hot_mess_express ([personal profile] hot_mess_express) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2019-12-20 01:44 pm

The Twenty-Fifth Trial [Mirror]

Who: Heroes
When: Day ??
Where: ??

[The sky is grey and overcast, kind of… Gloomy.

There is no “come hither heroes”, there is no call. Simply, you find yourself in a different place.

Six Japanese style buildings, shrines, in team color roofs, surround the clearing. Despite the wood and rice paper walls there’s no hearing what happens in each building, no seeing what happens in each building, and no entering a building that is not your own team’s unless the game places you there. There is a seventh building of no color that can be sheltered in between rounds.

Sousei, or what looks like him, stands in the center of the clearing but his eyes are black, and pearly white scales cover his body entirely. His voice rings across the clearing like thunder.]

Wretched creatures, struggle, writhe, despair, and fall.

[He raises his hand, lightning strikes him, and his body sheds like snake skin as a massive serpent rises and rises and rises, curling around the whole area, taller than any tree, looking down at the clearing with pure malice.

It starts to rain.]

Rules | Sing-in | Rooms | Pre-game mingle | Round 1 Mingle | Winners and Endgame
bowtiedbones: (26)

Re: Pre-game mingle

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[hugging her elbows]

This is going to be bad, isn't it...
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[personal profile] overworker 2019-12-21 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
...yeah, I think so.
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[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Has anyone warned you how bad trials can get yet...?
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[personal profile] overworker 2019-12-21 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
I... haven’t heard the specifics, no...
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[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[sighs, pushing her hair back behind her ears]

You could be killed or injured. You may be driven into an unnatural state-of-mind, and you may be forced to kill or injure someone else. Your body may be changed, temporarily or permanently unless we pay the sparks to fix it.

But we do have a lot of sparks saved, and everyone is helpful— anything that happens, even death, can be undone after the trial.
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[personal profile] overworker 2019-12-21 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
So... even though we have to go through all that... it can be undone...

[It's incredibly unpleasant. However, there's at least a certain amount of hope in it.]

I've come close to dying before but... it's still really nerve-wracking.
bowtiedbones: (60)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
It's difficult. But whether it's that bad or something else, you never have to choose to do something you don't want to, okay? None of us will make you take a turn. That goes for anyone on Thyme.
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[personal profile] overworker 2019-12-21 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
I... no, it's okay. I appreciate that and I know it will be difficult but... I want to do my part too, as a member of Thyme.
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[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
That's a brave attitude.

[holds her hand out to shake]

I'm Eliza, by the way. Nice to meet you at my real age.
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[personal profile] overworker 2019-12-21 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I might not look like much, but I come from a military school background. Even though I'm a teacher now... this is just the way I was trained, I guess.

[No, it's just how you are Towa.]

--oh! Then you're... yes! It's nice to meet you... again!

[Towa shakes her hand with a small smile.]
bowtiedbones: (22)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Og! What do you teach? I'm a grad student, but it's in necrobiology, not anything military.

[we can ignore the giant snake and do smalltalk, heck off giant snake]
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[personal profile] overworker 2019-12-21 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
My class specializes in Military Finances and Communications, but I also teach the cooking classes.

[Because they have all of four teachers.]
bowtiedbones: (46)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
—Wait you can cook? Oh! Oh, if I buy ingredients, I have so many sparks, can you cook for Thyme??
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[personal profile] overworker 2019-12-21 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Of course! I'd be more than happy to!
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[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
[claps her hands together]

Great! That's so great! I can't cook at all, I don't think any of us know more than the basics.
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[personal profile] overworker 2019-12-21 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
I'm actually pretty good at it, if I do say so myself. So... just leave it to me! I wouldn't mind teaching anyone either, if you want to learn.
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[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Thyme earns sparks for teaching, so I might as well!

[personal profile] featherbeaned 2019-12-21 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ totally casually wanders up to lean against her legs ]

[ totally! casually! ]
bowtiedbones: (101)

[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
[reaches down to pet her. just 'cause!!]
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[personal profile] featherbeaned 2019-12-21 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ this is all fine and normal, just two pals hanging out. nuzzles up into the pets, her tail sweeping around to rest in a loose semi-circle around eliza ]
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[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[scritches her ears]

This snake looks like a jerk.

[personal profile] featherbeaned 2019-12-21 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Even at a time like this, she can't keep herself from leaning sharply into the scritches. ]

I wanna bite him. [ GRUMBLES ]
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[personal profile] bowtiedbones 2019-12-21 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[her nails are long and painted, excellent quality scritchers]

I bet he would deserve it.