Dog Game - Group 1

[dramatispersonae]

[You're in a small, dark room with no doors. The walls and floor are made of something like cement, though the floor is spread out with brightly-colored towels to make it a little softer (it doesn't help much.) The only light comes from one small window — you can maybe stand on your tiptoes, to see that it shows nothing but a view of a chainlink fence outside. It does not open or break. Despite the uncomfortable surroundings, the atmosphere is peaceful, if a little claustrophobic.

In the center of the floor there's a wide drain. The grate over it has been broken open and there's room for you to fit both hands in, but you feel a crawling apprehension about touching it, which makes sense if you know anything about Aather at all: up to an inch from the floor level it's filled with liquid darkness.

There are bowls next to each of you filled with tiny animal skeletons (they're kind of mousy?) If you touch the bowl, you know instinctively that they contain some of your memories of Aather and which skeleton is which memory. ♥

The Dog's voice in your head is less uncertain than before:]

Hello, hello! We're supposed to — retrieve your memories back from the darkness, right? It was bad darkness to take them! But to get there we have to run and jump with all our other memories and thoughts! Help me get a scent, please—? If you let them loose in the darkness right, I'll be able to follow!

Comments

Round 1

[dramatispersonae]

You need at least ten memories from the whole group — one at a time and not too many, because there'll be more after this—! First, memories of trying to jump a fence! You need to take your memory in your hands and explain why it's a memory of that for it to come alive for everyone, and then everyone else has to convince it to lead me there!

[if you take the "skeleton" of your memory and describe why that time in your life was like trying to jump a fence, the little skeletal mouse-thing will glow and play the memory for everyone to experience. once the other people in your group have commented on or discussed your memory and why it is appropriate for this round's theme, the skeleton will come alive, chittering, and leap into the darkness in the grate.]

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[hunting]

[... SUDDENLY HATES EVERY ASPECT OF THIS IN ITS ENTIRETY.]

Re: Discussion

[virtuallyroyalty]

... I'm not sure I'm cool with this.

Re: Discussion

[mylittlecavallone]

[ o god there's no one from Onyx and I have a bowl of tiny bones what if I break my own memories ]

Presentation

[dramatispersonae]

[Present each of your memories in separate comments, and let all the others in your group who are going get their first memories down before putting up your second, second memories down before putting up your third, and so on. Please include a link to your miniregistry comment and a note on which memory you're presenting from there (sigpos, trivneu, etc.) with each memory.]

Round 1 - Mako

[browbeater]

This memory's like trying to jump a fence because we were trying to climb onto the stage when we were underground back at Three's place.

It was pretty annoying.

[shrugs.]

Re: Presentation

[virtuallyroyalty]

[ Presents his wildcard memory! ]

Uh... this one's more metaphorical, but it was like climbing as fence because there was one really obvious solution which was pretty troublesome! It was my first time I came across that in a game too, so it was definitely more like a roadblock or a fence that was in my way than anything! So we decided to find a way to get over it, and did, and it was awesome.

Re: Presentation

[mylittlecavallone]

[ Putting in his triv neg. ]

... Well, sometimes we try to jump fences and sometimes we don't make it. Some hurdles in life are pretty stubborn.

Re: Presentation

[hunting]

[Slowwwwly shoving forward trivial neutral.]

... Trying to make a bunch of drunk, hyperactive teenagers listen to common sense is like trying to jump an impossibly high fence.

Round 1 - Mako #2

[browbeater]

Okay, so part of jumping a fence is psyching yourself up for it.

[yep, this memory]

Well, this memory was me psyching myself up for it.

[looks kind of grumpy at the very thought of this memory.]

Re: Presentation

[virtuallyroyalty]

[ And now for a triv pos! ]

Because when it's your first night and first game in Aather and you've got no where near the same tolerance level as these older knights and you've got to think up ways to get them to take a shot and try to guess what you can even take a shot about... that's definitely a really high fence to try and get over!

Re: Presentation

[mylittlecavallone]

[ Setting forward his sig pos. ]

Aah, this was the time Onyx had to get our own place. That was a pretty big fence to jump over, but we managed.

Re: Presentation

[hunting]

[Absently nudging forward his neutral neutral.]

Sometimes, you need to help others jump that fence too. So that they can show everyone else the trick.

Re: Presentation

[virtuallyroyalty]

[ Kazuki... hesitates a little before showing his neutral negative. He looks a little embarrassed and nonplussed. Maybe even wistful. ]

Uh, okay, fair warning I was basically shooting my mouth off and didn't know much back then and grasping at straws... but there's stuff that's still true and I still wanna stand behind the intentions, I guess. Which is like with Thorn and helping boost someone over a fence? Except less about teaching someone how to hunt, and instead... listening and talking about finding your own place. Iris was having a hard time and I was looking for ways to help her.

Re: Presentation

[hunting]

[And very, very reluctantly moving his significant positive.]

Sometimes others can be showing you how to jump a difficult fence without even realizing it. Ways around things come in different forms.

Result

[dramatispersonae]

[the dark bubbles a little, briefly veined through with thin streamers of light before it goes quiescent again.]

Round 2

[dramatispersonae]

Yes, good job! Now — at least ten memories of digging a hole!

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Presentation

[dramatispersonae]

Result

[dramatispersonae]

[the darkness is now... glittering...]

Round 3

[dramatispersonae]

Almost there... this is the most important part. I need at least ten memories from all of you about finding your way home.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Presentation

[dramatispersonae]

Result

[dramatispersonae]

[the darkness drains away down the hole, whatever blockage was stopping it removed. about a foot down, there's an unbroken grate — and sitting on top of the grate are four fused bone statues, each one shaped like whatever animal you oocly want your character to have. when you pick them up you realize that they're memory share items; you can put any memory in one and share it once, three times over.]

Is this a good trick? I could roll over if that doesn't work—

[a moment later, you're at the ring.]