DAWON

[soulping]

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ROUND 1

[soulping]

[You find yourselves standing in a very small, very white room. Your clothes are dry, you are dry, but you swear you can feel the heavy sway of water weighing upon your limbs. At least the temperature is normal, and you’re breathing just fine.

In the middle of the room is a white pedestal, on top of which you find two glass spheres: one large, and one small. There are no exits.]

What will you choose, my darling dears? If you’d like to earn two keys, destroy the larger. If you’d like to earn one, destroy the smaller. You cannot earn three.

Or perhaps you’d prefer that another team to undergo the trial in your place …? If so, merely speak the team’s name, clearly and purposefully, before destroying your sphere of choice. Ah! Unfortunately, the Cats are not an option.

Re: ROUND 1

[bloodbiter]

[sighing]

We have to decide how we'd like to play. I would rather not target any other teams.

Re: ROUND 1

[footwork]

I agree.

I'd say we should probably start small, too, just to see what kinda things we're dealin' with.

Re: ROUND 1

[listentomybardsong]

[THROWING THE SMALLER ORB ON THE GROUND. >:<]

Re: ROUND 1

[soulping]

[Amongst the broken shards of glass, you find a small crystal vial full of a clear, thick liquid. There’s barely enough for a single mouthful ...]

Drink, and earn your key.

ROUND 2

[soulping]

[You find yourself standing in another very small, very white room. The heaviness lingers … and is it just you, or can you feel a niggling tightness in your chest? A difficulty drawing breath? Maybe, just maybe, just for a second here and there, you feel water in your mouth and nose ... But there's nothing there.

Once again, there’s a pedestal in the middle of the room, but now there are three spheres upon it: one large, one small — and another small one, this one featuring frosted glass whiskers.

A member of the Cat team is leashed to the pedestal, by a long, deceptively-delicate looking silver chain. The chain is attached to a silver collar; it doesn’t look like there’s a way to remove it.]

This time, my doves, you may choose to undertake either one trial … or two! What will you do? And who will reap the benefit of your arduous labours …? There are three keys available to you here.

You may, of course — if you have not already done so — choose to pass one trial along to another team.

((In this round, you may do one of the following:
- Break one of the regular spheres, either the large or the small.
- Break one of the regular spheres, and the whiskered sphere.
- Break only the whiskered sphere.

If you break the whiskered sphere, you may choose to donate that key to the Cat. You can also choose to keep it for yourself! No other keys can be donated to the Cat. The Cat can choose to help with the trial … or you could try to force them ;D))

Re: ROUND 2

[unlimitedcoffee]

[ the horrible water sensation aside, he'll give a small nod at Dawon ]

Looks like I'm your Cat on Duty.

Re: ROUND 2

[listentomybardsong]

... Welcome.

Is what I would say, if the circumstances were not so terrible.

[her ears are pressed flat against her head]

[universalboy]

I want to give the Cat the key.

Re: ROUND 2

[showyouthesight]

[ I was here the whole time. ]

Coyote...

ROUND 3

[soulping]

[Welcome to yet another very small, very white room. You’re wracked by icy shivers, even though you know — you know — that it’s pleasantly warm in here. You know that you can’t breathe, that there’s water in your mouth, nose, ears, in your throat, choking you; that the water is weighing you down —

You’re in a very small, very white room, with a pedestal bearing two spheres: one large, one small. You can breathe. You’re not drowning. You’re okay. Right?]

Just like the first round, my darlings! You may earn two keys, or one — make your choices wisely.

[universalboy]

[ Licking his lips constantly, eyes darting from one person to another. Back and forth, over and over. ]

[loveinvein]

... Peony?

[showyouthesight]

... Peony?

[ Yeah, he can recognize bloodlust from Nafuna's game. ]

[listentomybardsong]

Peony?

[please stop peony that's really concerning I AM NOT A HAMBURGER. ...... CATBURGER???]

Re: ROUND 3

[footwork]

[ it's too warm, he's shaking and his fever's started to make everything fuzzy, but. LET'S POWER THROUGH if anything to get Peony and Lace outta here faster ]

... let's take a small one next.

Re: ROUND 3

[loveinvein]

Agreed. Personally, I'd like to take a big one last.

[ Because that way he can support everyone the best, is the implication. Both through what's happening to them now, and alleviating anything bad later. ]

Re: ROUND 3

[showyouthesight]

[ He's going to be smashing that smaller sphere on the ground. ]

ROUND 4

[soulping]

♬

[You’re going to run out of air. You know that, now, though the sensations come and go. You need to get out; there’s not long left until you drown.

Not long left until before you drown, in a very small, very white room, with a pedestal standing in the center. Set atop of it are two spheres: one large, and one small.]

You know what to do ♥

[universalboy]

[ Whomever is closest to Peony: prepare for instant, hungry impact and slobber. ]

Re: ROUND 4

[loveinvein]

[ THIS ISN'T A FUN SENSE OF PANIC... Mika is immediately reaching for the large sphere. ]

A surprise for you ...

[soulping]

[One of you will feel a sudden, sharp pain — you’ve been stabbing in the back by a six inch blade, and for a moment, it’s almost like you can feel the hilt digging into you as well. But there’s nothing there save for a bloody, gaping wound. It looks like a another team targeted you …]

ROUND 2 DECISIONS

[loveinvein]

[ Lace has already taken an orb, but Peony is taking the cat's orb too! And Dawon is donating a key to the cat, and keeping the others for themselves. ]

[universalboy]

[ I THREW IT ON THE GROUND. ]

...

[soulping]

[Your final keys—or key, singular—appear, leaving you with a total of: 7]

[Head to ENDGAME]