[IC] Trauma Prom

[makorelief]

Ahh--!! We're in a book! Quick, get some water! I bet we can melt the pages if we're fast!

Comments

[wherethewildthingsare]

I..I don't think that'll work.

[Oh god I'm going to have to die, I cannot let this pure round creature come to harm]

[makorelief]

It might! We've got to try!

[wherethewildthingsare]

[He. Keeps his hands under his the uniform's cape. Mainly so she can't seem him clenching his hands. And trying to remain as calm as possible.]

...From what I've heard, there aren't loopholes like that.

But... you don't have to worry, okay?

[Cause I'll do it.]

[makorelief]

Hey....hey no, we've both got to live through this! It's just like school, right? We just have to believe!

[wherethewildthingsare]

[What the hell kind of school did you go you Aventurine]

...Is there even anything we can sacrifice? We don't even have many memories yet..

[makorelief]

[ One ruled by a teenager where it was kill or be killed obviously that is what real high school is like. ]

Uhm...clothes? All of our clothes? Our hair? Our modesty?

[wherethewildthingsare]

It has to be something equal to one of us dying..are any of those that important to you?

[I'm trying to think myself. BOY THIS IS ROUGH..]

[makorelief]

My womanly virtue is even more important in the face of my impending death!

[wherethewildthingsare]

[He has to try not to snort a little. EVEN IN THE FACE OF DEATH...]

...Well, we can each come up with something, but.

Let me be the one to die if it's not enough. I was a Knight. It's my job to protect people. Let me protect you.

[makorelief]

...Okay. But we won't let it come to that, alright? I don't have the courage to face death, but I have the courage to support you as much as possible!

[wherethewildthingsare]

[Oh my god you perfect tiny girl]

Right. We have to think of something they'll take.

[He's really trying to sound nonchalant but there's a noticeably shakiness in his breaths.]

[makorelief]

[ what if I hug you fiercely ]

I'm not sure. I guess 'everything I've remembered' isn't really that big, huh?

[wherethewildthingsare]

[I will pat your head.]

Yeah.. they probably wouldn't accept that unless you remembered something really important...

[makorelief]

I'm not even sure what's important to me right now, other than my friends!

[wherethewildthingsare]

Well...it's kinda gruesome but I don't have much else..so I guess I could give them my right arm.

It's pretty important as a Knight.. and I am right handed..a knight who can't fight is pretty worthless.

[makorelief]

[ !!!! ]

Ahhhhh, but you need that! I don't even know what I have of value, but you make such a big decision so willingly!

[wherethewildthingsare]

I-It's not like I want to, y'know...

I just can't think of anything else that's so valuable..

maybe my eyes..

[makorelief]

Maybe...maybe I should give my eyes, then. Those seem pretty important. Or my sense of humor? My good fashion sense?

[wherethewildthingsare]

Your eyes are pretty important, but they might want something more personal.. but we don't have any memories..

[This is so hard!!]

[makorelief]

I could give up the ability to smile. Maybe it doesn't seem like much, but I'm always smiling. What if I just didn't remember how to do that?

[wherethewildthingsare]

[Oh no Aventurine baby.]

...You don't have to do that.

[makorelief]

Mm! I do! Because I don't want anyone to die! And if I forget, you all can teach me how to smile again. I believe in you.

[wherethewildthingsare]

....Alright then. If you forget how to smile, We'll teach you how again.

[makorelief]

Alright. Then...that's what I'm going to give up. You'll have to all work together as a team to help me remember.

[wherethewildthingsare]

I promise.

[makorelief]

And I promise to quest hard, and long, to regain your very own arm as soon as possible!

[wherethewildthingsare]

And if we can't remind you how to smile. I'll quest so you can get that back!

[makorelief]

Okay! It's really nice to have a team, you know. I don't remember much, but doesn't seem like my school was full of teams.

[wherethewildthingsare]

Really, what was your school like?

[makorelief]

It killed people for fraternizing with the enemy.

[wherethewildthingsare]

....

....

[Creaking noise.

Mouth hangs open.]

[makorelief]

It was a fun school, though! Ryuko saved me from being fried alive.

[wherethewildthingsare]

[LEANS FORWARD

CREAKING INTENSIFIES.]

..Fr..ied..?

[makorelief]

Mmm, delicious shrimp.

DECISION

[makorelief]

Echo-san, we've decided! Silver will be giving up his arm -- because a knight who can't use a sword, or even write his name, is not a knight at all! And I am going to give up any memories or abilities of being able to smile -- me, who depends so much on making other people happy through my cheery demeanor!

We will not be dying today, because these are good offerings, and I hope that Echo-san likes them enough to let us go. But if for some reason you do not, Silver will be dying -- though I think you will!

(( OOC: Silver giving up his arm is a 7 out of 10. Mako giving up her ability to smile is an 8/10. ))

FAILURE

[cardless]

[Your offering was REJECTED.]

[Words appear on the ground before you in glowing green. “Your sacrifice(s) are to die, by quill or by ink. Make your final peace, then meet your fate.”]



[Of course, if you wait for longer than fifteen minutes, the matter will be taken out of your hands. The oddly metallic pattern of roses on the wall, with their unnervingly long thorns, peel off the paper and lash out — they snake themselves around the doomed sacrifice and squeeze, ever so gently and ever so slowly. It’s a long death by exsanguination for you poor lost soul, as the thorns stab deep, like so many tiny knives.

Not to worry, though! They will only hurt the sacrifice, even if the other partner tries to attack them or pull them off. The thorns won’t so much as cut the skin.]

Re: FAILURE

[makorelief]

[ Ah-- ah.... ]

Silver...Silver...

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[wherethewildthingsare]

[..Dammit.]

Ha.. w-well.. I guess you can't win them all, can you?

[He's taking the quill, although his hand is shaking.]

Aventurine you.. might want to turn away..

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[makorelief]

No...I won't! I'm not going to look away, because you're doing this for me!

Re: FAILURE

[wherethewildthingsare]

F...Fine..but if it's too much..don't hesitate, please.

[He still turns away from her though. HE CAN MAKE IT HARDER.

He gulps. And it takes him a minute or so to get the courage up.

..Ritual suicide is out, that has a second person with a sword, right..?

So up goes the quill, right to his throat.

It takes him another minute before he closes his eyes and. Pushes as hard as he can. He pushes fast, cause if he half-asses it, it'll be so much worse.

He gurgles as the red ichor pours out of his neck and collapses onto his knees with his head on the ground and.. gives it another good shove. He can't scream, but a few more gurgles come out.

If you wish to yell and cry as he does it now is a good time.]

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[makorelief]

[ ahhhhhahhhhhhh ]

[ She doesn't scream, but she does grab him as soon as he falls to the ground and holds him close because she is going to cry over him so hard, who cares about blood :( ]

Silver...

Re: FAILURE

[wherethewildthingsare]

[He can't really push you away but.. the gurgling does increase a little but..

he just sort of.. stops moving, and goes limp. And he's gone.]

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[makorelief]

No....no....

[ She's going to keep holding him because she's not quite sure what else to do; at some point she'll try to pull him fully onto her lap because he's not really dead, right? Friends don't die like that? ]

You're one of my first friends here, so you've got to come back, okay...? So you should wake up!

[ She waits as if she's waiting for an answer, also she is crying BIG ROUND TEARS onto him. ]

Please wake up!

Re: FAILURE

[wherethewildthingsare]

[Sorry Aventurine.

A-at least he closed his eyes so you don't have to see them lifeless..!!]

Re: FAILURE

[makorelief]

[ She will continue to hold him until they get let out tbh. :( For once she actually doesn't have anything to say. ]