The Fifteenth Trial: Jasmine

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The weird castle/steampunk aesthetic continues in the room, but there’s a bit more of an almost… Prop, vibe to the room. Everything feels real, the stone and the wood are solid, but there’s a certain look like it was taken right out of a fifth grade play with princesses and dragons in the way the stone walls are built, and even the gothic iron window looks vaguely cartoonish.

The room is large, and at one end is a set of five tables, each with the names and colors of the other teams.

Directly in front of you on another table is a big scroll. A quill pen and ink pot sit next to it.

A vase of lycoris and moon lilies decorates the table. There are chairs and couches if you want to sit.

Comments

Round 1

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Thus reads the scroll on the table:

From the traits below, pick four that you believe your team as a whole exhibits the most strongly. You need only circle the words. Choosing more will do nothing, and the first four words circled will be the ones that are considered chosen. Attempting to cross out or underline a word will be the same as circling it.

Traits

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Courageous
Strong
Cunning
Charitable
Just
Noble
Chivalrous
Kind
Aggressive
Humble
Useless
Lazy
Perverse
Wise
Academic
Spiteful
Rowdy
Sadistic
Masochistic
Tired

Decision

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[Please turn in the words in order of most fitting to least, or in whatever order your team interacted with them if they were chosen randomly or on accident somehow.]

Re: Decision

[crimeson]

Tired, Masochistic, Cunning, Humble.

Discussion

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Re: Discussion

[crimeson]

That's so many...

Re: Discussion

[wellhanged]

... I just got here...

[oh boy this is bad. on many levels.]

Uh. Probably... I should come clean about my nature, if these "punishments" are severe enough...

Re: Discussion

[fisherofmen]

[


uh ]

I'll leave this up to you.

Round 2

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Five of the following objects correspond to one each of the other teams. There are extra objects that correspond to no team. Using what you know of the other teams, select the correct object to send to that team.

Only one object may be sent to each team.

There is only one correct object to send per team.

Choosing a correct object but sending it to the incorrect team will still count as an incorrect choice.

To send an object to a team, you must place it on the table for that team.

Objects

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The objects that appear on the table are:

an unchecked to-do list

a gold crown

a steel sword

a ball gag

a sugar bowl filled with salt

a book on philosophy

a pillow

rock'em sock'em robots

a medal

Decision

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[List the objects chosen alongside the teams you are sending them to.]

Re: Decision

[crimeson]

a steel sword - Ginger
a sugar bowl filled with salt - Licorice
a book on philosophy - Senna
rock'em sock'em robots - Clover
an unchecked to-do list - Thyme

Discussion

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Re: Discussion

[bondkeeper]

[ walks in 15 minutes late with Starbucks

looks at the prompt ]

... aw, shit.

Re: Discussion

[wellhanged]

[tied up with prop curtains, sitting on the floor and rocking his feet back and forth, studying the items on the table.]

Hmm...

Re: Discussion

[crimeson]

[randy seems distinctly harried]

...Oh fuck it's symbolism puzzle shit.

...Hi Breeze.

Re: Discussion

[fisherofmen]

[ casually, ]

Hi.

Re: Discussion

[fisherofmen]

[ tilts his head, looking to each item and then listing traits out loud as he sees them:

an unchecked to-do list - "Lazy,"
a gold crown - "Noble?"
a steel sword - "Strong, courageous, or maybe rowdy."
a ball gag - ". . ."
a sugar bowl filled with salt - "Spiteful?"
a book on philosophy - "Academic or wise."
a pillow - "Tired."
rock'em sock'em robots - ". . . Useless?"
a medal - "No, maybe this is strong. . . ?" ]

Round 3

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Results

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Your chosen team trait: Tired

The object for that trait: A Pillow

The objects you were sent:

Ball Gag

Pillow

Ball Gag

Pillow

Sugar Bowl Filled with Salt

Conclusion

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You have been sent three wrong objects. The lights flicker a bit, dim, ominous. Stale bread and cold water grace the table.

Whether or not you touch the meager offerings, you must OOCly decide on one to three body parts. Each chosen limb or organ (eg. eye, arm, lungs), slowly and painfully becomes clockwork; made of ceramic, metal and gears. Even if you pick inner organs, it will not kill you, but it will be excruciatingly painful and feel strange and alien once the transformation is done.

Clockwork cannot be healed naturally. It will function in place of any organ or limb. It will be stronger than the parts it replaces, but never feel quite right. If you are already a robot this process changes your inorganic parts into organic ones. In the case of becoming flesh, they will be more sensitive, but somewhat weaker by default.

1 to 3 IC days must pass before clockwork transformation can be healed magically or via the train’s facilities. You are not required to heal clockwork transformation.

Optionally you may additionally choose from one of the following status effects, the status effects last 1 to 3 IC days before resolving themselves.

Level 1 Status effects

mini

frog (or other transmog eg. fairy, evil pepper, blade banana)

amnesia

charm (target whoever, can be multiple)

compulsion to tell the truth

Level 2 Status effects

gradual petrify (of somewhere non-fatal)

berserk

confuse (disoriented on who is friend or foe)

curse (skills and strength sealed/stats lowered)

fear

despair

hallucinate

poison (fever, illness, non-fatal)

And hey, while you’re being excruciatingly transformed, some soothing mood music.

Interact

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You aren't allowed in endgame yet, so now's the time to have a good hangout with your teammates, however that's going for you right now.

Re: Interact

[crimeson]

[cool cool cool having an arm and eye turn into clockwork is a fun and not at all terrifying experience

for

a total amnesiac!

so yeah panicking and scrambling to a corner of the room.]

Re: Interact

[fisherofmen]

[ clickclickclickclickclickclickclick he can hear it set in his jaw, echo through the hollow of his mouth and reverberate down his throat, he can feel the whirring deep in his skull, and when he takes a shuddered breath he can hear the scrape of metal against metal as his lungs expand and contract, the pain courses through his body and he just sort of curls up to lay down on the ground, seeming even smaller than before

cool

everything is fine ]

Endgame

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Some more piano to see you back.