CORAL

[dramatispersonae]

[You'll find yourself inside the living room of a quaint and cozy gingerbread house. The room itself isn't very big, but you'll find nice décor scattering the room: Squishy marshmallow seats around a chocolate table holding bowls of treats, cabinets covering the walls, and a large cauldron in one of the corners.

You'll also find a flight of stairs that goes up. On one side of the wall, you'll find another door with a large picture of a mouse.]

Ah, hello. [You can hear the Baker's voice speaking.] It looks like today, you will be Mice. Please step through the door to meet your fellow mice, but remember. You cannot tell anyone!

Comments

[blackjacked]

[ooooooh good feeling's gone now that rules have been revealed. tensing up. . . ]

. . .

[digitalemperor]

[Oh.]

[blackjacked]

. . . [cry wolf will never not be a trauma trigger]

[breathes in]

Just houses this time, huh?

[digitalemperor]

Seems that way.

[blackjacked]

I can eat houses.

[better than people]

So how d'you wanna do this?

[digitalemperor]

Pick a target, then pretend to be good children.

[blackjacked]

[snort]

Simpler than it sounds.

We shouldn't wait for other teams to pull us aside to talk privately, either. We've gotta be proactive.

[digitalemperor]

Right. We can approach teams we'd approach normally.

[blackjacked]

[*not as simple]

Sapphire, Emerald, Carnelian. . .

[digitalemperor]

Kunzite... But they're mice too. Um, Turquoise... If you saw Masaomi out there. Otherwise...

[blackjacked]

. . . Peridot. I'd say Amethyst if Solstice was playing, but he's not.

[digitalemperor]

[Nodding.] Right, it'd be really suspicious if we didn't talk to Peridot.

What team should we "eat"?

[blackjacked]

. . . who has the most delicious house?

[digitalemperor]

Ruby, Jasper or Emerald.

[blackjacked]

Emerald.

[sage nod; chocolate chip cookies win]

You think the other wolf teams'll be okay with that?

[digitalemperor]

We can ask.

[atoplady]

[what's with that face tho]

[blackjacked]

[ah, but then Emerald somehow got a vote. . .]

. . . or maybe we should wait until the first ousting to pick.

[blackjacked]

[BREATHES IN. . . then out]

[pulls up a smile]

I get the feeling this game'll be more up your alley.

[digitalemperor]

Mm. Good point...

[blackjacked]

. . . I think we should vote for a team with no votes. Call it random. Wait until the last minute, to make sure no one votes for Coral.

[digitalemperor]

[And then we miss the deadline.]

If anyone asks, we could say we were going to random and were too slow. Or just say we didn't vote on purpose...

[blackjacked]

[SHEEPISH. . .]

Yeah, it shouldn't be a problem this early in the game. S'not like we had any clues to go off of, and we're not the only team that didn't vote.

[digitalemperor]

Right. Either line works but we should pick one and stick to it. Not voting because we have no clues yet is probably the simplest one.

[blackjacked]

[nods]

We were thinking about voting for Sapphire because they're our rivals, but by the time we came to a consensus, we were out of time.