Ashbringer he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 19 hours ago, coco.pudding said: Amora racks her brain, trying to remember this person. They had been there…in the evacuation, before. Yes. But then they vanished in the night. She never did find out what had happened to them, there had been too much going on. “Er, yes. Hello. I do believe I remember you. But we never had a chance to speak. And I never did ask where you went? I’m afraid I got caught up in everything that was going on. Glad to see you made it out, this time.” 30 minutes ago, Doc12 said: Thistle stumbled at the interruptions, flashing a quick, worried smile at Amora and... Collie? She knew that Zora, but the name... Stars. "Hello!" They smiled, brightly, "I, yes, I remember you, you were helping me, back at... the forest. I... didn't see you after, at the temple. Have you been alright?" Then, turning to Amora, "It's Zymni... she's left my side again, and I'm so worried I left her behind somehow. It's so bright out here, on the mountain, she must be so uncomfortable, but I've checked as many of the dark rooms as I'm allowed in! I mean, she's very good at hiding and getting into dark places she shouldn't be, but... I'm worried... she's... Well, she's not a child, but she still doesn't know a lot about the world... Have you seen her?" 6 minutes ago, coco.pudding said: Amora thinks for a moment, remembering the odd shadow following Thistle. “I can’t say I have seen her, not since the last time we spoke. But I’m sure she’s here somewhere, I’ll help you look, okay? Where haven’t you checked yet? Maybe I can help you get in somewhere you haven’t been yet, we can start there. And then we can search everywhere else. I’m sure she’ll turn up.” Coliver's grin faltered. "I... I don't know what happened. I was here for a night and then..." That was a lie. She knew what happened. But knowing and saying are different things, aren't they? Knowing can be wrong. Saying makes it real. She wasn't entirely sure what happened, though no explanation was really good. Maybe she'd just fainted, cracked her head against the floor. Maybe whatever had happened to time happened to her early. But no. She knew. And they deserved to know, especially if someone else was missing. "... I... I think someone killed me," Coliver finally whispered. 1
Araris Valerian he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 47 minutes ago, Doc12 said: I was going to put a vote on Araris since I actually liked TJ a lot more since they came in this round, but then Araris claimed Blast Mask, saying that if we wanted him dead we could target him at night. The problem is I feel this only hurts the village and takes away a good elim catching tool. Elims aren't going to target you now that you've claimed that, and village Scents/Bremen would be killing themselves if they targeted you. So we now have a situation where we can only either believe you and no one can target you the rest of the loop, or exe you and possibly lose the blast mask, which, again, has lost all its threat. Burnt Araris. Yeah, within about 15 minutes of making the claim I realized it was a bad idea. In my defense, it's not entirely obvious that claiming mostly helps the elims, and if it stopped me from getting exed that would outweigh some of the downside.
Archer he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 @|TJ| Coco said something about suspecting someone as being evil for being pinch hit for, which is the type of meta gamey thought a villager has. Speaking of, welcome TS! I'm of the mind that we should do whatever it takes to win the loop, even if we end up with a larger suspect pool because of it. Three exes, two blast kills, and Wonko is 6 in the doc. 3 are confirmed good. That leaves 7 out of the loop. Or 7/6 with an unnecessary NK. Assume v!Araris/Wonko/Exploder but a win, you probably repeat the exes to check if that works, then L4 can revise of it doesn't. Probably victory. If it's an L2 loss, there's 7 suspects, of which 3+ are evil, and you need to hit 2/3. Tough in a vacuum, but practically speaking, reads and team analysis should help. And we have agency with our next two exes. Araris TJ high effort when you're under pressure is sus. @Araris Valerian please end the round with a vote so Bremen can target you
