Carnelian

[dramatispersonae]

[ 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. ]

Comments

ROUND ONE: WORD GENERATION

[dramatispersonae]

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[fighting_alena]

Makes sense to me.

Since there's only two of us, why don't we make this easy and have you write half and I'll write half? We'll compare them to make sure we don't have any duplicates before we submit them.

Re: DISCUSSION

[mylittlecavallone]

Sounds good by me. And good to be working with you again.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fighting_alena]

Likewise!

Re: DISCUSSION

[mylittlecavallone]

[ Handing over the pencil. ]

After you.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fighting_alena]

[writes out a succession: "1. mushroom. 2. haunch. 3. incest. 4. hat. 5. pickaxe 6. heart 7. Aather 8. Maleficent 9. memory 10. fish"]

How do these sound?

SUBMISSION

[dramatispersonae]

[ Please remember to number your adjectives, but NOT your nouns. ]

Re: SUBMISSION

[fighting_alena]

Nouns (in no particular order)
mushroom.
haunch.
incest.
hat.
pickaxe
heart
Aather
Maleficent
memory
fish
Hitman
pizza
rose
turtle
jacuzzi
ninja
tower
alcohol
three-piece suit
library

Adjectives (from best to worst)
1. Delicious
2. Strong
3. Flexible
4. Fierce
5. Bitter

ROUND TWO: NOUN SUBMISSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ROUND TWO: NOUN SUBMISSION

[dramatispersonae]

[ Several things get spit out of the fire and land on the table.

One is a green slip of paper. It says:

DELICIOUS


Then there are fifteen red slips of paper. They say:

haunch
pick
Aather
heart
memory
hitman
pizza
rose
turtle
jacuzzi
ninja
tower
three-piece suit
library
alcohol



There is also another scroll. It reads:

Each team has been given one of their adjectives to judge. You need to submit one noun that the judging team will think suits the adjective. But remember that your peers often a little strange, hm?

CORAL: ANTI-HEROIC
RUBY: TRIUMPHANT
JASPER: SHARP
CITRINE: BRAVE
CARNELIAN: DELICIOUS
TIGER’S EYE: SCANDALOUS
HELIODOR: TOOTHLESS
PERIDOT: GODLY
EMERALD: INDESCRIBABLE
TURQUOISE: FRIENDLY
SAPPHIRE: COLORFUL
AMETHYST: MAMMOTH
KUNZITE: CUTEST

Fill out the chart below and throw it into the fire when you’re finished.

CORAL:
RUBY:
JASPER:
CITRINE:
CARNELIAN:
TIGER’S EYE:
HELIODOR:
PERIDOT:
EMERALD:
TURQUOISE:
SAPPHIRE:
AMETHYST:
KUNZITE:

There’s another pawprint as a signature. ]

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[mylittlecavallone]

Hmm... So all we've got to do is match our nouns to the adjectives of each team in whatever we think they'll like most, right?

Re: DISCUSSION

[fighting_alena]

Including our own...

Seems simple enough. Shall we just go down the list?

Re: DISCUSSION

[mylittlecavallone]

Sounds like the best plan.

Anti-heroic?

Re: DISCUSSION

[fighting_alena]

Oh wait, we leave off our own team.

Ninja? Or maybe turtle.

Re: DISCUSSION

[mylittlecavallone]

... Ninja, I think. I see another on the list that turtle might be better for.

SUBMISSION

[dramatispersonae]

[ for the sake of copy-paste spreadsheet ease, please just fill in the blanks and don’t get these out of order :(

RUBY: _
JASPER: _
CITRINE: _
CARNELIAN: _
TIGER’S EYE: _
HELIODOR: _
PERIDOT: _
EMERALD: _
TURQUOISE: _
SAPPHIRE: _
AMETHYST: _
KUNZITE: _ ]

Re: SUBMISSION

[fighting_alena]

CORAL: Ninja
RUBY: Heart
JASPER: Pick
CITRINE: Hitman
CARNELIAN: _
TIGER’S EYE: Jacuzzi
HELIODOR: Haunch
PERIDOT: Pizza
EMERALD: Aather
TURQUOISE: Alcohol
SAPPHIRE: Memory
AMETHYST: Turtle
KUNZITE: Three-Piece Suit

ROUND THREE

[dramatispersonae]

[ This comes out of the fire!

Please use this thread (in this post) to discuss your favorite, and submit your answer here.

You may proceed to endgame when you've sent in your answer. ]

Re: ROUND THREE

[fighting_alena]

Nice choices. My first instinct is to go with 'meat'.

...what are some of these suggestions?

Re: ROUND THREE

[mylittlecavallone]

... All technically edible.

Re: ROUND THREE

[fighting_alena]

What's a football?

And eyes? Who would think eyes are delicious?

Re: ROUND THREE

[mylittlecavallone]

It's best not to think about it too hard.

How about we just go with meat?

Re: ROUND THREE

[fighting_alena]

Simple, but it gets the job done.

Meat it is!