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We have decided to revive our dragon ski lodge. Unfortunately, we cannot locate the original thread, so we have decided to repost it. Once this pops up, we will repost all the members of the ski lodge, and all the installments of the story.
You collapse on your bed after getting home from school, tossing your backpack in the corner of your room. Just as you're getting comfortable, someone yells for you to go and get the mail. You run outside and look in the mailbox. Surprisingly, there is only one letter, and it's addressed to you. You open the envelope and read:
CBer,
You have been generously invited to the one and only Skywater fortress, former school of sky and sea dragons alike, but, since the dragons moved out, we have been using it as our home. Unfortunately, us being the only two dragons here, we have become lonely, and decided to invite ten CBers to stay with us for a while. You are one of the lucky few.
During your stay, you will enjoy many of the different hobbies of our former students, including sports, crafting, and much more. There will also be an amount of free time every day, during which you can do virtually anything you want. We will review the rules once you are all here, and rules include punishments for breaking them, we are sorry to say.
Did we hear you wondering how you are going to participate in dragon hobbies, when you are not a dragon yourself? We spent a lot of time contemplating that. In order to enable you to participate, we are giving you a way to become a dragon for your visit! All you have to do is fill out the form below, and a coat of dragon scales will appear in front of you. Put them on, and you will be instantly transformed into your chosen dragon form and transported to the Skywater fortress in the same moment!
You are allowed to bring two companions for free, but if you want to bring three there will be a fee of twenty dollars to pay for lodging.
Here is the attendance form. AEs and CAPTCHAs must fill it out as well.
Name:
CBer/AE/CAPTCHA:
Age:
Gender/pronouns:
Requested dragon appearance (appearance must include breed name, and we request that you have gills or other implements for underwater breathing):
Describe your personality in five words:
Favorite food:
Favorite subject in school:
Fears:
Likes:
Dislikes:
Favorite book:
Favorite movie:
Luggage:
Salutations, Vansix and Lila
Just a tiny bit confused and mostly excited, you run back to your room and find a pen. Just as you finish filling out the form, it shimmers and implodes in your hands, replaced by a glittering cape of dragon scales. You drape it over your shoulders, and just as the letter said, you transform, and the world swirls to black as you're transported to Skywater fortress.
P.S. You do not have to fill out the form again.
P.P.S. You are welcome to guess our SI, if you wish.
submitted by Vansix and Lila, age Classified, Skywater fortress
(January 6, 2020 - 8:17 pm)
(January 6, 2020 - 8:17 pm)
Day five pt… FOUR!?
Two hours later found Porcelain Dragon and Nikai sneaking away from a game of Hide and go Screech in the field off of Skywater fortress. They slipped past the Hover Tag group and their chaperones, Slinky and Yaelhing, and headed inside.
“Hurry, Nikai!” hissed Porcelain. The small CAPTCHA was huffing and puffing to keep up with the larger dragon. “Fine, you can ride on my back.”
<thnks> Nikai puffed, climbing on. <hurry> <wednt> <have> <much> <time> <togo> <sethe> <thngs>
“I know, I know!”
The murderer had been right when they speculated that Porcelain Dragon and Nikai had been to a forbidden room.
And now they were sneaking back, the game of Hide and go Screech a perfect cover, as long as they were back in time to be found.
“In here.” Porcelain Dragon pushed open a dusty door that was, since their last visit, signififcantly less dusty.
<whoa!> Nikai gaped at the stacks of boxes scattered about the room. They seemed even cooler than their last visit to the scatterbrained CAPTCHA, and she began bounding about peeking into crates entirely at random. Porcelain, however, went straight to a pile of wooden boxes that she had glimpsed something peeking out of earlier, and wanted to investigate.
“What is-- oh!” The CBer’s eyes widened. Each of the boxes had several small crystal statues of dragons in them, all wrapped in layers of silk cloth to keep them safe. They seemed crudely formed, but as Porcelain unwrapped them and dusted them off, she realized that they were actually incredibly detailed, and very well.
