sea witch + captain hook trauma game

[oceansflower]

[everything sucks.]

TK. . .

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[lifeistooshort]

What kinds of things do they ask for to make sure no one gets hurt?

[oceansflower]

Things that are really important to you.

[lifeistooshort]

. . . like what?

[oceansflower]

In the elevator game, we had to pick people to shove down so that we could go up.

. . . It could be something like that.

[lifeistooshort]

No.

We're not offering up someone else to save our own lives. We can't.

[oceansflower]

I know-- I wouldn't have let that be an option! I'm not going to kill someone else to live. I'd rather die than do something like that.

[lifeistooshort]

Well, no one's dying! So forget about that option.

What other important things have they asked for?

[oceansflower]

I... don't know. It's never come up before exactly like this!

[lifeistooshort]

Damn it. . . without a reference point, I don't know what to give! Hell, I don't want to give those bastards anything.

[oceansflower]

I don't, either! They-- they don't deserve anything for putting us in this situation.

[lifeistooshort]

They don't deserve anything dragging us here in the first place. I don't care if they need our help-- I hate people who don't try to at least help themselves first.

[oceansflower]

. . . Mm. It's not so bad most of the time, but when they do this kind of thing to us. . . I can't accept it!

[lifeistooshort]

Then we won't!

[pauses, rubbing at his chin, still tryign to think]

What if we try to give them something they value instead of something we value?

[oceansflower]

I don't know what they value. . . One is a pirate, though. Do you think he'd like treasure?

[already reaching for her hairpins, since they have gemstones in them. not that it would be a lot, though.]

It's not a lot, and they probably aren't anywhere near enough, but they can have these. They have real gemstones in them!

[lifeistooshort]

[takes them, turning them over in his hands. . .]

It's a start.

[oceansflower]

I don't know what else we could give.

[lifeistooshort]

What else do we have? Memories, skills, ourselves. . .

I don't want to give up a part of who I am for their goddamn pleasure.

[oceansflower]

I don't, either. That's all we have, though, isn't it? I don't want to lose my memories or skills again when we're supposed to be winning them back!

[the most frustrated noise]

[lifeistooshort]

Then let's think of things we have back at the cabin.

Apollo's cooking?

[oceansflower]

He probably wouldn't care if we gave up his food, too, as long as we were safe!

[lifeistooshort]

Food, gemstones. . . hell, you could offer to design a dress for that mermaid chick.

[oceansflower]

Why not! I could do a different pirate outfit for the pirate guy, too. Even though they don't deserve it.

[lifeistooshort]

And then we could offer to do favors of them, too! Swab their stupid pirate decks and tend to their stupid mermaid gardens.

[oceansflower]

And offering to find the mermaid lady's frogs! She lost them on the boat.

[lifeistooshort]

Are they still lost?