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 . . . ]

Comments

Choice

[soulping]

[moderndaywhitemage]

[time to smash us a green die]

[infiniteregress]

[The ornament shatters, releasing a fine mist. When it clears, you find . . . a coin.

Nyssa speaks up:] Well, well! Your task now is to make me an offer. What would you choose to give up to save your teammate? Be aware that I will not accept just any offer.

You have two chances. Do make it count, yes?

[acemedium]

Ah.... W-What are we supposed to offer?

[infiniteregress]

As long as it's worth as much as the tasks you've been doing, exactly what you offer is up to you.

[acemedium]

Cut a pattern and sew a sense shut.....

[What else can she do?]

[moderndaywhitemage]

Oh...

[acemedium]

...What do you think? What should I offer?

I don't know....

[gandere]

Nothing!

[acemedium]

But then everything we've done so far will have been for nothing! [Oops her composure is starting to crack a bit]

And you'd die....!

[moderndaywhitemage]

You can't die...

[acemedium]

....

What if I offered... my voice? It's more than my nose.... [It's all she has, really....]

[moderndaywhitemage]

W-would that be okay? For you?

[acemedium]

I can always learn sign language. [Really she doesn't know what else to offer though]

[moderndaywhitemage]

[OKAY BUT sldkjfhjyr KNIFE THOUGH]

[infiniteregress]

[A KNIFE APPEARS ON THE PEDESTAL.]

Then I'll take your tongue. Would you like to do it, or should I?

[acemedium]

[STARING HARD AND WANTING TO CRY AGAIN]

.....

[acemedium]

..........

[No she can't do it]

............



Can you?

[gandere]

[ Hear her out. ] We are to offer nothing.

Because the tasks before... [ Taking in a deep breath and risking both of their wrath in doing so. ] They amount to nothing. We're stronger than that so they can't even count as sacrifices!

[acemedium]

Do you really think she'd let us off at just that? Look how high all the other water levels are...!

[gandere]

I wouldn't suggest it if there was a risk at losing. [ Or would she?

Either way, both of them have made a sacrifice so far. It's her turn. ]

[acemedium]

[STARES HARD]

[You're trying to protect us, aren't you?]

[moderndaywhitemage]

We can't just give up...

[gandere]

[ Is it just her or are these choices growing more dire each round? ]

[acemedium]

....