Room 1: Jasper, Emerald, Citrine, Iolite, Heliodor

[dramatispersonae]

[When you enter the rooms, they're fairly open and large, with enough space to spread out. On the walls are posters with a list on them:

1. Trickery/mischief?
2. Love?
3. Truth?
4. Snakes?
5. Masks?

Can you ask a question when it depends on the last thing asked? Asked thusly, what would you say? Say what you would freely, or falter? Falter on the same word, or manage to soar?

There is a strange humming sense of expectation in the air.]

((We're playing the questions game with a twist! Each question needs to start with the needs to begin with the last word of the previous question, like in the IC example above. There is a list of themes and starter questions if you'd feel more comfortable springboarding that way -- using one of our starters will not lose you points! You'll have the standard five hours, after which we'll cut you off, but you can pretty much go wild and have as many question conversations as you feel like before you call it quits and head to endgame.))

Comments

[alldesires]

Is it just me, or do you think the personae roll dice to figure out who will win in games like these?

[debossy]

[aha, my replacement . . . ]

These games are not so terribly common, in my past experience, but have their systems of grading ever been fair or made much sense?

[alldesires]

[I am assuming we've met before now yes]

Sense doesn't play into any of their games, but why do they even have us play silly games like this one?

[debossy]

One wonders whether it is wise to complain about a word game; might we not be asked to murder one another next time?

[alldesires]

Time comes for another game like that and I'll fuck up the persona who's runnin' it, got that?

[debossy]

That language is not necessary, or would you prefer to present yourself as a crude gutter rat?

[alldesires]

Rat or not, I'll say what I wanna say how I wanna say it; you got a problem with that?

[debossy]

That takes guts, which I can respect, but why would one choose to conduct themselves in such a careless manner?

[wouldntkilladragon]

These kind of games do seem like they'd be hard to score people in, don't they?

[alldesires]

They don't have a way to win or lose or even any kind of clear way to win points, so what's there even to score?

[wouldntkilladragon]

Score probably depends on how well we can keep up the pace, but still hold something like a real conversation, maybe?

[alldesires]

Maybe you're right, but even then, is there any way for us to tell how they judged us once the game's over?

[wouldntkilladragon]

Over the course of the last several games, I ahve tried to figure out how they judged us....but came up with nothing, so you could have a point, but it's not like it hurts to try?

[alldesires]

Try what, askin' as many questions as possible and cross our fingers that the persona in charge likes us more than the other guys?

[generating]

These games happen a lot, or what?

[alldesires]

What I want to say is there's a lot of harmless games like this one, but how is playin' a game like this one supposed to help anyone?

[generating]

Anyone who gets memories from this game might feel different, don't you think?

[alldesires]

Think I'll agree with you on that, but don't you want to know how to win so you can be the one gettin' those memories?

[generating]

Memories are important, yeah, but how's they even scoring this game?

[alldesires]

Game or no game, how often do you think the personae give us straight answers on anything?

[mysong]

...These games don't make a lot of sense, do they?

[alldesires]

They don't make sense and they don't take a lot of effort, so why aren't all games that way?

[mysong]

Way too easy for us that way, maybe?

[alldesires]

Maybe I'd believe that if all the games were hard ones, but that's not how it is, now is it?

[mysong]

It could be to make us think we're safe when we're not?