The Twenty-Eighth Trial

[joybound]

Who: trialgoers
When: Day 60 all day
Where: the trial zone and elsewhere

[Sometime this morning (morning? there's still no sun, so what's the difference), you feel the call to a new Trial.

The entrance to the Trial Zone is a new one: a tower has sprung up in the clearing, like a bit of a fairytale castle. It's made of a sparkling pink granite and has lovely star-themed carvings -- if you can see them behind the excess of neon and lights its been decorated with. If the fairy godmother made a dance club, this would be it!

Rather than a disembodied "come hither", your call is a video on a big screen above the entrance -- a young man in a masquerade mask and a flashy, witchy costume (including a big hat) stands... on top of the tower?? It's hard to see up there, but on the screen you can tell he's got twinkly star-filled hair and a black cat with blue eyes perched on his shoulder. He's also striking a pose.]

Heroes of Distant Stars, gather 'round! I, the mysterious and handsome witch of love, have a Trial for you! Come into my party tower and prove your love to me! If you're not a weenie, that is...

[Upon entering the tower, you find yourself in a vast ballroom. Lit with rainbow lights, magic sparkles, and an excess of blacklights and glowing things, it really does look like a club. Bubbly electronic pop blares over the speakers, though there are several tables and curtained-off booths if you'd prefer to avoid the dance floor. One table includes infinitely re-filling glasses of fruity soda, which lower inhibitions incrementally as you consume them (though only for positive urges). If you wish to get even more in the mood, there's a changing room with costumes -- all hybrids of fantasy and neon pop, just like the decor.

Time to get your love on!]

Rules ☆ Turn-in ☆ Winners & Endgame

Comments

[shintaiprotagonist]

The same is true for you, I see.

[featherbeaned]

[ Her fluffy ears wiggle happily. ]

Yes! Don't remember playing with it much, except for shifting.

[shintaiprotagonist]

You are wearing an assumed form, then?

[featherbeaned]

[ Wordlessly, and with a shimmer not unlike a heat haze, she shifts into her native dragon. She's covered, from ear-tip to toe bean and the very end of her tail, in iridescent blue feathers, scattered here and there with flashes of pink and yellow - exactly the same colours as her hair. ]

I'm a dragon.

[ Settles herself down to sit, cat-like. Big cat-like; she's 6'5 at the shoulders. ]

[shintaiprotagonist]

Impressive.

[featherbeaned]

[ nodnod, yes she is, thank you for noticing ]

You're human, yes? Or ... [ Sniffs at him, cocking her head. ] Your magic is, but isn't?

[shintaiprotagonist]

I remember little as yet, so I can tell you little. Only that I am human, as far as I know.

[featherbeaned]

Oh, like me! I don't remember many things, either.

Do you have your name yet? Mine's Meridian; Dusk gave it to me. He's my teammate.

[shintaiprotagonist]

I answer to Tide until I remember the name I was born with.

[featherbeaned]

Have you remembered much?

[shintaiprotagonist]

No more than an hour of time, so far. Though I suppose I have a token to spare.

[featherbeaned]

[ Shifts back to her human form. ]

Same, same. It's easy to get distracted.

[ Speaking of which - ]

Want to do trial things?

[shintaiprotagonist]

We have already done one, have we not?