The celebration in the streets is dazzling. Your character's attention is cast upward to acrobatic figures on stilts moving through chutes of colored sparks, spectacular against the dark night sky. Colored smoke, live music, and hollering actors make the fantastical scene feel vast and inescapable.
As a flurry of dancers whirl past, one of them dips close to your character. The performer lifts their tasseled mask away, revealing a brightly painted face complete with the huge teeth of Fortune's smile. Their lips pucker inside the painted grin. They blow a glittering powder into your character's face, sending your character sputtering and wheeling away.
The festival spins around them like a wheel, becoming a blurry river of light and noise. The colored sparks and smoke are suddenly smothering, and the masked faces around them, once whimsical, blur into something terrifying. Fighting to stay upright, they see a world far stranger than the one they know.
Whether the visions are from poison, chemistry, or honest-to-Grace magic, what does your character see?
 I see spirits, and beings beyond imagining, and I stop to admire them. Your character receives +1 Discipline.
I see performers, magicians, or acrobats of great skill, and I am compelled to best them. Your character receives +1 Power.
I see strangers, moving quickly, coming to hurt me and take what's mine. Your character receives +1 Corruption.
I see figures dancing freely, unbound by reservation, and I race to join them. Your character receives -1 Cost. If your character already has 0 Cost, you may choose to take +1 Corruption instead.
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot). Upload your response like any other art or literature submission, tag this character profile, and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses. Responses to this prompt should be done individually, one character per response.
Anathema
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The celebration in the streets is dazzling. Your character's attention is cast upward to acrobatic figures on stilts moving through chutes of colored sparks, spectacular against the dark night sky. Colored smoke, live music, and hollering actors make the fantastical scene feel vast and inescapable.
As a flurry of dancers whirl past, one of them dips close to your character. The performer lifts their tasseled mask away, revealing a brightly painted face complete with the huge teeth of Fortune's smile. Their lips pucker inside the painted grin. They blow a glittering powder into your character's face, sending your character sputtering and wheeling away.
The festival spins around them like a wheel, becoming a blurry river of light and noise. The colored sparks and smoke are suddenly smothering, and the masked faces around them, once whimsical, blur into something terrifying. Fighting to stay upright, they see a world far stranger than the one they know.
Whether the visions are from poison, chemistry, or honest-to-Grace magic, what does your character see?
Prompt responses must be worth at least 1 gold (i.e. at least 100 words or at least an uncolored headshot).Â
Upload your response like any other art or literature submission, tag this character profile, and claim your gold; collect double your total count for prompt responses. Responses to this prompt should be done individually, one character per response.
2 years, 5 months ago Edited 12:45 pm