RATATOSKR

[soulping]

[A thick mist descends, obscuring everything but a small area around you and your teammates. There's a sudden feeling of distance . . . and you find yourselves in a new patch of garden. Grass is thick and springy underfoot, but more noticeable is the picnic blanket, the picnic baskets filled with building supplies, and the toothpick skeleton of a large castle. Perched atop of it, waving merrily in the breeze, is a flag of your team's color and animal.]

You have 100 points to spend on parts. Choose wisely.

[Each picnic basket has a label tacked to the handle, indicating what each item costs.]

[Walls:
- Tea cosy walls (10 points)
- Teacup walls (20 points)
- Mirror walls (30 points)

Guards:
- Scone guards (10 points)
- Teapot guards (20 points)
- Clockwork guards (30 points)

Moats:
- Empty moat (10 points)
- Moat with mirror shards (20 points)
- Moat with hot tea (30 points)

Offense:

Catapults
- Crumpet catapult (10 points)
- Cuckoo catapult (20 points)
- Clock catapult (30 points)

Arrows
- Ladyfinger arrows (10 points)
- Rose arrows (20 points)
- Mirror shard arrows (30 points)

Spears
- Sunflower spears (10 points)
- Cocktail umbrella spears (20 points)
- Wine glass spears (30 points)]

[In addition to the labelled supplies, there are many more that come without a cost. Paints, squishy blocks that can be moulded as you please, finger foods, anything you'd find at a tea party, bits pieces of clocks (as well as whole ones), mouldable sheets of highly reflective glass, and a few rolls of fabric . . . You instinctively know that they'll add nothing to your offence or defence, but they're there to use as you see fit.]

Comments

Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[soulping]

[Use this comment to both discuss AND turn in your finished product. Make sure to list what you bought, how many points you spent, and include a paragraph description of your finished product in your turn-in]

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[songofahero]

We need to make a cool one.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[pleaseinsertcoin]

[looks around, a little lost at first... but she adjusts quickly!]

...yeah. Let's make something cool and cute. I'm seeing a lot of cute things to use, so that shouldn't be a problem for us.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[songofahero]

Cute is for girls, I want something badass.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[pleaseinsertcoin]

I'm a girl. Something can be simultaneously badass and cute... Probably.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[songofahero]

[ thinking ]

... All right. We'll do something badass and cute. You take care of the cute part, and I'll go over the cool part. I think mirrors are pretty badass for the walls.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[pleaseinsertcoin]

[long pause]

That's thirty points already. And as for me, I think scone guards sound cute, so let's choose those, too.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[songofahero]

Then I want cocktail umbrella spears...!

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[pleaseinsertcoin]

And rose arrows!

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[songofahero]

That means we have twenty points left... What do we go for?

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[pleaseinsertcoin]

Hmmm...

Hmmmmmm...

Our defense is sufficient, right? Our offense isn't half bad either. Maybe we should either get one defensive part that's worth ten points and an offensive part that's also worth ten points. Or, maybe we should put all twenty points into either defense or offense...

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[songofahero]

Someone who's really badass and cute would go for twenty on offense!

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[pleaseinsertcoin]

Good thinking. And so we are lead to another question... all twenty points into one thing, or two ten point things?

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[songofahero]

... two tens, so we have more things!

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[pleaseinsertcoin]

I think I want crumpet catapults...

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[songofahero]

Then I'll go for ladyfinger arrows! We have everything...!

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILT

[pleaseinsertcoin]

...hmm. I like it.

SUBMISSION

[pleaseinsertcoin]

[- Mirror walls (30 points)
- Scone guards (10 points)

- Cocktail umbrella spears (20 points)
- Rose arrows (20 points)
- Ladyfinger arrows (10 points)
- Crumpet catapult (10 points)

This castle has reflective walls which will reflect anything and everything, including your face and your puny attacks! There's cute (mostly yellow but also pink) finger foods lining the very bottom, and tea cups sit on each corner of this castle. Let this castle be cute while defending and attacking things! But it's also badass! This castle has a lot of weapons; a crumpet catapult, many rose and ladyfinger arrows, and cocktail umbrella spears! It sure is important to hit things even if they aren't close to the castle. Oh, and don't forget the cute scone guards protecting this castle!]

Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[soulping]

And now, my dears, it's time to pick your attacks. Only one from each category, please. And you may only send one to each team you choose. We wouldn't want to unfairly gang up on anyone, now would we?

[And then you are given a list of attacks, all of them written in neat, loopy manuscript on the page of a lavender notebook]

Low Attacks
- Nuts and bolts and gears and things in a slingshot
- Flower petals in a slingshot
- Parasol swords
- Tea saucer discs
- Crumpet crumbs

High Attacks
- HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME (a giant cuckoo clock with a boxing glove where the bird should be)
- Bubbling hot strawberry jam
- Butter knife spears
- Steamed tea bags
- Shattered cup and plate shards

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[songofahero]

We attack Epona...!

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[pleaseinsertcoin]

Bubbling hot strawberry jam should be the high attack. That sounds like one of the most painful on that list.

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[songofahero]

Then we'll give them that! Epona are our sworn enemies after all! And Nuts and bolts and gears and things in a slingshot to Barghest.

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[pleaseinsertcoin]

...



Huh? I didn't know we had enemies...

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[songofahero]

I don't know what's up either, I think Boss decided on it...

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[pleaseinsertcoin]

...that sounds worrying, but I'll go with it until it gets messy. It's harmless fun, right?

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[songofahero]

... y-yeah. No one is dying this time.

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[pleaseinsertcoin]

This time?

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[songofahero]

... The other day, we had to ...

[ shaking his head ]

Let's talk about it in Ratatoskr.

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[pleaseinsertcoin]

...

[nods slowly]

I think... we have everything.

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[songofahero]

Y-yeah... so we can go ahead.

SUBMISSION

[pleaseinsertcoin]

LA:
Nuts and bolts and gears and things in a slingshot @ Barghest

HA:
Bubbling hot strawberry jam @ Epona

Re: Round 2: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

[pleaseinsertcoin]

...

[now i know why everyone looked so troubled before the game started]

. . . Intermission?

[soulping]

My. . . how dreadfully boring. Let's make things a bit more interesting, shall we my dears? I'll give you the opportunity to steal one item of offense or defense from another team to boost your own. Of course, you could just steal nothing, but that wouldn't be any fun, would it?

[Once you've decided on a course of action, reply with OFFENSE or DEFENSE and the team name (if you decide to steal), or PASS if you decide not to]

Re: . . . Intermission?

[pleaseinsertcoin]

[said CONFIDENTLY]

Maybe we should steal something.

Re: . . . Intermission?

[songofahero]

From Epona...!

Re: . . . Intermission?

[pleaseinsertcoin]

I take it we want to steal offense?

Re: . . . Intermission?

[songofahero]

Yeah! We'll get even stronger like that.

Re: . . . Intermission?

[pleaseinsertcoin]

Stronger and stronger. Okay, let's do that.

OFFENSE - Epona

[pleaseinsertcoin]

Re: OFFENSE - Epona

[soulping]

That's more like it, my dears. ♥

[Poof! A bundle of rose arrows appears in front of you! You have gained +2 offense]

Results

[soulping]

[Suddenly, a large cuckoo clock appears in front of your castle! The hands spin around once until the clock strikes twelve, and then. . . CUCKOO!! Where the bird would normally come out a boxing glove does instead, and it totally decimates a wall of your castle. You have taken damage!]

[Suddenly hot strawberry jam rains down on your castle from above! But it seems to slip off of your remaining castle walls without doing any damage at all. There's a pool of jam at your castle's base now, though]

[Suddenly tea saucer discs fly towards your castle, breaking upon impact with your castle's walls! The shards knock down a few of your guards and demolish two other walls. More damage! At least you still have one wall standing. . .]

[Oh god it's another giant clock LOOK OUT-- whoa this one must be pretty wimpy, for the boxing glove only bounces off your other wall, leaving no damage at all]

[You may go to endgame]