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Midnight Paws Reverie Orchestra ([personal profile] catcophonous) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2019-06-04 07:46 pm
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The Thirteenth Trial

Who: trialgoers
When: Day 27 all day
Where: The Cat's Zone

[Once again the Trial time has come. Just like the Eleventh, it's the Cat's bar that's appeared in the clearing, and just like then, he's not here for formalities.]

Can you believe you've been dumped on me again already? Lame, I know. But come on in and let's get going.

[But he's not the only voice! The booming, cheerful tone of the Hermit can be heard as well.]

Right, right, come along! This one should be fun for you and us.

[Once you enter the bar, you'll find... it's just a bar. In fact, you are free to come and go from it. The inside, though, has been dolled up -- there are swaths of colourful fabric above the windows, jingly dangly crystal decorations hanging down over tables, and patterned tablecloths. It's the kind of cheesy fortuneteller decor you've seen in the Hermit's tent before!

Otherwise, though, there's nothing strange. There are plenty of tables and an open dancefloor. The cabinets behind the bar are sturdily locked, but there are pitchers of non-alcoholic punch on every table, and on the bar is a jar of paper slips and a laminated instructions sheet.

The name of this game is: Fortune and Lies.]

RULESTURN-INWINNERS & ENDGAME
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[personal profile] unaffective 2019-06-09 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
What is it that you saw, exactly?
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[personal profile] desirestruth 2019-06-09 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
A week or so back, there were...flowers. The ones I touched showed me feelings, not her memories, but...I felt it, as though it were my own.

A loneliness that could drown you in it, faster than any sea or lake. Venomous, virulent self-disgust...the turning away of others. The lack of trust in others.

I saw myself in her. I cannot stand it, cannot stand to watch her run from a pain no one ever escapes, she is---

How does she believe it's fine to live that way?