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Tweak says, ""Are you coming or going?""

Razzy/Danielle 'Dani' Phantom (copyofaphantom) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2010-07-17 23:43:00

Entry tags:

!days 140-149, danielle 'dani' phantom, edward elric, jace beleren, {{{leonard 'bones' mccoy}}}, {{{mitani wataru}}, {{{taiki}}}, {{{toboe}}}

Who: ANYONE
Where: Along one of those high ridges around the Lacanis dorms.
When: Day 149, morning
What: Experimenting.

[And there's a tiny standing on one of those high altitude ridges, right at the edge, looking down. Though...something might be odd.

That's certainly Lacerta's green. But the maid outfit has the colors switched for their usual tiny. Not to mention the white hair. Or green eyes. Skin is kind of darker or maybe that's just the slight glow around her making her look darker? And what's that little logo on the apron? Weird.

Of course, that might not be a concern as she JUMPS OFF THE RIDGE. And no, that is NOT a safe falling height.]

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	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 12:27 am UTC (link)
	I can't imagine something like that ever being easy to handle... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2010-07-19 01:07 am UTC (link)
	I don't think it'll be easy, but they're strong enough to handle it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 01:13 am UTC (link)
	M'glad. Your team's okay too? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2010-07-19 01:30 am UTC (link)
	We're doing fine. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 01:39 am UTC (link)
	Good. I still want to ask you about things, if it's a good time for that... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2010-07-19 01:42 am UTC (link)
	Now should be fine. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 01:50 am UTC (link)
	Mm. nods I've heard a couple of different sides so far, yours is the one that's left. Can you tell me where all this started? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2010-07-19 01:52 am UTC (link)
	nods Take a seat; this might take a while, and standing in this isn't as comfortable as I'd like. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 01:56 am UTC (link)
	Mm, know what you mean. Might be for a good reason, but I'm still hoping our clothes change back soon... Wasn't expecting this to be quick, either... sits (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2010-07-19 02:18 am UTC (link)

*likewise sits*

The current trouble's relatively recent, but the roots of it go back a bit. Our teams didn't have much to do with each other at first; it wasn't that we didn't like each other, we just didn't know each other. Then a Judge called Game Master showed up.

His game...well, it was probably the worst we've ever had. He divided us up and gave us a list of actions to inflict on other teams each round of the game. We had to "play" at least one, and no more than three, all on different teams; a few other rules came later. Some of the actions were relatively harmless, like "punch someone in the face" or "steal a ration of jerky." Some of them...well, the one with the highest value was "slow kill", followed by "fast kill" and "remove a limb". Each card gave you points, taken from the other team, and if you had a debt by the end of the game, Game Master claimed he'd give you to one of his compatriots.

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	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 02:25 am UTC (link)
	...and of course people played those cards on each other... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2010-07-19 02:33 am UTC (link)

*nods*

It could have been all right, if people had played gently, but it wasn't. And every round, four or five teams hit us with something bad. Everyone knew that we were one of the strongest teams, so they assumed we could take it -- but even we have our limits. Masamune was blind by the end, Cancer lost both arms, all the fighters we had were injured somehow. And we ended the game with forty points worth of debt.

Delphinus played a swift kill and a lost eye on us. Afterward, Geddoe and Link came to confess and apologize; after my team helped kill something we sent to another team, Game Master forbade anyone from doing anything that would reveal moves they made until after the game. They said it was because they didn't know us well, and offered to do something for us to make up for it...that didn't happen, but it was precedent.

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	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 02:51 am UTC (link)
	O-oh... I see. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2010-07-19 02:59 am UTC (link)

At that time, we didn't bear them any particular ill-will...well, most of us didn't. We had a few people on the team who were pretty angry, but we'd have had to be angry at practically everyone, if we'd been angry at anyone, so most of us thought it was better to blame the Judge. I started talking to Geddoe on occasion...he had an idea to make a kind of formal agreement, that teams who accepted it would help each other when they could and not play harshly against each other in the Games unless they had to. I thought it was a good idea, but events seem to have proven otherwise.

I'm going to sidetrack a little, because there's more history before we get to the next part.

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	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 03:01 am UTC (link)
	Mm, yeah... I'd like to see something like that, but it only works when people will agree... That's fine. I'm asking you because I want to understand as much of this as I can. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2010-07-19 03:04 am UTC (link)

*nods*

A while before the game, we got a new teammate; Lightning was his name. He was a good teammate, and a good friend, and a battlemage who could transform into a shape better suited for fighting. The problem is, for a while we couldn't feed him -- he'd eat and eat, and never get full.

During Game Master's game, we worked out what the problem was. He killed one of the raptors, and it helped the hunger when nothing else would. But the raptors are sentient, intelligent creatures. And nothing else we use for food claims that distinction.

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	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 03:12 am UTC (link)
	That must've been hard for all of you... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blue_mind_group 2010-07-19 03:16 am UTC (link)
	nods We went north every few days to hunt them. They're smart, pack hunters; most teams are afraid of them. But we didn't have another choice that we could accept, so Lightning contained his hunger and we managed to barely keep him from starving to death. Then Storyteller ran a game. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 03:25 am UTC (link)
	is listening quietly at this point (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2010-07-19 03:32 am UTC (link)

She altered some players' minds, and gave them the ability to transform into a form more suited for battle, and forced them to subsist on sentient flesh. As you can imagine, it was a bit familiar. But it seems that of the people changed, only Orion managed to resist completely, though some other teams turned on their fellow 'wolves' rather than kill innocents.

And some of them didn't, and we were the ones they killed. Canis was the only team who had no players left due solely to the 'wolves'. And Mitani was one of the players. Hollow killed him, out of mercy, in a way; another team had determined that he would die and her knife was kinder than their teeth. At the time, though, I was pretty angry.

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	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 03:45 am UTC (link)
	Mm. I can understand that... I don't have any teammates who are younger than me, but it worries me that there's kids around here, and it's bad enough watching something happen to the ones who aren't on my team... Most people would be angry over that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2010-07-19 03:50 am UTC (link)

*nods* And after the last game...it was hard not to see it as the same thing happening again, you know? Maybe it's not fair or worthy, but it wasn't something I can deny feeling.

I didn't take vengeance or anything, though I probably scared her a little. Geddoe came to me afterward, and...well. I told him that after two killing games where Delphinus had hit Canis without provocation, the alliance he was proposing looked less and less attractive. So he gave me his personal word that it wouldn't happen again; that he'd stop it if he had to.

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	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 05:17 am UTC (link)
	...Was he able to? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

blue_mind_group
2010-07-19 05:24 am UTC (link)

The situation never came up. But even making the offer...I took his word, and refused offers of reparation, and kept the teammates that were angry from doing anything rash.

Someone's probably already told you about Trickster's game, how some of us denied him any pleasure in torturing the people he chose. After that, Canis got memories. And Lightning...

...he went mad from his. Completely berserk, with nothing in his mind but hunger. Jim Kirk was standing near him, and tried to use some kind of hand-to-hand technique...he lost an arm, and it was only the fact that Masamune and I were right there that saved his life. We held Lightning for a few moments, but he broke free, and his war form is fast -- he outdistanced us and lost us in the tunnels.

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	clap_your_hands 2010-07-19 05:30 am UTC (link)
	I... haven't actually heard about that game, but that can wait for another time. That's... shakes his head I've heard some of what happened after that, but I'd still like to hear your side of it... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)