hot_mess_express ([personal profile] hot_mess_express) wrote in [community profile] auroraexpress2018-12-18 08:11 pm

The Second Trial

Who: game participants!
When: Day 5, night
Where: ~outside~

[A silence abruptly descends upon the jungle. For a moment, all is calm, and then a heavy gust of wind blows in, making the Aurora sway. In your mind is a call some of you have heard before:

Come hither, Heroes. Prove thy worth.

This time, however, there’s no worn-out house. Instead there’s a large tent -- dirty and imposing, with a jet black flag above it, it looks like a command tent right out of a medieval battlefield. The canvas is spattered in mud and blood, and white feathers are scattered all around it, carpeting the ground for several feet.

By your own will or by unexplained compulsion, you are drawn to the tent, to meet your second Trial. As you enter, a man’s voice, clear and resonant, rings out.]

“O unfortunate pawns of the Light, answer me this: What is Justice?

RULESROOMSWINNERSENDGAME
ewestmarch: (stare)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2018-12-23 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
I have a name. It's Emilia. Hi.
nihilmancy: (Neutral 2)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-12-23 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Hi Emilia. Let me know if you want to be a cat.
ewestmarch: (Default)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2018-12-23 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't have anything against cats.

[Her neutral voice sounds naturally bitchy, sorry about it.]

Doesn't it bother you that you don't know who you are?
nihilmancy: (Wistful)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-12-23 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Frowns, and then tries to look unperturbed. But she is clearly perturbed.]

I don't know.
ewestmarch: (Default)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2018-12-23 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
You know how to talk, and read, and you know what cats are... so some things stayed. Do you have some idea of what was or wasn't normal where you're from?

[This is starting to be in the tone of someone trying to figure out a crossword puzzle.]
nihilmancy: (Neutral)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-12-23 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know, I can't just list all of that on command. Zombies were rather rare. I'm not sure if I've ever met one, though. But I know there's also a land where zombies are quite common somewhere.
ewestmarch: (stare)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2018-12-29 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's a start.

[She's pretty sure they're not from the same place, if only because she's never seen spectacles made like that before.]

What are you calling yourself?
ewestmarch: (wait wait)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2018-12-29 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Of course you are.

[okay. cats. fine.]

Which one is Panther?
nihilmancy: (Neutral 2)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-12-29 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The tall girl with long hair and grey skin.
ewestmarch: (Default)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2018-12-29 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I think she was undead like me, but she doesn't want to admit it.

[Emilia crosses her arms.]

At least I have something to call her. Does the druid know her name, or is she a cat too?

['The druid' - the only way Emilia knows how to refer to someone with antlers.]
nihilmancy: (Neutral)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-12-29 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Druid? That word has a somewhat different context in Tabby's world. But presumably she's referring to the last female member of the team.]

Ah, you mean Lynx. She hasn't mentioned whether or not she has memories, but I believe that she does.
ewestmarch: (Default)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2018-12-29 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Emilia cracks a fraction of a smile.]

Why are you the only one that's a housecat?
nihilmancy: (Blush)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-12-29 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Blushing.]

Incorrect. There is also Calico.
ewestmarch: (Default)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2018-12-29 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[cute.....]

Haven't met her. What's she like?

[Emilia shifts and glass crunches under her foot. She picks a shard up, studies it, pockets it. She's not really trained, but maybe there's magic to be analyzed anyway with what little skill she's got.]
nihilmancy: (Neutral)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-12-30 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
He has kept a bit to himself. He actually has cat-like ears.

[She realizes how ironic it is for her to say that, given her own introversion, but everything has been a flurry of activity here.]
ewestmarch: (hmmm)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2018-12-30 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
That one I haven't met. Anyone else in our cabin I should know?

[She tips her head back towards the train - want to talk and walk?]
nihilmancy: (Wistful)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2018-12-31 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Walking back with her.]

No. Tiger Styx used to be here, but now she, she isn't.
ewestmarch: (Default)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2018-12-31 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. What killed her?
nihilmancy: (A Look)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-01-02 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
She's not dead. She just disappeared.

[Don't you dare imply she's dead!!]
ewestmarch: (stare)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-01-03 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Emilia glances out at the forboding jungle all around them.]

Alright. How long has she been gone, then?
nihilmancy: (Wistful)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-01-03 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her head is spinning. She has tried to avoid thinking about it. Her teammate, her companion, dead without a trace with nothing that she could do. She has been trying so hard to regain some sense of stability and control in this situation.]

She- if she did get lost and died out there, we just need to pay sparks to resurrect her. That's how it works here.
ewestmarch: (wait wait)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-01-03 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[......bullshit]

Have you ever seen it work, or did they just say that?
nihilmancy: (Angry)

[personal profile] nihilmancy 2019-01-03 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course I don't trust everything on it's face, but I've had no choice but to simply work with what is!
ewestmarch: (stare)

[personal profile] ewestmarch 2019-01-03 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, fine, we can raise voices, that's fine too.]

Have you seen it work.

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