DrakeMarshall he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 Squircle sat on the outskirts of the Goron Village, huddled around a small pile of twigs. The sun was finishing its journey towards the horizon. Far overhead, the Lone Peak Shrine glowed faintly. It was good he'd held onto the torch from the tunnels. He threw it on the pile. It wasn't lit, but it would kindle easily. He struck flint, once, twice, thrice. Finally a spark, but it didn't catch. He kept on trying. He figured a nice bonfire was in order. 2 hours ago, |TJ| said: A small example for Mistfallen's villager-ness - This post at the very end of N1B about Wonko, I don't think an elim ever makes this, commenting about their kill just before it happens. If they do, they are doing it deliberately to get village-read. Seeing that Mistfallen has not really brought it up to 'show' they are village, I am good with moderately reading them as village. I don't know what the Default Elim Play is, but I can at least say that I personally have sussed people right before killing them multiple times as an evil role. And not everything I do to look village is something I bring up to 'show' people. ...I dunno. Do you have other examples? If people village read Mistfallen I'd like to understand it, but this example isn't doing it for me. The closest I got to village reading Mistfallen was when I realized Mistfallen's Blast Mask idea wasn't necessarily anti-village, but even then it was mainly just "okay that particular thing isn't elim indicative actually" which is not really the stuff trust reads are made of. Anyways. Remind me why we're voting Coco? TJ, didn't your big analysis post conclude Burnt is evil in most worlds? Does a Coco/Burnt team even make sense today? Coco was pretty happy to jump on the Burnt wagon earlier today and it did not look like bussing to me. I feel like there's a chance I'll regret not voting Mistfallen today but I want TJ slightly more unfortunately I don't really know what's happening so sorry if I'm wrong 1
Amanuensis he/him Posted March 5 Author Posted March 5 (edited) Just under 30 minutes remain in the Day. (3) coco: TJ, Araris, Mistfallen, (3) Araris: coco, Wahrheit, Doc (3) TJ: Drake, Ashbringer, Archer, (1) Mistfallen: Stick, Edited March 5 by Amanuensis
Ashbringer he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 SE tries not to turn a 5-page discussion into a 3-way tie challenge: I would prefer not to exe Araris this cycle. TJ is preferred to me, but I'd swap coco rather than letting it sit. Curious if @Doc12 or @Stick. have swap thoughts (or if my Village buddies @Wahrheitswächter or @The Unknown Medallion have ideas)
Archer he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 3 minutes ago, Ashbringer said: SE tries not to turn a 5-page discussion into a 3-way tie challenge: would prefer not to exe Araris this cycle. TJ is preferred to me, but I'd swap coco rather than letting it sit. Curious if @Doc12 or @Stick. have swap thoughts (or if my Village buddies @Wahrheitswächter or @The Unknown Medallion have ideas) I think TJ probably dies right now on tiebreaker. Would you prefer not to exe Araris because you trust them, or because you think they'll explode later?
Ashbringer he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 Just now, Archer said: I think TJ probably dies right now on tiebreaker. Would you prefer not to exe Araris because you trust them, or because you think they'll explode later? I don't like staking my Exes on probablys if it can be avoided. Plus the Bremen mask exists. I trust Araris more than TJ. I don't particularly trust him, but I think E!Araris could be more beneath radar than he currently is, or alternatively much more defensive than he currently is. Plus losing the Blast Mask as an option kinda sucks, even if I suspect Araris may be bluffing. Plus resistance. Araris and TJ are pretty even in terms of thread suspicion, but it sure feels like it's been a lot harder to get a TJ push off the ground.
Archer he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 @coco.pudding wanna self pres on TJ so I don't have to worry about Ashbringer hammering. Again.
DrakeMarshall he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 If I had to choose between Araris and Coco at the moment I would go with Araris. But I'd prefer TJ or Mistfallen over either of those options.
