FOUL TOXINS

[lovestained]

Who: Everyone!
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 498

[ Welcome to the Game Tower! On the screen is The Red Sea Witch, who does a curtsy before speaking to the audience: ]

Gyahaha, hello! ✩ Today's show is a game long-time viewers might recognize! The rules are simple: poison others and don't get poisoned! Have fun~✩


RULES | ROOMS | EFFECTS | ENDGAME + WINNERS

Comments

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[at_heart]

[ A very crooked smile. He's tired, most of all. Makes an effort to sit up, wobbles, and gives up on it for the moment. ]

Yeah, well. If she'd been thinking clearer, she wouldn't have wasted so much time trying to stab me.

[ Which reminds him: gotta let down Juniper Tree. The bark recedes, revealing bruises. What Venti can see at the moment is all on his neck from an, uh, attempted strangling??? This is fine.

Bruised all over, cracked ribs, dislocated shoulder, some internal bleeding as a result. Sorry bb. ]

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[outofoffice]

[ Venti winces, but steps closer. ]

You're lucky your head and arm are still attached.

[ Let's just . . . place a hand on Lupine's arm and numb ALL OF HIM ]

1/

[at_heart]

[ Oh shit, that's so much better, so much of the tension rushes out of him that he's left a little dizzy. ]

Lucky? C'mon, this is skill.

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[at_heart]

[ He should help Venti get to the dislocation, huh. Gotta be able to see what you're doing with sIV 'healing'. Okay, both sweater and undershirt are just gonna come off then, with only one awkward moment when his numbed shoulder still doesn't quite cooperate.

............Between the fuzzy and the numb, though, sorry Venti but it absolutely seems like a good idea to pop it back in himself while you watch.

Bracing his shoulder, YANK. ]

1/2

[outofoffice]

[ what the fuck ]

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[outofoffice]

[ SIR ]

Are you done?

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[at_heart]

[ ???? ] [ Looks up at Venti, then back down at his shoulder, then back up. ]

Well, I don't think she dislocated anything else. Ribs are definitely at least bruised, though.

[ He'd like to think he would have responded differently under other circumstances but honestly who knows, ]

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[outofoffice]

[ He places a hand on Lupine's shoulder to fix any damage from the dislocation, then moves on to his chest.

There's a lot of damage here, sir . . . ]

Oof, you really got knocked around . . .

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[at_heart]

[ Tipping his head back to make that easier, but the dizzy is receding, and he's able to muster at least a crooked smile for that observation. ]

The plan was to let her keep going until she calmed down, but I didn't really get that far.

[ His gaze flicks to the cottage. It looks peaceful from the outside. ]

—Should've dropped a cottage on her sooner. She was using those unit powers, it was only a matter of time before she realized she could make me drop the armor. But...

[ but that scream ]

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[outofoffice]

[ But?

Venti flicks a glance to the cottage, though his hands never stop their work. It does look peaceful from the outside. ]

How long will that hold her?

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[at_heart]

Twenty-four hours. And then I could put it right back on her, but...

[ Breath out. ]

You should've heard her when the walls started going up. When she realized what was — happening.

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[outofoffice]

. . .


Even so.

She'll thank you for it later.

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[at_heart]

...I really thought I could find a middle-ground. You know? Let her do just enough damage that she feels better now, but not so much that she'll feel worse later.

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[outofoffice]

Unfortunately, the way she is right now, I don't think she'd be satisfied until she's killed you. And we both know how terribly that would go later.

[ Another glance at the cottage ]

. . . Does she need healing too?

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[at_heart]

Maybe not even then.

[ And he — thinks about that. Murmurs, after a moment, ]

Not before I dropped the cottage on her. But it's... indestructible in there. Can't even yank the pillows off the bed to throw them.

[ He will not really be surprised when they open it up and she's broken herself against the walls. ]

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[outofoffice]

Ah . . . yeah.

[ He gets it.

He pulls his hands away as the last of Lupine's internal injuries are healed closed, then reverses the full-body numbness. ]

I know it's not the best idea, but-- I'd like to at least try. It doesn't feel right to leave her injured, even when she's like this.

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[at_heart]

[ Grimacing immediately, even odds on which part of that prompted it. He levers himself into a sitting position, still ginger, reflexively expecting it to hurt — but he's okay. Turning to look at the cottage. ]

...I don't know about that right now.

[ His brain is firing on half cylinders still, but he's thinking: Check on her through the windows first. Get backup. Blanket the whole area in an illusion so she can't immediately try to kill anyone. Wait for her unit to get here. ]

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[outofoffice]

[ Watching him, like he can see the various gears turning ]

Did you have something else in mind?

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[at_heart]

[ Sucks in a breath, then pushes it back out. ]

Well, first things first: there's a window in the door. Take a look, see what shape she's in.

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[outofoffice]

Alright.

[ Creeping over to the cottage like it might grow teeth and bite him, peering in the window. ]

. . . She's unconscious. I can't really tell how bad any injuries are.

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[at_heart]

[ Revising that automatically in his head to seems to be unconscious. ]

—If she's really out, it might do her good to let her sleep this off for a while.

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[outofoffice]

Does Zrael know? That she's going to be, um . . . indisposed for a while?

I guess I should text Lumine regardless.

[ Pulling out his phone and sending:

🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃: Aliza is contained, for now.
🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃: Everyone's fine.

Along with an exact location marker (thank Archons he learned how to do that a while ago) ]

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[at_heart]

Sent ZRAEL a group text. But it can't hurt to update her. Might not've been the most — uh... helpful.

[ To his feet, carefully. Feels like Venti got everything... ]

—Thanks.

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[outofoffice]

You're welcome.

[ Wry: ] Thanks for not dying.

Re: @🌸🌼🌻🌷🌺🌹🍃

[glidinglight]

Artemis: on my way

[ the text comes a fair amount of time before Lumine actually manages to arrive--she regrets already not having bought a motorcycle yet and not having Wild City powers anymore--oh, for the speed of a cheetah!

but her legs are good enough and she gets there anyway, a handkerchief strapped to her neck with a ragged piece of cloth that (if you inspect closely enough anyway) appears to have been appropriated from her bed sheets. ]

So what's the plan so far?