Vanara + Sparkler

[soulping]

- 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

[soulping]

[ 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

[soulping]

[overfull]

[ we puppy now

... Why did everything get bigger ]

Um -

First, I think that we should go north...

Re: DISCUSSION

[allergictostairs]

[ew, he doesn't want to die even if it's pretend.]

...Maybe we could try and get more support from the king guy somehow?

[youfilth]

Disgusting! I have to be in a group with this filth?!

[ Huffs. Is also probably the only pretty man that doesn't get fussed about shitty princess costumes. ]

TURN IN

[soulping]

Re: TURN IN

[overfull]

We go back to the castle and demand to speak to the minister, because the king is drunk and that's terrible.

Round 2

[soulping]

[ The minister is a man of great knowledge and wealth, his office ripe with golden trinkets and a dozen maids on hand to bring him hand-peeled grapes. A few maids offer trays of steaming absinthe (that will cause the side effect: Highly drunk) to you.

Of course the king is drunk, the minister explains. He is a king, and has the widest collection of wines in the land. What is it the minister can do for you?]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

[youfilth]

You! Lowly servant to the throne! As the princess I expected to not have to take part in this journey, especially not with such scant supplies!

Re: DISCUSSION

[allergictostairs]

[Politely refuses that absinthe because he's too old for such strong drink.]

I suppose we ought to be specific in our demands...

Re: DISCUSSION

[overfull]

Having wines doesn't mean that he should partake of them, particularly in such a dire situation!

[ KNOCKING A TRAY OVER because she is a dog. and then she giggles because that was pretty cool. ]

I don't trust this man. How can he flaunt his wealth when the people in his country are suffering?

TURN IN

[soulping]

[youfilth]

Sparkler uses his princess power to make the minister provide the group with better supplies!

ROUND 3

[soulping]

[ POWER USED: PRINCESS.

The sobbing minister races out of the room, returning with a tiny sack full of gold, a larger sack full of expensive foods, and a small collection of corgi toys. He begs forgiveness for not having more, because this the last wealth the kingdom has - the rest was spent on the nobility for comely maids and big parties. But it is okay, because the new tax measures will see their coffers soon filled again. ]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

[youfilth]

[ Hands on his hips, so smug. ]

This is what I can do, peons. Enjoy your gifts - I leave the hard labour to you lot.

TURN IN

[soulping]

ROUND 4

[soulping]

[ The drunk and vaguely terrified minister explains that the dragon has been rampaging the outskirts of the kingdom for half a decade, causing a peasant uprising. The spending has gone on such as this for over a decade, probably - between the mysterious accidents of the previous ministers and the imprisonment of the order of historians beneath the palace, no one is sure.

The new tax measures are an increase on all farmland owner's goods and toll booths on the main roads. ]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

TURN IN

[soulping]

Round 5

[soulping]

[ You have badgered successfully!

In the depths of the palace dungeons, the last remaining historians clamber for a hearing. They are the last who remember the true king and queen: the dragons who were disposed, and their child who was exiled to the perilous mountain. ]

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

TURN IN

[soulping]

ROUND 6

[soulping]

[ YOU CONQUER THE KINGDOM and rule wisely.

Proceed to end game.