TIAMAT

[soulping]

You step into a small airy room made entirely of porcelain and frosted glass. Squishy armchairs — the old fashioned type; pretty velvet affairs with patterns of roses in your team’s color and legs of dark wood — line the walls.

Pride of place in the center of the room is a table, upon which rests: a list of instructions; a spread of cards; and a box made out of mirrored glass with eleven slits in the top. Each slit is outlined in a team color.

Beyond the table is a huge, floor to ceiling hourglass. A certain number of blood red crystals reside at the bottom ...

Comments

ROUND 1

[soulping]

Bank: 15
Hand:
Prosopagnosia (4)
Raptor in the dorm (9)
Remove an eye (7)
Raptor in the dorm (9)
Splash with acid (3)
Physical deage (2)

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

DECISION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[fearfulofthe]

[. . . well. that explains the whole. dangerous aspect.

staring at the cards]

Re: DISCUSSION

[hyanaimne]

[. . . just fwumps into a seat and crosses her legs, glaring daggers at the table]

Re: DISCUSSION

[fuhrinkaed]

[Looking over the cards and the rules... and breathing out slowly]

Okay guys. I'll get right to the point. Red Yaksinis ran that really bad game a while ago, where she made people beg to revive you guys. Clover was there, she can attest to it being bad.

Long and short of it, I wouldn't put it past Nyssa to try and one-up her by doing something similar this time. If possible, we should avoid anything that might kill someone. We also should avoid anything that might kill one of them outside of a game, since we don't know what would happen then--there's no precedent.

Finally, I think we forget the lotto, and make sure to stay out of the negatives. That's what keeps us safe... as safe as we can be, anyways.

That's my read of the situation, anyways. A-at the end of the day, I can't force anyone to do anything.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fearfulofthe]

... so stay with the low numbers and don't look for a win, but just enough to not get into debt?

Re: DISCUSSION

[fuhrinkaed]

We don't have to stay at low numbers, we just have to avoid doing things that kill people or lead to their death outside a game.

[zeitnot]

Glaring won't make the cards any less lethal, darling.

[ finger waggle! ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[hyanaimne]

[she closes her eyes tightly and takes a deep breath, then lets it out, slowly. Okay, all business, she can do this]

Bad is an understatement, Edward.

I will play along with your plan - for now.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fearfulofthe]

[looking at that removing an eye card]

Won't shock kill a person? Or--you said they revive the dead?

[this learning curb...]

[hyanaimne]

You do not know that. And do not call me darling.

[why are you here tho]

Re: DISCUSSION

[fearfulofthe]

... you don't usually go for this kind of tactic?

Re: DISCUSSION

[fuhrinkaed]

If there's not a choice, there's not a choice. We can get desperate later, if we have to.

For right now... Prosopagnosia wasn't that bad last time when it hit us. Also there's physical deage. And... either removing an eye or splashing with acid. Both are painful and disfiguring, and both are super inconvenient. But you won't die from either.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fuhrinkaed]

Normally, yes. In this game, until I have more info, it's not worth risking it.

And the shock won't kill a person--just knock them out a bit at worst.

Re: DISCUSSION

[hyanaimne]

The nice way of putting it is that I will do whatever it takes to protect this team.

[zeitnot]

Anything you say, darling. And if I may point out, it hasn't worked out for you so far, so I wouldn't bank on it.

[ wow he's allowed to be wherever he wants?? like... claiming a couch giddily, this is a nice couch. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[hyanaimne]

I shall hold my tongue until we see how this first round plays out.

I am alright with the first two, however . . . removing an eye is probably a touch more traumatic. If we are going to play it carefully, we may as well play lightly to begin with, yes?

[hyanaimne]

Sword, either use my name, or do not use a name at all, dammit. I mean it today.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fearfulofthe]

... I don't know anyone. So. I don't think I can make calls on what to play on who.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fuhrinkaed]

We could target Vanara with the acid, I guess. Most of them can heal somehow or another.

--Oh. And we can't hit. Takshaka. I sort of promised, remember?

Re: DISCUSSION

[fearfulofthe]

So if we get hit by five teams, you'll do... what, exactly?

[already suspicious]

Re: DISCUSSION

[hyanaimne]

That is your problem, now isn't it. But I imagine half the bloody game will be sending them cards anyway.

We are not sending cards to Ometotchtli or Epona.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fuhrinkaed]

Leave that part of things to us.

Any real opinions on how hard we should hit, outside what I said?

Re: DISCUSSION

[fuhrinkaed]

And I'd rather not hit Dawon or Gulgallana if I don't have to...

Which leaves us with Ratatotskr, Vanara, Henwen, Amalthea, Alectryon, and Barghest.