coco.pudding she/they Posted March 5 Posted March 5 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Archer said: @coco.pudding wanna self pres on TJ so I don't have to worry about Ashbringer hammering. Again. Ugh I’d really rather not. But it is probably correct that TJ loses the tiebreaker anyway So ig yeah Araris TJ Sorry TJ but I do think you’re probably elim too I dont feel great about this but it is what it is 10 minutes ago, Ashbringer said: Plus the Bremen mask exists. Even with Bremen it would still be a two way tie, we just don’t know between who. Because it’s a vote block not an added vote. 10 minutes ago, Ashbringer said: but it sure feels like it's been a lot harder to get a TJ push off the ground. Really? I feel like there’s been at least one or two votes on TJ at some point pretty much every cycle. But maybe I’m misremembering. 1 minute ago, Ashbringer said: Hi coco Hi Edited March 5 by coco.pudding
DrakeMarshall he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 The fire was crackling merrily. Squircle cheered, then immediately spat out a curse as the wind turned and the smoke got blown in his face. Then he noticed something odd. Above empty space, the smoke was getting turned aside by... something. It was like it was hitting an invisible pane of force in mid-air. "That shouldn't be there," Squircle noted. He threw a rock at it. It bounced off the invisible platform. "Well, this bears investigating." 1
Amanuensis he/him Posted March 5 Author Posted March 5 (edited) LG110, Night 2-B: False Alarm Night 2-B will end on Thursday, March 5th @ 10:00 PM EST. Ap the Apprentice Spoiler The Business Scrubs conferred. They did it in Zora — fluid, fast, layered with the particular contempt of people who speak multiple languages specifically so they can be rude in front of those who don't. Ap understood none of it and didn't pretend otherwise, bobbing in the middle of their pool with the soaked rupee pouch held above the waterline. The nearest Scrub looked back at her. "You will pay us all sixteen silvers for disturbing us," it said, in perfectly clear Deku, "and then you will leave." "I'd like to buy information instead. Anything you know about Quartermaster Sakon and the Bombers' Society of Justice." All three laughed. It was a haughty sound, the laugh of creatures who found the gap between what they had and what she was offering genuinely funny. "Remove her," the Scrub said. Neither Goron moved. "Remove her," it said again, sharply. One of the Gorons muttered something. The other answered him, barely audible. The Hero of Time has returned. And then: It's not the end. It's not the end! She looked at the Gorons, then at the Scrubs. She climbed to the pool's edge and sat on it, dripping. "It's true," she said. "I'm not just negotiating these sixteen silvers for information. I'm negotiating every rupee you could ever gain." She pulled the moon tear ocarina from her pocket — still pale, still faintly luminous even soaking wet. "Like Link, I have an ocarina that lets me reverse time. I alone have the power to save you and your money." She paused. "So. What do you say?" The Scrubs conferred again, lower this time. From the gate, Thistle, Cindra, and Amora watched. Ap had spotted them following her across the second bridge and waved them back before approaching the bouncers and they had stayed, close enough to see the whole exchange even if the Deku conversation was opaque to them. The Scrubs didn't know much about Sakon. He visited regularly, paid generously, and their bouncers had learned not to ask questions. But their bouncers reported anything useful, because useful things were sometimes worth money, and over the years certain things had accumulated. Sakon kept company with a group calling themselves the Dreamers — they didn't know what that meant, only that he met with them occasionally and that the meetings were not the kind you advertised. He also believed the Gorons were hiding BSSJ fugitives somewhere in the region, which was why he was at the Powder Keg Shop right now. "And the BSSJ?" Ap asked. Another conference. Shorter this time, with a quality that suggested the Scrubs were doing their own arithmetic about what information was worth trading and what was worth keeping. They were, in fact, harboring them. Not directly — they weren't idiots — but they had looked the other way when the BSSJ established something on the road to Snowhead Temple. Extremely well hidden. They had not asked for details and had not received them. This was an arrangement between the BSSJ and the locals from before they ever purchased the springs. Ap thought about the Hero of Time following the ghost of Darmani to the Lone Peak Shrine, then to the Graveyard. The Lens of Truth, which let him see what the naked eye couldn't. The invisible platforms between the cliff and the floating island. She filed the BSSJ information and looked at the Scrubs. "One more thing," she said. "If you're near me when I play the Song of Time, your memories come back with you after the reset. All of this — everything you know right now — survives." She watched them process that. "Keep this conversation between us. Be open to more when I