✿ 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]

Submission

[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

[iwantitinmymouth]

Live on the moon!

Re: Discussion

[dailydouble]

Ah . . . the first part should be easy.

Re: Discussion

[mirroredvalue]

[Well, I can't disapprove with that exactly, but...]

Then, is there a reason they're living on the moon?

Re: Discussion

[iwantitinmymouth]

You can see everything there.

Re: Discussion

[breakingtheice]

It all looks easy enough, just sad.

Re: Discussion

[mirroredvalue]

Yeah... Still, we have to do our best with it...

Re: Discussion

[mirroredvalue]

We're trying to make a sad story, though, so...

...Is there some way to fix it to make it sad...

Re: Discussion

[dailydouble]

It's only a story.

Re: Discussion

[dailydouble]

There isn't enough atmosphere on the moon for a human to survive.

Re: Discussion

[mirroredvalue]

Having our character die because they live on the moon is rejected.

[Just saying it right now.]

Re: Discussion

[breakingtheice]

The moon would be lonely without anyone else living there. And if they can see everything from the moon, then all they can do is watch what they're missing out on.

Re: Discussion

[breakingtheice]

Doesn't mean it's not sad.

Re: Discussion

[dailydouble]

It was an observation, not a suggestion.

Loneliness isn't necessarily the worst thing that could happen for someone.

Re: Discussion

[mirroredvalue]

That's fine then. Then, we've got where they live, what they do, and how it makes them feel... Star'll use her memories for what they did as a child...

[Writes down:
"had debilitating psychic powers, preventing both friends and coordination."]

Everyone okay with that?

Re: Discussion

[dailydouble]

Whatever.

Re: Discussion

[breakingtheice]

It's pretty bad.

Re: Discussion

[mirroredvalue]

It is.

Re: Discussion

[dailydouble]

[ considers her, for a moment ]

I see we're only soliciting opinions after you've already decided what you're going to do.

Re: Discussion

[mirroredvalue]

If the answer's no, that's fine. We're collecting ideas right now though.

Re: Discussion

[iwantitinmymouth]

Put that people get mad at it for eating things.