Sabra La Tau

Who: Everyone!
Where: Arena
When: Day 132, evening
What: Game time!

[The Call to the Arena today is the simple sound of hammer on metal. Rhythmic, tireless it's almost a marching tune to those who happened to hear and follow it.

When you enter the Arena bare land quickly gives way to drifts of snow and barren, snow-striped trees. The further you go in, the deeper and deeper the snow gets. By the time you can make out the broad, grinning statue on the throne between gusts of snow laden wind, the snow chest-deep on most.

In the center, at the statues feet are two very welcome things at this point: Fur wraps of some unknown white animal large enough to drape around you and a metal pot of hot chocolate and several ceramic cups.]

HA HA HA! Bit of an effort wasn't it? I had to get your blood pumping for this one! Everyone warmed up?

((Mingle
Rules
Game start!
Fort Descriptions
Part Two
Endgame
Memories))

Who: PEOPLE WHO FISH
Where: Lake
When: Day 132, late morning
What: HAPPY FISHINGS/STORYTIME

Fishing~ fishing~ here little fish~
You will make a delicious dish~
Add some spice and add some sauce~
Worth every bit of the cost~

My rhyming really needs work~

Maybe I should tell stories instead.

Who: >8(
Where: The Arena
When: Day 129, early afternoon
What: >8(


WE'RE GOING TO PLAY A GaME.  War ROoMs.  WAR ROoomS GAME.  reMemBER ThiS ONe?   Haaaahe-aaaah

. . . fEAr ME . . . FEar mMEeE . . . hElp me, bAbe, heLp . . . feEAAR mmme . . .

Who: >8|
Where: The Arena
When: Day 129, late morning
What: >8|


No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NONONONO!!


Where was the death!? Where wa- -carnage!? You think you can just chea- -that and get away with it!?


[A conveyor belt pops out of the ground- wait, no, three conveyor belts, and there are twelve cardboard boxes and one of the conveyor belts is going to fire and one is going to CHAIN SAWS and one is going though some black flaps to a room labeled "FRIENDLY PUPPIES."]

OK, that's it! No more Mr. Nice Trickster! EVERYBODY PUT A POPUL- -OM YOUR TEAM IN A BOX.

Who: >8)
Where: The Arena
When: Day 129, late morning
What: >8)

[Today, he has the Arena decked out like an ancient and dooooom-y temple... made entirely out of foam]

Goooood morning, Blanks! Did you miss me? Are you happy to see me? I think we're just going to have to do this again.

And again.

And AgAIn.

AND AGAIN.

Until we get it right! ♥

((Feel free to assume that you and your partner team have already seen the doodles in your notebooks.

Mingle

Lacanis
Hydracula
Bunnycorn
Pygnus
Delpavo
Cepheon))

Who: Ichiru, whoever
Where: AROUND.
When: Day 121, early afternoon
What: Patrolling. And the like. And going to bother his twin.

Who: NEW PEOPLE, Canis, whoever else
Where: Canis!!
When: Day 121, morning
What:

[HEY CANIS! There is some dreadful howling going on in one of the rooms here. If you're home, you may have heard mysterious scratching noises and whining coming from inside that same room earlier, too]

Who: Anyone!
Where: Around the lake/wherever
When: Day 116, morning
What: Pokemon :D

*this morning, there is a mercenary using a bird Pokemon to hunt small critters by the lake. What are you and your Pokemon doing?*

Who: Blanks!
Where: The Arena!
When: Night 115 LATE
What: boy howdy who gave Ash a bullhorn

Attention Blanks! Before ya settle down to sleep, ya better stop by the Arena! And don't worry, no games involved! Kinda sorta!

((MINGLE/EXPLANATION/CRITERIA/HOW TO BATTLE KINDA/POKEYMANS))

((TO SKIP A HEAD: Sabra la Pokes has all your Pokemon information on it divided by teams! If there's something I forgot or need to change, please let me know! If you still want a Pokemon, you can still get one, just hit me up. Also, you can use this account to host your Pokemon if you don't want to make space on your own (there are already some userpics uploaded). Feel free to move/delete as you see fit. password is thunder1))

Who: Anyone who signed up for the game o/
Where: The Arena
When: Day 114, bright and early
What: It's gametime!

[The Twins are out this morning, faces of pale stone lovely and amused, the round table ringed with chairs once more draped with an odd cloth of shimmering grey. The arena is decorated today as though for a birthday; balloons in a myriad rainbow colors strain toward the distant arch of the ceiling, tethered into place by ribbons in a likewise diverse assortment. On the table, there is a birthday cake decorated, oddly enough, with waffles. At each chair, a namecard, plate and cultlery have been set out- along with a small piece of paper folded in two.]

[Just beyond the table today there stands what looks to be a very large, very elaborate dorm. A flag hangs before it, in rainbow hues; it reads "Dingbatticus" in the wood of the door, the word carved with precision and care.]

A pleasant morning to you, little blanks. I've designed another game for you, and my sister has been kind enough to help me once again. You'll find before you some information necessary for the game. Settle in, make yourselves comfortable, and do try to play along. It won't be fun for anyone if you don't get into the spirt of things, or if you spoil all of your secrets right away, now will it~?

[OOC- People who have signed up for this game in the OOC comm, please sign in to say you're present. As you do, you'll get some general game information and your role outline, which are included on the piece of paper at your place setting.]

