Nonsense word – “Fulaya”
- IS IT DIURNAL OR NOCTURNAL?
AM: Diurnal
SC: Diurnal
HC: Crepuscular
JF: Diurnal - IS IT FAVOURABLE TO LOVE?
AM: It is favorable to love!
SC: Yes
HC: Definitely not, and it is offended by the question.
JF: Yes - IS IT CAPABLE OF METAMORPHOSES?
AM: Yes
SC: Only under a green sky
HC: It is continuously metamorphosing
JF: Absolutely. It changes the wind. - WHAT ERA IS IT FROM?
AM: 1920s
SC: 1930s
HC: The future era closest to the sun’s supernova
JF: The Aeon of pthalomandrius - WHAT ELEMENT IS IT?
AM: It is an element of motion. of pure energy.
SC: Water
HC: Slime
JF: Air - HOW DOES IT DIE?
AM: At death it fades away slowly, dissipating its energy to surrounding beings.
SC: Lost in a mole’s burrow, it starves
HC: It dies every time it ends.
JF: It evaporates - WHAT ILLNESS DOES IT CALL TO MIND?
AM: Calls to mind an illness causing anxiety…in the legs.
SC: Water-sickness
HC: Bubonic plague or else anything involving boils
JF: Oversaturated skin magnets - WHAT PART OF THE WORLD DOES IT LIVE IN?
AM: Coastal Caribbean
SC: Brazil, or thereabouts
HC: The equator, which it constantly travels along.
JF: Everywhere, in the air - WHAT MIGHT ITS PROFESSION BE?
AM: Dancer. Or perhaps an extremely rapid waiter or sandwich-maker.
SC: Counter of beans in a white cloak
HC: Clerk or calligrapher
JF: Bridge Consultant (after it happens to them) - IN WHAT MATERIAL DO YOU SEE IT WRAPPED?
AM: Sachets, tropical leaves, shiny fabric or silk.
SC: Transparent plastic wrap
HC: A mud and saliva nest
JF: Molten tinsel, aged, and pounded to dust after hardening for 7 years. - HOW WOULD YOU KILL IT?
AM: By ignoring it, by not letting it connect with you.
SC: Remove its dreams
HC: Talk over it
JF: By ignoring its song - HOW DOES IT GET AROUND?
AM: It travels along sound vibrations and electromagnetic radiation.
SC: Flies, flutters, floats
HC: It scuttles on its wavelimbs
JF: Flights on abstract breezes. - WHAT SCENT GOES WITH IT?
AM: Almonds, humidity, good cooking.
SC: Fruity, vaguely mango scent
HC: Ambergris and mugwort smoke
JF: Burnt wood from a fire last night mixed with a parent’s cologne you smelled as a child
Word in a language not understood by participants – “Namazu”
- IS IT DIURNAL OR NOCTURNAL?
AM: Nocturnal
SC: Nocturnal
HC: Nocturnal, but only wakes every other night.
JF: There is no sun where it lives… moot question. - IS IT FAVOURABLE TO LOVE?
AM: It is favorable to love. But love must be earned.
SC: Not very, somewhat irritable towards love
HC: Yes, but only when its sleeping.
JF: It is indifferent. - IS IT CAPABLE OF METAMORPHOSES?
AM: It’s not capable of metamorphosis.
SC: Yes, but each time it gets smaller and contains less light.
HC: No, it is solidified and has been for years.
JF: Yes. But only when death is on the line… - WHAT ERA IS IT FROM?
AM: It came into being in the 1600s.
SC: 1940-1960
HC: 1890’s
JF: Before we knew… - WHAT ELEMENT IS IT?
AM: Rock element with flowing water within.
SC: Earth
HC: Earth/Stone
JF: Metallic ore - HOW DOES IT DIE?
AM: At the end of its life, it cracks open and from it flows a stream.
SC: Plane crash
HC: It is broken into syllables and scattered.
JF: It doesn’t - WHAT ILLNESS DOES IT CALL TO MIND?
AM: A sudden and mildly painful loss of the knuckles.
SC: Viral diamond shattering.
HC: Eczema or leprosy or dandruff, something crusty.
JF: Bloomsfield-Jordson Syndrome - WHAT PART OF THE WORLD DOES IT LIVE IN?
AM: At the edge of the Arctic.
SC: Arctic
HC: The Mariana Trench
JF: The center of a ball of hot stuff. - WHAT MIGHT ITS PROFESSION BE?
AM: Brick wall builder, or maybe teacher.
SC: Burner of overcooked steaks
HC: Fish cake pounder or pharmacist addicted to drugs
JF: There are no professions there… - IN WHAT MATERIAL DO YOU SEE IT WRAPPED?
AM: A moss fabric, dark green and soft.
SC: Yarn
HC: Wax paper first and then phylo dough
JF: Rock - HOW WOULD YOU KILL IT?
AM: Throw it off a cliff. Or scream at it intensely till it cracks.
SC: Hit over the head with mallet or anvil.
HC: With a strong wind.
JF: Again, it doesn’t die… - HOW DOES IT GET AROUND?
AM: It rolls itself around, but only when nobody is looking.
SC: Miniaturized Airplane
HC: It rolls, but can only go downhill.
JF: Words fail here, I cannot explain. - WHAT SCENT GOES WITH IT?
AM: Pine, freshness, mint
SC: Decay and rot
HC: Meat roasting on a campfire
JF: The smell of asphalt after a summer rain. - WHAT COLOR IS IT?
AM: Dark grey
SC: Greenish grey
HC: Dark purpley maroon
JF: Speckled gray with streaks of orange.
[ Namazu was translated after the game, and discovered to mean Catfish in Japanese.]
