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light-me-on-pyre · 8 months ago

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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/352115/the-friendship-test

Link to the story I mentioned in the tags (there's also a reading linked in the story description)

trial 1 was brand yourself or brand the next pony person in line. Nonlethal (unless you lunge for whumper and get your friend zapped to death)

trial 2 was beat rainbow dash or stab the next person in line to the hilt with the dagger. (same person could get beaten repeatedly over multiple turns or you could stab someone once)

trial 3 was toxic laughing gas. Hold your breath!

trial 4 was choose one of your friends to drown.

trial 5 was choice or chance poison. (in the cider one of the whumpees sold for extra flavor)

We don't get to see trial 6 because trial 1 was supposed to be nonlethal (so she says) but damn does the winner get survivor's guilt :)

(I didn't know what whump was when I was in the brony fandom but I think I still figured out what whump was even if not by name lmao)

Hey, I know I've been MIA for SEVERAL YEARS now, but I am writing a fic and I CANNOT get through my next chapter so I'm caving and asking for help.

In this fic, I have a whumper who is into games. They're making the whumpee go through trials. The whumpee nailed the fist trial and they're not happy. The whumper is also in posession of whumpee's family (of which I want two to perish in this chapter and three to survive). I'm having trouble thinking about the second trial.

I would like something intellectual: that is, the whumpee would choose to control the outcome, but it would always be terrible (Sophie's choice sort of deal). At first I thought something akin to the chess in Harry Potter in which each of the charaters represents a piece and if the piece gets captured they die. But I feel like that would be 1) hard to narrate 2) hard for readers to follow and 3) it's literally a rip off.

But I'm having trouble thinking of other ways that might happen. Does anyone have any suggestions on where I can look for inspiration?

#Whump misc #Reminds me of an mlp fic #Probably called The Friendship Test but not 100% sure #Where starlight glimmer puts the mane 6 through a series of trials to test which is the 'best at being an element of harmony'#Or something like that #I forget the specific rules for each trial #But the first is for kindness and all 6 wake up magically restrained in the same room #And they have to say where the next one of them in line gets stabbed #or they can choose to stab themselves #One of them dies from their wounds #One of them is the generosity trial #I think there's only three of them left?#There's three chambers and a big tank of water connected to all three #And once the water starts flowing if none of them do anything all three of them die #But if you press the button to fill your tank faster your friends live #I think they also had the option to press buttons for the other tanks #By nature one of them drowned #The final test was for honesty there were only two of them left #It was a prisoners dilemma situation where if they both agreed to not poison the others cup one random one would be poisoned #It would be a coin toss essentially but if you wrote down to poison the others cup the other cup would be poisoned and you would live #But if you both poisoned eachothers cup you would both die #If you can find it I recommend giving it a read but otherwise I hopefully gave enough description to prompt you :)#I don't remember what the other three trials were but I'm sure they were good too

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