CRESCENT;

[cyclists]

Crescent

As The Crescent:
Every Monday, the Crescent will meet with the Signs and be given the opportunity to grant one other player immunity for the week. This immunity will allow the player to live for that week even if they are chosen as a victim by the Corrupted.

Should the Crescent choose to protect someone and that person is selected as a victim, however, the Crescent's name will be provided as the victim and they will die in that week to protect the chosen player.

The Crescent will also be allowed to submit a name for a victim in order to protect someone else. If they are concerned that someone they wish to protect will be chosen by the Corrupted, they may enact a trade to sacrifice another player. While there is no guarantee that the name they've offered will be chosen, this action will earn favor among the Signs.

The choice must be made at the time of the meeting. The Crescent only gets one meeting per week and they must choose wisely if they wish to protect someone and risk their own life, or offer someone as a failsafe sacrifice. (i.e. "I would like to protect X" versus "should X be chosen by the Corrupted, I would like to substitute Y.")

When the Signs seek to summon the Crescent, a portal will appear when they finds themselves alone. Upon entering the portal, they will be brought into a tea room where the Signs are waiting for them. When their visit in the room concludes and they choose to exit, the portal will disappear. The Crescent will find that no matter how long they spent in the tea Room, no time has elapsed outside of the portal.

Additional notes:
The Crescent will be allowed to ask questions about the ongoings of the game and communicate with the Signs in their weekly meetings. They will be able to also receive small hints in the game should they perform well, including game mechanics, locations and more. However, the information received will be up to the Signs' discretion.

Best of luck.

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Comments

[tothemaxwell]

Are you certain you weren't supposed to exist, Sol?

Even if you believe not, from how you have described events to me, you certainly seem to have assisted your friends and colleagues in considerable fashion, collecting these hearts.

[cyclists]

Yes. I'm certain. [That's the one thing he's certain of.]

I did what I had to do, but...eventually I left. I had other things I needed to do, and the place I was at wouldn't give me the answers I needed.

[tothemaxwell]

In that case, it sounds as if you did the hardest thing possible, with your own hands. Well done.

What answers did you require?

[cyclists]

I needed to know where I came from. There was someone I had to find to understand what I was supposed to do next, and nobody would tell me. So I left on my own.

[tothemaxwell]

And?

Were you able to find them?

[cyclists]

Yeah. I was. [He ducks his head a bit.] And I went back to where I belonged to help him out. Things changed since then, but it's worked it okay.

[tothemaxwell]

And now you are here, alongside all of us.

Will you be able to go back to your partner after it is over, then?

[cyclists]

[There's a pause, hesitating and uncertain.]

I don't know. That's what we're going to find out when this is all over. [...] "Partner" is an interesting way of putting it though.

[tothemaxwell]

Ha ha. Is it not appropriate?

Best friend, perhaps?

[cyclists]

More like...my other half?

[tothemaxwell]

Your other half?

[...]

Two sides of the same coin, perhaps...?

[cyclists]

Right. Exactly. [That's a lot closer.] He's...where I came from, and without me he wasn't a whole person. So it's something just like that.

[tothemaxwell]

Ah, so you complete each other. In a way, that's quite romantic, isn't it? [milla,] You two must have quite the bond.

[cyclists]

[...he buries his face in his hand.] It's not romantic. And I've only talked to him a few times, but he's really important to pretty much everyone I know.

[tothemaxwell]

Ha ha ha, perhaps I should have clarified. Rather than being a love story, it seems simply romantic in the telling. A fairy tale of two brothers, finding each other across time.

Are you not also important, Sol? I'm certain your friends think about you every day.

[cyclists]

...that's probably more accurate, actually. [Wild to think about though.]

...for a long time, my friends and I were separated, and we didn't know if we'd ever find each other or come back. But we did right before all of this happened. I know I thought about them all the time and they're the reason I came back at all. I think it was the same for them, too.

Friendship is one of the most powerful things. And that's why it's an important tool here, too.

[tothemaxwell]

I agree—although, this setting, as a crucible for friendship... it is hardly ideal. Rather than creating bonds, I feel that, in many cases, it works better at sundering them.

[cyclists]

Even with bonds broken, do you feel you haven't made other bonds at all?

[tothemaxwell]

Yes, and no.

It's hard to say, for the moment—there's many humans here, or at least those who share human morality. Sometimes it seems that, for many, it is more like one step forward, two steps back, if that makes sense.

Still, that does not mean giving up.

[cyclists]

Even without a human morality I feel like that's a case for many people. That's where we need people like you to push them forward.

[tothemaxwell]

That, at least, is an action I'm glad to take part in.

[cyclists]

Glad to hear it. Just be sure to take care of yourself, too, okay? Don't get too far ahead of yourself pushing others ahead.

[tothemaxwell]

If I did, I would consider that a failure of my own duty.

But thank you, Sol. I will try and keep myself in check.