Turquoise

[dramatispersonae]

[There are no real rooms in this game, but despite all the people, the Ring seems roomy enough that you can go off in a little huddle with your team without bumping elbows with any other team -- and if you’re the type to notice this sort of thing, you may realize that although you can still see and hear everybody else, their presence doesn’t really seem to intrude upon your discussion. It would be a stretch to say they’re muted. . . but somehow, things don’t get too loud or disruptive to your conversation.]

Comments

Round One

[dramatispersonae]

[Nick hands someone on your team a lump of sealing wax, with a hopeful smile.]

Of course, if you don’t like it, you can trade it with a team that does.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[knighttoremember]

[sealing... wax]

Do I do something with it?

Re: Discussion

[knighttoremember]

I could make it into something if I warmed it up, I guess.

Re: Discussion

[knighttoremember]

[rolls it over in his hands...]

... Of course I have no idea what I'd make it into.

Final Decision

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Final Decision

[mylittlecavallone]

I think we'll be keeping it.

Round Two

[dramatispersonae]

Ah, excellent, I see you’ve chosen your tokens! Let us proceed. . . you see, I thought. . . well, these things may be trash, but surely they’re good for something. And to make a game of it, I thought. . . you might as well use your imaginations. So! Tell me, what is the best use you can imagine for your item?

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[knighttoremember]

... Well, it's a happy ball. Maybe you could have conversations with it.

Re: Discussion

[mylittlecavallone]

We could stick grass on one side to give it hair.

Final Description

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Final Description

[knighttoremember]

Since we made it into a happy ball, the best use for it is to talk to it when you have something you want to say but don't want the other person to answer back. You can also use it to practice talking if you have something really important you want to say and don't want to mess it up.

Round Three

[dramatispersonae]

They’re a bit sad looking, aren’t they? Your tokens, I mean. So now I ask that you glorify them. Imagine them as bigger, better versions of themselves. Like a child’s clay model of a horse transformed into a real, beautiful charger -- tell me about the secret soul of your token. What is it the shadow of, the seed of? If it could grow, what might it grow up into?

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[knighttoremember]

...

I guess it would turn into an actual person.

Re: Discussion

[mylittlecavallone]

... A wax copy of someone?

Final Description

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Final Description

[knighttoremember]

If our token grew up, it wouldn't turn into a wax person, because that would be strange. Instead, since its job is to just sit there and be happy and not talk back when you practice talking to it, it would grow up into a wax puppy. But since puppies are soft and wax isn't, it would have grass seeds in the wax, and if you watered it enough as it grew up it would get grassy fur.

Round Four

[dramatispersonae]

My word! That’s a great improvement. Now I start to see them as they might be -- or, perhaps, as they really are in secret. But this will not do! Such grand artefacts deserve grand names, and grand stories. So, tell me -- your glorified item. . . what would its name be? For as any ship and any good sword receives a name, so should your creations.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[knighttoremember]

A name for a wax grass dog?

Re: Discussion

[mylittlecavallone]

... Something to do with plants?

Final Decision

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Final Decision

[knighttoremember]

In honor of his shape but also his plant connections, our dog is named Bark the Plant-dog.