longsufferance | [Day 324] Turn-in

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? 'Course we did! These are the kinds of games that Coral enjoys the most.

What did you give:

- MAGIC WITH GLITTERY APPLES (Kit's Gift Only)
- An offer of a watergun fight with every team (a gift from the entirety of Coral)

What did you keep:

- Coral edible glitter and Coral pink edible paint
- WATERGUNS

Did you meet anyone new:

- Shinji, gift of FRIENDSHIP AND GOOD CONVERSATION? (if that counts)
- Thunder, also gift of FRIENDSHIP AND GOOD CONVERSATION

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? I like squirting people in the face with water guns so of course. It's easy to make this kind of thing fun.

What did you give: A WATERGUN FIGHT TO EVERYONE (including the persona :|)
What did you keep: The waterguns that everyone used, but I don't plan on keeping them after the game. I already have my own. Someone else can have 'em.
Did you meet anyone new: n/a

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? It was oodles of fun heading around and offering the promise of hope and apples to others. With so much going on, sometimes it's quite difficult not to let the bad feelings-stuff take over! The more we give and get to know people, the better we can make everything!

What did you give:
Apples & seeds to all teams!

To the Lady Tree, trying to spread seeds
To the Personae, trying to spread seeds
To Camelot, THE POSSIBILITY OF THE APPLE ORCHARD??
Eventually, to everyone, APPLE PARTY!!

What did you keep: Just ate some apples with Shinji (probably a three or four), and cleaned the seeds from them. Oh, yes, and a few leaves to wrap up the seeds.
Did you meet anyone new: Shinji, gave him some fun time to chow on some apples; Aqua, gave her the promise of exchanging a story; Clara, sharing the gift of the tart and the wine; The Giving Tree, seed planting, hopefully.

Edited 2014-02-22 22:50 (UTC)

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? Yeah, I did! I liked seeing all the things people came up with, and I really liked how you set it up. Uh, and it's always fun working with Loki. He's one of my closest friends here, and we work well together.

What did you give: Loki and Scott came up with the idea to spread seeds around so that we could grow trees and have an apple party when it was all over. A party that everyone was excited about.

Links helpfully provided by Loki since there are a lot.
What did you keep: Potential friendship! With Shinji, anyway. That's what Scott's aiming for.
Did you meet anyone new: Shinji. The Giving Tree. All for this game. Scott's really into meeting new personae.

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? Star did! It was great and fun and Star got to give gifts to people! Hard to figure out what to give people, though... But, if you liked it, and she liked it, it's all good!

What did you give: Star gave some ... frog cell-phone strap thing to Amaranth and her ribbons to the Giving Tree
What did you keep: Everything Star asked for from the tree was given to someone else.
Did you meet anyone new: No one (Amaranth could maybe count, but I... wouldn't count it as "giving something of yourself")

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out?
It was nice for a game. I don't mind getting the chance to give nice things to people. I know some people were bothered that people were doing it just for a game. But I think the ends trumps the means here.

What did you give:
Apple bunnies, delicious apple tarts in the shape of puppies, beads with each of the Citrine members' names and vanilla milkshakes to all team members and to every team. This was on behalf of Citrine.

(Only including teams that were actually threaded with)
- Coral
- Ruby
- Iolite
- Emerald
- Turquoise
- Sapphire
- Jasper
- Peridot

On behalf of himself, Thorn gave his patience to both Dragonfly and Wing, the first when asked to let him try to push him over and the second, when asked to let her put make-up on him. He also gave a carving lesson to Ritsuka.

Citrine also gave a thank you note to the Tree, delivered by Thorn.

What did you keep:
Ritsuka wanted to keep the other teams' gifts to them so they did. Everything else was given away or returned to the Tree. I guess he kept the start of his new friendships?

Did you meet anyone new: Skypunch, Yuuko, Sangria, Amaranth, Spring, Shinji; he gave most of them his name and his take on their names, as well as insight about their teams' past

Edited 2014-02-22 23:56 (UTC)

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out?Mm, I'm glad! I enjoyed it a lot . . . it was a lot of fun working with Thorn. He was very kind, and knew a lot about Citrine and what was important to us.

