dramatispersonae

Iolite

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:

the smell of old books
a cloud of fluttering moths
the squish of your feet as you walk away from a muddy puddle
the moment after a cut with a sharp knife, before you begin to bleed
remembering only 10% of a dream
mist covering only the bottom of a tree

Hm ...

Shall we try to place them?

We do need to get rid of one, don't we? Process of elimination.

Name one, and only get rid of one if we choose to.

Let's write something fun on the blank card and send that out.

My, aren't you devious.

Something obvious, hm?

But not boring~

We can't have anyone more imaginative than us.

"A dirty pillow."

[pauses . . . then ~grins~]

"A very dirty pillow."

"A soiled pillow."

Better ♥.

Shall we send it somewhere?

Who deserves it the most? What about . . . Coral?

To Coral it goes.

A soiled pillow.

Blank card "a soiled pillow" to Coral.

You now have the following cards:

~~a soiled pillow~~ (given to Coral)
the pain of closing a door on your fingers
the echo of footsteps in an empty hallway
the smell of old books
a cloud of fluttering moths
the squish of your feet as you walk away from a muddy puddle
the moment after a cut with a sharp knife, before you begin to bleed
remembering only 10% of a dream
mist covering only the bottom of a tree
pinfeathers (from Citrine)

Edited 2014-11-07 04:02 (UTC)

Pinfeathers, really.

Hm . . .

We're left with quite the pile of imaginative metaphors.

But where to place them?

"the moment after a cut with a sharp knife, before you begin to bleed" certainly sounds like the heart.

Mm, I thought so too.

Many of them could be mind or limbs, but eyes and mouth are harder.

"the squish of your feet as you walk away from a muddy puddle" is usually what I hear when people talk.

[gosh laughing]

"the echo of footsteps in an empty hallway" or "remembering only 10% of a dream" for eyes?

I do like the latter.

I think "the echo of footsteps in an empty hallway" does reflect many minds . . .

As for limbs, we can write our own. We still have a blank card.

Edited 2014-11-07 05:07 (UTC)

Hm . . . would "a missing skill" be too obvious?

I think it fits.

Then we've decided.

"A missing skill."

[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 moment after a cut with a sharp knife, before you begin to bleed is self explanatory.
The mind is: the echo of footsteps in an empty hallway because that's how most think.
The mouth is: the squish of your feet as you walk away from a muddy puddle because that's what I hear when most speak.
The eyes are: remembering only 10% of a dream, as that's all we experience through sight.
The limbs are: missing a skill.

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Iolite

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Round 2

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YOU ALSO HAVE ONE BLANK CARD

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