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V is for Vanity
Percy the Vain Peacock
A peacock too magnificent to play, until the autumn wind takes his tail.
What happens in it
Percy struts and preens while Ruby the robin keeps inviting him to play. Then autumn strips his tail. Twice a level you choose what Percy does, and it plays out.
Choose what he does
Each level has two scenes. Two things Percy could do appear, and you pick one.
Nothing is timed and there is no going back - whichever you pick plays out.
Both right in a level is three stars, one is two, neither is one.
Tap a card, or use the left and right arrow keys.
The three levels
- The Stream Reflection — Strutting Down the Trail, then Hours at the Stream
- The Autumn Shed — The Stripped Feathers, then The Cold Meadow
- The Kind Heart — Learning to Share the Fun, then The Spring Bloom
Why vanity is one of the twenty-six
Sing Me a Fable is an alphabet of faults, one for every letter, from Aggression to Zealotry. V is vanity, and this is the playable half of that fable: the child makes the choice the animal makes, and watches what it costs. Nobody explains the moral afterwards, which is the whole point of a fable and the reason the form has lasted two and a half thousand years.
Every letter has one: twenty-six fables, twenty-six faults, twenty-six games. See the whole arcade, or take the twenty-six colouring posters and Find the Error sheets free.
