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.]

Discussion

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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.]

Discussion

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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: 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

[crimeson]

Hooboy. Well. Historically speaking I'm pretty sure "masochistic", "perverse" and "tired" probably apply to us, so.

Re: Discussion

[fisherofmen]

[


uh ]

I'll leave this up to you.

Re: Discussion

[wellhanged]

... no, I mean literally my current nature.

Haha. I'm... well... [pulling at the neck brace he has] Not human anymore. And human blood will be...

[sorry, friendo, he will be so hungry if they get maimed. unsure how that will go.




especially since like. when was the last time he had a meal, anyway? good question]

Re: Discussion

[crimeson]

Oh.

I was, uh. Gonna try to avoid digging into your business. But I've been killed in these before.

[tugging down his (extremely fashionable and also ginger) scarf, showing a. beheading scar. just for a moment.]

Re: Discussion

[fisherofmen]

Does it have to be human blood?

Re: Discussion

[crimeson]

At least try to help!!

Re: Discussion

[wellhanged]

I've eaten hungry things in the dark--monsters--before, but... human-enough, I suppose would be most accurate?

And it's flesh, mostly. But like most predators, blood... excites.

Re: Discussion

[wellhanged]

[oof. that's rough buddy.]

Ah... I "died" before this place. Got myself hanged after eating some mer's flesh. That's how it happened.

Re: Discussion

[crimeson]

Sounds like a fun time...

I don't wanna just glaze over that, since it sounds pretty important, but to actually answer your question... Either the trial maker is messing with us with this atmosphere, or chances are blood could be happening.

Re: Discussion

[fisherofmen]

But when it comes to something like this, wouldn't you know better?

Re: Discussion

[wellhanged]

Well, if it's the latter... I won't hold it against anyone who needs to put me down. Is basically what I'm getting at.