“I wonder what these are for… or from…” she murmured.
Nikai was having fun poking into random boxes, most of which only had junk that needed to be stored, but as Porcelain muttered her half-question, the CAPTCHA bounded over, and her normally scattered thoughts condensed momentairily into a single observation.
<looks> <expen><sive> she said.
“Hmm.” Porcelain looked at one of the statues, angling it so the sunlight from a nearby window shone through it. “Yeah, it does. They're very well made, and of crystal, too. I wonder if it’s rare.”
<heyy!> Nikai had just had a thought, her second smart thought in as many minutes, and her randomness was about to be quite helpful. <doyou> <know> <whyy> <skyy><water> <wasa> <scool?>
“Huh?” Porcelain looked up. “I don’t know.”
<whyis> <itnot> <ascol> <anymr?>
“That’s a good question.” The CBer thought for a moment. “Maybe they didn't have enough money to keep it going.” She looked again at the statue in her talon.
<maybe> <those> <cnhlp!> Nikai chirped excitedly.
“Huh. I hadn't thought of that. Maybe the crystal statues are valuble, and they could have been sold to make enough money to keep the school going.”
<maybe> <thywr> <lost!> Nikai’s frowned. Her thoughts were beginning to wander again, and she fought to stay on what she viewed as her task: finding out why Skywater wasn't a school anymore. Then something caught her eye. <heyy!> <Porce><lain> <thdor!>
Porcelain’s head jerked up, and she saw the door creaking open. Aw, man, she thought. We’re gonna get caught, and probably punished. But it wasn't a staff member who came into the room.
<huhh?> <watar> <youu> <doing?> Nikai asked.
“And how did you get in here?” Porcelain added.
“Same as you.” The dragon came forward just slightly, and Nikai bounded forward, ignoring Porcelain’s whispered warning. The dragon continued. “I snuck away from Hide and go Screech. A perfect cover, as long as I’m back to be found. However, you will not be.” They lunged forward suddenly and grabbed Nikai, tying a piece of cloth over her eyes.
<heyy!> Nikai squirmed, frightened. <you're> <thee>-- She was cut off by a flash of pain as the murderer ripped their claws through her wings, mutiliating them, and then suddenly she was sailing through thin air, panting and confused, headed unknowingly for hard ground two stories down.
“No!” Porcelain dashed to the window just in time to see Nikai’s body crash to the ground. She turned back to the murderer. “You rat!”
“I'm not a rat,” the murderer said calmly. “I'm a dragon. And you are dying.” Porcelain hissed angrily and charged forward, but the murderer twisted to the side, and jabbed a piece of broken glass into the side of Porcelain’s neck, ripping a long cut down from her jaw to her shoulder. The CBer gagged and choked, turning bewildered to the murderer.
“It wasn't too hard,” they said. “The vase wasn't expensive. They can replace it. Oh and, by the way, I heard all of your conversation.”
Porcelain’s eyes widened, became unfocused, and then slowly rolled back in her head. She slumped to the floor, blood still soaking the wood.
“Bye-bye,” said the murderer, dropping the piece of glass, and heading back to Hide and go Screech, just in time to be found.
~~~
Dead: Barswallow, Vivian, Sage, Leo, Nyx, Porcelain Dragon, Nikai
Suspects: Luna-Starr, TheaterGirl, Nihil, Joan B. of Arc
(February 29, 2020 - 8:31 am)
Oh wow, I haven't commented in a while, but I have been keeping up!
Wow! This is amazing. Those crystal statues are suspicious somehow, hmm.
I personally think it's Nihil or Joan, because everyone is still alive in their room.
(February 29, 2020 - 11:58 am)
*Thumbs up* Okay.
(February 29, 2020 - 7:02 pm)
Day five pt. FIVE!?!?
Niko pushed through a patch of bushes in search of Porcelain Dragon and his little sister, Nikai. After the seeker, Kitten, had searched for a while without finding the pair, she had first involved the rest of the Hide and go Screech group, and then all the vacationers, and Niko was beginning to feel a little worried.
