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#43
Midas is king and he holds me so tight
Up and up they go. Wessex's still in the tree somewhere, which he's not sure how he feels about, but it's probably better this way. He imagines she'd be unhappy if she fell out because of him, even if it's just indirect.

He can't spot Mabel any more though. It's concerning, but he doesn't have much choice anymore, except to climb on, and.. there's a slightly ominous rustle. Things start falling. Aamu's not sure how he feels about this, no sir, not sure at all. He does his best to cling to a sturdy branch, locking his legs around it in an effort to stay in the tree even if he gets hit, then reaches out to try and catch one of the things.

Curiosity hasn't killed the cat yet, but with his impressive track record of idiocy it is bound to succeed soon.



Aamu tries to secure himself in the branches and catch one of the things!

Aamu is a lucky HG kid
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and turns me to gold in the sunlight
Aamu
Aurelia Murlow
the Fireheart


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#44
it's the road that leads to nowhere
Well, her help didn't do much for Zephyr. Regrettable, perhaps she could've done more to secure his ascent - and she's not too sure she wants to be without allies in this, either.

Ah well, none of them are in any true danger, even if they fall. At least, that's how she remembers it from the last time. So, with no time to lose, Aurelia climbs up after the other man. The one that had stuck his tongue back out at her. The thought makes her chuckle quietly as she races to catch up.

Then, things begin to fall. Aurelia's not sure what they are, but she doesn't get the same urge to get to them as she still feels for getting to the top. So she attempts to avoid the falling objects by dodging underneath Ronin - hoping that he'll take any hits headed in their direction.



Aurelia tries to dodge and use Ronin as a shield! :P
but all I wanna do is go there
Aurelia
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Henry Walker
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#45
This town will never change, People come and go, it's all the same
Raza's help comes as a surprise, but Henry still offers a small smile in her and Peter's direction. "Don't sweat it," he replies. Once Peter is stabilized, he returns to the task at hand. He does keep an eye out for anyone else that may need help. There's a brief serves you right that's thought toward Mabel as she goes down to no fault but her own. There is a twinge of guilt for thinking it, though.

When there's a different noise up above - different from the sound of people fighting or helping one another - Henry cranes his neck to see what it could be. He can't quite make it out. Is it a bird? A plane? Superman?

Out of curiosity and perhaps stupidity, Henry reaches out with a hand to try and snag one of these things.



Henry will wait and see - and even try to grab one!

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Raza Ekambe
Owner of the Hanged Man

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#46
don't you know we're outlaws
givin' the finger to death itself
Good deed done for the day dream whatever the fuck this is, Raza locates Hoa ahead of her and asks for her companion to wait. He obliges, coming to rest on a branch until the bar owner can catch up. Right around the time that she does, things start falling from up above. Reaching out just a liiiiiittle bit to try and identify what the things are, Raza quickly pulls herself back in. Nope. Nope nope nope. She’s not up for fallin’ and neither is Hoa, so the Torcher pulls herself up on the branch, covers her bonded, and waits for the falling objects to (hopefully) pass.

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Raza stays put
we got no one to hide from
no one to toast our health
RAZA
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Peter Pikely


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#47
humanity is unbecoming of those who are becoming
Well, colour him pleasantly surprised. It isn’t one, but two sets of hands that reach out to help him, Peter steadied and higher than he was alone. Nice as it may be though, he doesn’t forget that this is all but a competition, the light still calling out to him from above.

He has no fear of pain or injury, and so no reason to stop climbing at all while things rain down upon them. Though a lack of pain doesn’t mean a lack of caution. Peter sidles closer to the tree trunk, to try and avoid the worst of the dropping objects.




Pet dodges and keeps climbing
PETER
Rigby Arcara
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#48
RIGBY

So now there are things falling from the tree, toppling and cracking through branches. The ghost could try to discern what they were, one of the UFO’s was headed his way- but he’d much rather get a head start on all the losers who preferred to stop and watch the mysteries twinkle. He wasn’t one for optimism, and if they turned out to be bombs instead of shiny gifts, he’d be at the top to watch the fireworks.

Rigby scrambled closer to the trunk, out of the way of snapping and prodding branches that yanked at his clothing. A small thorny twig knicked his cheek as he tried to continue up the tree, avoiding any unknown treats or tricks.



Rigby dodges!
when i grow up i wanna be
nothing at all


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#49
Random Event
Like the end of a Hitchcock movie,
a little dark and a lot confusing

There's an old saying about curiosity killing cats. Or angels rushing in where fools fear to tread. Something like that. Whatever it is, those who attempt to interact with the things falling from the tree absolutely should have heeded those old sayings. Because what falls are baubles, but they're not the friendly, sparkly kind.

Where they make contact, they will instantly shatter into a powder that's both stinky and itchy, and there's nothing for it but for the participants to slip from the branches, plummeting down and down and down. Sorry, folks.

For those who remain, up you go! And my, the glorious light that you want so much is very nearly in reach! But you can see the others around you. You can see them, and you can't let them get there first.

What do you do?



You have 48 hours.

