soulping | EPONA

[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.]

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[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]

[ Can she build it? Yes, she can. ]

Hm... [ Though she can't concentrate at first out of her petulant anger towards Nyssa. ]

[ The castle itself has been reinforced in spots that Schooler felt were weak. Where each tooth pick meets is not only a bit of jelly from a fruit-filled tart meant to keep the points closer together, but scraps of fabric have been tied into a thick knot to secure it better. The dimensions of each block are 2 inches in height, 4 inches in width, and an inch of depth to support it. What's important to note is in-between the blocks and toothpicks are not only a sheet of the reflective glass, but a thick layer of fabric wrapped around it on both sides. The blocks have had a diamond design drawn into them and every so often there's a diamond shaped piece of glass in the design. Last, but not least, the bottom of the castle all around has pie-shaped scones with the thick base of it against the walls while the thinner part of the scone is facing outward. An attempt at being aesthetically pleasing to the eye was made, but the focus is more on defense than looks.

Even if she's not the type to attack others usually, Team Cute Detective Girls Plus One Guy understand now that their castle will likely be assaulted so the exterior has been designed to defend against that.

Additionally, they'll put forth the points in the following:

➥20 points: Teacup Walls
➥20 points: Teapot guards
➥20 points: Cuckoo catapult
➥20 points: Cuckoo catapult
➥20 points: Rose arrows

... Let's be real, Schooler used tea-related things because she's a classy lady. ]

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

... Huh, attacks now?

[ Contemplates. ] The flower petals would be elegant, but I don't think they would do all that well...

[ After careful consideration: ]

They're going to be sour with me, but I'll be using the steamed tea bags [ high attack ] against Team Takshaka. [ She's so sorry, but blame White Swan for getting in the middle of her fight. ]

The tea saucer discs [ low attack ] will be aimed at those rats in Team Ratatoskr. [ She also holds a grudge. ]

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]

Boring? What, is the only entertainment you get from watching us cut ourselves up? Maybe I should take a broken saucer and carve a 'I suck' right into your forehead to spruce things up?

[ She doesn't take kindly to being called boring OKAY. ]

I'll steal an offense item from Barghest.

That's more like it, my dears. ♥

[Poof! Some cuckoo catapults appear on the walls of your castle! You have gained +2 offense]

[. . . but at the same time, the rose arrows you bought disappear from your castle with a similar poof! You have lost -2 offense]

[ WHY DID THEY HAVE TO TAKE THE PRETTIEST ACCESSORY. ]

[. . . oh no! In another poof, the teacup walls of your castle disappear :( you have lost -2 defense]

[ OH COME ON. ]

Sure, they're all trying to pick on me now.

[Suddenly a few guards made out of scones storm your castle with. . . parasol swords! They knock over your defenses easily, destroying two of your castle walls! You've taken damage]

[And then, after the guards, out of NOWHERE come a few butter knives. They fly at your castle at high speeds, piercing your remaining walls and demolishing the rest of your castle so it's nothing but broken bits and pieces on the ground. Well. . . it was a nice castle, wasn't it?]

[To add insult to injury, hot strawberry jam rains down on your castle from above! It. . . would do damage if your castle wasn't already completely demolished, but. There you go :(]

[You may go to endgame]

EPONA

Round 1: BUILD BUILD BUILD

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