Little Finger

[animusmods]

Characters: characters participating in the Little Finger game
Setting: a riverbank at night in a dream
Format: any
Summary: It's time to search
Warnings: general creepiness and horror warnings

ROUND ONE (complete): mingle | search
ROUND TWO: mingle | search


Round One [COMPLETE]
NO SUPERHUMAN POWERS; SEARCH THE GRASS, BUSHES, TREES, OR THE RIVER ITSELF
This appears much like the story you may remember reading--an old woman crouches next to a gate, searching through thick, wet riverbank grass. Thick fog coats the area behind the gate, across the river, and perhaps twenty feet in either direction from where you stand. Going into this fog, you feel, would be extremely dangerous--possibly suicidal. Eventually the woman stands up. She is missing all the fingers on her left hand and the little finger on her right hand.

"Please, could you help me find my fingers? I'm missing six of them."

It doesn't look like you have a choice.

Round Two [FOUR FINGERS REMAIN]
SUPERHUMAN POWERS ACTIVE; SEARCH ALL PREVIOUS AREAS, BRIDGE, LAWN
This appears much like the story you may remember reading--an old woman crouches next to a gate, searching through thick, wet riverbank grass. Wait, this has happened before--welcome to round two. You didn't find anything last time, and that's why you're here now. The fog remains, but it's drawn back a bit--travelling to the bridge, a simple wooden structure, is now possible without entering the fog, and the gate opens into the lawn of a house. The house itself is yet covered in fog, but there's a doghouse and the lawn itself to search through. Going into the fog still feels impossibly dangerous.

Eventually, the woman stands up. She is missing all the fingers on her left hand.

"Please, could you help me find my fingers? I'm missing five of them."

It doesn't look like you have a choice. All wounds remain from the previous round. Anyone killed last round returns, but they have a scar that reflects their manner of death.

Round Three
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Round Four
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Round Five
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Round Six
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ROUND ONE MINGLE

[animusmods]

[koncubine]

[Caster is used to rivers and grass on foggy evenings, but that was long ago, and this is a clearly unnatural place.

She stands a little ways away from the woman, walking away from her and looking around.]

Eh... Don't tell me. This is a dream, right?

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer feels oddly refreshed as he wakes up in this surreal landscape. He walks up to one of the familiar faces around here.]

If it is, then we're both having it.

[friendlyfiend]

[A'kin seems oddly at ease with these surroundings, as uncanny as they are.]

A dream, or something using dreams as a means to manifest.

[sageprincess]

[Well. This is... different. Over a year in the Tower, and Zelda can only remember one time when the administrators have exerted power over her dreams. Normally they prefer more... blatant, physical methods of torture.

... At least, if this truly is the administrators' doing. She might just be going insane.

Best not to think too much on that.

Gruesome the task might be - looking for a woman's fingers - experience has taught her that it's better to play along than try to resist in these "games." And so she begins to explore, scanning the ground in front of her as she walks.]

[scorchedchivalry]

I suggest staying away from the fog, Zelda. I do not like the feel of it.

[Roomie-knight is looking out for you~]

[puppy_lancer]

[Of course, Lancer is also careful with observing the grass beneath his feet. He looks up at the maiden searching around the same spot]

Any luck so far?

[relinquishing]

[Maybe it's the way the girl carries herself with a different aura very much like that of Natalia. Maybe it's just the pointed ears tucked against her hair. Either way, Guy finds himself hesitantly working his way through murkier parts of the grass, an easy smile on his face. Well, as easy as he could manage, given the oddity of their circumstances.]

Awfully thorough, aren't you... Do you mind having an extra set of eyes around?

[seekinganswers]

[Sheba supposes she should have been expecting something like this, after receiving that note. Still, she didn't expect it to happen quite so soon.

Looking around, she's not quite sure where to begin. There are lots of people here - definitely more than six. How is this going to work...? "If you don't, you'll never be able to wake up again." She remembers that much from the note, but of course, in the note there was only one finger missing...

She takes a breath, glancing from person to person. She wants to try to read their minds - but no matter how much she tries, she doesn't hear anything. That's frustrating... she'll just have to speak if she wants to get information from someone.

But how much information could anyone here actually have?]

Does... anyone know what will happen... if...

[She can't quite get the words out, and she's a little ashamed of how shaky her voice is right now.]

[attheclocktower]

Knowing the Tower... probably nothing good.

[She has a true Tower veteran's sense of fatalism. She isn't... visibly scared but clearly uneasy.]

It rarely ever does. Especially since it's a Ruana month...

[seconddaughter]

[MOMO is pretty nervous, herself. But her sisterly-comfort instincts tend to override her little-girl instincts where it counts, when it comes to someone seeming so overwhelmed by the whole thing.]

