TIGER'S EYE

[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.

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PART 1

[dramatispersonae]

Please choose a number between 1 and 100.

No answer is more correct than any other answer.

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[aheroemerges]

Any number at all, huh? If they're all right, I wonder what it's for.

[karlsefni]

[ these games are not illiterate-friendly ]

If all of them are right, what does it matter.

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ANSWER

[aheroemerges]

85

RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

Re: RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

Your number appears in the clouds for a second, then vanishes as another number appears, counting quickly up to 451.6.

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

[headcannon]

Well, I suppose that choice could best be left to the one of us truly on the team; I am quite willing to go along with things, at this stage.

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ANSWER

[headcannon]

"Hunt something", if you please.

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]

[karlsefni]

[ . . . . deadeyeing. . . . . I hate telling stories why. ]

[karlsefni]

. . . can someone write this down? —or write your own story, I don't really care. [ but i was under the impression that i should. have to do this so ,_,a ]

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

[karlsefni]

This is the story of Leif Ericson and the New World.

Leif Ericson is a seafarer, a true warrior of the sea. He set sail from—Greenland, to challenge the great Jormungandr. But Jormungandr was so great, and Leif Ericson's ship was small, so Jormungandr couldn't see his tiny boat. So Leif Ericson went on, far to the west, across the sea. He found Markland, but he left when the winds told him there was a place greater and richer than the lands he'd been. The seas were rough, but he found the land the winds told him about, with rolling plains and blooming fruits. He named that land Vinland, the land of the pastures. It is warm, and rich. . . far away from the fires of war and the slave trade.

Vinland is much bigger than Iceland, and much warmer, with lush grass for sheep to graze on, and many trees to build cottages with; the ground, too, was rich and produced many fruits for people to live off of. The skraelings live in Vinland; they are short, with black hair and eyes and stone spears. They couldn't grow whiskers and they couldn't speak Norse, but they became friends with Leif, and gave him gifts. A headdress, for true warriors, and a pipe. The chief of the skraelings gave him both of those. Leif Ericson built a cottage to live there. . . . [ ppppauses ] but decided to tell his people about the place that he had discovered, and sailed back to Iceland.

[ and quiets. ,_, the end ]

PART 4

[dramatispersonae]

Please describe how the event you detailed in the previous section would have occurred if someone had unexpectedly shared a skewer of dango.

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

[karlsefni]

. . . . what's a dango.

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

[karlsefni]

. . . the skraelings showed Leif "dango", and he shared some with them? And brought them back to Iceland.

RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

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

When it's done, you exit to endgame.