✿ TIGER'S EYE

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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

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(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

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Re: Discussion

[imaginemeandyuu]

He or she should live underground.

Re: Discussion

[bunny_ears]

[takes a seat]

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[bunny_ears]

Our character lives in a cave. Because of an experiment to save their life, they are made of poison that is released when the sun shines on them. After their parents died when they went outside, they live in a cave. The animals that live in the cave are their only friends, but they also have to eat them to survive.

Three things that would make their life worse was if they had to start eating people because they ran out of animals, or if the cave flooded and they had to risk going outside, or if the poison started affecting everything even inside the cave.

Three things that would make their life better would be a better food source, being able to go outside without poisoning everyone, and someone to talk to that talks back.

We would like to improve Sapphire, Coral and Heliodor's lives.
We think Kunzite is good at making someone miserable.
We would like to take Ruby's sadness.

Round Two

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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

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Re: Discussion

[imaginemeandyuu]

The worst feeling... is self-loathing?

Re: Discussion

[bunny_ears]

The worst feeling... losing someone you cared about. Which is also the worst thing to lose.

Re: Discussion

[karlsefni]

. . . . helplessness.

Submission

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Re: Submission

[imaginemeandyuu]

Worst feeling: The helplessness that comes with self-loathing
Best feeling: Being around friends! Especially after dinner, in the warmth.
Worst thing to lose: Someone you care about
Best thing to find: Happiness

Team Selections:
Improve their life (2): Coral and Heliodor
Good at making someone miserable (1): Kunzite
Take their sadness (1): Ruby
Creative happiness (1): Sapphire
. . . what do you want to do to them?: Give them a ton of food so they never go hungry again!

Round Three

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Tiger's Eye's character lives in a cave. Because of an experiment to save their life, they are made of poison that is released when the sun shines on them. After their parents died when they went outside, they live in a cave. The animals that live in the cave are their only friends, but they also have to eat them to survive.

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

if they had to start eating people because they ran out of animals

if the cave flooded and they had to risk going outside

if the poison started affecting everything even inside the cave

UNEXPECTED EXPLOSIONS!!!

Love

More optimistic people

Someone could come and they could trust them.

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 Ruby, Peridot.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[bunny_ears]

... All of them?

Re: Discussion

[karlsefni]

Why are there explosions what.

Re: Discussion

[imaginemeandyuu]

Maybe... the explosions cause the poison to affect everything inside the cave! AND make it flood. So if someone optimistic came and they trusted them and loved them they'd kill them horribly.

Submission

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Re: Submission

[bunny_ears]

Tiger's Eye's character lives in a cave. Because of an experiment to save their life, they are made of poison that is released when the sun shines on them. After their parents died when they went outside, they live in a cave. The animals that live in the cave are their only friends, but they also have to eat them to survive.

One day, a miner came into the cave. Our character made friends with them, and started to trust them. As time past, the explorer and our character fell in love.

Then some of the mining equipment exploded. The light set off our character's poison, which killed the animals and the miners, including our character's True Love, and blew open an underground lake. Our broken-hearted character tried to live off of the bodies of the animals and miners, which kept them fed, but they couldn't stop the rising waters, which forced them outside.

Final Round

[dramatispersonae]

Tiger's Eye's character lives in a cave. Because of an experiment to save their life, they are made of poison that is released when the sun shines on them. After their parents died when they went outside, they live in a cave. The animals that live in the cave are their only friends, but they also have to eat them to survive.

One day, a miner came into the cave. Our character made friends with them, and started to trust them. As time past, the explorer and our character fell in love.

Then some of the mining equipment exploded. The light set off our character's poison, which killed the animals and the miners, including our character's True Love, and blew open an underground lake. Our broken-hearted character tried to live off of the bodies of the animals and miners, which kept them fed, but they couldn't stop the rising waters, which forced them outside.

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

Experiencing the feeling of being loved

Losing time

Losing the people you love and knowing that it's all your fault.

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

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Re: Discussion

[imaginemeandyuu]

I feel like we can have this bit be...reflecting on their life so far maybe? I mean I think we could include all the elements of that.

Re: Discussion

[imaginemeandyuu]

[after musing for a bit] Here's what I think:

Tiger's Eye's character lives in a cave. Because of an experiment to save their life, they are made of poison that is released when the sun shines on them. After their parents died when they went outside, they live in a cave. The animals that live in the cave are their only friends, but they also have to eat them to survive.

One day, a miner came into the cave. Our character made friends with them, and started to trust them. As time past, the explorer and our character fell in love.

Then some of the mining equipment exploded. The light set off our character's poison, which killed the animals and the miners, including our character's True Love, and blew open an underground lake. Our broken-hearted character tried to live off of the bodies of the animals and miners, which kept them fed, but they couldn't stop the rising waters, which forced them outside.

But the story doesn't end here...

Our character sat outside, thinking about how wonderful it had felt to be loved, how warm and comfortable and how they felt like nothing else mattered -- no matter how terrible things were, they had that one perfect thing to make everything else tolerable. They lost a lot of time sitting out there, radiating poison and reminiscing on the feeling of being loved, but there was no pleasure in it. They'd lost the only person they cared about, and even had to devour their corpse! All for what? Survival?


Um, in the happy end, they decide that it's like, Yes! Survival. As long as they lived, there was still hope. Their lover, too, would have wanted them to live on. And so they set off to try to survive, even poisonous as they were, and always would carry part of their lover inside them. Literally.

In the bad ending, they can't endure it any more. There's no point to survive. The future's bleak. They came this far and all they'd ever do is poison and kill others. And so they let themselves starve in punishment for everything their life was so far, a slow and awful death.

What do you think...?

Submission

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