The Seventeeth Trial

[catcophonous]

Who: trialgoers
When: Day 39, evening
Where: The Cat's Zone

[Have you enjoyed your day playing in your new train cars? Great! Because now it's Trial Time.

With the usual alert, the Cat's bar appears in the clearing. There's no "come hither" -- instead, just the pounding of bass from the speakers as the door cracks open. Inside there's flashing party lights, upbeat club music, and high-top tables surrounding a wide dance floor. The stage in the corner is empty except for a single microphone.

At the bar you can get free drinks, but you'll have to contend with the bartender -- a black cat curled up on the shelf between the bottles.

On the bar, and on every table, is a sign showing the rules of this game, titled:

Kiss or Dare

If you want to dress up for the club, or want costumes for daring purposes, there's a dressing room behind the stage with a magic closet. You'll find whatever you like in it, but when the trial ends you can only take home what you're wearing!

Good luck!]

RULES | TURN-IN | THE CAT / DISQUALIFICATION

Comments

[schrodingerscockroach]

You really are a people pleaser, huh? Always pegged you as a sunset or sunrise type.

That my dare then? [Pondering though.]

[awakenerd]

I'd rather think of it as being easy going at least. My interests are diverse enough to enjoy a lot of things.

[But now he's curiously watching Dusk.]

[schrodingerscockroach]

....something quiet.

I mean, active things are fun, always up for a challenge, but an ideal one? Something quiet. Good food. Cocoa during an evening stroll maybe. Just getting to talk or maybe watch something with someone without any worries.

[awakenerd]

[Smiling a little.]

You're really a romantic. I don't disagree that it sounds nice though.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Really, he just likes the thought of 'quiet' and 'with someone.' Quiet alone is terrifying after a while, but company was good.]

I'm pretty simple too, I guess.

[awakenerd]

[Isn't that romance? But quiet with someone is ideal.]

I think it's nice. That kind of date is more... intimate, maybe.

[schrodingerscockroach]

...yeah, guess so. No need to be worked up, ready for things to go wrong....just someone you trust.

[awakenerd]

Yeah. If you enjoy each other's company than it doesn't need to be elaborate, just being together is special.

[schrodingerscockroach]

That would be why people are dating, I would assume.

Another dare?

[awakenerd]

Of course.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I dare you....

To come sing a duet with me.

[Can Dusk sing? No idea, but its fun to do things with Rean.]

[awakenerd]

Haha, I'd love to. What are we singing?

[schrodingerscockroach]

Want romantic, silly, or silly kind of romance?

[awakenerd]

Romantic.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Romantic it is.

[And nothing like musicals for good duets.]

[awakenerd]

[Sappy! Rean's voice is the Kouki Uchiyama parts, probably a bit on the gentler side. And despite the song being very sappy he puts his all into his part without reservation.]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Always go for sappy for romantic duets!]

[Dusk isn't bad. Not great, but at least passable. His VA has at least been an extra in some musicals, so there's that.]

[But he's definitely putting his all into it because it's fun and why not after CROW'S FIRST DARE.]

[awakenerd]

[It is in fact incredibly fun and he's grinning at the end.]

That was a pretty cute song.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Rean]

[Rean, you're too cute.]

I think it's from a musical.

[awakenerd]

[So are you Dusk!! Look in a mirror.]

Yeah? Sounds like a sappy love story all right.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Does sound like they've been through some hardship that bonded them together and then they just wanted to focus on them for the relationship.

[awakenerd]

Isn't that the kind of love story that's compelling? Shared struggles.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Depends on the struggle. Like if you're together only because of the shared tragedy, eventually the relationship will fall apart eventually. Need something that's two people to bind them together.

[awakenerd]

Mm, yeah. Overcoming things together is more compelling than being victims together.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Well, more than that.

Like if you're only together to comfort each other because of something terrible you've been through, then that's why you're together. But when you've overcome and that comfort is less necessary to function, if you're not compatible otherwise, you'll eventually run into problems.