Heliodor & Peridot & Judar

[dramatispersonae]

[You're in a grand circular room, the walls and floor and ceiling all made of mirrors. A small incense pot hangs underneath a hole in the middle of the ceiling; the smoke from it smells sweet and strange, with overtones of decay, and makes you feel a little queasy. Overall, it may be quite familiar to a few of you who were present for a certain game in Camelot…]

[As you absorb this, a small, dark stone rolls through the hole in the ceiling and lands in the basket . . . and the whole room moves down a little under your feet.]

[You feel s͠o̧m҉ethin͜g small and alien shift under your flesh in response -- in your arm or your leg or perhaps your chest. There’s no pain (yet), just a heavy numbness where it’s embedded inside you . . .]

Comments

ROUND 1

[dramatispersonae]

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[shrugsitoff]

What the hell?!

Re: DISCUSSION

[betterserved]

[gravitating towards him immediately, though trying to play it off]

Something like it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[shrugsitoff]

[ it's cool, he's gravitating towards him as well ]

I can't even think of the first thing we should do.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sunsight]

You're on Peridot, right?

My name is Hinata. [bows, somewhat formally]

Re: DISCUSSION

[shrugsitoff]

Yeah, I'm Sousuke. [ inclines his head ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sunsight]

W-What's this?

Re: DISCUSSION

[betterserved]

It's bad taste.

Re: DISCUSSION

[betterserved]

[jerks a little, looking around quickly at who's with them—ending up drifting automatically towards Sousuke]

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ANSWER

[sunsight]

Coral, Sapphire, Kunzite, Amethyst, and Citrine.

One stone for each group.

... And a negative one for us.

RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

[The par҉͜a͟s͘i̢̡t͜͝e̶͟ in you wriggles, disquieting as your room creaks down ever so slightly. Check the spot where it’s buried and you’ll find a dark, slowly-spreading stain creeping over your skin . . . did it do that last time this game happened? How strange.

The mirrors in your room suddenly become transparent and you are able to see through them and look out at the other teams, though you can’t hear each other.]

Re: RESULT

[sunsight]

[OH GOD RUBY AND JASPER AND SAPPHIRE]

—NO!!

ROUND 2

[dramatispersonae]

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sunsight]

[I'M UPSET]

W-What are we supposed to do?!

Re: DISCUSSION

[betterserved]

[buckles over, covering his mouth, just trembling. he has a lot of attitude but right now just looks like a terrified 13-year-old]

Re: DISCUSSION

[shrugsitoff]

[ hey so the results totally gave me a convenient excuse aka guess who's in a state of massive shock atm ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[sunsight]

Sousuke-san?

Re: DISCUSSION

[betterserved]

[I'M SO. UPSET.]

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ANSWER

[betterserved]

Too boring. And I think you're cheating. We withdraw. And I'm very disappointed in you.

[because you can totally do that]

Re: ANSWER

[sunsight]

Yes, me too! This has been an awful game!

RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

[You successfully withdraw from the game...]

[Whatever is inside you seems to grow sluggish and heavy, and there’s a sense of it growing weak, shrinking inside you, the numbness around it fading. Perhaps, in another minute or two, if you focus, you can remove it from yourselves safely without further harm --

But then your room drops, a hard, jarring movement that interrupts your concentration, and you all feel a vicious pain instead: the parasites are still dying inside you, but they’ve gone into violent death throes. Their shadowy s̛͠p͏i̴̡͜ke̷s͝ ҉and̴͝͞ ͠҉f̸͝͡l̀̀a̕͝ń͜g͜͡e̶s͡͠ punch through your skin in several places before they shrivel and fade, leaving you with ragged and bleeding wounds.

The mirrors in your room suddenly become transparent. You are able to see through them and look out at the other teams for a brief moment and the light from Kunzite's seems to ease your pain as you slowly go down, down, down into t̼̣̬͈̱̤͊͂͐ͭͅh͓͖̼̖͓̣̬̯̤̆̆̇͛̍̊̍̚e̩͓̳̙̺ͪͭ ̙̰ͥ̍ͩd̯̜̬̹ͨ́ͬ̅a̮͍͉͒́͑͂͌r̺̬̜͗̑͌̊͑̋k̞̹̃ͩ͂͒ͩ͛ͅ.]