Sabra La Tau

Who: ALL YA'LL PUNK ASS BITCHES
Where: THE ARENA
When: TIME FOR SHENANIGANS TO END
What:

[As Guardian meets his end and Mitsuru suffers his punishment for an ill-advised attack, a heavy silence fills the arena. The chess pieces, both sand and lava, collapse back into the floor and smooth out, melding back into it as though they'd never risen.

The next time you blink, King's statue has lifted its hand. Lightning, devastatingly powerful, arcs out across the entire arena, striking at anything and anyone it can reach. Where it strikes the floor and walls it leaves small craters. This is not going to be a light blow for anyone struck with it.]

Who: EVERYONE
Where: The Arena
When: >(
What: YA'LL ARE DICKS

[Lightning arcs through the air, spreading out just over the heads of the gathered blanks with deafening thunder. Where it strikes the walls the marble chips and cracks, leaving small craters dotting the pristine surfaces. The face of King's statue is contorted in plain displeasure. Each time you blink, his gaze falls on a different person.]

That is quite enough. Let's have no more of these childish shenanigans. My patience has worn thin enough already, blanks.

Will you be handing over the keystones, yes or no?

[React || TRICKSTER || King Keystone Retrieval ]

Who: You
Where: At the heart of the city, before the great throne
When: ???
What: A Game

[As your vision sharpens, so does the laughter.

Upon the throne sits a statue of Kokoli; the Masked One, the Laughing Liar, the Fool’s Fool. He remains still, and yet his mask seems to shift whenever you glance away. On his lap is Rota, the Pale Maiden, the Death-before-Life. Something seems a little off in their expressions. Hers, a little vacant, distant. His seems more dangerous each time he appears. It seems they were conversing.]

"I'm s-still not sure . . ."

"Don’t worry, babe. You’re gonna knock 'em dead."

((Mingle

HOW TO PLAY

THE BOXES:

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ROUND 2
ROUND 2 OVER))

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: >8(
Where: The Arena
When: Day 129, early afternoon
What: >8(


WE'RE GOING TO PLAY A GaME.  War ROoMs.  WAR ROoomS GAME.  reMemBER ThiS ONe?   Haaaahe-aaaah

. . . fEAr ME . . . FEar mMEeE . . . hElp me, bAbe, heLp . . . feEAAR mmme . . .

Who: >8|
Where: The Arena
When: Day 129, late morning
What: >8|


No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NONONONO!!


Where was the death!? Where wa- -carnage!? You think you can just chea- -that and get away with it!?


[A conveyor belt pops out of the ground- wait, no, three conveyor belts, and there are twelve cardboard boxes and one of the conveyor belts is going to fire and one is going to CHAIN SAWS and one is going though some black flaps to a room labeled "FRIENDLY PUPPIES."]

OK, that's it! No more Mr. Nice Trickster! EVERYBODY PUT A POPUL- -OM YOUR TEAM IN A BOX.

Who: >8)
Where: The Arena
When: Day 129, late morning
What: >8)

[Today, he has the Arena decked out like an ancient and dooooom-y temple... made entirely out of foam]

Goooood morning, Blanks! Did you miss me? Are you happy to see me? I think we're just going to have to do this again.

And again.

And AgAIn.

AND AGAIN.

Until we get it right! ♥

((Feel free to assume that you and your partner team have already seen the doodles in your notebooks.

Mingle

Lacanis
Hydracula
Bunnycorn
Pygnus
Delpavo
Cepheon))

Who: Ophi
Where: Ophiuchus barracks
When: Day 127, evening
What:

[Today, a dog is getting drunk. This is not unusual. The terapede, however...]

MAN YOU SHOULD TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT. THEY'RE ALL HOMOS, THEY'D TOTALLY KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH GIRLS.

Man, fuck you guys. I'm going home.

((Memories:
Cygnus
Pavo
Vulpecula
Canis))

CUTE GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!

Poll #5155
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

>8F

>8F

I THINK WE ALL LEARNED SOMETHING ABOUT CHEATING TODAY.

Moving on! Our next contestants are Captain James Tiffany Kirk Tina Tanya Tiffany Kirk, Divide by Zero, and Kai-Teeny-Tiny-Toe some other guy! You know what to do!

