RUBY

[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.

Comments

YOUR TALES...

[dramatispersonae]

PROMPTS: FOR YOUR TEAM

[dramatispersonae]

Uncontrollable hiccups, a town under siege.

PROMPTS: FOR YOUR KNIGHTS

[dramatispersonae]

Guy, The Doctor, and Midna and the curse of the unstoppable sneezing.

PROMPTS: FOR ANOTHER TEAM

[dramatispersonae]

Tiger's Eye, the day they met a villain beyond all compare.

GENERAL DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: YOUR TEAM'S STORY...

[wildnight]

[helping herself to liquor]

Re: YOUR TEAM'S STORY...

[brotagonist]

This actually sounds fun.

Re: YOUR TEAM'S STORY...

[wildnight]

It could be. I don't dislike a story.

Re: YOUR TEAM'S STORY...

[brotagonist]

What kind of hiccup siege d'you think Ruby would be in?

Re: YOUR TEAM'S STORY...

[wildnight]

I don't know about a hiccup siege...

Is the town under siege by hiccups?

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION

[justaking]

Who is The Doctor? I wasn't aware we had a new medically trained knight.

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION

[wildnight]

No one I know.

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION

[justaking]

Hmmm... I suppose we will just need to make something up there.

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION

[wildnight]

We will come up with something.

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION

[justaking]

[Overhearing the other conversation]

Which leaves Tiger's Eye and their own dilemma.

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION

[brotagonist]

[(ftr Raina didn't know the Aather names for all the knights, so we just got an image of them in our minds)]

New guy? I've seen him around, but I haven't said hi yet.

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION

[justaking]

[(Oh hurr my bad)]

Do you know anything about him?

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION

[brotagonist]

Not even a little. I guess we can do a story about how he's new and Spark's been here a long time.

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION

[justaking]

And the shortest one too. He has to help them stop the sneezing everyone is subjected to.

YOUR TEAM'S STORY...

[dramatispersonae]

keywords relevant

[wildnight]

Once, the mischievous Personae Bob decided to play a cruel trick and took siege a town by infecting each and every individual inside with uncontrollable hiccups. None were spared. Young and old alike were afflicted. At first it did not seem so bad to them, since it was only a common ailment, but day after day it continued, each of them hiccupping without relief. They did not sleep, they could not eat, before long they gave up on work and recreation.

That is, until the night that Ruby arrived.

Not intending to be heroes, the team but went about their business. They were themselves as they arrived. Powerful, controlling the elements of fire and water naturally, calling on the animals around them. Imposing, tall and terrible. Noble and charming—smiling in the face of adversity. And immortal. Tapping into greater powers than any of the towns people could possibly understand. The mind of mankind. The chaos that birthed form and space, matter itself.

Before such might, the townspeople trembled in fear! They cowered away from that which they did not understand! So great was their fright at the sight of the team that it ended their curse by the shock.

When the towns people realized the siege of hiccups they had been under was broken, they overcame their fear and welcome Ruby into their town with open arms. Feasts of many kinds were had that night, and all went to sleep satisfied at dawn.

YOUR KNIGHT'S STORY...

[dramatispersonae]

Re: YOUR KNIGHT'S STORY...

[brotagonist]

So one day Spark and Midna were walking through Aather when. . . it happened! One of the mushrooms they'd walked under was full of sneezing dust and they were both really allergic! So they started flopping around sneezing like crazy! Spark tried to build a machine to make it blow away, but he was sneezing so hard it shocked him. Midna tried to float away, but she sneezed so hard she fell on his head! "Curse it, this curse—!" she yelled! "It sucks even worse than hiccups!"

The day looked like it was lost when a new knight with a bow tie showed up. "I know what to do," he said! He flipped the floppy bit of his hair and took his bow tie off, and he had a sneezing antidote hidden inside! No one knows why. Anyway, it broke the curse, and they all went to a barbecue.

ANOTHER TEAM'S STORY...

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ANOTHER TEAM'S STORY...

[wildnight]

Once there was a villain beyond all compare—a great churning force that devoured worlds in its mindless rage and hunger. A group of Heroes, my own son's team, Tiger's Eye was called upon to fight the this monster back and stop it from consuming yet another world in it's slow journey between stars.

The battle was hard fought! The team used every power at their disposal to push back the villain until it retreated in upon itself. They were powerful, but in the end it was not power alone that would defeat this enemy. It took a trick, the master trick of a Trickster god, which turned the villain's own hunger against itself.

In a cataclysmic display, the thing eat itself, sucked inward and absorbed, and Tiger's Eye stood victorious.