✿ SAPPHIRE

[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

[appleofhiseye]

So it is a story.

Re: Discussion

[telepathetically]

[hahaHA]

REALLY.

Re: Discussion

[turnthetides]

...Wow, what a wonderful game we get to play today.

Re: Discussion

[appleofhiseye]

Do you want to do something else?

Re: Discussion

[outstandingbalance]

Really?

Re: Discussion

[appleofhiseye]

We don't have to play it like that, you know. We can just make up our own kind of story.

Re: Discussion

[appleofhiseye]

It doesn't look like an entirely fun game, does it?

Re: Discussion

[turnthetides]

Well... there's different kinds of "terrible", right? What if we just made it an embarrassing story, or a bit silly?

Re: Discussion

[outstandingbalance]

I'm not sure I see how it's a game. But that's not a first, so I won't dwell on it.

Re: Discussion

[appleofhiseye]

We could give it a try. But then it would have to be the kind of terrible that no one would expect.

Re: Discussion

[appleofhiseye]

The word "game" doesn't make sense for a lot of them. But we make do. Is there anything you would like to suggest? We were thinking perhaps a silly kind of terrible, so people aren't expecting it.

Re: Discussion

[turnthetides]

Hello... I don't think we've met yet. I'm Nil.

Re: Discussion

[turnthetides]

Well––what about a story about someone with really bad luck?

Re: Discussion

[appleofhiseye]

...I'm good with that. What kind of things happen to someone with bad luck?

Re: Discussion

[outstandingbalance]

I don't know how good I'll be for coming up with that kind of terrible, but I'm game to try.

Re: Discussion

[outstandingbalance]

Natasha. Natasha Romanoff. Nice to meet you—I think I've only met one person on your team before.

Re: Discussion

[appleofhiseye]

Stories are not my strong suit, so I can't say how much help I'll be either. But it never hurts to try new things.

Re: Discussion

[outstandingbalance]

...You okay, kid?

Re: Discussion

[outstandingbalance]

I don't see how it can do any harm.

Re: Discussion

[appleofhiseye]

Then let's give it a try. What would an unlucky child do growing up, you think?

Re: Discussion

[turnthetides]

I guess... it always rains on their birthday? And when they have to travel for a while.

Re: Discussion

[appleofhiseye]

They could travel around a lot as a child, and it always rains where they live?