a trickster god's courtship // bitches vs lake minions

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a trickster god's courtship // bitches vs lake minions Oct 29, 2022 14:53:13 GMT -5

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Post by lance on Oct 29, 2022 14:53:13 GMT -5

The Master's Beloved Pets

The lake is restless today. Three times, it sent extensions of itself to the shores in an attempt to gather a playmate or five. Three times, it failed, each of its servants beaten back through blade and tooth and claw.

The lake realizes that perhaps force presented as such is not quite the way to go. The lake remembers that the strange creatures that populate the shores like small, furry things. That they play with them, pet them, love them.

The lake is curious. Would force disguised as a friend work any better than the terror it had wrought earlier?

Well, there is only one way to find out.

the pets attacks andal, claws

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2149 -- Shallow Cut on Neck -- 4.0 damage

the pets attacks jack, claws

knife

2191 -- Shallow Cut on Right Shoulder -- 3.5 damage

the pets attacks katrina, claws

knife

2153 -- Deep Gash on Forehead -- 9.0 damage

knife·knife·knife

Last Edit: Oct 29, 2022 14:54:05 GMT -5 by lance

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a trickster god's courtship // bitches vs lake minions Oct 30, 2022 20:17:11 GMT -5

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Post by sidney on Oct 30, 2022 20:17:11 GMT -5

J A C K

It's a horrifying thing to see, really. As you arrive at the lake, it was as if it knew the three of you were heading for it. Like it wanted to welcome us with open arms. So much so that you watch in awe and disgust as the black ichor-typed liquid that writhes and swirls within whip out tendrils and extend itself in our direction.

"Are you two seeing this shit?"

Your face is perplexed, but you have a hand raised and a finger outstretched before you, pointed directly at this supposed body of water. Except it's black and disgusting and smells like nothing but death.

Breath hitches in the back of your throat as it - you're not even sure what - reaches out and tries to grab you like it's nothing. Like you're a tiny little treat and the lake is an uncontrollable monster, never satiated and always hungry.

"Don't get to close," I cry out, "I think it wants us - literally."

[ jack attacks minions, glaive ]

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[9 +1 blades]

glaive

Last Edit: Oct 31, 2022 18:07:59 GMT -5 by sidney

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a trickster god's courtship // bitches vs lake minions Oct 30, 2022 21:52:04 GMT -5

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Post by charade on Oct 30, 2022 21:52:04 GMT -5

It’s rare for there to be cannons in the evening, but it does happen. Color me surprised to see two faces in the night sky after all. Makes my job easier I guess, but damn. I was hoping for some action, but as we leave the bone and gristle filled den behind, all we find is mist. There’s a massive lake encircling this arena. Guess they don’t want people getting to the force field.

Bored now. No tributes to dick around with. Nothing to hunt. Something deep in my brain tells me I should be bounding over the ground, chasing something small and furry, but I shake that thought away. Maybe they made me look like a wolf, and hell, maybe it feels pretty good to be a predator, but I’m still me.

For now.

Except then the cloud starts to come towards us. Coalesces into a semi-recognizable shape. Jack calls out a warning but it comes a little late. The mist rolling over the water tries to rip out Andal’s throat and tear off Jack’s arm. “What the shit?” I don’t have time to say much else before it hits my face so hard my neck snaps back. There’s blood running down my forehead into my eyes.

The mist is alive. I grimace and draw my sword.

“Nah, fuck this. I’m not dying to a goddamn living fart.”

-Katrina attacks Lake with Sword-

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-- Deep Gash on Back -- 8.5 damage + 1 Blades +1 Mutt Tamer

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Last Edit: Oct 30, 2022 21:52:37 GMT -5 by charade

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a trickster god's courtship // bitches vs lake minions Oct 31, 2022 13:15:23 GMT -5

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Post by gunner, d9 ₊⊹ 👹 ɢʀɪғғɪɴ. on Oct 31, 2022 13:15:23 GMT -5

Filler to keep the ball rolling! I'll fill after work. ♡

[ Andal attacks The Lake | Glaive ]

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13152 -- Stabbed in Forearm -- 8.5 damage (Glaive) + 1.0 (Blades)

glaive

Last Edit: Oct 31, 2022 13:15:57 GMT -5 by gunner, d9 ₊⊹ 👹 ɢʀɪғғɪɴ.

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a trickster god's courtship // bitches vs lake minions Oct 31, 2022 15:17:01 GMT -5

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Post by lance on Oct 31, 2022 15:17:01 GMT -5

The Master's Beloved Pets

This set of friends are adamant in their refusal and fierce in their rebuttal. Once, twice, thrice the pets are carved into, their shape disrupted by blades of steel and blood.

