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[trailofblood]

[. . . what just. what. no???]

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[featherduster]

[ From across a VAST OCEAN of NOPE, ]

... This is the Echo everyone keeps talking about.

[ Less a question and more a distraction. ]

[trailofblood]

[taking a moment to absorb the instructions, but it doesn't take long for him to get pissed]

If you mean Nyssa, yeah, this seems like her style.

[kicks a wall]

[featherduster]

[ Watching him, jaw tight. The instructions are crystal clear, but... ]

We can't play, Wolfwood.

[ "play," jesus christ ]

[trailofblood]

Doesn't work that way. Not with her.

[angry pacing, though he pauses when he spots the 'ink' bottle, picks it up and reads it]

[looks like he's seriously tempted to smash it against the wall]

[featherduster]

[ Don't destroy the room Wolfwood ]

We have to be in agreement, right? Do you really think I'm gonna agree to off somebody?!

[trailofblood]

[. . . well, you have a point there. but]

[stares at the bottle, sets it back down, shoves his hands in his pockets]

[glares at vash]

[kicks the wall again. repeatedly. with a stream of curses and threats mainly aimed at nyssa]

[trailofblood]

[and we are (relatively) calm now]

You won't have to. If it comes to that, I can handle it myself.

[featherduster]

[ MAYBE YOU ARE ]

So you can do something stupid, or worse?! Absolutely not! No!

[trailofblood]

Our choices here are limited, spikey. And no matter what we choose, people are going to die.

We just gotta make sure it isn't us.

[featherduster]

So you don't want to die, but it's okay if other people do? What the hell kind of logic is that?

If we make a choice, we're buying into the system she's using to torture and kill people!

[trailofblood]

If we don't make a choice, then we both die and nothin' changes! There is no savin' everyone here.

[featherduster]

And how is ensuring someone else dies in our place any better? Why do you always try to choose the easy way out of things?!

[trailofblood]

[burying his fist in the front of his shirt in a fresh burst of anger]

What did you just say!? You think I'm doin' this 'cause it's easy? Don't fuck with me!

DECISION

[trailofblood]

[Yukio dies if the offer isn't accepted.]

[Yukio offers his ability to feel happiness, rating: 2]

[Pound offers his left hand, rating: 8]

FAILURE

[cardless]

[Your offering was REJECTED.]

[Words appear on the ground before you in glowing green. “Your sacrifice(s) are to die, by quill or by ink. Make your final peace, then meet your fate.”]



[Of course, if you wait for longer than fifteen minutes, the matter will be taken out of your hands. The oddly metallic pattern of roses on the wall, with their unnervingly long thorns, peel off the paper and lash out — they snake themselves around the doomed sacrifice and squeeze, ever so gently and ever so slowly. It’s a long death by exsanguination for you poor lost soul, as the thorns stab deep, like so many tiny knives.

Not to worry, though! They will only hurt the sacrifice, even if the other partner tries to attack them or pull them off. The thorns won’t so much as cut the skin.]

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[featherduster]

[ JUST AS PLANNED

There's some convincingly dull surprise when the words appear, but he doesn't seem

y'know

concerned by this overmuch. He's not reaching for the ink, either. ]

Ahhh, well...

[ sry wolfwood ]

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[trailofblood]

[you're not sorry at all!!]

Son of a bitch.

[it's not surprised. in fact it's. also kind of dull]

Re: FAILURE

[featherduster]

[ Well actually ]

... I'm sorry.

[ (A little bit.) ]

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[trailofblood]

Shut up. You got what you fuckin' wanted, so hurry up and finish it.

Re: FAILURE

[featherduster]

[ His voice dips into disdain for the first time ]

The Echo can take care of it themselves.

Re: FAILURE

[trailofblood]

Then you better hope they do it soon, or I'm gonna have to start punchin' you again.

[just ignore the slight crack in his voice]

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[featherduster]

[ Doing so, graciously, but that doesn't mean he doesn't feel the crack all the way to his toes ]

... Will that help?

[ Genuinely asking. ]

Re: FAILURE

[trailofblood]

No. You'd still be just as much of a goddamned idiot.

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[featherduster]

[ Exhales, but it comes out sounding more like a long sigh ]

I can't change who I am, Wolfwood.

Re: FAILURE

[trailofblood]

[does that go for me too]

[sighs in frustration and starts to pace quickly]

I'm already regrettin' lettin' you do this. . . fuck.