LABYRINTH

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Characters: Participants in the Labyrinth event
Setting: The Labyrinth
Format: Any; party style
Summary: Characters are told to fight to the death over eight days.
Warnings: violence/gore/horror; this is a free-for-all fight to the death after all

Labyrinth starting positions, events, ring colors, and other information.

SUBTHREADS:
Please specify your location in your header, and if the thread is open or closed.
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
Day Five
Day Six
Day Seven
Day Eight

Comments

[fallen_stage]

"True, but there can only be one survivor..."

Kuja falls quiet, face pained. If they're being observed, Kuja needs to keep his acting consistent. Especially if those not in this maze were watching.

"It's only the first day, right? Maybe we should hold out longer before resorting to that. We don't have to fall to pieces right away."

[swordofzero]

Only one, out of everyone who was here. They seemed to have no doubts that eventually they would begin to kill. "I wont kill anyone if I can help it, no one is here of their own accord." He knew though that if he got attacked he would be forced to fight and to kill, he had no doubt that by the time he left here he would have killed those he knew. But he would hold out as long as he could.

[fallen_stage]

Perfect! Not only would Kuja avoiding murder on the first day, but he could establish his chosen persona for this Tower. He'll have to remember this man for later.

"Hopefully most are like you. I wonder if they would force the matter at the end."

Preferably not. If they're really meant to fight to the death, then the punishment would have to be worse than that to be compelling.

[swordofzero]

"They have proven that they can force us to kill before, I have no doubt they will force the matter at the end. But until then..." Since they weren't controling their minds Suzaku was planning to get through this without killing as long as he could. Even knowing that eventually he would be forced to, he would hold it off as best he could. His own way of fighting back.

Geez Kuja, y so cynical?

[fallen_stage]

"Force? What ultimatum could they give that would drive us to murder?"

Almost a rhetorical question, really: Kuja could think of several possibilities. Torture, extortion, blackmail... Even if all of the residents were from different worlds, they would naturally form bonds with others, and such bonds were exploitable. Especially since the Tower made a clear "us vs. them" situation with those brought here. Kuja knew people kill for less, he had no doubt that forcing the issue would be no problem at all, whatever moral strictures the others followed.

[swordofzero]

"No ultimatum," Suzaku had started walking, assuming Kuja was coming with him. "Mind control, or some form of it. They took eight people away for a weak and... experimented on them, fusing them with animals, cutting out their faces, exposing organs. My roommate was one such victim."

This was a time Suzaku really didn't like thinking of, but if this person was new he had to know what those who held them captive were capable of. "They cut off his horns, he was wrapped in some kind of plastic, his powers didn't work, he couldn't really see or hear. The rest of us... well not everyone but those chosen for the experiment we began to be controlled. My other roommate began to be paranoid about everything, I started seeing things. Things I believed to be real, at first just sounds and glimpses of things, later monsters and bodies..."

He paused, it was not often Suzaku spoke this much but there was a lot to explain. "This lasted about a month, everyone got worse. Another friend of mine who is gone now felt pain every time he broke a rule or even thought about going against those that brought us here. Eventually he was compelled to kill those original eight. I felt... It felt like they were just other monsters like those I was seeing and I should kill them, it was the only way anything could be helped. My roommate was convinced they were part of the plan, working for our captors."

He looked down, "Everyone effected hunted the eight and they were killed, I have no doubt that if they wanted us to they could force us to kill each other in this labyrinth."

[fallen_stage]

As Suzaku spoke, Kuja listened quietly, his face showing growing horror. In fact he wasn't as disturbed as all that: it sounded awful, of course, but Kuja was expecting something like torture. No, his attention was focused instead on the symptoms of this so-called mind control. The alternative was even less pleasant to contemplate.

"I... I had no idea. I'm so sorry about you and your friends. Maybe you've thought of this, but are you sure you weren't cursed or drugged? Some substances can cause hallucinations, after all."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku frowned, "I'm not sure. The only drug I really know the symptoms of is Refrain and this wasn't that." Refrain took you back to happier days, made you get lost in memories. "We did wonder if it was something that they had put in the food though. What do you mean by cursed?"

[fallen_stage]

Lost in memories? Could a drug really do something like that? If it could replicate something like Memoria, then it would be a useful substance to have on hand. But he's getting ahead of himself.

"No, but I know of some substances that can cause vivid visions. I could think of some curses - that is, magic - that could cause something similar."

[swordofzero]

Magic, the only magic Suzaku had known about before he had arrived in the tower was Geass. But he had seen other magic since, enough to believe in it and for it to be a likely theory.

"Perhaps, it would not surprise me if those that brought us here had such magic or power."

[fallen_stage]

"If they are planning to kidnap more people and have the ability to suppress our abilities, it's not hard to imagine."

Ideally Kuja should find a partner or two for this event, someone to increase his odds on surviving. However, eventually they would have to fight each other, and it'd be better to kill Suzaku before it came down to just them two. That would just make the Tower label Kuja as a backstabber, as one stringing an innocent along the whole time.

"Maybe we should split up while we can."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, it wasn't hard to imagine at all. He would have been bitterly amused if he knew Kuja thought of him as an innocent, he hadn't been worthy of that label for a very long time.

But he nodded at the words, Suzaku was planning to stay alone, better for everyone. He knew those who had captured them had the ability to turn off his Geass but he did not know if they had. He wouldn't know until he was attacked and he didn't want to kill anyone. Didn't want a repeat of the hide and seek game. It was better he remained on his own, Kuja seemed the kind who could look after himself.

"It is probably for the best yes."

[fallen_stage]

Kuja offered an awkward smile.

"Well then, better sooner rather than later."

Walking off, Kuja focused on his timing. It wasn't vitally important, but he liked to be precise about these matters. Fortunately he had much experience in faking these sort of things. At the right moment, Kuja turned around and gave a wave.

"Thanks for not killing me!"

That should lay an emotional hook or two.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded and watched him walk off, when he turned back Suzaku blinked in confusion but nodded, waving back. "Same to you..."

He hoped he didn't run into him again whilst in the labyrinth.