TIAMAT

[soulping]

[ You find yourself in a section of the maze walled off by hedges sporting glowing magenta flowers. Several tree stumps with rich velvet cushions on them surround a much larger stump, upon which lie a number of cards... ]

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ROUND TWO

[soulping]

[ There are now seventeen cards upon the table: the Fool, the Magician, the High Priestess, the Empress, the Emperor, the Hierophant, the Lovers, the Chariot, Strength, the Hermit, the Wheel of Fortune, Justice, the Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, the Devil, and the Tower. The Echo's voice sounds again, as cheerful as before. ]

Why don't you go ahead and pick a card? Just one person this time, please! Let's see how long you can tolerate the power within it--I'll probably get bored after about half an hour. Of course, if it's too much for you, you can choose to tear up the card at any time. But then you might not do very much to slow down this delightful transformation, hmm?

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

 

Re: DISCUSSION

[showbooty]

[UM

UM THIS IS NOT WHAT I FUCKING SIGNED UP FOR]

What the hell is this?!

Re: DISCUSSION

[hyanaimne]

[WHAT THE HELL IS EVEN]

This is more than a little change!

Re: DISCUSSION

[carptricks]

[FUN FACT: it's very difficult to stand when your bones turn into wood]

[yelping in pain and stumbling backwards, landing on his backside as he loses his footing and crashes to the ground]

Re: DISCUSSION

[likebigboats]

[leaning on the table and SWEARING SO MUCH ugh is this what pain is. Why would anyone do pain, it sucks. But eventually, she's hissing:]

...Clearly it's the lovers. Andraste's tits, just give me something that feels good.

Re: DISCUSSION

[carptricks]

[w-wait when did you get here. THIS TIMING IS BAD]

[is sitting on the ground, one hand resting on his knee]

Callie--

Re: DISCUSSION

[likebigboats]

I choose to imagine we're back in a drinking game.

Re: DISCUSSION

[carptricks]

. . . I don't think drinking games usually start out like this.

Re: DISCUSSION

[likebigboats]

Don't take my dreams from me. It got so wonderfully numb and fuzzy.

Re: DISCUSSION

[carptricks]

[p-pffffft]

We can focus on drinking games, or we can try to. . . I dunno. Make sure we don't turn entirely into wood?

CHOICE

[soulping]

[ Who picks, and which card? ]

Re: CHOICE

[showbooty]

[Diamond is going to panic and grab the Wheel of Fortune card without bothering with a discussion!]

Re: CHOICE

[carptricks]

[?!?!]

Diamond--!

Re: CHOICE

[showbooty]

He said this will slow it down, so one of you do something about him while I'm doing this!

Re: CHOICE

[carptricks]

-- you don't even know what it does!

[not that that would have mattered to him]

Re: CHOICE

[showbooty]

No, but I can take a guess at what not doing anything will do, so hurry up and do something so I don't have to hold onto this any longer than I have to!

Re: CHOICE

[soulping]

[ Control slips away from your already-twisted body as you pick up the card. In an instant, you feel yourself tugged painfully this way and that, your limbs jerked helplessly around. Dizziness and nausea set in as you trip and stumble under the command of some vast unknown force. Just to make matters worse, the world around you sways and spins wildly all the while. ]

Re: CHOICE

[showbooty]

[I'M NOT OKAY WITH THIS

she'll just throw herself over onto the ground, everything is still gross and spinny and nausea, and she's still twitching from the card, but she's not going to stagger around like an idiot]

Re: CHOICE

[hyanaimne]

[what the everloving fuck, I mean really.

She's just going to sit down—well, fall down to sit, and stay close to Diamond to be some attempt at supportive]

Re: CHOICE

[showbooty]

[there is going to be some amount of vomit so you might want to hold her hair back

p.s. this is disgusting and i am sorry]

Re: CHOICE

[likebigboats]

[You know what Isabela feels bad for Diamond, but not as bad as she'd feel if she was in Diamond's position. :T]

[Just watching and not even going to say anything but that'll just make things worse.]

RESULTS

[soulping]

[ How long do you tolerate the effect of the card, up to a maximum of thirty minutes? ]

Re: RESULTS

[showbooty]

[She will last the full thirty, though sustaining herself more or less entirely on keeping her eyes shut and imagining that when she opens her eyes, people will have beaten the shit out of Wilder's head.

Also severely regretting eating a lot at Wilder's feast. Fortunately, now everyone can regret her eating, too!]

Re: RESULTS

[soulping]

[ After thirty minutes, the card dissolves into ash, and oh, joy! With some hideous crunching noises, your bodies start to mend themselves about halfway, and the shape on the table empties out of about half its little wands, down to being a tenth full! ...for all of two or three seconds, until the shape fills back up to twenty percent. Your teeth rattle in your gums as they warp into miniature wands. Drawing breath becomes difficult as capillaries in your lungs transform in the same fashion. ]