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

[featherbeaned]

[ Yowling becomes a YIP becomes a SQUEAK as she startles up onto her feet, feathers poofing. Stares at him ... ... ... .... ... ... ... ... ... ... ]

Dusk! It's, it's awful! I have scales!

[schrodingerscockroach]

.... [omg]

They are pretty awful.

Totally mess with your cute feather thing.

[featherbeaned]

I'll tie that fecking snake in knots for this! [ she's so mad, dusk ]

[ she is so, so mad ]

They're so ugly. [ Her poor gross, bloody feathers, all askew and ruffled and marred with patches of scales. ] I gotta fix it. Help me fix it!

[schrodingerscockroach]

....well, I ahve an idea.

But it's something we should talk about in private.

[Because people would hella judge and not let us do it.]

[featherbeaned]

[ Well! In that case! She makes an immediate beeline out of there, try to keep up. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Out of here we goooooo.]

You're definitely gonna hate one part.

[featherbeaned]

I'll like it better than these awful things.

[ Despite how objectively Awful their fight to death was, she doesn't seem to have any trouble walking alongside him now. ]

So, what? What's your plan?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Sometimes dying is less awful when you can fight it out.]

[Also she technically won, so.]

....well, it's pretty much awful from start to finish, so I'll start with the point that might get you to say no outright.

It involves using the pods.

[featherbeaned]

[ Her lips curl, because, yeah; the pods are bloody awful. ]

[ On the other hand ... ]

You mean bite and scratch them off. [ ... It's not a terrible idea ... ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yep.

There's no way I'm getting out of using the pods. [Because, you know, NECK.] Your fatality might have been how deep they were, so you might get out of it, but you also might not be able to get away with it.

Being prepared for not being able to get away with it would be better because I'll be honest, this is a fucking terrible idea, but I'm not sure anything else would work.

[featherbeaned]

[ ah, yes, the neck ]

[ sorry about that ]

[ except she's not really that sorry, because they Talked and Agreed and also, he was trying to eat her. ]

[ With a grumbly growl of discontent ]

I can live with the pod easier than I can live with these ugly things. [ Having that snake's mark on her is adding insult to injury, and she is not putting up with that shit. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Nah, he's cool about the neck injury. He's already got a ton of scars there already. His judgement is solely for his own fucking ideas.]

Yeah. I could try with the pendant, but even pouring out all the heals may not get everything completely. Especially with how many injuries you have. It'd draw out the process.

And higher chance of people finding out and making it harder.

[But like....it's...offered. But P E O P L E]

[featherbeaned]

My body, my rules. Don't care what anybody else thinks.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Yeah, but it's still a pain in the ass.

[featherbeaned]

[ shrugs with her wings. ]

Stupid scales are a bigger pain in the arse.

[ GRUMBLE GRUMBLE ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

I know. But that's why it's better to do without people around.

So quick and done or....?

[featherbeaned]

Or what? Slow and painful?

[ That sounds like a weird non-option, she's just saying ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Shrugs.] Was just offering.

[featherbeaned]

I've got teeth and claws, I can do it.

[schrodingerscockroach]

A knife is a bit more precise?

[featherbeaned]

[ hmmmmmmmm ]

[ hm ]

Show me.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Pulling out a knife and then a banana that he's just carrying as a snack and then he carves out a nice, clean chunk of the skin without even scraping the edible stuff inside.]

I mean, I've never seen claws be super precise, but maybe that's just cause most things with claws aren't thinking to be careful.

[featherbeaned]

Most things with claws are just thinking about dinner. [ Or defending themselves. Both are valid. ]

Lemme eat that peel. I'll think about the knife.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Exactly. But they don't seem the most conductive for a precise cut. Less sharp surface area.

[Will toss over the peel.]

[featherbeaned]

[ Chomps it down in one bite, thank you. ]

Other hand, I'm in control.