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

[Trial of the Humble, hm?

Kravitz has spent the time since he woke up staring at the numbers on the wall, hand in front of his mouth as he thinks, the symbol still emblazoned on there making a scene a little more poetic than originally thought. When he was expecting something to be behind these doors- from the way Lup put it, something horrendously bad- this seems so tame. He doesn't like being trapped anywhere, for certain, especially since he can't seem to summon his scythe, but this is nothing. Enough to make him suspicious, but not enough to be on his guard.

It's not long before he starts sliding the puzzle pieces together, looking up to address whoever wakes next.]

Is this common? To get kidnapped for jigsaw puzzles? It feels oddly out of place.

[Newt groans a bit as he wakes up, wrinkling his nose and reaching up to take off his glasses. He rubs a hand over his eyes, blinking blearily because wtf he doesn't remember falling asleep with them on. As Kravitz speaks, drawing attention, Newt slowly sits up, turning his head to look at him as he puts his glasses back on his face.]

Uh...not unless you're in a Saw movie. [His brain is still kind of catching up with the current situation, but when he notices Kravitz working on something, he frowns, trying to scoot a bit closer] Whazzit?

[The pile of wings and fur that is Edward Elric stirs for a moment before his horned head lifts up to look around.]

...oh what the goddamn hell now.

[Ed notices the weakness immediately as he pushes himself up, thrown off by the effort it takes to stand. He's not truly weak, he can tell that much, but...live with super strength for a few years and it's hard to go back.]

[Spotting Kravitz and Newt with the...puzzle? Edward makes his way over and starts inspecting the pieces.]

Weirdest damn jigsaw pieces I saw in my life. What kind of challenge is this?

[The first thing Ignis notices when he wakes up is the empty feeling where so recently a familiar magical link was restored. Noctis' name is halfway out of his mouth when his ears pick up on the other voices in the room, voices he recognizes only in the way of those who have been caught in the same strange circumstances for a while, but never really gotten the chance to know each other.

With a soft sigh, he pulls himself to his feet, carefully making his way in the direction of the voices.]

Please tell me the monkeys haven't become intelligent enough that they are now planning to frustrate us into submission with puzzles before boiling us alive.

[He doesn't stop until he hears Newt start talking, before he looks up and sees the others in the room starting to stir.]

I'm honestly not sure. This certainly doesn't seem deadly, for all it's worth, but... I have a hunch.

[He lifts his hand, showing off the dark blue mark on the back- though it blends in to dark skin, the shine to it catches the light and makes it plainly visible.]

Do the rest of you have a mark like this one? When I was exploring this island, we found a door bearing this same mark. My guess is this is what's inside. Though it seems... odd to be kidnapped for the sake of a jigsaw puzzle.

[Kravitz gestures behind him, too, to the list of names.]

Though I suppose we can glean greater purpose from this, as well.

[Plenty visible to everyone but the man who can't see. Oops. Ignis pauses in his approach, focusing his attention on Kravitz's voice, opening both eyes so that it is clear from their milky coloring and lack of focus just showing something isn't going to get the point across to him, unfortunately.]

You're going to have to give me a little more than that if...

[He trails off with a small huff. Actually, just let him hold up his own hand.]

I assume this matches?

[There. That will make it easier for everyone. No need to get bogged down with descriptions.]

What kind of greater purpose are you thinking?

December Event: No Rest for the Wicked

group 1: kravitz, ignis, newt, ed, nari

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