JASPER

[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

[aprettygirl]

Ah, what a farce.

Re: DISCUSS

[banded]

I can just ... go in alone. So none of the rest of you are hurt.

Re: DISCUSS

[decider]

[lightly]

Must we go to his kingdom? The thought of his smug face is enough to put one off sleep for whole minutes.

Re: DISCUSS

[ademoelord]

... I don't like this game.

Re: DISCUSS

[aprettygirl]

I wish I'd gone to sleep.

Re: DISCUSS

[aprettygirl]

*with utter confidence*

It's not real, but I'm sure we'll suffer nonetheless.

Re: DISCUSS

[decider]

Now you know the struggle I live with every day. . . we've grown closer as a team already.

Re: DISCUSS

[heirbrained]

I suppose collecting nothing wouldn't win us the game.

Re: DISCUSS

[decider]

Futility in any attempt is built into the game rules, you idiot. He's said as much already.

Re: DISCUSS

[mirroredvalue]

So what's the plan? Don't even bother with the game? That'll make us lose, though...

Re: DISCUSS

[banded]

I think it's futile to ask people to do this in a hypothetical situation.

Re: DISCUSS

[aprettygirl]

Yes, but at the same time, do we really want to go with this melodrama...?

Re: DISCUSS

[ademoelord]

That just makes it worse not better.

Re: DISCUSS

[decider]

Oh?

Re: DISCUSS

[aprettygirl]

It didn't last time. It's not so predictable as all that.

And to put this setup across as a 'game' . . . how crass.

Re: DISCUSS

[heirbrained]

I am loath to enable any more of that, but if we avoided all melodrama, when exactly would we win our memories?

We could just let the knight go, as he prefers.

Re: DISCUSS

[aprettygirl]

I wasn't trying to make you feel better, just offer perspective.

I don't want to play by his rules.

Re: DISCUSS

[aprettygirl]

Such bonding. Such feelings.

Re: DISCUSS

[aprettygirl]

Mm, sacrificing the knight again . . . You'll remember we won by proposing alternatives last time.

Re: DISCUSS

[banded]

Not all magic is stuff you can see. If I wanted to find what you guys left behind, I could—and no one would be able to tell. Saying that's ... too bold. It doesn't make any sense. And I'm not the only one.

Besides, we wouldn't let Camelot burn. We proved that already.

Re: DISCUSS

[decider]

Come up with an alternative quickly, or let the knight rescue us a bed.