Sabra La Tau

Who: Delphi + Anyone
Where: Outside Delphinus dorms
When: Day 159, evening
What: SCALING LARGE MOUNTAINS...


[Tiny Delphinus is attempting to quietly sneak chairs out of the kitchen and placing it by the wall in an attempt to get to the roof.]

Who: tiny people?
Where: somewhere between Lacanis and Bunnycorn dorms
When: Day 159, afternoon
What: staring contests

[somewhere between Lacerta and Monoceros, there is a tiny in white crouched down next to a crack in the wall. he is having a staring contest with the squidrat lurking just inside]

Who: Orion, Cepheus, anyone
Where: Near the Cepheon dorms
When: Day 159, post game and after chores are finished
What: SOCCER!!1!

So we've gotta have two goals, and we're gonna need something to use for a ball.

Who: Everyone!
Where: Arena
When: Day 159, bright and early.
What: Game~

[Mirror's familiar silver statue is in the arena today, though the pose seems more thoughtful than usual. Mirrors line the arena, casting your reflections in all directions. But something seems slightly ... off about them. Like they've been warped just a liiittle, and don't quite reflect the truth of what you look like...]

I suppose I should start from the beginning, shouldn't I?

...

Quiet.

(( Brief mingle, then there'll be a thread to trigger the actual de-aging. Info posts go here and here. ))

Who: Meridian! Orion . . . I guess if anyone drops by.
Where: Orion
When: Day 158, mid-morning
What: being injured sucks.

[ How far is it from Meridian's room to the kitchen? Can she make it without anyone noticing? Just how stealthy is limping? ]

Who: Anyone
Where: ~the arena~
When: Day 157, evening
What: I heard a rumor there was a game . . .

[ A roll of thunder followed you to the arena, so you may have expected storm clouds but instead a new judge greets you. The statue is impressive! Well, if you find rabbits impressive. A rabbit with antlers is sitting on the throne tonight, and an excitable voice greets you. ]

I heard a rumor there was a game! A game, an exciting game! Well, perhaps it is not an exciting game, but you never know until you try. Maybe a shiner, maybe two, maybe a greeting or . . . three. Soon we'll get started. Sooner than soon, but before then . . . what's round and tasty and a choking hazard for children under the age of five?

[ There are also closed doors, as many as there are teams, all color coded. And a large round table with several plates of grapes. Well, mostly plates of grapes, but some are wax replicas and probably don't taste very good. ]

[mingle | rules/instructions/team posts | #fuckingrabbit if you wish to harass in a chan | play for one team only prz | endgame | memories/winners ]

Who: Orion et al
Where: Orion dorm.
When: Day 156, night.
What: It's only a flesh wound.

[Three blanks, back from the game are entering the common area. One of them is pretty bruised.]

You. Sit. There.

Who: All regular Blanks
Where: In your dorms
When: Day 155 and 156
What:

[It doesn't really happen all at once, or to every dorm at the same time. But over these two days, you might spy a tiny spider slipping under the door. It is soon followed by several others, skittering along the floor, up the common room table and small cocoons of webbing are industriously opened. Almost as quickly and efficiently they scatter, vanishing.

If you missed this event... then perhaps you simply looked over and saw six small memory berries and the traces of webbing around them, fine threads catching the torchlight.]

((OOC: Two things! FIRST! Start your dorm's threads with [Your Team Name] for the sake of organization. SECOND. When you take your memories, ping Nishi with a thread link.))

Who: Meridian, Sword, whoever drops by!
Where: Somewhere a bit away from the dorms.
When: Day 154, evening, after all the crazyness has died down a bit.
What: SPARRING.


[ SPARRING WITH KNIVES. ]

Who: Feathers, Pavo, anyone else
Where: Just outside Pavo, across from the party at Delph
When: Day 154, post-game
What: Catching up

[Leaning against the dorm wall, just catching a breath of fresher air.]

. . . home again.

WhØ: all
Ѡhεre: where
Wheת: Day 154, ?????
WhДt: game 1ØØ

[The Arena is not as it usually is.

