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

[bestbrotherever]

[He purses his lips.] I do not know. [He didn't even try anything but hate and spite. But there was his positive reaction to Thor reaching out to him...] Perhaps. Support of another may also be necessary.

I think what he used was... more than a spell. Something primal. And of course subtle. Perhaps if Odin had been more interested in knowing the whole story, we would all have answers and methods of countering the Mind Stone's control, but that old fool...

[He's getting worked up, very angry. He takes a breath and regains the facade of calm.]

Well. If I do have an invader in my mind, and we do manage to contain it, I doubt whatever is hiding within your friend will be a challenge.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Nods.] That should be doable then. It's rare to have someone both incapable of hating and incapable of working with others.

Not all parasites are spells. Sometimes they're magical creatures. Sometimes they're worse. The spells I know might still mean I can find it, but getting it out is another matter.

Too afraid of power to pursue knowledge? [She rolls her eyes.] I never understood that. The best way to control something dangerous is to know it.

It might be similar. It was the same kind of feelings. The thing in him is definitely old. It depends how things are translating, magic and power can differ between worlds.

[bestbrotherever]

Hah. That is true. It is far more rare than someone who is capable of both.

I think I should like to review what those spells are before you use them on me.

[He growls softly.] Oh, he is far worse. He is too afraid of being wrong to pursue new knowledge, as it would mean admitting that he did not know everything of import. And he would rather believe the worst of me if that is a possibility. It is simpler for him to decide that I am lying and attempting to trick others than to investigate whether I have found a power and a threat he did not anticipate.

Hmm. But he is not old himself, correct? Then the question becomes how and why did it get in him.

[daydreamshimmer]

Oh yeah. Plenty who can hate and be professional.

It shouldn't be no problem. I just need enough paper to write them all down. Spells like that are usually built up on other ones, so getting all of it takes time.

....that....he....he does know that the world is a constant flux of change, right? Especially if you live centuries, things sometimes have to be born first.

He isn't the first host. He isn't the first host by a far bit. When one dies, old god gets shoved into a new one. It's a....rather barbaric practice.