SESSION 1 - ROSE

[crittersheep]

[ On this section of the wall, a 3 x 3 grid has your flock's name on it:


You intuitively know you can tap the space you want to fill, and tap the symbol you want to fill it with. ]

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GUESSES

[thelastfirstborn]

SPACE: top/middle/bottom + left/center/right
SYMBOL: name/number/color will suffice
TRIBUTE: the one who bites it if this guess is wrong
<b>SPACE:</b> top/middle/bottom + left/center/right <b>SYMBOL:</b> name/number/color will suffice <b>TRIBUTE:</b> the one who bites it if this guess is wrong

TRIBUTE SIGN-IN

[crittersheep]

Levi

[strateelgic]

Azdaja

[wants_the_phd]

[sigh...]

Angel Devil

[finalbows]

[ well, he's not letting their TEEN LEADER and also the PERSON WHO JUST HEARTGAMED HIM FOR 500 COMMENTS handle this alone ]

Belle Melusine

[poisonista]

[ Here we (censored) go. ]

[wants_the_phd]

So we... can't see where our grid is in relation to the others, so we can correctly logic out what's in which row or column...

And we're just going to have to solve it by trial and error?




...What if we just quit?

[finalbows]

Hm.
Azdaja, here's a thought. How about you play scout, this game?

I can hear the other flocks, from here.
Why not monitor some of their guesses and report to aid in ours?

[strateelgic]

We can see where they are in relation to the main one, can't we? Perhaps that's enough.

[poisonista]

[ Looking at the grid, frowning. ]

... wouldn't quitting penalize us? I'm more concerned with how that'll end up if we do.

Re: GUESSES

[finalbows]

SPACE: top left
SYMBOL: overgrowth
TRIBUTE: angel devil

[strateelgic]

Oh we'd most certainly be penalized.

Re: GUESSES

[thelastfirstborn]

[ the symbol glows briefly . . . and then nothing happens?

it must have been accepted. ]

[poisonista]

Then we play.

[ He's not going to get penalized for NOT TRYING. ]

... something about the colors here, though. I can't put my finger on it.

[strateelgic]

Are you reminded of something?

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[thelastfirstborn]

[ You have been selected for tribute.


The creatures swarm around you suddenly—though you may fight them off, their numbers are too great, and moreover, even close proximity to them sends your brain haywire, and you're quickly overwhelmed by, if nothing else, a horrible sense of vertigo, before drowning in a sea of We Many.

Their stay is quick—they only need something from you—but when they leave, regardless of whether they injure you or not, you feel changed. ]

Re: GUESSES

[finalbows]

SPACE: top center
SYMBOL: adaptation
TRIBUTE: angel devil

Re: GUESSES

[thelastfirstborn]

[ the symbol glows briefly . . . and then nothing happens?

it must have been accepted. ]

[poisonista]

[ He's looking closely, and if he's able to see the other grids... he frowns, then looks back at theirs and points. ]

Take a look... Each square has a unique color and symbol that doesn't repeat in any row or column. So if we go by that...

> ｎｅｕｒｏｄｅｇｅｎｅｒａｔｉｏｎ

[finalbows]

[ "oh shit, did i guess wrong with myself as a chip and it only just went awry"-- ]

[ whatever the reason. ]

[ they steal one of his most precious of gifts:
control over his power. ]

[ frightened by the theft, ice spirals out from around him in a fancy lattice, grasping spikes of ice that jut from the floor to try and impale some of the thieves before they get away--

but it's too late.

...parts of him run with blood, not bleeding, but because the fear tells him, hide somewhere! in one of the warm bodies around you! his tail falls off to become a bubbling puddle of it, quivering with the urge to lunge and take over someone.

through grit teeth, ]

One of you. Calm me. Now.

Re: > ｎｅｕｒｏｄｅｇｅｎｅｒａｔｉｏｎ

[strateelgic]

[Is someone choosing one of theirs as tribute? Rude!]

[Have some calm, Angie.]

Re: > ｎｅｕｒｏｄｅｇｅｎｅｒａｔｉｏｎ

[finalbows]

[ sits. very still. deep breaths.

the blood slowly unbleeds itself. his tail, in particular, is a sweeping rope of red liquid one moment, then fur and muscle and bone again the next.
in a monotone, ]

Keep doing that, please.

Re: GUESSES

[finalbows]

SPACE: middle bottom
SYMBOL: death and rebirth
TRIBUTE: angel devil

[strateelgic]

Ah. That sort of puzzle.

Re: > ｎｅｕｒｏｄｅｇｅｎｅｒａｔｉｏｎ

[strateelgic]

Of course.

Was one of our guesses incorrect? Or is it possible for someone else to target you?