HENWEN

[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:
Lose a significant memory (6)
Raptor in the dorm (9)
Punch in the face (3)
Remove an eye (7)
Physical and mental deage (5)
Physical hypersensitivity (3)

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

DECISION

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[foxpas]

[U M]

... I don't want to use any of these.

Re: DISCUSSION

[robitussin]

We don't have a choice.

Re: DISCUSSION

[foxpas]

[looking at them]

But there has to be something we can do.

[queencrimson]

...Tch. She's giving us no options, isn't she?

Re: DISCUSSION

[fairhands]

I know, but if we do not make a decision it will be made for us.

[fairhands]

Either we play and hopefully limit the damage that can be done, or don't and most assuredly end up wrecked.

Re: DISCUSSION

[robitussin]

If we don't do anything we're going to be completely fucked over. I promised someone I'd try not to let that happen.

[queencrimson]

Does she punish the teams that don't win?

...I'd select the punch. The hypersensitivity will make subsequent cards much worse.

Re: DISCUSSION

[foxpas]

[nods]

The... sensitivity? Or the deage?

[robitussin]

I guess this is the part we start talking about which teams we don't really know.

[queencrimson]

I know people on all of them. [Sighs.] If it's up to me, I'd say the punch and...Tiamat or Epona. The other low value card will make later rounds hurt worse.

[It is...clearly not fun for her to spell it out like that.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[fairhands]

Not the hypersensitivity, it will make any other cards that are played on them much worse. We can play the punch.

...I'm not sure whether we ought to play the deage card as well.

[robitussin]

...That's only three points. What if she punishes us if we go into debt or whatever the fuck?

[fairhands]

Apart from the fact that if you lose you're usually already hurt or dead, I don't believe so.

...Citrine brought up playing the deage card, but I'm not sure.

Re: DISCUSSION

[foxpas]

... Okay. Then...

[reading over the cards carefully]

Re: DISCUSSION

[foxpas]

Who's doing the punching?

[queencrimson]

...It's an option, and it's worth more points, but it creates a huge liability for that team, doesn't it?

And then there's a child stuck here.

Re: DISCUSSION

[fairhands]

...I actually don't know, I assume we have to choose which one of us does it?

Re: DISCUSSION

[foxpas]

Then whoever does it can just pull their punch, too, right?

[fairhands]

Yes. A child does not deserve...any of this.

[queencrimson]

We start with 15. Unless we get targeted by multiple teams, we shouldn't go into debt the first round.

[...Thinking it over.] I want to get a sense for how this is going to go down, before we decide to play harder. I don't plan on going into debt to find out what she'll do, Natalie.

[queencrimson]

That and the memory loss aren't priced high enough. I won't use them.

[She would legitimately rather kill someone than steal a memory, tbh.]