dramatispersonae | ✩ Tiger's Eye

Each team finds themselves in . . . what appears to be a space trying desperately to imitate, perhaps, someone's grandmother's overly-cluttered attic. At the very least, there are things everywhere, perched precariously on shelves and ledges, on tables, under tables, tables on tables, cupboards, closets . . .

There is an elaborate gramophone on one of the tables that begins to play with slow, winding crackle of static:

"There's a lot to making things, you know? A lot of components, a lot of pieces, a lot of parts . . . I'm sure you know that! It would be impossible not to. After all, humans themselves are made of a lot of parts! I'll bet if we took you apart you'd be stunned at how many parts there really are, you know, parts that are soft and squishy and parts that are hard and parts that were hurt as a child and parts that yearn for the future . . . well. We're not going to! If we took you apart there'd be nobody left to play the game. But! I wonder what parts you'd show if we were to take you apart just a little . . . ah. Or, just—what parts you'd show if we asked. What will you show? And I suppose, after all, you're each a part of a part of something else, and you'll have to work with what you have . . . but! Maybe that's part of the game. Hmmm . . . parts that are safe to show and parts that aren't—opening up your ribcage to show your heart, now, that would be something! I really think that would be something. But—it's up to you."

Instructions!

In the room, you'll find . . .

✩ tables, chairs, and various furniture
✩ a wardrobe full of costumes & clothing (dresses! monocles! fluffy bunny hats!)
✩ numerous art supplies and paper
✩ a basin of water
✩ several coils of rope
✩ an entire bag of feathers
✩ a set of cutlery
✩ several volumes of assorted poetry
✩ a box labelled "secrets"
✩ boxes of uncooked pasta
✩ buckets of paint
✩ a full-length mirror
✩ molding clay
✩ a box of small handheld percussion instruments
✩ a bass drum
✩ a set of glass spheres that, when held, can store memories for sharing
✩ a large stuffed koala
✩ a bucket full of keys
✩ hundreds of eyeball-shaped stickers
✩ a giant ball of red yarn
✩ a poloroid camera
✩ a hammer
✩ an empty wine bottle
✩ a full bottle of wine
✩ a makeup kit

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[blinks, then gestures to her hip]

I landed on it.

I can help now, remember. [comes over with the intent to touch it briefly and heal it]

[o]

Ah--thank you. That's much better. I was trying to build a tower out of the furniture but it seems it's not stable enough.

No problem. Pity you weren't here for our adventures in building bunkbeds, we all learned a lot about that. After our first attempt failed, in any case.

[looking at the remains of the tower]

Well, it seems the duct tape held together the base of it, but the middle section needs to be fortified better. I felt it could represent... well, balance. Structure and harmony.

And if I help you rebuild it, it can be about us learning from each other too.

... there is that. Shall we?

Yeah. [let's build a better tower!]

[many strips of duct tape are used!!]

If we build it strong enough... perhaps for the performance, we can both climb it.

I don't know how "charming" that'd be. Maybe we should do something else.

I'm not at all skilled in that area, and I can't think of anything else related that I could do to be suitably "charming".

Let's see... [goes to investigate all the things in the room]

Any ideas?

[holds up memory orbs] We could share a memory each with everyone. Of the team doing something together that shows off who we are.

I figure most teams would only think to use them for the first part.

That seems more personal, actually.

That's the point. It's something unique about us. Just pick something that you wouldn't have minded others seeing at the time.

Edited 2012-12-14 04:20 (UTC)

[thinks]

There isn't anything coming to mind, really...

[pauses to add another ring of duct tape to some chair legs]

Seriously? Nothing at all, the whole time you've been here?

I am a rather private person.

Yeah, but that's a bit extreme. Anyway, the point of the game is to challenge ourselves a bit.

Challenge or not, my suspicion for the second part is that it's meant to be a performance of some kind--or at least, I suspect that is how most teams will interpret it.

Yeah, so we should do something different. All it's got to be is something that we present to them.

Well, if you want to present a memory, that is fine with me. I'd rather not do the same, but if I can present something complimentary to it, then that should work.

Like what? I was thinking of sharing all of us having dinner together, when Dusk and Valiant and Lark were visiting so it's properly the whole team.

In that case, perhaps I can recreate a similar scene using the clay.

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