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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 )
Allura, Foster, Taako - Party Member Go Down Da Hoooole...
"Are you okay down there?" she calls down to him, when she hears the sound of hooves beating against the stone floor. Allura freezes, holding tight to the makeshift weapon. "...I'll be right back. See if I can find some help."
She can't just leave him there, even if some of his jokes are worse than Lance's. At least they were recognizable as such. She treads carefully, back against the wall as the sound gets louder. She holds the large stick like a bostaff, even if the end is on the curved side. She steps around the corner and freezes, coming face to face with a-
"A centaur?" Well, and here she was thinking a minotaur. No, it just happened to be "run into creatures that could have come out of Coran's Monsters and Mana manuals" day. She lowers the stick, frowning. "My name is Allura. My companion, Taako, is trapped in a hole he fell into having failed to back me up in a fight. I can't get him out by myself."
Welcome to the Shame Hole, Taako!
The answer, apparently, was... pair him off with someone else. Someone whose introduction is totally lost on him because she follows it up with a sentence full of much more relevant and interesting information.
Sorry, Allura, but Taako is a subject Foster knows a lot about, and which has become a bit personal in nature. You are... well. He doesn't know you.
But he does know Taako, and he knows very well not to trust Taako to have his back.
"Oh. Haha! Yes, of course he did...." His bright smile is at distinct odds with the tone he takes--a tone not just of contempt, but of familiarity. His gaze grows distant for a moment at the end, though. Distracted.
"Mmmm." He refocuses on Allura.
"What did you say your name was?"
At least he's still smiling?
You sure it's not the Time Out Hole, though?
"You two know each other, I take it." Yeah, she learned that lesson the hard way. Yet there's this annoying thing called duty and it compels her not to leave the man sitting at the bottom of the hole until, Ancients forbid, spikes shoot up from the sides or something. "Allura. And yours?"
No, that one's for Foster.
He smiles brightly--bright enough to make it unclear whether he's trying to make the best or worst impression possible.
"It's very generous of you to help him after he let you down."
that's a fair point
It's improper and impolite. Also congratulations. Warning bells are going off in the back of her head, and she dated her enemy's son.
"It is my duty to aid those in need," she supplies as an excuse. "Also, the path ahead is blocked and requires three to pass."
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Truthfully, Foster still hasn't figured out whether this is a trial of those too trusting or those not trusting enough. Pidge's utilitarian approach left him no more certain on the matter than he was when he began.
"Oh, your duty. I see. In that case, it is my own duty to be used. I should warn you that I'm worthless, but if all you need is another body, then even garbage could be useful there."
He does not even remotely provide her with a name. But he is volunteering!
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"No living being is worthless," she says coldly. "And while I am... irritated by his leaving me to fend off an ogre on my own, I can't well leave him. Even without the blasted barrier."
She turns on her heel and walks back to where the hole had opened up, stick still in hand. Ignore the rarrier corpse on the other side of it; totally not important.
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"No," he replies simply, following her back towards the pit, but there he stops talking, and the rest of their walk is spent in obvious silence--well, except for the sound of hooves on stone, anyway, which mostly serves to make that silence louder. He does make a specific point of maintaining a perfectly equal distance from her the entire way. If only Allura had the experience of leading an obedient horse, it's peculiarly similar.
When they reach the hole, however, he walks abreast of her, and leans forward slightly to look inside.
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Taako's energetic and entirely internal justifications are interrupted by the fairly alarming sound of approaching hoof...steps. Can something with hooves get down into this pit? If it can it certainly won't be happy about it. His competent companion can't return quickly enough for Taako's taste.
When the lip of the shame pit reveals what it reveals, Taako is...at least slightly relieved, looking up with his best attempt at a winning smile. "Oh shit, the cavalry's really here, huh? Great! Get me out!"
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She frowns. Something deep within her bristles at the short response, but she stows it for the time being. Deep breaths, Allura. You carry the last of your family's royal lineage. Act like it.
"...I can almost reach him with this stick," she slightly lifts it. "However, if he grabs onto it, he'll likely pull me down with him. If you can keep me from doing so while we pull him up, we can open that barrier and be one step closer to getting out of here."
It's a very simple plan, but sometimes simple works best with a trio of strangers.
This is a normal tag about a normal human person with normal reactions
Then he laughs--and sobers within seconds, like someone turned a switch on and then off again almost immediately.
"Are you sure that's what you want to do?" His smile probably doesn't carry the 'helpful' connotation he intends it to. Or at the very least, not the way he intends it to.
"Mmm. You said you need three, right? Too bad. You could have dropped me in the pit to boost Taako up and then left me, haha!" He glances back into the hole with a thoughtful look.
"But, since that isn't an option--" He smiles: first at Taako, purposefully, and then at Allura more brightly, more benignly.
"I guess it's a good thing he's a skinny cook."
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Good thing he already determined to unpack none of this, because he's really not sure where he'd unpack that look to, if called upon to do so. Allura, to her credit, only seems a little mad, anyway. Most importantly, they need him, because he's the only third person around. Is this Taako at his best? Probably not! But it's what they have and that's the boat they're all on, here.
Skinny cook is unfortunately his last straw and he flings his arms out like they're spring loaded. "If you wanna drag me how about out of this pit, I promise there will be plenty of time to roast ch'boy while we're trapped in puzzle hell, let's go before something eats one of you and I live in a hole forever! I've paid my debt to society and learned valuable lessons! I think I maybe died and this is hell!"
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since someone still hasn't given her a name of any sort.. "Well, I could always whack you over the head with it, but that wouldn't be conducive to getting us all out of here."Despite him high-tailing it at the first sign of trouble, at the very least Taako seems a semi-decent sort and easy to get along with. This asshole, on the other hand...
One breath in, one breath out. At least the smile aimed at her is slightly more benign. At this point she'll take what she can get.
"That is enough." Calm, almost cold like ice. "None of us are happy we're in this situation, but we need to work together if we are to get out of here. She points to the dead body on the other side of the hole. "In case you haven't noticed, there are far more brainless creatures here who are more than content to attack on sight."
The least they can do is act better than savage beasts. Allura kneels down, holding the stick tight. It's a good thing it's bent on one end; it keeps her from dropping it. "This is not hell." Hell is knowing that one's entire people are gone and it's been ten thousand years. "Grab on and hold on tight."
Everything inside her screams that this is foolish to trust the strange centaur, but either they do so or they will remained trapped in here.
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(Foster is fully aware that he probably makes up like half of Taako's current irritation, but that doesn't really deter him in any way.)
"No," he agrees with Allura, although more because he has physically been to hell, more than one of them in fact. "It's not."
The second time he went to hell actually involved Taako. The other Taako.
He hesitates to lay his paws on Allura, though--in part because he doesn't know where, but more because he actually has reservations about touching other people, regardless of purpose. Even with explicit instructions, it... seems inappropriate of him to lay hand (or paw) on anyone in any way. So he hesitates, struggling to shift barriers both instinctive and conceptual before finally putting his claws around her waist--if she waits long enough, anyway.
If not, yelling at him will certainly get him there.
Either way, he's holding her more by his padded digits than with the full grasp of his paws. It's a weirdly ginger way to do it, even if his grip is firm. But Taako's light and Allura is strong--and Foster is, if nothing else, a nine foot tall centaur with three-inch-claws, so it's not like she's gonna slip out of his hold.