“Porcelain! Nikai!” The names, although without any responses, echoed throughout the large yard. Then, finally, came the cry they were all waiting for.
“I found her!”
Niko, and Sybill, who had been searching on the west side of Skywater, rushed toward the cry, excited, until they registered the taint of fear in the voice, which turned out to be TheaterGirl’s. She had called out, from the northern side of the fortress, having found Nikai’s body.
“No!” cried Niko, skidding to a stop next to his sister. The CAPTCHA’s wings were shredded and bloody, and her body was twisted gruesomely, showing that she had probably been thrown from a high window.
“Where’s Porcelain?” asked Luna-Starr.
Agent Winter looked up. “She’s probably in that room.” She pointed, and all the heads swiveled upwards to a two-story window. Lila and Vansix, who had come to help search for the missing dragons, looked at each other.
“I guess we should go see,” said Lila.
“Oh no! Porcelain!” Agent Winter rushed to the dead CBer’s bloody body and placed a talon on it tentatively, to see if it was truly dead. But everyone could see it was. Porcelain had lost too much blood, and it had been too long.
“I… guess she’s not the murderer,” said Nihil.
“Look at these!” cried TheaterGirl. She was holding a glittering crystal statue. “Lila, what are these from?”
“Uhh…” Lila seemed suddenly struck with awkwardness. She looked pleadingly at Vansix, who looked stoically away. “They're from…”
Vansix sighed. “Lila spent too much money on them, and we didn't have enough left to keep the school running.”
Everyone gasped.
“Not those!” Lila cried. “Those I paid like twenty ersos for, to decorate the dorms. The valuble ones are in this box.” She tipped a wooden crate over, and ten or eleven bubble-wrapped shapes tumbled out. The CBers rushed over and began unwrapping them, except for Niko and Nihil, who didn't care in the least, and Agent Winter, who was still crouched by Porcelain Dragon’s dead body.
“Oh!” Kitten held up a glittering purple statue of a dragon with it’s wings outstretched. “I think this is amethyst!”
“And this is diamond!” called Sybill, holding one of two dragons standing together.
“Ruby!” Luna-Starr cried. Her statue looked like the dragon was about to attack. The cries of different gems kept coming as the CBers kept unwrapping, and Lila’s face looked more and more anguished with each one.
“Blue topaz!”
“Emerald!”
“Opal!”
“Agate!”
“Labradorite!”
“That’s not a gem.”
“Yes it is!”
“Iolite!”
“Sphene!”
“Fluorite!” (Google the last four, they're beautiful!)
“Lila… what are these from?”
This last question silenced everyone. Lila looked around.
“They were my mother’s,” she said at last. “She died about a year ago, and her home was sold, along with everything in it. I asked if I could keep these statues, and I should have been able to, since they belonged in part to me, but they tricked me into paying a huge amount for them. And like… like Vansix said, there wasn't enough left afterward to keep the school going. We had to close down. Our students had to leave.”
“If Lila had sold the statues, we wouldn't have had to close,” said Vansix. “But she couldn't let go of them.”
Silence. Eventually, TheaterGirl murmured, “If you were to sell them now, would it make enough money to start the school back up?”
“Probably not,” Lila sighed. She turned and left the room, and Vansix looked at the CBers.
“It would be plenty,” he said sadly. “But Lila would never let them go anyway. Now, come with me. We still have the rest of the day’s activities to get through.” But no one wanted to do them.
