[gm card room - lily]

[crittersheep]

[You find yourselves seated around a table in the middle of a small room. You can’t really perceive any walls, just heavy black velvet curtains on all sides. If you push them aside looking for a way out, you just keep finding more curtains behind them.

There is a crystal ball in the middle of the table and a spread of six large cards arranged around it, currently facedown. Their backs are a plain matte black.

You are aware that powers are all off for card rounds but will be on for the punishment round. You have whatever items are normally on your person.]

Comments

Re: [discussion]

[mykidisthebest]

[time is a circle and all bad rituals are the same--]

...It's hard to think the worst of people that you like.

Re: [discussion]

[spinebuddyandme]

... I just...remember Perci's face. The last bad ritual he was in with us. Or you and Charon coming back already dead.

[ Glances at their penalty card ]

Whoever gave us that probably didn't think about what it could be at all. They just wanted the points.

Re: [discussion]

[mykidisthebest]

I wouldn't go that far. Maybe they just thought it didn't look too bad compared to the rest of their hand. If they wanted the points, they'd have played a ten-point card on us.

Re: [discussion]

[spinebuddyandme]

[ tips his head in a classic 'listening to Scarab' movement. There's a slight downturn of his mouth, and he shakes his head near imperceptibly before shrugging ]

Maybe. I'd hate to see what the rest of their cards looked like if that was one of the gentlest things they had.

Re: [discussion]

[mykidisthebest]

Cannibalism is lighter than losing an arm or something. We don't know what all of the cards look like, so it really could have been the lightest one, you know!

Re: [discussion]

[spinebuddyandme]

No way, cannibalism is one of the most messed up things you can make someone do. That's, like, psychological torture.

Re: [discussion]

[mykidisthebest]

Well, yeah, but...




[no he doesn't have a counter-argument]

You can just pretend it's lamb.

Re: [discussion]

[spinebuddyandme]

[ fuck he fucked up by thinking about it

His face shifts through a few different levels of nausea before he gets it under control and nods wordlessly ]

Re: [discussion]

[mykidisthebest]

[oops bad abort abort

covers Ananke's ears because that will make him stop thinking about it, surely]

Sorry. Don't think about it. Let's pretend the card doesn't exist until we have to deal with it. We don't even know what it is for sure.

Re: [discussion]

[spinebuddyandme]

[ nods again, weakly ]

It could just be bugs.

Re: [discussion]

[mykidisthebest]

Or garbage scraps. Eating garbage scraps is nasty.

Re: [discussion]

[spinebuddyandme]

I can't believe I'm hoping it's a trash sandwich.

Re: [discussion]

[mykidisthebest]

We're practicing our positive thinking in horrible situations. A trash sandwich is still pretty bad. Emotionally devastating. Definitely worth six points.