BARGHEST

[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

[bladefisting]

[ FROWN ]

I don't see why we have to earn anything at all. We have nothing to prove to her.

Re: ROUND 1

[plotluck]

Can't we just break one and get it over with?

TURN IN

[culpa]

[ destroying the smaller sphere. ]

Re: TURN IN

[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

[plotluck]

Ah... What should we do? Break two? [Starting to sweat a little and maybe sway. Being short of breath isn't helping the dizziness and fever.]

Re: ROUND 2

[heirofficium]

[coughing a little]

Maybe see what the whiskered one's on for?

Re: ROUND 2

[bladefisting]

Perhaps you should sit down...

[ or maybe i will stand nearby so you can lean on me?? ]

Re: ROUND 2

[bladefisting]

Oh, dear...

[ :( ]

[terminalbanchou]

[ Still human, kids. ]

I only care about Barghest. I will take the future penalties for us alone.

[plotluck]

We agreed to share.

TURN IN

[culpa]

[ capella will be taking the cat's sphere, yuu will be taking the large 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.

[terminalbanchou]

[ Grabbing the large sphere without a second though. ]

Re: ROUND 3

[culpa]

[ scratching at his skin. ]

Re: ROUND 3

[plotluck]

[Coughing and swaying hard.]

TURN IN

[terminalbanchou]

Orion smashes the big sphere.

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 ♥

[terminalbanchou]

[ Orion has shut down, and is currently trying to punch... things? Or engage in battle with objects only he can see and hear. ]

Re: ROUND 4

[culpa]

[ fucking.

collapsing onto the ground, hand pressed to his chest. ]

[bloomnobly]

...I can take the large sphere. Quickly, now.

Re: ROUND 4

[plotluck]

[Having to lean against a wall and struggle to focus, but still doing better than like, everyone else.]

TURN IN

[bloomnobly]

[ Yuyuko smashes the large sphere. ]

...

[soulping]

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

[Head to ENDGAME]