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endejester rolled 1 6-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-6)
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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 1:05 pm
Effects:
2 Fear
1 Sleep
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Which way had he come from? Oh god, he wasn't sure, he wasn't sure at all. He turned one way, and then the other, finally picking a direction and hurrying into the closest room before peering around the corner and making sure that he wasn't followed.
Blue water, had he drunk the blue water? He thought he had but… was it the same COLOR of blue water? He wasn't sure, he hurried to the edge of the pool and took a fast school of water and drank it.
Oh god, what was that!? He whirled around and stared behind him again wild eyed.
The world didn't seem real, not really, but my god it seemed dangerous. He couldn't remember being this afraid since when he left home. Oh god…what if it was them, what if the were here? Oh god.
He moved quickly back to the mouth of the room and glanced around.
Choises to make, so many choices to make, blue purple blue… right? Blue purple blue…were there other colors? What if they were poison!? But he had to drink 4…if he didn't he'd die…the wall said so!
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endejester rolled 1 6-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 1:20 pm
Effects:
3 Fear
1 Sleep
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No…no it was absolutely not safe to leave this room yet, he paced back and forth agitated, jumping at the sound of his own footsteps, breathing fast. He was thirsty though, so he bent and took a sip of water again, lifting his gaze to stare around his blue watered sanctuary in search of the dangers that he knew were there.
His feathers were no longer 'poofy', instead he's drawn them in tight to make himself as small as possible. He made his way hurriedly to a corner and crouched in it, leaning back into it so he could get the best view of the whole room.
"S'not safe…s'not safe." He muttered over and over again. "noh-safe." he repeated over and over.
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endejester rolled 1 6-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 1:35 pm
Effects:
3 Fear
1 Sleep
1 Youth
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It took some doing but he convinced himself that he needed to move. Nothing good could come of staying put for too long. He knew that better than many. He had to make a go at getting to another room or someone would find him.
Sometimes the best thing you could do when you were afraid was just to keep doing -something, sooner or latter it had a chance of becoming something more. It was by no means a guarantee…but he had to try.
The next room he found had green water, green like the jungle, green like poison. He was afraid to drink it at first, but the writing he'd seen…drink 4… drink or die.
He'd die if he didn't drink, he might die if he did drink. He rushed forward and scooped up a handful of water before backing away quickly into a corner.
He felt…strange, stranger-er really. Smaller, His wings felt…smaller, less developed. His tattoos faded into his skin and that was frustrating because darn it he'd earned them! How else was he supposed to prove that he was brave at all if he didn't have his tattoos!
How many had he drunk from now?
No…how many had been different colors, that was three colors he'd seen now…there must be at least one more. That was the safest bet, he had to find another color, but would it be a similar color? What if it wasn't unique? Oh god what if he never found it? What was the time limit on drinking the waters?
He shivered and folded his wings around his sides to try and stay calm, it wasn't working.
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 3:02 pm
The next room was strange. It was pleasant and reminded him of an Edenesque garden, but there was something amiss with it. The pools of differing colors, the marvelous but wicked looking statues, and the odd language that he swore he'd never seen in his many book translating duties but seemed to understand perfectly. It was all very surreal.
He knew he had to drink, however. Drinking seemed to play a large part of this tower. Lex kneeled and cupped his hands, taking some of the purple water and sipping.
Everything got slightly fuzzy, as if he'd just drank champagne with sugar added on an empty stomach. He couldn't be buzzed, could he? His footing was already a little uneasy, but he was fine otherwise. He'd just have to not ingest anymore of this alcoholic water so as to not hurt himself or anyone else.
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 3:10 pm
The door had led to a new pool, filled with yellow water and boasting the most indimidating statue he'd seen yett. Lex knelt by this pool too, repeating the process of cupping his hands in the water and drinking from the pool.
