CITRINE

[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]

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

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]

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[eventempered]

...Huh.

[...looks around, then sits on one of the chairs]

...It's surprisingly uncomfortable.

Re: DISCUSSION

[antreegonist]

*...gently poking the cloud*

What an odd-looking setup. Nice to be playing with you, though.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fraternaldevotion]

[you're tall]

. . . Surprisingly?

Re: DISCUSSION

[eventempered]

Aa, you too.

I'm Strawberry.

Re: DISCUSSION

[eventempered]

[I'm so tall]

Mm, well, when you see a chair you expect it to be something for sitting in, right?

[shifts his weight]

I can't see how anyone would want to sit in this, given any kind of choice.

[stands up again]

Re: DISCUSSION

[antreegonist]

Mithos!

Should we pick a number, then?

Re: DISCUSSION

[antreegonist]

Been a while.

Re: DISCUSSION

[eventempered]

Probably. That sounds like it wants, anyway.

Assuming we want to do what it wants us to?

Re: DISCUSSION

[fraternaldevotion]

That's too straight-forward.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fraternaldevotion]

Yeah. You're right.

Any preference?

Re: DISCUSSION

[antreegonist]

If any number will do, we could just pick one that we like.

Re: DISCUSSION

[antreegonist]

We could throw in one past a hundred and see what happens.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fraternaldevotion]

Any number would do.

Re: DISCUSSION

[antreegonist]

Or a number outside the range?

Re: DISCUSSION

[eventempered]

If you say so. I just don't see why it would even give us chairs if we weren't supposed to sit.

Re: DISCUSSION

[eventempered]

Well, it's not that I particularly don't want to do what it says, I just don't see much of a reason to do things that way either. But, if it doesn't matter what we pick, then it should keep on not mattering, is what I think.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fraternaldevotion]

I wouldn't mind testing that.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fraternaldevotion]

To annoy us. To show us some stupid symbolic meaning behind the shape. Because the persona in question doesn't even know what a chair is supposed to be or because they're crazy.

There are several reasons.