...played the rabbit ears on herself, saying: "I have no idea how the game recognises the effect of the cards. So i play this rabbit ears on myself, to be aware of coming dangers, and to see how the game is working!" She smiled, and tugged on her token. "It stucks on the board!", she said in curiosity. Them display showed some text: "Wait for card effect takes place. Move token by pointing on the next hex you want to go afterwards."
Mary laughed: "Why does this stupid game does not tell me how i can have the effect of the cards? If it is some kind of roleplaying as Ryan plays everytime, i want to know my charakteristics."
Ryan just wanted to agree, as he looked at Mary and froze in mid-sentence. All the others were just looking, too. "whats up?" asked Mary, and scratched her right ear because it itched. Shocked, she froze in her movement, asking the others: "No, you can´t tell me this is happening. You can´t tell me!" Her friends nodded their heads in unison.
Mary shrieked, and jumped up to look at herself in her mirror. Her ears were covered with fine, white hairs, and lenghtening to about thirty centimeters, while they moved upwards on the top of her head. The young woman looked at her reflection and grabbed both ears with her hands. "They are real! I can hear everything much clearer now!" She turned back to the game.
"It is frightening me!" said Dina. "I don´t want to play this game!" Everyone agreed. Mary asked Tobi: "How can i change my ears back, if we end the game?" While he was reading, there was silence in the room. Then he looked up, and touched the display with his fingers.
The display said: "You have to finish the game. Otherwise, the world of the game affects you constantly in your daily life. After winning the game, every player may make the modification he bears permanent, by taking away as many negative side effects, as the group won levels. If you end the game loosing, only one modification becomes randomly permanent."
"What does it mean, that our life is affected by the game constantly?", asked Bob. Lissy guessed: "It is a game of change. That can only mean that we change constantly, but without beeing able to prevent it..."
All young peopla sat silently around the game again. Dina sat right to Mary, and touched her ears softly. "They feel nice. I am frightened, but i wonder how it is to have them!"
Mary smiled helpless and asked: "Do we continue playing now?"
Everyone said: ...