To risk a serpent's venom

[warriorscribe]

Characters: Enoch and anyone
Setting: Morning of the 14th, floors 10-12
Format: I'm starting in prose, but I'll match you
Summary: Enoch got bitten by a snake monster. A venomous one.
Warnings: um. He may die?


Floor 10 - Aquarium

The puncture wounds on his hand were already swollen. Enoch should have known the monster was venomous. His chest burned, felt tight. There was nothing to lean on.

Eventually he made it back to the stairs and slumped on them for a moment, trying to catch his breath.

It hadn't taken long for him to realize there wasn't candy simply scattered about anymore. That it was what their host had meant when they said it was going to be more difficult. It hadn't taken him long to figure out monsters were the only way, either. So, he'd gone after them. The many-headed snake creature...was lucky, which meant Enoch was decidedly not.

Floor 11 - Rainbows and Waterfalls

Enoch staggered up the staircase, trying to see through his blurring vision if there are monsters on this floor. Off balance, he swayed towards the edge of the staircase...

Floor 12 - Galactic Destruction

You may catch a hint of white or orange in whatever light the projection provides. Approach it, and you'll find a man in an angel costume, either unconscious or just barely so, his breathing labored. Bring your own light, and you'll see a pair of puncture wounds on his right hand, red and inflamed.

There are a few obvious options:

-Given that this isn't a power-nulling floor, someone with the right inclinations might well be able to heal him.
-If you shake him or call his name, he will wake up, very weak and barely lucid.
-His bucket has 22 pieces 1 piece of candy in it...

Or of course, you could ignore him. What will you do?

((ooc: Enoch can be encountered and talked to on any of these floors, though if he's cured of the poison before floor 12, that prompt will, needless to say, disappear. So keep existing threads in mind if you tag in. Other than that, well. Have fun!))

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[notagiraffe]

Taiki saw the movement, "I wont take any I promise." He looked at him trying to work out what was wrong. But he didn't really need to know everything before healing.

He closed his eyes concentrating. "Heal!" There was a bell chime as the spell worked.

[warriorscribe]

It must have been protective for a reason - Enoch only has a single piece of candy in his pumpkin, impossible given the quota unless the rest had been stolen.

Enoch sighed and closed his eyes in relief as he finally drew a full breath, the weight and heat in his chest gone. Slowly, he drew himself up into a sitting position, his mind slowly coming out of its poisoned haze.

"...Thank you," he said, voice hoarse from the venom drying his mouth and throat. A hand came to rest on the plastic pumpkin at his waist, and he looked down into it.

Only one piece. So it hadn't been some venom-borne nightmare like he'd hoped...

[notagiraffe]

"You're welcome..." Taiki saw the empty bucket as well, he didn't know what happened if you didn't get enough candy but he thought it would be bad. He took a handful of pieces from his own pumpkin and dropped them in Enoch's. "Sorry... you still need more..."

[warriorscribe]

Enoch blinked at the kirin's hand as if he didn't understand what was happening for a moment before looking up at him in concern.

"Do you have enough?" Gathering candy would be hard for someone with blood sickness, after all... Enoch didn't want to be the cause of Taiki's failure.

[notagiraffe]

Taiki nodded, "It's alright... Lord Gyousou doesn't have a costume but he's been helping me collect candy..." So had Sanshi and Gohran, Taiki could afford to give his candy to help people when he was part of a four person team collecting candy for one.

[warriorscribe]

"So you have someone watching over you..." Enoch lowered his head a bit. "...Thank you."

[notagiraffe]

"My king... sorry... yes he is helping me..." And Taiki felt guilty about that since he was sure there were better things Lord Gyousou could be doing.

"I can give you more... if you need it..."

[warriorscribe]

Enoch shook his head. "I couldn't impose..."

In an attempt to change the subject and to keep Taiki from giving up more of his candy, Enoch gave a smile and commented, "You have a kind king, to help one of his subjects personally."

[notagiraffe]

"No it's okay!" Taiki knew what it was like to feel like you were inconveniencing others. He dropped a few more candies into his bucket with a smile.

"Lord Gyousou is very kind, he is a great king." And Taiki was not biased or anything. Not one bit.

[warriorscribe]

"He certainly sounds so."

Enoch didn't mention the candy at all. He certainly didn't want to need to make this pair work harder, after all, and keeping it on topic was sure to make the child's generosity shine a bit too bright... He appreciated that, and badly wanted to comment on it, to commend him for it. But that might put him in danger, after all...

[notagiraffe]

"He is," Taiki tilted his head, "Can you walk... um I can transform if you can't..." He wasn't too heavy to carry in kirin form.

[warriorscribe]

"I think I can..." Dehydration from the venom was just taking its toll, after all. He should go downstairs for water. Carefully, he pushed himself to his feet.

"Thank you for all your kindness...I don't believe we've exchanged names. I am Enoch."

[notagiraffe]

Taiki reached up to support him, even though he was tiny and so wasn't really that much use. "Sorry..." It had been rude not to introduce himself. "It is nice to meet you Enoch... my name is Taiki."

[warriorscribe]

"Taiki..." Enoch nods and gives him a pat on the shoulder. "It's nice to formally meet you, too. You should go and recover what you've given me."

[notagiraffe]

Taiki smiled and then looked worried, "Will you... I mean... sorry... are you alright now?"

[warriorscribe]

"I will be, once I have some water. It isn't so hard to go downstairs for it from here."

He tries to look reassuring. He knows he's probably a mess from all his stumbling around, but he's resilient, he knows. Often more resilient than even he realizes.

[notagiraffe]

"I can get you some..." Taiki stood, "Gohran can wait with you here to make sure nothing else hurts you..."

[warriorscribe]

"I'll be fine, Taiki."

Enoch reached out and gave Taiki's shoulder a pat. "You should go make up for what you gave me."

[notagiraffe]

"Only if you are sure..." Taiki gave him a tiny smile, not wanting to push in case Enoch got annoyed at him.

[warriorscribe]

"I've traveled deserts for years before; a few minutes' travel downstairs is nothing."

He gave Taiki a reassuring smile. "Go now. I'll be all right."

[notagiraffe]

Taiki gave a nervous smile and nodded before turning and leaving; hand in hand with Sanshi.