return, and I might grant you the foresight. That's all I'm asking." The Scrubs looked at each other for a long moment. The nearest one extended a small branch hand. "Agreed. Assuming you can prove the veracity of your claims." Ap placed the rupee pouch in his hand and shook it, climbed out of the pool, then played the Song of Healing. The Deku Mask came off like water, the transformation reversed, and she was herself again on the rocky edge of the Twin Islands with her boots soaking wet and a great deal of useful information. She raised the ocarina again and played another tune. The Song of Storms sent a crack of lightning directly into the pool. All three Business Scrubs shrieked. Their cushioned mats shot to the far edge. The Goron bouncers flinched. "Until next time," Ap said, already walking, waving without turning around. Her grandfather would have been pleased. She rejoined the others at the gate and translated the conversation as they walked toward Goron Village — Sakon's ties to the Dreamers, his suspicion of the Gorons, the BSSJ hidden somewhere on the road to Snowhead Temple. By the time they crossed the last bridge into the village, everyone was caught up. The earthquake hit as she crossed into Goron Village — longer this time, a sustained rolling that sent loose stones skittering off the path and brought a crack of ice sheering away from the cliff face above. She stopped and waited for it to pass. It took forty-seven seconds. She counted. The crowd outside the Goron Shrine was large and getting louder. The doors were sealed — not locked, sealed, something pressing against them from the inside that no amount of pounding produced any response from. A Goron in the crowd was explaining, with diminishing patience, that the Elder had not emerged since morning, his son with him, and that this was not normal and had never been normal and if someone did not do something soon— Another Goron gestured toward Sakon's Clock Ward detail at the Powder Keg Shop and said something pointed. A third Goron nodded exaggeratedly, clearly in shock. Medigoron stood outside his shop with his arms crossed, watching his property get dismantled with the expression of someone watching a bad performance of a play they'd written themselves. "You're not going to find anything, goro!" he called, to no one in particular. From somewhere inside came the soft pneumatic pop of a glitter bomb going off, followed by two muffled curses. Medigoron chuckled. Another pop. Another. "There's plenty left where those came from. No one steals from me, goro!" Sakon's voice carried from inside, stripped of its warmth. The Clock Wards emerging from the doorway were spectacular: dusted head to toe in gold and silver glitter, their formal uniforms transformed into something that would have been festive under different circumstances. Sakon himself appeared last, his grin rigid at the edges, and said something quiet to his detail that sent them back inside. Ap looked at the Shrine, then at the Powder Keg Shop, then at the far end of the village where the cliff dropped away and the Lone Peak floated in the cold air above the valley, its entrance lit faintly from within. She turned to Thistle, Cindra, and Amora. "Stay here. Keep an eye on the Clock Wards — if Sakon catches wind of us, I need to know." She didn't wait for objections. She went to the edge. The wise owl was not here. There was no one to show her the way, no feathers on the air, no helpful intervention. She took out the Deku Mask, put it on, and began firing Deku nuts into the open space between the cliff and the island. Most went straight through. Some exploded on impact with nothing visible — a flat crack of sound, a scattering of fragments that settled on a surface she couldn't see. She fired again, mapping the gaps, building a picture of where solid ground was by where the nuts detonated. When she had enough, she jumped. Invisible platform to invisible platform, hopping quickly between each footfall before she had time to think about the drop below. The fragments helped. She reached the island entrance breathing fast and went inside. The faint light glowing within, it turned out, was not the Lens of Truth but some kind of mechanical sensor. She understood this approximately one second after crossing the threshold, which was not enough time to do anything about it. The explosion took the shrine outward in every direction — a bloom of force and heat that shattered the floating rock into splinters of ice and stone that arced away into the open air and fell spinning into the valley below. From Goron Village, it would have looked sudden and complete: here a shrine, then a sound, then debris catching the light on the way down and nothing left where the island had been. Sakon heard it from inside the Powder Keg Shop. He emerged into the evening light and looked across the valley at the empty air where the Lone Peak Shrine had been. Then he looked at the falling debris. Then he looked down at his hands, at the glitter coating his sleeves and knuckles, and managed to keep his expression at something that could pass for concern. Finally. He had watched the girl follow his unit from the Smithy — obvious