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!

Comments

[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.