JASPER

[dramatispersonae]

You find yourself in an unassuming room. It's spacious, though it's fairly empty except for the furniture in the center. There, a collection of chairs are gathered around a large table. ...Or, at least, they're chair- and table-like things. The chairs are made all of one piece, of an unidentifiable plasticky substance, and they're fairly uncomfortable. The table is made of the same substance, and is just a round platform on a pedestal.

On the table, however, are pens and paper, and in the center of the table there's an opaque cloud, spinning slowly in swirls of mist.

Instructions come both as a voice and as words in the mist, and you instinctively know you can answer either by speaking back or by writing down your answer and throwing it into the cloud.

Comments

PART 1

[dramatispersonae]

Please choose a number between 1 and 100.

No answer is more correct than any other answer.

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[mirroredvalue]

[......What?]

Just... pick a number? Really?

Re: DISCUSSION

[debossy]

Imagine if this was all there was to this game. Ha!

Re: DISCUSSION

[justaking]

Any number at all...

Re: DISCUSSION

[prosight]

Well, that's a start . . .

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ANSWER

[mirroredvalue]

14!

RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

Re: RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

Your number appears in the clouds for a second, then vanishes as another number appears, counting quickly up to 269.6.

PART 2

[dramatispersonae]

Please specify one small action that at least one person on your team would like to do. It should be simple, generic, possible, and take no more than 3-5 words to describe. For example: "eat a cookie", "pick a flower", "jump off a cliff"

No answer is more correct than any other answer.

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[justaking]

What on earth is going on...?

Re: DISCUSSION

[mirroredvalue]

So no "become a catpigeon", then.

Re: DISCUSSION

[debossy]

--Learn the point of this game!

That's six words . . .

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ANSWER

[mirroredvalue]

...Win this game.

PART 3

[dramatispersonae]

Please describe an event—something you experienced together, something one of you experienced alone, or even something entirely fictional.

No answer is more correct than any other answer, but details may be to your advantage later.

((All teams need to be finished with this part before anyone can move on to part 4 - which is the final and most important part—so please try to be as expeditious as possible! Aim for a story around 100-300 words.))

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[debossy]

[looking around at the group]

There isn't anything all of us have experienced together that I know of, so it will have to be fictional, or a personal account.

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

PART 4

[dramatispersonae]

Please describe how the event you detailed in the previous section would have occurred if someone had unexpectedly hunted something.

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

You submit your answer, and then see a different scene play out in the mist... like this except....

When it's done, you exit to endgame.