dramatispersonae

You can see the other teams, but there is an invisible barrier preventing you from hearing them. You can assume that they can't hear you, either. There is a hefty serving of sweet wine and liquor, should you choose it. With a loaf of bread that you can slice. Nimue is in the center of the formation of teams, and when she speaks, you can hear her loud and clear.

"Storytelling has been a tradition of the knights of Camelot for some time. They would tell of the awesome feats of their king, and of their fellow knights... and... they were also prone to exaggeration in some cases."

There appears a small set of cards next to the liquor. You can read them, or you can implicitly understand them if you can't read.

"What feats have the heroes of Aather accomplished, I wonder? And what... exaggerations they may take? Before you, you will find prompts for your tales. You will write one for yourselves, for a set of knights, and for another team. I will select the most inspiring, as will your peers."

She tilts her head. "Ah, perhaps it is bad to encourage grandstanding..."

But before you can ask her, she vanishes.

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Me neither... I've met one annoying guy from Coral, I guess.

They're quite outgoing as a whole. I've spoken to them a few times.

Yeah, I'm sure you have. So a time an outgoing team couldn't speak, huh?

[snorts, but says nothing]

If it's meant to be inspiring, perhaps we should focus on their struggles and how they bravely overcame them.

Any particular struggles in mind, or do we have to make somethin' up from scratch for that?

I'm sure it's very difficult for an outgoing team to deal with not being able to speak . . . communication is also an issue, of course. Perhaps it leads to some misunderstandings.

Yeah, we could use that. Saya says they get kidnapped by Dream a lot, so maybe that persona could have somethin' to do with it too.

Saya has some good ideas herself . . . they're kidnapped by Dream, and they're trying to get out, but it's difficult to coordinate because they can't understand each other?

Saya's pretty good at this sorta thing. [is that a tiny bit of pride? maybe.]

And they overcame that by coming up with some other way to communicate. Hand signals, or somethin'... it might help if I knew anythin' about Dream.

Dream deals with desires, and runs games in which people enter one another's hearts.

We could so something involving desires and the psyche . . . but hand signals work as well.

Oh, then Dream was the one who opened up your heart for that game.

Looks like Saya's got this one covered.

That's better than nothing. Saya will surely be able to help. She's popular enough. She will be in charge of giving us information!

Yeah, sounds good. [we have saya on our side let's make up the BEST STORIES EVER]

Swift is also a gatherer of information, so we ought to do quite well. It's only a matter of lying convincingly.

Mako is a knight with a quiet and reserved personality who has the ability to manipulate fire. He's likely also something of a noble type.

[pause]

There's more, but it likely isn't suited to a game like this. I'm afraid I don't know anything about Fakir.

A noble? And perhaps we will simply leave the character of Fakir ambiguous in our story.

Noble of character, not necessarily of station. The type who likes to keep his metaphorical hands clean.

How do you wash metaphorical hands?

[smiles a little]

That's a good question. By telling yourself your crimes aren't your fault, perhaps; or by trying to atone for them.

Oh, I see.

So he committed a crime that morning and tried to blame the other knight?

That would work . . . if we'd like to be more charitable to him, perhaps he was confused from being drunk, as Prince said [POINTEDLY IGNORING THE OTHER STUFF], and thought he was innocent.

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This one's easy. They got drunk the night before.

[duh!!]

[glancing over at the liquor] Hmm. Yes, perhaps. But what became of them in their impaired state?

[yes speaking of liquor he's going to just grab some of that]

Maybe they slept together and woke up in the same bed. Most humans tend to regret that sorta thing, yeah?

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They get kidnapped a lot by Personae. Especially one named Dream.