TIAMAT

[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

[fuhrinkaed]

Six keys...

..hrm.

Well, dang. [Thinking over the rules again.]

Yeah. Dang. Nothing yet.

How do we want to play this.

Re: ROUND 1

[likebigboats]

I vote one of our wonderful mages start transmuting things into alcohol.

[carptricks]

[wh--]

[he moves one leg around to test the feel of that water, letting out tch as he does so. he can definitely feel it, and it chills him. slightly]

. . . four rounds, six keys. We have two options.

Two rounds of the large spheres and two rounds of the smaller ones, or three rounds of the large spheres so we're out by round four.

Re: ROUND 1

[suzinkazan]

I'd prefer to play it in the way that results in us not dying.

Re: ROUND 1

[hyanaimne]

[I don't know about you guys but that was terrible. Give her a moment, she's cursing up a storm]

Re: ROUND 1

[tatsumi_textiles]

[He'll be over here. doing roughly the same]

Re: ROUND 1

[carptricks]

[he has his arms wrapped around himself and he is SHIVERING]

[and to her cursing, he only replies dryly]

Ditto you.

Re: ROUND 1

[suzinkazan]

....So we have to do awful things to get keys, I guess.

DECISION

[carptricks]

[and once a consensus is reached, Kaito reaches out to pick up the larger sphere. he lifts it above his head, and. . .]

[proceeds to smash it to pieces on the ground]

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

[justichthys]

... Oh.

[ HI, GUYS. ]

Re: ROUND 2

[carptricks]

[from the corner where he is sitting Kaito lets out a strangled cry]

Ao--

[he immediately doubles over again in another coughing fit afterwards]

Re: ROUND 2

[likebigboats]

[Clearing her throat. The watery pressure feeling was just peachy with her before, but not so much this new thing.]

Maybe it's time to start throwing things.

DECISION TIME

[fuhrinkaed]

[We are smashing both the whiskered sphere and the Larger sphere.]

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.

Re: ROUND 3

[tatsumi_textiles]

[Ochre is done. He is just- so fucking done.

Someone else can take the damned ball, he's going to sit against a wall and try to breath around the water]

D-DECISION

[hyanaimne]

[okay you know what, fuck this. Clover is grabbing the large sphere and smashing it]

Re: ROUND 3

[likebigboats]

[welp, trying to indulge the need to breathe as little as possible.]

We should have Nyssa take one of these.

Re: ROUND 3

[carptricks]

[still huddled in his corner, knees drawn up to his chest, his forehead resting on top of them. every so often, he coughs violently. . . and the small flecks of blood in his palm are probably a bad sign]

Re: ROUND 3

[suzinkazan]

[Yeah she's.

Huddled, still totally loathing herself.]

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 ♥

A surprise for you ...

[soulping]

[An extra key has joined your collection!]

Re: ROUND 4

[carptricks]

[MAN THAT SENSATION COUPLED WITH THIS STUPID POISON IS NOT DOING KAITO ANY FAVORS]

[he is completely out of commission at this point, face buried in his hands as he practically wheezes for breath. some of that coughing now sounds like choking, tbh. uuugh this is the worst]

...

[soulping]

[Your final keys—or key, singular—appear, leaving you with a total of: 8]

[Head to ENDGAME]