The dawn that breaks over the judge's throne is a fractured thing; bright rays mixed with pale and trembling fingers of light, spots that through the arena seen clear while others still cling to the false night. Here, where the light falls, ruined buildings look whole again, colours lively and fresh. Where a ray falls there, there is no stone at all; the broken archway is instead the spreading limbs of a great tree, reaching for the sky. Pieces of road disappear into patches of deep water, waves crashing on nothing at all.

Here, where darkness stretches, the scenery itself seems to unravel. Lines fray and images fade, as if spun on a tapestry that is but a single pulled thread from being nothing at all.

The air is heavy and full of a pressure that settles behind the eyes, and it's quiet, so quiet, but the echo of sound unheard fills the air . . . murmurs of voices, words without meaning, the soft clack of a shuttle moving through thread.

The throne, when you look, is empty. But when you don't—when your attention strays, when the pressure builds—there may almost be a woman there, a small hand-loom on her lap, a scarf wrapped about her head. Her face is old but kind, unmistakably beautiful despite its age, and her smile is a gentle one.

In front of her there are fourteen large looms, each strung up with one of fourteen unmistakable shades.]

Hero . . . hero . . . hero . . .

Who: Wolf
Where: The Arena, near the Ophi dorms
When: Day 149, sometime
What: moping

*there's a puppy moping in the Arena. Come bother him?*

Who: Orion, anyone
Where: Orion's dorm
When: Day 148, post game
What: Memories

[A tiny in yellow's just finished up putting new berries in a bowl on the table.]

Are we taking them together again?

Who: All units
Where: The Arena
When: Day 148, late evening
What: Game 97, endgame

[Far, far later into the night, the torches dim, and once again the lids of the stone boxes will not be moved.]

Vulpecula and Lepus, Canis and Lynx, Corvus and Cygnus. Pavo and Hydra and Monoceros, Lacerta and Delphinus, Orion and Cepheus and Pyxis.

Ophiuchus.

You have played well. I bid you rest.

[Shadows spread like cracks over the stone table, cast by four wizened, stunted bushes, the fruit on their branches soft grey in what remains of the arena light. The blanks for whom the fruit grows ripe know instinctively which is theirs.]

[For all your continuation needs.]

Who: All units
Where: The Arena
When: Day 148, late evening
What: Game 97


[The call that echoes out from the arena this evening has no voice human ears can hear. Some few may hear a whistle, high and sweet. For all others, the call comes in how the torches of the main caverns flicker and flare in the sound's wake, sending long shadows dancing over the cavern walls.

The lights steady and dim. Colours fade and only one shadow remains, stretching unerringly, no matter how one moves, to the arena's entrance.]

Come fox and hare, come dog and cat, come crow and noble swan. Come hundred-eyes, come many-heads, come single crowning horn. Come lizard sharp and dolphin swift, come hunter proud and royal crowned and ship's unerring guide.

Come serpent dark, and sheathe your fangs; there is no need for them to shine.

I wish to play a game.

Who: lake-goers
Where: the lake
When: Day 148, late afternoon
What: ~sploosh~

[two figures are unceremoniously dumped into the lake! both figures also seem to be clutching their heads.]

Oooooowwwwwww ...

Who: ever.
Where: away from the Orpheus common area, the lake, and other common areas.
When: Day 148, morning.
What: releasing tension.

[Someone's snuck out of the dorms vvvery early. And appears to be taking it out on the rocks with his materia.

Watch out for minor earthquakes.]

Who: Watanuki + anyone
Where: Baths!
When: Day 148, early morning
What: Morning bath! And moontime mingly post.

[after the mess that was yesterday, there's a noodle trying vainly to bathe himself. getting soap and ... actually getting into the bath without running into things is proving to be stupid hard without his glasses.]

-- ow! S-since when has that been there?

(( Sleep! I'll be back to pick stuff up later. ))

Who: Canis, a lot of dead people, anyone else
Where: Common area near Lacanis dorms
When: Day 147, postgame
What: Lizards On Ice The morbidest ice-capades serious business

*a mind mage, his team and anyone who wants to help are laying out frozen bodies in a common area, with as much dignity as they can manage.*

Right. I guess we need to get someone's attention.