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egg raising event - BAD END=DEAD END

[ Hm, what's this?

Whatever you were doing before, you're sent to the Game Tower now. It looks like you're the only ones here, though—?

You'll find yourself in a spacious cave with a skylight. It's dark in the sky right now, but there are soft star-like lights hovering around, harmless to the touch. The ground is carpeted with soft moss and grass, and despite the size of cave, it feels rather homey and comfortable. Even if there is a massive feathery beast in the middle of the cavern.

It glows, not so brightly that it's hard to look at, but a soft chromatic light that pulses with its breath. Currently, it's perched on a nest made of . . . books? Books, jewels, clothes, parchment—all valuable things, to be sure, though some are odd choices for hoarding.

It lifts its head, looking toward you with a gentle, intelligent stare, before directing its head to an off-shoot cavern decorated with a banner of your unit's color. ]

[ Your cavern offshoot is still rather spacious, even with a human-sized egg pressed to the farthest cave wall. It's also surprisingly accommodating: the ground here is carpeted with lush rugs as well as pillows and blankets.

The egg is surrounded by a number of colorful smooth stones, most small enough to hold in one palm. There are eight colors in total, though multiple of each color. Hold a stone and you'll be compelled to speak honestly about the corresponding emotion.

You'll quickly find that your offshoot seems to have reduced echo, or perhaps even sound muffling—from here, you can't hear anyone from any other unit offshoot, and you suspect they can't hear you, either. ]

RULES | TASKS & EMOTION COLORS | TURN-IN DUE @ FRIDAY 11PM PST

GENERAL DISCUSSION

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

You are here to help a dragon hatch its baby!
This dragon requires emotional energy. It's up to you to help the dragon hatch an emotionally healthy child.
To do this, you'll be doing tasks with your unitmates, with each task intended to evoke a corresponding emotion.
Tasks may be repeated if desired.
You do not have to do every emotion. It is up to you to decide what emotions are necessary for this egg.
You may alternatively (or additionally) have a plain ol' feelings jam for that emotion. Don't want to tell your unitmate something they did that made you feel disgust? Then you can talk about an experience you had that reflects that emotion. Honest talks only!
If you have difficulty talking, you can optionally hold a stone of that color. It causes conditional truth effect: you'll be under a truth effect only for that specific emotion for as long as you hold the stone. (Yes you can force people to hold stones but if you're both holding one stone you'll both be compelled to tell the truth.)
While idols are playing, they'll find that their honest emotions are visible as colors of light radiating off of their silhouette. Attempting to touch the light deliberately (vs just trying to touch another idol) will result in keying directly into that idol's emotions.
Additionally, idols are temporarily alleviated of LobbyQuest status effects that hinder their ability to play (e.g. blindness, muteness). These status effects may return after the game, should the player choose.
Abilities are on, but harm may not be done to any idol nor their surroundings. The attempt will simply bounce off.
Items are on, but any items used to do harm will crumble into sparkles and will not be restored at the end of the game.
Turn-in is due in 48 hours. This is entirely for the purposes of hatching the egg, so don't worry too much.

Note: you do not need to do all tasks (though you can if you want to). It is up to you to decide what emotions are necessary for an emotionally healthy child.

If you decide to fulfill an emotion, everyone should participate in that emotion. However, they can choose between which they want to do, e.g. if you decide to do Anger, then person 1 can take the first option and person 2 can take the second option, but both must participate in Anger for it to count.

If no one on the unit is capable of fulfilling that emotion's tasks, please note that in turn-in so the gamerunner knows for fairness reasons. Being capable but not willing does not count.

Anger (#D50000/red) Tell a unitmate something they did to make you angry. Talk about your hot buttons, or otherwise things that make you angry.	Anticipation (#FF7E00/orange) Tell a unitmate something that you'd like to do with them in the future. Talk about your plans for the future after Imeeji.	Joy (#FFE953/yellow) Tell a unitmate something you like about them. Talk about something that never fails to make you happy.	Trust (#53FF53/light green) Tell a unitmate about a time they hurt you. Talk about a weakness, vulnerability, or otherwise a secret that you're sore about.
Fear (#009700/dark green) Tell a unitmate something about them that scares you. Talk about a fear or trauma that keeps you up at night (or equivalent level of intensity, for sensitIVs).	Surprise (#008AE1/sky blue) Tell a unitmate something about yourself that you think will surprise them. Talk about a time that your expectations were betrayed.	Sadness (#0000C9/dark blue) Tell a unitmate something about them that makes you sad. Talk about something you've been recently sad about, or the last time you cried (out of sadness).	Disgust (#DF00DF/purple) Tell a unitmate something you judge about them. Talk about what makes you feel ashamed, or something that makes you feel contempt.

