TAKSHAKA

[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

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[swordedpast]

Some kind of pastry, I think...

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[takewing]

We're to attack each other with . . . pastry.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[swordedpast]

She's got a really screwed-up sense of humor.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[takewing]

She's got a screwed-up everything.

We'd like to max out defense.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[swordedpast]

[frowning a little]

I feel the same way, but that'd leave us with barely any points for offense. Let's focus on defense, but leave some over...how about take seventy points for defense, and use the remaining thirty on attacks?

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[takewing]

Why would we want to attack anybody?

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[swordedpast]

Do you really think she's not going to test out our defenses? There'll probably be something we need to strike back against, and I refuse to be left helpless against it, walled up in a toy fortress.

[he might be being a little melodramatic here, since it's not like they're actually stuck in the fortress]

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[takewing]

Swan, we're not actually stuck anywhere.

[PATS HIM ON THE ARM.]

A good defense is the best offense, yes? And we'll still have ten points left over to buy some spears. Our castle will not fall.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[swordedpast]

It was a metaphor.

[he's still frowning]

Well, there isn't really time to argue. Are you certain?

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[takewing]

We are.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[swordedpast]

Fine. But if we lose, I'll say, "I told you so."

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[takewing]

After That Memory, you're not allowed to say anything.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[swordedpast]

Tch.

Re: Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

[takewing]

Now help us make this castle.

[IT'S GONNA BE A CLOUD]