Henry, Aamu, Ronin, Sunjata, Cameron - YOU'RE OUT!
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#50
there's always a glimmer in those
With the light pouring from above, nothing else mattered. She didn’t care about the others falling to the earth, including Sunjata, because the gleam of avarice tore through her senses. She had to have it – whatever it was – in this elusive, bizarre dream. Avoiding the itchy, stinky, powdery baubles, the youth turned her head.

She had to beat them – those onlookers, those that wanted what she craved.

A race to the top. A race to the end. A race to whatever awaited.

Her hands gripped the branches, and just like she’d been doing this her entire life (well, a great part of it), the youth continued climbing, striving to outdo everyone else.

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Melita climbs!
who have been through the dark
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Arialla Calimeris


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#51

Arialla

Something. There had to be something Arialla could do, some blessing she'd received, that gave her a leg up on the others climbing the tree. (She would have believed it more if Wessex had not been one of the others.) But she wasn't about to try to harm someone over this prize, to try to get in someone's way -- even if she'd been that kind of person, Mabel's fate had shown how easily that could backfire. So instead she threw all of her effort into climbing, her feet and hands still shifted into eagle's talons, her bones and body partially shifted to be lighter, like the eagle's. She could only hope for a straightforward race to the top -- she could only hope to be faster than everyone else.



Arialla uses her partial eagle shift to be lighter than usual, and to make her feet and hands into talons so she can grip more easily. And she climbs!

please don't take my sunshine away


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Raza Ekambe
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#52
don't you know we're outlaws
givin' the finger to death itself
And then there were, well - who the fuck knows? Down goes the guy who first offered his help an’ Raza can’t help but snicker a bit. No good deed goes unpunished (an’ in this case, curiosity also kills the cats, so that’s two sayin’s for the price’a one, ya lucky fucks). When the things stop fallin an’ the air seems clear, Raza sits up on the bough she’s been huggin’ an’ scoots up to bearhug the trunk. Hoa quickly follows, and then slides up her to precede the Torcher and keep tryin’ to intimidate anyone who, y’know, might not like snakes.

Raza follows, hand over hand, slow an’ steady, hoping that maybe the assholes (literally) above her will make a mistake first.

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Raza climbs and Hoa tries to scare folks into slowing down.
we got no one to hide from
no one to toast our health
RAZA
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Aurelia Murlow
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#53
it's the road that leads to nowhere
Aurelia can be competitive, sure, but she's not going to actually play dirty. Using Ronin as a shield may have been a bit cheap, but it's not like she forced him to do it. She merely... took advantage of the opportunity that presented itself. And she'll do it again, if another comes, but for now she's content to play this fair. So long as no one else tries to fuck with her.

She's getting a bit suspicious of the people around her, admittedly, understanding that they all share this greedy want for whatever waits at the top of the tree. In light of that, she attempts to move quickly.

At the very least, it won't be an easy chase if anyone does try to target her. For now, she's willing to give it a shot since this approach is more instinctual for her than ruthless measures.



Aurelia attempts to climb up quickly with emphasis on evading the others.
but all I wanna do is go there
Aurelia
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Wessex Theskyra
the Wraith
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#54
WESSEX

Go
deep throat
a cactus

Down more folks go and Wessex pauses to watch them fall into - well, the nothingness of the dream. She turns from them with a shrug and looks back up to the top of the tree, the light nearer and brighter than before. Who’s left? No one she particularly cares about and more importantly, no one who knows the peculiar effects of her bio-pulse. So the Wraith begins to climb again, casually placing hand over hand until she can potentially place one or two people at the edge of her radius (wouldn’t want them to be too ill, now would she?) and lets a biopulse loose, hoping to send them falling out of the tree as well.
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Wessex climbs and tries to hit the others with a biopulse.


Peter Pikely


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#55
humanity is unbecoming of those who are becoming
Well, look at him go, lucky so far in a way that he very usually isn’t. Peter does what he can to not look a gift horse in the mouth and focuses everything he had on climbing, nested blades leaving his arm to give him some leverage as he surges ever upwards.

Those around him are forgotten once again in his haste to climb, to reach whatever prize lays at the crown of the tree. He wants it, more than he has anything, and he’s more than willing to play dirty if anyone approches too closely.




Pet climbs, using his blades upgrade to try and give himself extra leverage, and tries to avoid others using whatever means necessary

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PETER
Rigby Arcara
Street Urchin

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#56
RIGBY

This world they live in is so very different. There are vampires with bionic prowess, animal shifters with interchangeable appendages, and magicians too. And then there are the normal ones, the 'accepted'. Rigby was young, he tried to stay out of the reach of the divine, skirting the edges of a mystical world in favor of the things that kept him grounded. When it came to climbing this dreamlike tree, he had no such advantages.

But that didn't stop him from climbing, slipping through the branches as he so often had before. His eyes were trained on the others, doing his absolute best to avoid encroaching on them. Surely nobody was out to help each other now, now that the end was so close. When it came to it, everyone was in it for themselves, so many tried their hardest to keep their selfish desires hidden. Charity and acts of kindness out of their "generous nature".

But why? They were all just animals in the end.



Rigby climbs and avoids anyone that he can!
when i grow up i wanna be
nothing at all


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