EPONA

[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 . . . ]

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[infiniteregress]

[The ornament shatters, releasing a fine mist. When it clears, you find a spool of silvery thread and a needle resting on the pedestal.

Nyssa speaks up:] Your task is to sew a sense shut, completely, and to leave it that way. Should you require my assistance, you need only ask.

[moderndaywhitemage]

What does that mean?

[infiniteregress]

Hmm? For example, one might sew their eyelids closed, or their mouth.

[moderndaywhitemage]

[DISMAYED SQUEAK]

[acemedium]

Like.. literally?

[infiniteregress]

Yes, literally.

[acemedium]

T-That's... that's horrible!

[infiniteregress]

Will you do it?

[acemedium]

[WHY WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING SO HORRIBLE]

... Nose counts, right? Smell is a sense.

[infiniteregress]

Yes, it does.

[acemedium]

O-Okay... I got this. [PICKS UP NEEDLE, looks like she's going to cry....]

[moderndaywhitemage]

Eveningstar...

1/2

[acemedium]

[Stares between Coco and Schooler]

. . .

[acemedium]

[Forces a smile]

I'll do it. Don't worry, okay?

[moderndaywhitemage]

[NO I'M GONNA HUG YOU]

[acemedium]

[HUGS BACK and is shaking a little bit]

Don't worry....

[gandere]

What a joke--!! No one is going to shove a needle through their skin for that sort of stupid thing and besides, that's improper use of a needle and thread anyway!

[infiniteregress]

I'm sorry you think so, dear heart.

[gandere]

You're not sorry at all!

[ Probably not a wise idea to snap at the person who's trapped you, but! ]

[acemedium]

But if they don't, then you....

[gandere]

[ Oh right, she has a team she has to be strong and composed for. ]

[acemedium]

.... I promised I'd get you out, Schooler.

[gandere]

What good is getting out if you get hurt in the process? Stupid, so stupid.

[acemedium]

You're out teammate! We're knights! We have to look out for each other!

[gandere]

We're detectives, not knights. We just have to think this through instead of taking the easiest solution. The five senses are taste, smell, touch, sight, and hearing--can't we just wrap thread around fingers or something?

[ That wouldn't work and she knows it. ]