AMALTHEA

[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:
Steal all of the food (4)
Remove a limb (9)
Remove an eye (7)
Remove an eye (7)
Slow Kill (10)
Remove a limb (9)

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[unguilded]

This game again.

[ Looking over those cards, and.

Ha even the lowest one is like one of Rook's bad pings.

Also Nyssa ur choice in pattern is SHIT. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[bypastime]

[Reading over the cards slowly, color draining from her face.]

Only one of them is even...how are we supposed to play these...?

Re: DISCUSSION

[heirofhod]

[Someone's too short to reach the instructions, but he's managed to pull a card from the table long enough to examine it.]

...What??

DECISION

[soulping]

Re: DECISION

[forthemackerel]

Vanara: Remove a limb (9)
Barghest: Remove a limb (9)

ROUND 2

[soulping]

Bank: 11
Hand:
Steal all of the food (4)
Remove an eye (7)
Remove an eye (7)
Slow Kill (10)
Kneecapping (7)
Steal a pair of shoes (1)

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[heirofhod]

[Firmly, with more than a little bitterness:]

I want to read the rules.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worldsaving]

[ you can bet your ass Viva is immediately going for the cards, before anyone else can even get so much as a word from her, and— ]

Oh.

[ now she gets it ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[unguilded]

It looks like our cards on Vanara and Barghest didn't go through, judging from what I saw before this round started. [ Or at least, he saw shit happen, but no lost limbs...? ] That means we made the right choice and they played on us in the first round, too, so they cancelled each other out.

[ Which is. Relieving. ]

That leaves Tiamat and Henwen for this round.

[ Looking over the cards. ]

Maybe we can play a third card-- the shoes one or the food one, on somebody else since they appear to be literally what the card says. Unless anybody saw any signs about a team getting hit with one of those where there was something else to it. If only so we can keep our bank up.

[ Since. Haha that part about the rule and going into debt. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[forthemackerel]

[ looking a the bank, feeling a small swell of panic ]

We were hit. What happened? We should figure that out.

DECISION

[soulping]

Re: DECISION

[unguilded]

Steal a pair of shoes (1) - Ratatoskr
Steal all of the food (4) - Henwen
Kneecapping (7) - Tiamat

psst pretend this was here all along

[soulping]

Donate a pint of blood (5)

ROUND 3

[soulping]

Bank: 21
Hand:
Remove an eye (7)
Remove an eye (7)
Slow Kill (10)
Twelve Lashes (6)
Raptor in the dorm (9)
Paranoia Boost (3)
Donate a pint of blood (5)

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[heirofhod]

...None of these are good cards, though. What happened?

Re: DISCUSSION

[unguilded]

... if we continue with our plan and go for Vanara and Barghest again, we can use the blood and paranoia cards and be done with that.

It looks like our bigger cards went through, so we have more bank than I thought we might have gotten, which is good.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worldsaving]

[ staring at that raptor card really, really hard ]

DECISION

[soulping]

END

[soulping]

[You come back into your room to find that your hands are empty and your crystals (if you have any) are spread across the table.

BANK: 2

Also present is a list:

- Revival: 20 crystals
- Lost Limbs: 15 crystals
- Eyes and Minor Body Parts: 10 crystals
- Reaging: 5 crystals
- Save a Cat: 5 crystals
- Lost Memories and Relationships: 5 crystals

The door remains open behind you.]

Re: END

[unguilded]

... we can't afford anything.

Re: END

[forthemackerel]

[ it looks like someone has a black eye and scratches over any open skin, looking freaked out and like he's deliberately looking around in a panic ]