GULGALLANA + SERVAL

[soulping]

[There is a desk in the room in Gulgallana orange. On it are several sheets of paper, a pencil, eraser and a book on Deciduous Forests. It seems the area you have been given in the game is a Deciduous Forest.

What kind of trap will you design?]

Comments

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

QUESTIONS

[inthenude]

[La Torre is sleeping at the teacher's desk. But if you have a question he might wake up to answer you.]

Re: QUESTIONS

[culpa]

I don't get it! You just want me to put like, a net in a forest?

Re: QUESTIONS

[inthenude]

If that's what you want. You probably wouldn't eliminate many people with a trap like that though...

Re: QUESTIONS

[culpa]

It's not like I know a lot about traps.

Re: QUESTIONS

[inthenude]

Have you never seen a movie or played a video game?

Re: QUESTIONS

[culpa]

I don't know?

Re: QUESTIONS

[inthenude]

You should try extra hard to win so you can find out then. The best kind of trap is one other people will walk right into, but you can easily avoid yourself.

I prefer traps that play on peoples' emotions, but to be fair that's not how I'm going to judge this game. So you don't have to worry about what I want.

Re: QUESTIONS

[culpa]

If you say so.

[culpa]

Ssssoo.

[creditless]

Quite the challenge, isn't it?

[culpa]

[ eyeing serval's clothes, for a moment. ]

Do you know stuff about traps?

[creditless]

Woefully uninformed. No memories of the sort.

1/2

[culpa]

We could put a really really cool thing somewhere in the forest but once you walked into it you couldn't get back out.

[culpa]

. . but I didn't think of what kinda cool thing yet.

[creditless]

Sort of like a spider's web, you mean?

[culpa]

Sure?

[creditless]

It would be easily avoided, though... unless it was less visible.

We should square away something, though: Your stance on hurting others?

[culpa]

. . if they deserve it it's their own fault but if we're using these traps on other teams it's probably not good to make them hurt, right?

[creditless]

Ideally. We suffer on a semi-constant basis because of the echoes, there's no need to torture each other.

We need to think about a fundamental trap design. Easy to get into, very difficult to get out of. Given we have a woodsy area, we have lots to work with to make something completely invisible compared to its surroundings.

[folds his hands beneath his chin, elbows on the desk.] What would you say to a trap that gets them off the ground and stuck in the air?

[culpa]

We do?

[ noting that away for later-- ]

People can't normally move if they're in the air so that's fine with me.

[creditless]

So how about a trick net trap? It'll need to span quite a bit of distance...

[culpa]

Maybe we can have more than one?

[creditless]

They have to be high enough to keep out of reach of the ground. If their teammates can get them down, it'd be like having no traps at all.

[culpa]

There're a lot of tall trees in the forest, right?

[creditless]

Naturally. So maybe a mechanism around the branches. They'll have to be varied, and we'll have to avoid anything that might give it away.

[culpa]

What about ropes and nets? Like, animal traps that you step on and it pulls the person into the air and wire trips?

[creditless]

That would be perfect for what we're looking for. It would just need to be adjusted.

[culpa]

Adjusted?

[creditless]

To make it so that a resourceful group of perfectly intelligent people couldn't rescue their teammates. Ha ha.

[culpa]

Got any ideas?

[creditless]

Other than extending the ropes to loop around taller tree branches?

[culpa]

So really really really tall trees, okay.

We should make sure the trees aren't easy to climb, too.

[creditless]

If we could drive spikes into the ground near the trees, maybe it would be harder and more dangerous to climb? So they couldn't climb safely.

[culpa]

But then if they tried and didn't make it they'd get hurt.

[creditless]

I suppose... [sounds like he doesn't really... care]

[culpa]

We could make the bottoms of the trees really really sticky? So if they tried to climb them they'd just get stuck, too.

[creditless]

Good plan!

SUBMIT

[soulping]

Re: SUBMIT

[culpa]

Team Gulgallanna
Area Given: Deciduous Forest
Trap Description: Wire traps releasing nets from the ground to pick up their trapees into sssuper tall trees! Along with ropes that have the same function--with the ropes extended to loop around taller tree branches as well. The ropes will trap them by their ankles, while the nets will just. grab whomever is standing on them at the time. The ropes and nets will be hidden under leaves and dirt, to keep them from view--while the nets will be wrapped around the base of two trees, the wire thin enough to keep it from being too obvious. Along with those, the bottom of the trees that the traps are attached to will be super sticky.
Trap Function: The rope and wire traps function to catch those who unsuspectingly walk over them and trap them very high up in the forest's trees, while the sticky bottoms of the trees function to trap those who try to climb them to save their teammates.