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dramatispersonae) wrote2014-04-13 11:41 am
♫ coral ♫
You're in a sumptuous room, with rich brocade in your team colors and fine appointments in copper and marble that should look bright and beautiful -- but everything is dusty and grey, with a furtive, abandoned air. This is a place that's been locked away for a long time. It feels as if it would be sad to linger here for long.
Fortunately (perhaps), after one good look at the room, you catch a brief, pained snatch of melody. Your vision goes dark, and you immediately find your mind somewhere else-- ♫
Fortunately (perhaps), after one good look at the room, you catch a brief, pained snatch of melody. Your vision goes dark, and you immediately find your mind somewhere else-- ♫

♪ instructions ♪
You can play with characters reacting to the scenario any way you want - have them interact with each other as if they're all going through what's being described together as a group, or have each person interact with it separately, or whatever - as you and your team prefer. (If you’re coming in late, you can just react individually to the scenario comments and then jump in wherever your team is playing! The rest of the game won’t make much sense otherwise.) After your team has finished reacting to each comment, let your gamerunner know that you're done so the next one (and then the next round, when the dream is over) can be unscreened.
Once the nightmare is over, teams will be free to discuss and answer a series of questions.
Teams will be running at their own pace without inter-team interactions, so please pace yourselves accordingly as a group to make sure you don’t run overtime! We’ll be cutting off all teams at the 5-hour mark (9:30 PM PST/12:30 AM EST).
round 1 ♩
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You try and try to pull them up, but their eyes widen in fear when they look at you, and you see a stranger (a monster -- your own features darkened and distorted) reflected in their eyes. “Get away from me!” they tell you.
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[THIS IS SO MANY SHADES OF NOT OKAY]
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No, hang on!
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No . . . no! We can't just leave you alone!
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This isn't--
[NOT LETTING GO OF TEAMMATE, NOPE]
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You feel cold despair coil in your gut. You make one last grab, but tendrils of feathery shadow wind around their heels and inexorably drag them down.
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[Feathers? He has feathers and wings? Does he have wings? If he has wings he's jumping after the falling teammate learning how to use wings can come later.]
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[crying out as he extends his hand over the ledge, nearly tumbling in himself]
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[WOW NO]
[He tries to choke out words, but nope, they aren't coming out.]
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round 2 ♩
Firebird's voice floats through the air on another brief melody. She sounds exhausted, as tired and sick as you are.
"So what would you do, if such a thing came to pass? After all of your fears came true?"
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round 3 ♩
"I thank you for your thought on this matter so far... what do you think bravery is? How is it different from foolhardiness? When is it the right decision to be brave?"
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"And how do you face your fears while they are happening? If you could... how would you change the dream of fear so that a different future came true?"
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You don't see how this ends. The light seems to slide down from the walls into a pool on the floor, steadily shrinking away until all that is left is a copper mirror pendant on a fine copper chain. On the back of the pendant is a design a bit like this, finely engraved and with pink enamel embellishments.
(To endgame!)