Dog Game - Group 4

[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

[yourmama]

Uhhh… Not sure I ever jumped a fence… Ducked under a few, I guess.

Re: Discussion

[antreegonist]

*looks at the memories, then at the darkness in the grate; shivers briefly.*

This sort of thing, huh.

Re: Discussion

[heliotropic]

. . . soooooooo . . . fence jumping.

Re: Discussion

[heroinhisowntime]

[trailing in slightly late I guess]

Uh, hmm... this is kind of like that other storytelling game, huh... Only with memories instead of treasures.

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

[yourmama]

[Presenting Neutral Neutral: CAMEL PUNCHING EDITION]

Kay, so this is fence-jumpin' 'cause I took on two camels by myself and wasn't real hurt or nothin'. I wanted to see how strong I was and how strong they were, and I got it done. I had a bruise 'cause I couldn't heal myself back then or anythin', but I got what I wanted to do done. I didn't know I could goin' out there or nothin'. And since fence-jumpin' is still fence-jumpin' if you hit your leg on the fence, it counts, 'cause I still did it.

Re: Presentation

[antreegonist]

*picks up the neutral-neutral mouse*

--jeez, this one's long. Anyway, that castle was one of the first really huge things to appear out of nowhere in Beauty's forest -- that's the original part of Aather everyone showed up in -- and lots of us were all pretty confused and weirded out when it did. The fence was trying to figure out this whole deal with Personae and their rules and things, and gearing up for whatever it was we found in the castle. We didn't know much at all about them then, but we learned a little more from the castle and Beauty and Mal, and we're still learning -- trying.

And, um. Sorry if it gave you a headache too. Some of these are kinda rough.

Re: Presentation

[heroinhisowntime]

[Significant Neutral! Carrying Sasuke and Chariot away to the boat.]

Uh, I wasn't jumping any actual fences here, but there aren't any actual fences in Aather, and I was definitely jumping over a lot of other stuff. Because I can jump really high with my power, even when I'm carrying people! And... you could say I was jumping over the boundary between Onyx and Sterling? I guess there was one right then, anyway.

Re: Presentation

[heliotropic]

[ Conversation with Ehiru - Triv Pos ]

I jumped the logical fence a bit, I think. It's not that impressive but it's certainly a fence that was breached. People aren't really jam, after all.

. . . man, this is not nearly as good as camels. We need to see about getting camels too . . .

Re: Presentation

[yourmama]

[Sig Pos: Onyx-joining edition!]

Kay, so this is fence-jumpin' for a lot of reasons. Like, um, beard-guy said, people think there's kinda a fence between Onyx and Sterling sometimes, huh? So I'm jumpin' that fence. And I'm jumpin' the fence 'cause back then everyone kept tellin' me to think about it real hard, it was a real big decision, so I kept thinkin' about it even after I'd made up my mind. 'Cept then stuff happened and I decided in this memory that I was just gonna do it. 'Cause if you just stay there behind the fence thinkin' about whether or not to jump it, or, ummmm… how to jump it, you're never gonna. And I'm real happy I did.

Re: Presentation

[antreegonist]

*sig pos mouse! choosing his wording more carefully here*

If we get to share all of these you're gonna see a few more with Mal and Beauty, they're in half of mine. When Mal first showed up I was pretty unsure of her -- there was kind of a lot going on -- and I had my moments with Beauty too. I guess for a little while we weren't -- building a fence between Sterling and Onyx, but trying to figure out if there was one in the first place. And this is after we decided there wasn't, that we were all knights. A bunch of people from both groups pitched in here . . . we haven't managed to hang out all together like this again for a while! Maybe we should.

Re: Presentation

[heroinhisowntime]

[Significant Positive! On the boat, hairruffles for Sasuke.]

Right, and then this one is fence jumping because everyone was finally on their way to a new realm! And... Sasuke puts up a lot of walls, which are like fences, but I think I got over them a little here.

Re: Presentation

[heliotropic]

[ "Just sex" with Kazuki ... - triv pos ]

Isn't this jumping fences in relations or something? Sex talk is always got to be a fence right? People get silly about it so.

Re: Presentation

[heroinhisowntime]

[Neutral Positive! Sasuke doesn't deny bonding happened.]

And then this one is the same sort of thing... Sasuke's got a lot of fences, I guess. But he didn't say we didn't get over some of them! That's progress too, right?

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]

Presentation

[dramatispersonae]

Result

[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]

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.]