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[Your room today is that of a cozy statesman’s meeting office, with a round table to sit at and a cheap coffee maker with those cookies you find in libraries sometimes on a small serving desk in the corner. The table is emblazoned with a very stately looking flag with a Cat featured prominently on it. Christmas decorations abound all around the room. There’s even a Christmas tree in the corner! Wow, that tinsel looks pretty innocuous, doesn’t it? It’s so pretty and red… wait isn’t it traditionally supposed to be silver? Oh well.]

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[On the table is a tablet which is powered on to some kind of selection screen and a sealed letter, containing the rules of the game once opened and read:]

Welcome to the Christmas Contraband game, Wisps. As you should (but probably don’t) know, the setting of this game is that of a world where Christmas is outlawed. You control the great nation of CATLAND. However, the children of your nation still know what Christmas is, and they want things which can only be acquired through… less than legal channels. As Heads of State, this means it’s your job to acquire those presents for your own children, or else you face termination. However, you also need to prevent breaches in your own economy. That means you’re also going to be acting as a customs inspector to stop other countries from stealing presents from your country.

The rules are simple: The tablet in your room has two fields to fill out. The first is how many presents you will be attempting to smuggle from the other country. You can choose any number between 0 and 10 presents, and this will be your ‘attacking’ number. Below that is how many you will be searching for. You can either call ‘pass’ to allow everything through, or call ‘doubt’ for a number between 1 and 10 presents. Now then, on to the possible results of smuggling and catching smugglers.

PASS: The smuggler is successful! Their nation adds however many presents they attempted to smuggle to their score. If none were taken, then no points are gained.

DOUBT # EQUALS OR EXCEEDS # OF PRESENTS SMUGGLED: The smuggler is caught! All presents the smuggling nation attempted to take go to the inspector’s nation, giving them the points instead.

DOUBT VS 0 PRESENTS SMUGGLED: The smuggler was actually innocent! In order to avoid a nasty international incident, the inspector will have to pay restitution. Half of the amount of what was doubted is deducted from the inspector nation’s score and given to the smuggler. This amount is always rounded down to a minimum of 1 (so if DOUBT 9 is called, you would lose 4 points and they would gain 4 points).

DOUBT # IS LESS THAN # OF PRESENTS SMUGGLED: The smuggler successfully sneaks the presents by and manages to feign innocence. Their nation adds however many presents they attempted to smuggle to their score. In addition, Half the amount of what was doubted is deducted from the inspector nation’s score and given to the smuggler.in restitution for the ‘incorrect claim,’ as above.

You have until the timer on the tablet reaches 0 to enter your choices. Please note that once finalized, these choices cannot be changed. If no choice is made within the time available, your move will be considered 0 presents smuggled/PASS

Edited 2014-12-20 23:55 (UTC)

Your tablet’s heading changes. ‘Now engaged in dealings with: Tigertown’

You have until 7:45 pm EST to turn in! Please make clear how many (if any) presents your nation is smuggling, as well as either PASS or DOUBT and the number of presents being called.

...It's just me? That's new.

SMUGGLE 10
DOUBT 6

A lack of rabbits necessitated an extra team to keep things even.

Of course, this means you will only be winning for yourself.

That's perfectly fine. I'll do my best to understand your lesson.

Hi.

Oh, hello! It's good to see you - I was worried I'd have to play the whole game alone.

Kind of a weird game, isn't it?

It's ridiculous. I don't have the slightest idea what Akasha is pretending to teach us.

That she's bad at math? I mean, when you get down to it... There's no point in doing anything but 0s or 10s.

Probably. I don't expect this to be a very exciting game.

Well, if we win, this will be my first memory back, so I'm pretty anxious to.

Let's do our best. Though I'm sure you'll have plenty of chances to win memories even if we lose this one.

I've got some ideas, yeah. We have those pendants with the funny powers, right?

That's right. I've never needed to use mine, actually.

Edited 2014-12-21 00:44 (UTC)

I figure we can just use that paralysis power on people and not let them go until they ask for a quest. Get stuff back right quick that way.

...You know the Queen can take those powers away if we abuse them, right?

It's not abuse, it's proactive problem solving!

3 ominously-wrapped presents with shiny, inklike black wrapping and sanguine red bows are currently on your nation’s table! They cannot be opened at this time.

...Did one of them just shake? No. That can’t be right. Just your imagination.

Your tablet’s heading changes. ‘Now engaged in dealings with: Goatopia’

Also, a status update has appeared in its notifications...

You have until 8:45 pm EST to turn in! Please make clear how many (if any) presents your nation is smuggling, as well as either PASS or DOUBT and the number of presents being called.

I highly doubt the Queen would see it that way.

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