TIGER'S EYE

[dramatispersonae]

[The room is circular and surrounded by a series of ionic columns, the floor and ceiling stretching overhead fashioned out of cracked, white stone. The area beyond the columns is pitch black, and the room itself is lit only by dimly flickering candles. The candles rest on top of a stone table, which sits in the middle of the room.

And next to the candles rest four numbered boxes]

Comments

Re: Decision

[dramatispersonae]

[Inside the box is a small vial filled with a thick, red liquid. Upon picking it up, you instinctively know that it is a vial of blood]

One of you must suffer a life-threatening injury. Accept this, or pass it to another team.

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

[hngh]

Re: Decision

[telltaleheart]

...

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

... "life-threatening" does not necessarily equate death, but the specifics are rather vague.

Re: Decision

[telltaleheart]

Yeah... Again, my heart might heal me, but...

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

You have already taken an injury. And, even if either of us were to receive it, we would have no way of knowing how treatable the wound would be.

Re: Decision

[telltaleheart]

We don't know if anyone else would be able to deal with it any better, either.

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

Precisely.

... I'll take it.

Re: Decision

[telltaleheart]

No.

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

My chances of survival are approximately the same as anyone else besides our team. Yours, however, are not.

Re: Decision

[telltaleheart]

Yeah, because mine are better. I know for a fact my heart can save me from life-threatening injuries. We don't know that magic poison would make me any more likely to die from an injury.

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

[.......]

Are you certain you're willing to take that risk?

Re: Decision

[telltaleheart]

... [rubs at his eyes]

I'm not going to foist it off on you or anyone else.

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

[sighs]

Sometimes I think you do far too much for this team.

[hands over the vial]

Re: Decision

[telltaleheart]

[takes the vial quietly, but pauses before he opens it, just looking down at it]

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

...

Re: Decision

[telltaleheart]

...I'll accept it.

Re: Decision

[dramatispersonae]

[as soon as Raven says the words, a spear erupts from the ground below him, piercing straight through his gut. it hurts, and he doesn't die from it yet, but if left untreated it will certainly be fatal by the end of the game. . .]

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

[holy shit]

King--!!

Re: Decision

[telltaleheart]

Ghkk—!

[my heart sure is not lighting up and healing me here]

D-Damn, the one time I was counting on it...

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

Don't--[shit]--don't try to move too much, it will only open the wound. Take slow, shallow breaths but keep them even.

Re: Decision

[telltaleheart]

[shuts up and does so, squeezing his eyes shut for a moment]

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

Lean against one of these columns for support, but don't sit or lay down. Just--try not to move it.

Re: Decision

[telltaleheart]

[nods slightly and tries to shift as little as possible to lean against a column]

Re: Decision

[genderbinary]

[kneels slightly to examine the wound and takes off her jacket to wrap it around his waist]

If I had the proper materials, I might be able to stabilize this for a bit longer...