December Event: No Rest for the Wicked

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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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Comments

[ohshitsweetflips]

Evidently not what? Was she just gonna make the dark vision? Shit, and here he is getting by with storebought like a chump. This doesn't tell him anything about her abilities, though he's reasonably sure she like...has some. He's also reasonably sure it won't matter; if she had anything super useful up her sleeves, she probably doesn't now. Just kinda how it goes.

"Yeah, shame we don't have anyone else to send ahead and trip on rocks for us. Kinda inefficient, as echolocation goes, but it would be pretty funny." Trust him, he knows firsthand, which is why his grin is only at about three-quarters power. Nothing has even really gone to hell yet and it would still be nice if any of his crew were here, even nerfed. To trip on rocks, obviously. "Soooo. Good hearing, that's a skill. Anything else? Don't say wizard, I'm over all-wizard parties, one of us would have to change."

[diplomacycheck]

Nope, but she was going to see if she could make her hand into a flashlight of sorts. What she would do for a light arrow that actually exists right about now...

"Well, we can't be the only ones here." She has to point out. "Though at least I can hear them coming." Allura frowns in thought before pausing. "A wizard...?" Like in Monsters and Mana? Oh, boy. Now she misses Coran even more. "No, I'm an alchemist. Though I've studied weapons training since I was a child." And yes, she realizes she has none. "I was trying to see if I could use my alchemy to at least create a secondary light source, but it would seem not to be the case."

[ohshitsweetflips]

Whew. For a second there, he thought he was gonna have to go through the whole 'magic is real' thing, which is his least favorite cultural exchange, at least when there's no magic to demonstrate with. But if she's got alchemy then her hesitance is probably just semantics; he brightens considerably, abandoning most of his heel-dragging ways.

"Alchemy, nice. I do transmutation so I get it. That's how we have products for the store, unless it's stuff Ren-- acquires," but he digresses, now's not the time for advertising. "But yeah, that's not gonna mean jack here. Maybe there'll be loot, like weapons." He tries to put a positive spin on it? At least? Sometimes you find weapons in places, that's adventuring science. "For you. If it comes down to me meleeing, we're fucked." He laughs nervously, but super isn't joking. Taako is, at present, an unloaded glass cannon. Which is to say, a useless and fragile sculpture.

"Dark vision's working alright though, so." He sniffs, eyes dutifully forward. "At least there's that."

[diplomacycheck]

Oh, semantics, you wondrous thing. She nods slightly, but... "acquires?"

...You know what. She's not going to go into how wrong thievery is right now. Instead, she'll focus on something else. "We can hope," she says, actually quietly hoping there will be weapons somewhere. It will be easier to defend both of them. "So you can see, and I can still hear clearly." That's good to know. She accidentally kicks a small rock.

Allura blinks. "At least there are plenty of stones to toss, if it comes to that."