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

[sageprincess]

[Hmm... The tallest will take the most time to search through, and is also likely the most absurd place for a lost finger to be.

Yep, she'll go for that one, removing her gloves and tying up her skirts in order to give herself more agility.]

[animusnpcs]

[There's nothing hidden within the branches, and as she goes up the fog draws nearer--the highest branches are coated in fog, just barely visible. She could search them if she wanted, but it would involve going into the fog, if only just a little bit.]

[sageprincess]

[She thinks about it. Oh, she thinks about it. But this is a game, and from what she knows about Ruana, following the rules is very important to her games. Having one of the goals be out of bounds would be against the rules, right?

With a frustrated sigh, she leaves the highest branches alone and climbs back down before starting on the middle sized tree.]

[animusnpcs]

[This tree can be climbed to the top without touching the fog. There isn't anything hidden in the branches, but if she wants she can get a look at the whole area from the top.]

[sageprincess]

[It's doubtful she'll be able to see something as small as a finger from the tree, but if anything, she likes knowing the lay of the land. Even if it's for her own peace of mind.

She lingers at the top for a few moments, scanning the area.]

[animusnpcs]

[There's some sort of creature standing at the top of the smallest tree. It looks similar to a cat, if a cat stood on its hind legs and had a thousand wrinkles in place of fur. It has a finger clenched in its teeth.]

[sageprincess]

Of course...

[It had to be on top of the last tree, and in a strange and likely violent creature's mouth, no less. Well, nothing to it but to do it.

After climbing down from her second perch, she works her way up the third, quietly, as to hopefully not disturb the creature too much. If she can get close enough to it without alerting it, she'll attempt to shake it out of the tree first, rather than just going after it herself.]

[animusnpcs]

[The creature leaps to the next tree, then to the tallest one. It then runs down and passes by Zelda. It no longer has the finger in its mouth.]

[sageprincess]

[You

have got

to be kidding.

Goddesses above she's going to be feeling this when she wakes up if this experience carries over into the real world. She climbs down again, and makes her way up the tallest tree again to see if that damnable creature dropped the finger somewhere in the branches.]

[animusnpcs]

[It looks like there's something high up in the tree. She'll have to venture into the fog to get whatever it is, though.]

[sageprincess]

[... Okay. She'll keep that in mind as a last resort, even if it means doing another climb. But she's not sticking her hand into the fog unless it's absolutely necessary.

After catching her breath and stretching out her shoulders a bit, she makes her way down once more. She then starts searching the middle tree again.]

[animusnpcs]

[There is nothing there.]

[sageprincess]

[Well then.

She climbs the tallest tree in what will one way or another probably be the last time, and tries to shake whatever is stuck in the uppermost branches free. And if that doesn't work... she'll try to grab at it as quickly as she can.]

[animusnpcs]

[Something goes tumbling out of the tree, landing on the ground below.]

[sageprincess]

[Oh, thank the Goddesses she didn't have to reach into the fog.

She drops down to examine what she jostled free.]

FINGER FOUND; ROUND ONE COMPLETE

[animusnpcs]

[Zelda will find the thumb of an old woman.]

[sageprincess]

[AND THEN SHE DIDN'T CLIMB ANYTHING FOR A MONTH.]