Game 2 - Clover

[crittersheep]

[A clover shaped crystal rises from the ground. You instinctively know to touch it for Death's Eye to receive your answer.

You are bound to your flock by a thin thread, making it impossible to separate, but you may still answer individually.]

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DISCUSSION

[crittersheep]

[teams may discuss answers here]

Re: DISCUSSION

[beathollow]

...

( THE DEEPEST SIGH )

Re: DISCUSSION

[adorabrawler]

[ understandably, she's mostly pretty unsettled by this ]

What's with this stupid place's obsession with dying...

MID-DISCUSSION OBSERVING THE CHAOS

[beathollow]

... Oh.



So. One of Lily's members was trying to... fight the snake? And. Died. And also all of Lily is also dead.

( JUST. DEAD IN THE DISTANCE )

PENALTY

[wooliefrand]

[a voice echos from their flower:]

WHO WOULD YOU MOURN?

... One who lived and died solely at the whims of another, unable to see past the misguided loyalty ingrained in their blood.

[One member of the flock will suddenly feel a heavy weight on their backs, as if being stepped on. And then, your arm (of your choice) bends backward horrifically, until the bone is snapped. It will not kill you, but you will shed tears uncontrollably.

A seal appears on your arm. It cannot be healed during the game.]

PENALTY

[wooliefrand]

[a voice echoes from the flower

WHO WOULD *YOU* KILL?

I'm not kidding myself and answering anything but "anyone" to this, because that would be insulting both of our intelligence. I know well that which I am capable of.

A crystal pair of dice appear.

You instinctively know you must roll to decide who will be the 'anyone' to take the punishment.]

PENALTY

[wooliefrand]

[a voice echoes from the flower:

WHO WOULD *YOU* KILL?


I'd kill any god or deity who thinks they're better than mortals-- who thinks they can use their divinity to stagnate humanity's progression and growth, or keep them imprisoned with fear and despair.

I'd kill any demon who thinks they're owed a sacrifice, and who treats mortals as nothing but pawns or prisoners, tools for their own selfish desires and not living, feeling, free beings who have the right to live their lives on their own terms.

I've killed gods before-- gods who looked down on humanity because they thought it was a lost cause, completely blind to humanity's pure and untapped potential. And I'd do it it again, if I had to.

. . . and if any of that meant trying to kill you, Death-- then I'd do it.

Zenith will suddenly be struck with a lightning bolt, badly burning a limb of his choice. A seal appears; this wound cannot be healed during the game.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[beathollow]

( as the last question is answered, between punishments and attempted healing and everything going wrong: )

We- we have to come to an agreement on the last one-

What is the value of life?

PENALTY

[wooliefrand]

[A voice echoes from the flower:

WHO WOULD *YOU* KILL?

Oh boy, this is a tough one. Well... The life of an adventurer can be pretty dangerous! Sometimes that means running into dangerous people who want to kill you, for reasons. When that happens... I try to avoid it, but I'd kill someone if it was a choice between their life and mine. I've done it before.

And... While I can't really feel bad about killing people anymore, I also don't really feel good about it. So I'd rather not do it unless it's the only option left.

The most dangerous person on your flock (can be decided oocly) will suddenly be impaled with a bone spear. A seal appears: so long as the bone is not pulled out, they will not bleed out and die.

If it is pulled out, the wound cannot be healed during the game.]

QUESTION 1

[crittersheep]

WHO IS DESERVING OF DEATH?

Who deserves to die? The weak and elderly? The young, too pure for this wretched world? A murderer, or his victim, a cruel being? There are many evils in this world, and many who do not deserve its suffering.

Who deserves to die in your eyes?

Re: QUESTION 1

[beathollow]

It's not about "deserve". Death is... a natural part of life. All that is capable of life, must die eventually. It's not a punishment or a gift. It simply is. So I suppose... no one and everyone, if it must be answered.

1/2

[lullabyonacloudynight]

. . .

2/2

[lullabyonacloudynight]

Whether we deserve it or not, we'll all receive the mercy of being able to reunite with those who have gone on before us when we return to the cycle of El. [WHICH ISN'T A CONCEPT OUTSIDE OF HIS WORLD HE KNOWS BUT UHHH the words are just kind of coming out, creepy. Well, it's not like he was going to be UNtruthful, anyway.] ...But the world CAN be better off for it if we send the ones who have nothing better to do but maliciously hurt others along sooner rather than later.