~~~
Dead: Barswallow, Vivian, Sage, Leo, Nyx, Porcelain Dragon, Nikai
Suspects: Luna-Starr, TheaterGirl, Nihil, Joan B. of Arc
(March 2, 2020 - 5:02 pm)
Day six pt. One
Kitten slithered through the tall grass, trying to find Vansix or Lila before they found her. The pair had announced, via a note on one of the breakfast tables, that the CBers and AEs would have to hunt them down in order to find out what the next after-breakfast activity was. But Vansix and Lila would be hunting them down too, and whenever they found a CBer or AE they would “capture” them, and whichever side “captured” all the members of the opposite side won. Kitten had a sneaking suspicion that this was just an activity to find out the net activity, and had prepared herself to be bored as the CB-side found their chaperones almost immediately, but she had been greatly surprised when she walked past a group consisting of Agent Winter, Sybill, and TheaterGirl, all with their front legs roped together and their wings cuffed, clearly signifying that they had been “captured”. Kitten had started sneaking at that point, and a little while later Joan B. of Arc and Luna-Starr had been added to the “jail”, as Kitten had begun thinking of it. Now she and the AEs were the only ones left to find Vansix and Lila.
“Oof!”
“Quick, pin him down!”
Kitten’s head jerked up, and she ran, low, towards the sound. Niko and Nihil had managed to find Vansix, and were currently trying to wrestle him to the ground in order to capture him. Kitten started forward to help, but a rustle in the grass off to the side warned her back just in time, as Lila exploded out of the grass and tackled Nihil. Niko also retreated, and within moments the chaperones, with assurances that it truly was just a game, had led Nihil away to their jail.
“Niko!” Kitten hissed, as soon as the others were out of sight. “Come back, I have a plan!”
“Good, ‘cuz we just got lucky, springing Vansix out of the grass like that.” Kitten gasped and jumped away from Niko, who had just appeared beside her. “Well?” he asked. “What’s your plan?”
“Oh. Um…” Kitten shook herself. “Follow me, I’ll explain.” She began to lead Niko around to the chaperones’ jail, hoping to get there first.
“So you see,” she continued, as they came upon the bound group and realized with releif that Vansix, Lila and Nihil hadn't gotten there yet (probably due to their prisoner’s attempts to escape), “if we stay here and wait for them, we could possibly grab Lila, giving Nihil a chance to escape before she’s put in the jail, and then we’d have enough people--dragons, I mean--to set a trap for Vansix.”
“Smart. But why not release them all when we have the chance?”
“It’s against the rules, I think. And we shouldn't need more than the three of us.”
Niko settled into the grass on one side of the bound CBers, winking at them, and Kitten curled up on the other side.
After only a moment or two, Vansix, Lila, and Nihil came around the corner.
“I must say,” said Vansix, “you put up quite the fight, Nihil. Nearly got away.” Kitten held up three claws, and Niko mirrored her action. “I would never have thought,” Three... “to hide in the trees like that.” Two… “You looked like a vine, I swear.” One… “Why, next time we play something like this, the trees are the first place I’ll--”
“Now!” Kitten cried. She and Niko exploded out of the grass and bowled into Lila, knocking her over. Before the two dragons knew what had hit them, Nihil had freed herself and grabbed Lila, and the three of them were bolting around the corner of Skywater dragging the small dragon with them.
“Ah. Smart,” Lila panted, as they tied her up. “An ambush, huh? Well played.”
“Lets gag her too,” Niko decided. They tied an extra piece of rope around the amused chaperone’s muzzle.
“Okay, so what do we do now?” asked Niko.
“Um… I hadn't quite gotten that far yet…” Kitten replied sheepishly.
“Oh well that’s easy,” said Nihil. “The two ‘jails’ aren't that far apart, so one of us guards here, another stays at Vansix’s jail, and the third sneaks around in between. Whoever sees him first, jump him and call for the others.”
“That’s… actually a really good idea,” said Kitten, impressed. “Alright, let’s do it.”
Turned out that Kitten and Niko, who had been selected to guard the open area and Vansix’s “jail”, didn't even need to get to their posts. Vansix was prowling across the open stretch of ground, directly towarsds them. Kitten and Niko looked at each other, and nodded. The AE leaped forward, tackling and surprising Vansix.
“Nihil! We’ve got him!” cried Kitten, running to help. A few seconds later the powerfully built AE burst out of the brush and landed squarely on top of Vansix’s back. The dragon’s legs buckled, and he rolled over in defeat.
“Whew!” he panted. “Better than expected. I thought I was sneaking perfectly well, but I’d barely gone two steps when you found me.”
