A letter to the demons. Simple really, it arrived at 7 pm on the dot by carrier corrividus and inside a typed letter with a date, time, and location.
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10 pm. Today. Auditorium. Your exam will be held at this location. Failure to arrive on time results in failure.
As Tomoko and jack would arrive they would see two plush chairs by a simple wooden side table. On the table. Two simple goblets. One was green, the other violet. In the violet cup, a gold liquid sat, slightly bubbling. In the green goblet a bright red liquid, tiny balls of black sitting at the bottom. Both drinks were scentless, as was the whole stage and everything on it. In fact, the air was still, there was no sound aside from that which they made. A single envelope sat between the cups addressed to them both.
Read the envelope?
”There are two goblets, obviously, one for each of you. If you can’t figure out who gets which one please do leave as I don’t want my time wasted. But, in one goblet, is a powerful poison which will remove a halloweener’s natural talents. The effect is permanent and cannot be undone. The other goblet has a powerful enchantment that will give the drinker enhanced natural abilities. This too, cannot be undone. Both goblets must be emptied to progress. And by emptied I mean drunk you don’t get to chuck it on the ground. I will know when the goblets are empty.”
Investigate surroundings
You find a small envelope addressed to you and you alone stuffed in the cushions of your chair. If you chose to read it’s contents, PM iStoleYurVamps
Drink Cup
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Nerpin
demon_pachabel
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:22 pm
Surprisingly for a demon who was considered late for a lot of things he did, Jack was remarkably punctual for his exam, looking in to the room that he was expected to be in. He had accepted the request of the little Kitsune to help her get the courage to jump in to the next year, hoping she would appear next to him, as cheerful as ever.
Of course, they always proved to be rather difficult - the last time he recalled an exam that consisted of cats - and not doing so well with it in the end. Harumph.
Wandering closer to the set that was put out for them, it was pretty obvious what they were walking in to - the goblets shimmered almost innocently between the couches - colours that were obviously Jack and Tomoko coloured - he mused, as he looked over the note that was in the envelope, tail swinging slowly left and right, a frown showing on his face.
As if it was any harder to make Tomoko arrive on time to begin with. Even if it was at a late hour, Tomoko, in the middle of some rice cakes, had taken the note she'd been given quite seriously - an exam! At 10pm (bed time sad ), but exams were important and she'd face a little bit of exhaustion willingly, assuming this all went well enough.
Still, given what her last exam had been, she didn't exactly have high hopes for it to be something like the not-maths or something of a similar vein. It probably was going to involve hefty lifting and hoping to not fall to one's doom. Or someone being held hostage. There were a lot of things it could have involved.
But being timely was the first step. Had she known Jack was also invited, she would have stopped by his room to make sure he wasn't napping (again) and that he'd brushed his hair (again). Still, him actually being there made it easier to step into the rather comfortable looking room that oozed potential doom. Especially once she took a seat - then took the note from Jack after he'd read it, clicking her tongue against the inside of her teeth, before setting the note back down on the table and anxiously looking at the two goblets.
They were definitely Jack and Tomoko colored.
"So...." she frowned, "it sounds like we don't have a lot of options."
Nerpin
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:48 pm
Giving a little sigh, he was content that she had been there - he even made sure his hair was presentable to the little mothering ghoul. Sitting in his chair, he did a little search around it, pulling a small card from his back, having sat on it accordingly. Secrets upon secrets, it appeared, he figured as he looked down at the goblets in front of them, green eyes giving a pregnant paused look before he finally gave a quiet agreement, tail still twitching.
"It appears if we're going anywhere, we have to do something about the goblets, hmm?" He voiced out after her, scratching his chin lightly, giving a sigh. "I can go first, if you want. Whatever happens, it'll give you an idea of what your goblet would be. I wouldn't mind." He decided, giving her a nod, hoping she would accept his offer.
Seeing Jack looking into his chair, Tomoko felt around in her own seat before pulling out another envelope and giving it a long look, as if considering opening it. Was it further instructions? Did the envelope tell them about what was in the goblets in front of them? Tomoko twisted the corner of the envelope nervously as she looked at the two goblets again. Then her slightly dismal expression looked up to Jack as he offered to drink first and let her see what her fate would be. To be honest, she wasn't sure which would be worse - losing her power of illusions, which she relied to heavily on, or knowing Jack had lost...well..whatever gifts he had. She actually didn't know his non-sleep-all-the-time and have-horrible-bed-head talents.
"No." she answered calmly. "I don't want to know which one of us gets screwed over by this." Still, there was a slight shake of fear in her voice as she looked at the two goblets. One removed power. One gave it.
There was a pause as she suddenly grabbed up the note from their mysterious examiner again to read it over, her brows lifting slightly as she looked it over. She then picked up her own goblet (or at least 'hers', as it was Tomoko-colored), giving it a careful gauge, before suddenly drinking from it, setting it back down before she slid the Goblet towards Jack - still half full.
"The rest is yours."
Nerpin
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:12 pm
It was like her to be so worried about him without even considering herself. He knew she was thinking about how they could both get out of it without harm, but part of him knew that it was a one way or another kind of deal between them, breathing slowly out of his nose as he waited to see what she would do - giving the power of checkmate to her in this start of the exam.
Sitting back, he watched his goblet for a short minute, a little worried about what he would do without his ability to borrow his cats . . . they were all he had, and he was starting to wonder if that was a good thing at all. What else was he supposed to use?
