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.

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Room Selection

[dramatispersonae]

~

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

13

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[dramatispersonae]

You’re standing under the boughs of a great sprawling yew-tree, in a deep darkness that holds relatively little cold. Twigs crunch underfoot, and a slow wind stirs. There are patterns carved in the bark, arrows leading up and down, and a man hanging by the neck from a low sturdy branch. And for all that this place is frozen in time, you can’t quite tell--it might depend upon the angle you look at him--whether he is alive or dead. Freshly dead or rotted. Choking in pain or looking to the sky in blissful transcendance. You get the sense that reality gets a little blurry, under this tree.

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

-Ah...

Re: Room Selection

[everfixedmark]

[I feel a little crazy under this tree]

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[silverbulletkun]

[please try not to yan out or anything]

What an unpleasant place...

Re: Room Selection

[aheroemerges]

[... uhhhh]

... What the hell...?

Re: Room Selection

[everfixedmark]

[its ok nezoom isn't here]

...potential...?

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

[sorry I'm going to see if I can get that man/body down from the tree]

Re: Room Selection

[dramatispersonae]

The rope is very firmly knotted around the branch, and as you jostle it--

--you feel a hand on your arm? The corpse is moving? The man is shaking his head and smiling?

--or maybe you're just hallucinating the longer you're touching the tree, that is a distinct possibility...

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

[I HATE DISORIENTING GAMES guess that's a sign to back off though]

Tch... What was that about potential?

Re: Room Selection

[everfixedmark]

[Staring at that]




[belatedly] It seems to show opposite options. Here. Either or... that's potential.

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

Options?

[watching the man]

Dead or alive, the noose is a constant. There was only one 'option' taken here- someone attempted to kill this man.

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[everfixedmark]

Ah... if you think so...

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

[sorry I can get kind of intense about MURDERS]

The most important thing here is the one thing that's missing- the truth behind what happened to him.

Re: Room Selection

[everfixedmark]

"The unknown", maybe?

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[silverbulletkun]

They're the same thing in this case. I doubt the Persona will allow the truth to be revealed to us here.

[paintbrush time; this time he's just... painting a big red '?' in the air, SINCE THAT IS A THING YOU CAN DO apparently]

Re: Room Selection

[aheroemerges]

[man that hanging guy is really distracting]

That... yeah, I guess I can get that. Like different possibilities, right?

Re: Room Selection

[everfixedmark]

That's what I'd thought.

Re: Room Selection

[silverbulletkun]

[as you probably heard I disagree with this view]