What did you give: Apple bunnies, delicious apple tarts in the shape of puppies, beads with each of the Citrine members' names and vanilla milkshakes to all team members and to every team. Vanilla was important because it's Kuroko's favourite, and the beads—they're something that my teammates started doing, to remember important teammates that have gone away . . . they help us keep our memories of each other.
What did you keep: We kept the gifts that other people gave us, and I want to bring them back to share with my teammates that couldn't be here! I think they'd like them.
Did you meet anyone new: Mm, I met Thorn! Like I said . . . I think that was the best thing. He taught me to carve a little, and was very kind, and knew things about Citrine that were really thoughtful . . . I want to talk to him again outside the game, so thank you for giving us the opportunity . . .

[Thorn & Ritsuka also wrote and signed a thank you note to the Tree!]

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? Of course I did! Playing together and meeting everyone is the most important thing to me! I got to talk to my teammates and learn more about them! Most important of all, we got to spend time together! That's the most valuable part of all!

I also wanted to think of things that would make the other teams happy. I knew Carnelian as a whole would be practical and I wanted to use the apples you so graciously gave us. So I made faces on them! And they're still edible because all the others have to do is take off the peels. So they're cute and practical. Flowers were also a must because who doesn't love flowers?! Cute and Carnelian, that was my goal!

I made certain not to ask for anything from my newest friend, the persona who ran the game! Well... after the art supplies and flowers! Because what we give should be from our heart and we were having too much fun playing and having fun! I plan to make all of the rest of the gifts on my own as well.

Let's play together again sometime soon!

What did you give: (I am not linking to all of them because sanity and he posted to everyone).
All teams got cute faces on apples and some apple blossoms!
Sapphire received an IOU for a piano recital
Thunder received a picture??? It's nice???
Peridot will get cupcakes and a new journal! And an invitation to a watergun fight!
Coral gets a poster of their team animals! Also a watergun invitation1
He gave the Giving Tree the gift of friendship and playtime
What did you keep: Everything he asked for he gave away! Ecept he kept her friendship because well, yes.
Did you meet anyone new: Thunder, Clara, Rena, Shino

Edited 2014-02-22 21:50 (UTC)

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? I enjoyed it more than the others I've played in. It feels like we had a bit more control on what we could do so if we do win, it's because of our own efforts. If we don't, we can accept the loss. And either way, someone receives a gift from us that they might possibly enjoy so there really is no real "loss" involved. It was fine.

What did you give: A survivor kit. It had a reusable clay bottle for drinks and a first aid kid, wrapped in a leather bag that can be re-used. One for each team.
What did you keep: Nothing. I gave whatever I asked for. The purpose was to give after all.
Did you meet anyone new: N/A

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? It was fun! I think the idea of giving things, and thinking of things to make other people happy, is a great one—and I think a competition always gives people even more drive and energy to do their best. It was fun seeing people get so into what they were doing! Thanks to the game, I was able to meet a lot of new people, and find out more about who they are and the kinds of things they like.

Everyone came up with such nice and thoughtful gifts that I almost feel a little outclassed, though! But if everyone's at least happy with what I could think of, then I'm glad...

What did you give:
Two little charms, one shaped like a lightning bolt and one shaped like a little first, to Turquoise
Seven water guns to Carnelian
Some blue popsicles, the kind that you can split apart and share with someone else, to Jasper
A thank you card for the game to the Giving Tree
What did you keep:
Nine water guns, one for each member of Peridot
Did you meet anyone new:
Star on Jasper
Thunder on Turquoise
Thorn on Sterling
Venus Star Flare on Carnelian

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? It was different from what I was expecting and I don't usually do things like this, since I haven't met a lot of people yet. It made me glad, to try to think of something the other teams could like that also represented Peridot and meant something to me at the same time. But I think I managed it and it was thanks to Amaranth, too, since we could talk it over first.

Thank you for letting us to this, Ringo.

What did you give: Fresh water for the Tree. And to every single team (except for Tiger's Eye, Heliodor and Amethyst), Shino gave them this:

A wooden cat face-shaped plate with a ridiculously-shaped apples on top (it was obvious the attempt was to make a bunny, but it didn't go that well), along with two apples dipped in chocolate and two more dark caramel apples decorated to look like cats. Under the plate, Shino is carrying a box that contains seven French pastries.

