Heliodor

[dramatispersonae]

[ You’re in a corporate boardroom… of sorts. There’s no door and the walls are all glass, open to a clear blue sky, but if you look out the glass and down, there’s nothing but a layer of fluffy white clouds. If you look up, nothing but sky and sun. The room is dominated by an odd table that hasn’t decided what shape it wants to be – there’s a square corner on one end, but the rest of it is wavy and ellipsoid. The chairs are swiveling leather office chairs, quite comfortable and quite ordinary. The tea service and digestives have come along as well.

In the middle of the table are three typewriters with paper primed and ready to go, the mailbox, and a typewritten.

Dear Macaw:

We’ve gotten some very good submissions so far, but not enough to go to print! Talk amongst yourselves and write a letter asking for help solving a problem that you face, as a team or as individuals. And don’t be afraid to send in more than one. We’re such a popular feature!

- M

]

Comments

ROUND ONE

[dramatispersonae]

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[uneulogized]

Advice column, huh.

Re: DISCUSSION

[irishluck]

Heh, looks like it. Got anything to write?

Re: DISCUSSION

[uneulogized]

Nothing that I'm willing to discuss openly. What about you?

Re: DISCUSSION

[irishluck]

I've got nothing. Might as well make it up entirely.

Re: DISCUSSION

[uneulogized]

Any problems you think someone needs advice with?

Re: DISCUSSION

[irishluck]

Nah. Not up to me to ask for advice on behalf of someone else, anyway.

Although, if we really need to come up with something real, the lack of mature women in this place has been a growing concern for me.

Re: DISCUSSION

[uneulogized]

Because you can't hit on them, or what?

Re: DISCUSSION

[irishluck]

I'm a man who enjoys the finer things in life.

[ which is to say, yeah ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[uneulogized]

Well, first, have you met Naha?

And secondly, that's rough. We could ask what you're meant to do, sure. We could sign it with "Horny in Hell."

Re: DISCUSSION

[irishluck]

I've met most of Ruby, it's a good team -- and Naha is a good woman.

But heh, sure. I like that suggestion, so long as we spice the letter up a bit.

SUBMISSIONS

[dramatispersonae]

[ submissions go here with your team name in the subject of the comment ]

ROUND TWO

[dramatispersonae]

[ One of the typewriters begins typing on its own, eventually printing out:

Excellent, excellent, this is enough material to keep us going for quite some time. Now, get to work answering the letters!

The mailbox makes a coughing noise, and up comes a… large newspaper. Each column starts with one of these letters. The space below each letter is blank… for now.

The typewriter keeps going:

Just stick your letter in the mailbox – “Dear So-and-So” – and it will find its way into print. Oh, but we don’t want to give bad advice. If you see someone giving advice you disagree with, feel free to correct them. Remember, you get paid by the word… no, paid by the letter… no, brevity can be the soul of wit… no, rewarded based on productivity… aha! Giving a good answer or many good answers will help you win! But the newspaper business can be about entertainment, so there’ll be a reward for pleasing your peers as well. Yes, those are good criteria.

Now, get to work.

- M

Yes. It’s a magical newspaper that will update in Aather-realtime with the contents of the linked DP post, so your characters can snipe at other letter writers and call their advice terrible.

Use this thread for discussion and this post for submissions. ]

Re: ROUND TWO

[in_loving_mri]

[Styles enters, looking... somewhat less wound-up than he has in prior games.]

I suppose I'll be Macaw 3, then.

Re: ROUND TWO

[irishluck]

—Yo.

Don't think I met you before, name's Hawthorn.

Macaw 2 for this game.

Re: ROUND TWO

[in_loving_mri]

[A little half-bow.]

David Styles. Pleased to meet you.

...My goodness, people here have a great many sex questions.

Re: ROUND TWO

[irishluck]

[ laughing at that ]

Not a bad thing to be concerned over.

Re: ROUND TWO

[in_loving_mri]

I suppose not, but it is rather repetitive.

Which of these was ours, incidentally?

Re: ROUND TWO

[irishluck]

Ours? Horny in Hell.

We didn't have anything better.

Re: ROUND TWO

[in_loving_mri]

...I ought to have guessed. I truly ought to have guessed. Well. I'm certainly not meeting Ostrich. I'm attached, you see.

Re: ROUND TWO

[irishluck]

[ laughing now ]

What, you saying it's actually a team-wide problem? And here your teammate made me look like the desperate one.

Re: ROUND TWO

[in_loving_mri]

I shouldn't call it a problem, precisely. But this "horniness" does seem to be a common feature of a few Heliodors. At least, it's a part of the team stereotype. We do have a "sex basement," after all.

Re: ROUND TWO

[irishluck]

[ THINGS I DID NOT KNOW AND AM NOT SURE HOW TO TAKE ]

Do you, now? Talk about an unexpectedly wild team.

Re: ROUND TWO

[in_loving_mri]

It's... a source of chagrin or pride. Or both. Depending on whom you ask. The equestrian statue and flaming skulls are a particularly tasteful touch. A mark of artistry and sensitivity.