“Yes, well done.” They all turned, surprised, to see Lila walking up, not a rope on her. “I have hind claws, you know,” she said, noting their shocked expressions. “I just waited to untie myself until I was sure you had won. Congrats!”
The three looked at each other and shrugged. The rules at Skywater could be weird, as could the dragons, but no one could deny that they were fun.
~~~
Dead: Barswallow, Vivian, Sage, Leo, Nyx, Porcelain Dragon, Nikai
Suspects: Luna-Starr, TheaterGirl, Nihil, Joan B. of Arc
(March 4, 2020 - 3:04 pm)
Day six pt. Two
“That was a good effort though, Nihil,” said Sybill, wiping walnut juice off her scales. It turned out that the activity after the capture game was a race. First dragon to succeed in carrying a bucket’s worth of walnuts from the starting point to the finish line, using nothing but a small shovel, a fishing net, or their own talons, won. Nihil had come in second, after trying each option and finally settling on a combination of the three, but Sybill had won by stubbornly carrying talonful after talonful of slippery nuts across the track, and refusing to lose time by thinking.
“Attention, vacationers!” called Vansix. “Lila and I have been talking, and we’ve decided that instead of going straight to the next activity, we’re going to push lunch, down time, and everything else up a few hours, and do the final activity later, after dark!”
“Ooh!” The CBers at once turned to each other and began speculating about what the final activity could be, and Lila had to screech loudly to get their attention back.
“Heyo!” she yelled. “Right now we’re gonna head to lunch!”
“Wait, aren't you going to tell us what the activity is?” asked Luna-Starr.
“No, but I will tell you that you can pick your partner for it. There will be four teams of two-oh!”
The Cbers had, almost before Lila had finished talking, collapsed from a mostly orderly half-moon, to a small bunched-up group, talking loudly and arguing about who would be partners. A few feet away Niko and Nihil looked at each other, amused, and partnered up to avoid the chaos.
Eventually, the noise subsided, and the group broke apart to reveal the teams: Niko and Nihil, Sybill and Agent Winter, Joan B. of Arc and Kitten, and Luna-Starr and TheaterGirl.
“A-all right,” stuttered Lila. “I-I guess that’s taken care of.” Then she laughed. “Okay, let’s head to lunch. You don't have to sit with your partner, but you can if you want to.”
~~~
Dead: Barswallow, Vivian, Sage, Leo, Nyx, Porcelain Dragon, Nikai
Surviving: TheaterGirl, Luna-Starr, Kitten, Sybill, Agent Winter, Joan B. of Arc, Nihil, Niko
Suspects: Luna-Starr, TheaterGirl, Nihil, Joan B. of Arc
(March 5, 2020 - 1:41 pm)
Our posts are getting longer! Hope you really enjoy them!
Day six pt. Three
Agent Winter stood next to her partner, Sybill, waiting with the others in the dining hall to find out what the final activity of the day was. They could all see that it was night-dark outside, courtesy of a nearby window.
“All right, CBers and AEs,” began Lila. “I suppose you're all tired, and want to go to bed now?”
“What? No!” The Chatterboxers’ indigant relpy brought a grin to Lila’s face.
“Oh, well then I guess we’ll have to go on with the last activity.” Lila sighed exaggeratedly, and shook her head, turning to Vansix. “They never run out of energy, do they?” she asked. Vansix shook his head solemnly, squashing a smile.
Agent and Sybill began to shift back and forth ancily, and someone yelled, “Come on, tell us what the activity is!”
“All right, all right!” Lila waved her talons for quiet. “I guess I’ll have to tell you. It’s a scavenger hunt.”
“What? That’s it?” yelled Niko. “All that for a scavenger hunt!?”
