corallus caninus

This is mostly a placeholder that I will be tidying up later, but! The snake skull carries out her duties in a slightly different manner than the other Arbiters encountered so far. Rather than running games (or only running games), they both support and judge shades through assigning tasks or trades for things like healing and supplies. (Later on, I will also be offering single person/team tasks that can be completed to regain memories, as well.)

These trades will range from requests for small trinkets or favors (flower crowns, paying someone a compliment) to things like bringing her body parts, depending on what's asked of her. I'll be putting up a more complete list of example prices and tasks later, but in the meantime if you have a particular price you want to get your character saddled with (or absolutely don't!) you can drop me a comment here or poke me on plurk/slack @ opalinesque! Ideally, these prices will be things the character has to voluntarily choose to opt into— for example, telling the truth for a day of their own volition, rather than because they're compelled to.

"But Opal, what if my character fails to complete the task and snake has already done the thing for them?" There are two options for this, depending on the size of the task!

For smaller things: healing smaller wounds, offering supplies, etc, the things that are healed will rot and reopen, while supplies will break or be replaced by duds at in opportune moments. For larger favors, this does count as a failed test. Character on the memory loss path will lose them; characters doing regain will either be fine or not regain the next time their team wins. I will leave the details of that up to you because I mostly want to facilitate fun :3c

Further notes that I really need to clean up later: Snake often words her payments very vaguely. This is deliberate, and a mechanic you can play with if you'd like! If a character makes a sincere and genuine attempt to follow the spirit of the challenge instead of just the letter, the results will be better (wounds healing without scars, supplies being high-quality) than if half-assed.

[ well, you're dead. maybe you remember that! or maybe you don't. there are some very strange things happening in the forest nowadays, after all. either way, you're in a river, soaked through with water in your hair, your clothes, your lungs as the current batters you—

and then something clamps down around your wrist with a vice grip and hauls you out onto the rocky shore, pushing you more or less into sitting upright so that you can cough whatever you breathed in out ]

There— there, yes ... Are you all right?

OR

[ maybe you've been dead a while. maybe you already know how this works— you've been bound, tested a few times. that last one, though, was really bad; it devolved into brawling and violence near the end and now everyone is trying to collect their missing body parts (the ones that weren't destroyed entirely, anyway). whether you're one of the poor losers doing that or just watching the carnage, a soft voice clears their throat nearby: ]

Oh ... that looks unpleasant. Would you like help with that ... ?