Event Annex - The Senate Room

[pumpkinhollow]

CRY HAVOC, AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR.

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elcome, esteemed guests, to the Senate Room.

The rules of the game are simple. You have a word over your head that you cannot see, and the same word written on a piece of paper in an envelope that also contains a key. There is a door out of this room. Each key opens the door for only one person. You can see the words above others' heads, but you cannot say them, nor can you say any direct synonyms that might give it away too easily, nor can you spell the word or its synonyms. You must find other ways to describe it to allow the other person to guess. More abstract. Get creative with it.

If you believe you know the word, speak it aloud and open your envelope to retrieve your key. If you are correct, you can leave without incident. If you are wrong, your organs will immediately fail and you will die.

Here are the words each participant has been assigned. Players can use them to refer to other players' characters to help them guess, and you can use them to check your answers when you guess, but you can also OOCly know your answer provided you don't use it to ICly cheat. Good luck.

Agent Connecticut

Fickle

Agni Azimar

Traitor (there is an additional document contained in this envelope)

Aloy

Obstinate

Ancient Fuelweaver

Ruined

Anzu Menelikov

Deceitful

Artemy Burakh

Tainted

Capochin Bastone

Inadequate

Cassandra de Rolo

Cynical

Dahlia Leeds

Insatiable

Daisy Tonner

Merciless

Elias Coldwood

Discarded

Ethan Winters

Insufficient

Felix Gaeta

Imprudent

Hector Monaque

Covetous

Jonathan Sims

Hubristic

Lev/Lyubov Morgenshtern

Weak

Luo Binghe

Alone

Marik Ishtar

Megalomaniacal

Mr. Ant Tenna

Histrionic

Papyrus

Ineffectual

Sasavachi Chunome

Misanthropic

Shen Qingqiu

Pretentious

Simon

Selfish

Violet Vespertine

Cowardly

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Comments

[not_the_last]

Cassandra gives a similar flat smile back. "We may as well. I can see what's over your head, can you see mine?"

[thethirteenthchild]

"I can." It's admittedly not as bad as some of the others. She gives a pitying look to the blonde man whose name she doesn't know who has the word insufficient dangling over him. "Yours is a word that means... someone who doesn't trust anyone. Though that doesn't terribly narrow it down, there are many words that mean that."

She searches for other things she could say, but trying to describe the spelling or use closer words immediately gives that 'locked up' feeling that used to happen when she'd try to say that Neil was Nyarlathotep. Hm. Inconvenient, but not unexpected.

"It's usually, mm... it's got a more negative connotation. People who are distrustful and smug about it come to mind."

[not_the_last]

"Hmm. Someone who prides themself on trusting no one?" Her mouth quirks just a little sourly.

"Shall I try to guess mine first, or give you hints about yours at the same time?"

[thethirteenthchild]

"Up to you. Whatever you think is easiest. Though I'll admit to being extremely curious," Dahlia says. "Demonic omniscience aside, my grandfather... knows me quite well. I'm interested to see how he decided to twist the knife this time."

[not_the_last]

"Mm. He seems to have gone with ... well, the word is to do with appetite. Not necessarily of any particular kind. And stating that said appetite cannot be ... that it's without limit, and does not have a point of completion."

It occurs to her to suggest that Eligos is drawing a deliberate comparison with Aster, but she decides there's no need to say that part out loud.

[thethirteenthchild]

"Mmm. The words that come to mind are 'voracious' and 'insatiable.' Am I in the right direction?"

[not_the_last]

Cassandra opens her mouth, closes it, and nods emphatically.

[thethirteenthchild]

Dahlia sighs. "Of course. It'll be tricky to differentiate with all the limitations..."

Well, it can wait.

With a scowling pause, Dahlia searches her own mind for words without any walls around them, finally landing on--- "There's a Y in it."

Where? That, she cannot say. She could have named any of the letters, but that one, she hopes, narrows it down more.

[not_the_last]

Cassandra frowns in momentary confusion, then realizes -- "In mine, you mean? Hm. I take it the Y doesn't start it, that would be too easy."

A beat.

"Skeptical, no. Distrustful, no -- and you couldn't have said trust if it were. Doubtful, doubting, no ..."

[thethirteenthchild]

"...Mmm, no, think more like someone who's been burned too many times," Dahlia tries. Ugh, the bar on synonyms is so frustrating.

Hm.

But can she try describing synonyms?

"There's a word that means the same thing that is also the name of a stone that's usually green. The ocean near the island is named after that stone."

[not_the_last]

She frowns, caught off guard -- and briefly unable to recall the name of the ocean. "Emerald, peridot, jade -- jaded. Hah!"

A smile of wry triumph. "Is the word cynical?"

[thethirteenthchild]

Dahlia raises her eyebrows and gives her half a smirk. "I simply cannot say."