✿ CORAL

[dramatispersonae]

You find yourself in a musty rectangular room floored with tatami. The room is not large, but luckily fits your team without seeming too claustrophobic. It seems to have been set up as a sort of study. There is a low desk against one wall, covered in stacks of paper cards and writing utensils. Near the desk are, of course, cushions for everyone to sit on. A circular latticed window is set into the wall perpendicular to the desk. Bright moonlight filters through, enough to provide illumination for your task. If you look through the window, you can just barely make out the shapes of a shadowy garden beyond and below… you must be at least on the second floor.

The other end of the room is dominated by a large apothecary's chest. There are many, many drawers, but none of them open save for the fourteen in the middle that have been painted with team colors. A hand-lettered sign has been placed on top of the chest: "Please turn in your stories here."

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Round One

[dramatispersonae]

(Game instructions are here!)

Please discuss these answers with your team and submit using the textarea. You can choose the same team more than once in the team selection. Answers are due at 5PST

Where does your character live?
What is your character's backstory?
What do they do every day?
How does this make them feel?
What are three things that would make their life worse?
What are three things that would make their life better?

Choose 1-3 teams whose lives you would like to improve.
Choose 1 team that you think has a good idea of how to make someone miserable.
Choose 1 team to take some of their sadness on yourselves.

[your team]'s character lives [____] When they were a child, they [____]. Now that they are older, every day, they [____]. This makes them feel [____]. Three things that would make their life worse: <li> <li> <li> Three things that would make their life better: <li> <li> <li> <b>Team Selections:</b> Improve their lives (1-3): Good at making someone miserable (1): Take their sadness (1):

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[pitching]

[SPEAKS RIGHT AWAY]

In a mansion!

Re: Discussion

[antreegonist]

*scans the instructions, the corner of his mouth twitching*

Hey, guys. Long time no play.

Re: Discussion

[everfixedmark]

Ah! I finally get to play with you guys! I think they should have a gross, yet repetitive job. Like...corpse-carrying.

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[blackjacked]

Coral's character lives in a haunted treehouse mansion that is falling apart and is littered with corpses. When they were a child, they always wanted to be a beautician. But they failed out of beauty school because of their perpetual bad hair day, and couldn't find a job after they graduated college. They also fell in with a shady criminal organization, and got involved in a dramatic criminal shootout where their loved one died. Now that they are older, every day, they carry corpses off to be disposed. The first corpse they carried in that job belonged to the person they used to love. This makes them feel frightened and depressed, because they are necrophobic.

Three things that would make their life worse:

They could lose their hair so instead of having a bad hair day, they'd have a no hair day.

They could catch leprosy so their necrophobia would be triggered when they look into a mirror.

Their rickety treehouse mansion could fall down.

Three things that would make their life better:

One of the corpses in the haunted house is the head of that criminal organization! They can then replace the head of that organization and TURN IT INTO SOMETHING GOOD, thus securing themselves a job.

Them finally being able to style their hair.

Moving into a non-haunted, non-corpse littered house.

Team Selections:
Improve their lives (1-3): Emerald, Sapphire, Amethyst
Good at making someone miserable (1): Kunzite
Take their sadness (1): Peridot

Round Two

[dramatispersonae]

Please discuss these answers with your team and submit using the textarea. You can choose the same team more than once in the team selection. [Answers are due at 6PM PST]

What is the worst feeling in the world?
What is the best feeling to have?
What is the worst thing to lose?
What is the best thing to find?

Choose 1-2 teams whose life you would like to improve.
Choose 1 team that you think has a good idea of how to make someone miserable.
Choose 1 team to take some of their sadness on yourselves.
Choose 1 team and come up with a creative way to terrorize them with kindness.

<b>Worst feeling:</b> <b>Best feeling:</b> <b>Worst thing to lose:</b> <b>Best thing to find:</b> <b>Team Selections:</b> Improve their life (2): Good at making someone miserable (1): Take their sadness (1): Creative happiness (1): . . . what do you want to do to them?:

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[everfixedmark]

Getting pretty intense... the worst feeling is grief, isn't it?

Re: Discussion

[blackjacked]

[huh]

I wonder if we should keep our answers the same for some of these questions?