[HAMSTERBALLLSSSSssss. Kaito has been replaced by Chika]

Poll #5137
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

>8D

>8D

Now for something a little different! Guys who inspire loyalty despite having no redeeming features! Give it up for Amazin' Almaz, Tsuper Tsuna, and Livin' in a VAN down by the river!

[HAMSTER BALLS]

Poll #5136
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

>:)

>:)

Who: All the pretty boys and girls~
Where: Center ring~
When: Day 126, late night
What: A real party

[The Arena is all decked out today in festive bright colors. There is a canopy of red and yellow fabric hanging above you as you enter, like the roof of a giant tent. Cheerful music is playing. Everything smells of cotton candy and rot.]

[Trickster is laughing.]

((Roll call!
Mingle
Round 1 (Allen, Rabi, and Kururu) - Vote - Executions
))

Who: Ophiuchus
Where: Ophiuchus Barracks
When: Day 126, noon
What: Memories!


TICKY: sitting in a cold boxcar one night, listening to a group of older, wandering men recount their awesome lives. Emphasis on their MANLINESS
LUTE: Studying magic (magic: various monster summoning spells and a crystal confinement spell)
MARLA: Touring the Blackwing Institute with Dr. Husch after a security breach.
ASH: Seeing the shadow of the being of ~Willpower~
YAMAMOTO: Gokudera returning from a solo mission nineteen-twentieths dead.
MICHIKO: Atsuko letting her escape in the cornfield after Satoshi roughed her up.
ZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMM: The more organs you have, the BETTER HUMAN SCUM YOU BECOME (Ep: Dark Harvest)
NORA: Realizing that the spells hurt Kazuma too
MARISA: Marisa tries to impress Gerik with the laughable results of her social skill practice.
SEPHIROTH: Burning down Nibelheim
JIN: Toraji accusing him of having no human emotion.
KATOU: Adventure in Heaven; meeting Rivet etc
KIERAN: Getting his wind-knot tattoo.
KARIYA: Talking about the changes in Shibuya.
ICHIRU: wai wai zero [ c ]
AEON CLOCK: Behemoth being drunk and getting bad-ass tattoos.
YUCA: Sneaking into his parents bed at night
Shinra: DOCTORY STUFF WITH YAKUZA.

[A pot sits in the middle of the table today, a small candle underneath it keeping the dark chocolate within warm and smooth. Scattered among the eighteen plates and their berries are long, tonged forks, and small dishes of carefully cut fruits and bits of sweet bread.

The mission board sits empty today, but the toybox has once again been filled.]

Who? Anybody
Where? The Arena
When? Day 115, evening
What? I wonder...

[Man, didn't you just see this Judge? Well, today's game is Persona again, and she appears to be back to her usual modus operandi - unconscious people in black chairs. Today's victims are Excel, Kaito, Nora, Kohaku, Almaz, and Tailmon. Rather than the usual doors with colored assignments, however, there's simply one enormous black door, standing before the statue.]

Did you know that a heart is only as strong as its weakest link? That hidden in the darkness of cracks and corners, there are fears and insecurities the heart would be better off without? If I told you that you are to kill a piece of the heart today, something with real presence, such as a face and a voice... how would you respond? Would you forfeit the Game? Or would you make an attempt to improve the heart by rooting out and destroying a source of weakness?

((Mingle
Sign up
Assignments
Endgame
Revivals))

Who: Ophiuchus
Where: Ophiuchus Barracks
When: day 114, evening
What: Memories!


TICKY: getting caught pick pocketing
LUTE: Making Flute smile (magic: soap bubble birds)
MARLA: @ Switching bodies with Genevieve so she can see that her nightmares weren't rooted in reality.
ASH: ~Helping Chimchar settle down after its OUTBURST
YAMAMOTO: - Turning in his Vongola Ring to be destroyed.
MICHIKO: +Attacking the Fantasma headquarters (sort of on behalf of Monstro).
ZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMM: --A ROOOOOOOOOOOM WITH A MOOSE (Ep: Room with a Moose)
NORA: S-sex ed?
MARISA: -Promoting from Myrmidon to Swordmaster. (Skill increase: Swordsmanship)
SEPHIROTH: Being sent out to Wutai [CC/BC]
JIN: Training camp: watching a man fall past him to his death. *, +
KATOU: ∞ Super gay thanking Setsuna memory ~
SORA: - A-T game, Sora and Ikki vs Ikki's sisters


[Today the memory berries are stacked in a small tower, one on top of each other in a somewhat physics defying way. Do you pull yours out? Or merely admire the masterpiece of patience and boredom?

