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

[BOND] FOR SURE YES

[marezydoats]

[ Rin leans into it, not precisely hugging back-- she's pretty bad at hugging as a general rule-- but she's clearly accepting it, burying her face in the soft fur. ]

Re: [BOND] FOR SURE YES

[daydreamshimmer]

[Its fine, she's a pony and a Friendship Magic User, she is Very Good At Hugs despite hooves.]

[She's going to hug her tight and close.] You're safe. I'm here. [Just gonna keep whispering that over and over.]

[marezydoats]

[ Bit by bit, it helps. The trembling stops slowly but surely until finally she moves her hands up to return the hug. It's weak and awkward and she's clearly very not used to hugging, but she is returning it.

At long last, there is an embarrassed mumble. ]


...Thank you.

Wow, didn't properly select an icon there

[daydreamshimmer]

[It's fair, and she won't fault her for it. Hugs are hard sometimes.]

Anytime. I'm here for you.

[marezydoats]

[ She nods into Solar's fur. ]

Can... can I hold on a little longer?

[daydreamshimmer]

You can hold on as long as you want.

[marezydoats]

[ Then she's going to cling until her limbs get sore and she has to move. ]

[daydreamshimmer]

[You do that, bb, you will have a long hug.]

...do you want me to carry you to the med car? Your legs would drag, but I think you're light enough for me to carry on my back.

[marezydoats]

[ She shakes her head after a long moment and starts to stand up slowly. ]

I can make it on my own.

[daydreamshimmer]

[She nods, and will keep close until she's steady on her feet.]

Do you have the sparks? I should have enough to cover us both.

[marezydoats]

I... don't, I'm sorry.

[ She's not used to being poor? ]

I'll pay you back.

[daydreamshimmer]

That's all right. I can cover us and still get my tattoo kit.

We could do daily hugs. Apparently that's enough to get two hundred. Pay me back in a few days AND we can start a stockpile.

[marezydoats]

I've spent most of my life avoiding those. But... I can handle that much.

[daydreamshimmer]

You have? Why?

I can understand not liking them, but avoiding sounds like....a thing?

[Especially since she leaned into her like she did.]

[marezydoats]

I have... a curse. One that's triggered by illness or getting hugged by most men. So as a matter of habit, I learned to avoid them unless I had a good reason.

[daydreamshimmer]

What kind of curse? I'm good at magic. And Penric and Loki do too.

[marezydoats]

[ If they could do something to break that curse, then for Haru's sake--

Well. She'd do anything they wanted. ]

It's one that's been in my family for generations. Children are born early, and when they do there's another spirit tied to theirs-- an animal of the Chinese Zodiac. Mothers unable to hold their baby boys, fathers unable to embrace their daughters... Their children are monsters to them, and it often breeds contempt. Hatred. Parents who can't see their children as people with their own feelings, thoughts, hopes and dreams.

[daydreamshimmer]

....

[She scoffs.] What weak parents. [And yet she could believe it.]

What kind of animal do you turn into? I don't know what a Chinese zodiac is.

[marezydoats]

There's twelve animals-- Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. ...There's also one outside of it, the Cat, but he's...

...Mine is the Horse.

[daydreamshimmer]

.....

Well, now I'm even more angry at your parents. Equines are awesome.

[marezydoats]

....I'm pretty fond of them myself.

[ She just, you know, doesn't want to be cursed. ]

[daydreamshimmer]

So like is it whatever-you-consider-normal horse, or monster horse?

Because won't lie, what I hear about supposedly normal horses doesn't seem terribly threatening, honestly not sure if they could deal with broken limbs, but if we're dealing with a curse, it's good to know if it's gonna be sudden monster horse.

[marezydoats]

Regular-for-my-world horse. A bit different looking than you.

[daydreamshimmer]

So a shapeshifting curse. Well, I have been looking into that sort of thing. The trigger is kind of weird, but we can work with that.

We'll do some studying, see what we can do. I actually remember some how to analyze magic, I'd just need the equipment.

[marezydoats]

I'm not sure why that's the trigger.

[ It is pretty weird. ]

But if you could break that curse... I would do anything you wanted, give you anything I could.