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[blackjacked]

Worst feeling: Bereavement
Best feeling: Being loved
Worst thing to lose: A friend
Best thing to find: A friend

Team Selections:
Improve their life (2): Tiger's Eye and Heliodor
Good at making someone miserable (1): Kunzite
Take their sadness (1): Carnelian
Creative happiness (1): Turquoise
. . . what do you want to do to them?: WE WILL GIVE THEM MAKEOVERS

Round Three

[dramatispersonae]

Coral's character lives in a haunted treehouse mansion that is falling apart and is littered with corpses. When they were a child, they always wanted to be a beautician. But they failed out of beauty school because of their perpetual bad hair day, and couldn't find a job after they graduated college. They also fell in with a shady criminal organization, and got involved in a dramatic criminal shootout where their loved one died. Now that they are older, every day, they carry corpses off to be disposed. The first corpse they carried in that job belonged to the person they used to love. This makes them feel frightened and depressed, because they are necrophobic.

One day, things change quite suddenly . . .! Write a paragraph (or more) of their story to include all of the following elements:

Optimistic People

The darkness could pretend to be their brother

For new people to arrive and comfort them

a better food source

Making the world a place she was able to sing freely in public

A diet that contains no fish.

Their rickety treehouse mansion could fall down

You MUST use all of these suggestions, and you cannot ADD any additional events (though you can be creative with how you use them).

The teams that played against you in Round 1 were Carnelian, Tiger's Eye, Peridot, Emerald x 2, Sapphire.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[everfixedmark]

...Oh wow...

Re: Discussion

[pitching]

...that is a lot of stuff.

Re: Discussion

[blackjacked]

. . . well this is gonna be a pretty interesting story.

Re: Discussion

[antreegonist]

The new people who arrived to comfort them in their time of need were super optimistic about it and lifted their mood . . . and maybe they've only been able to have fish for years so a better food source has more variety?

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[antreegonist]

Coral's character lives in a haunted treehouse mansion that is falling apart and is littered with corpses. When they were a child, they always wanted to be a beautician. But they failed out of beauty school because of their perpetual bad hair day, and couldn't find a job after they graduated college. They also fell in with a shady criminal organization, and got involved in a dramatic criminal shootout where their loved one died. Now that they are older, every day, they carry corpses off to be disposed. The first corpse they carried in that job belonged to the person they used to love. This makes them feel frightened and depressed, because they are necrophobic.

One day, things change quite suddenly . . .! There's a knock at the door and they open it to find their brother, who they haven't seen since their failure out of beauty school. Their brother offers them comfort and aid, including the promise of better food than the terrible fish they've been eating all these years. Lifted in mood and dazzled by the prospect, they take their brother's hand and invite them inside the house -- not realizing that they were the last hope against the Darkness, and this was all a ploy by it to get at them. It shows its true shape and the treehouse collapses in on itself, along with every other house and building in the city, leaving only ruins. Coral's character is nowhere to be seen. In fact, there's no one left there except for the Darkness itself, free to sing about its victory now, because -- and this is the worst part -- this whole thing's been an uplifting musical for the Darkness all along.

Final Round

[dramatispersonae]

Coral's character lives in a haunted treehouse mansion that is falling apart and is littered with corpses. When they were a child, they always wanted to be a beautician. But they failed out of beauty school because of their perpetual bad hair day, and couldn't find a job after they graduated college. They also fell in with a shady criminal organization, and got involved in a dramatic criminal shootout where their loved one died. Now that they are older, every day, they carry corpses off to be disposed. The first corpse they carried in that job belonged to the person they used to love. This makes them feel frightened and depressed, because they are necrophobic.

One day, things change quite suddenly . . .! There's a knock at the door and they open it to find their brother, who they haven't seen since their failure out of beauty school. Their brother offers them comfort and aid, including the promise of better food than the terrible fish they've been eating all these years. Lifted in mood and dazzled by the prospect, they take their brother's hand and invite them inside the house -- not realizing that they were the last hope against the Darkness, and this was all a ploy by it to get at them. It shows its true shape and the treehouse collapses in on itself, along with every other house and building in the city, leaving only ruins. Coral's character is nowhere to be seen. In fact, there's no one left there except for the Darkness itself, free to sing about its victory now, because -- and this is the worst part -- this whole thing's been an uplifting musical for the Darkness all along.

But the story doesn't end here. Continue the story by writing a paragraph (or more) including the following elements:

People not listening to your valid concerns

Betrayal

Being around friends! Especially after dinner, in the warmth.

Love

You MUST use all of these suggestions, and you cannot ADD any additional events (though you can be creative with how you use them).

THEN:
Write a happy ending.
Write a bad end.
Which do you prefer, and why?

After you're done, you may proceed to endgame.

<b>Story:</b> <b>Happy Ending:</b> <b>Bad end:</b> <b>Which do you prefer, and why?</b>

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[everfixedmark]

[s-starts laughing]

Well. I can see how these can be ordered to make an extra depressing ending but I feel bad for whoever had to submit "people not listening to your valid concerns"...

Submission

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