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The Mods of LifeAftr ([personal profile] lifeaftr_mods) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr2018-12-14 08:54 pm

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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[personal profile] crosslaced 2018-12-25 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. [blink.] So you're the second choice? I don’t think that was a very effective insult, I mean, you’re also a dead thing on a stick. But I have business with Ardyn.

[Later he’ll realise that Ardyn is what, the Lucis Caelum family tree has got something fucked up going on, but for now Laurent just concludes his very agreeable speech and starts ignoring Somnus. Whenever there’s slander he’s usually on the side of the slanderee, on principle, but it feels nice to actually say it for once.]

-is he wrong for once? Everyone believes him all the time. For good reason, but. I think you prefer me to get lost, rather than gently rehabilitate you out of here.

[he wants to get lost so badly please]
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[personal profile] scourgingstars 2018-12-25 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
What, do you want me to break open my chest to point out how much of a heart I don't have? Much as I'd be amused to point out the flawed metaphor, I'm in no mood to get what passes for my blood everywhere.
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[personal profile] crosslaced 2018-12-27 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
What? No! I'll take your word for it. You win this one.

[please this is not a hill worth dying on,]

I'm getting the hell out of here, okay?

[Unfortunately, the shape of the dungeon meant that he’d be stuck in the same corridor for a while more, but the least he could do was to get a move on towards the next corner.]