Also, you may notice that there is a small easel next to the table, on the pegboard are two notes under a sign that says assignments:] Canis. Delphinus.

"The teams above are to be challenged in some way, be it mentally, physically, or merely for the sake of the amusement of all. Should they complete their challenge, you may find the reward they are to receive provided."

[To one side of the board, are sacks tied with light and dark blue ribbons, obviously the rewards, and to the other, is a box with Ophiuchus' symbol on it. Someone has scrawled "Toy Box" on the lid.]


((OOC notes: Any Ophi can take the note down from the board, making it their mission! If you try to open the reward bags, you will find yourself unable to! Only the team, after winning a challenge, can untie that badboy. The toybox has anything that you could possibly need to do the mission, strange gadgets, wifflebats, strange chemicals, building blocks, basically anything that you might want to run a small personalized game. If you want it? It's probably there. We're going to give direct assignments a try and work our way down the Solo Mission request list! So please, teams who want things, sign up! Ophi, this is an awesome way to meet your monthly activity requirements, feel free to pair up or work in groups for teams!

Since this is a new approach to an old concept, we're lurkin' on in #ophiuchus for your questions, minigame ideas generating, or just use it to coordinate with your fellow midboss and villains~))

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: Ophiuchus
Where: Ophiuchus Barracks
When: day 97
What: Memories!


TICKY: -getting molested by Sherrill while drunk after a party
LUTE: -Learning Queen Horn will not allow him to lead armies into battle to protect him
KUROGANE: *[F] Fighting the Kiishim. http://www.onemanga.com/Tsubasa_Reservoir_Chronicles/19/03/
KARIYA:Finding the taboo noise signal. (Week 2, Day 3) [SKILL: 6th Sense.]
MARLA: @ The first time she killed someone.
ASH: ~Catching his first Pokemon: Caterpie!
YAMAMOTO: - Killing a hit who was leaving an oblivious family behind. *
MICHIKO: +Teasing Hana about her first boy crush.
ZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMM: --INVASION OF BABIES (Ep: Plague of Babies)
NORA: Eaten alive
KIERAN: Knifing the white boy as a child
SASARAI: Caesar's sense of humor
TASUKI: Summoning Suzaku failing, Chiriko showing up, receiving the diamond-fan
MARISA: Princess Tana realizes Marisa wants to pet her Pegasus, and invites her to do so.
SEPHIROTH: Stabbing Cloud :) [ACC]
BASEBALL: After she loses the duel against Touga, telling Utena she's happy being the Rose Bride and is glad to be alone
PROFESSOR JINGLES: Building Iwata's robot body!!! and the resultant conversation while Iwata is in Ropponmatsu I (vol 8)

Who: Vulpecula, Cepheus, Pavo, Pyxis, Monoceros, Lepus
Where: The Arena
When: Day 81, evening
What: LOSER GAME

[In the Arena, computer terminals are set up, one for each person on each of the loser teams. Each screen bears two things embedded: This game and a forum.]

[Trickster's statue is silent, aside from an intermittent and faint sound of a low chuckle or growl.]

((Pandemic II game! I don't care what settings you use (relaxed/realistic, virus/bacteria/parasite). Try and take screenshots of your World and Disease screens near the end of the game, but before it actually ends (I don't think you can get back to those screens if you do it afterward), and definitely get a screenshot of the actual ending screen with your score. Play as many times as you want, and put the screenshots from your best game in this thread by 7pm PST.

ENDGAME))

Who: Ophiuchus
Where: Ophiuchus Common Room
When: Day 76, Evening
What: Ophiuchus Fun Day (+Memories)

( LET THE 'FUN' COMMENCE )


((We're going to be posting each powerpoint slide in the comments, so make relevant questions/comments in the respective threads. If you are on Ophiuchus, please assume you were here for the entirety of this part, whether you can actually play or not.

Mingle Thread
Power Point
Team Building
Trickster's competition
Memories))