The Twenty-Fifth Trial [Mirror] - Winners and Endgame

[hot_mess_express]

Who: Heroes
When:Day 52, night
Where: near the Train

The rain falls harder, and the snake sneers at you as you exit the temples... Lightning strikes and the snake laughs like thunder... But that's all, the mocking laughter rings in your ears as the scenery shifts back to the normal Train area. Those who revive will do so near the Train as the winners and survivors reappear.

Ginger and Licorice double win for both surviving and targeting a Priest! For these teams they get 800 points.

Jasmine wins for surviving! They get 500 points.

Everyone on a winning team is revived and fully healed.

Everyone else... Is revived. And healed. However in whatever death wounds they received they have, instead of scars, white scales for their skin.

Smaller wounds will regenerate in a one to two days and will leave scales instead of scars unless healed otherwise.

All Kami remain hungry and able to shift to their monster form for the next day or so. Only meat will relieve this hunger.

Any Kami that were mad at the end of the game will retain a bit of mental instability for a day, in whatever form you prefer.

Priests, if they normally have powers, will find themselves somewhat weaker for a day.

It is not ICly known that these effects will wear off.

Comments

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow is hanging around the train for a little while, arms crossed over his chest. He's not saying anything unless you speak to him first, but he looks calm. Collected.

(He is not calm. He is trying to quietly kill off all his feelings, make himself numb.) ]

[awakenerd]

[Well he's reviving nearby. But he'll come over if Crow doesn't beat him to it.]

[ruinatings]

It was you, wasn't it?

[voreaciously]

[Just going to approach because, you know what, whatever, Crow's a big boy, he can tell her to go away.]

Hello.

[marezydoats]

[ Rin wakes up.


She wakes up and she curls into a little ball and starts screaming and screaming and screaming and ]

[daydreamshimmer]

[ISUZU]

[She moves over to her and]

[Stop just a bit away, but in each]

Isuzu. Hey, Isuzu?

[bluediligence]

[ Faito stays far, far, far away while Isuzu screams, sick to her stomach with guilt and horror. ]

[ Once things are a ... little? more calm? ... she still doesn't approach, instead shakily calling out, ]

M-Miss? Isuzu? I - I have healing magic, if you need ...

[yearofthecat]

[He really tries to ignore the screaming girl but...

nope.

Somehow he’s plopping down on the ground next to her but doesn’t say a word. He’s just there and not sure why.

He doesn’t even know this girl. ]

[notafruit]

[ Unlike so many others... Chiharu is fortunate. She wasn't caught up in...whatever all of this was that happened to people. But she can see the horror, shock, pain, and disgust in everyone's eyes. And her heart hurts.

Quietly, she kneels down at her side and very gently rests a hand upon her back. ]

Sohma-san...

[voreaciously]

[Her head is tilted up to the rain. She does not move, she does not speak.]

...

[daydreamshimmer]

[She has to deal with some stuff, B U T]

Hello.

[everythinghappens]

Amane. You don't look so well, dear.

[overworker]

[Towa is not at all alright. Mentally her head is swimming wild. She still feels those horrible instincts and after a moment she confirms something. Her body can still change at will to that of the seductive succubus form from the game.]

...this nightmare is never going to end... do I have to live like this forever?!

[She’s in high panic, but not hostile.]

[dereban]

[ . . . walks in like that one community gif where everything is proverbially on fire but she has no pizza

hi Towa ]


Wwwwwhat happened here? You definitely don't sound alright.

[daydreamshimmer]

[WHY IS THERE STILL HUNGER]

[Also ugh, her neck, why-]

[wait, why does her neck feel weird-]

[malignstar]

You okay?

[ Sporting white scales across his throat ]

[comingstorm]

[Then there's this asshole coming out of the train.]

...What happened?

[daydreamshimmer]

...well, that answers that.

[malignstar]

[ Is feeling at the weird scales on his neck ]

Oh come on, what the hell is this?

[dismemberthename]

[ugh. they're just gonna lay here with a hell of a lot of claw and tooth marks bleeding sluggishly, what were probably deep claw marks slashed across their chest are now just pretty scales

but yeah their clothes are pretty much shredded what with all the shifting and fighting.]

[voreaciously]

[She is just looking for them and finds them and is just immediately at their side and healing them, gathering the rain into her hands and laying them where they're injured.

The scales are frightening but she pushes past the shock of seeing them after a moment.]

[crimeson]

[Randy is apparently uninjured! But... seems out of it. Exhausted.]

And we won for that...

[awakenerd]

Hey...

[He's getting up from his revival, but you look--well. Who wouldn't look like shit.]

[dereban]

[ just walks in here-- ]

Man, now I feel like that Community gif where I just walked in with pizza and everything is on fire.

[malignstar]

[ Sure looks like an older version of that kid from before, only now with an obvious scar over his eye and shimmering white scales across his throat. ]

I have no idea what you're talking about, but it sounds about right.

[BOND]

[deerlyloved]

[Francis takes a moment to look around, and another to stand still, deep in thought, unobtrusive and out of the way.

Then he slowly walks into the middle of the clearing, takes a deep breath, and raises his voice loud enough to carry to anyone else still outside.]

Excuse me! I have something to say!

[--His voice cracks a bit, and he hesitates before continuing.]

That's... None of this was anyone's fault. Don't blame yourselves, or anyone else! We're supposed to get along, and I-- We all have someplace we want to go home to... probably. If we want to save those places, we can't let this stop us.

So... Since all I'm good at is cooking, I'm not very helpful, but... I'm going to buy games, and we can all play them in the lounge in the morning! So we can be friends. Maybe.

[And that's more assertive socializing than he's ever done in his LIFE so he kinda shrinks in at the end and starts to back out of the center area, only to pause and come back. He had a lot of shy conviction before but this is much more insistent.]

--Oh, and... If anyone wants to take it out on Sousei, you have to go through me first! And you won't be invited to play games! Ever!

Re: [BOND]

[comingstorm]

[I have never been prouder in my life?

Honestly he thinks this was the best cutest offer Francis could have made, and it's almost embarrassingly cute, and shows how much Francis has grown and achieved so of course--]

I don't need a twig to defend me.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Well, that fucking sucked.]

[He's....pushing himself up and just]

[Hate]

[Hating all of this and killing his emotions and he's hurt and hugnry, but its not as strong as it was and he'll....he'll deal.]

[But not everyone is healing and]

HEY! I got a couple of thousand sparks to share.

Who needs them for healing?

[malignstar]

Skip the healing, what about you?

[bowtiedbones]

[Eliza's sitting up where she revived and SQUEAKING as she's swarmed by a tumbling mass of spiky-looking shadows. there's a lot of heads and claws in the mess to keep track of, but they're definitely draconic— turns out dying upsets REAL monsters too]

I'm okay, I'm okay! Isildur, Isolde, Lori, I'm okay!

[malignstar]

Eliza!

[everythinghappens]

Ah, my little monsters did so well!

[ kyaaa ]

[awakenerd]

...Victory... Might be a little soon.

[bestbrotherever]

[Exiting the Train and looking over the returning with folded arms.]

Well. I have seen more energy from my brother and his friends upon retreating from battle. What sort of fight occurred? Need we fear an attack by the enemy who caused this?

[daydreamshimmer]

Not right now.

[Hi, I am covered in wounds with snake scales on my neck and on my side.]

Bad trial. Dead people.

Isuzu and I might be screaming tonight.

[featherbeaned]

[ reviving sucks, but more importantly - ]

[ YOWLS IN DISTRESS ]



[ why does she have scales!!! ]

[malignstar]

Meridian!