dramatispersonae | Amethyst

Amethyst - Game 198

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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You find yourself standing in the middle of a broad field of wheat, ripe heads swaying in a summer breeze. It’s very warm and bright. A set of large, polished gold scales holds a mountain of golden coins in one cup and a yoked pair of cattle in the other. A heavy chain leads from the yoke to the hands of a man; he is frozen in the midst of offering it to a woman who holds a sheath of wheat under one arm.

[...okay well at least it's less trippy than the rooms they've been through so far]

Hm...

[still too much symbolism for me man]

So... One side has money, I get that...

A scale holding money on one side and cattle on the other, with neither tipping the balance. Yet it looks like he's about to give those cattle away. Symbolically, this is rife with potential meanings and allusions...

But I'd say the most important thing here is the wheat. The wheat can sustain the woman and the man as well as the cows, and traded or sold for money. And the cattle would be needed to help harvest the wheat. Everything here could depend on the wheat.