Re: QUESTION 1

[aididitmyway]

I don't think most people deserve to die. Sometimes—some people do. But only because they've done awful things.

I couldn't mourn for someone like that.

But everyone else? I can mourn for them. They didn't deserve whatever happened to them.

QUESTION 2

[crittersheep]

WHO WOULD YOU MOURN?

Would you mourn a man who's committed many an evil, but benefitted you? An ailing grandmother, alone in her home, but you have never met and will never think about once in your blessed lives.

There are many in this world a pitiful eye will never see.

Who would you mourn?

Re: QUESTION 2

[eonsadrift]

...I've only ever mourned... those who died who shouldn't have. But why bother mourning? I'd rather avenge them. I will avenge them.

Re: QUESTION 2

[beathollow]

( through strained breathing, trying to keep calm between as she rubs her eyes, shes not standing back up fuck you )

I- would morn those that I know and care for. I know that- that there's a limit to my empathy and I cannot truly mourn those I have not known. E-even if someone's hurt others- but was kind to me- I'd miss them-

Re: QUESTION 2

[aididitmyway]

The people who deserve it. The people who never did anything to anyone. The people who died trying to defend other people. The people who ended up getting killed by something beyond their control, like an illness.

Those are the kinds of people that deserve mourning. Some of them I mourn so much that I want to avenge them.

Re: QUESTION 2

[lullabyonacloudynight]

I can mourn everyone- and, and everything, that was a part of the time I've lived, but gone on before me. Because the time we shared belongs to me, too.

[Cacophonie is suddenly not looking so good. He wasn't exactly excited about this situation BEFORE but.]

Re: QUESTION 2

[adorabrawler]

[ Grieving isn't something she's had to think about before, not until— ]

... Mom and daddy.

QUESTION 3

[crittersheep]

WOULD YOU JUDGE A LIFE TAKEN WILLINGLY?

Death is a blessing, an escape, for many a mortal. They take their own lives to escape suffering, out of guilt, or a foolish sense of nobility. But in the end, they are no different from a murderer or the murdered. What then, was the point?

Can you see a reason to do it? Would you take your own?

CW SUICIDE IDEATION AND DISCUSSION

[beathollow]

I can't judge someone for that. Not when I feel the way I do. ... It's hard to resist that urge, when it gets strong enough. All I can do is try to help those like me how I can, and hope they found the peace they were looking for where I can't... and keep on walking forward, no matter how hard it is. I can't hate or judge the people who can't make the next step when I know how heavy it feels.

...I think I've tried before. I don't know why my heart hurts so much, or why I'm always afraid, but I know at some point it felt like I was drowning. ... But I know I have people who want me to stay. And that gives me a reason to stay too. And I'll find more.

I can't judge people who do this and feel this way. Not when I'm the same. But I'll keep trying, no matter how much it hurts, because I know that suffering isn't all there is to life. ... Not even you have the right to judge them so cruelly.

Re: QUESTION 3

[aididitmyway]

I couldn't. People make all kinds of choices, don't they? It's not my place to judge what someone feels or how strongly they feel it. But I want to keep it from happening, too. Nyx stopped his friend from doing that to herself... and I would do the same for someone I love, too. I'd do anything to try to help them to keep it from happening. But if it happens... it's not my place to judge them. It's my place to mourn them.

I got a second chance of life. I can't give up on that and I could never personally do it.

QUESTION 4

[crittersheep]

WHO WOULD *YOU* KILL?

You curse death, you fear death, you spit in my eyes. Yet out of anger, out of foolishness, mortals take lives with their own hands. For vengeance, for survival, for love, countless sins are committed by your hands.

So I ask you, what man would you look at and kill yourself?

Re: QUESTION 4

[adorabrawler]

... I guess it doesn't really matter anymore since that bastard's already dead, but if he weren't... Yeah, there was someone.

QUESTION 5

[crittersheep]

[You know instinctively, as the final question is asked, that Death's Eye will only take one answer.

You must answer as a group.]

WHAT IS THE VALUE OF LIFE?

[adorabrawler]

[ well—since everyone else is in various states of dead and dying, it's up to the one who... isn't... to respond. and so: ]

Our answer is... is that it's up to the individual to find the answer—because no two people are going to think the same. What everyone feels is different, and it's not up to us to decide that for everybody. Or... to even decide that for the five of us.