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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Comments

[scorchedchivalry]

"To lose one or two is an accident. If there is someone here responsible, I ask you speak the name," Saber replied. "I will see they are punished justly."

The knight does look down at the woman's hand to see the manner in which the fingers may have been removed. "I will help you locate your errant fingers, though. Have you checked your pockets? I have, in the past, found things I did not remember placing inside the pockets of my own clothing."

She reached out again. "It would be best to eliminate that as a possibility before searching elsewhere. May I?"

FINGER FOUND; FIVE REMAIN

[animusnpcs]

"My pockets?" Breezily ignoring the inquiry about the details of how she was missing so many of her fingers, she reached into each of her pockets. It was a slow process, as she had to use her good hand, and the seconds stretched on. But after a moment she produces the little finger of her right hand.

"Oh, such a clever girl. Thank you very much, dearie!" She smiles widely, despite lacking teeth.

[scorchedchivalry]

There's a slight upturn of Saber's lips when the finger was produced considering her patience had been wearing thin by the time she'd finished searching her pockets. It would've been faster to check them herself, but that would be a level of trespass she could not do.

But there it was. "It pleases me you have found it. We have saved some time, though I doubt the others helping you will have the same luck."

C Rank luck is pretty good luck for a Servant. Saber watched the others search until she woke up.