And to The Tree: Fresh water.

What did you keep: A box with French pastries and one of two decorated apples he made with the intention to give one to each member of Peridot.

Did you meet anyone new: RINGO THE TREE (it counts), Spring on Turquoise, Tamaki on Carnelian, Solar on Carnelian and Skypunch on Turquoise.

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out?
Happy as you like. As games go, it wasn't so hard. There was plenty to go around. I met a bunch of folks I hadn't seen before, so there's that. Two birds, one stone, really.

And the tree is quite lovely.

What did you give:
Every team got the same, one pitcher of sangria and an apple tart, which Sasuke was a sweet enough dear to make for me. Since I didn't know anyone very well, everyone got something that said something about us. Best I could do.

What did you keep:
Since I'm the only body here from Emerald, I'm keeping two of the pitchers of sangria and two of the tarts.

Did you meet anyone new:
Thunder, Skypunch, Thorn, Shirayuki, Selenia, Loki, Dragonfly, Shinji.

Edited 2014-02-22 23:51 (UTC)

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? Yes...very much so. I enjoyed thinking of ways to turn a simple gift into something personal. And I enjoyed seeing everyone's different gifts and talents put to use. I only got here awhile ago, so...I hadn't met many people. But now I have, and I'm happy for it. Friends are so important.

Also, I had fun climbing in your branches...

What did you give: *Note: Aqua and Thunder worked together on these (and Korra provided late in the game support!!), so they're from the whole team 'u'
- Sapphire: a handmade key-shaped good luck charm, with apple blossoms attached to it, and several apples.
- Emerald: two apples shined by Aqua, gotten from the top of the Giving Tree
- Peridot: a handmade key-shaped good luck charm, made to look as cute as possible, and several apples with cute faces.
- Carnelian: a handmade key-shaped bookmark!
- Iolite: a handmade key-shaped good luck charm
- Citrine: a handmade key-shaped good luck charm
- Ruby: a handmade key-shaped good luck charm
- Kunzite: a handmade key-shaped good luck charm
- Amethyst: a hot dog in the shape of a key (.....), with several apples!
- Coral: a handmade key-shaped good luck charm
- Jasper: a handmade key-shaped good luck charm
- Tiger's Eye and Heliodor received the same good luck charm, even though they didn't play :|a
What did you keep:
- Aqua asked for twine! But used it all making gifts.
- She also asked to climb the Giving Tree, so I suppose even though she eventually took apples from the top of the tree, she kept that experience for herself...
Did you meet anyone new: Sangria, Loki, Luna, Thorn, Shino!

Edited 2014-02-22 22:44 (UTC)

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? Yeah, sure!! It was really cool, it's my first day here so I got to meet lots of people! You sure are good with thinking games, tree-thing! Oh, yeah, by the way, I'm Thunder! Nice meeting ya too!! Anyway, Skypunch-sun and I seriously gave it our best! She decided we should do a good-luck charm, so we got key-shaped ones, and I asked for info to all the teams I could. And! Then we made the keys shaped with whatever it was they liked. It was nice! I think Skypunch-san had a lot of fun, too! Our presents were really thought out so they definitely where the best!

Anyway, cool game, let's do it again sometime!

What did you give: See Aqua's survey
What did you keep: NOTHING!! I didn't need anything anyway!
Did you meet anyone new: Amaranth, Eureka, Sangria, Kit, Selenia, Tamaki

WE EXCHANGED INFORMATION!!

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? I got here kind of late, but I still got to have a lot of fun. What's not cool about exchanging gifts?

What did you give: See Aqua's survey!
What did you keep: I didn't need to take anything!
Did you meet anyone new: Thorn and Iris

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out?
You already know the answer to that. I told you I'd tell you about friendship and giving so here it is.

Giving isn't something you do because you want to make someone happy. I mean, yeah, in the end you wanna choose something that they'll like. If you give them something like socks and they don't like them then it's a bit of waste. You can't just give people things and accept it to make them happy. That's just dumb. There's some things you can't give people.