Hearing the sound of glass hitting the table again, green eyes refocused on her offering up the half-drunk goblet, eyebrows furrowing lightly before realizing what she had done. Share the drinks. That made sense - what would happen if they took of each kind . . . Sighing lightly, he sat up and clinked the goblets together, sipping only half of his drink, making a bleh~! face when he did, before putting his half-finished drink next to her, grabbing the purple goblet and slowly looking down at the mixture.
"Here goes nothing, right?" He asked her, as calmly as normal, hiding his discomfort about what could happen.
"We could always implode for dividing my zero." Tomoko laughed, albeit awkwardly, before she reached out to take Jack's half-empty goblet, clinking it theatrically against his (hers, technically) before drinking it down and making a visible face of her own, crinkling her nose. "Yuck. Tastes bad." she murmured before she set the now empty goblet down, waiting to see what would happen.
Nerpin
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:20 pm
Swishing her goblet in hand, he gave it a weird look, like as if to say "the better looking one always tastes worse, doesn't it. . . " before deciding to just drink down the rest of it, finding it actually . . . not that bad. Hunh.
"Yours tasted a little better than mine did, at least." He mused openly, giving her a little grin. "I don't feel like I've imploded. Yet."
A click and there on the stage was Rengath, staring at both students, cane in hand. “Well. Not the most explosive of acts but a good show none the less. Of course-“ Jack would have felt it first. A painful tear running down his very core, as he would feel the loss of everything. His powers had vanished, only his basic FEAR remained. “-We’ve yet to get to the final act.” Tomoko would soon follow as the world around her would become more vivid, real, as all her magic seemed to feel like it was being poured out of her. Nothing left but an empty shell made of FEAR.
“You see, you perhaps picked the worst of choices. By only drinking half of the enhancing formula, your strength has only doubled by half. By drinking the poison. Well…” the hell spawn gave an idle shrug. “You can’t always make a poison have less of an effect by taking a smaller dose can you?” The cane tapped on the floor, chair, table, goblets and all were flung off the stage aside from the two students and the professor. “You could have poured the contents all into one cup, or, switched cups, or have taken it as it was. But no, neither of you tried such a thing.” Setting the cane down gently on the floor, Rengath smiled.
“Now let us see how well you do stripped of your skills.” A wall of fire sent to them both, the teacher didn’t seem like he would be pulling his punches.
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Battle Mode Engaged!
Rengath has made the first move, sending a wall of fire at Tomoko and Jack! In order to dodge roll 1d6. If even you fail to avoid the flames at take -5 HP. If odd, you managed to dodge in time!
Battling the teacher is pretty simple. Rengath has 60 HP. Each time you attack, you take -5 HP from his flames. If you use your FEAR attack you notice that you feel empowered. Yet oddly, it hasn’t altered your fighting ability. The battle is over when either Rengath has reached zero HP, or, ONE of you hits 0 HP. At which point quote me to continute.
She hit the floor without a further sound. For someone who saw the world in the non-existent, the existent, and the possibly-existent, that pour of magic being pulled from her made a look pass over Tomoko's face that didn't just look bad - it almost looked like what was happening had destroyed her.
What she didn't know was that back in her room, the ever protected ball of stars had shuddered and a very visible crack split across it - a crack that reflected in the kitsune herself down the center of her temple and down her nose - but peering inside there was nothing. An empty shell made of FEAR indeed.
It was with great struggle the kitsune got to her feet, dark eyes turning to look towards Rengath.
"You did this to me." she spoke monotonously, voice seeming to echo inside of her own empty body, but did not move as the flames swept past her, barely singing her clothing, but leaving her unscathed.
He felt it down to the very point of his being, lightly placing his head in a hand, a black tear showing over the mask that he held at his side - even his shadow seemed to shiver and weaken, making the cat-deity furrow his eyebrows and stare at it longer than expected, confused as to why his own shadow was reacting to such a issue.
He didn't even see the fire coming.
It wasn't until he heard the little one's slow wording that he looked up, just in time to get singed by fire, making him hiss out like an actual cat, composing himself and flicking his hand outwards, trying to dispel the burning that continued.
"You did this...to me...?" Less monotony, slight inquiry. It still sounded hollow in her mouth, however as Tomoko stepped through the fire towards Rengath with a slow purposeful stride, the flame licking across her skin and charring her fur before the little kitsune suddenly made an awful noise and suddenly threw herself onto the hellfire-demon.
Fox teeth were not something to be sneezed at, and Tomoko seemed to suddenly be compelled to bite and bite.
And bite and bite. A single dark shard imbedded in the inner of her forearm suddenly burned away as she continued her attempt to just rip Rengath apart with her teeth.
He had known there was going to be some kind of downfall, he really did.
But it was the anger and sadness in Tomoko's words that brought him back to light, outside of the burning of his hand. He was all he had at this moment. He and Tomoko. He didn't even have his cats, his power, he felt kind of . . mortal, and he hated yet.
He would have his revenge, too.
A rare anger rolled through him, as he silently ran up, claws at the ready, a seething growl on his throat.
It was like something in the little kitsune still was aware that what she was doing was not her as she suddenly detached from the professor and dropped to the floor on all fours with another hiss, even as the flames continued to burn fur from her tails, leaving a scent of burning hair in the air.
