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

. . . 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?

[witchburner]

We're obviously passing.

Re: . . . Intermission?

[takewing]

Obviously.

Re: . . . Intermission?

[swordedpast]

[SIGH.]

Re: . . . Intermission?

[takewing]

[BROFIST, PHOENIX]

Re: . . . Intermission?

[witchburner]

[BROFIST]

Intermission

[takewing]

PASS.

Re: Intermission

[soulping]

A shame, really. . .

[Poof! Your bubbling hot tea moat has disappeared. You have lost -3 points of defense :(]

Re: Intermission

[takewing]

We have enough without it.

Re: Intermission

[swordedpast]

It seems not everyone shares your noble attitude, Raven.

Re: Intermission

[takewing]

Naturally. There's more than one type of person in any world.

Re: Intermission

[swordedpast]

...?

[no there isn't, there are only People Who Need To Be Saved]

Re: Intermission

[takewing]

What's with that confused face? Everybody is an individual. It stands to reason that everybody has different values and opinions.

Re: Intermission

[swordedpast]

It's nothing.

Re: Intermission

[takewing]

Hardly nothing.

What are you thinking?

Re: Intermission

[swordedpast]

"There's more than one type of person in any world," it just seemed like a strange thing to say.

Because it's so obvious, of course.

Re: Intermission

[takewing]

Liar.

Re: Intermission

[swordedpast]

Yeah, I'll lie if that's what it takes to accomplish our goals, but I don't see what that has to do with this conversation.

Re: Intermission

[takewing]

There being more than one type of person wasn't obvious to you at all.

Re: Intermission

[swordedpast]

Does it need to be? It's fine if you're the one who makes clever observations like that, and I simply do the fighting and the cooking. I think that'd be fine.

Re: Intermission

[takewing]

[reaches up to YANK ON HIS EARLOBE]

Re: Intermission

[swordedpast]

Ow!

Re: Intermission

[takewing]

Try to have a little more self-worth, man!

Re: Intermission

[swordedpast]

I don't understand...

Re: Intermission

[takewing]

'Only fighting, only cooking' and 'Takshaka's success is the most important thing'.

Do you not see your own importance?

[amongst many, many other things]