundreds of types of towers in the world, and a thousand stories for every one of them.

Comments

Kili

[flirtswithelves]

[Orc villa. Interested in just about any of the fantasy options!]

[bluehooded]

[Orc villa!]

Madelyne Pryor | Marvel Comics

[redqueenmaddy]

[She would love to have her own witch's tower, or rule a tower prison, but honestly I'm most tempted by having her as an antagonist or seductress for a Childe Roland option.]

Lord Henry “Monty” Montague, Viscount of Disley | A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

[smallandtalkative]

[Up for any and all of these shenanigans. AU at will.]

Griffith | Berserk

[forakingdom]

[Especially interested in ruined/haunted tower, watch tower, tower prison, orc villa, and childe roland.]

Jester Lavore | Critical Role

[littlesapphire]

[Canon offers both a lighthouse and a wizard's tower in her hometown, but I'm open to any/all other options, too.]

Re: Jester Lavore | Critical Role

[nott_the_brave]

[I'm really feeling either 5 or 9 for these two, preferences? Also, I'm still very much voice testing here so I hope that's okay.]

sera | dragon age: inquisition

[no_breeches]

[Pretty much any option other than the skyscraper one would be cool with me! Both visiting towers and building them seem in line with the kind of work the Inquisition might do.]

9 - dragon age au awaaaaay

[lastnameredacted]

[Chell is no stranger to being in a cell. She is, however, a stranger to being in a cell with... Well, a stranger. She only remembers it happening one other time, and that particular occasion involved an envy demon posing as a willing companion. So. Not the best track record.

Sera is lucky, as far as prisoners go - the Inquisition is sure to come after her immediately. She won't be here long. Chell has no such companions coming to her rescue. What she does have is a pair of enchanted boots that makes jumping from heights a nonissue, and a cell at the top of the tower with a window. Meant to taunt the prisoners with a view the outside world and a means of escape that will surely kill them if attempted, probably. They didn't account for someone like her.

And why would they? Her build is muscular, but her forehead says tranquil. (Not literally, just. The brand. You know.) She should be a good little prisoner who knows that leaving is logically impossible, so why wouldn't she sit back and accept her situation with a blank face and dead eyes?

Because she's had the rite of tranquility reversed and been through hell and back since then, that's why. Whoever locked her up has no idea who they're dealing with.

Which... Equally applies to Sera, unfortunately. As far as appearances suggest, Chell is nothing but a tranquil mage who keeps pointing at things. Herself, Sera, her boots, the window. And not giving a single word of explanation, either. And looking weirdly frustrated for someone who's supposed to be calm and collected at all times.

What a cellmate.]

Abel | Starfighter

[reliantnav]

[Up for any of the options. For fantasy AU settings he can be a navigator/mapmaker/lord's son.]

carrie white | carrie (2013)

[thebloodof]

[Prefer 6 and 9.]

elektra natchios | marvel netflix

[blacksky]

[Prefer tower prison, ruined/haunted tower, or lighthouse.]

padme amidala | star wars

[libertydies]

[Interested in in tower prison and childe roland.]

Theo Crain | Haunting of Hill House

[glovedpunch]

[Probably not Orc Villa, but just about anything else is good.]

garrett hawke | dragon age

[hapostate]

[ ota, AU at will ]

Jake Chambers | The Dark Tower series

[otherworldsthanthese]

[ 12 is canon but, all things considered, that makes everything possibly canon. :) ]

Ochako Uraraka | BNHA | ota

[ganbararaka]

( open to any of these as well as AU! )

Scarecrow | Batman Arkham Knight | ota

[doctor_terror]

Roland | Dark Tower | OTA

[of_gilead]

[Welp...]

Elizabeth | Bioshock Infinite | OTA

[uncaging]

[ Either her own tower, or any of the other options! ]

Magneto | XMCU

[homo_superior]

Ultron | MCU

[ihadstrings]

abraxas strange Ｘ original character Ｘ ota

[allogenes]

Nephrite|PGSM

[angstennou]

for geniustheveil

[angstennou]

Working as a lighthouse keeper was lonely, but at least it gave Nephrite some peace. He hadn't been able to keep any other job, either due to his temper or to his clumsy nature, and townspeople mocked him for that.

As he needed to make sure the light was working at night, he mostly slept during the day (if the damn heat and fucking noisy seagulls let him).