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]

Of course.



[Not. But who cares? All they have to do is aim the gun and pull the trigger; just like in the movies. Guns aren't that deep, fam.]

All part of the trained by an egotistical madman package.

[counterblows]

[That's not exactly a huge selling point, but hell if he's about to sit there and let incomplete military knowledge kill someone. Wash sighs, snaps his sidearm from the mag-strip at his thigh, and looses its mag.]

Was that training as cohesive as your 101 on bomb mechanics?

[achievementhunter]

Are you expecting an answer, or was that a rhetorical question?

[Because really, they don't have to say it. The answer is obvious.]

[counterblows]

With this place's track record, chances are that at some point, you are going to need to shoot something. Knives don't need reloading, but if you run out, you're in trouble. When it comes to that, I don't want you nailed by the kickback.

[They're younger even than the kids on Chorus. But youth was never a factor in war. The frontlines carve decades out of you in keloid tissue and muscle grafts and trips to medical, until you're weathered into something far older than you are.]

[The kids on Chorus never got a choice.]

[achievementhunter]

I see. And what would your professional advice be, to avoid being 'nailed'?

[Oh Wash buddy you are really preaching to the choir here, aren't you?]

[counterblows]

Keep a good stance, sturdy balance. Anticipate the recoil. Here.

[He unclips his sidearm from its mag-strip at his thigh and holds it out, handle first, to indicate the parts of it that are requisite. If their tone bothers him, he doesn't show it - or maybe he's just too distracted to notice.]

Safety's on. Switch it off like this - [He demonstrates.] - or on again.

cw: self-harm

[achievementhunter]

[Well that switch is going off and staying off- kind of useless in this kind of environment, wouldn't you say? Nonetheless, Chara nods, holding out their hand expectantly.]

Understood. I shall endeavor only to harm what I intend to harm.

[So no promises that they won't harm themself.]

[counterblows]

[Wash glares at them briefly behind his visor, but there's a reason he's almost always in full armor, and one of those is that his expression becomes that much more impossible to read. It affords him all sorts of opportunities for eye-rolling and quiet frustration without ever letting it on to the other party.]

[Unless, of course, some of it leaks into his tone.]

[He passes it to them; the weight has always been light in his palms, but it's got impressive heft for a weapon so small - seven inches tall and nine across.]

Each mag has twelve shots and ammo's limited here, so you only shoot if you're certain you're going to hit something.