FINAL TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

FINAL TRIAL

[Soon enough, soon enough.

The ticking doesn't stop by the time everyone starts to congregate at the temple. It's ultimately not hard to find; after going north for a little bit, it becomes all too clear where the temple is.]




[The very top of the temple has a room, one of cold stone and blood. There is a stone table at the center; there is nothing on it but dried blood. There are no chairs, no food, no coffins-only small, hastily-scribbled circles to indicate where people might need to stand to face their captors.

And stand they will need to, as they wait for the Stewards to arrive. The time for what will very likely be a final confrontation is almost upon them. Now it's just a question of putting together the clues they've found-and seeing if there truly is a way out of this predicament.

Only one thing is certain-at this point, anything is possible.]



[It's time! The objectives are simple in this trial. It's time to finally answer the questions the Titled have about why they are here, and what, exactly, the route they all intend to take after five long weeks - especially when the Stewards arrive.

GOOD LUCK, TITLED!]

[EDIT: VOTING IS OPEN! This will close at midnight EST on May 25th!]

Comments

[yonosoymaria]

So, then, this is a world where I would have been killed anyway? No, no, don't tell me, first tell me what a witch is to you!

[incendiarize]

Uh....I dunno if it helps any, but the lady's soul wasn't like any of the others we've seen. Hers was purple...

So it's probably a pretty big difference from non-witches?

[yonosoymaria]

Yes, and being able to set things on fire and spear them with ice using your mind is a pretty big difference, too. We are still human, we still bleed, we still die, we still wake up in the morning with a headache after drinking too much! Only superstitious idiots think we serve evil!

[incendiarize]

I think it's more than just having that kind of power... I do that kind of stuff using alchemy, but Armoroad's Zodiacs do it with power from the stars somehow, and the Runemasters of Tharsis can do it just by drawing in the air, and they're still just like everyone else. Hexers and War Magi, too.

Witch on this world might mean more than it does in yours.

[necroyalty]

There are many people capable of wielding magic in my world, but typical witches are either benign, simple folk who commune with the powers of nature, or fey abominations in the guise of the elderly.

It's more than a little confusing.