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[ 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 Falcon:

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

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[ ... drinks tea. ]

... Do we have to ...

If you want.

I wrote a letter earlier.

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What, no pressing problems you need the rest of Aather to know about?

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[LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW because damn son]

I will never understand Persona magic.

[ glances... okay we're above the clouds glances away. ]

They're a little weird.

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

[ 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. ]

So we're supposed to pick...

Not necessarily.

We can answer some individually and some as a team. Or many individually and one as a team. Or none individually and many as a team.

Anything like that. We do not need to depend on each other for this.

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I'm not great at this type of advice...

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[ ... frowns ]

Why would you ask about red or orange ties if we can't tell what you look like...

...does it matter what they look like?

It really does. What colors look good on someone depend on things like their skin tone, eye colour and hair colour.

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Can't you just look and see if someone's wearing pants ...

They mean the person in charge.

... They could take their pants.

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Are you referring to a letter?

[ nods ]

The one from -- uh, "Topping 101".

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It's an expression, but kind of a stupid one.

Yeah, it's stupid. I dunno how you solve that problem either ... beat them up?

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