“Ah, but it’s not just a scavenger hunt,” said Lila. “Remember the game we played earlier, where you eight had to catch me and Vansix before you found out the next activity?” They nodded. “Well, we will be applying that to this scavenger hunt. Each team will be given a short riddle to solve, which will lead you to the next one, and so on and so on. Each team will also be following a seperate set of clues, which our staff are currently hiding, inside Skywater and out, so we will also be turning off most of the lights inside. First team to reach the end and bring their colored bandanna back here,” as she said this, Lila was tying colored scarves around their necks and handing them folded slips of paper, “wins the prize! But here’s where the darkness and capturing comes in.” Several of them leaned closer, as if to recieve a secret. And indeed, Lila was acting as if what she said next must be kept in the greatest confidence. “You are allowed to capture and tie up enemy teams, and I must say, we expect you to. It will give you a good advantage over whichever team you captured a member from. You can go about the capturing however you want: one member hunts while the other captures, you just hunt, or you drop the hunt entirely and focus on catching everyone else. However, someone can rescure their teammate, if they find out where he or she is being kept. Everyone understand?”
“Yes!” they chorused.
“All right! Go!”
Sybill swiftly unfolded their riddle, while Agent Winter studied their scarves. Yellow. They would be searching for a bright yellow bandanna.
“Agent, look at this,” Sybill hissed. She turned the paper to her.
What do you get when you mix heat, air, and fuel? Put the answer in a pit and add something sweet and sticky.
“Huh?” Agent rubbed the back of her head. “Well, heat air and fuel makes fire…”
“And you put fire in a pit and add something sweet and sticky! marshmallows! “ said Sybill. “The fire pit!”
They dashed off, leaving muttered “green paper?” and “what’s a chophouse?” and four other scarves colored blue and red.
“Come on! We’re almost there!” cried Sybill. But just as they were getting close to the last corner, a voice blared over the intercoms hanging on the walls.
“We will now be turning the lights off,” it said. “If you are afraid of the dark, please scream loudly, but only breathe fire if you are completely lost. Thank you.”
Two seconds later, Agent could hardly see the end of her nose. She sqeaked loudly in fear, and then clapped her talons over her mouth.
“Scared of the dark?” asked Sybill.
“Maybe.” Agent’s reply was slightly muffled. Sybill giggled and kept walking.
“Oh, come on!” A frustrated hiss sounded in front of Sybill, and she stopped. “This isn't the dining room!” it continued, and Sybill felt Agent Winter shake her head, amused. The voice sounded like Niko, Nyx’s AE, who was teamed with Nihil. Although both AEs were very smart, it seemed that the dark and the riddles had them slightly turned around. Sybill and Agent waited until their whispered conversation faded away, and then she rushed forward.
“Ooooooh! Sybill, wait for me!” Agent hurried after, glancing side to side. “I feel like someone’s watching me.” And, as the pair would soon find out, she wasn't entirely wrong, though Sybill was quick to dismiss the fears as the usual feeling of being in the dark.
“Here,” she said, grabbing a torch off of the wall. “Light that, we’ll need to read the paper without setting it on fire. We’ll put it out afterward.” But just as Agent was about to light the torch, Sybill found a green glowstick under a bench. “Oh. They're serious about not using fire. Alright, let’s see our next clue.” She unfolded it and read out loud, quietly.
“Where the willows bend and meet in a dome, the C-A-P-T-C-H-As make their home.” Sybill could just see Agent’s smile.
“More poetic than the last one,” she snickered. “I bet Lila wrote it. She seems more like the kind who would. But where does it mean? Where the CAPTCHAs make their home? No CAPTCHAs live here.”
“Unless…” Sybill snapped her talons. “Nikai really liked the woods! She wanted to play Hide and go Seek for hours in there!”
“Yes!” Agent whisper-cried. “And there was that one willow patch, where their branches almost intertwined! That’s it!” They high-fived, and raced outside as fast as the dark hallways allowed them.
