soulping | AMALTHEA

[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]

[...All this candy...]

Wow.

. . . we're bulidin' a castle? That's it?

A castle and some...catapults and arrows and spears...

Walls 'n guards 'n moats, too. Seems a li'l anticlimactic.

Anticlimatic?

After her last 'game.' This doesn't seem like the sorta thing we'd expect her to do.

It really isn't...

We've only got a 100 points to, urm...buy things, right?

Guess so. So, what d'you want? Offense of defense?

Well, I'm guessing we win if our castle is the least damaged or we wreck someone else's castle so...

[This is a hard decision!!!]

[it sure isn't for Spark]

Offense.

So...

I think we should spend the most on the catapults.

[THIS SEEMS PRETTY OBVIOUS TO HIM.]

Clock catapults, mirror shard arrows, and wine glass spears.

[a beat]

Not that any of those things would make good weapons in real life.

How would you know that --

That just leaves 10 points for defense, though...

So we build our castle to be fierce and frightenin'. That way people don't try to attack it, yeah?

I guess that could work.

...How do you make a candy castle look frightening, though.

Buy the guards and give 'em lots of. . . pastry weapons.

[that sounds so ridiculous tho]

See what I mean.

[poking through the picnic basket. . .]

We've got clock wires 'n clay. We can mold our own weapons outta these.

Something scary looking, huh...

What if we used this clay to make monsters? Guard animals, to go alongside the guards we buy.

...Well, if they move around with the guards...

Perfect, yeah? And even if we don't have a moat, we can build a fence of spikes around our castle, too.

Not that they'll actually do anything, but as long as it looks scary I guess it'll work.

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Clock Catapult - 30
Mirror shard Arrows - 30
Wine Glass Spears - 30
Scone Guards - 10

[Amalthea's castle is THE MOST FEROCIOUS CASTLE!! It's decked out with catapults lining the walls, scone guards with mirror shard arrows leaning out of every window, and wine glass spears sticking out of the door to discourage any approach by an enemy team. It looks like they also used clay and clock wires to forge their own spears, knives, arrows, and other weapons, which are sticking out of the toothpick walls on. . . every side of the castle. They've also given the goat on their flag angry eyebrows, sharp teeth, and claws. IT IS NOW A FEROCIOUS AND ANGRY GOAT!!

In addition to that they've also used clay and clock parts to build a fence of spikes around the castle. WHAT NOW, ENEMY COMBATANTS? WHAT NOW!!]