from the first bridge, persistent, too clever for her own use and not quite clever enough for her own good. He had thought the Hot Springs would hold her. He had been wrong about that. But the Shrine had not been wrong. He made a sound that came out as a cough. "I've seen enough," he said, to his detail. "We're done here. Let's wash up and inform the Wards that we'll be leaving at dawn. Snowhead Temple is waiting for us to reclaim our birthright, but tonight we celebrate!" Medigoron watched them go. He watched the tightness at the corners of Sakon's mouth and the speed at which he walked after that explosion, and the fact that he did not look back at the valley the way a person looks when they have just seen a child die. He watched the Clock Wards fall in behind him, their glitter catching the mountain light, and he watched until they had rounded the bend toward the Twin Islands. Then he looked at the cliff edge, where three people were standing very still staring at the empty air where the Lone Peak Shrine had been. Medigoron went back inside. He had a mission now. The BSSJ Annual Summit was at the temple, and the Clock Wards were heading there next, and the Quartermaster already knew more than he should. Jim and his crew needed warning before Sakon arrived. He had three mechanisms left that hadn't been triggered. He carefully got to work loading actual gunpowder into the others and safely resetting the mechanisms. For this part, he did not hurry, because hurrying led to mistakes, and mistakes meant a painful, fiery death. A fate that he believed was only reserved for his worst enemies. RP Quest: Ap is gone! Sakon works for the Dreamers and will head for Snowhead Temple tomorrow! What do you do? Quote Mountain Village & Mountain Smithy Two waterfalls mark the entrance to this high plateau, where Zubora and Gabora's Mountain Smithy stands alone. Zubora runs the front; Gabora, enormous and masked and of uncertain origin, runs the forge. Sakon's Clock Wards have set up a weapons rack on the lawn, available to anyone willing to take a guard shift. The permafrost between the smithy and the cliff is covered in refugee tents. It is cold. It is quiet while refugees huddle by the fires with food and try to sleep under the falling moon. Goron Graveyard At the top of the larger waterfall's cliff, a passage leads to the resting place of Darmani, legendary Goron hero. The entrance is visible from the plateau below. Getting to it is another matter — the cliff face offers nothing to climb, and no bridge has ever been built there. The Gorons treat the site with the specific reverence of people who do not need to explain why. Twin Island Hot Springs The Business Scrubs remain in their reserved pool, conspicuously quiet since an incident earlier in the day that left the water briefly electrified and their cushions at the far end. The other pools are currently occupied by Quartermaster Sakon and his Clock Ward detail, who arrived covered head to toe in gold and silver glitter and have been scrubbing it off ever since. The Goron bouncers are accepting all entry fees without comment. Goron Shrine The doors remain sealed. The crowd outside has been here since morning and has graduated from concern to anger. Voices are raised. Someone has produced a battering ram of uncertain origin. The Gorons are united in their opinion that something is deeply wrong inside and divided only on what to do about it, a gap that is narrowing by the hour. If something doesn't change soon they might riot. Goron Powder Keg Shop Medigoron locked up an hour ago. The sign on the door says CLOSED FOR INVENTORY, which is technically true. The shop is dark inside and the glitter residue on the front step is the only evidence of the afternoon's events. Medigoron himself has not been seen since. Wherever he's gone, there might be a snow trail in his wake... Lone Peak Shrine Recently exploded, the shards of this mysterious floating cavern now lie at the bottom of a snow filled ravine. (4) TJ: Drake, Ashbringer, Archer, coco, (3) coco: TJ, Araris, Mistfallen, (2) Araris: Wahrheit, Doc (1) Mistfallen: Stick, @|TJ| was voted out of the Loop! Player List 0 Amanuensis Ap the Apprentice 1 @The Unknown Order Heroshi 2 @Araris Valerian Arenta 3 @Wahrheitswächter Wahi 4 @Ashbringer Coliver 5 @coco.pudding Amora 6 @|TJ| Cosmetica 7 @Stick. meeee 8 @Haelbarde Link the Goron 9 @Wonko the Sane Zymni 10 @Doc12 Thistle 11 @Burnt Spaghetti Cindra 12 @DrakeMarshall Squircle 13 @Mistfallen Soldier Kieran 14 @Divergent Gor Elam the Goron 15 @Archer Ouae the Zora 16 @TwinStorm Mumbo Edited March 6 by Amanuensis 4
Amanuensis he/him Posted March 5 Author Posted March 5 1 minute ago, Ashbringer said: Oh. That's... don't we kinda need Ap? Do you? What do you do when your chosen one perishes, or at least gets temporarily removed from the equation? Give up? Or stand up? 1
Ashbringer he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 Just now, Amanuensis said: Do you? What do you do when your chosen one perishes, or at least gets temporarily removed from the equation? Give up? Or stand up? Apparently the answer is "grade lab reports", but I think I'm looking at the wrong script.
