[GROUP SIX]

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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

[fighting_alena]

Reminds me of the wagon game.

Re: DISCUSSION

[surefire]

...

Can we make s'mores.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hunting]

How cute.

Re: DISCUSSION

[rowrowfighttheflower]

Oh! This sounds like it will be an interesting game.

Re: DISCUSSION

[unavoidable]

[Studying the clay without touching it.]

"Feed the flame," is it?

Re: DISCUSSION

[fraternaldevotion]

. . . Let's get this over with.

Re: DISCUSSION

[shadesofwhite]

Sounds pretty fun!

Re: DISCUSSION

[legitimizes]

[Sir appearing late at this party.]

Oh, what are we doing?

DECISION

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Re: DECISION

[fraternaldevotion]

[For CHOICE they use the clay to make a very accurate baby hawk.]

This is a hawk that feeds on all kind of candy. However, first we use STRENGTH so the hawk can survive on its own and without eating for long periods of time if it has to. Second, we use GROWTH and CARE for the room so it can evolve into a bigger and less hostile environment for the hawk to live in.

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.

You're now in the middle of a large section of grassy plain -- but the grass is made of soft green fudge, and the ground is made of crumbled cocoa. You catch movement around you -- are those little mice? They're brown and white, and if you can get a look at one before it darts off to hide, you'll realize it's a living sculpture of white and milk chocolate.

There's a single big tree at the edge of this island. You can make out the shape of a large bird hunched in the branches.

The dome overhead has turned transparent, revealing blue sky and fluffy clouds.

ROUND TWO

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DISCUSSION

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Re: DISCUSSION

[surefire]

Oh, Mister Bird's got a pretty nice place for himself now...!

Re: DISCUSSION

[fraternaldevotion]

[. . . well, the only good thing about this is that the hawk has something to eat. I guess.]

Adding living s'mores would be pointless now.

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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