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]

Seeing you.

[DID YOU WANT SAP? HAVE SAP.]

[bluediligence]

[ YIKES ]

Hitting hard right out of the gate, geez! I'm, uhm, I'm happy to see you too, you big sap.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He laughs.] It's apparently my secret weapon.

[Ruffling her hair.]

[bluediligence]

[ She actually stops him this time, lightly grabbing his wrist just before he can make contact. ]

Careful! You'll mess up my hat!

[schrodingerscockroach]

Ah, fair, fair.

[Teasingly pinches her cheek instead.]

[bluediligence]

Duuuuuuuuuusk.

Whyyyyyyyy.

[ What if she pinches both of his cheeks in retaliation...! ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Because it's fun.

[That she can do.]

[Also he's got like aqua lipstick and a pink dress and heels SO YOU KNOW.]

1/2

[bluediligence]

Your lipstick is fun-!

[bluediligence]

... Ah. That came out weird.

[ She's not staring at his lips, it's just, it's really hard not to notice now that she's actually focusing on his face. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

I've been through a gauntlet. [At least you weren't here for the strip tease he had to do in like the first five minutes.]

[He has no more fucks to give.]

But at least they had fun colors.

[bluediligence]

When aren't you going through a gauntlet?

[ That's what his life seems to be, mostly. ]

Blue suits you. [ SAGE NOD. ] I'm not sure about the pink ...

[schrodingerscockroach]

....when I'm making other people go through gauntlets. Pretty good at making obstacle courses.

I'm stuck with the pink with Clover. I had black and pink with my original outfit tonight, that was working, but it was a lot harder to find a dress that was comfortable and worked.

[bluediligence]

[ ... Pffffft. ] Ahh, I see, I see. You know, that makes me think - we should have an obstacle race together sometime.

[ The ULTIMATE BATTLE OF ULTIMATE DESTINY ]

Team colors make things hard, huh. Ah well, at least we know you rock a dress. [ Even if the colour isn't ideal. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

....we do have a gym. [There are SUPPLIES for such things.]

Half of any outfit is confidence. [Will even do a cheeky pose because no fucks to give.]

[bond]

[bluediligence]

[ Wait, wait, hold on! Holds out a pinky finger! ]

You, me, the gym. Tomorrow morning. I promise I'll do my best to annihilate you!

Re: [bond]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He's going to need to blow off steam after the charm wears off, GONNA BE A FUN TIME FOR AOKO.]

[He laughs and he'll hook his pinky with hers.] It's a deal.

[bluediligence]

You, sir, are going down.

[ And then she moves to PICK HIM UP AND TWIRL HIM ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Wait, Faito-

[He's gonna be surprised because he knows he weighs more than he looks and Faito is SMALL GIRL HOW]

[bluediligence]

[ SHE GIVES NO FUCKS ]

[ Twirls him around in a fun, spinny circle, and then another, and then another, before she finally sets him gently back down. ]

You were gonna say something~?

[schrodingerscockroach]

.....jesus christ, I didn't think you could have that much muscle on you. [He's actually gonna take her hand and look more closely at her arm.]

[bluediligence]

[ She actually is pretty well toned after all of the training she's done over the past couple of years, her muscles Strong and Defined. She's just … also still small, and definitely not bulky. ]

[ And while she has plenty of scars, none of them seem like the kind you'd get from surgical enhancements. ]

Guess I just put in a lot of hours at the gym or something.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Has to check for that.]

You really must.

It'll be really interesting to see how you react to the course tomorrow. We've sparred. I wonder if I trained you too.

[bluediligence]

[ There's the weird, vine-like scars that wind all over her arm and the whole rest of her body, but they're not exactly surgical in nature; they're too random and, well, windy. ]

Wouldn't surprise me. I mean ... You're military, and as far as I can tell, I was a regular high school student at one point. I had to have learned it from somewhere.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I do seem to just kind of do that when it seems necessary. I didn't strictly have to train Tucker and Caboose since we were in a shipwreck. Just seemed better to have them in shape while we were in a survival situation.

And I do seem to get pulled into drama when I'm not isolated in a canyon somewhere.

[bluediligence]

And we know for sure that you're the kind of guy who'd adopt random teenagers.

Honestly ... it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out I'd somehow time-travelled to the future and ended up stranded on a planet full of hostile aliens or something, and you were in the right place at the right time to swoop in and rescue me.