VANARA

[soulping]

[ Once you enter the train, it takes off...moving for only a few moments before coming to a stop in the midst of the void Delriza's realm floats in.

There's still no sign of the echo herself, but fortunately it's at this point that the rules of the game burn themselves into your mind, like you always knew what you were supposed to be coming here for. ]

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RULES

[soulping]

WELCOME TO GIRLFRIEND SAVING SIMULATOR 2014.

In this game, you will attempt to save your girlfriend. A scenario will be presented to you each round, and you will discuss among yourselves and try to present a solution that you as a team believe will result in your girlfriend not dying. You are allowed to use anything described in the scenario as well as any skills or powers you may possess as part of your solution. Once it is turned in, you will receive your result at the end of the round.

In addition, you have in your possession the MOON card and WHEEL OF FORTUNE card.

Playing the MOON card must be done at the beginning of the round, and will erase the current scenario and give you a new one. The WHEEL OF FORTUNE card must also be played at the beginning of the round, and will instantly result in a complete success for the round but cause one other random team to fail.

IN EVEN MORE ADDITION, each team begins with one fate point. At the end of each round, you must, along with turning in your solution, choose a team or teams to send at least one fate point to (for example, you must always send one, but if you have more than that you do not have to send all of them. If you have three, you can keep one, send one to one team, and send one to another team). For each fate point a team has, the harder their scenario will be.

BUCKLE UP

ROUND 1

[soulping]

You are a princess, and your most loyal knight will be accompanying you on a journey through the Rogue's Wood. You are travelling to the castle of an enemy while on a mission of peace. You are extremely confident that you will be safe, yourself, but that's only because you know she will absolutely sacrifice herself to ensure your survival.

You don't want that.

The rogues of the wood most often employ ranged weapons, and usually lay traps on the most traveled paths through the wood such as caltrops or bladed traps designed for crippling horses, or magical bombs designed to damage carriages beyond use, before firing on those who do not surrender from the trees and brush.

You are taking with you, aside from your knight, a decoy carriage with your court magician, who specializes in EXPLOSION MAGIC, a priestess, and five additional warriors.

TURN-IN

[soulping]

[branchesout]

How exciting! Oh, I like it already.

Re: ROUND 1

[branchesout]

Now, the only question that stands is of strategy. When to use this wheel of fortune! Perhaps in another round, if the fate points stack?

Re: ROUND 1

[seacat]

...Magical bombs...that's pretty intense, ahaha!

Re: ROUND 1

[ground_up]

It seems like they do stack, yeah. So we should probably save it for some point near the end.

Re: ROUND 1

[ground_up]

Well, even though they're bombs, it seems like they're not actually designed to damage anything beyond the carriage. They don't want to destroy their loot after all, I suppose.

Re: ROUND 1

[seacat]

I guess...just hard to imagine a magic that could work like that.

But maybe we should ask the magician guy how to avoid them? It sounds like he's the expert here...

Re: ROUND 1

[ground_up]

That's true. That still doesn't help us deal with the horse-crippling traps of course, but it deals with one problem, at least.

Re: ROUND 1

[branchesout]

Excellent. Glad to hear it. We'll need to choose upon whom to send the point as well, but that shouldn't take long.

Re: ROUND 1

[branchesout]

It sounds awfully useful to me.

Re: ROUND 1

[seacat]

Can we ask the warriors if any of them would be willing to maybe disarm the traps? Assuming they know how to...

Re: ROUND 1

[seacat]

Or dangerous... but then again, I don't think I usually blow things up.

Re: ROUND 1

[ground_up]

Then at this point, we're going to need to set up most of the warriors as scouts, I think: A few people in the front, and a few people in the back to make sure we're not being surrounded. We'll be in trouble if they catch us off-guard while we're disarming traps.

Re: ROUND 1

[branchesout]

Do you mean to say you're a bomb?

Re: ROUND 1

[seacat]

Yeah...we don't want anyone to get hurt, after all, so we'll need to keep an eye out for rogues.

Re: ROUND 1

[seacat]

What? Oh, no, I meant... I don't think I've ever used a bomb before, so it just seems scary to me. I wouldn't have any use for it.

Re: ROUND 1

[ground_up]

Yeah, I don't really know any of the teams, so it doesn't really make any difference to me what we end up choosing... Still, I'm not really sure what to do in this situation beyond the stuff to make it so we aren't surprised.

Re: ROUND 1

[branchesout]

Well, that's the point, isn't it?

Re: ROUND 1

[branchesout]

None? None at all? Well, you'll want to pretend otherwise and think as if you do, to get us to a win in this game.

Re: ROUND 1

[seacat]

...I thought we were the ones being bombed?

Re: ROUND 1

[branchesout]

Think like the enemy, and we may have an easier time getting through their tricks.

Re: ROUND 1

[ground_up]

Well, someone's probably going to get hurt no matter what we do. We could surrender to them immediately, but... we are carrying a princess, so that's probably not going to work out too well.

Re: ROUND 1

[seacat]

...Like the enemy...okay, I'll try.