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]

[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.

/2

[deerlyloved]

[--HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY NOTICE SOUSEI WAS HERE]

[deerlyloved]

...Being nice might save you.

Re: [BOND]

[dismemberthename]

[crawls up to lean against his legs bloodily and doesn't say a fucking thing]

Re: [BOND]

[deerlyloved]

[awkwardly shifts a bit...

...then cautiously pats them on the head]

Re: [BOND]

[dismemberthename]

[cool thanks, melts on him.]

We'll protect him too.

[daydreamshimmer]

I'll also fight anyone who goes after Sousei.

[Fuck it.]

[deerlyloved]

Good.

...'Cause I'm bad at fighting.

[daydreamshimmer]

I can always make fireballs.

Re: [BOND]

[crimeson]

[doesn't have the energy to more than thumbs this up but he's getting a thumbs up at least]

Re: [BOND]

[deerlyloved]

[a-awkward return thumbs-up...]

Re: [BOND]

[everythinghappens]

My. How brave of you to say all of that.

Re: [BOND]

[deerlyloved]

Not really...

Re: [BOND]

[everythinghappens]

Really! If that's the case, how come you're the only one doing it?

Re: [BOND]

[bowtiedbones]

Well said.

Re: [BOND]

[deerlyloved]

Thank you.

[The unexpected consequence of talking is that people respond. What does he do with all these actual interactions?]

It was important.

Re: [BOND]

[schrodingerscockroach]

If the games are ones where we can kill snakes, deal.

I take it Sousei wasn't a willing participant in this somehow?

Re: [BOND]

[deerlyloved]

No. The snake just lives in his body.

[bestbrotherever]

[Have someone who just exited the Train to see what the big deal was.]

Are you the one to ask, to find out what happened?

[deerlyloved]

Uhm. Not really...

Re: [BOND]

[yearofthecat]

You really don't have to go that far. I don't think I've heard you say so much at one time before.

Re: [BOND]

[deerlyloved]

Someone had to say it.

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[malignstar]

[ So this guy who violently killed himself in front of Francis' team is just watching all this ]

Not bad, though I don't know, it sounds like quite a few people could use a cook right now. Maybe even more than the games.

What's this about Sousei? Who even is Sousei?

Re: [BOND]

[deerlyloved]

Maybe... I could make breakfast. But Sousei... is the person the snake is possessing.