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

[achievementhunter]

[Rude. They'll have you know they have never calmed down once, ever. How can they, when there's so much LOVE to go around?]

Is that so? Perhaps I will, then. [They're going to continue walking, seeing as there's nothing else to do, here. He's welcome to continue along if he keeps up that respect of their space.]

I don't have much experience with horses, however.

[crosslaced]

[Come on now, Chara.

Laurent does follow, and to his merit decides to lag well behind. He's not sure if he's tolerated, let alone wanted, but given the width of the corridor he doesn't have much of a choice. ]

One can always learn.

[achievementhunter]

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's probably wise, though as he walks, Laurent will very quickly find himself walking in the midst of the throng of monsters dogging Chara's steps. Their murmuring is constant, though now and again one will grow a little bolder, shouting to be heard above the rest.

Don't you get it, punk? A fish lady to his left snarls, expression twisted with righteous rage. You humans are all the same. The only good human is a dead one!]

Wouldn't one usually begin to learn at a young age? [Asks the mentally 13-year-old, who looks no older than ten.]

[crosslaced]

[It doesn’t even strike him as weird at first- this kind of rhetoric is something so familiar to Laurent that he spends a good while being “oh, it’s this discourse again, yeah, that’s valid.” He’s not sure why the Jormun want a piece of him now, but they’re entitled to, so whatever. The blonde has no retort to Undyne’s statement other than a noncommittal shrug. ]

That would be the ideal, [he probably got put on a pony when he was like four so yeah, ten is kinda old.] but there’s no reason why one couldn’t start later in life. You’ve made it this far. I don’t think horseriding will be difficult for you.

[He means “island survival for over a year” when he talks about Chara making it so far. But maybe a subconscious part of him grasps- however vaguely- that the children who can thrive in this place have survived a lot more than they let on. Like Ren, who Laurent thought might die within a week but has a survival instinct after all.

Also, it now occurs to him that these monsters aren’t angry at him.]