dramatispersonae | ✩ Amethyst

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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[frowns] That's... extremely vague.

[matches her frown, brows furrowed]

Exceedingly so.

I mean... We could talk about embarrassing or secret things. Or... write horribly sappy poetry to each other. But does that actually comprise "doing" something? Ugh.

Doing is doing! Why, just about anything needs to be done.

I assume it does. Since the instructions are so vague, we must have free reign to do whatever it is we please.

...Doing is doing, apparently. Okay. Uh...

[still. wtf do they DO?]

You have any ideas?

[runs her hand over the secrets box and the memory spheres]

Well, to be frank, I wouldn't feel comfortable sharing my memories or my secrets with anyone off of the team.

[ponders] I've a friend I'd share them with, but... He might as well be my teammate as far as I'm concerned. Do you think that would nullify the idea?

I don't think so. We also don't win memories with anyone but Amethyst.

I'd PREFER to only really embarrass myself with... singing or acting ridiculous in front of Amethyst, but it's not something I'd do willingly either way, and I've already done that in front of other teams before. [Oh, that musical. :|] So that's out.

Ah. . . I'd rather get out of this with our dignity in tact, yes.

As would I. How would we translate that to a presentation for the rest of the teams, though?

Let's focus on one thing at a time. First we figure out what we're doing for each other, then we can talk about what we present to other teams.

Right, getting ahead of myself. So, memory sharing seems like the best plan. One we definitely wouldn't want to share with someone not in Amethyst, maybe?

Potentially. It doesn't have to be too personal, but. . . well. It wouldn't be bad to get to know each other more.

✩ Amethyst

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