SIREN'S MELODIES

[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 pity in 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 blue also.]

Poor, poor, Sirens, victims of one of the worst tragedies, and yet you also committed one of the worst tragedies. I can't decide whether to feel bad for you or to hate you.

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."

[damedana]

... um. Are you an Author?

[justonezero]

It's nice to meet you, I'm Jorunna! What should we call you?

[preciousjem]

How heavy is this Performance gonna get?

ROUND 1

[livestage]

DISCUSSION

[livestage]

Re: DISCUSSION

[regulate]

There are 6 of us and 25 squares...We can either divide them up as equally as possible, which means 4 per person with 1 person getting 5, or if anyone wishes to sit out entirely, the rest of us can take the leftover squares.

Re: DISCUSSION

[gottalearntoplayitright]

[Looks around the room at who is here]

Any objections to going all in? Gray isn't here, but he really wants those visions.

Re: DISCUSSION

[lovemesomeday]

[still has not ENTIRELY processed the reality of torturegames vs remembering seeing his teammates get Wrecked that one time vs desire to Be Useful and Support Teammates]

DECISION

[livestage]

Re: DECISION

[justonezero]

Jorunna will take:

Level 1: Character, Event
Level 2: Event, Royalty
Level 3: Melody

(5 squares total!)

Re: DECISION

[regulate]

Level 3 - Character
Level 4 - Character, Melody, & Devour Squares

(4 squares in total)

Re: DECISION

[lovemesomeday]

Lala will take:

Melody 1
Royalty 1
Devour 3

Re: DECISION

[damedana]

Royalty 3
Royalty 4
Event 4

Re: DECISION

[gottalearntoplayitright]

Jewel will take:
Level 1: Devour
Level 2: Character and Melody and Devour
Level 3: Event

Re: DECISION

[preciousjem]

Jem is taking all of the level 5 squares please and thank you.

YOU DONT NEED ROUND 2/3 BUT YOU NEED A PLACE TO REACT

[livestage]

cw: eye trauma

[lovemesomeday]

[GUESS LALA IS MADE TO WEAR A CROWN AND SING AND ALSO HIS EYE POPS OUT ON THE SIDE

Lala manages to sound halfway professional about the singing bit, but given that this is his first experience with losing an entire part of his body and there is probably a lot of carnage happening around him he can probably be forgiven if his voice is wavering at times. He covers the empty eye socket with a hand and also a wing, since it popped out so cartoonishly it might not even be bleeding or w/e but it's difficult to tell.]

cw: cannibalism thoughts...and bleeding

[regulate]

[ As much as he wants to help grab the eye, his arms are bound behind him, and he's doubled over, bleeding from the throat. Still, his gaze follows the eye a little too intensely as he considers grabbing it with his teeth and lips instead.

...Probably a bad idea as his stomach lets out a disturbing rumble. ]

Re: cw: eye trauma

[gottalearntoplayitright]

[Wincing and trying to cover his ears. Sorry Lala, it's not you. He will try to free up a hand from his ears to pick up that eye though]

cw: throat gore & cannibalism ideation

[regulate]

[ There is blood pooling around his legs as he tries to say anything, but only a harsh wheeze comes out. His wrists are also bound behind him, making it hard for him to feel around his throat or do much else except stare at the mess rolling down the front of his shirt.

He's also wondering if he can actually drink his own blood back into himself... ]

Re: YOU DONT NEED ROUND 2/3 BUT YOU NEED A PLACE TO REACT

[preciousjem]

[ she shouldn't be happy about this. She should be screaming and crying, begging people to let her heal them.

Instead, she watches the suffering of those around her with delight. ]

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

[damedana]

Once Upon A Time

1. There is a saying that every child born has a song sung to them, a random song that no one knows who sang. They say that person will one day guide them to achieve their dreams.


2. """The Siren Song. You take turns pointing one after another singing each syllable until you stop on someone.

ONCE A BEAUTY FAR AWAY
LURING ME IN TO KEEP ME ASTRAY
FAREWELL
FAREWELL
MY LOVE IS BEHIND ME
MY LOVE IS IN FRONT OF ME
MY LOVE IS NEXT TO ME
MY LOVE IS ABOVE ME
AS I SINK
I SINK
I SINK"""


3. "The Siren's Music Box Auction

They say they would kidnap the voices of Sirens and turn them into music boxes to auction off.

Rumors say it might have been the voices of Acidia though."


4. "Their name is Angel. They found out who was responsible for the Song River incident.

So in return, they cut out every vocal cord of any Acidia they could find.

For all the melodies that can never be sung again, I'll make sure that others lose the same."


5. "Do you know what's the scariest thing?

That it wasn't the drowning that killed the Melodies in the River. It wasn't even just the flowers.

But there was an experiment that was done in that river. To make something that should have been mostly harmless into something horrible."

And the Family had no regrets in what they had done.