Amethyst - Game 198

[dramatispersonae]

You find yourself standing in a small, snowy clearing in a pine forest. It's nighttime and bitterly cold, moreso than Camelot; the stars go on forever, and there's a very bright full moon. You can see quite easily. There's a stone archway behind you, and through it you can see the Ring, still with the tables full of mead laid out. Scattered around the clearing are twenty-four free-standing wooden doors, carved and polished. They don't seem like they'd lead anywhere if you opened them, but well, #personae.

Comments

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

It may not be a power exactly, but in this room it looks like an important cycle, of sorts.

Re: Room Selection

[everfixedmark]

"Change"...?

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

I think the way you put it first is more accurate. Change of state. Everything here is water in some form, except for the fire.

[pause]

That would make the fire the most powerful, wouldn't it? It's the energy that triggers the change in state... gah, I don't need to be making this so complicated.

Re: Room Selection

[everfixedmark]

Well, I think the friction from the licking is doing it too. But that generates heat also, so...

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

Heat, then? Or the interaction of heat and cold. I don't know what's keeping the ice from melting entirely, but assuming there is something keeping it that way...

Re: Room Selection

[everfixedmark]

Maybe it's an allusion. It feels allegorical.

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

It does. I'm just trying to figure out what it alludes to.

Re: Room Selection

[everfixedmark]

...Seasonal change...?

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

. . .

That might be pushing it a little, but I suppose...

[I just can't get over the part where there's a cow]

As long as we have some way of representing it.

Re: Room Selection

[everfixedmark]

I...maybe you two should pick the cow. I can't figure it out.

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

Ugh, okay... what if we do this?

[getting his HANDY DANDY PAINT AND PAINTBRUSH and... p...ainting on the cow's leg since that's the highest he can reach.

It's a fairly crude drawing but it's a painting of a flame, an icicle, and a water droplet in a triangle, with arrows forming a circle between them]

The cow's the strongest, and also represents all of the elements present in this room- cold because of the ice, heat because of the friction from its tongue, and change of state because it's being affected by the fire as well as affecting the ice below it.

Re: Room Selection

[everfixedmark]

Sounds good.