The Seventh Trial

[hot_mess_express]

Who: heroes (?)
When: Day 16, early morning
Where: the party zone

[Late in the night, the train jostles again. It feels like a Trial, but this time there's a strange, oppressive feeling in the air, and the call forth has changed. And yet it's a voice that's been heard before -- the resonant young man's voice that accompanied a military tent surrounded in white feathers.

What is a hero?

That tent is here now, imposing with its black flag and spatters of mud and blood, but the edges are tattered and the feathers strewn about are beginning to turn black. From them rises a smoke with a dark glow, sending a chill through anyone it touches.

As you enter the voice is raised again. Though still strong, it's no longer clear -- it sounds hoarse and a little distorted.]

What is your worth? What do you stand for? What... is the right thing to do?

What is Justice?

SIGNUPS ☆ RULES ☆ ROOMS ☆ WINNERS & ENDGAME

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WINNERS & ENDGAME

[hot_mess_express]

[With the final punishments handed out, the kings are released from their thrones and the doors to the throne room open, allowing you to leave.

Those who have died will revive, though they'll have intensely painful scars at the sites of their wounds. The wounds from non-fatal punishments remain, however.]

What is Justice?

What is correct?

I don't understand. It's painful...

...

...Was it worth it, my Queen? For that foolish child of yours...

[The tent disappears. In its place, there's a new sprinkling of stars in goldenrod, cobalt, & hot pink.]

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[potestatem]

... So that's how it goes.

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[saddleclub]

What happened.

[voreaciously]

[Her back is a mess of slashed, ruined velvet. Bloodied and welted from lashes, but, honestly, she can survive this.

She wants to find Randy]

[crimeson]

[luckily he's big and red and findable with his neat new beheading scar and all, staggering out and trying to get a grip on the situation now.]

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[saddleclub]

[Peacefully unconscious but starting to rouse with a groan.]

[ewestmarch]

[Sort of flumps in the grass nearby and waits for him to wake up. That's all she got right now.]

[voreaciously]

[just going to wait, primly, for him to wake up and get himself sorted.]

[ewestmarch]

[Stumbles off the throne, bleeding, feathery.]

Fuck, the Angel is from the Prince's world, of course he is.

[Rips crown off and throws it.]

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[malignstar]

[ All whipped to hell, burned and feathery? ]

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[bowtiedbones]

[scooting over to stand nearby him]

... Are feathers always this itchy coming in?

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[spectacularluck]

[ HE IS BEYOND PISSED, bloodied welts on his back and he's had his knee injured but like none of that is even registering beyond how angry he is.

She he's just over there very angrily getting himself a healing pod ]

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[crimeson]

Finn...

[kind of. hovering. concerned!!]

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[nihilmancy]

[Hlasoh is not in a good way. She's on her knees on the ground, her eyes bloodshot, face streaked with tears, and her expression blank. Bloody lashes cover her back, and feathers are sprouting out of her skin, and she's actually scratching them, clearly wincing in pain each time.

Even if she was told to do it, she gave in, and hurt Emilia. Trapped in a prison, causing violence to those she cared about- just like what had happened long ago. The pain in her head seems unbearable.]

[ewestmarch]

[Stumbling over, clumsy and leaking a bit but not dead.]

Hahh. There you are. I'm alright.

[Kinda collapses into a pile of skirts to sit next to her on the ground.]

[crimeson]

[Randy's staggering out, reaching up to touch the vivid new scar that rings his neck and hissing-- yeah, that fucking hurts.]

Nice of 'em to put it back...

[bowtiedbones]

[her hair's bloodied where she had her own crown on, but no lethal marks for her]

Oh— oh no, your neck, what round was that?

[ewestmarch]

You let them cut your head off?

[Weakly throws handful of grass at him.]

Fuckin' maniac.

[ruinatings]

...Feeling alive?

[are we ok]

[saddleclub]

--!

[bad_crowmance]

...That looks painful.

[ UUUUUUNDERSTATEMENT! ]

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[bowtiedbones]

[scrubbing blood off her face and coughing up smoke, burned and feathery and marked with gouges from her crown]

Feathers...?

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[saddleclub]

What happened, Eliza?

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[ruinatings]

[The first thing Rufus is doing is pulling his sweater off and throwing it on the ground. Better to get rid of it before it gets fibers in the lash wounds...]

...Well. Maybe it was the right decision after all.

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow's back is a ruined mess and frankly he's not a fan! He gives a grumpy glare to the general area. ]

Ugh, guess that means I owe her some sparks.