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HELIODOR

[Unlike with previous games from Lancelot, the room today is sparse … and cold, as if this is a place where some of the remaining winter hasn’t left (though surely that has nothing to do with the Snow Queen …)

Instead of wine, bread, and meat, there is dirty water, some berries (that are safe to eat), and some other plants that clearly have been picked off a plant.

There is nowhere to really sit except the cold, hard ground.]

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In the past, I betrayed my oath to my king. I was not truly loyal to him, not as I was meant to be. Did you know … we were friends when we were young, though perhaps not as young as many of you? We came to be brothers. And still, I hurt him. I broke that vow.

So I must ask you, Aather. What are the sins … or crimes … of your team? Please list three.

Please list only three. No more, no less.

When Arthur learned of my betrayal, of what I had done—he did nothing. A strong king in every way, but in the face of betrayal from a loved one, he could only stand by and do nothing. His mercy led his realm to despair; many others thought him to be weak.

They weren’t right. But they were correct in another way: I was deserving of punishment. A crime is not a crime without the punishment that follows, some might say, but some crimes are worthy of punishment.

Today, list three suggested punishments for any crimes, worthy crimes, perhaps even your own crimes.

Three punishments here. No more, no less. They can be anything.

Surely you have all witnessed the importance of being held accountable. Would Camelot have been so cold, so burdened, had Arthur punished me correctly? Would the Snow Queen have experienced such misery?

Now, hold your other Aatherites accountable in the same way. So many crimes have surely come to pass that it is time for them to face it.

Tell me one team you find guilty, and the reason for that guilt.

And … tell me one team you find to be innocent. This is according to your own understanding, of course.

One innocent team, one guilty team and the reason for that guilt.

Today, you have been accused three times, for being not guilty, for hitting Mirage, and of being neither guilty nor innocent. However, you were protected from these crimes, and you do not have to do penance.

The choices for penances are here.

I have been found guilty for not listening to reason, and I will do the penances suggested by Jasper:

1. For the crime of running tiresome and intrusive games, to only run cheerful and pleasant games from now on.
2. For the crime of being obsessed with his own self-judgment, to tell the story of his supposed crime, and to hear and accept someone else's judgment of him.
3. For the crime of betraying his friend, to apologize sincerely and actually accept the judgment of his friend in this instance, since it seems to be harder for him than any self-flagellating punishment we could give him. And to apply the energies he's no longer using to mentally punish himself to something productive, to find his king and remedy the damage he's done.

Edited 2014-01-05 03:48 (UTC)

What are ways you have dealt with the guilt in your past, in your memories? What if you betrayed a friend and destroyed something very important? How would you recommend making up for it, if not through the means here in this game?

Also, would you like your crimes to be public knowledge?

Edited 2014-01-05 01:31 (UTC)

Of this team?

Err. . . .

Uhhmm. . . .

1. We have probably killed people before. I know at least we've injured people!
2. I stole food from the ring and I think my teammates have done the same so that counts too?
3. We're pretty fabulous!! I mean, have you seen our color? Yellow this bright is a downright crime and looking good in it is really hard.

. . . well I can't disagree. . . .

1. Cleaning bathrooms. Bathrooms can get really gross.
2. You have to kiss Paramount and also do the chicken dance.
3. Add more black to the Heliodor uniform.

1. The guilty team: Heliodor! For being so fabulous in yellow.
2. The innocent team: Ruby! Because red is a really nice color and should look good on people.

In my memories I was guilty for something but in the ended I died for it and then lived as a ghost for a while. I think that was my penance, although I was also meant to die.

. . . I think I also betrayed my friends in a way? And also we destroyed our planet because of me. . . soooo.

But I highly recommend not doing that! I think. . . it's hard to make up for wrongdoing, and punishment. But what you can do is try to make it up to the person who you wronged, somehow—if you can't do it by talking to them and acting accordingly, like by making it up to them by getting them ice cream or something, then dedicate your actions to doing something in the name of that person. That might not get you any forgiveness—it's entirely their choice whether to forgive you or not! But that's as much as you can do and you can't expect forgiveness because you betrayed them.

Hmmmm. . . . if it will get Heliodor a win and also memories, yes! But otherwise, I'm okay either way.

Thank you. Please go to endgame.

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HELIODOR

ROUND ONE

DISCUSSION

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ROUND TWO

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ROUND THREE

DISCUSSION

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ROUND FOUR

BONUS

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