RAYA E5 - Spine

Ideas

• “The gem isn’t a weapon!” Well now it really is made into weapons, and actually helps against Druun.
• Spine does need their super-staff to survive, and are willing to give it up on Sisu’s authenticity
• Jianzi ↗ / đá cầu / sipa / capteh
  • except it’s like combat juggling
  • each team has to keep “alive” their dacau, whilst trying to take down the other teams’
  • maybe they have three each, and can use them to hit others out of the air
    • the lighter women are launched into the air to spike opponents’ balls out
  • soft combat is allowed!
  • there’s a 2m deep pond in the center of the arena
    • Spine players abuse Raya not willing to cross into the pond
    • Raya must admit her fear of water,
      • or maybe be willing to stand underwater to boost her shorter teammates like Noi to land a spike
  • Namaari brings chilis from Fang to help with the cold
• lol one of those doors with an eye slider, where you have to answer a prompt with the correct passphrase
• they don’t believe in dragons lol
• Raya’s the avatar of the worst traits of the five nations lol
  • Old Kumandra
    • copycat
    • at first, they were all nice, and reciprocal
    • then when Namaari started cheating,
    • Raya (and Kumandra) copycats, always being untrusting from now on
  • Tail: generally untrusting
    • doubt enemies
    • always cheat?
  • Talon: false deception
    • doubt friends
    • coop once – then cheat
    • repeat interactions
  • Spine: indifferent independence
    • doubt everyone (after once?)
    • grudger
    • will take handouts but won’t give
    • forever stuck in non-cooperation
    • needs to learn the non-zero sum game — if you don’t help others, they can’t help you, and you need help
  • Heart: champion conspiring
    • trust everyone?
    • always cooperate?
  • Fang: ruthless, internal trust
    • always cheat?—nah it gotta be more complex than that at this final stage
• they find a water redirection
  • Raya takes twice as long to find all river ends, because of all the redirection
• Spine stubborn self-ness
  • Spine tribe chief with the Spear, fighting Druun
  • gets injured, can’t fight effectively
  • Raya or another MC asks for the Spear to fight for him and save him
    • Raya wouldn’t have any artefacts of her own, at this point
  • Spine chief stubbron, throws the spear out into the forest, gets lost
    • gets petrified
  • Now they gotta find lost artefact
• ends with Namaari arriving, surrendering the stolen keris as a peace treaty. But Raya doesn’t trust her.