09-16-2015, 02:09 PM
and lord, I fashion dark gods too;
They are collected like trinkets, prizes.
The hounds bring him Wayra, the chamber’s daughter.
He stalks Ledger in the boy’s dreams, briefly, but leaves him to the hounds, too.
Raelynx he convinces, a silver-tongued piper, and there is an especial pleasure in this boy – he smells his old toy on him, his first silver thing, and he does not bother to hide his grin.
The hounds bring a child, Bly, and she is surely too young for this, but he does not discriminate.
Minette is given to him like an offering, and for a moment the dark god considers taking them both, but ultimately lets the boy walk away.
Then it’s his own daughter, and that should stop him, too, but it does not – he lies and promises her worlds she will never see, and she follows, confirms that his own children are as stupid as the rest of them.
The hounds bring Cress, a healer, and he barks his pleasure to them – he likes the healers, they make his job so much easier, are ever so much harder to kill.
They are all at the mouth of the cave, strangers brought by hounds and fate, and he grins.
“Welcome,” he tells them, his voice a purr, and then they are separated, cordoned off in their own cells.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust, goes the poem, but it is not from a handful of dust that he creates the fear. Instead, the confines of their cells turn to their greatest fears, spooled out from their thoughts. Seven captives, seven (or more) fears, and he sits back and lets the show begin.
NOTES:
So this round is basically Carnage messing with their heads to put them in a ‘fear landscape’ -- they don’t realize they’re in in cells anymore, now they’re confronting their greatest fear(s) (if you’ve read Divergent, it’s basically that, though please don’t have your character realize it’s not ‘real’). This fear can be physical (spiders!) or mental (being alone), you decide, you describe it. Describe what their fear(s) are, how they confront (or succumb to) them. End with them coming out of their fear landscape and into their cell.
No credit or penalty for more than one ‘fear’ – you do whatever’s right for your character.
Eliminations, if they occur (since we have fewer participants may not have eliminations this round, we'll see) will be based on style and creativity.
Next round will hopefully be posted by Friday, 11:00 AM CST. So, a little under 48 hours to respond. Failure to respond results in automatic elimination and a defect.
If you have any questions, email me at acmrshll@gmail.com.
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