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

[overworker]

There's no need for apologies. But... it's true, that was awful.

[ (x) doubt ]

I don't have any other experiences to compare it to, but I hope it's not like this all the time.

[voreaciously]

[WOW!]

It is not, thankfully. This trial was not sanctioned by the Prince or his cohort. You can usually tell because they will tell us to "Come hither and prove our worth."

[overworker]

I see... so this was set up by someone completely different.

[She thought it seemed strange but she’d had so little time to process everything before this began that she hadn’t been entirely sure.]

That’s a little bit of a relief.

[voreaciously]

I should amend something: we have had...difficult trials in the past by those under the Prince, but they were either overzealous or corrupted or both. In the former case, he has said those will not happen again, but in the latter, we can never know what is going to happen when.

[overworker]

Corrupted... Well, it’s better to know what I’ll be up against. Thank you for the information. After this, it would be difficult to let my guard down really regardless. Preparing for the worst was one of the reasons I went to a military school to begin with.

[voreaciously]

Not a problem, I am certain you would have come by it, eventually. It is good to be vigilant.

You attended a military school?

[overworker]

Yes. Currently, I teach at one-- Thors Military Academy. The branch campus, anyway.

[voreaciously]

[oh that is very interesting. unfortunately, there is only so much she is willing to talk about military schools on her end, at least with respect to certain things, but 80H has nothing but the utmost respect for teachers and her voice reflects it, and her interest.]

What is it youteach?

[overworker]

I'm the head instructor of Class IX, Military Finance. I focus on tactics and communications, but I also teach cooking classes for the students.

[voreaciously]

All very crucial work, you must be quite busy.

[overworker]

I get that a lot. Our school doesn't have many teachers. So we all have to work extra hard. But me... I've always been like this.

[voreaciously]

Why does it not have many teachers?

[overworker]

Our school is new. Unlike the main campus, it doesn't have many resources. When even your principle calls it a trash heap... you really have to wonder what kind of place it is.

[voreaciously]

Your principal said that? Ah...

[overworker]

Y-yeah... at the school's opening orientation...

[It was Great.]

I know what she meant though. The people that were placed there... a lot of them are considered "problematic" for the Empire.

[voreaciously]

Ah...how [hm] bold?

[sure is one way to describe Le Guin]

I see...and yet you somehow do not seem the type too slack even so.

[overworker]

Y-yeah, she's... always like that.

[IT SURE IS.]

I had a lot of other offers, but for me, deciding to work there was just a matter of going where I felt like I could do the most good in our current situation.

[voreaciously]

The current situation...? Is it less than ideal?

[overworker]

Yes. Unfortunately, at this point, a lot of things are changing in the Empire and it may only be a matter of time before conflict breaks out.

[voreaciously]

I see. I do hope it does not come to that, but wish you luck.

[you know once they save the universe and all.]

[overworker]

So do I... thank you, Miss 80H.

[voreaciously]

There is no need to thank me.

[...]

But you are welcome.

[overworker]

Of course I do. It would be impolite of me if I didn't acknowledge it. After all, you were also one of the people kind enough to talk to me and calm me down before all this began, too.

[Towa never forgets a kindness, no matter how small.]

So when I saw the face you were making earlier... well. I don't know if it helped at all, but I thought maybe the company might help, even just a little bit.

[voreaciously]

Do you find discussions of impending danger calming?

[it's an honest question, not truly disingenuous. after all, forewarned is forearmed it's easier to be calm when you know what you're up against.

but still. DANGER.]

...I am not especially good company.

[she's garbage, towa. you're a cinnamon roll]

[overworker]

No, it's not that. But in a situation that I can't do anything about, a danger I have to face-- it's reassuring to have others by my side. You didn't have any reason to, but you did so anyway. It reminded me that I wasn't alone.

[Powerlessness isn't a feeling that she's unaccustomed to.]

...as I am now, I really don't have much choice but to rely on others.

[It's too late, you know. Towa has determined that she's a friend.]