[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2850/3675]
If I could cry, I would.
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2800/3675]
I'm lying curled on my side in warm sunlight. Directly in warm sunlight. I can feel my skin drying out and hardening. It's too warm. If I could cry, I would, but, since I can't, I just ignore the brat who keeps trying to make me eat again.
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2750/3675]
My voracious appetite from before is gone. How long have I slept? It was bright then and it's bright now, but I'm still in this cage and now we're outside and I'm going to die.
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2700/3675]
I'd fallen asleep in cool darkness inside a building with many openings filled with leaves and branches. Passed the comforting shadows was a blinding brightness or maybe it was just blinding in comparison. But it couldn't reach me where we were. Why are we out here now? Why am I being punished?
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2650/3675]
Was the karma thingy I was getting negative karma? Am I being punished for my greed? I hadn't eaten in so long and the tender petals were so sweet and satisfying... How was I supposed to know, no one told me anything! I still don't understand. But I got more karma for producing silk. Was I not supposed to? How much karma is this brat getting feeding me and taking my silk? I worked hard and now I'm going to be a baked, dry husk. Is this the reward for all of my hard work?
[-50 Karma]
[Clarity Loss]
[Current Realm: Cloudy(Tier 3)]
[Current Karma: 2600/2625]
[New Skill Gained]
[Resonating Cry]
My back splits and I scream. The sound I make is ungodly. It sounds horrifying to me, a sound like nails on a chalkboard. The sound is upsetting to me but apparently very painful to the brat. He screams, not nearly as impressive, and covers his ears, falling to the ground.
[Resonating Cry Successful]
[Karma Granted: 20]
[Current Karma: 2620/2625]
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2570/2625]
[New Skill Unlocked]
[Entomb]
I'm impressed. Whatever else this body lacks I have an impressive set of lungs. I don't have to pause for air, my throat isn't getting sore, and I haven't lost pitch. Very impressive.
[Resonating Cry Successful]
[Karma Granted: 20]
[Current Karma: 2590/2625]
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2540/2625]
A group of people in matching clothing rush into the room. Attendants or guards? Whether because of my cries or the brat's, I can't tell. They may kill me but now I can fight! Let them suffer my wrath!
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[Resonating Cry Successful]
[Karma Granted: 20]
[Current Karma: 2560/2625]
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2510/2625]
They're ignoring me. They're not suffering at all! But the brat still is! I will have my revengeance! They surround the boy, one of them coming over to me and looking around. I have no off switch!
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2460/2625]
Why am I not? Getting karma anymore? Three of the uniformed people race away, two carrying the boy upright while a third has their hands clapped over the child's ears. Did they just form a human throne for that brat? Are they blocking me out? With their hands? What kind of attack can be stopped by covering your ears?! I demand justice!
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2410/2625]
I keep screaming, just in case. Maybe they won't get far enough away and I'll get one last shot in. Three more people rush in, two men not in matching uniforms and a woman wearing clothing that looks suspiciously like what I pooped out before... I didn't produce enough silk for a whole outfit, did I?
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2360/2625]
Bah! Whoever these people are they're immune to my cries of pain. Have they no hearts? Have they no souls? Whatever. I don't have to stop and the screams aren't affecting me and it's something to do besides lying around.
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2310/2625]
I'm not sure what language they're speaking but I have no idea what they're saying. The woman is casually ordering everyone around in a calm voice, directing them with a silk scarf tucked into a ring on her right hand. They can hear her over me? Unfair. Someone races into the surrounding plants and I no longer see them. What is this vision? It's like my world is only 20 ft.
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2260/2625]
I keep screaming and the only response this garners is for the woman to stomp her foot. She's already sent everyone else off, scattering them to the four corners. Oh, ho. Now we have a new game! Do I stop screaming or will she lose patience with my screams? If I'm a bug, am I breathing through holes along my body? What kind of control do I have to be able to breathe and scream so easily? Same control that lets me poop out 10 yd of silk! I cannot fail!
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2210/2625]
One of the men comes back and bows to the woman, holding out what looks like a small candy tin with both hands, head lowered even after she removes the item from his hands. She opens it and I smell something tasty. Oh... It's like smelling bacon frying without the greasy feeling! Delicious!
[-50 Karma]
[Current Karma: 2160/2625]
The woman runs her fingers all through what looks like a creamy substance in the jar. Is it really bacon grease? It looks so smooth and clean! How many times did they filter and render that to make it look so silky? I want to move, but I'm afraid of opening my wound further. I won't stop screaming until I get whatever that is. You won't trick me into stopping with false promises!
What? I stop screaming in shock. I could keep screaming, I'm just surprised when she rubs the cream along my wound. It feels nice. Cool and moist. Much better than the soil I was dug out of. Another person comes back and she takes a flower from him, this one bright blue with some petals coming out like tendrils. I try not to nod off but I'm so sleepy...
Oh? I'm not losing karma anymore. Ah! They're healing me! Another person comes in with a long broad leaf that they wrap around my dry, warm body and another person comes in with a box of dirt. The woman hands me the giant flower and I sleepily take it, not even remembering that I won't work after their mistreatment.
[Sky Blossom Petal Consumed]
[Karma Granted: 100]
[Current Karma: 2260/2625]
She sets me on the soil as I sleepily munch on the cooling blue petals. My body responds without any prompting and I quickly bury myself, face barely poking out of the cool damp soil, the flower used as an edible sun shade and I nod off.
[Entomb Successful]
[Karma Granted: 500]
[Clarity Regained]
[Current Karma: 2760/3675]
[Current Realm: Cloudy(Tier3)]
[Sky Blossom Petal Consumed]
[Karma Granted: 150(+50 Entombed)]
[Current Karma: 2910/3675]