Amalthea + Ratatoskr + Armin

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- This is a very silly game where you’ll be assigned certain roles and get certain powers, and your goal is to rescue the kingdom! Only those who signed up earlier will be able to play.

- This is an 100% non-trauma game! No NPCs can be really injured, not even if you try, because they’re all ghosts playing along. NPCs also can’t harm you, so you’ll be absolutely fine even if the narration talks about your tragic death by dragon. Violent in-fighting will lead to automatic removal, so you can’t fight other teams either!

- This is a mixed game! To try and keep something vaguely resembling a number balance, you’re grouped up as follows:

Dawon + Gulgallana + Diego
Amalthea + Ratatoskr + Armin
Alectryon + Henwen
Barghest + Ometotchtli
Tiamat + Panther
Takshaka + Meow
Vanara + Sparkler

- It’s a mix of exploradora and story...dora. You’ll be presented with situations, and you’ll have to interact with the environment creatively to come up with solutions and make a heroic story. You’ll be rewarded for creativity, ICly playing along with your roles and enthusiasm.

- You won’t be able to use any of your normal, shard-based skills or powers! Any attempts will just fizzle out. You will be able to use your special powers from the sign-ups post.

Fey corgi are literally, physically transformed into corgi. However, all fey corgi can still speak.

- You can only use one special ability per round, and each character can only use theirs once in the entire game. You can’t have everyone spam their abilities in one turn, and characters only get one use of their special ability. Use them wisely (or hilariously).

When using your power, please indicate this in the comment. I need to know whether your grand speech is part of using your powers, or whether you’re just really melodramatic!
All these rules (esp. the violence ones) are understood ICly.

Comments

ROUND 1

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[ Welcome to the land of Grindia, brave heroes. You stand in the opulent palace of King Junior IX, who has summoned you for a grave duty. In between quaffing his wine from his golden goblet, the king reveals that the dragon Rodgrot rampages across his lands, and only you can stop it from destroying the kingdom itself.

To help you on your quest, the king has given you a moth-eaten map indicating you should probably travel north, and three copper bits. ]

DISCUSSION

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[cantando]

...Yarr?

[HOW DO I PIRATE.]

TURN IN

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Round 2

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[ You’ve reached the first stop on the road out the kingdom, the bawdy road of taverns and ladies offering good times - And by good times, they mean live storybook reading and a room full of kittens. There are children in this game, after all. But the taverns are very, very real, and very, very full of ale.

Which has led to a street brawl blocking your path. At least a dozen Manly Men flail at each other with stools and scripted wrestling moves. ]

DISCUSSION

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TURN IN

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ROUND 3

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[ You successfully sneak past the brawl. The Kitten and Booze tavern is full of discussions about the new toll roads between the kingdom outskirts and the forest of dragons - but also few whispers of a back road where men can travel for free.

SIDE-PATH BRIDGE has been added to your map. The way forward continues to probably be North. ]

DISCUSSION

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TURN IN

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ROUND 4

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[ On the road to the North, you pass an apple orchard, each of the fifty trees blooming with ripe apples. Delicious, delicious apples. An old lady sits weeping on the side of the road.

The road continues northward. The old lady continues to cry. ]

DISCUSSION

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TURN IN

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Round 5

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[ 3 DAYS LATER (which, oddly enough, only takes a few hours as the sun appears to revolve awfully fast all of a sudden, all the apples have been paid to the taxman, and the woman is safe for another year.

You now have a basket of apples to go in your supplies, and the road to the North is open. ]

DISCUSSION

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TURN IN

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round 6

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[ Speaking of taxes, you've arrived at a toll bridge. Two guards stand on either side, and they demand silver to cross to the forest and the dragon mountain beyond.

Fortunately you know of the SIDE ROAD, once there was a stable bridge, but now it is rickety and old, swaying oh so dangerously in the strong winds.

A ravine, and this mostly broken bridge, stand between you and the forest ahead, and the dragon mountain in the distance.

Either road leads to your destination. ]

DISCUSSION

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TURN IN

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Round 7

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[ You have reached THE DRAGON MOUNTAIN. You hear a roar from over head, and see the dragon is circling the peaks in flight. A staircase leads into the cavernous mountain. ]

DISCUSSION

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TURN IN

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Round 8

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[ The dragon sees them coming so slowly, with apples upheld, and lands on the peak of the mountain they climb. ]

MORE OF THE FALSE KING'S MEN?

[ She growls. ]

DISCUSSION

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DECISION

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