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You find yourself in a dark space. The pale not-a-Persona is sitting cross-legged on a . . . ledge? a little above head-height, lit with what appears to be their own light, because you sure can't make out anything that it's actually sitting on.

Pinned on the ground in front of you is a stuffed manikin, white and squishy and doll-jointed, with a blank face and obvious stitching.. There are metal pins stuck through it, jamming it against the ground, in five places—three in the head, one in the chest, and one in the hand. A little loop of string is tied to each, with room for a label.

"The heart, the mind, the mouth, the eyes, and the limbs. I'll give you the labels, and you tell me what goes where, and how to put a person together the right way."

[instructions]

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You have 1 blank card and 6 other cards:

pushing your feet closer to the fire
seeing a picture of someone you loved but haven't thought about in years
a letter from someone that you know is dead
pinfeathers
singing in a foreign language
raindrops travelling down glass

[glances uneasily at the gamerunner, then down at the doll-thing]

Pathetic...

[abruptly he crouches and starts trying to pull the pins out]

[watching him do that...]

[ Smacks ]

Will you stop touchin' everything?

[they are very firmly stuck 'v']

Try pulling harder.

[pulls back, leaving the pins in place for now]

Hmph.

[flinches back from the blow]

It's no use. They're stuck in place.

Edited 2014-11-07 02:41 (UTC)

I guess we can't do anything with them yet.

Should I read the cards for you?

I...

Please.

Anyway. We need to come up with stuff for the blank card. Something else that makes up a person.

[looks at the cards without comprehension]

[is more than happy to read them all to it, pointing to each card as she does so he knows which is which]

[gives an exaggerated shrug]

I see. We are creating the story of a person.

Don't worry about those ones yet. We just need somethin' that every person has. Like a goal or somethin'.

I think so. We have to write something in the blank card first though.

The mastery of their own fate.

Light suggests something that every person has. Or should have. My answer to that is "the mastery of their own fate."

I don't know if everyone has the actual mastery. But maybe the desire for it.

Perhaps we should be kind to our person and give him it regardless.

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