Iolite

[dramatispersonae]

[When you step through the door, you find yourself in a dark room. The only thing that seems to light the room is a candle that one of you are suddenly holding.

You can hear a voice echoing around you though you don't know who it belongs to.]

Comments

Round 1

[dramatispersonae]

Please list up to three ways that you can help change someone. You may interpret this as you'd like.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[splittheparty]

Helping to change someone, is it? Where to begin, though...?

[I mean, most of my experiences with changing... Haven't exactly ended well...]

Re: Discussion

[selfequipped]

I think most changes aren't really one-sided.

Re: Discussion

[idolfromabove]

- singing to them. It's unconventional, but it works.

Re: Discussion

[selfequipped]

Maybe, but I'm still getting the feeling that it's one side.

I don't think anyone's changing no matter how much you yell, talk at, or sing at someone.

Answer

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Answer

[selfequipped]

Encouraging them to listen. The first step to helping someone change is making sure they're willing to both make the change and listen to some advice ... or even a song.

The second way is to offer to take care of any obstacles that stand in the way of their change. They might ultimately decide to take care of it themselves, but ... it's good to offer.

And the final one, tied to the previous two really, is to be there no matter what through these changes.

Round 2 - The Gingerbread House

[dramatispersonae]

You find yourself in a dark and dusty basement that smells pretty terrible. Inside, you can find an oven roaring a fire. There is a mannequin of a young girl sweeping a floor while a mannequin of a boy is trapped inside of a metal cage. Though the scenery is moving, it's sort of looping over and over kind of like an animated gif.

Oh, we must escape.

Judging by the table with dishes set up, you can sort of guess what's about to happen.

Or we will be eaten.

A figure whose face you cannot see had entered the room, broom in her hand.

right?

Cards

[dramatispersonae]

Inside one of your hands are three cards with a word written on each. If you cannot read, it will play out in your head instead:

♦ Encouraging them to listen.
♦ Take care of obstacles
♦ Be there

You know that if you touch something in the room with them, it will change the scene in some shape or form, but you're not certain as to how. You may use all of them or not play any at all.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[selfequipped]

Eaten?

Re: Discussion

[splittheparty]

...They also don't seem to be sure of it, though, and the person "eating them" seems to just be holding a broom, which isn't exactly practical from an "eating people" perspective, I would think. On the other hand, one is definitely trapped.

Re: Discussion

[splittheparty]

Hmm... So the objective is to change the scene then...? But we can't really be sure how until we do it...

Answer

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Answer

[splittheparty]

We're touching the girl and the figure with a face we can't see with "Encouraging them to listen", and touching the cage with "Take care of obstacles"

Round Three - The Story Can Change

[dramatispersonae]

You find yourself in a dark and dusty basement that smells pretty terrible. Inside, you can find an oven roaring a fire. There is a mannequin of a young girl sweeping a floor while a mannequin of a boy is trapped inside of a metal cage. Though the scenery is moving, it's sort of looping over and over kind of like an animated gif.

Oh, we must escape.

Judging by the table with dishes set up, you can sort of guess what's about to happen.

Or we will be eaten.

A figure whose face you cannot see had entered the room, broom in her hand.

right?

"Now, then," she cried to the girl, "stir yourself, and bring some water. Let ▒▓▒▓▒▓▒ be fat or lean, to-morrow I will kill him, and cook him."

"Help us," she cried. "If the wild beasts in the forest had but devoured us, we should at any rate have died together."

" . . . "

Before anything can happen, the boy manages to pick the cage and let himself out. It only takes a moment but you can see him work on dragging the witch towards the oven and then the scene ends.

Question

[dramatispersonae]

How do you feel about your results? Can you truly help someone change?

I would like to c▒▓nge as well.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[selfequipped]

Two wrongs don't make a right!

Re: Discussion

[splittheparty]

But, but... It looked like she was getting through to her, and then the boy...

Answer

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Answer

[selfequipped]

[her first instinct is to say what Wing said before going forward:]

We're not satisfied with the outcome. We do think that change is possible, and more than that, we think there is still a story to tell. I think someone can truly change. That doesn't mean just you or anyone else, but the boy, too. He just needs a chance to listen, and here's what would happen as it went on.

Ideally, the girl would go after him and grab him by the shirt. He wouldn't have been listening because he was too focused on freeing himself, so he wouldn't notice the changes. She would point it out, and he would free the woman. They would all talk about how they managed to survive this long together, so why wouldn't they continue?

Barring that, we'd be there with them, as we've offered before. Hell, we'd do this anyway, just to ensure that everyone realizes that there's another way. Death of anyone is never the first answer. In almost every case, it shouldn't be the last answer, either.

All of us would know it's not easy. [she looks at Wing] But we'd continue to strive for change instead of taking rash actions. We'd all learn a lesson from this.

Bonus

[dramatispersonae]

I'll let you change something one more time with the cards you have, but only one. You can choose to pass if you'd like.

(ooc: does not count towards scoring ftr)

Re: Bonus

[splittheparty]

[Using "Encouraging them to listen" on the boy so fast you have no idea.]