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

Solus zos Galvus ♤ FFXIV ♤ OTA

[sadlonelyspires]

[ ooc: would be thrilled for castmates and especially WoL's-- or a Hyth, if you have one ]

Re: Solus zos Galvus ♤ FFXIV ♤ OTA

[crystalbetrayed]

[ooc: belltower in lakeland after their first conversation sound good to you?

Re: Solus zos Galvus ♤ FFXIV ♤ OTA

[sadlonelyspires]

(absolutely! Sorry it took so long-- been responding to the tags before I got this one! I have my emet in threads right now and I respond to them in order of when I get them!!)

Re: Solus zos Galvus ♤ FFXIV ♤ OTA

[crystalbetrayed]

(( No worries! Take your time~ ))

[If nothing else, Hen was tenacious. Climbing up what remained of the stairs, before eventually moving to climb the masonry. It was worth it, with the bell in her reach she laid a careful hand upon the metal.]

Re: Solus zos Galvus ♤ FFXIV ♤ OTA

[sadlonelyspires]

[ he had not forgotten their conversation, how could he-- he saw her and he almost made himself mysteriously, but he had been watching her-- and as hilarious as it was, he almost fancied himself her Guardian Angel-- if a guardian angel had anything other then white wings branching outward, though he wouldn't draw attention to himself.. not precisely yet ]

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.]

Lucian Darnay | The Binding

[ginpalace]

[Most interested in ruined/haunted tower, tower prison, Childe Roland, or Skyscraper for modern AU Lucian.]

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.]

Abel | Starfighter | M/M

[reliantnav]

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

Alucard | Castlevania

[cryptsleeper]

[Most interested in the more fantasy friendly options like the wizard and haunted towers, but open to just about anything.]

haunted tower

[loaned]

"Alucard."
[ The red glow behind Richter's eyes is not of his own. One leg crossed over the other, he's sitting in the throne of the tower's, Castlevania's, highest room. His chin is resting in the palm of his hand, and his toe kicks once in his boot once before he decides he'll stand. ]

"Resurrecting Dracula by myself would be too boring without anyone to try and stop me, so I was waiting for you to finally arrive." [ The way he looks at the dhampir is with strange distance, without the usual reverence he'd harbored towards Alucard during his upbringing. The words he uses are familiar in diction, but the tone is estranged and cold, like he's thrown or cut himself away. ] "You miss him too, don't you? I know you do."

[cryptsleeper]

And how have you arrived at that conclusion?

[Alucard is about as out of breath as he's ever been when getting through the castle at a speed unknown to man. Richter's been gone for a while and all roads and clues pointed here. The castle, at least, not this exact tower that Alucard remembers was once used for star gazing for it was so very closer to the heavens.

It's clear that Richter isn't fully in control of himself. The eyes are the giveaway, but that's all he has right now. Keep him talking. Keep buying time for a solution.]

[loaned]

[ The corner of his lip curls into an uppity grin. ]
"Because it's in your blood."
[ The irony of drawing a weapon created to slay vampires for the sake of resurrecting Dracula. Richter's ancestors are rolling in their graves. He isn't aware of it. ]
"And you know? It's in mine, too. I'm doing us both a favor. Not that I think you'll believe me."

[cryptsleeper]

I miss the man who was my father. Whatever you're thinking of pulling forth only wears his shape and demands to be put down for the safety of the rest of this world.

[Alucard's stalling for time. But good. Richter keeps giving him chances to ask questions. Delay.]

But do explain your logic all the same.

Sauron | The Silmarillion/The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings | Open

[forgingfire]

[OOC: He is the tower.]

Julian Devorak | The Arcana

[doctordrama]

[Crosscanon and assumed cr ok, voicetesting still. All towers welcome but can we not go back to that arcana one thanks.]

Susannah Dean | The Dark Tower

[tripartited]

[ Any options, but particularly 11 for obvious reasons. ]

Elizabeth | Bioshock Infinite | OTA

[uncaging]

Aziraphale | Good Omens

[worth_knowing]

2

[grimreader]

[Some magical towers just happen to have very good libraries. That's likely what drew both of them here. It does seem to be the case for her, at least, as she struggles on her tiptoes to pull a book off a shelf that's just a little too high.]

Re: 2

[worth_knowing]

[Aziraphale loves seeing people with the same love of knowledge he has. So of course, he can't just watch her struggle to get a book too high up. He reaches up himself.]

Oh, please, allow me.

[Of course, it's not like Aziraphale is exactly the tallest person on the planet, and it's just a little too far for him as well. A little click of his fingers will bring it down to his height, though.]

Re: 2

[grimreader]

[The book seems to teleport over to his hand when he clicks his fingers. How strange.

If he happens to pay attention, it's a book regarding theories of multiple dimensions and interdimensional travel.]

Thank you.

[Her voice is polite, but distant.]

Re: 2

[worth_knowing]

Of course!

[Aziraphale is, of course, delighted to see a young person reading. Everyone young he has seen usually has a mobile device, sending tiny little pictures to each other which makes no sense to the angel at all.

It doesn't matter that this is a magical tower they both had to get to. She's still a young person not on a mobile device to him!]

Have you been here long?

Melkor | Tolkien Legendarium

[angbad]

[Up for any of the options! Yes, even Tower of Treats, although I'm not sure how that would work out (probably badly).]

The Nerevarine | The Elder Scrolls | OTA

[moonandstar]

[A lot of Towers to choose from in Garyn's canon. White-Gold, Red, Walk-Brass, Walk-Blight, Crystal-Like-Law...plenty of dick-shaped ideas to knock over.]