PERIDOT

[dramatispersonae]

[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.]

Comments

ROUND ONE

[dramatispersonae]

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.

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[crueltobekind]

Can we make coming to this game one of them? What is in this water?

Re: DISCUSSION

[immaturelycursed]

It looks so . . . dirty.

SUBMIT

[dramatispersonae]

Please list only three. No more, no less.

Re: SUBMIT

[crueltobekind]

[PERIDOT'S SINS:

1. Vain
2. Vengeful
3. Unrepentant]

ROUND TWO

[dramatispersonae]

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.

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[fourleafwords]

I'd say the people hurt by whatever it is should be the ones to decide. Could that be a punishment? Being at their mercy, like that?

SUBMIT

[dramatispersonae]

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

Re: SUBMIT

[crueltobekind]

Option one! People will be left to the mercy of those that they wronged. If they wronged someone completely horrible or too kind to subject them to any punishment, the victim's loved ones can stand in to choose a punishment for them.

Option two! Make a fair repayment. This is different from the first option since you shouldn't go overboard with it.

Option three! Shave off all their hair. Or draw really embarrassing things on their head if they're bald already.

ROUND THREE

[dramatispersonae]

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.

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[crueltobekind]

Can we name Heliodor most guilty for the time that guy hit Mirage?

SUBMIT

[dramatispersonae]

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

Re: SUBMIT

[immaturelycursed]

Our guilty team is Heliodor, for that time a jerk guy from that team hit Mirage when he was a child.

And our innocent team is ourselves, Peridot, because we have only ever acted in self-defense.

ROUND FOUR

[dramatispersonae]

Today, you have been accused three times, for being not guilty, for douchiness, 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.

Re: ROUND FOUR

[immaturelycursed]

Ah. Douchiness, really?

Re: ROUND FOUR

[crueltobekind]

Whoever accused us of that should be doing penance!

BONUS

[dramatispersonae]

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?

Re: BONUS

[crueltobekind]

If I actually mess up without meaning to, then I'll talk to the person I've hurt to see what I can begin to do to make amends. I wouldn't hold a big public spectacle and whine about how everything is my fault and I'm horrible. That doesn't do anyone any good.

I don't think the crimes we listed are any secret in the first place . . .

Re: BONUS

[immaturelycursed]

Yeah, on both accounts. I think that's a good way to deal with it.

Re: BONUS

[immaturelycursed]

Ah. I guess I wouldn't mind if our crimes are public knowledge.

But about guilt . . . I'd do anything to do repayment, but I haven't remembered anything that really tells me much. I remember feeling guilty about something, but I don't know what that is.

Re: BONUS

[fourleafwords]

I'm okay with stuff being public, and mostly I'd try to suck less in the future. There are some kinds of punishments I wouldn't take, cause no way I'm letting myself die or get hurt willingly, but I'd put up with a lot of them being pissed at me, if I deserved it.

Re: BONUS

[dramatispersonae]

Thank you. Please go to endgame.