Amalthea + Ratatoskr

[soulping]

… Together.

[Illuminating. Fortunately, the pollen blooms you inhale give you innate knowledge of the instructions.]

((Instructions.

Start!))

Comments

[soulping]

☆ Takshaka + Ometotchtli IRC: #omeletteshake
☆ Barghest + Epona IRC: #horsedog
☆ Amalthea + Ratatoskr IRC: #ratsfoiledagain


☆ Characters will be directed to a table, with a board game. The board!

☆ This is a partnered game. Your team will be playing together with another team co-operatively. Your table will need to make decisions as a group when it comes to taking shortcuts, refusing a task, etc.

☆ Pick someone to roll for your table OOCly. One roll counts for the entire table. You’ll be given a task based on the square you land on! Your aim is to get to the end of this board game in the minimum amount of rolls.

☆ When you roll, make sure to make a tag including what number you landed on, and what color. This makes it easier for the runner to keep track of where you are.

☆ Use this to roll.

☆ Red squares are shortcuts! You can take the red square across to potentially finish faster, but the red squares have negative side-effects. You can’t skip a red square: If you roll a 2, you land on the red square, get the effect, and then move on.

☆ All the tasks must be completed or refused before moving on (but for longer tasks, it’s okay to back-thread and keep moving forward). Each roll should take around 20 minutes or less!

☆ You can refuse to perform a task and get a new task, but it’ll add an extra turn to your count.

☆ Blue squares: Dialog options! If you land on a blue square, your table will be asked a question they all have to answer honestly. Some of the questions will be nice, some of them will be mean.
☆ Yellow Squares: Relationship grinding! If you land on a yellow square, you’ll be asked to perform a bonding task ie. hugs.
☆ Green squares: Miniquests! You’ll be asked to perform minor tasks.
☆ Purple squares: Morality Bar! If you land on purple, you’ll be presented with a hypothetical situation and asked as a group to make a decision (or, if you land on one too many in a row, a randomized square.)
☆ Red squares: A difficult battle! If you use the red shortcuts (or are unlikely enough to land exactly on the last square before the end), you’ll have to deal with temporary negative status effects ie. permatruth, loss of a sense, only able to speak in sonnet form.

Start

[soulping]

[Please use this to roll and respond with the number you rolled and the square you land on.

You start from number 1!]

Re: Start

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

A board game, huh? Sounds fun. [Picking up the dice.] Everyone ready?

Re: Start

[echomyheart]

I am!

[codecmoment]

Go for it.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Rolling!]

[Rolled a five. Pausing at the five space. Hand still on the piece.]

All right. Do we want six or boss guys?

[codecmoment]

The boss.

[goodbyenurse]

Boss.

It is more expedient by a significant margin, and will save us a minimum of one additional roll.

[echomyheart]

The boss is faster, right?

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Yep and I'd vote boss, so boss it is.

[Landing on First Boss square.]

[toomuchyakking]

☹ Everyone at the table, please: Choose two people who will go blind for a day.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Well, the fair thing is one person from each team takes a punishment.

I'm willin' for Ratatoskr.

[codecmoment]

I volunteer for Amalthea. I can't see if I don't have my glasses anyway.

[zeroexposure]

If it's fine with you, then...

Turn 2

[toomuchyakking]

[Roll again! Roxy and Otacon are now blind for a day.]

Re: Turn 2

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Clearly being blind is terrible for my rolling skills. 1! On square 11.]

[toomuchyakking]

☻ Everyone at the table, please decide your answer as a group:

A monster resides secretly in your team. They are a man-killer, and though they promise to resist their urges there is room for doubt. Do you tell the other teams?

[goodbyenurse]

Obviously not. What business is it of theirs who is on our team? Their word is good enough.

[codecmoment]

I disagree. That's a risk that threatens a lot of people, and even if they are able to behave, they should be able to prove that over time.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Thinking for a minute.]

And it's just telling the other teams. They clearly want to resist their urges, and if people know, if they start to slip, they'll have a lot of support and help to be stopped in case something does happen. No need to risk doin' something they regret.

If anyone gives them trouble for being honest about their condition, then make it very clear to that person they're a judgemental asshole and convince them how they shouldn't be such an asshole.

[goodbyenurse]

If we were to tell them out of the gate, it would color the reactions of the other teams to them, and may well serve to force them to become one regardless of their urges.

That is a risk to our teammate that should not be broached without their consent.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Whoa, of course it wouldn't be without their consent. It's a dick move to reveal secrets without consent unless it's an emergency sitch.

[echomyheart]

I think that with proper support, they'd be able to resist their urges no matter what. Eventually the other teams will start trusting them, once they prove themselves. Until then, of course it's your job to care for and protect them!

[codecmoment]

Of course not. To tattle is a dick move, but that isn't something that should be hidden completely. And like Roxy said, if people knew, they might have support or people trying to help them. if they're willing to not go nuts and turn everyone into a buffet, they want help.

[goodbyenurse]

...Telling others in the event that the person in question is alright with it is acceptable, then.