EMERALD

[dramatispersonae]

[The inside of the tent is spacious, but spare. In the center of the hard-packed dirt floor, as promised, there is a heavy oaken trapdoor with an iron ring set into it.

Apart from that, there is nothing.]

Comments

RULES

[dramatispersonae]

[OOC: Discuss as a team, but choose as individuals: do you venture back into Camelot? What will you try to save? How many of you will be going this time, and who will it be?

After every trip, players will be asked if they’ll be making the trip again. Each new trip starts a new round. After five rounds, when everyone in the team is satisfied that they’ve made enough trips, or are rendered unable to make further trips, inform Mordred and you’ll progress to the final round. Status effects, some mental and some physical, will be handed out each round, increasing in severity rapidly. Anyone who finds their status effects too rough to role-play may request catatonia instead, but that will effectively remove them from play until endgame.

This is not an exploradora, but a game about choices. If you choose to venture into Camelot, once you’ve picked your route, the journey itself will be handwaved except for the status effect and the success or failure of your salvage attempt.]

ROUND ONE: IN THE TENT

[dramatispersonae]

DISCUSS

[dramatispersonae]

SUBMIT

[dramatispersonae]

Do you venture back into Camelot?
What will you try to save?
How many of you will be going this time, and who will it be?

Re: DISCUSS

[galacticfairy]

... we decided it was an illusion, didn't we?

Re: DISCUSS

[cerealpunner]

[oh god, locked up when Mordred started his spiel]

Re: DISCUSS

[itsalluseless]

...It might be best to treat it as reality for now.

Re: DISCUSS

[doublefaced]

W... Wouldn't that be way too convenient? That happening just in time for a game...

Re: DISCUSS

[galacticfairy]

... there's no reason he'd be able to take half of us but not the other! Or that people like Stealth would let something like that happen! Or that Aather would burn that quickly...

Re: DISCUSS

[cerealpunner]

... Mordred's been out in the forest for who knows how long, the Darkness already infiltrated once, and now Mordred's hosting the game just after the king comes home... the timing's... I don't know.

Re: DISCUSS

[itsalluseless]

It probably isn't real, no. But for the sake of the game we might need to take it as seriously as if it were.

Re: DISCUSS

[fraternaldevotion]

It has to be.

[but he's hating everything anyway.]

Re: DISCUSS

[galacticfairy]

It infiltrated! But it turned made things decay, not -- light on fire.

Re: DISCUSS

[galacticfairy]

Stealth wouldn't let Aather get like that, right?

Re: DISCUSS

[cerealpunner]

Are you willing to bet our teammates' lives on that?

Re: DISCUSS

[cerealpunner]

I hate being right.

--chances not going would make things worse for us?

Re: DISCUSS

[doublefaced]

[just. deflating even more]

This is the worst...

Re: DISCUSS

[cerealpunner]

Think not going would have consequences?

Re: DISCUSS

[galacticfairy]

Stealth would be fine...!

[ but... wavering noticeably... thinking about the others who haven't shown that they're as ass-kicking, and people on other teams like Melody who didn't show up. She clutches her hands over her heart and looks anxiously back toward the city ]

Re: DISCUSS

[itsalluseless]

[sighs]

Yeah. But we'll just have to do the best we can.

Re: DISCUSS

[itsalluseless]

I'm sure it would.

Re: DISCUSS

[cerealpunner]

I meant the one's here.

Even if it's an illusion, who's to say that inaction won't be punished? He hasn't given us any rules to work with here.

Re: DISCUSS

[doublefaced]

I'm not exactly cut out to run through a burning city, you know.

Re: DISCUSS

[galacticfairy]

It's easier than you'd think.

Re: DISCUSS

[cerealpunner]

... for the record, once this is over, I'm punching Mordred again.