Yet the lake is nothing if not persistent. For each of its pets that dissolve into nothing, another steps up to take its place.

It will have its friends, even if it must drag them in by force.

the pets attacks andal, claws

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2182 -- Miss -- 0.0 damage

the pets attacks jack, claws

knife

2135 -- Miss -- 0.0 damage

the pets attacks katrina, claws

knife

2031 -- Miss -- 0.0 damage

knife·knife·knife

Last Edit: Oct 31, 2022 15:17:52 GMT -5 by lance

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a trickster god's courtship // bitches vs lake minions Oct 31, 2022 18:08:31 GMT -5

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Post by sidney on Oct 31, 2022 18:08:31 GMT -5

J A C K

is a filler, bruv
im at work soz

[ jack attacks minions, glaive ]

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[ 9 + 1 blades ]

glaive

Last Edit: Oct 31, 2022 18:10:40 GMT -5 by sidney

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a trickster god's courtship // bitches vs lake minions Nov 1, 2022 1:36:26 GMT -5

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Post by charade on Nov 1, 2022 1:36:26 GMT -5

Got to hand it to the gamemakers. Never seen anything like this before. It's like ghosts or something. Every time our weapons hit something, the mist reforms around us again. A low growl issues from my throat and I can feel something in my brain start to switch off. It's bad. I don't like not being in control of myself. But it feels good too.

Like its meant to be.

My claws (and they are claws) tighten around the hilt of the sword. I pant in exhilaration, my tongue lolling out the side of my mouth. Maybe we were always motherfuckin' animals. Maybe the injection just reminded us of what we really are.

-Katrina attacks Lake with Sword-

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1095 -- Deep Gash on Right Forearm -- 8.0 damage +1 Blades +1 Mutt Tamer

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Last Edit: Nov 1, 2022 1:37:11 GMT -5 by charade

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a trickster god's courtship // bitches vs lake minions Nov 1, 2022 14:27:21 GMT -5

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Post by gunner, d9 ₊⊹ 👹 ɢʀɪғғɪɴ. on Nov 1, 2022 14:27:21 GMT -5

His glaive cleaved through the mist, broke it to wisps.

Andal’s heart elated.
They gave us a quick one today, huh—

Oh, goddamnit.

It’s his fault for believing, really. Two days in and they hadn’t had a chance for rest, what with finding human bones in a cave and now this. A living lake. Those gamemakers had an odd sense of humor.

Is it really even living? Does it breathe, and does it feel? Does the lake have a will of its own, a mind hidden under those inky depths? Does it hunger?

Judging from how it looked at them ... Yeah.

He would had been curious of it once, eager to unveil its secrets, but now he was a boy with sharp fangs for teeth and rotten meat for a heart. It was still pumping, correct, it was just empty of whatever made it full before. Love. Sunlight. Curiosity. All of it gone bad, replaced by hunger, ambition, and survival. Chiara told him to be different, and Andal really tried his best to be, but not like this.

Not different as in unkind.

Not different as in heartless.

He wasn’t in control now, though.

Something else had stolen the reins, taken the helm, and this something gave a howl.

He looked to Katrina, to Jack. Ready? The girls instantly brandished their blades, the morning sun reflecting off of their surfaces sharp enough to blind.

“Go,” he snarled under a breath.

[ Andal attacks The Lake | Glaive ]

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13152 -- Stabbed in Forearm -- 8.5 damage (Glaive) + 1.0 (Blades)

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a trickster god's courtship // bitches vs lake minions Nov 4, 2022 12:58:36 GMT -5

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Post by charade on Nov 4, 2022 12:58:36 GMT -5

Katrina wiped her blade on the ground, unsure of what exactly was staining it. She couldn't call it blood, it was more like a mist or brackish lake water. The smell was unbearable and she imagined it would have been disgusting even without her newly heightened senses.

She eyed the lake warily as they headed away from the shore. Waiting to see if any more of the mist became anything deadly. "What's next?" she asked her allies. "Killer trees?" She was only half-joking as she scanned the area for any signs of life.

She'd heard a single cannon partway into the fight. 17 tributes to go. More than she was comfortable with three days into the games. If coach's advice was right, then she needed to be on the lookout for a feast within the next 2 days. Maybe she should avoid sleep, she wondered. It'd be really fucking annoying to wake up and find that the hovercrafts had gassed her and tossed her somewhere random.

-Katrina does stuff in maint, and leaves this thread-

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