✿ HELIODOR

[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

[froggered]

They could live somewhere very miserable? A very bright place!

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

[...]

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

No?

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

No, that's fine.

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

I think my perception of a miserable place to live is a little different.

Is a perverse place also miserable to live in, do you think?

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

For people who don't like perversion.

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

In that case, what makes our character miserable? Are they a person who doesn't like perversion? Do they like bright places?

Re: Discussion

[restorefromsave]

I don't see why not.

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

[hmmm]

Might as well be both.

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

What else would make them sad, do you think?

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

Dave and I were talking about a perverse place on the troll planet once! It's also very silly, but I don't think silliness is a bad thing considering this story is supposed to be depressing!

I'm not sure what part of "a bunch of trolls flying around in little grub pods constantly screaming at each other through bullhorns shaped like buckets" is perverse, though.

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

[my brother]

... Is this the same as the original memory, or a new one?


And it's the buckets.

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

[your brother.] The original memory!

. . . oh, okay. So there are buckets everywhere? Or something like that?

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

No, buckets only have a perverse meaning in troll culture.

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

. . . what's perverse in human culture?

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

Basically everything.

Mostly horse porking, though.

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

. . .

I'm not sure I want to ask, but is that why we have a horse in the basement?

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

That is exactly why we have a horse in the basement.

The dude could be sad because he has perverse desires in a world where everybody feels like they have to get their harsh on about it.

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

Perhaps he had a traumatic experience when he was a child of being judged harshly, and that is why he's so miserable now!

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

Sure. or he could still actively be in the process sof being judged.

Re: Discussion

[froggered]

Both?

Re: Discussion

[ironicusername]

Now three things that would make their life worse.