[Jasper + Amethyst]

[dramatispersonae]

[ As the game starts, the kitchen vanishes under your feet. You find yourself in a small room with no furnishings besides a simple chest with drawers and a low table surrounded by pillows in the colors of the two teams. Kiriko's voice comes from inside your head, as usual, though she's not in the room with you. There is no food on the table, but there is plenty of sake, as well as cups, dishes, and bowls. There are also ten gold pieces. ]

Hello. Today, I have five tasks for you. You may complete them quickly, or you may complete them slowly. But while you decide, please make yourselves at home.

Comments

❀ Task One

[dramatispersonae]

There are a family of cranes who have come seeking shelter. They are poor and can only pay with the feathers plucked from their flesh. The cost to give them a room is one gold piece, which they will pay with the feathers of one wing. Should you be the ones to serve them, you will receive the equivalent in gold of what they pay. If not you, another shall. Will you serve them? What will you take from them?

❀ Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Discussion

[aprettygirl]

*pouring herself a drink...*

If they take all the feathers from one wing, how will they be able to fly afterwards?

❀ Decision

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Decision

[aprettygirl]

For birds to divest themselves of the ability to fly is a harsh price for a night's shelter, miss Persona. At the same time, if one's business is lodging and one takes in customers entirely for free, then the business will fail. Our decision, then, is that both sides shall give to each other! Mutual support.

We will serve the cranes, but offer them a more sensible price: a day of labour for the inn in exchange for a night of shelter. It is up to them if they choose to accept the changed price or not, however -- we won't dictate their principles!

❀ Task Two

[dramatispersonae]

Mice have gotten into the stores of rice. What should we do?

❀ Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Discussion

[vitalsarecritical]

Cannot work?

I suppose we should get a cat or some mouse traps.

❀ Decision

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Decision

[aprettygirl]

Ask the mice to leave . . . if they will not, use humane traps to capture them without harming them. Relocate them. Give them the rice since it's ruined for consumption anyway, and then build a better storehouse.

Buy more rice to fill the stores, and a gentlemanly cat who will frighten any other mice who attempt to get into our storeroom away without actually harming them.

❀ Task Three

[dramatispersonae]

You may purchase points for yourself or other teams at the cost of one gold coin each. Will you do this? How much will you spend?

❀ Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Discussion

[aprettygirl]

I'm starting to sense a theme here.

❀ Decision

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Decision

[aprettygirl]

We'll purchase two points each for Amethyst, Carnelian, Emerald, Coral, and Sterling.

❀ Task Four

[dramatispersonae]

[ Three additional gold coins clatter down onto the table. ] You may have three more should you give these away. Which teams will you give them to? Why?

❀ Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Discussion

[aprettygirl]

Why not?

❀ Decision

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Decision

[aprettygirl]

We'd like to give two coins to Kunzite, and one coin to Tiger's Eye, receive three more coins, and give an additional one to Tiger's Eye and the last two to Ruby. Our reasoning is that we would like to spread them fairly.

❀ Task Five

[dramatispersonae]

What will you give me?

❀ Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Discussion

[aprettygirl]

What does miss Persona like to be given?

❀ Decision

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ❀ Decision

[aprettygirl]

Two invitations to dinner in the future: one with Amethyst and one with Jasper.