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THE STATUS EFFECT MEME

Just when you thought your day couldn't get worse...

1. Leave a top level with your character and preferences.
2. Those responding RNG (or just pick!) a status effect. They're now been hit with that effect.
3. Do the thing.

(CW: contains prompts for blindness, mute, paralysis, mind control, and with the potential for illnesses and other sensitive topics. Please add CW: warnings to your subject lines as you see fit.)

PROMPTS

1. Silence
Was there something you wanted to say? Too bad. Hope you're good at charades.
2. Poison
Slow spread, fast spread. You don't know. All you know is you gotta do something about it and you gotta do it fast.
3. Toad
You're a mean, green fighting machine. And also the size of what used to be your foot. Is that a fly over there?
4. Berserk
You suddenly have an overcoming urge to put the beat down on anything and everything. Verbal, physical, you name it. Can someone snap you out of it? Or maybe they're there to provoke you even more.
5. Blind
You can't see a damn thing. No, you REALLY can't see a thing.
6. Confusion
What's up is now down and what's down is now sideways and why were you there again?
7. Gradual Petrify
It's like quick sand. Only you're becoming your own slate memorial.
8. Paralysis
Your arms, your legs. There's something you can't move or maybe you can't move your whole body.
9. Mini
That's funny. You could have sworn you were just with the others a minute ago -OH GOD, IS THAT A GIANT ANT?
10. Bind
Sometimes you really do find yourself in a bind. This time, it's literally.
11. Control
Maybe you can't move your arms. Or legs. Or anything. But they sure can.
11. Curse (WILDCARD)
What it says on the tin. Other status effects can be found here.

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[Through it all, Kunsel just grits his teeth, because the alternative is infinitely worse than whatever bruises he's going to have to live with tomorrow.

If he's still alive tomorrow to care.]

That's fine! I don't need legs to climb a ladder!

[At most he might need Zack's help to push him up over the edge at the top, but the ladder itself? Child's play for someone with a SOLDIER's strength and training. As soon as Zack's close enough, Kunsel lunges with one hand for the first rung in reach, his other clipping his sword back on his harness. Rung after rung, it's just pull-ups from here.

Well. Up until the wall of water roars into the tunnel they're in.]

[ If the screaming of the not-so-local critters isn't enough of a hint that they should be hauling ass, the rush of the water coming up to meet them sure is.

Zack hits for double time, pushing up and up. Sometimes literally pushing. There's no such thing as personal space in SOLDIER and this time sure as hell works as a reminder. They're so damn close, but even with Kunsel as strong as he is and for as fast as he's moving all things considered, that water's just not going to wait on them.

Which might be why Zack gives him a solid shove in the ass at the last moment. Shoves him right up above into the start of the pipeline before the water surges over them and yanks him sideways on the ladder. ]

[That shove is enough to push Kunsel up to the edge, and from there Kunsel has enough upper arm strength to pull himself out of the pipe completely. None too soon, because the surge of water soaks his legs before he can make it out, the force of it enough that he can feel the tug on his limbs even despite the paralysis - and that's with Zack helping to stabilize him!

Worse, though, with the water that high, and with Zack below him-]

Zack!

[Kunsel rolls, twisting himself around so that he can plunge his arm back into the flood spewing from the pipe, desperately grasping for his friend's arm.]

Edited 2021-11-29 13:28 (UTC)

[ It's insane how the world goes from the raging, loud rush of water to a muted, near soundless world in the span of seconds.

It would have been peaceful if not for the way he's being ragdolled around along the ladder. Hanging on desperately despite himself because how the fuck he's going to manage this one-armed, he has not a clue. Holding breath, eyes closed from the pressure and pretty sure he's about to breath in water any moment through his nostrils anyway, Zack debates the real merits of having used Quake earlier. The worst fucking idea ever, really.

Then nearly loses what breath he has in a gasp when his body gets tugged hard up and up. His working arm flails and reaches out and manages to clasp onto a higher rung, yanking himself high enough to break the surface of the water now. To sputter and choke, barely realizing the hand that had somehow managed to snake under the pit of his paralyzed arm and give him the support he needed.

He's not going to bother focusing on that right then when he still has to climb. Yank himself out of that pipe and maybe he does so a little too hard with the way he suddenly rolls out, himself, still coughing and breathless but alive. For the moment anyway. ]

[Zack's out and breathless and coughing, but alive, and that's almost enough relief crashing into Kunsel to collapse him into a boneless slump. He doesn't quite, because they're too close still to that bubbling pipe and the theoretical presence of monsters to feel safe enough for that. He settles instead for hooking his arm around Zack's chest and helping to pull both of them upright. There's no danger of drowning now, but neither of them need to be lying with their faces that close to that muck either.]

You... you okay?

[He's not the one who'd been coughing, but the words come out raw anyway. Zack's not the only one out of breath here, and they've both probably got way too much adrenaline in their systems.]

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and now that this cold isn't destroying me as much...

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whoops, everything ate me

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