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[ if he gets to choose one weapon, that's perfectly fine by him. three guesses as to what it is. if you guessed sickle, then you'd be right.

he's judging the weight in his hand and slashing it through the air a few times to get a feel for it. ]

You know... I'd kind of like to be left alone for one fucking month. Guess that's a little much to ask for.

I, I thought they would have resolved all of this last month. Riki won. [Tara will be keeping well back from Karkat while he's testing out that sickle.

Instead, she paces around the immediate area of the room, making for the door and generally trying to keep her mind focused so as to avoid feeling her frustration over having her powers disabled. She had a feeling that even trying to astral project would end unfortunately for her.]

Guess they just, um, can't stop competing. Like, um, like pushing the boulder up the hill. Sisyphus.

[She hears something moving beyond the door. The noise, soft and faint as it is, makes her step sharply back with a sharp gasp.]

...w-we really have to go out there? [She hates the way her voice comes out as a squeak, but that doesn't change anything.]

Edited 2012-07-16 16:55 (UTC)

[Riku is still sitting on his bed, shrugging at Kakrat's comment. It has been a while since he has been drawn directly into one of the tower-administrator's experiments/contests/games/whatever they deemed them to be... he supposes he should have expected something like this to happen sooner or later.]

To be honest, I would start to get suspicious if they didn't try something for that long.

[Whether it involved him directly or not.

No news are not always good news. Especially with that kind of people.

He turns his head towards Tara, frowning just a little - and makes a note to keep an eye out for her. She doesn't exactly seem like the fighter type.]

If we don't, we die. [It's as simple as that. ...That's probably just a little bit to blunt though, huh?] And if we don't give up and get through to the end, we win.

[That's pretty much the philosophy Riku has been living with ever since Castle Oblivion. Don't give up, push further and further and further and never hesitate. There is too much at stake, back home and in the tower alike.]

Edited 2012-07-16 17:11 (UTC)

[Tara frowns a bit at Riku's words, looking annoyed...but, it's as much irritation at herself as it is at him. Because he's right, yes, of course, and she shouldn't actually need anyone to tell her that. She can manage, without her powers. That was what getting voted out of the pods had been supposed to prove. It's just another survival situation.

Right?

But, determined not to show any more weakness, she moves back to the door.]

So...are we just escaping from here?

Well, it'd probably be best if we had a plan and not, like. Run for it.

[Minako is much more calm about this, offering Tara a small, reassuring smile. She'd gone through her fair share of labyrinths before. Albeit she had the benefit of outside assistance before, but the Tower isn't Tartarus. They aren't going to allow them the benefit of help.

So that means they just had to make do.]

If there's something potentially dangerous on the other side of that door, maybe we could split into two groups-- one distracts the thing, and the other looks for a way out.

Edited 2012-07-16 22:41 (UTC)

...th-then, um, w-what happens to the first group?

[Tara's fists clench at her sides as she stands by the door. She feels humiliated that everyone else is taking this better than she is. She's not supposed to be this weak. That was what her second death was supposed to have given her the chance to fix.

Stop and think. Breath. Dammit, they didn't even give her one of her mystic stones to use to help sharpen her focus.]

Did, um, did any of us get a weapon?

[Riku just raises an eyebrow at Tara - that they would do their best to survive is kind of a given, right?

He doesn't comment on that further, turning to Minako instead, head tilting slightly as he considers her idea and after a moment he nods.]

Sounds like an idea. [And certainly better than storming ahead blindly or waiting here for the administrators to kill them.] ...I volunteer for the first group.

Guess that leaves me w-with the second group. [No point in letting someone go it alone, right? Four eyes are better than two, and two people are better than one.]

Um...I'm Tara. It's, um, it's nice to meet you all. [Minako gets a nod, however, at this - they have met before, at least, and it is kind of nice to see a familiar face in the midst of all this...thisness.]

I...I guess we're a team. [And, really, it's this thought that cheers Tara up a bit. Teams. She does like being on a team, even if it does seem to happen under the most unfortunate circumstances.] So, um, working together. Right. I-I can do that.

...I know Minako but, um, I'd like to know your names first. Even if it's just so I know what to shout, when we go in.

[ if anyone's taken any notice of Karkat, one can see that he's holding his breath. it's the only way that he's not going to interrupt someone.

once he can't take it anymore, out it goes with a fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! ]

Thank god! Pleasantries over? Do we need to sit around and drink tea too?

[ rolling eyes now. bah humans. 8/ ]

Splitting up isn't a bad idea. I have a weapon so it makes the most sense for me and anyone who has some hand to hand combat experience to go in first. The problem is this: what if whatever's in there, if there is something in there, decides to split up too? Then team two is more or less fucking defenseless.

[Minako gives Tara another reassuring smile-- she's got her back-- before arching her eyebrows at Karkat.]

Just because we're defenseless doesn't mean we're helpless. I know hand-to-hand combat too. And we have legs, we can run. Even without my powers I can do that much, at least.

[She frowns a little, turning over the worst case scenario in her mind.]

If we're really in trouble, we could yell to you guys and bring whatever's chasing us in your direction.

[Riku just watches his 'team mates' silently... he is team player when circumstances require him to be, but ultimately he is maybe slightly uncomfortable with what is going on. He doesn't put his trust into others lightly, and here he is practically forced to. It can't be helped, he supposes.]

If we continue to discuss all possible what-ifs, we won't get out here any time soon. Right now we don't even know what they have waiting for us.

[Not that Riku is really eager to face that, but... speculating too much seems pretty pointless.

He nods over at Karkat, head tilting slightly at his weapon of choice.]

I assume, you are some good with that?

[It never hurts to check. Having a weapon =/= being skilled at using it, after all.]

[Their first puzzle is over, but it hardly makes Minako feel any better when-- after just one blink of an eye-- she's suddenly stuck in a cell that's hanging pretty precariously up near the ceiling of the room. By what, she doesn't know, and she doesn't think she wants to find out in case it's a little rope that's fraying in the middle like in the cartoons. Minako crawls to the edge and clutches at the bars, peeking down at the cells below her.]

Guys? Are you there? Is anyone else in a cell?

[Riku can't really quite shake that feeling of dread that is starting to settle in his gut - these sort of things hardly ever start out at their hardest after all. There is not really much choice for them other than to go on head raised high, as he had pointed out himself already, so really... he sees no need to linger on it too much. Especially not, when at very least one of them seems quite nervous about facing whatever the tower administrators are holding in store for them.

He takes a moment to re-orientate himself, frowning as he feels along the bars of this cell... carefully testing them, to see if he'd be able to free himself - though given that his powers are still being blocked, that he can't feel the tingle of Soul Eater's familiar presence beneath the skin of his palm or the darkness and light in the people he's trapped with... it seems more than unlikely.

When he hears Minako calling from not to far above him, he's just about to re-arrange his position into something more comfortable, head turning up towards her after a moment.]

Looks like it.

[In his case at least.]

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Mousetrap

GROUP ONE

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whoops didn't realize you guys were already posting here

Yeah, we're apparently a big ol' bunch of go-getters~.

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puzzle 2

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