25th Trial - Clover

[hot_mess_express]

It is a simple wood-floored room with an empty shrine on one wall. There are a few cushions to sit on, and the smell of incense and blood lingers in the air.

The sound of rain is heavy outside.

Comments

[schrodingerscockroach]

Mad?

[featherbeaned]

Mad! I eat other things.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Well.

Righteous fury is very motivating.

[Studying her.] How willing would you be to rip out my throat if I went mad and tried to eat you?

[featherbeaned]

[ She does very, very still, looking sharply at him. ]

I would fight.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He nods.] I don't know how quick I'd make it. Depends what this 'rage' of a monster does.

There's no data to figure out who the priest is on other teams. And killing a priest means a team of berserk monsters. The only reason to go for priests would be if we could get them all in one fell swoop to end the game as quick as possible. Spreading it out means time with berserk monsters and who knows how many would die then.

Just not playing and fighting the urges I can for as long as possible and hoping you can kill me if I lose seems like the way to keep the body count down. If you're willing to fight me to the death, I'm willing to risk it.

[featherbeaned]

[ Lash! Lash, lash ... angry flick- ]

If that's what you think you need, I'm willing.

[schrodingerscockroach]

What I need is to not have gotten out of bed today.

But...at least trying to keep as many people away from this trauma as possible is as close to a second as we've got.

[featherbeaned]

[ After another couple of circuits, she makes herself sit down again. ]

Worth trying ...

[ She would be willing to target people, too, if and when it comes to that. But maybe ... ]

[ Maybe. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Nods.]

And honestly, my luck is shit. If we choose even from Licorice, we're probably peg the Priest in one.

[Dark....joke....?]

[featherbeaned]

What?

[ ????????? ]

[ sorry she's dense ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Anytime I do things for random chance, my luck is pretty terrible.

Licorice has five people. So even if I choose randomly from there, I'd probably still get the priest because four berserk monsters would be terrible luck.

It was a dark joke.

[featherbeaned]

Oh.

[ Tilts her head. ]

I could choose instead.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Maybe next round if it's really going to shit.

I still don't want a lot of people to die. I like a lot of them.

[It's pretty inconvenient Right Now.]

[featherbeaned]

I don't want 'em to die either. It hurts. [ Yeaaaah, she wasn't just maimed in that trial the other day. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

.... [Yeah, he's getting that right now.]

Yeah. It really does. [Getting turned into a lich is....around that, honestly.]

[And now he's gonna reach out to pet her. Just a few little pats through.]

[featherbeaned]

[ Tracks his hand, and ... Yeah, okay. Pets are acceptable. Leans slightly into it. ]

[ grumbly huff ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Will give a few more pets when she leans into it.]

[Guess it's time to wait.]