event 003: the potions

[atonementmods]

Characters: All.

When: April 1st - 30th

Where: Various locations.

Warnings: None. Please put any warnings in the comment subject if it progresses that way!

The weather will continue to be Spring-like for the rest of this month, with the occasional storm or shower here and there. Once again, all citizen's will be alerted to go to the center of Penance to see about their punishment for the month of April!

As usual, a tent has been set up with plenty of food and drink set up on tables, with another one off to the corner containing letters addressed to each citizen, along with bottles of potion for each. Each person is invited to take a bottle and either drink it now, slip it to someone else, or saved it for later.

The effects are described as being random. The person who consumes the liquid may see the ghost of someone they've harmed in the past that will follow them around, screaming their sins to all around. It mayse severe, nearly deadly pain. It may take away one of the taker's senses, whether it's sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste, or even all of them.

If citizens would rather go another route, they are free to make use of the Sin Lounge and deliver torture or pain to each other.

For those eager for more, citizens may take as many punishments as they want during the month!

With their new letter collected, it is time for all to decide their new punishment and face it bravely!

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[preciousbrat]

The new month was already a couple of days old, when Eren decided that he should finally go to the tent, that is again build up at the center of Penance. It was somehow good to see, that every montht this tent would appear there and contain a new surprise for the citizens.

While he made his way into the city, Eren wondered what the ruler of the city had in store for them this time.

When the young man entered the tent, he saw the familiar tables filled with food and water, along with the table where the letters where waiting for get picked up.
Eren headed straight to the table. It didn't took him long to find the letter addressed to him.

This time he opened it right on the spot. It was nothing new to receive such a letter and there was no need to read it somewhere in a corner of the tent. A short moment he felt strangely proud of himself, since the last time he had searched for a deserted corner in the tent to read his letter.

The bottle he was holding in his hand was oddly beautiful, just like the colorful vials he remembered, but once again the liquid inside wasn't beautiful at all.

It was a tempting option to pass this bottle to someone else, but who would be so eager and take it? Unless you are maybe into receiving awful surprises or want to suffer a lot for what you have done in your past life. Eren wasn't sure if he could manage to talk another citizen into taking his bottle. But who said, that he couldn't disguise it?

While walking away from the table with the bottles and unread letters and forward to the tables with food and water, Eren was struggling between drinking the content from the bottle right on the spot or save it for later. Maybe one day you will end in a situation where you might need it. Sure, it seems odd on the first sign but you know that from your life as soldier: wounds can save you. So, what if this bottle might save you?

It was an interesting thought that had now occupied his mind. Therefore he stuffed the bottle into the inside pocket of his jacket, and looked over the offered supplies. Suddenly he heard a familiar voice, distracting him from his thoughts.

He turned around. "Hello my dear friend. Everything's alright?"

[delilahs_death]

"Well enough as can be expected, I suppose," he says, glancing over the potions in turn. Jezebel has a sense of trepidation even looking at them -- he'd been lucky to dodge anything too serious the previous month, and this would be his time to pay the piper. As much as he'd like to continue avoiding any of this place's torments, he couldn't hide forever.

"And yourself? Has anyone told you what any of these potions do?" he asks, picking one up and looking it over idly.

[preciousbrat]

"There is only a vague description in the letter. I guess this month has the motto Surprises.. It was even mentioned that you might see a ghost from someone you've hurt in the past."

Eren wondered why out of all the examples stated in the letter, he had chosen the ghost. Maybe, because he had always though that ghost were something that belongs into fairy tales. He let out a dry laugh. "As if there is such a thing has ghosts."

"Do you think that the effect of the portion depends on how much you have suffered in the pervious month?"
It was something worth thinking about.

[delilahs_death]

"Is it so odd to think of ghosts?" he asks, wearing a wry smile. "We're a land of the dead down here. If anything, we're ghosts ourselves."

Looking over the bottles idly, he shrugs at the second question, "I'm not sure. I don't know how they decide their punishments. Perhaps it all depends on how many sins we need to redeem while we're down here."

[preciousbrat]

Jezebel had a point but oddly enough, Eren had never thought of himself as a ghost. Just as dead. He knew it would be a helpless attempt to explain his thoughts but he tried.

"I always imaged ghosts the way they are in fairy tales. You know translucent, floating through the air and all this stuff."
He made a short pause before he added "What if ghosts here are something different, like we image them?"

That explanation was making sense. Eren had no idea how many sins he had committed. Not was he aware of the sin of his fellow citizens. The fact, that they were all sinners had connected them from the beginning and therefore it was hard for Eren to judge someone else. And if he was honest to himself, he didn't want to know all the sins from the people he was starting to call "acquaintances" or "friends".

"In my past life I've heard, that there are some sins that can never be redeemed."

[delilahs_death]

"They might be," he says. "I'm not sure. I know when I was alive, we dealt with spirits and the like -- but nothing ever incorporeal, like ghosts. But if there are ghosts here and they aren't us, what could they be, then?"

At the second part of Eren's questions, he shrugs slightly but looks more thoughtful as he answers. "I've heard the same thing, but it's hard to know which sins those are. I've heard of a number that the people here have confessed to committing, but yet we're all still supposed to be salvageable if we're here."

After all, his father had told him he was damned since he was a child. Yet here he was, among his fellow dwellers of purgatory, trying for a better chance one day.