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Okay, so I’ve decided on what the Ostium Clan Arm Trial is for Thrown to Wolves verse and- just- *snickers*. Here’s a direct quote from my notes.
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Officially it’s one of the only trials that take place in the village rather than out in the wilds, and consists of hunting and magical skill by tracking down five marked Galahdians from amid the crowd and stealing their scarves before they can get away.
In actuality it’s the unholy offspring of Hide and Seek Tag and Ulric Wrangling for Dummies™. The five targets are always Ulrics of varying ages and the real challenge of the Trial is to catch them and get the scarf before they freaking warp away again.
Few things are as humbling or humiliating for a teenage Trial Goer as being outsmarted and outdone by a Warptastic 5-6 year old and a 65 year old grandmother who is somehow still more acrobatic than you in her old age (and also just as Warptastic as the child).
Age ranges of the targets are usually kids 5-12 or adults 35-70. Not teenagers, because Ulric teens reach their peak energy at that point and the Ostium consider it unfair. And also too potentially destructive, to have a teenage Trial goer chasing after a teenaged Ulric. Also nobody wants to see what happens when you have two Ulric Teenagers trying to one-up each other during the Trial, and considering the Ostium Clan Arm is always either the second or third Clan Arm an Ulric comes for, there need to be major contingencies and preventative measures in place to keep the Chaos To A Minimum™.
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Omg, with Ulric Trial takers it basically becomes warp-tag. The kids are easy enough, but imagine, for Ulrics one of the volunteers is ALWAYS one of the best Ulric warpers (a 63 yr old Naenia, silver hair and laugh lines who cackles with GLEE at leading the young upstarts on a merry chase and proving that she’s still got it in spades kthnks) and the Ulric teens groan because they know this is going to be a right pain in the ass and they are NEVER going to live this down.
Me: This. Exactly this. All of the Ostium alternate between groaning (ULRIC WARP TAG. There goes all peace and quiet for the next 48 hours) and cackling (REVENGE LOOK HOW MUCH TROUBLE YOU IDIOTS PUT US THROUGH).
The look on Cor’s face when he’s outdone and led by the nose for HOURS by not just kiddos but a SILVER HAIRED GRANDMA. Priceless.
Regis impresses everyone when he wins in like- the most unorthodox manner. *winks* I think I’ll keep the how a secret for now.
secret_engima…evil thought. Considering that Regis et al are outsiders - and potentially threats to Their Idiots - precisely one (1) Ulric Teenager is allowed to participate when it comes to Regis et al’s trials.
Also, Nyx insists on being able to ‘play’ with ‘his Cor’l!’ and ‘’nunkle Reg!’
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