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The Last Supper - Hunting Grounds
[ Chosen idols will find themselves abruptly taken, in their unit's room one moment and out in a courtyard the next. An impossibly tall and incredibly dense garden hedge divides the courtyard into sections—moreover, it increasingly gets taller when climbed, preventing its residents from escaping their slice of the courtyard.
A few sparse bushes and trees decorate the area, but there's nothing to keep the hunted away from the hunter.
Everyone will find their unit powers are off. However, Hands and Mouths can feel the power deep within themselves—they can grasp that power and turn into their monster form, should they desire so. Hands will find themselves in a natural disadvantage, however: they're much smaller than their Mouth counterparts, diminutive in size, and moreover, while they acquire whatever claws and teeth their monster form affords them, Mouths are capable of strength beyond that—faster agility and strength at minimum, though they may also have supernatural abilities, such as the ability to breathe fire. ]
A few sparse bushes and trees decorate the area, but there's nothing to keep the hunted away from the hunter.
Everyone will find their unit powers are off. However, Hands and Mouths can feel the power deep within themselves—they can grasp that power and turn into their monster form, should they desire so. Hands will find themselves in a natural disadvantage, however: they're much smaller than their Mouth counterparts, diminutive in size, and moreover, while they acquire whatever claws and teeth their monster form affords them, Mouths are capable of strength beyond that—faster agility and strength at minimum, though they may also have supernatural abilities, such as the ability to breathe fire. ]
Re: R1 MOUTH vs MOUTH
[ She brought a sword too, clenching the hilt tightly in her hand. ]
Oh.
It wasn't supposed to be you.
Re: R1 MOUTH vs MOUTH
[Alisaie laughs, just briefly: she has to laugh, because what else is she supposed to do? This was meant to be different. This--
[This was exactly what she was trying to avoid.]
It wasn't.
I don't suppose they'll permit us to simply talk it out.
Re: R1 MOUTH vs MOUTH
[ Her ears flatten downward against her head - but her expression stays resolute, if resigned. She had to kill someone, but she'd at least thought it would be someone she took responsibility for choosing.
But if she can't even do that much, why even bother trying to plan? Swinging her sword around at random would do just as much. She can't protect anyone like this - ]
A knight must do her duty. We should make this quick.
I don't feel like giving them a show.
Re: R1 MOUTH vs MOUTH
[Why bother, indeed.
[Her grasp tightens about the blade in her hand: the intention is simply to strike. And yet, and yet: there's something in Alisaie that murmurs, why hold back?, and so--
[--and so she doesn't. It doesn't feel as bad as she'd imagined. It's warm as midsummer, it's almost comforting. The warmth washes over her, burning her memories, her sins, her self away, it pulls her down, it drowns her sweetly in a sea of blazing white and then--
[--and then, wiped clean, she rises, bathed for a second in light. The light has left nothing: just instincts, just needs.
[This girl is in the way.]