starmods | PATHÉTIQUE | Hostage Trial

PATHÉTIQUE | Hostage Trial

[you're ushered into a sitting room with your own team, away from everyone else. the door shuts and locks behind you.

straight ahead, sitting on the coffee table, is an indestructible clock with an indestructible starry globe... that seems to contain a small plastic figurine that looks exactly like Celeste—the one teammate missing from this room.

the outer lord's voice rings overhead:]

I've taken from you one of your teammates, and now I'd like to see how far you'd go to protect them.

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I wasn't asking your opinion?

That was fact.

Go get your skin removed, brat.

Fiiiine.

Genuine question. Do you wish to partake in this or not? If so, do you prefer to be cut or do you wish to do the cutting? If the answer to the first question is no, do not worry about it.

[i'll just wrestle Jae to the ground]

I don't really like the idea of getting cut up, but I don't like the idea of not pullin' my weight on a team a lot more. So long as it's survivable, I can handle it.

Let me clarify that you pull your weight. You earn your coins, you participate in discussions and make decisions, you put in your input where you can even if they're about online shock videos, and more importantly, holding the knife is just as important as receiving the carving.

[looks at Khonsu]

He doesn't like to see people getting hurt. If he had to hold the knife, I would presume he would dislike that more than being the one getting hurt. That is just as much weight pulling as the other. I am fine with either, but I want you to be honest.

Which would you genuinely prefer?

[ Going quiet for a moment, thinking. Shock. Gasp. ]

... You carving me. Khonsu doesn't like hurting people, I have no knife experience, and while you can and are willing to take the damage, you have the steadiest hand and fortitude to do it as precisely as we need to get this over with fast. Khonsu could also deal with it, I bet, but in terms of body ratio, he'd be losing a lot more than any of us since he's small. You and me make the most sense, and then taking skill into consideration, it's you cutting me.

Also Jae's having some weird bush-brained ego trip right now so he's useless for everything.

[He seems to consider those words carefully, but nods.]

Understood. Then find a place to lie down, and we'll get this over with quickly.

Okay, okay, just pick wherever stuff won't fall out when you do it.

[Time to cut up your BUTT, no he's probably going to go for somewhere where the flesh to bone ratio isn't very high but can fit a compass circle so like a shoulder or something. One he lines out ho far the compass needs to be:]

I'll begin when you're ready.

[ Mutters. ]

Too bad I can't bite down on Jae's arm...

I'm ready.

It's unsanitary anyway.

[But he can offer a tie to bite down on since he's not wearing it.]

[But he's gonna go right in for it, clean as one can with a knife, and quick as one can.]