[EVENT] Coin Piece Winners!

[rubycitymods]

Thank you to everyone who put someone forward for the games! The winners are as follows, chosen using a random number generator.

 

Horseshoes	Beat the Dealer	High Striker
Orihime Inoue	Rin Okumura	Lamont Toucey
Archery	Duck Pond	Ladder Climb
Gilgamesh	Waver Archibald El-Melloi	Jamie McCrimmon

 

These six participants will be given a small coin fragment as their prize after winning one of these games at least once! Other prizes are of course on offer, the usual carnival fare, but these people in particular will be handed the precisely angled piece of metal with a knowing smile from the stall vendor, though any questions they have as to the purpose of it will go unanswered.

They are free to keep it, hand it to someone else, even to throw it away, but when the well appears in place of the obelisk on the 23rd, more than one of them may notice that the fragment they hold would fit into the indentation in the top of the well, filling up one sixth of the circle.

"six fragments must be placed
and a single desire will be granted
for the good all or one"

The little verse on the well is certainly cryptic, but it may be worked out by one or more people that the act of completing the coin and offering it to the well will grant a single desire in return. However, it isn't only down to the six piece-holders to decide what this might be! Anyone can be the one to make it and it can be a wish for anything at all, though bear in mind that some choices may have unforeseen circumstances.. and simply wishing for everyone to be sent back home will not work at all.

We understand that this kind of thing will take a great deal of teamwork between a large number of players and we will not be imposing a time limit on the decision-making in IC terms. The well will remain until a decision is made and carried out, whether that be a wish being made or the decision to give up the coin without asking anything of it.

If there is anything that we as mods can do to help you, please don't be shy about letting us know! We look forward to seeing your plotting for this aspect in particular, which you can use this post for!

Comments

[QUESTIONS]

[rubycitymods]

Any questions here!

[flashover]

I'm assuming the wish "EVERYONE GETS TO GO HOME" would not come true

[captain_asthmatic]

DAMNIT.

[gordianknots]

i mean i bet we could try and then something HILARIOUS/TERRIBLE happens......

Plotting

[leekspins]

Orihime might suggest wishing to be able to explore beyond the mist and expanding the places they can go; or maybe for a machine that can create new buildings upon user request (like a working movie theater, or a boxing ring, etc.), but ultimately she'd go along with the group vote (unless it's something awful).

[PLOTTING]

[bonnypiperlad]

So Jamie will be using his amazing powers of clinging to the Doctor in order to triumph in the ladder climb - and then will wonder wtf he's gotten a piece of metal as a prize. Sooooo he's probably not going to do much with it other than hang onto it as a curiosity, and could in theory be convinced to use if it that's what people want to do.

However, he's going to be of the opinion that wishes are tricky things and there's a lot that can go wrong with them, so he'd either have to be convinced that it's something that's a good thing in general OR be talked into giving up his piece and then have nothing to do with the wish itself. I would also potentially be willing to have the piece taken from him in some way, like having it stolen or taken after a fight or something of that nature, but I'd prefer to work out the specifics of those types of options in advance.

But in general I'm open to something like this. Or if there's something else that seems like it might work to get the piece in play for everyone else to use I'd probably be good with it too, just as long as I have an idea of what it is. So basically, hi, I am here, lets figure out what to do with this thing!

[PLOTTING]

[gallifreytotrenzalore]

Can Eleven cheer him on, shouting at him madly from below? After failing misirably because HIS LIMBS ARE ALL TANGLED UP AND IN THE WAY
And when Jamie wins there will be hugs =D

[bonnypiperlad]

Yes, Eleven absolutely can cheer him on. And he might be happy enough after he'll even return a hug, but no promises there. XD

[neverbeamemory]

Just to put it out there in case there aren't any other bites later on.

If Sephiroth learns there are 6 pieces of this key, that have been given out, he might well keep an eye out for an opportunity to relieve one of them from someone. For leverage reasons.

