dramatispersonae | ✩ Sapphire

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

A large show piece then, with all the pieces we have here?

We'll make it look--like Sapphire. With the wine bottles and the pasta together, like a meal, and we could use the art supplies and paint to make a whole setting...? And take pictures of all of it.

[chuckles]

A large setting of our home then? That's one idea. We'd need more stuffed animals for that, if we're to more accurately display our living space.

We could ask for more, or use something...symbolic of pets and people? It might take too long to try and make them with the supplies we have.

We can try asking...

Hatter? Can we request a few more stuffed animals?

[a dozen or so of them rain down on your head]

Oh, thank you!

[grabbing a bunch and going to set them up]

...We should have enough for all our pets and our teammates as well.

Yeah, this is more than enough. Should we use the drum as the table?

It should be just the right size for them all as well...Marvelous idea.

[setting up the drum table!]

We should paint it too, since we can.

Can you do that while I prepare Sapphire's meal?

[nods!!]

Just leave it to me. And I'll get the chairs all set up too. And decorations.

[salutes! then gets to work finding a way to break and arranged uncooked pasta and red paint in a way that looks vaguely like food]

[this drum is painted with all the colors of the rainbow. And I have commandeered the secrets box as another chair-

looks at the supplies again]

...Hmm, should we use the actual table and chairs?

[looking back at the table and chairs]

They're not the right size though...

...And it's not as fun. We'll stick with this. Which one do you want to be?

[holding up a really big teddy bear '-' maybe you should be this one '-']