<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/ivOJI1t.jpg)</div><strong>Name</strong>:  Maya Kritri (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1864703)<br/><strong>HP</strong>:  51/51<br/><strong>Status Effects</strong>: Normal<br/><hr/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Knowledge Test</div><div class="spoiler_body">Arcana = 26<br/>Architecture/Engineering = 16<br/>Dungeoneering = 26<br/>Geography = 16<br/>History = 16<br/>Local = 16<br/>Nature = 16<br/>Nobility/Royalty = 16<br/>Religion = 20<br/>The Planes = 26<br/><br/>Passed 4/10 skills (+0 Excellency)<br/>Passed 3 at +5 DC (+3 Excellency)<br/>6 known languages (+2 Excellency)<br/><br/>So 4 points +5 excellency<br/></div></div><br/>The first round had all but dissolved Maya's expectations that she would receive any prize whatsoever.  With that in mind she had a rather flippant attitude towards the rest of the challenges.  She listened to the instructions her Goddess was giving them all, smiling faintly to herself as the details were laid out.  "Hope you all been studyin'," she commented to the others.  Maya never usually came across to others as particularly intelligent, given her typical mode of speaking.  If anything she seemed more like a common adventurer that would have been better suited to the bronze rank rather than the current rank she held.  It wasn't necessarily an act she put forward, she just didn't care to fit nicely into the typical stereotypes that others did.  Maybe the others would expect less of her that way, or maybe it didn't really matter at all.  Maya lived her life her way and that was all that ever really mattered to her in the end.<br/><br/>"Ind'vidual tests?  'n I was hopin' I'd find someone to cheat off of..." she joked to the other competitors who seemed rather tight-lipped throughout the challenges thusfar.  More's the pity for them.<br/><br/>"Well wish me luck fellas, not sure I'll make it out...braincramps may just do me in!" she added before disappearing within her own testing chamber.<br/><br/>Within the chamber she decided to stretch and relax, sitting down and leaning back as she looked up at the magical screen with the questions.  Maya was well versed in a variety of areas of knowledge, though she was still significantly more focused than was desired for this test.  Between magic, aberrations, religion, and the various planes of existence her knowledge was spent.  Trivial things, such as how to cut wood, or local rumors, or kings and queens were not interesting to her so she never spent much time learning about them.  Regardless, she decided to take her time puzzling over the answers to the questions that were being given to her, enjoying the time that they were being allowed to at least relax for a short while.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Will Test</div><div class="spoiler_body">Will = 17 (19 vs. Charm)<br/><br/>Fear 1 = 10 (Pass)<br/>Lust 1 = 11 (Pass)<br/>Despair 1 = 12 (Pass)<br/>Fear 2 = 13 (Pass)<br/>Lust 2 = 14 (Pass)<br/>Despair 2 = 15 (Pass)<br/>Fear 3 = 16 (Pass)<br/>Lust 3 = 17 (Pass)<br/>Despair 3 = 18 (Fail)<br/><br/>Passed 8 rounds<br/></div></div><br/>The following test of their wills wasn't one that really worried Maya, though she was far from the most adept at resisting mental influence--at least among her peers.  Maya projected an appearance of being willful and independent, but she was easily distracted and it was not difficult to change her mind at times.  It was likely due to her nature and the toll it had taken on her mental health.  Still she hid her shortcomings well, at least in this particular case.  "Tch," she muttered in a dismissive way of the description of the tests.  Obviously she didn't seem particularly impressed by what they were planning to throw up against them.<br/><br/>She looked on as some of the others went through the test, making it turn after turn without so much as a whimper, a moan, or a tear.  Eventually it came time for her to go through the trial as well and she entered pillar after pillar.  She was unfazed the first time through the three, and looked similarly unaffected by them the second time she passed through them all one at a time.  It wasn't until the third round that she showed a faint shiver as she exited the pillar of Fear, though the pillar of Lust flushed her skin she seemed largely unaffected.  It wasn't until she was tested in the pillar of Despair the third time that her mind eventually buckled under the assault.<br/><br/>There was no specific thing that the test pushed upon her that broke her down, instead it was the insidious whispers of doubt that tickled at her mind.  Her freedom was slowly being taken away from her, the increase of her rank within the adventurer's guild, the promise to her Goddess, the artifact she wore which could potentially end up being her prison.  It was all crashing in on her, forcing her into actions that she didn't want to do, forcing her to live her life a different way.  And she knew there was no way to fight back.  She laughed as she exited the test, perhaps not exactly the response others would expect from the test of Despair.  She laughed and laughed, though it was a cold and bitter sound.  Eventually her knees buckled beneath her and she knelt on the ground, holding her head in her hands.  The laughing was interspersed with sobs and tears.  It carried on even passed the time that she would have normally been affected by the challenge, though she recovered shortly after.  She wiped the tears from her face with her Asgardian uniform before her hands fell down to the ground at either side of her.<br/><br/>She stared at the dirt for a moment before slowly standing up, her face still slightly red and puffy with tears though she seemed mostly indifferent to it now.<br/><br/>"Piece o' pie, what we doin' next?" she asked.  She put on a brave face at the end before turning to retire to the preparation room once again.  She hadn't used many spells after all, so it was almost unnecessary to return to prepare, she would simply refresh the spells she had already used and hope she wouldn't be so restricted on her magic use during the next round of competition.