He's totally a little sore that the City used omnipotent wish-granting devices to hold sway over him before

[bonnypiperlad]

It could definitely be something we could work out one way or another when/if Sephiroth learns about the pieces of the key. I'd think there'd be a reasonable chance about that happening if the post I saw mentioned elsewhere in here does go up, and Jamie does have a tendency to open his mouth and blab about things that he should keep to himself, so if that happens Sephiroth could find out about it that way.

Such Plotting wow

[gordianknots]

Waver is going to suggest a democratic process in order to decide what to do with that wish, and is going to be fairy willing to help oversee the process - especially if there ends up being anything like a ballot or advisory committee. (Waver loves committees, and that isn't sarcasm.) This assumes anyone will approach him about the matter, but yeah.

[chiabrows]

Lamont very well might approach Waver about this because "I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH FOR THIS".

[gordianknots]

"WE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE TOGETHER."

[omnishamble]

what is "democracy"

is it something you can eat

[gordianknots]

goddamnit giggles

[neverbeamemory]

Hahah And Sephiroth will remind him what a mess wishes caused last time.

[gordianknots]

YOU WERE PART OF THE PROBLEM, SEPHIROTH.

PLOTTING.

[omnishamble]

Gilgamesh, noticeably, has won a piece of coin. I am sorry for everyone's losses. He will be very difficult to work with, as "work with" usually isn't in his vocabulary. It is usually "my way or the highway".

That being said, it isn't 100% infallible and he might be swayed with something he views to be of greater value or something of equivalent value that interests him more. It'll have to be good. He isn't interested in the wish, being skeptical to start of "wishing machines", but what he is interested in is how valuable the coin piece is. Because, like all things, it is his. He just can't let anyone have it on the sole principle it is his to have.

SO UH FEEL FREE TO TOSS YOUR THOUGHTS AT ME. Also, yes, feel free to manipulate him through the people closest to him, because sometimes you just gotta lean on assistance to help him be not a garbage excuse for a human being. Broken genetic math god-human. Whatever, you get my drift.

But, yes, if that wasn't clear: if you can't bribe him, manipulate him. I recommend the latter if you're not going to die at his hand there (because he will take it from like two people who will wield his pride against him: DO NOT APPROACH ON THAT OTHERWISE), but the former for everyone else. Depending. A certain touch of reason might also work in your favor.

PLOTTING

[shortafewcircuits]

Archie is more than happy to use her piece to finish the coin if for no other reason than to see what happens. She won't care about the wish all that much until/unless wishing for the internet gets mentioned, then holy duckies is she on that.

If anyone wants Gil's piece to finish the coin they can go the route of convincing Archie to get it from him. Honestly it wouldn't be very hard, she's easy to bribe. |Da

Re: PLOTTING

[gordianknots]

dear archie please make gil stop being a buttface love waver

PLOTTING!

[flashover]

Rin's first thought would be, of course, "send everyone home". Since that is likely to be off the table, his next suggestion will be

"functional computers with internet and games"

no joke.

[gallifreytotrenzalore]

Rin has the best ideas, clearly =D

[slashupontheinternet]

Steve will do an IC post on the 23rd to open up discussion about what to do, so that'll be fun.

Loki would be inclined to try to steal or otherwise obtain everyone's pieces and/or manipulate the whole situation and do the wish himself. If anyone's interested in plotting with me about something like that, let me know?

[neverbeamemory]

Not to say that they might team up but-

Sephiroth will also be very interested in gaining some leverage over this situation himself as well once he learns of the details.

[cantfixtime]

Serah is going to want to wish for people that other people have missed--like for her, it'd be Snow and Lightning, and for Zack, it would be Aerith. I know it won't work, but interesting complications could happen?

She doesn't have a piece, though, but knowing that it can grant a wish might make her pretty desperate. If anyone who has a piece and would bargain with her wants to do so, I'd be open for it.