soulping | BARGHEST

[. . . you wake up laying prone on your stomach on a swaying hanging bird cage. The entire room around you is dark, making it impossible to tell what your surroundings are. The cage is plenty large enough to fit you and your team, and the iron bars are far too tough to be broken. The cage is suspended by rickety chains over a large pit of fire]

[NEEDLESS TO SAY. . . falling would not be a pleasant experience]

[You can see the other team cages suspended in the air around you. They're far enough away that you can easily hold a private conversation with your team, but close enough that if you yell really loudly, you may be able to talk to them]

[The strange voice speaks up again]

If your oh so caring Haunt is light, then you may consider me d̗͙͊͗a̯̽̒͆ͥ̅r̬̺̙̠͖̠̥ͥk̰̦̲̄n̞̰̠̲͍͍̿̇̎͋͑̆e̜̰ͤͥ̇́̂͌s͚ͤ͗s͔̯͉̰͍͍̥̏ͦ̇͆ͩ̋͋. I will be running this game now-- my name is of no importance to you sorry lot. Listen up, and listen up well.

See those chains? Ah yes, the ones that are keeping you from plummeting to your deaths below. They're old, rickety, and weak. Too much weight will surely break them. So what do you think your goal is? That's right! Try to break the other teams' chains, while keeping yours safe! Ahahaha! Let's see how well you all do!

Ah. . . right. And one last thing.

If every team winds up with the exact same amount of stones, then I'll make sure e̺̪ͥ̽̉̽̈́̈́̌ ́́͗v͂ͭ̐ͫͭ̾ ̰̦͎̬͚ͮ͒̍e̳̼͔̤̼͐̓ͨ̍ͤ̏ ͌̏̓̑͊̉r̭̗̰̬̫͕ͯ ̜̲̩̠̪̥̱͐̿͑͋͐̅̀y̘̓͌ ̪̻̲̪͎̰̤o̺̮͇͇̒̅ ̣̟̞̜̥̪̰̊ͧ̅n͍̺͎̯̰̠ ̤͔̘͉͉̼e̜͚̤͕̻͊͐̈́̒̂̃ͣ ̤̝̦̦͈̹ͯ̓̅̎̈̆̀'̣̞̯ ̝͈̭̪̤̇̈ͮ͑͛ͮ̋s̗̠͚̦̤̭̥̔̈́͌ͪͯ̈̎ chains break.

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[There's a small, circular weight tray hanging from the ceiling of the cage. You can see that there are THREE stones sitting within it]

[Who will you send them to?]

. . .ugh. Are you serious. . .

[ stretching his wings out outside of the cage bars, over on the other side of this thing. ]

's fine.

[ hello here i am. still looking a bit feverish, but ]

... of course something like this happens.

It isn't fine.

...

We need to send this to someone.

[ fine my ass. ]

.... [ takes her hand ]

It'll be okay.

[ leans on him, tiredly ]

... what do you want to do?

They jus' wanna kill someone off. Doesn't have'ta be us.

Give 'em all to Alectryon.

Edited 2014-10-02 00:04 (UTC)

That could kill them.

..... If everyone distributed the stones a certain way, we'd all die. As it stands, though, with the stones we have...

I'm going to play all the stones. I don't want you to die [ again ] .

It will be us, if the other teams have anything to do with it.

[ tiredly, though. ]

Who's most likely to attack us?

Isn't that the point?

I don't want you to die, either.

[ just kind of. mumbles it against his shoulder ]

Do we... do all of them on one team?

Do you even talk to the other teams?

No. Not much, anyway. Takshaka, just a little.

... I've been sick in any case.

You want to kill an entire team because of your grudge against one person?

That's going to kill them.

They're all self-sacrificing idiots. Most of 'em anyway. They'd rather die than play shitty games like this.

An' I told ya I can heal already. If you're gonna wallow an' stay sick, I don't wanna hear 'bout it.

I'd rather keep you alive than them.

It's us or them. Either we kill off some other team or we're gonna fall. If it was jus' me, I wouldn't care--but we've got shit to protect, don't we?

I would too—I would kill for you! But I—at least. . . we could spread the stones out.

Could have fooled me.

[ sighs ]

You've never done it, how am I supposed to know?

... what if someone plays all of their stones on us?

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