This is a ridiculous quesiton and Eefa does not understand why she is being asked it.

They're willing to drop it if she doesn't want to talk about it. Will she play a storytelling game where you get cards with pictures on them and are supposed to tell a story involving all the things on your cards, for points?

... She'll try it, sure.

She gets an arcball and a rabbit and a glass of orange juice and a rainbow. She can trade in one card for another for free, and for points after that, according to the rules.

"A rabbit had a glass of orange juice and pretended there was a rainbow. I don't know what this other one is."

"It's an arcball. You can trade it in for a new card if you want."

Sure, she can do that.

The new card is a necklace.

"And the rabbit is wearing a necklace."

What happens next?

She gets a point for each element from her cards used in her story, and no points for having a beginning, middle, and end, and no points for her story being exciting, funny, or creative. Now it's Chioss's turn. Chioss gets a book, a candle, a tree, and a ladle, and tells a story about somebody bringing a candle out to read in their favorite spot under the tree with the candle sitting in the bowl of the ladle so the wax doesn't get on the roots. Eefa and Mikko get to decide which points to award her together.

"How many points are there?"

"As many as we award."

"And then they run out?"

"Well, when we stop awarding points it's because the game is over. But then we can award some more next time we play."

Hrm.

Eefa would like to award Chioss so many points in that case.

"I don't think Chioss's story was really exciting," ventures Mikko. "It's pretty hard to make up a story that's exciting and funny and creative."

"If we can give her that point I want to."

"Well, we can, but I'm not sure it would be honest."

Eefa is so confused.

"The points are supposed to be for what things are true about the story, not for how much we like Chioss or want her to do well."

Eefa screws up her face, evidentlly thinking really hard. She's silent for a bit.

"Why?"

"Chioss will be fine even if she doesn't get full points. It's part of the game, which we're all playing for fun, to score the stories based on how they are, not based on other things."

"Oh."

She's seen people doing what might be this?

"I don't know if anyone's asked me to play a game for fun before."

"That's what games are usually for, at least here."

Hm, she hasn't played many games at all really.

She can try to have fun. She still wants to award Chioss the points though.