TURQUOISE

[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

[knighttoremember]

... Really? That's it?

Re: DISCUSSION

[hakutaku]

...I'm not sure how good I am with numbers.

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ANSWER

[knighttoremember]

TURQ CHOOSES

69

RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

Re: RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

Your number appears in the clouds for a second, then vanishes as another number appears, counting quickly up to 241.6.

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

[knighttoremember]

... 'Win a game'...?

I guess that would be a lie, I hate winning.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hakutaku]

I don't hate winning, but I guess to be honest, I could care less either way.

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ANSWER

[knighttoremember]

Win some noodles.

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

[knighttoremember]

... What events have we experienced together lately?

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ANSWER

[knighttoremember]

"Bolt, Wave and [Naoto] all came to a game, and in round one we got asked to pick a number between 1 and 100."

"And Wave was worrying about the number like it was important, but Naoto was totally chill! So [Bolt] decided to stir the pot."

"Bolt decided to kick things off with a bang by dramatically suggesting the number 69, to the surprise of his teammates."

"Because he's so incredibly charming, his teammates accepted his silly answer and we moved on to "something you want to do"!"

"This was by far the most difficult part of their trial, as they couldn't decide whether they wanted to eat pasta or make friends or have some sort of weird lewd answer."

"They tried to combine their answers, and they kind of grossed themselves out. They talked about whether they wanted to win or not too, but that was a kind of tough subject."

"For a while it looked like they were at a standstill, until finally a compromise was reached! Instead of eating noodles or winning games specifically they'd just win noodles."

"So we put in that answer, and we got to this one. We figured we'd just tell you about what we did, 'cause it's something we all worked on together. And afterwards, whether we win or not, we had fun. So we can go eat some noodles for real and it'll be a good night no matter what!"




















"Also, Bolt is adorable. The end."

PART 4

[dramatispersonae]

Please describe how the event you detailed in the previous section would have occurred if someone had unexpectedly eaten a sweet.

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[knighttoremember]

We probably would have changed 'eat some noodles' to something more candy-related.

ANSWER

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ANSWER

[knighttoremember]

The whole incident would have gone the exact same way except for part two. If someone suddenly ate a sweet, everyone would want to share it, and we'd start thinking about eating and sharing sweets... so instead of winning noodles, our answer would probably have been 'eat a candy' or 'share a candy'. But the rest would have been the same.

RESULT

[dramatispersonae]

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

When it's done, you exit to endgame.