Sabra La Tau

Who: Everyone~
Where: Arena
When: Day 103, Morning
What: Gametime

[As you enter the arena today, a familiar silver statue gleams in the morning torchlight. Also present are several members of Ophi, who have brought (or are in the process of bringing) a set of cardboard boxes into the center of the arena. A pair of voices fill the cavern:]

.ɹǝɥʇıǝ ʇou s,ʇı uǝɥʍ ʇdǝɔxǝ-ǝ 'ɟɟo puɐ uo 'ɥʇɹoɟ puɐ ʞɔɐq .snoɹǝbuɐp sɐ ʇou ʇnq .bıq ǝ1ʇʇı1 ɐ ... ǝɔǝıd ɹǝɥʇouɐ-ɐ

An interesting opportunity to gather information.

¡ʇɐɥʇ buıʎɐs-s doʇs ¡... ʇou s,ʇı 'buıd1ǝɥ ǝɹ,ʎǝɥʇ-ʇ ¡ou


(( Mingle (until 7:30 PM EST) | Ophi's Boxes | Mirrors | OOC Schedule | Post Mingle

Actual switching will occur in the Mirrors thread, so hold tight until then. ))

Who: Orion + anyone.
Where: Orion dorms.
When: Day 101, after the game.
What: Catching up on stuff.

[After the game, the team is returning with memories o/ ... and some worrying.]

Dammit, I was hoping we'd run into her on the way home.

Who: YOU
Where: The arena
When: Day 101, morning
What: Game 70 endgame

Congratulations, little blanks, on another game well played.

And congratulations as well to those of you who have won prizes. We trust you'll put them someplace on prominent display. Surely any visitors to your dorms will be impressed by the achievements~.

Who: YOU
Where: The arena
When: Day 101, morning
What: Game 70

[In the center of the arena today stands the statue of the Twins, identical faces smiling just slightly, each with a hand frozen in raised greeting. The single long table before the throne is lined with chairs enough for every blank to take a seat, and each place has been set with cutlery and a plate of polished wood. In the center of the table, low bowls in each of the team colors are arranged, their hues setting off the strange, shimmering grey of the flowers that float in the water they contain. Hedged in around the bowls, almost crowding them out, is food- melons, peaches, grapes; an assortment of cheese, yellow, white, and red; and soft, savory rolls with plates of creamy herb butter.]

[The voice that speaks is light and playful- amused.]

A pleasant morning to you, little blanks. I had such fun with our last game that I've decided to arrange another, and my charming sister has agreed to lend her assistance again.

Do help yourselves to the refreshments, won't you? We'll begin shortly.

[OOC- No matter where the members of Orion sit, there seems to be a small but inconveniently-placed spring poking out of each of their respective chairs. Wherever Badger sits, if he is present, he finds himself with five (5) sets of cutlery.]

(( Mingle
Sign-in
Rules
Introductions
Winner announcements
Endgame))

Who: Orion.
Where: Orion dorms.
When: Day 100, a few hours after breakfast
What:

[Chaz is chipping away at something underneath the rules plate, with one of the spare flint knives.]

Who: Orion, Nora.
Where: From the dorms to the pillar and maybe back again.
When: Day 99, starting oh too early.
What: Pillar run.

Who: Tyler Durden, Zero, Soujirou, others??
Where: From the Delphinus dorms to the CAAAVES.
When: Day 98, late night
What: trip /o/ \o\

[there are knocks on soujirou and zero's doors!]

Who: Monoceros, Orion
Where: Monoceros and Orion Dorms
When: Day 98, post game
What: Memories~

[the war rooms open. no one is squished.]


Well played everyone. I, for one, am quite impressed. Your memories will be forthcoming momentarily.

Who: Everybody
Where: The Arena
When: Day 98, with the call coming just as people are finishing up in Pavo
What: Oh my, what a strange coincidence...

[Trickster's statue sits in the center of the Arena. Around him, twelve war rooms (?) in the appropriate colors.]

Everyone enjoyed the War Rooms game so much last time, I thought you might like to play again. Explain it to the young ones, won't you? Hee hee~♥

((MINGLE
THE WAR ROOMS

By the way, anyone who tries to discuss strategy in the mingle thread will find that their mouth automatically sealed shut. :) ))

Who: A whole lot of people, in twelve bright colours
Where: Pavo's main room
When: Day 98, far less ass-early in the morning
What: Group meeting time

[The table has been moved up against the wall, the floor swept, and everything else put away . . . but it's still a small room for twelve people, let alone for all the teams that came in pairs. In addition to the six standard stools, the room has two large, flat rocks, and three mostly stable stools have been lashed together out of firewood. Kururu is working on a fourth.