You shouldn't think about that! Once you find one, you won't have to worry at all. Right?

It's okay, just try as hard as you can.

[She knows very well that this place will probably find a way to keep everyone from making it out, but it's better to stay calm and keep thinking positively. Surely they can find something... right...?]

[koncubine]

That girl is in charge this month. Whatever happens to the people who fail, it isn't going to be good.

[Caster shakes her head, crossing her arms and hugging herself. This is a creepy, likely dangerous game, and she wanted out of here as quickly as possible.]

If you're lucky, you might end up being one of the six, though.

[lighthousediving]

[To say Felix had a bad day was an understatement. Then again, it had started the day before, after he heard some strange music and...it was still too hard to think about the rest. Needless to say, he had been trying to find Sheba most of the day. He was sure she didn't want to see him but...he couldn't just leave it as it was.

So once this debacle had started, he had just assumed that trying to set things straight was going to have to be put off. That is, until he spotted her in this strange grouping. He might as well try it now...]

Sheba? I'm...

[He just frowns, looking very depressed and guilty. "Sorry" seemed like such a hollow word right now...]

[evokingfool]

[After shaking himself out from his dream-like daze, Minato quickly glance around for anyone familiar. And how many are going to participate in the search.

Knowing how the tower is, he suspected horrible things may happen if they don't search.]

[beknightedheroine]

Yo! You got stuffed into creepy fogsville too, huh?

_{[Sayaka's smiling and gives him an almost jaunty wave, but there's an undercurrent of unease to her - a tense set to her shoulders that betrays herself.]}

[fish_or_die]

[One day, Jungo woke up and there were demons in his hometown. And then a few days later, he woke up and he was in the Tower. And now, nearly a month later, he's "woken up" and he's somewhere else. He might be getting a bit too used to this, because he's not terribly alarmed.

There's a lot of people here, so he's not alone, clearly. He's also completely unused to the strange things the tower does, so he stands there awkwardly and looks around before.]

Hm...this fog doesn't look good.

[bow_of_the_galadhrim]

[This was...

Well, this looked like what he had imagined while reading the story. How bizarre. Legolas hadn't been here long enough to know what they could do with the dreams of the tower residents and since he didn't sleep, it was infinitely more strange.

For now, there was nothing to do but explore, learn what he was dealing with.]

[uzuki]

Shion knew exactly where they all were as soon as she got a good look at the place, and her stomach sank. She looked around at the others quickly, hoping to find Allen. But when she didn't she simply stepped back with a sigh, and wrapped her arms around herself.

She had completely dismissed that note. She hadn't even mentioned it to Allen. And now she might be stuck in some stupid dream...

[culbutiri]

Nesir had screwed up the note when she had gotten it, lady who was missing fingers... it was a little close to home. But she should have been more suspicious when she had felt so tired and felt the need to go to bed, hours before she usually would.

And now she was here, stuck. "Urgh who do be caring about some woman's lost fingers."

[scorchedchivalry]

[Saber stood where she arrived, not moving but watching the others around. Interesting group of residents taken to this dream-state.

This was irritating.]

[angramaintsu]

[ At least Rin was here. A good sign that she wasn't off wrecking havoc in the tower is the one that proves she's still capable of dreaming. ]

What weird magic. [ Immediately she says upon making her way to Saber's side. ]

[starofpleiades]

Where is this? Are we... dreaming? [It felt real, but the last she could remember... how did they even get here?]

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[She feels like there's cotton stuffed into her ears and layered over her shoulders, like the world around her is emptier than it should when she tries to perceive it.

But at the behest of dream-logic, she knows where to go, what not to do - or rather, what's a bad idea to do. The fog is bad. Don't go too far in it. Try not to go in it at all, actually. There is an old woman waiting just over here, and she needed to hear what she said and agree to do it - it was an inevitability that she didn't bother questioning. Sayaka starts to recover a little something of her lucidity while running her fingers through the damp, muddy grass, hoping touch might reveal what she's not sure sight will be much good for. Presently, she stops and looks around, as if seeing the other people for the first time.]</sub>

...Huh. I'm getting kind of a déjà vu vibe, all of a sudden.

[puppy_lancer]

You've been through this before?

[Lancer is walking around, making a note of who is here and who isn't.]

[taiyoukai]

[Sesshomaru stands just at the rim of the fog, staring at it and whatever lurks in there that taunts him. He looks as tall and dignified as ever, but right now even the luster of his hair and his markings is fading. Even the fur over his shoulder looks listless.

He turns away from the fog eventually, and instead gives everyone around him a sullen, irritated glare.]