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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] want_to_belong 2019-01-20 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
"I guess... I could push on it?"

He didn't have a lot of items on him, but he figured it wouldn't be that hard to press down on a tile. He started off by kneeling and pushing on it. When it didn't give way, he hesitantly stood back up and stepped on it with one foot, hoping that the others would catch him should it fall.

It didn't seem to be moving. So, taking a deep breath, he slid his other foot onto it.

"...Looks like it's sturdy? If the tiles are okay, we could just walk across."

He started to step onto the next tile. It shuddered under him and, perhaps thanks to his fidgety nature, he fell backwards quickly when the tile gave way under him. Landing on his back, he used his hands to push himself clear of the tiles.

He paused to catch his breath. That had been a close one. He heard the sound of the tile crashing to the ground somewhere below, and realized there would be a hole there now. Thankfully not a huge one, but bees could start coming through if they didn't hurry this up.

"Dude, they're not all sturdy," he finally called out once he collected himself.
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[personal profile] savedbyasong 2019-01-20 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Be careful." Shion stood with his ear to the door trying to hear what was going on. He jumped at the clatter as one of the tiles plummeted. Right. Not great.

"Are any of them stable? Are you stood on one now? What picture does it have?"

There must be some way across. Shion doubted that this was actually impassable.

He just felt helpless stuck here, unable to help whilst his friends were in danger.
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[personal profile] want_to_belong 2019-01-29 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
"No way, not going to risk falling."

Which was why he immediately went back to where he knew it was stable. But now that he had a moment again to look, he examined it from the side.

"The one that's still up is a sunflower. I didn't check what the other one was before it fell. So... That's part of the Asteraceae family, isn't it?"
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[personal profile] savedbyasong 2019-01-29 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes... Don't fall." Shion swallowed down his rising panic and fought the urge to throw himself at the door, to try and get through to where the others were.

"Yes... Sunflower is part of the Asteraceae family." It must mean something. It was a game, like something Ruana would play. Therefore there were rules. If they found the rules and stuck to them...

"Are there any other tiles with Asteraceae plants that you can test from the Sunflower tile?"