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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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[Which is code for it is absolutely something worth worrying about but if he tells you in earnest you're really, really not going to like the answer. He's still in possession of the one skill he has that isn't, apparently, carpentry or music theory. He still knows how to lie.]
[Shion - no, not Shion. Prompto? He forgets who's who, and this isn't helping...]
Just focus on getting it done, okay?
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His hands still, and he shoots Tim - himself? - a sharp look.]
Dude. If there's a problem, we need to know about it.
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[He's not sure if it makes it better or worse, that Lance will be looking into his own eyes, hearing his own voice say it. Possibly because Tim says the one thing that he knows without question is the absolute lie of the matter.]
Trust me on that.
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[You're not instilling any confidence in him at all - it's strange that it's all coming from himself. It's like looking into some weird, fucked up mirror but everything's just a little bit wrong.
This trial sucks. It sucks a lot.]
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[He sounds - calm. Maybe calmer than Lance would be, ordinarily, but he doesn't know. He doesn't know Lance well enough to say if the guy is prone to being especially high strung. But maybe it'll help, if he sees his own self meeting his stare with an unblinking calm.]
We've all lived through worse.
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[And he's going to do his damndest to keep it from happening.
He turns his focus back to the task at hand - back to...trying to make this stupid block of wood something meaningful.]
What good is a stupid challenge if it's just going to kill you over and over and over again?
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[He breaks off with a grimace, driving the corner of Lance's palm into his eye socket with the pressure of skin to skin, the immense fucking pressure that doesn't so much as file away the edge of the migraine that's begun to pass the point of unbearable.]
It's muscle memory.
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If he were faster, if he were better, he could have figured this out already. They could be out of here.
He grits his teeth, turning back to the block of wood and letting his hands move. Maybe he's over complicating things, but...
He just doesn't want to let people die.]
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[He's lived through this before. He's lived through it - and Lance doesn't have a break broken beyond belief, Lance doesn't have to worry about erratic and irregular discharge and he doesn't have to worry about seizing.]
[Just passing out.]
[Failing that, something worse.]
Your hands know how to do this. Just - [He breaks off with a pained hiss between his teeth.] Just let it happen.
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And for what? What are they getting out of this?
And the longer he takes, the worse he starts to feel. It's a slow creep into his sense, but it makes it all the more distract.
When he looks at his hands, he notices they're shaking, now. Is that from fear or from something else? But he can't stop, or it'll happen. The hard reset.
Lance grits his teeth, biting his tongue as he tries to make something - do something - instead of sitting there letting everyone die.]
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[He hopes to god it helps. Hopes to god it means something. Hopes to someone, because no god of any kind has ever looked at him and seen something worth saving, something worth scraping off the ground. It's only ever been people he's hurt, who realized that they didn't want to hurt him in turn.]
[He'd be lying if he said he understood that.]
It'll be okay, [he whispers, in Lance's voice, with Lance's expression of agonized sincerity.]
You can do this.
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He's not sure if that makes it easier to swallow, hearing things in his voice and seeing his face looking at him like that. He's used to lying to himself more than anyone else.
But he knows just as well he doesn't have much of a choice. He's the only one who can do this, the only one who can unlock the door to the next room and get them all out of here, so he has to just - just focus on what Tim can do and do it.
He doesn't know if he believes Tim, believes himself, but what choice does he have?]
I... [He swallows, voice thick.] I know.
[He takes a deep breath, looking down at the wood in his hands. He's almost done.
Done with step one, at least.]
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[The soft encouragement feels wrong, coming out of his voice, coming out of someone else's voice. He's not any good with it. He's tried. He's really...he's tried.]
[He can barely hear the words through the vibrations in his teeth, the continuous tone that feels like it's bent on drilling itself into the core of his brain. It's impossible to ignore. He just hopes the words are audible, that they make sense when he says them:]
I don't have perfect pitch - we don't. That's what the tuning fork is for.
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He eyeballs the tuning fork, before tapping it against the ground and blowing into the rough - flute? ocarina? He's not sure what he's cobbled together, but it makes a noise and he thinks he might have things under control.]
Here goes nothing.
[The tune is shaky, at first - not quite right. Lance can tell that even without looking to see if the door opens up. He grimaces, tapping the fork against the ground again before going for another try.
He'll manage it. He's not going to give up on this now. Hopefully he can do it before people start to drop.]
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[He tries to shoot Lance a shaky, encouraging smile. It's easier with someone else's mouth. Lance's face lends itself to the shape of it a little better. Maybe it just looks - off, or wrong, or horribly out of touch given the fact that how little practice he has with smiling with any kind of genuity.]
You're doing good.