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sticks and bones. ([personal profile] sticksandbonesmods) wrote in [community profile] sticksandbones2023-09-01 11:03 am

EVENT 004

ASHES TO ASHES
DUST TO DUST

It’s a calm, misty morning. The sun is peaking over the treetops, and the air is chilled, almost like the onset of fall. How long have you been here, now? Days? Weeks? Months? Everything blurs together. But so you persist… just. Not quite yet. The day’s only just waking up and so are you! Whether you like it or not. You see, as you slept, something has crept its way into your room, and as the sun peaks through windows and closed blinds, it’s finally grabbing you and pulling.

As you meet your rude awakening, the intruder is clear to see. Or rather, it’s incredibly unclear. Mist and fog and sickly-looking vines wrap around your legs and up your body as it drags you to the woods, and attacks of all sorts slide off like water on glass. There is no escape. It’s time to play, and the air is unusually, painfully hot.

OUT OF THE FRYING PAN...

The fog of the forest grows dark and heavy as you’re pulled along against your will, and as you go something seems… different. Maybe your body seems lighter and off balanced. Maybe certain features are no longer tickling your skin. Maybe the connection to the world around you has been brutally severed — all that can be said is that as you’re eventually spat out to a metal platform, you feel incomplete somehow. Magic doesn’t come when you call. Gear doesn’t activate properly. Whatever happened, you’re a completely ordinary human, and it stings.

You and your fellow denizens of the Grove stand on a seeringly hot metal platform, and the air burns your lungs. Ash and soot float through the air, singeing wherever it lands for a split second. Towering up before you is a volcano that has no right being here — but it is. Platforms and smaller spires and rocks litter your surroundings, and scorch marks are everywhere.

The only consolation is that whatever is about to happen, you at least aren’t doing this in your pyjamas.

...INTO THE FIRE

Eventually, as sweat builds up and the wind only burns further, a too-familiar childish voice rings out: "It’s playtime! If you win, I’ll show you something REALLY cool. …Oh, but surely I don’t have to explain ‘The Floor is Lava’, right?"

It goes silent, and there’s a loud metal grind of something. The lava beneath the platform begins to rise, and so does the hateful heat.

At least there are multiple ways out. You can attempt to hop across crumbling platforms, mysteriously and magically floating overhead — though they might break after a few footsteps. You can try climbing the burning-hot, stony surface of the surrounding cliffsides, where flows of magma get a bit too close for comfort. You can take the safer-but-risky way of running through the game area’s many mazelike paths, cut into and through the cliffs, but be careful; should the magma rise too high, those pathways will be flooded. No matter what you choose, the goal is to get to the top, out of the volcanic arena and to a designated “safe zone" waiting on an overhang at the volcano's lip. Up there, an invisible barrier prevents victors from climbing back down into the game zone, and up there is where you will wait with your fellow victors if you succeed. It’s air-conditioned, as if you’re still not trapped within a volcano.

As the first of you reaches the top of the rise, a victory fanfare plays from somewhere, but the lava begins to rise faster. Faster and faster, for each person who succeeds — or dies a horrible, fiery death. You’d better hope your success doesn’t come at the cost of someone else’s life.

DYING EMBERS

As soon as there are no players remaining in the game, another chime plays from a still-mysterious location. After a cheerful voice congratulates you on your victory, the fog encircles you again, as it had done earlier in the day. When you next blink, you’re back in the Grove, standing exactly where you were when you were first taken.

Those of you who died, however, will wake up the following morning in your usual sleeping quarters, be it in your bed or outside in the forest. The good news is, you’re hale and healthy despite everything. A voice whispers to you as soon as you reawaken: "Better luck next time!"

SPARK NOTES
CLICK TO EXPAND!
Good morning. You are being stolen. You can shout for help, if you'd like.

Welcome to today's event: A big game in a volcanic arena! Use this time to talk to your fellow players. You might need to devise a strategy to get out of this one.

