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Entry tags:
- coco: héctor rivera,
- critical role: beauregard,
- critical role: mollymauk tealeaf,
- final fantasy xiv: castor westmoore,
- final fantasy xv: ardyn izunia,
- final fantasy xv: ignis scientia,
- fragile dreams: ren,
- hollow knight: the knight,
- hyper light drifter: the drifter,
- marble hornets: tim wright,
- marvel: bucky barnes,
- mushi-shi: ginko,
- original: erika fisher,
- original: mira delacroix,
- pokemon sun & moon: guzma,
- red vs. blue: agent washington,
- the adventure zone: kravitz,
- the league: jules dagger samari,
- undertale: asgore dreemurr,
- undertale: chara dreemurr,
- voltron: keith kogane,
- voltron: takashi shirogane,
- ✖ captive prince: laurent,
- ✖ ffxv: gladiolus amicitia,
- ✖ ffxv: noctis lucis caelum,
- ✖ ffxv: prompto argentum,
- ✖ fullmetal alchemist: edward elric,
- ✖ hollow knight: the hollow knight,
- ✖ hollow knight: troupe master grimm,
- ✖ hyper light drifter: the guardian,
- ✖ no.6: nezumi,
- ✖ no.6: shion,
- ✖ original: foster van denend,
- ✖ pacific rim: newton geiszler,
- ✖ persona 5: ann takamaki,
- ✖ persona 5: futaba sakura,
- ✖ pokemon sun & moon: lillie,
- ✖ red vs. blue: agent connecticut,
- ✖ rwby: pyrrha nikos,
- ✖ the adventure zone: lup,
- ✖ the adventure zone: taako,
- ✖ undertale: muffet,
- ✖ voltron: lance,
- ✖ voltron: pidge gunderson,
- ✖ voltron: princess allura
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
( CODED BY BOOTYCALL )
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Pidge's eyes snap open and she sits up as quickly as she can manage and looks around, only to realize that, yes, she is actually in some kind of stone room. And that her friends are nowhere to be found.
Even still, she's not afraid so much as concerned. There's just enough light for her to get a decent look around and she can't decide if it's a good thing or not that she's not alone.
So she scrambles to her feet and moves closer to that one wall to get a better look.
"Trial of the trusting?"
That just sounds... super.
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Foster's one ear turns back towards her, his tail switching at his hocks.
"I don't understand." It's voiced as a complaint. Trial of the Trusting. Is this to say he's trusting? Has he been too trusting?
He buries his claws in his hair, running furrows in it at his hairline before actually turning around. There is a smile on his face and a lot of white around his eyes. He doesn't look upset, just...
"Are you Pidge?
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"I mean. The words are pretty straightforward." Not that that's helping at all. And as far as randomness goes, this seems pretty mild in comparison. At least for now. But now she's taking a look around, trying to see what else she can see. It's only when he questions her name that she finally glances back at him.
"I am. So now what?" They can't really stay here forever, after all.
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"Are they?" He really doesn't know if he's missing something obvious or if she's making some kind of assumption and missing the ambiguity herself, or if she just knows something he doesn't. He also has no idea how to ask. Hopefully it'll become obvious pretty fast... he reaches up to put his paw over his own name, thinking.
But there's not much else to think about.
They're in a stone box, for all intents and purposes.
A stone box with a raised... button? On the floor, dimly illuminated.
And above it... another button.
On the ceiling.
You know, where buttons go.
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just keep talkingelaborate."What I meant is that the words themselves are straightforward. Trial of the Trusting is a little less so. But it seems obvious that we're meant to be undergoing some kind of trial, though I can't imagine why that would be."
She's never been the most trusting, particularly of people she doesn't know, so maybe that's it. Pidge is taking a look around now, and the set of buttons is the first thing that really stands out to her.
"I don't suppose you play video games?"
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On the other hand--
Mmmm.
Then there is, of course, a third option.
"Or something or someone wants us to trust them."
He offers Pidge a bright smile, which sours immediately into visible disgust.
"No."
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She hadn't ever considered that third option, though, and she blinks a little.
"I feel like kidnapping us and dropping us into some strange room isn't really the way to earn that trust."
And hey, that's probably the weirdest response to a question about video games that she's ever heard. Hmm.
"The reason I asked is because this kinda reminds me of a video game. The buttons. The names. The numbers."
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A video game? This? The disgust fills his chest like seawater, dark and swirling and full of potential chaotic energy, churning at the top--but for now, still beneath the surface.
Is that all it takes? Buttons? Names? Numbers? The mundane features of a room?
He starts laughing, spilling a mouthful of metaphorical seawater.