✿ CITRINE

[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."

Comments

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]

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[trope_attack]

Let's see. We should start with 'once upon a time...'

Re: Discussion

[banded]

Hey, Citrine.

Re: Discussion

[trope_attack]

Hi!

Re: Discussion

[madeofsilver]

[looking around the room]

So, this is it.

Re: Discussion

[madeofsilver]

[looking a little surprised]

Scott.

Re: Discussion

[banded]

Citrine's a great team to work with. They gave me a favor.

Re: Discussion

[banded]

That won't be bad, but we need the questions first, I think.

Re: Discussion

[madeofsilver]

It can be anywhere, right?

Re: Discussion

[trope_attack]

I guess so. They didn't say it had to be here, and everyone here is from all over.

Re: Discussion

[banded]

... We're actually from the same place. So where are you from?

Re: Discussion

[madeofsilver]

I'm guessing that means they like you a lot.

So, what was the favor?

Re: Discussion

[banded]

[shows her. IT MIGHT BE A SPOON? HANDWAVE HANDWAVE]

Re: Discussion

[trope_attack]

I was a traveling bard adventurer! I remember a desert, and a town and a road to a forest, and a big room with monsters in it.

Re: Discussion

[madeofsilver]

A big room with monsters sounds like a good start.

Re: Discussion

[banded]

Yeah, that's definitely a start.

Re: Discussion

[trope_attack]

Yeah. My evil twin was also there.

Evil twins are pretty bad. Maybe we should add one of them?

[Yes, he has an evil twin.]

Re: Discussion

[madeofsilver]

Right, room full of monsters, evil twin.

What else?

Re: Discussion

[trope_attack]

Um... huh...

Re: Discussion

[madeofsilver]

What's the worst thing you could do every day? The same thing, right? That would get boring.

Re: Discussion

[banded]

They fight the monsters, but only to get food, otherwise they hide. They have to. The evil twin controls the monsters and wants to keep ... the character from getting out?

Re: Discussion

[madeofsilver]

It's dark where they are. All the time.

Re: Discussion

[trope_attack]

The same thing in the same place. Alone.