Wait... what ifd this was a trap? Something set up by the Horsemen to trap him into drinking until he went insane? What if they were watching right now? Regal was summoned, but left unfired. He didn't want to cause anything, jump to any conclusions that didn't have proof. He was beginning to hate this tower, thought, and everything that had to do with it.
OOC Effects: 1 Sleep 1 Insanity
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 3:18 pm
Lex was back in the yellow rom, and not happy about it. He took another sip of water, knowing that he had to keep doing this until he found too other different types of pools.
He grew more aggravated, eyes and brews narrowing and furrowing, lips drawing thin, and scowls shot all around the room. He knew something was in here, watching him, hunting him. He wasn't going to deal with that s**t. That's why he joined Desu in the fisrt place.
OOC EFFECTS: 1 Sleep 2 Insanity
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chirigami rolled 1 6-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 3:31 pm
drink: 3/4
effect: [3][6][3][6][3][6] 2 - Age
He had been tempted not to move once more, to simply lay at the pool side and watch as the others went about their madness or their deaging - since it seemed to happen to others. But this wasteful body of water was not the location he would have wanted to spend the rest of his time in this tower. He wanted the other one.
So, he lumbered over in search of it. To find his napping place. He was tired, his half lidded eyes heavy with sleep.
But the pool he found was different - finally. He frowned slightly as he reached in to retrieve some of the cool waters, to see what sort of effects it might have. His mind stilled for a moment taking in the effects, he felt a tingle. Something at least but not too much. Age was also still wasted upon a creature that could last for centuries.
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chirigami rolled 1 6-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 3:39 pm
drink: 4/4
effect: [3][6][3][6][3][6][2] 5 - Insanity
Where was it. He had been to it so many times already, so many passes between the walls, the corridors and the rooms. Did they move as those in the other location he had been before? Had he only found it each time by chance?
How annoying. There was no science to chance. It simply was.
Waits rolled his eyes and flicked them to the side and decided a direction to take. He had not gone through this door, he realized in his sleepy mind. No, this way seemed different and new, so he took the chance and stared at the pool that greeted it. Which did not seem the same, not what he had intended. It pulsed a different color but he went towards it anyway, to see what effects it might take hold upon his body (so many of them didn't do much). He took a drink, letting the cool liquid slide down the remains of his throat. Then twitched and then once more and tilted his head upward. His tongue clicked loudly against the roof his his mouth, his throat vibrated where the water had touched.
Inside his mind, something seemed to snap, something came to life even though it was lulled with sleep. There were voices, so many voices. Some he did not know and others so familiar. He heard his brother, he heard the sweet whispers of the Mother. Of Qarah's hisses. He heard the soft whimpers of the Original and the small yelps of the copies. Salbei and even the small Ying. Recent meetings, those he had met long ago. Those he did not know, all talking to him in hushed inaudible words.
Waits got to his feet with a loud click of bone, his wings fluttering behind him, shuttering from the effects. His bugs scrambled about him, seemed to grow larger on his persons as he noticed the room fill with so many sorts of insects. Large, small. Some as magnificent as the one he had fought in the desert. Waits walked towards it, his hand up. Just walked. Walked through the sea of bugs.
And didn't realize he was making his exit through the now open doors.
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 3:40 pm
Oh, thsi water was red. A new room, awesome! The faster he found these, the fsater he could find the person tailing him and kick their a**. He stooped to drink the red water, and began to quickly reget it.
His cheeks crinkled a bit, small wrinkles formed on the reflection in the pond. Crow's feet began to form, and he was turning grey. He gluped, eyes wide as he touched his face. It felt drier, more bumpy. His bones felt tired as he stood, sighing slightly. Maybe there was nothing following him around?
Yet that feeling persisted. Perhaps it was even that something wasn't following him, but that he was still being set in a trap. It was obvious enouf.
Aslo, he needed to quit drunking.
