Week 6 cyoa: hei, jiuqing, vin, and kashuu

[saturations]

spoiler warnings: ff14 heavensward and some light endwalker elements
content warnings: violence, death, war, terrorism (short), brief mentions/references for eyegore, brief mention/reference for decapitation, depression, suicidal ideation (nihilist flavor), suicide, dragons and monsters eating people

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[countermeasures]

[fare fucking well, wyvern.

the monster stares up at chang geng with eyes that are empty of anything that had made her jiuqing, once. it's questionable whether it even recognizes him as anything other than a source of aether that it desires to bleed dry.

it moves, drawn to him, and dodges the first arrow, the first strike. it lunges, teeth bared, claws bloodied, and grapples with him to take him apart.

britt 🧃 sip juicing Roll: [9] Result: 9 Reason: 9 or less she lives 10+ she dies
hei ❄ het pleasantry Roll: [14] Result: 14 Reason: DOES CHANG GENG 2 GET A STABBY IN

...in the end, it kills him. it's a monster, after all. it's what monsters are wont to do. but it doesn't escape without a stab to the heart - not entirely through, not enough to kill, but it's there, and it stings.

it looks down at the corpse beneath it.

there's nothing here. just death.

...just as hraesvelgr had said. why did she come here? to change their fates? to save just a few? she didn't - she couldn't...]

...I couldn't... save anyone...

[a shudder wracks the creature's body.]

I'm sorry...

[disestablishment]

[ Damn. His first arrow... Chang Geng struggles in its hold, but finally Jiuqing is close enough to properly see who it is. He doesn't recognize her, however, and draws another arrow in his hand. A substance sheens on the tip as he checks to see which he pulled, then it's stabbed right into one of her main arteries. He drives it further in before it kills him.

Even when he dies, something runs rampant in the monster's body. It's in pain, but it doesn't know what else to do but run rampant and go into a frenzy.

...

They won't be here to see it, seeing as two are dead and one is dying, but somehow. Some way. Ishgard will survive this.

But it's still not journey's end. ]