❀ Iolite

[dramatispersonae]

[When you move to your team's table, a thin fabric wall rises up after you, blocking the sight and sound of the other teams.]

Comments

❀ First Task

[dramatispersonae]

[Three wooden boxes appear: one is small and wicker, one is medium and wooden, and one is large and has gold-foil designs. They cannot be opened or harmed in any way. Next to the boxes, seven figurines clatter down. They are wooden carvings of various types of bird: one is a hawk, one is a dove, one is an owl, one is a bunting, one is a crane, one is a goose, and one is a quail. They also cannot be harmed. Kiriko's voice is in your head.]

Please choose one figure and one box as a team. Do not take too long.

❀ Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Discussion

[dormancy]

[resting against the dragon]

Hmm, gold . . . ?

Re: ❀ Discussion

[playfreebird]

[considering the birds]

...The hawk or the crane?

Re: ❀ Discussion

[shipwithwings]

[curled around Vincent, but snaking his head out for the gold box]

❀ Decision

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Decision

[playfreebird]

The hawk and the gold box.

❀ Second Task

[dramatispersonae]

[The unchosen boxes and figurines disappear.]

Please, as a team, choose five things to give your bird and decide on five things that your bird wants. What you give them must be in the box; what they want there is no limit to.

❀ Your box is open/Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

[In your box you will find a deer skull, three molars, a silk handkerchief that is entirely black except for two red eyes, a gold coin, a small vial of blood, a pen, and seven strips of paper. One strip of paper is blank, but the other six have words written on them: power, ruthlessness, patience, justice, ego, and truth.]

Re: ❀ Your box is open/Discussion

[playfreebird]

[interesting]

Re: ❀ Your box is open/Discussion

[dormancy]

[taking the handkerchief . . . ]

Re: ❀ Your box is open/Discussion

[deadofknight]

[poking through the box]

Re: ❀ Your box is open/Discussion

[shipwithwings]

A hawk would like the skull and the blood, they are most like its meals.

Re: ❀ Your box is open/Discussion

[uroboric]

Hmm. . .

[taking the 'power' strip

annnnnd ripping it in half]

Re: ❀ Discussion

[hunting]

[Sup. Suddenly second knight!]

Re: ❀ Your box is open/Discussion

[playfreebird]

It would seem we can write in one of the attributes. Any thoughts?

Re: ❀ Your box is open/Discussion

[dormancy]

So, we're placing the skull, blood, and ruthlessness inside the box.

It would like truth and . . . ? Haha, destroyed power?

❀ Decision

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Decision

[dormancy]

[putting the skull, blood, ruthlessness, patience, and loyalty written on the blank paper in the box as well as the coin and truth]

We give our bird a skull and blood to be able to find food in unlikely place as well as ruthlessness, patience and loyalty. What is desires is the coin—That is, luck— along with truth, freedom, adventure, and prey.

❀ Final Task

[dramatispersonae]

[Another bird appears in front of you. This one, however, is alive.]

This bird has five things and wants five things, just as yours did. What do you believe it wants? Remember, there is no limit.

❀ The Bird/Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

[This owl is brown and gray with red tips on the feathers, and it sits on a wooden perch. It has an Amethyst bracelet on one foot. It is wearing a conical straw hat and a straw cape, and it appears to be munching on something. It tilts its head at you every so often and shuffles around on the perch.]

Re: ❀ The Bird/Discussion

[hunting]

[... Wtf is that?]

Re: ❀ The Bird/Discussion

[shipwithwings]

[sniffs at it...]

Why is the bird wearing a hat?

Re: ❀ The Bird/Discussion

[deadofknight]

It wants...shelter from the rain? The cold? Weather in general?

❀ Decision

[dramatispersonae]