✿ TURQUOISE

[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]

Re: Discussion

[screwthatnoise]

[glancing around at this setting, huh]

Should this character live around or with people they cannot trust? That is worse than living somewhere desolate or alone.

Re: Discussion

[knighttoremember]

Lives with someone they can't trust, but alone other than that.

Re: Discussion

[mylittlecavallone]

[ You two are pretty into this... ]

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[screwthatnoise]

Turquoise's character lives with a person they cannot trust. That person seems like a reasonable person in the public's eye, leading nobody to suspect that person of anything, but they are in fact controlling and manipulative. That person does not respect them at all, and that person does not allow them any freedom. When the character was a child, they were regularly hurt by that person, both emotionally and physically. They followed orders and tried to hide from their temper tantrums. Now that they are older, every day, they are still hurt. They still follow the orders of this person and try their best to avoid temper tantrums. This makes them feel helpless--like they will be stuck with this forever.

Three things that would make their life worse:

Being in the same room as that person for too long

That person becoming more unstable

Mistakenly upsetting that person

Three things that would make their life better:

Going outside

A friend who wants to help them

That person leaving

Team Selections:
Improve their lives: Sapphire, Heliodor
Good at making someone miserable: Citrine
Take their sadness: Heliodor

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

[screwthatnoise]

...

Um.

Re: Discussion

[knighttoremember]

[ o-oh... these ones... ]

The worst...

Re: Discussion

[screwthatnoise]

...

The best... must be feeling safe...

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[screwthatnoise]

Worst feeling: Betrayal
Best feeling: Safety
Worst thing to lose: Safety
Best thing to find: Security

Team Selections:

Improve their life: Sapphire and Heliodor

Good at making someone miserable: Iolite

Take their sadness: Heliodor

Creative happiness: Sapphire
. . . what do you want to do to them?: Cover them in flowers

Round Three

[dramatispersonae]

Turquoise's character lives with a person they cannot trust. That person seems like a reasonable person in the public's eye, leading nobody to suspect that person of anything, but they are in fact controlling and manipulative. That person does not respect them at all, and that person does not allow them any freedom. When the character was a child, they were regularly hurt by that person, both emotionally and physically. They followed orders and tried to hide from their temper tantrums. Now that they are older, every day, they are still hurt. They still follow the orders of this person and try their best to avoid temper tantrums. This makes them feel helpless--like they will be stuck with this forever.

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

A storyteller able to break the confines of the story, allowing the story to become harsh reality.

To find a way to return the world to the way it used to be

Finding their voice

The object of their perversion is constantly around, but they are unable to act

Food that goes bad quickly, and they have no means of cooking it

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, Carnelian, Heliodor, Emerald x 2, Sapphire.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[knighttoremember]

... Wouldn't half of these make it worse...

Re: Discussion

[screwthatnoise]

That first element is pointless. It is already a harsh reality.

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[knighttoremember]

Turquoise's character lives with a person they cannot trust. That person seems like a reasonable person in the public's eye, leading nobody to suspect that person of anything, but they are in fact controlling and manipulative. That person does not respect them at all, and that person does not allow them any freedom. When the character was a child, they were regularly hurt by that person, both emotionally and physically. They followed orders and tried to hide from their temper tantrums. Now that they are older, every day, they are still hurt. They still follow the orders of this person and try their best to avoid temper tantrums. This makes them feel helpless--like they will be stuck with this forever.

One day, things change quite suddenly . . .!

The character meets someone new, who becomes the object of their inappropriate affections. This is an inspiring thing for the character, who manages to find their voice because of it. But they're still unable to act because of living with that person.

For a little while they think that finding their voice will be enough to stand up to that person and change their lives... but then one day there's an incident with the food. It's improperly cooked and goes bad too quickly, and the person they live with throws a fit over it... which feels much worse because the character thought that finding their voice would change things.

They knew that as long as they still longed inappropriately after someone, they would keep wanting to find their voice and go free... so they decided that the only way to stop feeling that was was to turn the world back the way it was before they had that inspiration. The character became a storyteller whose stories became reality and told a story that wrote the object of their desires out of reality entirely... so they had never existed. Then, the character was never inspired to find their voice, and never bothered thinking about anything outside of the life they knew. So it was easier to accept.

Final Round

[dramatispersonae]

Turquoise's character lives with a person they cannot trust. That person seems like a reasonable person in the public's eye, leading nobody to suspect that person of anything, but they are in fact controlling and manipulative. That person does not respect them at all, and that person does not allow them any freedom. When the character was a child, they were regularly hurt by that person, both emotionally and physically. They followed orders and tried to hide from their temper tantrums. Now that they are older, every day, they are still hurt. They still follow the orders of this person and try their best to avoid temper tantrums. This makes them feel helpless--like they will be stuck with this forever.

One day, things change quite suddenly . . .!

The character meets someone new, who becomes the object of their inappropriate affections. This is an inspiring thing for the character, who manages to find their voice because of it. But they're still unable to act because of living with that person.

For a little while they think that finding their voice will be enough to stand up to that person and change their lives... but then one day there's an incident with the food. It's improperly cooked and goes bad too quickly, and the person they live with throws a fit over it... which feels much worse because the character thought that finding their voice would change things.

They knew that as long as they still longed inappropriately after someone, they would keep wanting to find their voice and go free... so they decided that the only way to stop feeling that was was to turn the world back the way it was before they had that inspiration. The character became a storyteller whose stories became reality and told a story that wrote the object of their desires out of reality entirely... so they had never existed. Then, the character was never inspired to find their voice, and never bothered thinking about anything outside of the life they knew. So it was easier to accept.

But the story doesn't end here. A friendly team, Coral, wishes to help cheer your character up with the following story element:

WE WILL GIVE THEM MAKEOVERS

Carnelian has also noted that they wish to do the following:

Stay with them.

Continue the story by writing a paragraph (or more) including the gift of kindness, as well as the following elements:

Belonging

Loneliness

Watching something terrible happen to someone close to you

Being reunited with someone you 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

[knighttoremember]

...

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[screwthatnoise]

Story: Strangely, it is not long before the character is reunited with a different version of the object of their affections. After all, the first one was erased. The character gave them a makeover and decide to stay with them. Finally they could feel a sense of belonging. They felt that nothing could go wrong now.

But then the unstable person this character lives with murders the object of the character's affection before their eyes. They feel loneliness that comes from not having them there anymore. It is sad.

Happy Ending: There is no happy ending.

Bad end: The unstable person kills the main character.

Which do you prefer, and why? We want a happy ending, but it does not exist.