[GROUP TWO]

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You're in a small dome-shaped chamber, the walls and floor made of white frosted glass. It's cool here.

In the middle of the floor is a small flame, with no apparent source of fuel. Arranged around it are five gleaming copper objects, each labelled:

• a tiny watering can (GROWTH)
  
• a winding watch the size of your thumbnail, which you can set to run backwards or forwards (TIME)
  
• a heart (CARE)
  
• a mesh bag full of copper flakes (STRENGTH)
  
• a lump of what seems to be metallic clay, which you can mold into whatever shape you want (CHOICE)

“Feed the flame,” Firebird says. “Today is for creation. Consider what you may make, and why.”

Comments

INSTRUCTIONS

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Assume your characters know these upon coming in.

• The game lasts three rounds; each group may go at its own pace. Please wait for the results of a round before moving on to the next round.
  
  
• You are modifying the room and making a custom environment! GROWTH will make objects larger or expand spaces; TIME will age objects backwards or forwards depending how you set it; CARE will make the environment friendlier/more responsive; STRENGTH will make it sturdier; CHOICE introduces new elements that your group will decide on.
  
  
• You may play as many or as few of the five items per round as you wish, but at minimum you need to mold CHOICE into something and play it each round. Items are played when you burn them in the fire, and replenish themselves afterwards.
  
  
• CHOICE must also be the very first item played in the first round. You may only make a single object with it per round, so choose wisely.
  
  
• When you've decided what you want to play for the round, please give the items played, the order in which they are played, and the group's reasoning and intentions. Your answers will influence the effects, though you might not always get what you expected. Imagination, reasoning, and contribution to the discussion are big scoring factors, so please don't skimp on this!
  
  
• You can poke around the environment you're making as you make it! Just ping me on IRC with a link. But the emphasis here is on creation rather than exploration.
  
  
• You may put the flame out at any point, but you won't be able to light it again and that won't end the game -- it'll simply change the effects.
  
  
• This game is the first in a series, which means that whatever you make today will be coming up again in the future.

ROUND ONE

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DISCUSSION

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Re: DISCUSSION

[glorious]

...This should be an interesting game.

Re: DISCUSSION

[ademoelord]

[going to pick up the moldable stuff and start shaping it... possibly into a dragon looking thing]

Re: DISCUSSION

[snakeeyed]

This seems to have a great deal of potential, but I wonder at the goal.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bondingspirits]

[picking up the watch]

It's so tiny . . .

Re: DISCUSSION

[alternating]

Wonder if we could use all the items each round!

Re: DISCUSSION

[sinkingship]

Not what I was particularly in the mood to do today, but alright.

[mostly looking at everyone else, rather than the items]

DECISION

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Re: DECISION

[glorious]

[Our CHOICE is a NEST, designed with a baby dragon in mind.]

[We'll add CARE to the nest itself, to create a loving environment, use GROWTH to expand the room so there is plenty of open space for our dragon, and STRENGTH for strong, stable ground.]

RESULT

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Re: RESULT

[alltheworldsachoice]

The walls and floor – excepting the places where you stand, and a small circle around the fire -- twist and ripple, strange bright lights moving behind them. The room transforms and expands . . . and grows darker.

You are now standing in a giant nest like a bird's, except that the 'twigs' are made of stone. It's lined with piles and piles of white down, so it's not uncomfortable.

Around the nest stretches a solid rock island, with little lava rivers tracing patterns across it. Strangely, it's not too hot here! And strange twisting snakelike shapes rear out of the lava every so often. They're humming, loud enough that you can hear; the tune sounds like a lullaby.

The dome remains, but it's turned transparent, to reveal a starry night sky around you.

ROUND TWO

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DISCUSSION

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Re: DISCUSSION

[glorious]

...This was more than I was expecting.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bunny_ears]

Wow.

[give me a moment, I'm looking at this]

Re: DISCUSSION

[snakeeyed]

Well... That certainly is a start.

Re: DISCUSSION

[ademoelord]

[going to go check out the downy stuff]

DECISION

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RESULT

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ROUND THREE

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DISCUSSION

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DECISION

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RESULT

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