VANARA

[soulping]

A knot of wild shrubbery closes off a plain stone alcove big enough for your team and...surprisingly tall. In fact, several feet above all your heads, a small stormcloud hovers, grumbling with faint thunder.

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ROUND TWO

[soulping]

So, have you all got three curses? Good, good. Now you'll be selecting a team to send each of them to--no more than one per team!

And let me tell you, if you don't pick, I'll pick for you.

CURSES

[soulping]

Hovering beneath the stormcloud are the following curses:

1. "You will always confuse the salt and sugar and ruin your coffee and eggs."
2. "No matter what you speak, it will come out in song."
3. "May you trip on every fifth step you take."

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

 

[branchesout]

Oh, I see! Have you anyone in mind to choose?

[hatebound]

[. . . but I don't know all the teams yet]

Do you know which team wears light green?

[branchesout]

Henwen, do you mean? The very pale?

[hatebound]

No, not that light. Whichever team it is, let's send the third curse to them.

[branchesout]

I've met someone from Alectryon, that's the darkest green, so perhaps our game master might be able to tell us the proper name? Though I suppose "the green team which is neither Henwen nor Alectryon" is easy enough.

[hatebound]

[there really are a lot of greens]

That should be fine. I don't care where we send the others.

[branchesout]

Up to me, then? Let's see, I know Tiamat and Ratatoskr - the members I've met aren't in-game today, but I think as they are hardly cruel curses, it might be alright.

[hatebound]

I don't know Ratatoskr, so that's fine. As for Tiamat, I've met one of the members present. He recently returned from a quest, perhaps we should give him a break. [He also brought delicious candy with him, but details] Epona in place of Tiamat.

[branchesout]

Fair enough! Shall I turn them in?

[hatebound]

If you like.

[branchesout]

Do you have any preference who gets what?

[hatebound]

As long as the tripping curse goes to that green team, you can choose where the others go.

[branchesout]

Very well then!

[hatebound]

[well, while we're waiting]

Are salt and sugar very different in taste?

[branchesout]

Practically opposites, though they look very much alike.

[hatebound]

Strange. Why would they look alike if they're opposites?

[branchesout]

I don't quite think that can be helped. It's one of those mysterious things that simply is!

SUBMIT

[soulping]

 

Re: SUBMIT

[branchesout]

1. "You will always confuse the salt and sugar and ruin your coffee and eggs" to Epona
2. "No matter what you speak, it will come out in song" to Ratatoskr
3. "May you trip on every fifth step you take" to the green team which is neither Henwen nor Alectryon [Barghest]

Re: SUBMIT

[soulping]

The curses vanish into the little stormcloud...