LILY

[crittersheep]

You find yourselves in a room that's like an empty circus ring, smaller than the Big Top that you were just previously in. The stands surrounding it are completely empty and, for some reason, you cannot exit the tent. In the center, a magician's box dangles from the ceiling by a chain, with more chains winding around it and locking it shut tight. It dangles high above your heads, just out of reach. Instinctively, you know someone is in there.

Underneath the box is a small, circular table with a magic 8-ball sitting there. Just by looking at it, you all know that if you ask it a yes or no question, it will respond truthfully. You can only ask it up to three questions, though, and it takes a moment to reset.


Although the demon is not immediately visible, you can still feel its presence lurking about . . .

Comments

Re: FINAL GUESS

[endsjustified]

[inclines his head]

Thank you. We are just as glad not to have murdered you.

Re: FINAL GUESS

[finalbows]

Least I would have been the best sport about it. As we all no doubt are aware.

Re: FINAL GUESS

[endsjustified]

[dry]

Just because you tolerate it best is no reason to welcome it.

Re: FINAL GUESS

[finalbows]

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I give the impression I was abducted on purpose?

Re: FINAL GUESS

[endsjustified]

You know perfectly well that is not what I meant.

Re: FINAL GUESS

[finalbows]

Heh, heh.

...

Don't worry too much. I have a new destiny, now, that needs fulfilling, and I am hardly in a hurry to desert it.

Re: FINAL GUESS

[endsjustified]

Oh?

Re: FINAL GUESS

[finalbows]

...

Muffin and I are taking care of a dragon egg, and that doesn't exactly stop being a looming responsibility when it finally hatches.

[ he's genuinely thrilled about it but lmao, stilted and playing it cool ]

Re: FINAL GUESS

[endsjustified]

...

[that answer was so unexpected it gets a clearly stymied blink, like a cat faced with all the furniture in its territory rearranged]

Congratulations.

Re: FINAL GUESS

[finalbows]

[ him as well thanks it happened by absurd circumstance. he caught that blink ]

Thaaaat's about the way I felt when I realized the damned thing was real. Ha, ha! Ah.

Re: FINAL GUESS

[endsjustified]

Where even from did you get. That.