And if you want people to be happy and your friend then you should figure out what makes 'em happy. Like I could've told you flying and Quidditch are what make me have fun, but you don't have to give them to me to make me happy. You couldn't anyway, so it's a bit stupid to think you could.

Not to mention, if you're just giving things away cause they ask for it you're not helping them or yourself. Eventually you'll lose everything won't you? And what happens when you give it all away, eh? Then you can't make 'em happy and you're both at a loss. You can't just give people things to make other people happy, either. A real gift is something you made or had to earn for yourself. Just giving things to them without them doing that's not really letting them give presents at all.

Playing in a game for this is dumb, too. I told you that already, but you're making 'em give for something they want. If you want them to learn about giving and give presents do it outside of a game, yeah? 'Cause everyone's just gonna play to win this way. At least I would if I could, but I didn't 'cause I think the idea's dumb.

Real friendship doesn't mean you need to give stuff away. And giving isn't something you do for rewards or by someone else's generosity. That's my point.

If you really wanna make me happy take the time to get to know us and then give us presents. But think for yourself while you do it, yeah?

If you learn at least this much then I'll consider it okay.

...You can't force people to make friends in a game, too. 'Cause then it's sort of the same as the giving issue.
What did you give: Not really. The best I could say is the gift of friendship. I think some people would say that's the most important thing of all, but I don't think something like that's supposed to be a gift. 'Cause it's something you both want, right? And saying it's a gift to be around someone's dumb, too. It's like saying you only want to be around 'em as something special to them and friends do it willingly.

(Apple will be dragging him around for the gift of friendship.)

What did you keep: I didn't keep anything. I didn't ask for anything, so there was nothing to keep. I'm not comfortable accepting gifts from people in this game so if my teammates did then it's on them. But I'd rather do gifts later.
Did you meet anyone new:
Eureka, Luna

Edited 2014-02-22 22:01 (UTC)

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out?
Gryffindor probably said it better than I could...Uhm, but I must say that I enjoy things like this. It's nice to see everyone giving things to each other even if it is for a prize at the end. Even if you know they might get something out of it, it's nice to give and receive gifts--or that's how it seems to me. It's a little tricky though, because within the context of a game it can't ever be the kind of giving you'd want it to be...And it seemed to me that you just wanted to get to know everyone, so there wasn't much reason to be giving gifts in the first place. You just get to know people. For me that was enough.

What did you give: We gave everyone (meaning ALL THE TEAMS) the "gift of friendship", since it seemed like the only thing we could give from ourselves in this situation.
Jasper is a little confused by the friendship
Ruby, Turquoise, and Citrine were all pleased with their gift.
Talking about the game and friendship with Skypunch, which is relevant because it's cute
What did you keep: We didn't keep anything? Uhm, we didn't ask for anything, so I couldn't say if there was something to keep. Quite a few people were nice enough to bring over snacks as gifts and I'd like to share those with everyone later, but that's all.
Did you meet anyone new: I met you, the Tree! At least formally, since I didn't get your name before. And I met Sangria on Emerald; I did talk to the others that I could, but I already knew everyone else present so I don't think it was possible to meet anyone new.

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out?

My teammates already expressed their opinions on this matter and I don't feel that they are necessarily in the wrong. However, I personally felt that your gesture for this game was meant to inspire kindness. In the interest of respecting your intentions and your own kindness, I decided to use the game as an opportunity to gift a few friends and I thank you for offering me the means to easily do so.

As for how happy I am with the game...I admit I'm surprised that we've been targeted with so much relentless kindness. I'm sure a few were primarily interested in winning the game, but I am pleased to see that most have simply used it as a way to enjoy themselves, make others happy and also make a few new friends in the meantime.

What did you give:

❀ Apples, apple blossoms and star-pattern hair ribbons to Jasper
❀ Sheet music for Carnelian
❀ Mystery cabbage for Turquoise...
❀ Apples, apple blossoms, sheet music and a few toy blocks for Kunzite

What did you keep:

From the other teams, I would like to keep the gifts offered to us, especially those specifically designed with Sapphire in mind. I enjoy receiving presents from friends and I imagine they'd also be unhappy if I turned around and gave it away.

As for you, you've already helped me with my injuries after the last battle and your presence is a comfort. You've also been an excellent help in this game. I don't feel that I would need to ask you for more than what you've already freely offered, and so I have kept nothing for myself.

