RUBY

[dramatispersonae]

You're in a small grove of trees off the side of the road. Somehow, their thick leaves muffle all sound from beyond, leaving only faint whispers and echoes at the fringe of your hearing.

Comments

ROUND 1

[dramatispersonae]

A scroll rests on the ground before you, along with a quill pen. As a team, you will need to write a short message (about two sentences) to the other teams on it. (If no one here can write, the pen will respond to your thoughts.)

ROUND 1.5

[dramatispersonae]

The scroll the bird just dropped is covered in letters--seemingly random at first, but with some patterns. Even if you cannot read, you understand that there are words to be found here...



Beneath the jumble of letters is a question: "Why would someone betray his beloved?"

ROUND 2

[dramatispersonae]

The latest scroll has a short message on it, similar to the one you wrote earlier...but not quite. It seems to be another team's message, but somehow jumbled and distorted. It will be your task to try to ascertain what it was originally.

ROUND 2.5

[dramatispersonae]

As before, the scroll the bird just dropped is covered in letters--seemingly random at first, but with some patterns. Even if you cannot read, you understand that there are words to be found here...



Beneath the jumble of letters is a question: "What is human nature?"

ROUND 3

[dramatispersonae]

As before, the latest scroll has a short message on it, similar to the one you wrote earlier...but not quite. It seems to be another team's message, but somehow jumbled and distorted. It will be your task to try to ascertain what it was originally.

This time, the scroll is a bit more tattered than before. Is that dried blood staining its edges?

DISCUSSION

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SUBMIT MESSAGE

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DISCUSSION

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WORDS FOUND

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DISCUSSION

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WORDS FOUND

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MESSAGE

[dramatispersonae]

"To be able to cope with all of us so that we can work together for the manner of the sea."

DISCUSSION

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SUBMIT MESSAGE

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MESSAGE

[dramatispersonae]

"This can not be on the side of evil from himself, but it is so we can find each other. He will fail and suffer all the time."

DISCUSSION

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SUBMIT MESSAGE

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Re: DISCUSSION

[pchaaair]

—Oh. This is going to be easy.

Re: DISCUSSION

[whyitgottabeblack]

There's only one person here who's actually on your team so it had better be. What do you--or your team, I guess--have to say?

Re: DISCUSSION

[pchaaair]

[shrugs]

Something about bacon, probably. Or, in general, probably just something that is really weird in general.

Re: DISCUSSION

[whyitgottabeblack]

So I got the weird team. Great. [sigh] Well, at least I get the bacon thing, it is delicious. Sounds like I need to come bother you guys around breakfast some day.

Re: DISCUSSION

[pchaaair]

Weird may not be a bad thing, in this case, though, in case something is twisted, since I got that feeling from what was said.

And, you probably could.

Re: DISCUSSION

[whyitgottabeblack]

[looks at him for a minute, surprised by the insight] Huh. Yeah, weird works when the rules are weird already. That's pretty quick thinking.

Really? Your team sure sounds friendly, I'm surprised there aren't more of them here.

Re: DISCUSSION

[pchaaair]

I would not say "friendly" is the right word for Ruby, but, they are something.

Re: DISCUSSION

[whyitgottabeblack]

Interesting. I've got to admit, I know I'm a knight, but I haven't interacted with a ton of you, you're sort of a mystery at this point. That's why I think you probably have to write whatever thing your team would really say, no matter what my opinion of it is. You just know better right now.