AMALTHEA

[soulping]

[You suddenly find yourselves standing at the beginning of a large hedge maze, one with walls that extend so far above your head you're not quite certain where they end. There is no entrance behind you, and the bushes are so thick and full of thorns that attempting to crawl through them will result in numerous scratches]

[There is no way to go but forward]

Comments

ROUND ONE

[soulping]

[On your right you find a large, wooden shelf with twelve jars sitting on top of it]

- A jar of rat tails
- A jar of tiger eyes
- A jar of rabbit feet
- A jar of dragon hearts
- A jar of snake tongues
- A jar of horse stomachs
- A jar of goat horns
- A jar of monkey fingers
- A jar of rooster claws
- A jar of pig ears

[Each jar is clearly labeled, and the contents are exactly what the labels purport them to be. Choose three!]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

DECISION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

[hum.]

Which three do you think are likely to be useful?

Re: DISCUSSION

[whoslaughingmeow]

[FIDGETING.]

Dragon Hearts and Horse Stomachs.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worldsaving]

[ it takes nearly a minute for her to make out enough of what's in the jars to understand what she's looking at: that there ARE jars, that there's animal bits inside them. unhelpfully, because that's basically gonna be her for the entirety of this game, ] He's making a joke out of it.

[ like that weren't already clear ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[unguilded]

Maybe ... the eyes too.

Re: DISCUSSION

[whoslaughingmeow]

Those seem like.. yeah.

Re: DISCUSSION

[forthemackerel]

[ hooves for hands and feet right now, hair like so, except black ]

Useful for what is a better question...

Re: DISCUSSION

[unguilded]

Bastard.

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

[hi btw I am kinda creepy.]

So it seems... but we must play on.

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

We should take parts we do not wish to lose ourselves, I would estimate.

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

I would say we should pick the pieces that we do not ourselves wish to pay out.

Re: DISCUSSION

[whoslaughingmeow]

Hearts, stomachs and eyes.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worldsaving]

[ she wipe her nose before she can stop herself and immediately makes a weird retching sound. ]

Are we gonna die?

Re: DISCUSSION

[unguilded]

No.

No, we ... we have to find a cure. We're not ... going to die. We'll find it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[whoslaughingmeow]

No, we're not!

[He seems adamant. About that.]

We just have to.. go forward, and be careful.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worldsaving]

[ """kind of"""

again, another fairly lengthy silence where she just fidgets and makes soft weird noises, not really meaning to. ]

What Leo said, then.

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

That sounds acceptable to me, as well.

Re: DISCUSSION

[forthemackerel]

Is this how these games work?

Re: DISCUSSION

[worldsaving]

[ stops grinding her teeth long enough to catch "a cure", which- right. yeah. ha ha, right, a cure. sure.

a pithy remark might usually go here, buuuut she's not feeling it. the only thing she is feeling makes her basically want to die. so Viva just nods, kinda. ]

Okay.

Re: DECISION

[unguilded]

Dragon hearts!
Horse stomachs!
Tiger eyes!

Re: DECISION

[soulping]

[+1 hearts, stomachs and eyes added to your inventory. the rest of the jars disappear in a wisp of smoke]

Re: DISCUSSION

[worldsaving]

Be careful...

[ muttered, like that's the dumbest thing she's ever heard. which sucks because that's all they can really do, here. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

I cannot say for certain. Call it an instinct.