dream a little dream of me // Day Seven Full Finale

[Arrow]

Welcome Lyra, Lucifer, Cassandra, and Iain!

You've done it! You've made it to the Final Hallway a terrifyingly dark sewer drain... Only it doesn't stay that way. While you swim down into its dark depths the walls suddenly burst into color depicting scenes of your journey in the Maze. At the start of the hall you see the bloodbath and the further you go the further into the story the scenes develop... but that's not all that develops. Now you can truly see the sewer for what it really is, the Kraken's Nest.

Here are the tasks you must complete in order to survive the maze

Task 1: Swim Through Rings of Electricity
Task 2: Escape a secured area before a bomb detonates
Task 3: Defeat the Kraken
Task 4: Survive the waterfall out of the Maze into a safety pool surrounded by crowds and cameras. A literal fall to victory.

Good luck all and may the odds be ever in your favor!

[Arrow]

Rings Of Electricity

Three Rolls, they are [*roll range="1-30]

What the results mean
1-10: Safe no shock
11-20: Mild Shock +15 damage
21-29: Severe Shock +25 damage
30: Instant Death

Good luck!

[EMS]

Iain Deseme | District 11

Fauna's face appeared in the sky, and for a moment I'm broken. Just the other day I saw her, and told her I didn't want to kill her, but now she's gone. Just like everyone I cared for before, but this maze wasn't meant to bring on friendship. It's a maze of death and destruction. A maze meant to bring down the most innocent people. And all I can see is the vines slashing her neck, blood splattering across the ground of the temporary island. But now I don't know what to do.

The water is cold, oh so cold, and I feel like I'm going to die. My bones ache, my muscles are cramping, and the water is making it impossible to move. It keeps pulling me away as my tiny teeth chatter against one another. I've never been a fan of the cold, and here I am now, looking around trying to keep myself alive. My toes are numb, my fingers are hurting. It's hard to hold onto the blade, and yet I keep pushing myself forward. Inch by inch. I want to live. I want to make it home to my family. To see them again. To tell my brother everything will be okay.

But even I know that is a lie.

It grows darker, and darker, but then I see a colorful light, and it's not even a light. I can tell as I grow closer. But as I approach the colorful screens, I see myself fighting through the bloodbath barely making it out alive. I found a friend, then lost them. I made an alliance only to become separated, and then I see the blood spilling out once more. I killed someone. I destroyed the innocent soul lingering inside because I only wanted to survive.

What happened back at the feast was only meant to keep myself alive. It was meant to move me forward through the maze, yet I can't stop a broken heart from pounding inside. Maybe I'll die, maybe I'll experience a death worthy of a murderer, whatever that may be. Perhaps these rings will ignite a blaze that burns deep within. Maybe it'll be quick, or maybe I'll be dead and gone forever.

All I know is I can't die now. I want to live, and I just hope that this isn't my untimely end.


Rby8PsL81-30
Mild Shock +15 damage
1-30
Safe no shock
1-30
Safe no shock

24.5/100 damage 1-30·1-30·1-30

[Arrow]

Cassandra Crusader

    Was there meaning behind the manifestation of madness? Were their reasons that the seeds of screams were sewn into my skin with stains of my parents? Was it all random? Even now while enveloped within the ethereal existence of a shattered sea I do not know the day from the night. Do my feet follow the fractures of falling fish or do they simply idle adrift like a piece of parchment. Why was I here? Life is such a falsified fiction, a facade fueled by the fears of the sheep trapped within their enclosures. But what happens when a sheep escapes the slaughterhouse's fate and sees the truth of its life for the first time, it falls. Like an angel cast down from the gates of prosperity the sheep is an outcast. I am such a sheep as this and this sea is my damnation.

    I remember the way it felt to smile that day, to feel the laughter leaping from my lips for the first time in months. I also remember the eyes, pair by pair they pulled in my direction until they saw the scars still stretched across my skin. It was freeing, watching those two men die, getting to see each silver bullet split their skulls and stain the streets. A child might have cried and a Mother might have wept but I was neither of those things. Night, it was what I wore upon my face from that moment on, a monster forged from the fearsome death of her parents. The killers had been killed, but the survivor had been left living. It's a fate worse than death. 

