Task Seven: Blood Moon [QF]

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The Timeline

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So much has gone

so many left without a sound

Three years have passed

so many have been lost

Apollo Finn

Pemele Herem of the South

Davidson of the West

of the original clan, only Gareth remains

with each death, life grows weaker

the thirst grows stronger

THE TASK

Three years have passed since the last task took place. Your character is older, maybe not in body but in mind. Wherever they are now, whoever they've become, that's entirely up to you. If you stayed with the clan, you may have seen the names above die. Perhaps you were even the ultimate cause of it. 

In this task, as you go about your day to day activities, you'll start to feel a strong pain throughout your body. It's stayed with you consistently through these years, but seems to grow stronger the longer you wait. You've felt this pain before-- when Caroline died, only it was much, much stronger then. If you chose to stay with the clan, this pain may feel more intense to you compared to those who left. 

While you are doing whatever it is you're doing, the pain will reach its breaking point. It'll be worse than when Caroline died, worse than any pain you've ever felt before. And through the midst of all your agony-- you will set your sights on one person. Any person. Friend, enemy, stranger. You'll be able to hear their heartbeat, smell the blood pumping through their veins. They're healthy. Strong. But you don't want to kill them, you want something far worse. In this task, with the blood moon high in the sky, you will turn another human being into one of you. Morally struggle against it all you want, the only requirement for this task is that by the end of it, you must have turned someone or be in the processes. 

If your deal with the rival clan member in any way involved becoming human again, here's what you can do for this task. Either:

1. Have your deal end up going sour and there is no cure.

or

2. Witness ANOTHER character still remaining in the competition change somebody. 

or

3. Some other solution you think will work just as well. (The artistic freedom route.)

DEADLINE

The deadline for this task will be Friday, November 25th, at 7 P.M. PDT. Since the 24th is Thanksgiving, those of you celebrating it might want to consider turning in a little earlier than normal so that you can enjoy the holiday without stress. 

SINBAD'S GIFT

For Sinbad's last gift, he will be sponsoring JANE BRUNO. For her, he awards two cups of dirty gas station coffee and an extra two hours to the deadline.  

ELIMINATION

Out of the five of you left, four of you will be going up for votes. One will be leaving us, and the rest will continue on to the semi-finals.

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