Doc12 Posted March 5 Posted March 5 Storms you guys were busy during rollover >.> Don't know what to think of that result. I rather liked TJ's effort, especially for coming so late into the cycle. Would rather Coco or Araris have died than TJ. I don't have the brain for analysis right now. going to write some rp and go to bed. @Ashbringer Thistle tells you her child friend is missing. Amora: She'll be okay, let's look together! Coliver: She might be dead! I was killed! -------- "...Killed?" Thistle's eyes grew wide with horror. "After I saw you? In the forest? Who? How?" They glance towards Amora, "You don't think...?" Killed. Killed. Killed. Perhaps not simply missing, but killed. Thistle shot up. "I'm going to find Ap. If she can...reset time, I need her to do it now." --------- Thistle was a little too late to reach Ap - by the time they'd figured out where she was, the apprentice was already deep in conversation with the Business Scrubs. And then after that she'd jumped on invisible ledges to the Shrine. And then... and then... And then arms wrapped around Thistle and stopped them from going over the edge - whether a desperate unthought-out rush to save the apprentice or simply to hurl themselves down too. Thistle wasn't thinking anymore. They were just screaming. Just... screaming. 1
Archer he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 "Just so we're clear, time travel exists?" "Yup." "Probably to patch up some plot holes. That's just lazy writing. Almost as lazy as a clickbait title." "No Blast Mask accidents yet! Did you hear Ap disappeared? That's exciting." "Three of my friends literally died and came back to life, if he's dead, it's at most a temporary inconvenience." Ouae began baking cupcakes for the surprise party at the temple.
coco.pudding she/they Posted March 5 Posted March 5 Huh. Well that seems like an issue. Ig we do have a backup musician though hey @Burnt Spaghetti does Cindra want to learn the song by any chance? We uh might need her to 6 minutes ago, Archer said: "Just so we're clear, time travel exists?" "Yup." "Probably to patch up some plot holes. That's just lazy writing. Almost as lazy as a clickbait title." "No Blast Mask accidents yet! Did you hear Ap disappeared? That's exciting." "Three of my friends literally died and came back to life, if he's dead, it's at most a temporary inconvenience." Ouae began baking cupcakes for the surprise party at the temple. Ah yes, stunning rp right here. Those cupcakes better be good, otherwise I’ll be very disappointed. 18 minutes ago, Ashbringer said: Apparently the answer is "grade lab reports", but I think I'm looking at the wrong script. Um. What? 12 minutes ago, Doc12 said: Thistle was a little too late to reach Ap - by the time they'd figured out where she was, the apprentice was already deep in conversation with the Business Scrubs. And then after that she'd jumped on invisible ledges to the Shrine. And then... and then... And then arms wrapped around Thistle and stopped them from going over the edge - whether a desperate unthought-out rush to save the apprentice or simply to hurl themselves down too. Thistle wasn't thinking anymore. They were just screaming. Just... screaming. Amora holds Thistle tightly in her arms, pulling them away from the edge and then down to the ground, rocking them back and forth slightly. “Hey, hey, Thistle. It’s okay. It’s all going to be okay. We’ll find Zymni. We’ll figure out a way to bring Ap back. We can fix this.” She continues talking quietly, an endless stream of reassurances, trying to pull Thistle back from wherever they’ve gone. Inside, she is not so sure that everything is fine. But she needs to stay strong. Thistle needs her to stay strong, and so do the others. And she needs to come up with a plan. Some way to reverse all of this. So she does not let the tide sweep her away, not yet. (Doc sorry if you didn’t intend for that to be Amora, I just figured that would make sense considering how much she’s been consoling Thistle this whole time)
Archer he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 4 minutes ago, coco.pudding said: she’s been consoling Thistle Which one, the N64? (I'll show myself out) Food for thought, besides cupcakes, is whether we think we've got two elims yet. If we have, adding more people to the dead doc dilutes the pool of suspects when we win the loop. If we don't, the more the merrier, and our targeters should consider hitting Araris. 1