    A comet calls me from my mental culling to the crescendo of the crustacean symphony. Colors capable of creation captivate my attention before vanishing from my vicinity and I'm left with a thought. Ales is still alive. Was he worried, would he care that I am still breathing? All I know is I care about the way his heart still beats, maybe that's enough. 

    Dawn brings the delirious dreams of my demons to light while I swim shuddering through a serpent's pass. My moments are clear to see through the sea and I even witness the shadows lurking beside me. The final five come to die, and so our trial begins. Bright beaming blue the brilliance of electric rings circle and spin inviting me to their touch. Worry riddles my thoughts but subsides with a sigh, there is no fear any more. I was suppose to die years ago anyway.

Cass attempts to swim through the rings
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1-30
1-30

Current Damage: 25/100

1-30·1-30·1-30

[cameo]

Lyra ~ D4F Runner

A brutal bite of frigid temperature nips at my senses. It feels as though the sea surrounding us is softly turning frozen; and it would be already if not for the massive tides twirling me in every which direction. The beautiful sight of him warms my freezing exterior however. For just a mere moment a smile twitches at my lips, until I realize this is no joyous reunion. The exit to the haven is upon us, though it will not be an easy final bow. Violently I’m yanked further from the One I long for - through a narrow path that flashes our experiences before us.

The challenge of survival welcomes us to our last obstacle course. I attempt to concentrate as much as I may within the silent chaos upon us. Bolts of electricity threaten the atmosphere, and keen mobility is vital especially for myself - not in fear of my own safety, but in the desperation to protect Lucifer’s baby. Vigorously I try to control the water winds surrounding me, and swim through the hazards of the abyss.

O25vkgGF1-30
{Result}

1-30
{Result}

1-30
{Result}

Lyra's Damage: 65/100

1-30·1-30·1-30

[Arrow]

Lucifer Torshall
District Four

    Life deals lessons in the forms of whippings. When it wants to teach you how to care for yourself it kills your parents, whip. When it wants to teach you how to make a living for yourself it sells you into slavery, whip. When it wants to show you how to love and to be a true Father it throws you into a death Maze, whip. Every lessons brings about another scar, another grimace to grow upon the permanent graveyard of my face. In my scars I see my story, my sorrows and my successes, why? Because everything life has given to me has come with its own price. But at least I now understand that it is this constant exchange of needs and wants which invents the little thing we all know as everyday life. 

    While the world whispers around me I don't look at the images or the illusions, I look at the material. I don't notice my trident silencing the screams of countless adversaries, I notice her smile filling the room with its beauty. I don't notice the constant pain and burgeoning scars I've gained for her, I only notice her. The way she swims and the way she stops all draw me towards her untouched skin, towards the shell of my son's home. But the tides do not grant me such a wish to reach her without an exchange, electricity is its price. I pray for us both as I plunge after her just in time to see her skin shine like sparks. 

Have I failed?

Lucifer swims through the rings
Qa7TcVV31-30
1-30
1-30

Current Damage: 25/100

1-30·1-30·1-30

[Arrow]

Escape a Detonation

One Roll
[*roll range="1-25"]

Results Meaning
1-5: Escape Unharmed
6-15: Bursted Ear Drums +20 damage
16-24: Blown into wall causing severe head injury or chosen limb is blown off with mild concussion +30 damage
25: Instant Death

Situation: Laser walls suddenly surround you and from above a single bomb is released. You have a minute to escape good luck! For fun try to explain your escape method!

Good luck Runners may the odds be ever in your favor!

[EMS]

Iain Deseme | District 11

Bolts of electricity jolt through my body, and my muscle jerk then freeze. A steady stream of tears roll down the side of my face, but somehow I'm still alive. The other's are here, and I wonder if this is the end. If I survive this, I can go home. I can see my family once more. I can make it out of this alive. But the freezing water is making it hard. Every ounce of my being is telling me to fall asleep, my eyes are drooping, but I can't give up now. The end is near, and I know I have to move. I can do this. I can survive.

I feel like I'm falling further and further away. If I make it out of this alive, I'll never look at water again.

