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

Shen Qingqiu (Yuan) | SVSSS

[xiaoxiuya]

Once he's made his best attempt at calming Lev down, Shen Qingqiu drifts back towards the great table at the center of the room, toying with his ubiquitous fan in a state of growing agitation.

"This is a cowardly, brutish game," he mutters to himself, before raising his voice to directly address those who stand or sit nearest to him. "And I for one simply refuse to believe it. What reason has the self-declared Lord of Treason have to speak honestly of our natures? More likely these labels were made to make us doubt ourselves and each other, and I refuse to fall for it. We may be in his power but that is certainly no reason to trust him."

[for_i_have_none]

"Exactly," says Azimar, standing with one shoulder leaning against the wall near the door, raising his voice slightly to carry. "It's not our natures those words illustrate, it's our host's. Approaching the truth just closely enough to stick in the edge of it, as you say, to sow doubt."

[xiaoxiuya]

"Thank you," Shen Qingqiu says, acknowledging Azimar with a grateful bow of his head. It's impossible not to notice the word floating over his brow, but Shen Qingqiu affects not to see it, saying only, "Doubtless it would please him if we fell on each other in a frenzy of suspicion. Keeping a cool head is our best option for getting out here with our ethics intact. That said..."

Look, it's only natural to be curious, okay? Especially when people keep giving him looks whenever he opens his mouth. Azimar at least is being relatively normal about the whole thing! Shen Qingqiu approaches himself calmly, decorously fanning himself. By sheer coincidence, that upraised fan happens wind up between the two of them and the rest of the room, granting Shen Qingqiu a small speck of privacy as he leans closer and murmurs, "I don't suppose you'd mind giving me something in the way of a hint?"