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

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[...takes the ball of red yarn and starts cutting off pieces, then lays it over the squirrel's head.]

Perfect!

Edited 2012-12-14 03:49 (UTC)

--I didn't even think of that. We'll need seats for everyone, too.

[starts arranging some of the pillows]

We can make do.

[pause, then starts sitting them around the table]

I think the dog should be Red.

Yes, it suits him.

[taking a bunch of keys and dipping them in blue paint]

Yuki can have the cat and Nessa can have the rabbit.

[arranging them, we are the cutest family]

[everyone gets pillows to sit on and LOTS OF FEATHERS aw yeah]

[grabbing a bunch of rope and the glass spheres]

Mm. What should we use for Mau and Sayaka?

[but only i get the feathery beard and brow]

[frowning slightly]

...A fox and an otter? The otter may be best for Mau, since he enjoys the water.

[yes yours makes you stand out. holding the spheres for a moment before tying blue keys to them and tying them together with rope]

And a fox for Sayaka...it's cute.