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Midnight Paws Reverie Orchestra ([personal profile] catcophonous) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2019-08-13 10:48 pm

The Seventeeth Trial

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
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[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-08-25 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'll agree that women are tougher than most men give them credit for, at least.

I'm purely biased against the Ravanges, however. And in that way, Catalina could stand to have much better taste, even if she'd skewer me for saying so.

"I'll kill you!" [in a clearly feminine but harsh voice, mimicking Catalina's voice no doubt.

and here, he gives a mocking gesture to the empty chair that's apparently where Catalina would be sitting.]

Ah ha! It's much too late! I've beaten you to it!
Edited 2019-08-25 04:26 (UTC)
schrodingerscockroach: (She's a terrorist)

[personal profile] schrodingerscockroach 2019-08-25 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
They really are. Carolina is one of the most terrifying competent I know. She was basically my boss in special ops. I'd almost feel sorry for anyone who told her she couldn't do something. [Except they'd deserve it.]

And Ravagers were the favored knights? Yeah, probably, anyone who'd risk an asset is dubious management at best, but ambition is a double edged sword.

[He tilts his head at that.] ...you've died too?
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[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-08-25 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Ravanges. They're the royal family. And they've ravaged enough of the people in their kingdom to leave a mark for many generations. Preferably this being the last generation, but that's a personal opinion that would get a man hanged.

[l-laughs]

Not that that's what I was hanged for--but yes. I've died. More or less.
schrodingerscockroach: (.....SIGH)

[personal profile] schrodingerscockroach 2019-08-25 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
...wow. Sounds like great people. [So dry.]

[....huh.]

I have no idea how to react to that by this point.
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[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-08-25 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
My world's a bit of a complicated set up.

Hmmm... basically, I was destined to die. So I found a way so that I would still be around even if I died.

[waggles hand in the kinda-sorta manner]
schrodingerscockroach: (but maybe good)

[personal profile] schrodingerscockroach 2019-08-25 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
You'd think with the name like the Ravagers, there's be at least a little self reflection.

Destiny a big thing there too?
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[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-08-25 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
[eh. Ravagers is close enough.]

Not traditionally. I've just met the creators of my world, so I happen to know how it works, more or less.
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[personal profile] schrodingerscockroach 2019-08-25 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[I may have only been reading Ravagers, but really is close enough.]

....that has to be disorientating. [Also something that can just happen he guesses????]
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[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-08-25 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
It's less confusing than I thought it would be, really. All the religions back home were always these big affairs or at least some big thing, but turns out it's just two guys. One is an asshole who thinks our pain is a game, the other's like a puppy.

[guess which one Levi prefers.]

I mean, there's supposedly some "Manager" above them, but they've never met 'em and I guess they're not directly involved with my world, either.

Makes it real simple.
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[personal profile] schrodingerscockroach 2019-08-27 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Puppy's are always a win even if they're frustrating.]

[Which he assumes is probably a thing?????]

Well, it does seem unlikely for anyone to have their gods exactly right and then people always have their own agenda for what they say is the 'truth.'

So they just...told you that you had to die?

[personal profile] wellhanged 2019-09-02 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it was really more of an off-handed kind of "it's not like you're that relevant to the story" thing. But I can't really be offended by that. It's not like I minded such a fate, to start with.
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[personal profile] schrodingerscockroach 2019-09-05 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
Still kind of a dick move on their part.

....so what did you do?