RATATOSKR

[soulping]

You step into a small airy room made entirely of porcelain and frosted glass. Squishy armchairs — the old fashioned type; pretty velvet affairs with patterns of roses in your team’s color and legs of dark wood — line the walls.

Pride of place in the center of the room is a table, upon which rests: a list of instructions; a spread of cards; and a box made out of mirrored glass with eleven slits in the top. Each slit is outlined in a team color.

Beyond the table is a huge, floor to ceiling hourglass. A certain number of blood red crystals reside at the bottom ...

Comments

ROUND 1

[soulping]

Bank: 15
Hand:
Steal two mattresses and their bedding (2)
Prosopagnosia (4)
Swift Kill (10)
Remove a limb (9)
Donate a pint of blood (5)
Twelve Lashes (6)

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[cosmetician]

[a thoughtful hum]

DECISION

[soulping]

Re: DECISION

[cosmetician]

Pint of blood on Ometotchtli.
Prosopagnosia on Epona.

ROUND 2

[soulping]

Bank: 11
Hand:
Steal two mattresses and their bedding (2)
Swift Kill (10)
Remove a limb (9)
Twelve Lashes (6)
Twelve Lashes (6)
Remove an eye (7)
Physical hypersensitivity (3)

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[dontcallmedarling]

[Staring at those cards.

w e l p]

...Shit.

Re: DISCUSSION

[cantando]

...Well, she gave us strong cards to use, at least.

Lashes, eyeball and remove a limb. [Curling back up to sleep.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[secretofthefox]

[...right, let's not throw up if possible

which is at least somewhat helped by the lack of current fresh blood]

...I... lashes might be okay, but the higher ones...

Re: DISCUSSION

[cosmetician]

Both lashes and the eye. A limb is a lot for just two points more.

Post-Decision Catchall

[dontcallmedarling]

[After putting the cards in the appropriate slots Knight crashes in one of the chairs, slouched and sighing and leaning his head back.]

It's done. Now all that's left is the waiting game.

DECISION

[soulping]

Re: DECISION

[dontcallmedarling]

Twelve Lashes - Barghest
Twelve Lashes - Tiamat
Remove An Eye - Amalthea

ROUND 3

[soulping]

Bank: 8
Hand:
Steal two mattresses and their bedding (2)
Swift Kill (10)
Remove a limb (9)
Physical hypersensitivity (3)
Lose a significant relationship (6)
Donate a pint of blood (5)
Remove a limb (9)

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[cosmetician]

[from wherever she's trying to rest:]

8? Ugh....

Re: DISCUSSION

[dontcallmedarling]

[Doesn't say anything particularly about the cards, but pushes the two limb cards and the swift kill to the forefront.]

We had our chance to be nice, I'm thinkin'.

[He's fucking pissed.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

We haven't been doing well, huh?

Re: DISCUSSION

[secretofthefox]

[staring at one of the new cards with a look somewhere between dread and disgust]

...I still don't want to kill anyone.

But mind stuff is out even more. We're not removing a relationship.

DECISION

[soulping]

Re: DECISION

[dontcallmedarling]

Pint of Blood - Gulgallana
Lose a Limb - Alecytron
Lose a Limb - Ometotchtli

END

[soulping]

[You come back into your room to find that your hands are empty and your crystals (if you have any) are spread across the table.

BANK: 14

Also present is a list:

- Revival: 20 crystals
- Lost Limbs: 15 crystals
- Eyes and Minor Body Parts: 10 crystals
- Reaging: 5 crystals
- Save a Cat: 5 crystals
- Lost Memories and Relationships: 5 crystals

The door remains open behind you.]

DISCUSSION

[cosmetician]

We don't have enough to regain Roxy's limb, so that's off the table anyway.

We can reage Sol, and save a Cat. Or reage Sol and walk out with 9 crystals.

I want to save a Cat. And before you call me crazy, they aren't in their right minds. It's what I would want for any of us if a teammate was in their shoes.

Re: DISCUSSION

[secretofthefox]

[/is at work but tags anyway this is important okay

Your tiny is kind of steaming a little. ...Possibly literally. You might not want to touch his hair at the moment.

She's making us pay to save them, she's not just letting them go once this is over (denial is off the table, it's obvious they're not clones, this path leads only to screaming), she dares to take this even further than she already has...]

...If you hadn't said it, I would've insisted.