AMALTHEA

[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. It's still warm, for now.]

Discussion

[soulping]

Re: Discussion

[unguilded]

[ glancing over at Blaze. ]

--I'll do whatever we have to do next. The vile? Or the die...

Re: Discussion

[snappingturtle]

If you're claiming this one, then break whichever you want. You're the one that's gotta do it.

Re: Discussion

[unguilded]

After what the first one was ... the sword and the spool seem like bad ideas. So I think maybe the dice...

Re: Discussion

[snappingturtle]

I don't like the vial either . . . Dice can't be worse than the quill.

Re: Discussion

[unguilded]

They're probably all bad in their own ways. Let's just hope we go for the less bad of the group.

Re: Discussion

[unlocksmith]

[has a strip of cloth tied around his shoulder now]

The die.

Re: Discussion

[unguilded]

Are you okay...?

Re: Discussion

[unlocksmith]

Who, me? 'Course I am. Let's keep goin'.

Re: Discussion

[unguilded]

Yeah... but take it slow, okay?

Re: Discussion

[snappingturtle]

[frowning at the column :/]

How about the dice this time?

Choice

[soulping]

Re: Choice

[unguilded]

The green die.

Re: Choice

[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 anything.

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

Re: Choice

[unguilded]

Give up?

[ he thinks he sees where this is going... ]

Two chances...

Re: Choice

[unlocksmith]

[listening in on this]

That's pretty vague. . .

Re: Choice

[unguilded]

It is, but my guess is that I'll be giving something up for this turn.

Truthfully, I'd put myself there instead of him. But somehow I don't think she'll allow that.

[doublefangs]

It's going to have to be something big, isn't it?

[unguilded]

Probably. If I can choose, maybe it can be something I can still get through the rest of this game without.

Re: Choice

[snappingturtle]

What're you thinking?

Re: Choice

[unguilded]

I'm not sure ... if she takes my sight through the rest of the game, the rest of you will be able to take care of everything else, right?

Re: Choice

[storybreaking]

Not a physical sacrifice. We've seen enough blood today with the last task.

Re: Choice

[unguilded]

I'll see if I can find a middle ground.

Remember, she said to make it count.

Results

[soulping]

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