I will not lay down and die, I will keep going to the best of my ability. When I came into this maze, I was a crippled boy the world held down, now I am a young man stronger than I ever imagined.

Yes I killed, and yes I regret it, but what doesn't kill me will only make me stronger.

Many times I thought I would die, but here I am fighting for my own survival. Trying to stay alive. Trying to survive the horrendous maze. I never believed in miracles, but I'm asking, no begging, for one now. Maybe it'll be enough. I just know that if I die today, I've hopefully made my family proud.

Walls surround me, and I'm trapped, locked away. I don't know what to do, but I have to do something because a ticking time bomb has been released. I'm looking around, hoping and praying for an answer. I try to move through the lasers, but I fear a shock like the one from before. Hands reaching around, trying to avoid anything and everything. I don't know what to do, but I know I can't stay still. Time is ticking away, and I move forward at various angles trying to escape the wrath the maze makers have thrown my way.

Maybe I'll just go straight through the laser. Either I'll die quickly, or I'll live to see another moment, and that's good enough for me.

2hE71mZU1-25
Bursted Ear Drums +20 damage

44.5/100 damage 1-25

[Arrow]

Cassandra Crusader

    Its sudden and its shocking, quite literally. In an instant of imperfection I am immobilized by ignition of indifference to my homeostasis. Skin stiffens from sickening stings while vertebrae vibrate and burn black like obsidian. Adrift upon a single tide I lie singed by the startling science of the Maze Makers. Furls of fingers float furiously unresponsive to my command, still they spin except for the occasional stir of a shake. Is this to be my dynamic death, death within the reaches of satisfaction's eternal kiss? I refuse such a repugnant and submissive subtext with my own cerebral cortex, a storm cannot condone a Queen to her knees. 

    Motion moves my body out of its critical coma until the bitter bite of my icy surroundings returns to shiver my seared skin. Lights lift from my surroundings and a spell splits my thoughts of ease, another stroke another second towards silence. Flashing and fickle with its fate it falls before me death drawing at its timer. As swift as swift can carry I swim for safety in the seclusion a slight rock outlet, it feels as though its touch is common. Perhaps a prince of mine had found his own shelter in such stone. My thoughts don't last as the light feeds into flames. The devil himself is released from his tiny compact cell. 

Cass attempts to escape the detonation
dpxKHgtF1-25
{Avoided}

Current Damage: 25/100

1-25

[cameo]

Lyra ~ D4F Runner

The syringe of torment viciously licks across my skin. It feels as though I’m being cooked alive, and there’s no ability to alter such - the more I attempt to change it, the further of a crisp my exterior become. A few yelps escape past my clenched teeth, despite my determination to remain appearing strong… for Lucifer. In the beginning of this Maze I did not fret over appearing as a damsel, nor if he had to risk his life for my own. Now however? I must seem together, so that he doesn’t feel obligated to place my wellbeing before his. Within this aspect of the Maze, self preservation must come first. Maybe they can take little Lucifer out of me if the worst plays out, & at least both of my boys could live if I can not.

A chance of crossing the finish line sounds to be slim. The closer I seem to swim towards it, the further it becomes from my mental grasp. But there is no giving up yet. And when lasers breach around us, and a ticking counts away our sanity - I do not fret. Hopefully I’m more keen then I was before.

JVhNDnUf1-30
{Result}

Lyra's Damage: 85/100

1-30

[Arrow]

Lucifer Torshall
District Four

    It whips again cracking like a force of hell itself upon my spine. Bone shatters and fills my bloodstream, our child was in danger. I swim to her side only to be sent spiraling away by the tides. My screams, my cries are mute against the sea's storm. My love won't die alone, my love won't die at all. I attempt again only to be met by a bomb dropping to my knees. Red lights lift from its intricate eyes and in a second I know my sentient thoughts can be silenced. I flee for shelter while the world prepares to warp into a flame felt war around me.

    Molten magnifies the rocks around me and I see what this place has become, a playground for demons to dwell. Was that what we were now demons? Or perhaps we are puppets playing in Hemishift's park of perils... Either way I don't have the decency to stop and fight, my family is in these waters which is the only fact that matters to my bleeding body.

