dramatispersonae

Peridot

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."

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You have 1 blank card and 6 other cards:

cold feelings crawling up into your chest from your stomach
winding a spool full of thread
worn fabric slowly tearing away from a seam
rain soaking your clothing
the weight of your tongue in your mouth
the sound of a piece of paper tearing slowly

...I guess we go with what fits the other teams...?

Edited 2014-11-07 02:33 (UTC)

I guess so? [he's pretty confused tbh] What kind of game is this?

A 'send other teams weird junk' game.

...Is there any particular team you'd want to send stuff to?

Normally I might send it to your team, but... Turquoise maybe? I like the sound of sending some weird stuff to Turquoise.

...Heh. 'The weight of your tongue in your mouth', maybe? The rest sound like they could be metaphorical, but that one's just weird.

I didn't have a particular one in mind, but I do like the sound of that choice.

We'll go with that.

Any ideas for the blank card, or should we just go with 'the satisfaction of a well-earned victory'?

I don't dislike that option but let's keep our minds open to other possibilities. We don't have to pick right this instant, right?

We do have to decide in the first round, but we'll get more blank cards later I think. If we get a better idea, we can still use it for later -- unless you have a better idea now.

No, let's do that since we can both agree on it. You didn't come up with something stupid.

Then we're decided. I'll turn it in.

Aw, what a gentleman~

'the satisfaction of a well-earned victory'

Sending 'the weight of your tongue in your mouth' to Turquoise.

You now have the following cards:

the satisfaction of a well-earned victory
seeing your own emotional reaction on someone else's face
a productive cough
cold feelings crawling up into your chest from your stomach
winding a spool full of thread
worn fabric slowly tearing away from a seam
rain soaking your clothing
~~the weight of your tongue in your mouth~~ (given to Turquoise)
the sound of a piece of paper tearing slowly
fog on a glass (from Tiger's Eye)

So, we just need to decide which weird thing best fits the heart, the mind, the mouth, the eyes, and the limbs...

...I wouldn't even know how stuff like 'fog on glass' works with that.

Something means that it doesn't necessarily have to be a card that we give up, is it worth it though?

I guess it depends on if we feel like we can use the card we've got now as good labels.

I think we could argue for trading three cards we don't plan on using for a blank one. Something like "here's three stories for a blank book" or...whatever. I think we could work the 'story' angle with this Persona.

But lets figure out what here we will use first.

That actually makes sense although we should see what the cheapest possible offer we can make is too.

So what do we want? I think the heart or mind must be the blank card we filled out in the first round. 'Seeing your own emotional reaction on someone else's face'... could that be eyes?

[nods]

I'll go with mind for our blank card, since victory is usually earned with the mind. And I guess the only 'seeing' card should go with the eyes.

...I guess we could go with 'cold feelings going up your chest from the stomach' for the heart, but that's not very satisfying. We at least got one free blank card, so we could try arguing for another.

Mind and eyes are done. That leaves a blank card for the heart, a possible blank card for something else if we can justify trading, and two more besides that...

'Rain soaking your clothing' could be limbs though it's not a great option. I think that 'fog on a glass' card we got could actually be mouth if you're willing to go for that. We don't really have a better one.

'Fog on glass' works for mouth...I think 'the sound of a piece of paper tearing slowly', if we want to think of it as us being the ones to tear the paper. We should probably at least make sure that card gets used, since it's seems important enough.

That means we just have the free blank one left for the heart. Maybe we can think of a way to tie everything together.

You think that one is important? Okay, but you decide where it goes. We can use the blank for the heart. That still leaves whichever the paper tearing card doesn't fill.

[starts pulling out labels and putting them in order:]

[ The heart is:
The mind is: the satisfaction of a well-earned victory
The mouth is: fog on a glass
The eyes are: seeing your own emotional reaction on someone else's face
The limbs are: the sound of a piece of paper tearing slowly ]

Something like that...I guess with all that together, we could go with 'the drive to take down even the most powerful opponent'.

Go bigger, 'the drive to take down that which should not be defeated'. Or 'cannot be defeated'. Your choice, I'm nice like that.

That still leaves Because: doesn't it?

...Lets go with 'cannot'. I'm in the mood to do the impossible today.

And we do it because we want to show this Persona that we not the sort to be messed with, right?

[considers that and nods] Well alright then. I think we have it figured out.

Perfect.

Do you want to submit again? You seem like a hands-on type of man if you don't mind my saying so. [he doesn't sound like he cares]

Sure. I'll take care of it.

Wonderful~

the drive to take down that which cannot be defeated

[the gamerunner rests their hands on the edge of the invisible ledge, leaning down with a glint in their eye]

I'll tell you what. Give me something, and I'll give you a card in return. I'll even give you blank ones, if you trade me something important. And I'll also give you something to replace the thing you gave me. Got it?

If you don't want to play, go ahead and put things together.

The heart is:
The mind is:
The mouth is:
The eyes are:
The limbs are:
Because:

The heart is: the drive to take down that which cannot be defeated
The mind is: the satisfaction of a well-earned victory
The mouth is: fog on a glass
The eyes are: seeing your own emotional reaction on someone else's face
The limbs are: the sound of a piece of paper tearing slowly
Because: we're not the sort to be messed with

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YOU ALSO HAVE ONE BLANK CARD

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