The game begins, and the lava starts to rise. For every player who successfully makes it to the top of the arena, the lava will begin to rise faster and faster, intending to kill your fellow competitors. If you make it to the top, you'll find yourself standing in an air-conditioned platform still within the volcano, walled in by an invisible wall and unable to leave until there are no more remaining players.

Once there are no more players remaining, and if you completed the game successfully, you'll find yourself back in the Grove in short order, standing where you were when you left. If you died, however, you'll wake up the following day, restored to full health and (probably) not damaged at all.

If you'd like to plot with someone, head to the OOC Plotting Post for this event! As a reminder, we will have a sub-event later on in the month that will be much lighter in nature. Stay tuned! And watch out for the New Moon...

❖ None yet!

simplicitas: (032 @Il___________S2)

i'm fucking crying

[personal profile] simplicitas 2023-09-12 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[...]

Add isn't my boyfriend.

[yet]
devilishkouhai: <user name=minamisakura011 site=twitter.com> (116)

[personal profile] devilishkouhai 2023-09-13 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Shut up, dumbass. I've seen the way the two of you are. Stripping each other down - the next thing you know it you'll be in public with his fingers in your mouth -

[ A hand reaches for a slot where she can hold herself against the wall. It burns - she doesn't seem to care. She is in pain, none-the-less. ]

WHEN THAT HAPPENS, rememeber this conversation.

[ A snicker, and she seems to grin knowingly. Egging him on. ]

Remember, that's not normal shit you do with just friends.

[ A cocky sound escapes her and it sounds akin to a groan, pain coming from her but she is not going to give in to it. She has - HAS felt worse. ]

If you aren't into him, I'll take him. He's got a brilliant mind after all, I wouldn't mind seeing what it would be like to ruin him or see him beneath me. Scarlet red face, hahaha ~~~ [ She is actually thinking about it! She is insane, climbing the wall laughing rather loudly and manically. Skin burning away. ] ugly stupid disgusted look on his face when I stand over him - It'll be delicious. HUH!? How does it make you feel?
simplicitas: (020 @ne2_2ne)

[personal profile] simplicitas 2023-09-14 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Elsword bites the inner corner of his cheek like he's trying to hold something back. It's no secret that he's passively annoyed with her, he made that much clear in the family meeting, but God. There's something about the tone, there's something about the threat to "take him"... "beneath her"...

...]


He's not yours.

[He isn't Elsword's, either. He's his own person, but sometimes Elsword wonders if Add might want to... okay, no, nevermind. He's supposed to be climbing for his life right now, he doesn't need to think about this.]

And you can't have him anyway, as long as I'm here. [Nevermind, he's thinking about this.]
devilishkouhai: <user name=minamisakura011 site=twitter.com> (98)

[personal profile] devilishkouhai 2023-09-14 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm ? [ BB cant stand the way her hands are feeling deep inside the crevice of molten magma. ] Wager then, first one to the top gets to have him.
simplicitas: (017)

[personal profile] simplicitas 2023-09-14 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not fighting over him with you.

[...





climbs faster.]
devilishkouhai: <user name=minamisakura011 site=twitter.com> (65)

[personal profile] devilishkouhai 2023-09-14 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Thats what you think - [ BB speaks that as if that was the end of the sentence, but also that it sounds like there is more to that then there originally was.

However, he also will hear the sounds of clattering from behind him maybe. She totally fell all the way back down to where they started. It's fine, if he is worried BB gets back up and grumbles about her back breaking but she is moving about. Its only the second platform, and there is still time to climb up again... Looks like you win this time, fancy magical battery boy. ]
simplicitas: (089 @mELangpuding)

[personal profile] simplicitas 2023-09-21 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Elsword's head snaps downward like "oh shit, is she still alive?!" because like, listen, he doesn't like her but he doesn't want her to die in lava, either, it would take a real sadistic motherfucker (read: everyone here) to wish for someone to die like that... but no, she's fine. Whew.

...

Elsword childishly sticks his tongue out at her and then keeps scaling the wall.]


BLEHHH!!!

[get off his man bitch]