Did you meet anyone new:

I did meet Thunder as part of a discussion on what to give him, but I'm afraid he beat me to the punch in terms of giving and my teammates also managed to offer him friendship first. In terms of offering a meaningful gift, I 'lost' the race. However, I was able to offer his team cabbage and I'm trusting Hail to prepare it properly for them, which makes it a gift that will give itself twice over.

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out?

I did enjoy myself. It was a charming game, and I hope that everyone was able to enjoy getting to be creative and giving.

What did you give: S-Shh, tiny girl did it.
What did you keep: Nothing.
Did you meet anyone new: Nope . . .

Mayu

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out?

I would have to say I enjoyed it, yes. I'm happy with how it turned out, though I'm a bit... disappointed that I couldn't do makeup for more people.

What did you give: Wing did makeup for Diamond and Thorn.
What did you keep: Most of the perfume and makeup is still around, though not for lack of trying.
Did you meet anyone new: Diamond. I think that's about the only one that counts for it, and she's on the same team, so...

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out?

I did not mind this game, and I am happy with how the game turned out.

What did you give: Neapolitan ice-cream, bowls, and spoons for each team for each member including legacy characters as well as for knights. (Example.)
Apple bunnies and a rose shaped apple tart for Nagisa.
Apple tarts for Shino.
Vanilla milkshakes for Skypunch.
Apple with a face and wooden beads with Citrine names on it for Amaranth.
Apple with a face for Thunder.

What did you keep: Nothing.
Did you meet anyone new: Skypunch, Thunder. (But she gave her name as something personal, ha...haha...)

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? This seemed like a really nice, kindhearted game. It would be good if lots of games turned out to be like this since it was my first one!

What did you give: A cloth bag containing cored apples, seeds, and a clay bottle of water!
What did you keep: Nothing, I just had things to give away.
Did you meet anyone new: Mayu, Loki, Kasamatsu.

Did you enjoy yourselves? Are you happy with how this game turned out? I . . . didn't dislike it? I'm not really sure. I'd like to be able to do things like be helpful to teams, and be selfless, and give things to others. But it's hard. Anything we could think of to give, I was thinking, am I doing things because I want to, or because I just want to win? And the people that are giving things to me—do they really mean it? . . . I like the idea. And I'd like to give and receive things . . . because I want to. I'm sorry if I couldn't do it the way that you wanted me to.

What did you give: I tried to just . . . tell people a little bit about myself, and my feelings about the game. I don't really have anything I could give away, or make. If I gave something like an apple—that wouldn't be as valuable, I think. It would be just giving something for the sake of it, that wasn't really mine to give. So whatever I had—I guess that was just my desire to actually meet people. I gave them my name—and that it was nice to meet them. And sometimes we talked about what we felt about this—so I thought that was the best I could do.
What did you keep: I didn't keep anything.
Did you meet anyone new: I tried to meet someone from every team. I met Kaito-san from Coral, who was very kind. Dragonfly-san from Coral helped me before, so I was happy to see him again. He called me his friend . . . I think that would be nice. Loki-san from Ruby was very enthusiastic and invited me to eat with him. Scott-san is another knight that was playing with Ruby as well . . . I'm happy to have spoken with him again. I'd like to get to know him better . . . we spoke about what we thought about this game, so I thought that was valuable. I met someone on Jasper that was very friendly, and told her that I had spoken with her teammate Swift several times—I'd like . . . to be friends with him, I think, though I'm not sure if he wants to. Leia-san was there too, another knight that I already know. Zero-san was playing with Citrine, and I met Solar-san and another Carnelian as well. The Peridot I met seemed to be having fun with the game, and I met Sangria-san and Sasuke, an Onyx, playing with Emerald. Turquoise I met for the first time, and Sapphire had two people I had met previously, but who were very kind to me again. Iolite as well, and Kunzite . . . well, someone very important to me is on Kunzite, so . . .

Ah . . . I wonder if I was able to give them anything at all? But I tried at least to . . . give everyone a chance? I'd like to meet them and do my best. Mm—so I suppose, thank you very much for the chance. I will try to do my best to work with everyone.

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