CIRRUS NETWORK

[livestage]

[The Showmaster leads you through the dark stage and you find yourself entering something that looks like a very nice and expensive classroom.

Each desk is spacious with drawers that you will conveniently find any important item that had been on your person or that you feel like you would need here. Each chair is cushy and swivels.

Sitting on top of the teacher's desk is a young girl, older teen / younger adult in age at most, hair that looks like mint cotton candy that probably reaches down to her ankles. She has a knee drawn up to her body, resting her chin on top as she scours the room of who arrived . . .

And then she looks at you all with the biggest smug grin plastered on her face. You'll notice that her purple eyes shifts when she makes the scowl, it goes from a solid purple to a purple mixed in with this symbol in green also.]

Ah, Cirrus, still mad that you can't take our stories, huh? Even though we're all gone now, you still can't leave us alone.

Comments

THE WHITEBOARD

[livestage]

[On the whiteboard, there's a projection of all the squares you can pick from.

On your phone, there's an app you can open that lets you look at the other teams but you can only see if someone has selected them. You cannot see what the squares cost, you cannot see who selected what, you can only see if a team chose to buy a square or not.

Next to that you see the prompt that you must fill:
Once Upon A Time
1.
2.
3.
4.
5
And the Family had no regrets in what they had done.]

[livestage]

"Alright, so here's the deal. Since the Families just loooove to just do whatever they want, I'll let you guys do just that. Just pick the words you think you like best and put them in some kinda order and I'll make you a story. Keep in mind, there's a price for the decisions you make. But you know that, don't you?"

She pauses and looks up at them.

"If you want to ask a quick question, go ahead, but if it's stupid or requires a long answer, I'm going to ignore you."

[socialcapital]

What should we call you?

[thefaultinthestars]

What's your grudge against Cirrus?

[vapour]

Is the other lost Family the ones with the red symbols in their eyes, or are those both you guys...?

[mykidisthebest]

It's nice to meet you, miss. I'm Eugene. Can I ask your name?

ROUND 1

[livestage]

DISCUSSION

[livestage]

Re: DISCUSSION

[thefaultinthestars]

....well.

Should we even pretend like we won't go for level 5?

DECISION

[livestage]

Re: DECISION

[endsjustified]

[NONE SQUARES for R1]

ROUND 2

[livestage]

DISCUSSION

[livestage]

Re: DISCUSSION

[vapour]

[ just opens his mouth and then closes it after seeing this happen. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[mykidisthebest]

[fully too busy bickering with people to notice anyone putting in anything this round]

Re: DISCUSSION

[socialcapital]

[ also too busy bickering to notice anything weird until booker inevitably explodes ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[endsjustified]

[still microdosing vodka regardless of what he does or does not witness]

DECISION

[livestage]

ROUND 3

[livestage]

DISCUSSION

[livestage]

DECISION

[livestage]

YOU NEED A PLACE TO REACT

[livestage]

Re: YOU NEED A PLACE TO REACT

[endsjustified]

[well the air itself starts attacking him and he explodes in blood messily in several different ways I guess

and also falls over

and the little Facebook status symbol over his head changes to like hurricane tornado firestorm flood

but that can easily be ascribed to the exploding in blood you know]

STORY TURNIN

[livestage]

You must select the five squares you wish to turn in. Even if it feels like the story might not make sense, the storyteller should be able to make it make sense.

Re: STORY TURNIN

[endsjustified]

[ICly Jackson submits this due to being unusually unharmed]


The Cirrus Legend is named DOLDRUMUS. (Character 5)

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There was a situation that happened in Cirrus.

Where all of their data suddenly seemed to have disappeared. Many people believed that due to Forge's new SYSTEM , they were to blame.

And truly, a small part of it is true, they were responsible for a bit of it, the networks kind of got into a crosshairs, but it was for a very small portion. Forge paid them money and that was that.

No, the real truth was that someone on Cirrus had betrayed the family. They took that information and hid it.

Once they figure out who done it, they would have to die. And the storyteller who told that story? They would have to disappear, too. (Event 5)

-

"Destruction.

Everyone has seen the destruction caused by natural forces like the weather. It is sad, it is heartbreaking, people experience loss in a way that's never felt before.

And yet, there's a different kind of destruction that only people can do. Torture, mind games, truly heinous acts against human kind...

Just look at what the storytellers had to go through. They'll tell you the stories- haha, jk.

Or at least, that's what people who want humans to be special will believe. Humans aren't actually that special. Weather can torture people, too. The anxiety that they can cause, lifelong agony, the odd and horrific ways people can die, or even the tragic ways people can live afterwards.

Nature can be heartless too.

So that's why I never feel bad, nya. (Weather 5)

-

"Cirrus benefits on the loss of others. Those who will give up their information and those who don't choose to give up their information. They sell their information in exchange for more.

But what does cirrus lose?

They lose parts of their humanity.

Those who delve deeper and deeper into the family's business will find they just cannot stop with expanding their knowledge and so, they lose that part of them.

But sometimes it's worth it. Because you retain the knowledge of a family whose main setting is a laboratory. Who has done worse crimes than you. Probably. So really, this is fortunate, isn't it?

What were they called... it had to have begun with an A...the Apothecaries... no, not them. The...A...Al...?" (Fortune 5)

-

"However, he was good at his job.

They thought all the fortunes had been burned away. But no.

He was just way too good at his job. And he enjoyed being good at it.

He took his stack. And he placed them one by one onto one singular person.

He knew this was his last job so he wanted to make sure to finish it perfectly.

And so he set that person on fire, a scream that sounds like every agony in the world rang through one single person. (Misfortune 5)