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[You find yourselves standing in a very small, very white room. Your clothes are dry, you are dry, but you swear you can feel the heavy sway of water weighing upon your limbs. At least the temperature is normal, and you’re breathing just fine.
In the middle of the room is a white pedestal, on top of which you find two glass spheres: one large, and one small. There are no exits.]
What will you choose, my darling dears? If you’d like to earn two keys, destroy the larger. If you’d like to earn one, destroy the smaller. You cannot earn three.
Or perhaps you’d prefer that another team to undergo the trial in your place …? If so, merely speak the team’s name, clearly and purposefully, before destroying your sphere of choice. Ah! Unfortunately, the Cats are not an option.
In the middle of the room is a white pedestal, on top of which you find two glass spheres: one large, and one small. There are no exits.]
What will you choose, my darling dears? If you’d like to earn two keys, destroy the larger. If you’d like to earn one, destroy the smaller. You cannot earn three.
Or perhaps you’d prefer that another team to undergo the trial in your place …? If so, merely speak the team’s name, clearly and purposefully, before destroying your sphere of choice. Ah! Unfortunately, the Cats are not an option.
[You find yourself standing in another very small, very white room. The heaviness lingers … and is it just you, or can you feel a niggling tightness in your chest? A difficulty drawing breath? Maybe, just maybe, just for a second here and there, you feel water in your mouth and nose ... But there's nothing there.
Once again, there’s a pedestal in the middle of the room, but now there are three spheres upon it: one large, one small — and another small one, this one featuring frosted glass whiskers.
A member of the Cat team is leashed to the pedestal, by a long, deceptively-delicate looking silver chain. The chain is attached to a silver collar; it doesn’t look like there’s a way to remove it.]
This time, my doves, you may choose to undertake either one trial … or two! What will you do? And who will reap the benefit of your arduous labours …? There are three keys available to you here.
You may, of course — if you have not already done so — choose to pass one trial along to another team.
((In this round, you may do one of the following:
- Break one of the regular spheres, either the large or the small.
- Break one of the regular spheres, and the whiskered sphere.
- Break only the whiskered sphere.
If you break the whiskered sphere, you may choose to donate that key to the Cat. You can also choose to keep it for yourself! No other keys can be donated to the Cat. The Cat can choose to help with the trial … or you could try to force them ;D))
Once again, there’s a pedestal in the middle of the room, but now there are three spheres upon it: one large, one small — and another small one, this one featuring frosted glass whiskers.
A member of the Cat team is leashed to the pedestal, by a long, deceptively-delicate looking silver chain. The chain is attached to a silver collar; it doesn’t look like there’s a way to remove it.]
This time, my doves, you may choose to undertake either one trial … or two! What will you do? And who will reap the benefit of your arduous labours …? There are three keys available to you here.
You may, of course — if you have not already done so — choose to pass one trial along to another team.
((In this round, you may do one of the following:
- Break one of the regular spheres, either the large or the small.
- Break one of the regular spheres, and the whiskered sphere.
- Break only the whiskered sphere.
If you break the whiskered sphere, you may choose to donate that key to the Cat. You can also choose to keep it for yourself! No other keys can be donated to the Cat. The Cat can choose to help with the trial … or you could try to force them ;D))
[Welcome to yet another very small, very white room. You’re wracked by icy shivers, even though you know — you know — that it’s pleasantly warm in here. You know that you can’t breathe, that there’s water in your mouth, nose, ears, in your throat, choking you; that the water is weighing you down —
You’re in a very small, very white room, with a pedestal bearing two spheres: one large, one small. You can breathe. You’re not drowning. You’re okay. Right?]
Just like the first round, my darlings! You may earn two keys, or one — make your choices wisely.
You’re in a very small, very white room, with a pedestal bearing two spheres: one large, one small. You can breathe. You’re not drowning. You’re okay. Right?]
Just like the first round, my darlings! You may earn two keys, or one — make your choices wisely.
[You’re going to run out of air. You know that, now, though the sensations come and go. You need to get out; there’s not long left until you drown.
Not long left until before you drown, in a very small, very white room, with a pedestal standing in the center. Set atop of it are two spheres: one large, and one small.]
You know what to do ♥
Six keys...
..hrm.
Well, dang. [Thinking over the rules again.]
Yeah. Dang. Nothing yet.
How do we want to play this.
..hrm.
Well, dang. [Thinking over the rules again.]
Yeah. Dang. Nothing yet.
How do we want to play this.
I vote one of our wonderful mages start transmuting things into alcohol.
....So we have to do awful things to get keys, I guess.
[wh--]
[he moves one leg around to test the feel of that water, letting out tch as he does so. he can definitely feel it, and it chills him. slightly]
. . . four rounds, six keys. We have two options.
Two rounds of the large spheres and two rounds of the smaller ones, or three rounds of the large spheres so we're out by round four.
[he moves one leg around to test the feel of that water, letting out tch as he does so. he can definitely feel it, and it chills him. slightly]
. . . four rounds, six keys. We have two options.
Two rounds of the large spheres and two rounds of the smaller ones, or three rounds of the large spheres so we're out by round four.
One, I can't do that.
Two, Even if I could, I can't do that.
Two, Even if I could, I can't do that.
I'd rather just do all of it at once.
Less to deal with after.
Less to deal with after.
Edited (oops i thought other teams could steal keys.) 2015-06-12 23:04 (UTC)
I harbor doubts we'll get to to walk, after that.
I'd prefer to play it in the way that results in us not dying.
[He'll be over here. doing roughly the same]
Two, two, two, then?
Fewer problems that way... and the tasks might have a loophole in them somewhere.
Fewer problems that way... and the tasks might have a loophole in them somewhere.
You really think we're gonna get that lucky?
Spoilsports. I take it naming someone isn't on the table today?
Three rounds of two, then?
[breathes out, and nods]
Yeah. . . same here.
[breathes out, and nods]
Yeah. . . same here.
[his reply is SO DRY]
I harbor doubts that any team will be walking after this.
I harbor doubts that any team will be walking after this.
Not yet, anyways. We can save it for if we get hit by an extra.
For now, I'll believe nobody's planning on hitting anyone else and just dealing with it themselves.
For now, I'll believe nobody's planning on hitting anyone else and just dealing with it themselves.
It's not about luck.
It's about choosing our tasks right.
It's about choosing our tasks right.
Then we're in agreement. That leaves the rest.
What I mean is, I doubt we get to stop with six keys, we'll probably have to do the last one regardless.
My vote is to do 2, 2, 1, then see how we look at the end.
My vote is to do 2, 2, 1, then see how we look at the end.
Besides, I don't think we've pissed anyone off recently enough they'll hit us first round.
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