[Info/Sign-ups
Mingle
Rules
The Dingbatticus Dorm
Endgame
Memories
Reveal]

Who: Kirk + Watanuki + anyone
Where: In the caves, returning to the dorms
When: Day 113, evening.
What: Dehiatus!

[There's a pair of Blanks stumbling back in the direction of the dorms, looking rather worse for wear (and possibly smelling of lava).]

Hell, what was that supposed to be?

D-does it look like I know!?

Who: Anybody
Where: The Arena
When: Day 113, late morning
What: Game 76 conclusion

[As you step into the Arena, the titles fade away, as well as the strangeness that accompanied them. By the time you reach the Judge's statue, you feel normal again. Around said statue, there are tables set up, with color-coded tablecloths.]

Would you go ahead and put your photos on display for everyone to see? Once you are done, would you mind answering a few short questions?


((Photos are here; go ahead and peruse/talk about them in the mingle thread, and questions will be up shortly. I will close the votes at a quarter to 6:00, and announce winners at 6:00. Titleswaps were here, for easy reference.

ETA: GAME IS OVER. All photos may be kept, but all cameras disappear))

Who: An Emo Vampire, anyone
Where: Lurking about various dorm entrances
When: Day 112, evening
What: MY ALL THESE BLANKS LOOK MIGHTY TASTY, too bad someone's soul is black with depressing despair.


My hunger is the color of my soul.

Who: Gokudera, Akito, Anyone else
Where: Many places!
When: Day 113, Morning
What: Princessing across the countryside

[The fair (if you squint and turn your head sideways) Princess Scowl and her his loyal knight digimon digiknight, Akitomon, are spending the morning armed with cameras and paying visits to friends and allies alike.

And even if you aren't an ally or friend, they may just be passing by on their way anyway.]

Who: One (1) Pit of Endless Ravening
Where: Lacerta's gardens
When: Day 112, after dinner which did nothing
What: First, pulling weeds out of her garden and downing those, then an entire potato plant, stem, leaves, roots and all.


Why . . . why doesn't it help? Why, why, why?

Who: NONE OF THOSE BLACK TEAM KIDS I TELL YA THAT MUCH
Where: WANDERING AROUNDS
When: Day 112, afternoon
What: =D

Nice and quiet and peaceful~

[Red is wandering. He may or may not be looking for River to shank while he's a Crazy Bitch. Fun times.]

Who: Anyone
Where: Just outside your dorms
When: Day 112, as you're getting back from the game
What: Mysteeeeeeerious boxes!

[The boxes read simply, 'From Persona'. Inside each box, you find what appear to be cheap Polaroid cameras, should you recognize the technology. One per (non-hiatused) teammate. They're very simplistic; a button, a slot, and a number indicating how many photos are left (they each start at 12). Underneath the cameras, there is also a binder in your team's color, with the word 'Memories' embossed on the cover. It's full of plastic sheets to slide the pictures into.]

((Log the photos your characters are taking here

ETA: You have until tomorrow's post (3:30 pm pst-ish) to log photos. You don't have to use all the photos, and you don't have to log photos that you're not putting into the binder and turning in to Persona tomorrow. Or you can just leave the whole thing at home, since Persona didn't actually tell you what to do with the cameras, being Persona.))

Who: Anyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 112, morning
What: Game 76

[Persona presides over the Arena today, but the usual doors, couches, and unconscious people are conspicuously absent. The moment you step into the Arena, you feel strange. Not like yourself. And there's another change...]

[You can suddenly see everyone's titles, and your own, as clearly as if they had been there all along. However, something seems a little off...]

Is a person born or made? What impact does the way that others perceive us influence the selves deep down in our hearts? And what if you were to look through the eyes of another? What do you think you'll learn?

((List of new titles
How do I title-swapped
Feel free to treat the whole post as a mingle post; stay tuned for actual instructions))

Who: Everyone
Where: Everywhere
When: Day 111, Late Morning
What: Game!!1

[The lights don’t seem quite as bright as they usually are in the arena today. The dimmed lights make it impossible to see far into the arena, but even so the grand Victorian mansion taking up the centre of it would be difficult to miss. It looks like it could have seen better days, the paint flaking off and a few of the glass panes of the windows broken. The curtains are all drawn on the first of the three floors, making it neigh impossible to take a peek inside. The front of the mansion is adorned with six doors in a row though, each door’s frame painted in two colours, one door for every pair of partner teams.]

[Behind the mansion, on top of the throne, sits a new statue in complete silence. And despite the lack of head, you might feel as if you’re being closely watched by it.]

[Of course, once you make your way into the arena you might care about neither of the things mentioned above, because sitting in a circle are eleven familiar shapes, the twelfth shape being a pair of Groucho Marx glasses. If you look closely enough you can see how they are still breathing, if very faintly. And floating above each and everyone of them, well out of reach from you, is a tiny rag doll replica of the unconscious blank (or little dollsized glasses in case of Dingbatticus).]

(Mingle)
(Rules/Game Start)
(Endgame)
(Memories)

((Despite what some IC rules might sound like, this is a no death game. Your characters will just not be privy to this information ICly))

Who: The newest Pavonians and whoever else
Where: Down by the lake
When: Day 110, morning
What: Wholesale plant slaughter, oh the humanity

[This morning every bowl and cup in Pavo are down by the lake, along with half a dozen smooth stones, a corner of bed sheet with holes poked in it, and various plantlife in differing stages of chopped, torn, pulverized and semi-paste.]

Good gracious, this one is foul.