Still, the walls are clean, and only the most sensitive noses will catch the traces of blood and stink egg that still linger from previous games.]

Come in? Ahh . . we might have enough chairs, but . . . there's the floor, too, if you'd rather not share, or stand.

Who: Allen + everyone
Where: every dorm
When: Day 98, ass early in the morning
What: holy shit

[There is some VERY INCONSIDERATE LOUD KNOCKING going on]

Hey! Hello! It's Lacerta, it's Allen! Wake up already!

Who: Shiki + anyone else who happens to be awake and out
Where: Anywhere!
When: Day 98, past midnight
What: SAD BLANK IN CAVES

[It is way too late-- or too early, depending on how you want to see it, for normal people to be up and about. AND YET! There seems to be a delphiblue figure wandering about]

Who: everyone
Where: at your dorms
When: Day 96, late evening
What: knocking at your door

Who: You
Where: Arena
When: Day 95, midnight
What: End game

[It's the familiar tug, letting you know, now, that it is over. No more fear of Ophiuchus coming to your door. No more lost limbs, eyes, slow deaths. You can gather yourselves and begin the trek to the arena.

When you arrive, it is ominously the same. The bright circle, the colorful flames, and the cloaked man on the throne. His voice does not boom, but is loud and even in the darkness.]

Blanks. We are all but done. The fifth day is now gone, and you have no more chances to save yourselves or others. What you have chosen will result in your own fate, for every choice has a consequence.

Those of you injured, those of you with dead, with crippled with sick. Into the light. Any ills gained from my Cards I will lift from you.

And when you are done there, into your own circles, one last time. You will learn if you have won, or lost. If you will return home to treasures or emptiness.

It has been a pleasure, for me, Blanks. You will not wish it, but I will run games for you again.


Now, to your circles. To the end.

((Okay guys. First,
HEALING works by anyone who is dead or lost any body parts or sustained any injuries from the cards directly will be healed. If you are injured because, say, you got into a fistfight with your teammate over who should take the card punishment, THAT won't be healed. But even incidents like. Oh. Ash or Zim going completely overboard? Fixed. 100%

ICly, winners will only be announced privately. If your characters want to know which teams have won, they will have to figure it out. or the winners can announce themselves. Doesn't matter!

OOCly, here are the final numbers:

HYDRA = 34
VULPECULA = 30
CYGNUS = 23
MONOCEROS = 23
CEPHEUS = 13
PYXIS = 9
LACERTA = 7
ORION = 0
DELPHINUS = -2
PAVO = -3
LEPUS = -6
CANIS = -41

Hydra and Vulpecula won in points, and Lacerta won the lotto.

I will be unlocking all the team posts, so you can start doing your snooping, and I'll have a HUGE INFO ESSAY on this game going up soon too.

Thank you for the great game, guys. It was fun and I'm glad a lot of characters got traumatized \o/

Vulpecula
Hydra
Pyxis
Cygnus
Monoceros
Orion
Lacerta
Canis
Pavo
Delphinus
Lepus
Cepheus))

Who: Morion and friends :D
Where: Orion + Monoceros dorms
When: Day 95, all day!
What: Shenanigans.

Who: Orion + Monoceros + interlopers
Where: In the swingin' Orion dorms
When: Day 94, all day.
What: Raptors and various stuff.

Who: You
Where: The Arena
When: Day 93, Morning
What: Game

[You must know the spiel by now, the arena is as it was before. Though some of you may have a longer walker, weighed down by the bodies of your comrades.]

Have you thought about your hands? Your plans? Have you schemed or returned with renewed foundations? Today marks the halfway point of my game, Blanks. I hope you are ready for what lies ahead. Remember, the choices are yours alone.

Yesterday's rule remains in effect. You may not attack the teams you attacked the previous day. As a new rule, you will no longer be allowed to get away with taking actions that may indicate what cards your team has played, such as conveniently arriving to help others with raptors and the like.

Now, bring me your dead, and I will return them to you. And depart to your circles. You have a Game to play.


((Vulpecula
Hydra
Pyxis
Cygnus
Monoceros
Orion
Lacerta
Canis
Pavo
Delphinus
Lepus
Cepheus))

Who: Everyone
Where: Everywhere
When: Day 92
What: Carrying out orders

[So what have your fellow blanks done to you now? You have all day to find out.]

And the blanks returned to the arena!
Half of them triumphant, half tired and cold.
But ah, it was quite an adventure wasn't it?
A classic holiday tale never gets old~!

"Memories to follow shortly,"
the judge did quip.
And your precious fairies are safe as well
(and they look quite hip!)

[STUFF TO FOLLOW]