Lucifer tries to avoid boom boom
kkJtH|qv1-25
{Avoided}

Current Damage: 25/100

1-25

[Arrow]

Damn, you all seem really fucked up! Like look at that ginger chick! I suppose I'll give ya a little something something...

All Runners' damages are halved and -25 is also added from first aid kits that suddenly appear for them...

How kind... almost too kind... why

Iain: 0/100
Cassandra: 0/100
Lyra: 20/100
Lucifer: 0/100

[Arrow]

THE KRAKEN

    Out of the ashes annihilation is redeemed. Although the dynamic of my death is too complex to be completed I envy the runt's power of darkness, alas, his world will soon shudder at my screams. Inside me still churns the eternal immortality of Poseidon's Trident and for eternity the seas shall ebb and flow by my fickle will. Today I have chosen to bring about the dawn of a new death dimension, an ocean encased in ice except for my Capital. I will forever be the sole survivor of this destruction, the final fall of the Gods and the Goddesses who defied me. For once Poseidon will actually lie eternally alone upon his lonely island prison. 

    From the depths of despair itself I rise with the ice of my new nation flurrying behind me. The final four who dare defy me shudder from the cold, they will never survive such a siege. "Welcome to the end... of your lives."

The Kraken attacks Lucifer Torshall with his Teeth{Spear}
B_RC3_KS151-200
{Dodged --0 damage}

The Kraken attacks Cassandra Crusader with his Tentacle{Blunt}
551-600
{Shattered Left Hip -- 25 damage}

The Kraken attacks Iain Deseme with his Spiked Tentacle{Sword}
101-150
{Shallow Stabbed Left Arm -- 15 damage}

The Kraken's Damage: 0/300(awe fuck yeah)

151-200·551-600·101-150

[EMS]

Iain Deseme | District 11

My ears are ringing, blood dripping casually into the open. My eyes are watering, and I'm grateful for the water surrounding me. It's hard enough trying to survive. Trying to stay alive, but it hurts. I'm tired. The pain is becoming unreal, but I'm nearly there. Nearly out of here alive, at least that's what I think. My mind is telling me different, but my heart keeps me going. I cannot die in the depths of this maze. Not when the end is near. I killed once before. I beheaded a mutt without any problems. I slit that girl's throat without thinking twice - I can swear it was an accident because I didn't mean for her to die, but I just know it hurts. I know that it's terrible, and yet somehow I'm the one alive fighting right now.

It hurts, everything hurts. Blood drips from my battered body staining the ugly waters a terrifying red. So much blood has been shed, and it's time for it to die again. Time to shed what I once thought was lost.

I look at the vines remembering what they had done before - her blood still coats the ends despite the water washing it all away. I've killed before, and I'm not afraid to do it again, but thankfully this time it's only a mutt I'm trying to kill.

But I do not say a word despite the warnings.

The only one who's going to die is this mutt standing before us all.

{Iain attacks the Kraken with his vine knives}
Am|psItD251-300
270. Gash On Right Leg -- 10 damage
251-300
274. Minor Gash On Left Leg -- 5 damage

15/100 damage 251-300·251-300

[Arrow]

Cassandra Crusader

    Flames flee from the fractures in my flesh only to be followed by the fierce nature of glowing eyes. Out of the depths a demon designed to calculate our odds and slash them is let loose to feed. My eyes wander to the flashing figures of the surrounding screens and I see him die. I watch his movements silence Ales, freeze his form and let him fall to the sewers swarming shadows. Stiffness spills across my spine as loss levitates the lock which has held my anger. Laughter again falls from my lips in a time where its place is far from them. Clearly they haven't read where they stole me from.

"Don't you all know how I react to the people I love being killed? Allow me to demonstrate yet again."

Cass attacks the Kraken with Hooked Blade{Sword}
tptR|K_w101-150
{Results}

Cass' Guard Attack the Kraken with Sword
101-150
{Results}

Added Damage from Jellyfish Stingers wrapped on Cass' Blade
1-50
{Results}

Current Damage: 25/100
Guard's Damage: 0/30

101-150·101-150·1-50