OOC Effects: 2 Insanity 1 Sleep 1 Age
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 1 6-sided dice:
6
Total: 6 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 3:52 pm
The next room he found held a green pond, which he examined for quite a while. Could he trust it? Could he drink from it? This would be his fourth pond. What if beyond that next door was Medea, or some other Horsemen, waiting to stab him and throw his corpse down the tower. The water made him 26 again, and then made him feel slightly younger. There was a spring in his step, his skin even smoother, and the stubble was a little thicker.
"Augh, what the ********. I look like Mark. Now I'm definitely gonna die." He lamented, turning the knob and passing through the door.
OOC Effects: 2 Insanity 1 Sleep 1 Age 1 Youth
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Zyphiris rolled 1 6-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 5:29 pm
The place reminded him of why he had volunteered for janitor duty at Deus for the past two years. Granted, this one look much more lavish and spectacular, but from his experience, anything ancient they've visited has tried to kill them.
It was no surprise that this one did, too.
Dillon read the golden letters engraved on the stone forlornly. Yup, he was definitely dead now.
<How well do you hold your drink, boil?>
.... There isn't alcohol on the island. Or any that isn't mad expensive and illegal anyway.
The trainee looked at the options before him. Magical coloured water.
Death by various afflictions.
Scooping up some water from the purple pool, the trainee uttered his last prayers and took a gulp. It didn't taste too bad...
Wow, why was everything around him spinning. Dillon had begun to nod off, eyelids drooping as he staggered to get up.
<What a lightweight> Nessy hissed.
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Pixie Nyxie rolled 1 6-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 5:35 pm
[ENTERING]
Effects: Fear
Aeron slid into the room with quiet ease, looking around the new expanse to explore. He could feel the pull of the large corridors, hear the whispers of his task at hand. Drink four.
That seemed easy enough. He dipped his hand into the pool of water, taking a sip. Like the room before, he felt the heart pounding wrench of fear inside him growing. He dropped the water, standing up quickly and moving away from the pool.
He would just need to find another one.
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Pixie Nyxie rolled 1 6-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 5:45 pm
Effects: Fear, Age
The second pool didn't make Aeron feel much different. He sipped it with trepidation, moving it quickly to his mouth and away.
Fear disappeared as he felt himself growing a little bit. But years of age to horseman meant nothing. He was still the same stoic horseman, still the same unchanging attitude and face.
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Zyphiris rolled 1 6-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 5:57 pm
The trainee stumbled over to the next pool, leering precariously over the edge before crashing right on his a** trying to regain his balance.
<By Jack, you are such a child.>
The water was blue this time. It had been his next choice, considering how the red, green and yellow looked a terrible lot like poison. Oh who was he kidding, this wasn't any better.
Just think about swimming pools, he tried to convince himself.
As soon as the water met his lips, the hunter trainee could feel his heart start to pound. Was this his body reacting to some really strong alcohol? The spinning sensation was getting stronger. He began to shiver.
A sudden splash caught him by surprise and he let out a small yelp. The vegetation rustled, and he swore he'd seen something move. Shadows began to move and dance around him, and Dillon found himself on his knees, clutching his head and screaming.
<Boil, BOIL, calm down. J-Just drink from the others quickly.>
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Zyphiris rolled 1 6-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-6)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 6:12 pm
He was crawling on his knees to get to the next pool, shaking uncontrollably. Memories of the gauntlet came back to him, the rain of arrows, the monsters that chased him. His failures.
Dillon was disgusted by himself for acting like he was now. But he couldn't stop it.
<Drink.>
His hands were shaking, and the water kept spilling. He plunged his head into the pool in desperation, taking gulps from it.
Calm down.
He could hear himself again.
Dillon emerged, gasping, as he stared at his reflection in the pool. He looked... older. Wiser. Secured in himself. In control.
His hair was shorter and he had grown a short beard and moustache. Fingers reached to touch his face. Was this... him?
<Hm. It's not too bad~ Get rid of that beard though.> Nessy crooned, reassuring the trainee of his looks.
Right. He still had one more to go. Dillon found himself able to stand, albeit shakily. Keep going, he urged, walking away from the pool.
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