✿ JASPER

[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

[mirroredvalue]

[...That's a lot of questions.]

...Don't want to pull from Star's memories too much, but... It's an idea?

Re: Discussion

[breakingtheice]

Kind of a depressing game . . .

Re: Discussion

[dailydouble]

Ah . . . the first part should be easy.

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[dailydouble]

Jasper's character lives on the moon. When they were a child, they had debilitating psychic powers, preventing both friends and coordination. Now that they are older, every day, they live entirely alone on the moon. This makes them feel sad and isolated.

Three things that would make their life worse:

Hostile moon dwellers

Difficultly creating a livable environment

Attempts to grow food continue to fail, making food scarce

Three things that would make their life better:

Freedom

Something terrible befalling someone who used to torment them

Someone extending a hand in friendship and truly meaning it

Team Selections:
Improve their lives (1-3): Peridot, Amethyst, and Carnelian
Good at making someone miserable (1): Citrine
Take their sadness (1): Ruby

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

[mirroredvalue]

[Well now I'm kind of confused.]

Really? You picked our past? Thought you were going to go with your suggestion?

Well, it's fine, but...

Re: Discussion

[dailydouble]

[ after thinking on it, for a moment ] Despair, love, the ability to care about anything, something unexpectedly useful?

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[mirroredvalue]

Worst feeling: Despair
Best feeling: Love
Worst thing to lose: The ability to care about anything
Best thing to find: Something unexpectedly useful

Team Selections:
Improve their life (2): Peridot, Amethyst
Good at making someone miserable (1): Coral
Take their sadness (1): Carnelian
Creative happiness (1): Sapphire
. . . what do you want to do to them?: Give them an army of moon penguins.

Round Three

[dramatispersonae]

Jasper's character lives on the moon. When they were a child, they had debilitating psychic powers, preventing both friends and coordination. Now that they are older, every day, they live entirely alone on the moon. This makes them feel sad and isolated.

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

Weapons that they can't use

Friendship

Having their damaged horn healed before they die

Hope

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, Iolite, Amethyst x 2, Kunzite.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[breakingtheice]

. . . We have a horn now?

Re: Discussion

[mirroredvalue]

So, we're under attack from Amethyst liking us, then? Carnelian, too!

[I'm sorry, I love this.]

Re: Discussion

[dailydouble]

. . . a list, of course.

Submission

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Submission

[mirroredvalue]

However, one day they found out that their psychic powers were because of their damaged horn, and got it fixed. With that, they were finally able to make friends! However, their friendship would ultimately be betrayed, and they were forced to fight their new former friends. With all hope and faith in their people extinguished, they prepared to fight their new enemies. However, as they looked over their weapons, they realized that their weapons could only be used by a psychic. By fixing their horn and losing their psychic powers, they no longer had any way to defend themselves.

Final Round

[dramatispersonae]

Jasper's character lives on the moon. When they were a child, they had debilitating psychic powers, preventing both friends and coordination. Now that they are older, every day, they live entirely alone on the moon. This makes them feel sad and isolated.

However, one day they found out that their psychic powers were because of their damaged horn, and got it fixed. With that, they were finally able to make friends! However, their friendship would ultimately be betrayed, and they were forced to fight their new former friends. With all hope and faith in their people extinguished, they prepared to fight their new enemies. However, as they looked over their weapons, they realized that their weapons could only be used by a psychic. By fixing their horn and losing their psychic powers, they no longer had any way to defend themselves.

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

Losing a friend

Losing familiar people

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

[mirroredvalue]

...But we already lost a friend?

Re: Discussion

[breakingtheice]

Now they want a happy ending?

Submission

[dramatispersonae]