hatebound | traumaprom intensifies

traumaprom intensifies

[gonna just silently contemplate those rules for a minute]

[Your offering was REJECTED.]

[Words appear on the ground before you in glowing green. “Your sacrifice(s) are to die, by quill or by ink. Make your final peace, then meet your fate.”]

[Of course, if you wait for longer than fifteen minutes, the matter will be taken out of your hands. The oddly metallic pattern of roses on the wall, with their unnervingly long thorns, peel off the paper and lash out — they snake themselves around the doomed sacrifice and squeeze, ever so gently and ever so slowly. It’s a long death by exsanguination for you poor lost soul, as the thorns stab deep, like so many tiny knives.

Not to worry, though! They will only hurt the sacrifice, even if the other partner tries to attack them or pull them off. The thorns won’t so much as cut the skin.]

[well. fuck. displeased with losing mostly]

We're meant to do it ourselves?

I don't think I could...

[eyeing the quill and ink]

Are these our only options?

[asking to the air, hey echoes where r u]

[LETTERS MAKE WORDS:

"You may use whatever means you like, or wait for our means if you prefer."]

Hmph. I'll wait.

Would a knife even effect you properly? I don't mean to be harsh, but, well! We're in a bit of a state.

It would, but it may take some doing to delete me.

[uncertainly touches the emblem on his chest]

Although, if I damaged this, then maybe. . .

Maybe?

[pondering]

[picks up the quill]

On second thought, I would rather do it myself than wait until it suits their whim.

Yes, they're apt to be vile about it... Is there anything I should do?

I'm not sure how this will affect me. Whether or not anything of my body remains, see to it that I am restored.

For now, goodbye.

[stabs the quill deeply into one end of his emblem and drags it across in a swift motion- he takes a shuddering breath and coughs up something like blood, but it 'evaporates' quickly into pixel-y blocks before fading away]

[annnd then he goes limp. his body stays there but it gets a little. . . glitchy. bits of it sort of breaking off and floating away to disappear in blocky fragments. kinda like this but a lot less extensive]

[at least it's kind of fascinating to watch??]