Julia Marianne Kline

Julia Marianne Kline (she/her) is one of the seven Player Characters in The Timeless Tower under the sign of The Vast Starry Sky. She is played by Kmj♪.

As of Act One, Turn Nine, Julia is dead.

Character Background
Julia has returned to Malton in order to visit her family over her university's winter break. An average individual with above-average curiousity, she's currently a fairly dedicated- if not particularly talented or skilled- student of mechanical engineering. She's also harbored an interest in mysticism and the occult for some time now. ...Of course, that type of thing is a bit hard to properly study. The majority of Julia's 'knowledge' lies in popular urban legends, 'lucky charms' of dubious efficacy, and that one time her friend's cousin's brother's grandpa swore he saw a ghost-like figure in his courtyard.

Appearance
Julia is a 20-year-old of British descent. She posesses an entirely nondescript appearance. There is effectively nothing about her that stands out, from her hair (brown) to her height (average) to her clothing (simple, single-color dresses). A kind individual would describe her as perfectly average. An unkind one would describe her as "peculiarly bland; almost off-puttingly so, if being offputting wouldn't disturb how relentlessly featureless that girl is". ...Julia's mother was not particularly kind.

Evident Boon
Scattered Mind (Ability)

Julia is especially adept at splitting her attention and indulging her curiosity. Once per turn, she may choose to take an "Examine" action in order to gain a summary of an adjacent room, as if she had ended her turn there. Rooms in undiscovered sections are not a valid target for this ability.

Hidden Strength
Seer of Scribes (Ability)

Julia has the ability to see hidden, glowing messages written across the walls in certain rooms, which no other player may witness. These messages are included in normal room descriptions. As such, Julia can either stop in a room or use her Evident Boon in order to scan that room for messages. There is supposedly a pattern to where these messages appear, but so far, no such pattern has been noted. While assumptions may be made, there is no explicit source for who left these messages, nor for when, why, or how they were written.

These glowing messages contain information that may be critical to overcoming difficult obstacles or completing certain objectives, including the Hidden Objectives of Julia's allies. However, it may be dangerous to reveal Julia's ability to see these messages; the messages may have been written with the assumption that they would remain hidden, and the enemies in the Tower may target Julia for her ability to reveal them.

The following is a list of the rooms known to contain Hidden Messages, as well as rooms confirmed to lack them.

Located Hidden Messages: '''“With hope to hold the past. With will to face the present. To trust fate to the future.”''' Now I see only the dark." I just need to get away from him. I can’t do anything to stop him. I never should have helped. It’s my fault he’s this way. Is there anyone else here?" “is brighte.” “how long been since i hurt?” “head werd” “s that mm?”
 * Main Workshop
 * "Don’t hold it against them. It’s not their fault. They didn’t know what they were building."
 * Washroom (Workshop)
 * "She deserved better than this. It’s tragic, but at least The Hands can’t use her like this. Yet it feels foul to call this a better fate."
 * [This message presumably refers to Lily Evans, as the Workshop Washroom is where Lily's corpse was discovered.]
 * Turbine Room
 * "Why, Lucas? Did you really think this would stop them? I know better than any that nothing so mundane could stop what has been set in motion. You’ve only doomed your kin."
 * [It is assumed that this refers to one of the hoses in the Steam Room initially being disconnected, implying that Lucas disconnected said hose in an attempt to hinder Pendulum and his minions by interfering with the Tower's power supply.]
 * Central Staircase 1F:
 * "How I wish I had heeded your words, ancestors:
 * [The bolded text in this message is the Palmes Family creed. Mary Palmes noted that, in the present, the only individuals that would know said creed should be Mary and Henry.]
 * Dorm. Hallway, in much worse handwriting than the others:
 * "Where am I? When am I? What has happened? Don’t know, can’t know, shouldn’t know, won’t know.
 * Ladies' Dorm., in the worst handwriting yet:
 * "were?”

Areas Without Hidden Messages:
 * Electricals
 * Water Reservoir
 * Steam Room
 * Central Tower
 * New Storage Room
 * Living Area
 * Living Space
 * Utilities
 * Breaker Room
 * Prison
 * Visitation Room

Secret Objective
While the hidden messages Julia finds are strange, they feel familiar in some way-- as though this was not the first time Julia has been reached out to. Her objective is to discover who wrote these messages & why. They may be friend or foe, but in either case, they will be important. This information will prove critical at a later point, in the sense that if we do not figure out the identity and intention of the message's writer, we will be unable to uncover or realize something else of critical importance.

Currently, we are aware that Henry Palmes is the one that left these messages. This assumption was drawn due to the use of the Palmes Family's creed in one message, as well as a general gut sense on Julia's part-- there were few other reasonable suspects. At the conclusion of Act One, Fay Bradford used her Evident Boon to ask why Henry was leaving these messages; it provided a proper response, indicating that it is in fact Henry. As to why, the Tome of Truth's response at the end of Act One was: "Where would he have to be to write invisible messages?" With the revelation of the Other World's existence, as well as some private information Julia is aware of, the preliminary line of thought is that Henry is located somewhere within the Other World. Julia personally assumes that Pendulum has somehow assumed control of Henry's body, leaving his 'spirit' to wander and- based on the messages- eventually be injured in some way.