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Tiamat

[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 Dragon 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 DRAGONVILLE. 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

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

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.

[rude, game, starting while I'm in the middle of being glad my teammate is back]

Snaketo-- Takshaka!

Which color of team is that?

Purple! Er, more purple than our purple.

Did you know Wren? Nightingale? Sparrow? They're on Takshaka.

Mmm, no, I don't think I met any of them before I left.

But I did see a couple people in a different purple! A boy with orange horns and a girl with cat ears.

Are they friends of yours?

The guy with horns is Wren. The cat girl must be new.

[grins]

I'd call some of 'em friends, otherwise they're just casual acquaintances. And I'm pretty sure they aren't going to smuggle anything.

So we don't need to doubt them, then.

[Fidgets a bit... lying upfront for the sake of winning doesn't appeal to her, but she remembers her last game too well.]

Do you think they would do the same for us?

Right.

[WHO HAS NO PROBLEMS WITH LYING this guy doesn't]

. . . and that, I don't know. They probably know we tend to play as hard as we can in games where people don't get hurt, so they might doubt us a little.

[pauses with a thoughtful hum as he taps his chin with one finger]

Then again, the last time we were paired up in a game like this one we both trusted each other. So maybe they'd trust us again.

Edited 2014-12-21 00:35 (UTC)

...Maybe we could do a low number for doubt and a higher number for the presents?

Maybe... two and eight. Just in case.

Eight's fine for presents!

. . . I don't think we should doubt at all, though. Takshaka just isn't the kind of team who'd steal from someone else, harmless game or not.

Tiamat is smuggling EIGHT (8) and giving a PASS to Snaketopia.

...Okay. Then we'll trust Takshaka.

They're good people. In some ways, maybe naively so, but. . . I understand their mindset.

Naively?

It's not bad of them to be kind.

'Course not. It's never bad for someone to be kind.

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

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

Then what makes them naive?

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.

. . . well, y'know. Some people would take advantage of that kindness, yeah?

[I mean they are totally stealing from Takshaka, aren't they]

[. . . huh]

Ha! "Doubt us a little," I said. Consider me corrected.

[making such a face at you, wow!!!]

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