Ratatoskr

[soulping]

[The room you step into looks like it could be a miniature ballroom, complete with stained glass windows and vast, ornate mirrors.

Your team's column is set into one wall, easily accessible but as impregnable as ever. One of the mirrors may prove almost as interesting, if you can tear your eyes away from your trapped teammate. Through it, you are somehow able to see every other team's column and what is inside, though nothing beyond that.

The floor beneath your feet polished, patterned wood, inlaid with the pattern of a grand sundial in your team's colors. In the center of the pattern stands a pedestal, upon which sits a collection of colorful glass ornaments. It looks like there's room for other items, but there's nothing else to be found just yet . . . ]

Comments

Round 2

[soulping]

[The water begins to rise again, still icy cold . . . ]

Discussion

[soulping]

Re: Discussion

[freckledninja]

[...this sucks and also it is cooollddddd]

Re: Discussion

[songofahero]

Are you okay...?

Re: Discussion

[freckledninja]

Why is there water if we used the ball?

[i am a cold blooded animal bro i am slowwwwiinngg dowwnnn]

Re: Discussion

[songofahero]

maybe it wasn't enough...

Re: Discussion

[freckledninja]

Ask?

[inert]

... Or some team just dumped theirs on us.

Re: Discussion

[barkingdemands]

[ mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ]

Given the circumstances I doubt it will do us any good to assume there may be a twenty-five percent ornament which would require something kinder.

Re: Discussion

[songofahero]

They're probably all bad...

Re: Discussion

[barkingdemands]

They are certainly all bad. I am uncertain if I am willing to risk that the tasks assigned by a thirty-three percent ornament would be an improvement worthy of the sacrifice.

Re: Discussion

[songofahero]

We should save that for if things get real bad...

Re: Discussion

[barkingdemands]

It should be his decision in the end.

I would like to make a point of mentioning that what I have told him applies to you as well.

Re: Discussion

[freckledninja]

Ask why we got water anyway.

Re: Discussion

[barkingdemands]

[ I FIGURED THAT WAS THE ANSWER

I JUST WASN'T SURE IF I SHOULD SAY IT ]

What course of action would you prefer? Our options are to choose a twenty-five percent ornament or a thirty-three percent ornament, and from there, we may perform the task, we may ask the being who controls this environment to perform the task and drop the temperature of the water you are in, or we may do nothing, and the water level shall rise to seventy-five percent, and you will certainly drown. Because you are the person at greatest risk, your opinion on the matter is to be considered most highly.

Re: Discussion

[freckledninja]

Don't hurt yourselves...try...try something small? Maybe? Uh.

I.

What's the clock, you think? You can't kill anyone with a clock, can you?

Re: Discussion

[freckledninja]

Or the feather thing? What are they gonna make you do, tickle each other?

[inert]

Gonna try one of the smaller ones?

[barkingdemands]

I would prefer to choose another twenty-five percent ornament and take the task upon myself.

[ but I'm asking the turtle instead ]

[inert]

You would, huh.

[ ... ]

Got a question for ya.

Choice

[soulping]

Re: Choice

[barkingdemands]

[ smashes the feather ]

Re: Choice

[infiniteregress]

[The ornament shatters, releasing a fine mist. When it clears, you find a large, red-feathered quill with a sharp metal tip resting on the pedestal.

Nyssa speaks up:] Your task is to cut a large word or pattern into your skin. At least five inches across, please! If you require my assistance for a task as simple as this one, the design will be one of my choosing.

Re: Choice

[barkingdemands]

[ O ]

That is surprisingly unobjectionable. I shall take care of it quickly.

[ hikes up her left sleeve and picks up the quill, measures out a slight excess of five inches on her forearm with her thumb and middle finger, and then scratches out something that looks almost like Morse code (long line short line long line short line, arranged like -._.) until she etches more lines on top of it (sideways ovals on top of the first two, then vertical lines, then \\\ over the last) ]

Re: Round 2

[soulping]

[The warm water slows to a stop at 50%.]