Dog Game - Group 6

[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 eight 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

[exchanged]

What...

Re: Discussion

[blossomedtwice]

..ah.... jump a fence? What?

Re: Discussion

[scratched]

Great, literally in the doghouse. What an awesome fucking game.

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.]

Re: Presentation

[exchanged]

[okay gawd I'll start off. Neutral neutral! holds the skeleton gingerly.]

This is when we were finding the cubes to unlock Beauty's Castle. It was like trying to jump a fence because we were given challenges we had to overcome before we could get to "the other side" and receive our rewards.

Re: Presentation

[blossomedtwice]

[ okay SIG NEG memory is go!!! ]

Ah, this is memory that occurred soon after I arrived. We were attempting to leave the cove for this place, but there were many, many obstacles we had to get past -- or jump over, like one might have to jump fence!

Re: Presentation

[scratched]

[SIG NEU]

There is literally climbing involved. Basically trying to climb the Great Wall of Cass-block here, fell on my ass on the other side - there you go, prime time live Dave Strider theater, and this doesn't leave the room.

Re: Presentation

[exchanged]

[Trivial neutral!]

Building the clinic was like trying to jump over a wall... in that it took a lot of work and was easier with other people helping. There, that's four. We're halfway there.

Re: Presentation

[blossomedtwice]

[ TRIV NEG ]

Attempting to introduce myself to Sasuke was like trying to jump over a wall because he would not let me in. In the end, it was a failed attempt. And that is another one out of the way!

Re: Presentation

[scratched]

[Trivial Neutral]

That thing the other guy said about challenges and climbing or whatever works here too. More like walking around the wall, but I'm fishing here.

Re: Presentation

[exchanged]

[Trivial positive.]

This... was probably the first time I got to use a skill I'd learned here in Aather to help a team during a game. It was successfully jumping over a wall of, uh, worrying about being useful, I guess.

Re: Presentation

[blossomedtwice]

[SIG NEU!!!]

This particular memory was like trying to jump over a fence because saving the heroes involved jumping through a lot of hoops and moving around points! And that is number eight!

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 eight memories of digging a hole!

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[scratched]

[oh no.......]

Re: Discussion

[blossomedtwice]

[ what ]

Presentation

[dramatispersonae]

Results

[dramatispersonae]

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

Round 3

[dramatispersonae]

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

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Presentation

[dramatispersonae]

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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 three 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.

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