Two gold spheres

 written for the Golden Cobra Challenge 2024

In a village in Pondicherry, climate change had brought a particularly sharp and sudden winter. A golden-eyed cobra found itself numbed by the cold in the middle of a path.

A young girl arrived and, far from being frightened by the animal, took pity on it, tucking it into her bosom to warm it.

As the reptile awakens from its torpor, they have a conversation of whispers and gentleness.

And in the morning, the village was resounding with cries.

“I'm like this, no one can change me” says the snake. And who will judge it?

This game is designed for a vacation in a shared rental, but can also be played during an ordinary week, or an evening with friends. To play with dozens of people, you'll need extra security.

We're going to play a game that blends into our ordinary lives, creating little bubbles of interaction like fables or moments from a myth, in the manner of a wonderful Alternate Reality Game. The game is made up of imaginary spheres: one bubble acts as a boundary to the outside, and another is created inside.

Outside, there's an imaginary world, “the fiction of the outside”, which you build together by inventing wonderful details. The game suggests ways of finding your own “outside fiction”.

Inside, some of you will play a Cobra, a character shrouded in mystery and legend. Cobras have a secret power.

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