~~~
Dead: Barswallow, Vivian, Sage, Leo, Nyx, Porcelain Dragon, NikaiSurviving: TheaterGirl, Luna-Starr, Kitten, Joan B. of Arc, Nihil, Niko
Suspects: Luna-Starr, TheaterGirl, Nihil, Joan B. of Arc, Agent Winter, Sybill
(March 8, 2020 - 1:25 pm)
Name: Emekittycon K
CBer/AE/CAPTCHA: CBer
Age: 11
Gender:Pronouns: Female
Requested dragon appearance: Well, I would like to be a Water Dragon, with blue scales, purple wings, and a tail with a fancy end please. And gills too please.
Describe your personailty in five words: Shy, brave, friendly, compassionite, and fierce.
Favorite food: Pizza. No, ice cream!! Ok, let's see... I pick... Ice Cream.
Favorite Subject in school: I don't have one. If you make it easy and fun I will like it, unless it's math.
Fears: Ummm, the dark, monsters, someone scaring me when they get behind me and say "Hi!", and spiders. And sharks, insects (except butterflies I will make an exception for them) and snakes.
Likes: Cats, food, sleeping, reading, writing, being on the computer, and Minecraft.
Dislikes: Snakes, seafood, and being woke up at 8:01 in the morning!!!!! That really gets on my nerves.
Favorite Book:Ummm, probably the one that I'm writing right now.
Favorite Movie: Champion Heart. And also The Lego Movie 2.
Luggage: Well, I don't know what I'll have when I'm a dragon. Maybe a few tiaras. And my blanket and pillows.
(March 11, 2020 - 1:28 pm)
I'm sorry, Emekittycon--
I'm not.
--but all the spots in this ski lodge are filled. Feel free to read it, though, or guess us or the murderer.
(March 11, 2020 - 4:31 pm)
Day six pt. Four
The murderer ran lightly over the grass, having decided with the help of their oblivious partner that they would be the one to hunt down and capture other players. They couldn't care less about the prize, but it wouldn't do any harm to have it. In the meantime, they meant to do their job. And they meant to enlist the help of their accomplice to do it. It wouldn't do for them to have bloody talons themself at the end of the game.
“I think we’re lost, Sybill,” said Agent Winter, looking around fearfully at the trees.”
“We’re fine,” her partner assured her. “I know exactly where we-- what was that?”
They both tensed, sharp ears detecting a sharp, but low pitched cry, a thump, and the sound of running feet.
“That’s where we’re going!” Sybill exclaimed. “Come on!” They raced towards the sound, and burst into the willow glade finding Klirscales crumpled on the ground, holding a piece of paper and a green glowstick.
“Help me,” she gasped. “The-- the-- the-- someone-- I was hiding your next clue, and someone-- thing-- my leg--” she stuttered in a high voice.
Sybill bent down. “Your leg’s fine,” she said. “Just twisted. I bet you’re scared more than anything else.”
“Ye-- ye-- yeah,” Klirscales managed to choke out. “Wh-- what-- you-- look!” Her eyes widened in terror, and Sybill and Agent Winter turned around, expecting to see the murderer rearing up with a spear. But all they saw was a long, thin object appear out of thin air, and dive down towards them.
“Oh! Oh no!” Klirscales screamed in terror as Agent and Sybill crumpled to the ground, twitching, both with bleeding puncture wounds in their throats. Klirscales stared wildly into the woods as the two CBers twitched their last, the poison having spread swiftly through their bodies, and taken their lives.
~~~
Dead: Barswallow, Vivian, Sage, Leo, Nyx, Porcelain Dragon, Nikai, Agent Winter, Sybill
Surviving: TheaterGirl, Luna-Starr, Kitten, Joan B. of Arc, Nihil, Niko
Suspects: Luna-Starr, TheaterGirl, Nihil, Joan B. of Arc
(March 13, 2020 - 12:06 pm)
Hi I'm new here will anyone be my friend?
(March 13, 2020 - 2:54 pm)
Hi Mahriel! I’ll be your friend! Do you like to draw or write?
(March 13, 2020 - 7:26 pm)
Please top this!!! I really like this ski lodge!!
Vansix and Lila, are you Agent Winter? Or Leafy? (Not sure if these guesses have been already guessed or not....)
(March 26, 2020 - 12:42 pm)