Endgame: This Broken Jaw of Our Lost Kingdoms; Part One

[animusmods]

Characters: open to those trapped in cells
Setting: the cells
Format: any
Summary: Those left abandoned in the Tower have some time to speak to each other. In the middle of the room, a clock counts down...
Warnings: general animus endgame warnings

Comments

[warriorscribe]

I was among them...I could have noticed. It fell to us, and...

*And Ruana ate Riki anyway. She's as strong as she can possibly be so long as they still have Zo. Bad enough that Riki's death was necessary...that hers seems to be so too. Bad enough one tower is just like another, and the only way to set things right is by taking lives.

The other admins. Do they scream in her head too?*

...we may have all failed for it.

[puppy_lancer]

What exactly did you do? How did you fail?

[warriorscribe]

We failed to destroy Riki's body...we thought we had. He'd fallen apart. He was in pieces and yet-...and yet it was still enough for her.

[puppy_lancer]

She...she consumed him too?

[Not only does remembering Ruana's eating habits disgust him, but it's also worrying to know that Ruana now has Riki's powers as well.]

At this rate, she's got everyone other than Zo...

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch nods, though he's not sure if Lancer can see him.*

I'm sure that's the only reason she was able to capture all of us like this...

[puppy_lancer]

Yeah, prisons are usually more Riki or Jason's thing, aren't they?

What do you think she has planned? Or are we just gonna stay locked up?

[warriorscribe]

She thinks there's something we don't understand...so there must be more to it than languishing here while time runs out.

*He doesn't really want to think about what...*

[puppy_lancer]

Then it's probably another one of her games. In that case, she can hurry up and get started already.

[At least then, they might have a chance to try to escape. Or attack.]