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Citrine

[ You are sitting in small, dark room with earthen walls, and no window or doors – but it’s filled with apples. There’s a fireplace embedded in one wall, with a cheerfully roaring fire. The dirt floor is covered in a plush Persian carpet and an array of cushions, and in front of the fire is a low table. On the table is a pencil with an eraser, twenty red slips of paper, five green slips of paper, and one rolled up scroll. Unrolled, it reads:

Let’s keep this one easy for everyone.

Write one noun on every red slip of paper (that’s a person, place, or thing, like “Aather” or “Cheshire” or “cat”). Write one adjective (that describes a noun, like “clever”) on every green slip of paper – oh, and rank them, so I know which ones are your favorites. Toss them all into the fire when you’re finished.

You’re forbidden to use team names.

The note is signed with an inky pawprint. ]

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Sure. No problem.

Do you want to do ten nouns each, since we have twenty? Then we can do two adjectives each and...figure something out for the last one.

Sure.

... apple's a noun, right.

That's right. A noun is a person, place or thing, and an apple counts as a thing.

... apple, Beauty, Maleficent, Cheshire, Persephone, Three of Three, ship, the Ring, the Book, chocolate.

[writes down all ten...]

And lets see...Cat, yarn, potato, library, castle, cloud, hat, sword, knight and...tree? How are those?

I like them. Especially sword and potato.

I'm glad. Now we need adjectives like...Brilliant and brave.

Heroic? Delicious?

Those are good too! And maybe fluffy, in case we need to describe an animal.

Which one of those do you want most?

I like brave.

So brave will be first. Then heroic, brilliant, delicious and fluffy in that order?

Fine with me.

So we're done? That was fast.

We seem to work well together.

Well, you're pretty nice.

[ appears at the most (in)opportune moment?? ]

What's up?

Ahghh... hi, Annabeth!

[ yes this is my suspicious face! ]

Is it a good game so far? I wasn't exactly planning on jumping into anything.

T-Thank you...You're pretty nice too.

[ a little abashed that annabeth came in right then... ]

[...I don't even get what's going on.]

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