lifeaftr | December Event: No Rest for the Wicked

DECEMBER EVENT: NO REST FOR THE WICKED

Who: Anyone and everyone
What: Your trials by fire
When: December 15th - 18th
Where: On Maati and Ensō
Warnings: Character deaths and violence are both likely - please mark as you go!

The Trials: Only Then Can We Begin

As noted in the OOC info post, your Trials will all begin on December 15th. As many of you will not be deposited into your trials with food and water (or any items of your own at all, in most cases), the Trials will last only as long as December 18th. If you've failed to complete your Trial by this deadline but have not used up all the deaths allotted to you, you will awaken by Maati's mana pool at the event's conclusion. If you have not failed your Trial by using up all your deaths, this will not count as a character death, and you will not need to submit for a penalty; you simply won't be able to obtain the reward you would get if you had succeeded!

When your character wakes in their allotted Trial, they will discover that their starting chamber has been inscribed with the name of the Trial, the names of those participating, and the number of deaths they have remaining - though the latter aren't labeled in any way. You'll simply have to learn it the hard way; every time your character suffers a death, the number will go down by one. If it wasn't obvious what those numbers stood for at first, by the time the dying starts properly, it certainly will be. And you probably don't want to see it go all the way down to zero...

Should you reach the end of your Trial, you will step out onto the rocky cliffs of Maati, exiting from one of the seven doors set into the cliffs at the seven points of the island's star shape. You see, those doors you discovered earlier weren't the entrances to the Trials at all. They were the exits. And set into the towering cliffs...why, those house the winding mazes that comprise the Trials themselves.

There will be a top-level below for each Trial. Remember to plan with your groups and communicate with your thread partners! Whether you choose to do mingle-style threads or lengthier group threads is up to you.

Once you know the outcome of your Trial, success OR failure, please do let us know so that we can ensure your character gets the reward that befits their triumph...or lackthereof.

Remember also to let us know if your character uses up ALL their deaths during this event. While death penalties will not be inflicted during Trial deaths, if you use up all the deaths allotted to you and die for real, your death penalty will NOT be reduced.

The Water: Don't Let Them Get Away

The rest of you have plenty to contend with as well, of course. If you've opted out of this month's event, be advise that the waters creeping across shores of Ensō, along with the rest of the island, aren't going to take evasion kindly. They'll seek you out, spread along every inch of the island if they can, until they can find you.

There is a top-level below, if you're intrigued! Though if you end up top-leveling yourself, we may very well reach out and find you anyway...

Event Timeline

[ ♆ ] December 15th: The Trials on Maati begin, and the water begins to rise.
[ ♆ ] December 18th: The Trials reach their end.
[ ♆ ] December 19th: Those who have "perma"-died in their Trials are revived.
[ ♆ ] December 20th: The monthly Storytelling occurs.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ So uh. How unnatural of a movement are we talking. If she were to start say uh. Climbing things. Like a tree or the side of her house. How well would that work out. ]

[ If Futaba attempts to climb higher to escape the rising water, it simply waits at first, pooling around wherever she's chosen to seek shelter.

But, eventually, the water level begins to rise. Inch by painstaking inch, like it's being poured into an invisible glass, with only the slightest hint of movement to indicate its upward climb. ]

[ Well thankfully for the... water... friend... it won't have to wait TOO long in that regard. Probably a good half hour at least, but Futaba is. Not the most patient of people as is, especially when stressed out. And the others being missing - Ann being missing - is. Definitely a stressor point. Many stressor points in one, actually.

The water's been chasing her so far. It's pooling around her and not leaving and even if she tried to jump it'd probably just intercept her or something. Necronomicon can't move so there's no point in summoning them.

It doesn't help that there's no one here to be impulse control either. So she's going to. Lower herself gingerly and reach out to dab at it with a foot ready to jerk back if it seems like a threat. ]

[ As soon as she touches it -- it pulls her in and under.

It's dark and cold, and the sudden motion would force air from her lungs, if this was normal water.

Fortunately, it is not. She can still breathe.

Held in the water's chilling embrace with no apparent way to escape, Futaba will see a blur of bright colour in front of her that forms into a distinct shape; a pink larkspur flower. As she watches, the flower begins to fall apart; rot creeps into its petals, and it crumbles away into nothing.

The vision repeats itself, a flower succumbing to virulent decay, as if it's trying to burn itself into her mind. There is a rushing, overbearing feeling of pressure, of urgency, to do something-

The water subsides in a rush, and lets her go.

Futaba is absolutely soaked, but otherwise unharmed. ]

December Event: No Rest for the Wicked

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