Ashbringer he/him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 2 minutes ago, coco.pudding said: Um. What? Sorry, Ashbringer can't come to the phone right now, he's currently suffering the consequences of writing a multi-person Reads List when he probably should have been working. 16 minutes ago, Doc12 said: @Ashbringer Thistle tells you her child friend is missing. Amora: She'll be okay, let's look together! Coliver: She might be dead! I was killed! -------- "...Killed?" Thistle's eyes grew wide with horror. "After I saw you? In the forest? Who? How?" They glance towards Amora, "You don't think...?" Killed. Killed. Killed. Perhaps not simply missing, but killed. Thistle shot up. "I'm going to find Ap. If she can...reset time, I need her to do it now." --------- Thistle was a little too late to reach Ap - by the time they'd figured out where she was, the apprentice was already deep in conversation with the Business Scrubs. And then after that she'd jumped on invisible ledges to the Shrine. And then... and then... And then arms wrapped around Thistle and stopped them from going over the edge - whether a desperate unthought-out rush to save the apprentice or simply to hurl themselves down too. Thistle wasn't thinking anymore. They were just screaming. Just... screaming. Coliver is not exactly a tactful revenant "I don't know, one minute I was in the temple getting water, the next I got... hit in the head or... and then... I don't like thinking about it," Coliver said, hand creeping up her chest again. The pieces weren't important, were they? The gritty details? She barely knew them herself, but she wasn't entirely sure how much that was a defense mechanism or her actually being... never mind. Never ever would be good enough, in fact. Thistle dashed away. "... wait, did you say reset time?" ---- Coliver was not the only one to see Ap fall. But this time, she didn't think a twisted miracle would make her rise again. Amora was holding Thistle. Maybe they were holding each other. Maybe Amora was holding Thistle back. Maybe she had no moonfell idea. But Coliver... her right hand still was near her chest, but her right balled into a fist. "I'll... I'll go look," she said, looking down at the cliff face. It was steep, but not impassable. And Ap was down there. Almost certainly with no chance. But certainly if no one went to help right now. She barely had taken one step before the doubt hit her. What was that? She hardly even knew Ap. She'd seen her, of course, but she had no idea that the Deku-or-Terminan could cause... whatever had happened. But she saved your life. That... that wasn't her voice. Besides, if you fall too, the worst that happens is you die, and you've came back from that. ... Marton? But I think you'll survive. Coliver shook her head, the moment passing. It wasn't... Marton was dead. No song would bring him back, and she refused to believe that laughing corpse had been her friend. A child had just died, regardless of anything else, and she could maybe do something about it. So she took another step. And another. She'd already watched one friend fall this week. Coliver had stood above that time, while Makazi had gone to help. Coliver would just need to be Makazi. 1
Myst He/Him Posted March 5 Posted March 5 Kieran stood still. Not moving All this, and the one person who knew what they were doing and who could fix it… was gone. They didn’t know where or why or… ”What happened? How?” Unfortunately, it wasn’t looking like they’d be able to get Ap back anytime soon. They’d have to go on without for now. ”Well, this is just our luck”
coco.pudding she/they Posted March 5 Posted March 5 12 minutes ago, Archer said: Which one, the N64? (I'll show myself out) Food for thought, besides cupcakes, is whether we think we've got two elims yet. If we have, adding more people to the dead doc dilutes the pool of suspects when we win the loop. If we don't, the more the merrier, and our targeters should consider hitting Araris. Oh my I don’t know what you’re referring to but I can still tell that was a terrible pun Anyways yeah that is a good cupcake for thought. I feel pretty good about TJ, less certain about Divergent but still okay. Ultimately it doesn’t matter for us since we still have to exe someone, so it’s really going to be up to the elims on adding more people (which is definitely not ideal, but what can ya do, that’s just how the game is) Although ig we could always just decide to exe a confirmed villager tomorrow if we’re certain, to narrow the pool.
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