ROUND 2

[idolpro]

[ The room is BRIGHT YELLOW, as all the rooms you will enter are. Black tiles make up the floor, changing to your unit's color when pressure is placed on them. There is a button in the very center of the room standing on a podium; it's slightly smaller than palm-sized.]

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Comments

Absinthe vs Fox

[idolpro]

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[innerdaemons]

Ah, it is you!

[ he says,

while walking towards the button casually ]

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[artisticliberty]

It is--stop!

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[innerdaemons]

I'm afraid I'm not in the mood for negotiation.

[ KEEPS WALKING ]

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[artisticliberty]

Then you leave me no choice!

[activates Double Take so that absinthe has to walk back and forth, over and over, never quite advancing]

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[innerdaemons]

-- Oh, how rude!

[ he'll go ahead and try to activate Puppeting then, making Fox mirror the movements ]

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[artisticliberty]

[so right now absinthe and fox are both walking back and forth, pacing like a pair of extremely inept back-up dancers]

No moreso than refusing to negotiate!

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[innerdaemons]

I'm sure you understand what is at stake here.

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[artisticliberty]

Yes.

I was present the last time this game occurred. I may be willing to lay down my life for those I care about, but I am not going to perish by Baritones' hands!

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[innerdaemons]

You'll understand my reluctance to perish by your own as well!

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[artisticliberty]

I do not expect you to give in, but dismissing me out of hand is not something I will tolerate.

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[innerdaemons]

I would not call it dismisissing you, as much as being very steadfastly determined about my own survival.

Now, would you please go on and release your ability?

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[artisticliberty]

And leave myself at your mercy? I am not so foolish.

To think, we will be protecting your lot instead of our loved ones...

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[innerdaemons]

We'll have to work on our cooperation skills for the future, hmm?

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[artisticliberty]

Indeed. And I will admit that my dislike is not personal--of you, specifically. I have no particular grudge against you.

... although I absolutely despise having this ability used on me.

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[innerdaemons]

I've yet to meet a person who enjoys being subject to it.

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[artisticliberty]

It is not merely a mild sense of dislike. All of your unit abilities give me nightmares. I cannot allow myself falling prey to them once again!

I will release you, but only if you release me first.

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[innerdaemons]

Why not release your own first, hmm?

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[artisticliberty]

If I do, you must promise to release yours immediately. I will not hold back if you don't.

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[innerdaemons]

[ he lifts both hands up, as if in surrender ]

I solemnly swear to release mine as soon as you release your own.

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[artisticliberty]

... very well.

[he releases Double Take]

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[innerdaemons]

[ and he releases his own ability --

only to bolt for the button, now ]

Re: Absinthe vs Fox

[artisticliberty]

[I MEAN HE DIDN'T LIE AND FOX APPRECIATES THAT

nevertheless, fox lunges for the button and activates Makes Perfect to ensure he is able to press it, but--will he beat absinthe to it?]

Hallucinations - Absinthe, cw body horror, rot

[idolpro]

You stand in the dark as arms wrap around you. They’re warm. You laugh.

This isn’t real because there is no one who would hold you. Though you still can’t help but recall a face in the back of your mind, and for this, you laugh again. What a foolish man! Or perhaps, it would be more fitting to say, “what a foolish demon”. You threw out your humanity a long time ago when you decided to wipe out everyone for your own selfish desires.

You can hear the sound of flesh rotting. Ahhh, that’s a familiar sound isn’t it? Bubbling ooze, dripping, and the arms around you fall off, but it doesn’t take long for another pair of arms reach to hold you with care. But they eventually fall too. You laugh again because you just can’t imagine why so many people attempt to reach you. You’re too far gone to be saved, haven’t they realized that?

The world lights up and you are standing on a mountain of limbs. You sit on your throne.

Your arms slowly start to melt, flesh deteriorating until the bone underneath is exposed. Your ribs begin to crack, unable to support the lack of soul within. After all, what good is a body with no soul? Everything burns and everything hurts, but you don’t even notice it anymore. You lived with this pain for thousands of years.

Another pair of arms reach around you, and you feel your fists tighten this time. The smell of winter surrounds you now. It makes you sick.

You saved these people. You saved them all. You remember now, you made them, and then you killed them because they couldn’t kill you. How many more years must you wait? You scowl in disgust thinking about it as your eye begins to rot out of your skull.

Despite the wretched scent of rot, the smell of winter won’t leave you.

Re: Hallucinations - Absinthe, cw body horror, rot

[idolpro]

Take 2 punishments, at least 1 from each:

Physical:
> Missing eyes
> Increase light sensitivity
> Broken ribcage

Non-Physical:
> Desire for touch
> Increased loneliness
> Unable to mask the emotions on your face (lying is ok tho)