AMALTHEA

[soulping]

[You step into a very comfy, cozy room! A log fire is burning in the hearth, protected by a metal grate patterned with silver rose briars. In the center of the room is a glass table, surrounded by comfy chairs and couches in your team’s color. There is a window, but it’s completely fogged over . . . from the outside.

At the start of the game you’ll find the following items on top of the table:

- a sealed envelope labelled “Instructions.”
- a large glass orb containing 15 team-colored gems. This is in the very center of the table, and cannot be moved, broken, or tampered with in any way. A plaque at the bottom reads “Bank.”
- 6 indestructible cards, currently blank.
- 3 grooves in the glass, each just the right size for you to slot one of those cards into.]

Comments

INSTRUCTIONS

[soulping]

Each team starts with a hand of six cards and 15 points in the bank. At the start of each subsequent round, three new cards will be added to the teams’ hands.

Cards have a point value of between 1 and 10.

Teams may play no less than 1 but no more than 3 cards per round. Each card must target a different team, unless it is Paired. If a team refuses to play, two cards will be randomly selected from their hand and played against them.

Cards only affect one person unless explicitly stated otherwise. Effects will last at least until endgame unless explicitly stated otherwise.

If two teams target each other with Attack Cards in the same round, both cards are negated. You cannot target the same team twice in a row.

There are 3 types of cards!
Defense Cards
Attack Cards - Successful attacks are how you earn points!
Paired Cards - Cards of this type can only be played alongside another Attack Card.

Once per round, a team may also:
Discard their hand and draw six cards from the deck. (5 points)
Buy a lottery ticket. (3 points)
Buy a shield that protects them from all damage for one round. (25 points)

QUESTIONS

[soulping]

[If you need Nyssa's attention, HOLLA HERE.]

ROUND 1

[soulping]

Bank: 15
Hand:
ENSHROUDMENT. (6) Invisibility hallucination. The afflicted can no longer see their teammates.

UNTOUCHABLE. (5) The afflicted cannot feel feel any physical sensations.

REWIND. (6) Physical and mental deage.

SHARDLESS. (6) The afflicted will loss all access to regained skills.

FREEZE. (9) Enclosed, fully conscious, in a block of ice that will take one full round to thaw. The afflicted will not suffocate.

PROSOPAGNOSIA. (8) Complete inability to recognize the faces of people or objects, no matter how familiar they are.

DISCUSSION

[soulping]

SUBMIT

[soulping]

[Copypaste the whole card (including title, points value, and effect!) here, along with who you're targeting!]

RESULTS

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

[Belt reads over the instructions, then looks over at the cards.]

So then, how hard do we play today?

Re: DISCUSSION

[unlocksmith]

[was TENSE AS FUCK when arriving in Nyssa's realm, but. he relaxes ever so slightly when he reads the instructions and the cards]

. . . ain't as bad as I thought it was gonna be.

Play to defend. Higher cards. We can determine if we need a shield later on.

Re: QUESTIONS

[goodbyenurse]

Nyssa, what precisely does a lottery ticket do? Or at least, what possible effects may it have?

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

We will want to defend against Gulgallana, Epona, and Barghest.

They are the three I believe most likely to attack us.

Re: DISCUSSION

[whoslaughingmeow]

[I am not comfortable with this. So uncomfortable with this.]

...We could play the.. less harsh.. cards, but focus on defending.

Re: QUESTIONS

[infiniteregress]

Quite simply, it is an extra chance to win! One that does not rely on how many points you have.

Re: DISCUSSION

[unlocksmith]

[his mouth twitches]

My thoughts exactly. Gulgallana has a Cat with 'em, though. Is that really okay?

Re: DISCUSSION

[unlocksmith]

We ain't gonna be able to defend ourselves with lower cards.

[gestures towards the instructions]

A shield alone costs twenty-five points.

[codecmoment]

None of these effects sounds that distressing, compared to what a lot of people here have suffered.

Re: DISCUSSION

[whoslaughingmeow]

But they can still get us points, and we can still protect ourselves by targeting the teams most likely to target us.

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

The cat was Panther.

That particular cat is expendable.

[goodbyenurse]

Freeze, at least, sounds incredibly familiar.

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

Perhaps we should ignore the game and invest everything into lottery tickets? It is an alternative path to victory.

[codecmoment]

That would be why it's worth so many points.

[ His voice is icy and distant. ]

[goodbyenurse]

Sitting in a cold block of ice unable to move... it sounds not so dissimilar to this morning.

Though perhaps we should try the lottery.

Re: DISCUSSION

[whoslaughingmeow]

I like that idea, but I'm sure we'd need more points than we have to get a winning one.

Re: DISCUSSION

[goodbyenurse]

We can only purchase one per round regardless.

[codecmoment]

Wait, really? You want to gamble and rely on chance instead of taking a direct approach?

Re: DISCUSSION

[whoslaughingmeow]

Right.

[He sighs]

But we have to play one card a round anyway.. Shardless is the most harmless one we have, I'd think?