CORAL

[dramatispersonae]

[As the game begins, each team finds themselves standing in a small ring of stones. The crystal pillar rests in the center of the circle, easily within sight and hearing of everything that will be going on. You can leave and see the other columns if you like, but once the game has started you can't see what the other teams are doing.

Also present is a small wrought-iron table, on which a curious mechanical swan rests. There's a glass panel set into its back, under which you can see a corroded key. The swan seems to be completely lifeless.]

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[overboard]

Thoughts?

Do you think we'll be sacrificing one of our own memories to give it one, or is it something that we could amalgamate things from different sources and give it a story as a memory?

Re: DISCUSSION

[loveispower]

Maybe we could give it a story? It wouldn't hurt to try.

Re: DISCUSSION

[suicidewatch]

Maybe not a whole story, but a good memory? Like "flying in the sky" or "falling in love."

Re: DISCUSSION

[blackjacked]

. . . it doesn't specify. But it's not a memory it can call its own if it belongs to one of us.

Think we should ask?

Re: DISCUSSION

[overboard]

If we give it a name and a story and the story isn't valid, we'll still have completed one of the options, right? So let's just do it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[loveispower]

Yeah, we've got to move quickly. Maybe . . . Katerina for a name?

Re: DISCUSSION

[overboard]

Great! We can call it Katya for short.

Re: DISCUSSION

[blackjacked]

But what's the difference between the two tasks? If we complete one, and not the other. . . then what happens?

Re: DISCUSSION

[overboard]

Well, I don't know, but if we take a chance, it'll be a moot point because they'll both be fulfilled, right?

Re: DISCUSSION

[blackjacked]

If we take the chance and make up a story for the memory and it isn't accepted, only the name portion will be fulfilled.

With Dragonfly's life on the line, we need to be absolutely sure whatever we give is something she's gonna take.

Re: DISCUSSION

[loveispower]

She has to take the name even if she doesn't take the story.

Re: DISCUSSION

[overboard]

If you think we'll get a solid answer on that, then it's fine to ask. Otherwise the language is vague, and we'll never be sure either way. It'd be better for us to do something creative. If it's one of our memories, then how can it be hers, too? She deserves to have something unique.

Re: DISCUSSION

[blackjacked]

That's what I think, I just-- [hrrrgh] I just want to be sure it'll be something she'll accept to help out Dragonfly.

Re: DISCUSSION

[overboard]

I know. I just think it's going to be near impossible to have solid confirmation of anything, but I don't want to discourage you from asking if that's what you'd like to do.

Re: DISCUSSION

[blackjacked]

Tch. You're probably right. And after the last game, I'm not too keen on giving up our own memories if we can help it.

[nods] Then let's make something up. If she doesn't take it, we can yell at her.

Re: DISCUSSION

[loveispower]

It's the swan's memory. Like, um . . . maybe one day when Katya was little she was swimming and found a really beautiful bunch of flowers?

Re: DISCUSSION

[blackjacked]

[p-pffffft]

That sounds pretty happy.

Re: DISCUSSION

[loveispower]

Well I don't want to give her a bad one.

Re: DISCUSSION

[blackjacked]

I wouldn't either.

Re: DISCUSSION

[overboard]

And she wanted to bring the flowers home to her mother, do you think?

Re: DISCUSSION

[suicidewatch]

Because she really cares for her. And her mother was happy?

Re: DISCUSSION

[loveispower]

We're still giving her a name, right? So that's the first task.

Re: DISCUSSION

[blackjacked]

[nods] That part's easy. It's the memory part I think we need clarification on.

Re: DISCUSSION

[suicidewatch]

Let's not give any of our own memories if we can help it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[overboard]

I agree.