dramatispersonae

PERIDOT

[ An apple tree stands in the middle of this room. No fruit grows on it yet. It's surrounded by small baskets labeled with a perfect portrait of everyone not on this team who's playing in this game. ]

Dragonfly (Hikaru) || Tavros and Nico || Star || Caramel, Rocky Road, Dio, and Maple || Breeze and Nova || Plague || Rider || Sherry and Itachi (Stealth) || Wave (Toki) and Aqua || Apple, Selenia, and Yuki (Icicle) || Wing, Dean, and Obsidian || Eclipse || Meringue and Kira || Jean, Ahad, Susan, Barnaby, and Mike || Natasha

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With a shivery noise, the tree suddenly grows a multitude of lush red apples. Look at them for more than an instant and you'll be overcome with the conviction that these apples represent something passionate. A deep, intense kiss, perhaps, if you're on the young and innocent side...or something rather more involved if you're older and more worldly. (It's okay to blush.)

These apples represent an action. It's obvious what that action is (even if different people might have different, or at least differently-rated, ideas of how to describe it). Place an apple in the basket of each person you might do this action with, if there were no consequences for it. You have to choose at least one.

The red apples vanish. The tree suddenly grows a great amount of new apples, which are now shining gold. Look at them for more than an instant and you'll be overcome with the conviction that these apples represent something companionable. They symbolize marriage, if you can conceive of that; if not, they might conjure up images of long-lasting partnership of any kind.

These apples represent an action. It's obvious what that action is. Place an apple in the basket of each person you'd do this action with--for the purpose of this game, you can pick more than one, but you have to choose at least one.

The gold apples vanish. Just as before, the tree suddenly sprouts many new apples, which are now an ominous black. Look at them for more than an instant and you'll be overcome with the conviction that these apples represent something violent. If you're an unflinching and dark sort, you'll see them as representing murder or killing; gentler types might see them simply as a punch to the face, and people in between as inflicting a nasty injury.

These apples represent an action. It's obvious what that action is. Place an apple in the basket of each person you'd do this action to, if there were no consequences for it and you had to pick at least one.

Oh, wow.

[ '-';;;; ]

Well, I know who I would pick, but...maybe we should find a group consensus?

[no sort of in a state of shock]

Uh oh....are you okay?

[ D: D: oh no a tiny ]

W-Well, it's a little... hauuu...

[putting her hands on her cheeks '-']

Yeah, it's a little...forward. [ and you're so tiny...personae why ]

Yeah...

[slapping her cheeks a little tho. IF IT WERE A CLUB GAME SHE WOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO QUIT!!]

But no matter what the game is about, I've got to make an effort!

Right. And it's just a game, so I don't think anyone is going to come and kiss you afterwards, unless you want to do that.

[ she wants to do that to the person she wants to pick -- but ]

Nice to meet you! I'm Sunshine.

Oh—I'm Amaranth! It's nice to meet you, too, it is.

You must be pretty new, right? I come over to Peridot a lot, and I don't think I've seen you yet.

Very new! I just arrived two days ago.

Well, welcome to Aather!

Now...about the game. Should we pick together, or separately?

Hmm... I've barely met anyone else playing, so I'd probably just have to try to pick strategically... Um, if you want to just pick who you want, though, that's okay.

I'm not sure what we're trying to accomplish here, other than expressing our feelings for other people...

I could pick for us? And I can introduce you to him later. Then you'll know some more people.

It's hard to tell, but there's got to be something to determine winners. Like who has the most votes...

But I think just playing normally in a game like this could be a good idea, too. Alright!

Probably. They don't always say what they're looking for, but it could be a popularity thing. Then again, it could be about feelings, you never know. We'll probably find out next round.

[ '-'! picking an apple...this is so embarrassing... ]

Okay, then let's go for Eclipse.

Mm! We'll see what happens then.

[just letting her place the apple, not making any extra comment about it]

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