BARGHEST

[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:
Paranoia Boost (3)
Punch in the face (3)
Lose a significant relationship (6)
Physical deage (2)
Swift Kill (10)
Remove an eye (7)

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

DECISION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[neverendingstory]

Swift kill.

Re: DISCUSSION

[recode]

--that's absolutely too much.

[bloomnobly]

....will they be resurrected later on?

Re: DISCUSSION

[neverendingstory]

It is the best option.

[neverendingstory]

I do not know.

Re: DISCUSSION

[recode]

To go for the highest card now - that's precisely how these things escalate. I'll not have Barghest stain their hands unnecessarily.

Re: DISCUSSION

[neverendingstory]

And you trust everyone else to not do the same?

[bloomnobly]

[ puffing out her cheeks ]

Then I am not sure that is the best option.

[neverendingstory]

It would appear I am outvoted. Fine.

Re: DISCUSSION

[recode]

I trust they will understand - the best option for everyone is to play low cards, and not everyone is excited for murder. Most of these teams are full of children who don't have such mettle. If they don't want their teammates to die, they'll also play low cards.

Re: DISCUSSION

[neverendingstory]

I will trust you until something injuring is played against us.

Re: DISCUSSION

[recode]

If that happens I'll take responsibility. At any rate, we can make up for it with three cards instead of one.

Re: DISCUSSION

[ballpoint]

...Even if it's just physical, harming a child is...

Re: DISCUSSION

[neverendingstory]

...The paranoia card could lead to disaster.

Re: DISCUSSION

[recode]

You're right. Then, two cards.

Re: DISCUSSION

[recode]

A child can handle a punch to the face.

[ matter-of-factly ]

[bloomnobly]

How so?

[recode]

Consider it like this; paranoia will foster distrust amongst teams and even amongst teammates during this high-stress time. The game certainly doesn't help. But it would make others more likely to start playing higher cards - at best. At worst, a fight might break out, and it'll get messy.

Re: DISCUSSION

[ballpoint]

It's the first round. If an enemy team is turned into a child, and higher cards are played, their teammates will have to watch children that they love suffer. Don't you think that'll make them retaliate?

Re: DISCUSSION

[recode]

That isn't something we can control. If we thought of it like that, then we wouldn't be able to play any card at all. At best, making sure we aren't targetting for too much in either effects or crystals is all we can do.

Besides, it wouldn't be us who they'd have to retaliate against - if it is a problem though, just point them to me. I'll take care of it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[ballpoint]

I'm not happy with using that card. It's a trap card that will escalate things just as far as losing an eye.

Re: DISCUSSION

[recode]

Hmmph. The point of using multiple cards is so that we can minimize the damage done to us - if we can guess correctly as to who would target us . . . it's something we can afford that we can't afford in the next round, I'm certain.

Very well then. What would you like to do?