Sabra La Tau

Who: Aeon, Watanuki + busybodies
Where: By the Ophiuchus entrance
When: Day 177, evening
What: DATE!!!


[Aeon is waiting outside just past the knee-high rocks, checking his watch. He seems to be waiting for someone.]

Who: Uraeus, that other noodle ( also I guess OTHER OPHI AND THEIR COOKS?! )
Where: U...URAEUSY... PLACE?/ophi place...?
When: Day 173, noon
What:

[ BREADSTICK WENCH, MAKE US FOOD. ]

Who: Everyone!
Where: The Arena
When: Day 173, morning
What: A game, a game!

[There's a tick-tock, tick-tock coming from the arena today, and as you get closer it multiplies, the ticking of clocks and the rustle of papers chiming together in a whole bunch of ticky noises. When you arrive, the statue is of a man in his prime, with a watch on his wrist and his arms and chest scribbled on all over with numbers and foreign characters. The marks range from clumsy to an intricately detailed hand, diagrams of dots and lines, numbers, all kinds of markings. some are even "carved" into the stone.

He's leaning standing in front of a simple sundial on a pedestal. If he's aware of the irony of a sundial in a place with no sun, he finds it hilarious, going by the broad grin on his face.]

The time, the time-- just look at the time! How it flies. It's time for me to make an appearance!

Will something important happen to-day? Will everyone remember? You all grow so fast! ♪ It makes me remember the past... Aah, which is more exciting, the past of the future? Or what's happening now? I just can't decide.

The game is afoot, everyone! Be gentle, it's my first time!

[[MINGLE
HARD RESET
AN ANNOUNCEMENT
EXPLORE!!
Lake
Forge
Dorms
Anywhere else/You are lost]]

Who: YOU
Where: The Arena
When: Day 171, midmorning
What:

I heard a rumor that being light of foot is the best trait to have. Well, and those that place their trust in the sureness of stones are headed down the safest path.

[ Horn's statue sits on the throne, head tilted, looking up. If you follow its gaze you will see two rope ladders hanging down from what looks like ... well, you can't really tell as it's pretty far up. But it might be a bridge, a platform? Something. ]

Speed, speed, heading forward as fast as you can! A reward that can be tucked away is waiting for you, perhaps. But the slowest will be left behind, or maybe they will find themselves further down ... how do you feel about fortresses? All walls should be scaled!

I heard a rumor impediments can be violent.

[ mingle | rules/instructions/choice 1 | choice 1/2 | standings after choice | "race" | GAWKDER THREAD SQUINTER THREAD | endgame | memories ]

( ophi can mingle as well, if you like )

Who: Ophiuchus
Where: The barracks
When: Day 170, early morning
What:

[Quietly, before most midbosses are even stumbling out of bed to seek out coffee and food, a great snake tastes the air contemplatively. It seems to be listening to something just out of any normally audible range.]

Sssso... it beginsss thisss way.

[And Ophiuchus may begin to awaken to a faint rumbling, and the various sub-units will wake up to a new set of changes.]

Return to the altar sssservants of the Judgessss. I have a tasssk and a tool for your usssse.

Who: Ophiuchus
Where: Ophi Dorms
When: Day 167, evening
What: Newbie!

[there is a very pretty sparkly new ophi standing in the main room, reading the words carved into the wall] How grand. ♥

((pls read this!))

Who: Harmony!
Where: SOMEWHERE AROUND THE CAVES
When: Day 164 laaaate evening / 165 eaaaarly morning
What: PATROLLING. Or is it?


[this Ophi is cheerfully humming to himself as he walks around, twirling a small object in his hand]

Who: Everyone~
Where: Arena
When: Day 160, afternoon.
What: Finishing the deaging game.

[Once again, the call goes out; once again Mirror's statue stands tall and glittering in the arena.]

Has it been an educational day? I certainly hope so.


(( PARTICIPATING OPHI ping me for activity instructions. Activities will start at 9 EST and run until 11 EST max; re-aging and endgame will go up shortly after that. I will also have a standalone thread for touching people who are interested in being mongled. ))

[Mingle
Activity: Pictures | Dooom | Mockery | Boat building | Blank blank lizard | Guessing game
Re-aging | Results & Memories | Mongling]

Who: Coriander, Aeon, WHOEVERRR
Where: On the way to Corvus, but out and about!
When: Day 159, afternoonish
What: STUFF completely not-at-all-suspicious stuff

Want to hear a joke?

Who: Cobra and tinies (okay and other people whatev)
Where: Outside Lacerta
When: Day 159 late morning
What: ALL YOUR TINIES ARE BELONG TO COBRA

[Basically this is easier than jumping into a 2k+ post looking for the eighteen shouta Cobra needs to cuddle. SO IF YOU ARE TINY AND WANT CUDDLES. Cobra is out chilling outside Lacerta enjoying a rare smoke]

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: Ophiuchus
Where: Ophiuchus Barracks
When: Day 157, evening
What: Pay day

( Memories )

[Besides Kariya's memory is a simple, single envelope. The dinner is simple, but wholesome. Fatty lizard steaks, mashed potatoes and butter. And some sort of odd leafy, steamed vegetable with it.

This may or may not be more interesting than the fact that the coffee pot is empty. That there is a chair pushed up to the table that the coffee pot was on.

And upon further examination every piece of metal including a fair amount of the stock weapons in the training room are missing.]

Who: ????
Where: Ophiuchus barrrrraccckkkssss
When: Day 157, morning
What: HELLO NEW FRIENDS.

[ New dude in black sort . . . wandering around. He's tapping his message tube against his thigh. ]

Hello? [ yawn ] Anyone home?

Who: Ophiuchus!
Where: Ophi dorms
When: Day 154, evenin'
What: Puttin' bitches to WORK

[today in ophi, there is a small dumb looking hydra--]

Sitting on the dining room table. It let out a shrill, but pleasant cry, beckoning the black serpents' attention.

"Ophiuchus~!" the three heads sang, "I've got the perfect story to cure your boredom!"

On the table, there sat fourteen individual cards. On each, a short rhyme was written.

Who: Black and Harmony
Where: The entrance to the Ophi dorms
When: Day 151, morning (EXTREME BACKDATE!!!)
What: Retroactive hiatus explanation is go /o/

[in the morning, around the knee high rocks there is a blank in orange looking a little green around the gills]

[he looks around to make sure no one's nearby before shouting]

Hey! Doctor dude!

Who: whoever
Where: Outside Cepheus
When: Day 151, afternoon
What: Working on MAKING PAPER

[is mashing pieces of wood bits into a paste with some water in a bowl]

Ah, this part is so time consuming...

Who: New girl, anyone in Ophi
Where: Ophi dorms
When: Day 150, morning
What: INTRO

[A new girl has wandered out of her room. Her attention is currently caught by the writing on the wall]

To keep order as Arbitrators and Enforcers?

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.