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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 Goat 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 GOATOPIA. 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: Horseville’

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 sorta seems like being aggressive is helpful, here..

...Yeah, I still can't see a downside for putting 10 down for each option, unless Star or the others decide not to play on us at all.

I guess since we know specifically who we're targeting, that it's a case of predicting what they'll do.

Unless the other team plays a 0 ... and in Epona's case, their moves against us can vary in normal games, so it'd be a guess on our part.

Yeah, we have to predict.

If we think they'll doubt us, we should go with 0.

0 then for us?

How about the other one? Do you think they'll try to smuggle if they decide not to pass on us in turn?

Well, the only one on Epona I know is Star, and I'm not sure how strong her sense of caution really is.

[Read: the girl seems cray and kind of impulsive]

[Hrmmm..] I think they'll probably try to smuggle.

Should we doubt 10 then and go in big?

If 'saving Christmas' is at stake she might get aggressive.

I think we should try to smuggle 0 and doubt 10.

Yeah, that's my suggestion.

[Pft.]

Yeah, I'm fine with that. Let's see what happens.

Goats will not be smuggling any presents.

They will be doubting TEN (10).

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

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.

[...Well that accomplished nothing.]

...Hrm.

Damn. Looks like we aren't the only one's playing rough.

...I have no idea how the Cats will play, though..

I think we should maybe try it again worst that can happen is we stay neutral..

Unless Rook has a better idea of who's playing on Cats' side right now, I'm fine with that. They don't strike me as a team that's going to take too many chances.

[ Laughing a bit. ]

It looks that way!

And we're against the Cats now. I didn't see Aoko around unless she came late, so ... it's a matter of guessing if they'll play like they did in the round just now.

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