ALECTRYON

[soulping]

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

Comments

ROUND FIVE

[soulping]

[ The cards from before finally vanish, replaced by five new ones: the Star, the Moon, the Sun, Judgment, and the World. Wilder the Trickster speaks once more. ]

I'm feeling generous. You can all have one more chance to reverse the transformations. Up to two of you may pick a card this time, but beware! These effects will last a few hours, and there's no stopping them before that once you've picked.

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

 

Re: DISCUSSION

[hungryman]

[cough cough cough]

This... sucks. I'm against the Sun... fire sounds like... bad.

Re: DISCUSSION

[untamedwing]

What are....cards....?

[I'm not moving and can't see.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[hungryman]

You're... you're not drawing another card. The star... the moon, the sun, ...judgement, and the world... are our choices.

[Man shifting around is not fun.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[untamedwing]

Star....hope, insight.

Moon, intuition, precursor to important change.

Sun, success, energy.

Judgement, radical change, resurrection to a new life.

World, rewards, travel.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hungryman]

Then... I'll choose the world. I can bear its weight for a few hours.

Re: DISCUSSION

[untamedwing]

[SO COOL SNAKE.]

[But yeah, you do that, I did my knowledge thing.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[andallbite]

[absolutely not moving if he doesn't have to]

... They're all gonna fuck us up somehow. No use thinking too hard on it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hungryman]

I'll... draw another one.

But which one...? Hnnngh...

Re: DISCUSSION

[andallbite]

Just—pick one if you're gonna do it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hungryman]

The world... I'll bear it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[andallbite]

Fine.

[shifting himself forward again, too. this means he's about to pick a card as well.]

CHOICE

[soulping]

[ Who picks, and which card?

Re: CHOICE

[hungryman]

[Slowly, and ever so carefully, Snake makes his way over to grab the world in his hand. With the world in his grasp, he nods, and steels himself for whatever happens next.]

Re: CHOICE

[soulping]

[ For the next three to four hours, you know everything. Absolutely everything--or so you think. Information pours through your brain without stopping. Some of it is right, and some of it is completely wrong, and you have no way of telling what's what. ]

Re: CHOICE

[hungryman]

[Just. Sitting down. This is a whole lot to process and his eyes are going to go blank. Lots of subverbal muttering and growling in the back of his throat in frustration.]

Re: CHOICE

[hungryman]

E=mc^2.... pi are squared.... apple pie is a decongestant... gotta go fast....

I hear its amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hari Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!

Re: CHOICE

[untamedwing]

[Oh yay, breathing.]

[....what even.]

Snake?

Re: CHOICE

[hungryman]

Head on. Apply to forehead... augh..

Re: CHOICE

[andallbite]

[time for another round of PICKING A CARD TOTALLY AT RANDOM, who even cares about details anymore at this point. slamming down The Moon.]

Re: CHOICE

[soulping]

[ For the next three to four hours, you become convinced that your teammates are actually impostors wearing the faces of the team you know and care for. No amount of logic or reason can convince you otherwise.

But your transformations reverse completely at last. Hurray. ]

Re: CHOICE

[andallbite]

[... what the.

there's a pause, as his body recovers from that lovely amount of bullshit.

but he also ends up staring at the rest of his teammates around, like a sudden realization just smacked him across the face.]

... Who the hell are you guys?

Re: CHOICE

[untamedwing]

[I AM BREATHING, THANKFULLY.]

[....sigh.]

Did you lose all your memory again?

Re: CHOICE

[andallbite]

Don't play stupid—where's Arim? What'd you do with him?