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

[forthemackerel]

[ stares at the cards ]

You've been through this before?

Re: DISCUSSION

[unguilded]

The choices in cards weren't quite as extreme, but still had some that were uncomfortable.

If the ticket is the same, that means it's something that, at the end of the game, ups our chances of winning.

Re: DISCUSSION

[forthemackerel]

This isn't any way to win.

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

...Rook?

I have an idea. We should play the ones that require the most energy expenditure on Nyssa's part.

Re: DISCUSSION

[unguilded]

She'll still probably be getting back more than she puts out for them.

[ And somehow he figures Nyssa torturing people is so old hat by now that it hardly takes up much of her energy at all. ]

I don't mind doing that since we have a big enough rotation to alternate between. But what the others wants to do is important to find out first.

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

Of course.

I was thinking stealing all of someone's food. For it to be meaningful, she has to block off a patron echo--no easy feat, to say the least.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heirofhod]

[Guess who's slipping a card off the table and instantly regretting it. HI ROOK.]

I... I don't think I like this game...

Re: DISCUSSION

[unguilded]

[ nO. ]

I don't either.

But, hey, if you don't like it, you don't have to play, okay? You can leave it to us.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heirofhod]

[oh boy an easy out!!! And yet, he hesitates, staring at the card.]

But I thought we were supposed to work together, Mister Rook.

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

[unguilded]

... I know. No matter what we do, it's not going to end well.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bypastime]

There has to be a way to figure it out!

Like this one, um..."stealing their food"...what does that mean? From their dorms? Can she even do that...?

Re: DISCUSSION

[unguilded]

I'm not sure. We'll have to ask her-- assuming she'll give us a straight answer. And if she does do that, we'd have to make sure we repayed whoever we chose back for it later, if we can't return it to them.

Re: DISCUSSION

[forthemackerel]

It isn't fair for anyone.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bypastime]

But...there, there has to be one outcome that's best. It's not a game if there's no way to win! We just need to find it!

[STARING AT THE CARDS INTENTLY as though she can magically make them change into something less horrid.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[forthemackerel]

We can win, but that might not be pleasant. It's more about surviving.

The important thing is to protect our team and allies the best we can.

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??

Re: DISCUSSION

[forthemackerel]

[ why this. he's going to approach and crouch down by Technic. please tell me he picked the food one ]

Do you mind if I have that?

Re: DISCUSSION

[heirofhod]

[Nope. Eyeball. Gross!

He hesitates, holding the card close.]

...What kind of game is this?

Re: DISCUSSION

[forthemackerel]

It's not a good game. People will get hurt. But Amalthea will help protect you, okay?

[ holds his hand out for the card ]

We need that.

DECISION

[soulping]

Re: DECISION

[forthemackerel]

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