[T] Frustrations (Ami)

[chiickadee]

Death Hunter
DEATHSWEEPER

General Information
The large stone cavern with the tiled floor and large yellow smiley face is likely familiar to at least several trainees, and may even feature in a few nightmares from time to time. Welcome to Deathsweeper, the training course that may only be attempted via c-type golem, and often acts as a testing ground for the Life Division's more painful creations. Stealth and detecting imminent danger are vital for Death Hunters and anyone who has to spend extended amounts of time near Caelius. The Deathsweeper chamber is full of hidden traps that only the finest of survival instincts can survive unscathed.

If you fail: you get to once again relive the sensation of dying. Painfully and sometimes quite strangely.

If you win: you have survived stepping 5 tiles into the room. Anything further is purely for peen and bragging rights.

Mechanics

• roll 1 d10
  
• check for hp loss and death
  
• decide whether or not to use your bonuses
  
• if you survive, repeat.
  
• roll list: the traps are ICly constantly changing, so feel free to get creative as to what exactly those traps are!
  
• -50% HP is off your full HP, so if you hit -50% twice, then you are 100% KO'd
  
  01. horrible death
  02. - 50% HP
  03. live
  04. live
  05. - 50% HP
  06. - 50% HP
  07. horrible death
  08. - 50% HP
  09. live
  10. horrible death
  
  Bonus Mechanics
  
• This bonus is consumable.
  
• All participants get a flag, this flag will allow your character to notice something about the area they're stepping into. OOCly this means you can adjust your rolled number, up or down, by one point. Instinctive moves are used in the same manner as flags. These are stackable, so if you have 1 flag + 1 instinctive move, you can use them up in order to adjust your roll by two.
  
  (If you roll a 1, you may not move your number down to 0, -1, or 10. And 10 cannot be adjusted to 1 or 11.)
  
  
• Trainees: 1 flag
  
• Death Trainees: 1 flag + 1 instinctive move
  
• Hunters: 1 flag + 1 instinctive move
  
• Death Hunters: 1 flag + 2 instinctive moves
  

[quote="Status"]
[size=14][color=#00BFFF][b]Step: (current step number)[/b][/color][/size]

[b]HP:[/b]
[b]Flags:[/b]
[b]Instinctive moves:[/b]
[/quote]

 

[chiickadee]

Attempt 1

Ami was annoyed. Though it was familiar emotion, one that had long since moved in and deemed itself a member of Ami's family, she couldn't help but feel particularly irked today.

So a healthy dose of blowing golems up seemed in order.

She tiptoed onto the first tile, ready begin to the "game." What Ami didn't know was that the game had already been one.

Status

Step: 1

HP: 40/40
Flags: 1
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

Why couldn't Lex and Eva just stay silent? Was it really so hard to be complacent in the face of someone clearly superior to you? She couldn't fathom it. It was only logical to bow down when someone more powerful stood in front of you. It was that or die.

Well clearly they had made their choice.

She was far too focused on the dilemma in her head, and a wayward flick of her hand ruined the rest. A poisonous powder sprayed across her face, making her sneeze, and then go into a coughing fit. Fantastic. Now she got to do this entire thing with a nasty, poison-induced "cold."

Status

Step: 2

HP: 20/40
Flags: 1
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

She needed to focus more. Less friendship more deathsweeper.

After a few moments, the coughing finally went away, leaving her only with stinging eyes and running nose. All of those symptoms could be dealt with. She still had her mind turning gears after all.

Be smart, that was all it would take. Two tiles in front of her. One behind her, where she'd moved from, and one to her side where she'd attempted to venture forth only to meet a noxious cloud.

She threw a flag out to her right, which immediately melted.

Well clearly that wasn't the right way.

Status

Step: 3

HP: 20/40
Flags: 0
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

So she stepped on the last remaining tile. Which also disintegrated her.

Those Death bastards would make an impossible to finish grid.

Status

Step: 4

HP: 20/40
Flags: 0
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

Attempt 2
Focus. Focus this time. No feelings, only tiles and a flag. She took a deep calming breath and stepped onto the battlefield.

Status

Step: 1

HP: 40/40
Flags: 1
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

Suppose Wilson didn't make it? Ofie was horridly illiterate from what she'd gathered. She cursed herself for not standing up for him. A haughtiness was about her as she took the next step. She could have written something superb for Wilson. They would have no problem. He would have been fine.

Her cockiness landed her an explosion to the face. Well then. Focusing, right.

Status

Step: 2

HP: 20/40
Flags: 1
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

The tile in front of her didn't look trustworthy, and her judgement was clouded as it was. Lucky for her, a missile fired right at the tile, obliterating it completely.

Well she knew which one not to pick now.

Status

Step: 3

HP: 20/40
Flags: 0
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

Too bad the other one was a death trap too.

Status

Step: 4

HP: 20/40
Flags: 0
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

Attempt 3
The last golem had been splattered against the wall, and it was somewhat disconcerting having to look at it as she navigated the tiles of death.

Would they be killed like that, or would it be more merciful. Caelius had said public, it wouldn't be messy, hopefully. Her stomach did a flip as she stepped onto the tiles. She didn't want to picture her friends maimed.

Status

Step: 1

HP: 40/40
Flags: 1
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

She imagined trying to wake up knowing that Wilson was dead. That he wouldn't be there to hack into the archives when she needed it. No more baking sessions. No more protection from evil, malicious bugs that were crawling in her lab space.

No more glances from across the room when she thought he wasn't looking. No more pining for an entity that didn't return her with anything except pity. No having to look as he gave Emma's pod a smile that she would never, ever receive. She wouldn't have to look at him, knowing that as long as she lived, her affections would never be returned, that she would never be loved.

The rock that crushed her from the ceiling was nothing compared to the turmoil in her head.

Status

Step: 2

HP: 40/40
Flags: 0
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

Attempt 4
She groaned in frustration as the golem started up. Since her last attempt, she'd gone looking for the status of Kat and Ryan. Of course, no one would give her that information. Where had they disappeared to? No one seemed to know. Some grew angry, but she avoided those. She just wanted to know.

Would she ever see Kat again with her perky little smile? Keeping her secrets? Probably not.

Status

Step: 1

HP: 40/40
Flags: 1
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

Had it ever been Kat's fault in the first place? She'd only begun defending the two insanity monsters when Ryan had started. So then, it was Ryan's fault for putting the idea in her head.

Then again ... the fact that Kat would so willingly step up to defend a monster ... Perhaps it was a defect of her person. Maybe Kat didn't belong as a hunter at all. The countless times she'd defended Ami told her otherwise though. No, Kat was good. Ryan was the one in the wrong.

Status

Step: 2

HP: 20/40
Flags: 1
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

She didn't have any time to think about how much she disliked Ryan's actions, as shurikens buried themselves in her golem.

Status

Step: 3

HP: 20/40
Flags: 0
Instinctive moves: 0

 

[chiickadee]

Attempt 4
Ami stared out at the tiles. Three golems painted across the tiles. Time to make a fourth.

Status

Step: 1

HP: 20/40
Flags: 1
Instinctive moves: 0