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

[spaghettimonster]

Papyrus takes a minute to take this all in, gloved hands to his chin as if to scratch it thoughtfully, or maybe to hold his jaw shut so he doesn't talk too soon. What incredibly terrible timing? A few days seems long enough to learn the basics, if anybody asks him, but then he did have the dubious advantage of already being used to living inside a magic barrier. Maybe that made that part easier to remember.

"Ummmmm," he finally says. "You missed a few things in your first day introductions. Yes, it's a little bit important. You see... It's a weird magic barrier keeping everything outside staying outside, and keeping us all inside. And, staying alive. So..."

[mycotic]

If Ethan's bothered by getting thrown in the ring seemingly upon arrival, it doesn't show. If anything, it was strange going from the chaos back into a quietness. He momentarily thinks of Leon, who probably wanted to explain stuff like this to him, back during the social meet.

"Yeah, guess I did." The mention of magic gets his gears moving. The woman who saved his life on the lake— "Can't you just make a new barrier?"

[spaghettimonster]

"A... new barrier."

This conversation is carrying Papyrus to levels of incredulity he didn't know he was capable of.

"Umm... no. No, I don't think I can just... do that. Incredible as I am, rumor says it took a cult, and a few demons, and maybe a god got involved...? in making the barrier, that can bring dead people back to life. That's more than even the coolest skeleton can do single-handedly."

[mycotic]

Ethan sniffs. Considers this for approximately just long enough that Papyrus, and maybe anyone else listening in, could be forgiven for thinking Ethan is truly understanding the gravity of the situation.

Then, Ethan says, "But did you try yet?"

[spaghettimonster]

Certainly Papyrus spends a short window thinking he's managed to convey the gist of the situation and the difficulty involved. He thinks so, for a brief time. But then.

".......Wow, I can't argue with that? You're right, I didn't actually try it yet! How remiss, of me," he says, voice going from something mystified to more a outright sarcasm.

"Clearly I should have asked for more rumors about the ritual, to try doing it myself... Too bad Leon didn't get invited to the slumber party, he could have introduced me to whoever saw it. I guess we could ask around."

[mycotic]

"It's worth a shot, isn't it?"

Tough crowd, he thinks jokingly. Scratching the back of his head, Ethan grunts, thoughtful, taking in Papyrus' response. Can't do anything about the barrier, then...

"Leon had something to do with this barrier business...?"

[spaghettimonster]

He really can't argue it's worth a shot, but even the Great Papyrus needs a little more prep work than just deciding to do it. Sticking a pin in the idea, to return to later.

"Oh, no, no," Papyrus says, shaking his head hard enough the tail of his cap thwacks against bone a couple times. He scowls and grabs it, tossing it back behind his head again.

"No, he just heard about it from people who saw... a vision of a replica of it...? Some sort of weird dream that wasn't a dream."

[mycotic]

The brain of an engineer is an enigma. Papyrus will, certainly, probably hear about Ethan's interest in the barrier again. So, too, will Leon. Notes are being made up in the blueprint of a plan he's scheming already, something that, with enough work, could be less of a barrier and more of a portal. Coder fingers get itchy, and this is a pipe dream of sorts, but he has a bone he wants to chase now.

Maybe he should have let Leon talk more in that impromptu orientation. Ethan's problem, inherently, is that he just goes. It keeps getting him into situations like this.

"You know, it's rude to keep a hat on at the table," he says, jokingly, inviting Papyrus to get a little more comfortable. "So we got an idea of replicating it, then. But what does the barrier being gone mean for everyone else outside? I mean, you said it's keeping us from dying, or..." He gestures. "It's a firewall, basically."