If you want to put in extra emotions, you can make your own toplevels and add them in. Check this list first for which emotions already have colors—if it isn't on this list, ping Youji with your emotion's toplevel and I'll give you a color!

Anger: LINK
Anticipation: LINK
Joy: LINK
Trust: LINK
Fear: LINK
Surprise: LINK
Sadness: LINK
Disgust: LINK

Anger: LINK
Anticipation: LINK
Joy: LINK
Trust: LINK
Fear: LINK
Surprise: LINK
Sadness: LINK
Disgust: LINK
Love: LINK
Compassion: LINK
Vengefulness: LINK
Courage: LINK
Faith: LINK

Edited 2021-09-04 08:33 (UTC)

Anger: LINK
Anticipation: LINK
Joy: LINK
Fear: LINK
Surprise: LINK
Sadness: LINK
Disgust: LINK
Love: LINK
Compassion: LINK
Vengefulness: LINK
Courage: LINK
Faith: LINK

Edited 2021-09-04 09:31 (UTC)

Result: ✨Complete✨

An ✨incredibly emotional✨ dragon, which means it's probably emotionally healthy. It doesn't really care much for being perceived, and likes to keep to itself.

It can't help but have great compassion for those in need. It recognizes the world's evils, and that being kind is a strength, not a weakness, in this harsh reality. Still, it's very capable of striking back when it or those it cares about gets struck, and it's rather dedicated to its quest for vengeance until it gains satisfaction.

Complete. Perhaps overly so. It's too well-read—it has a habit of counting acts of vengeance needed in the stories it consumes, and if the vengeance doesn't meet their standards, it will pen an alternate script to the story to write the vengeance in itself. Of course, it doesn't let its stories go into circulation—after all, it doesn't plan to cause anyone any undue trouble, and writers might be flawed, but they don't deserve some dragon's edited copy of the book being delivered to their door.

A word of advice when meeting this child: don't have any holy scriptures when visiting it. It will, without fail, find it, read through the whole thing, and pen out inconsistencies as well as things it believes are unfair or unjust. Still, it seems to enjoy this activity. Curiously, it does not seem to have faith in a higher power, though it doesn't not have one—it seems to be taking its time in discovering its faith. But, it does seem to find scripture of any faith precious—regardless of whether the faith has any grounding in reality, the fact that people wrote these words with the hopes of brightening the future makes this a comfort meal for this child.

. . . You should know.

It will not see you again, after this.

For it will not commit such reviling cruelty.

It will never accept that path of life, and perhaps as a result, it will never grow past its juvenile stage. Still, this conviction can only be called one thing: courage.

Likes: Law textbooks, holy scripture(if you can call what it does liking it), sappy romance plotlines especially featuring a jaded and cynical murderer falling for a kind and compassionate (possibly-also-a-murderer) person, especially if the story involves taking vengeance against governments and other big organizations, possibly the world, stories about those which were fated for a certain cruel path defying their fates and carving a path out for themselves
Dislikes: Stories that glorify abuse or power imbalance, especially bad relationships (it writes a lot of vengeance fantasy fanfic for these stories), MLM pamphlets, especially if they're for cults (it sets these on fire)

Edited 2021-09-19 11:34 (UTC)

Well, it seems straightforward enough. I'll gladly contribute to any.

...I presume we'd want all the emotions, since that seems ideal for emotional health.

RULES

TASKS & EMOTION COLORS

INDIVIDUAL TURN-IN @ FRIDAY 11PM PST

Hope

Ordine

DRAGON

GENERAL DISCUSSION

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ANGER

Re: ANGER

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ANTICIPATION

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JOY

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TRUST

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FEAR

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SURPRISE

Re: SURPRISE

SADNESS

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DISGUST

Re: DISGUST

LOVE

Re: LOVE

COMPASSION

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VENGEFULNESS