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[gm card room - lily]

[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.]

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It's...something to try. If we don't want to plan on winning with the most points, we can at least try to come out on top in another way. Not getting healing afterwards tends to take us out at the knees when we have better things to do.

I told Ananke I'd be down with playing the butcher card if I get to do it. I don't want him to be thinking he has to give the punishments if we go for the higher cards. If you guys don't agree, though, then maybe we do the 3 lower cards.

[....reaches over to tug on his ear]

I don't want you thinking you have to give out punishments either. We already said that we'd work it out when we know what we have to do. Besides, you can't even hurt mortals.

If we want to ensure more points then playing three lower cards makes more sense. It's still the same amount of people getting hurt regardless of what we play, and we don't know what the punishments are, so I would lean towards more points if that's our goal.

Hey. [ half-hearted swat at his hand ] It's not that I can't hurt mortals. I just can't use Riptide to do it.

Three lower cards or two of the sixes. That's what gets us the same amount of points here.

If you talk nonsense you get your ear pulled.

[unrepentant!!! and holds up three fingers]

I'll still defer to what you and Ananke want to go with. But three lower cards hurts less people--it targets three people in total, whereas two sixes would target four people. If it's the same amount of points then it feels prudent to avoid harming more people where possible, especially when we know two teams are already being hit in full. It's something to consider.

[ quiet for about a count of ten, then breathes out ]

...three lower cards. Yeah. I think that's better.

[raises an eyebrow; not quite amused, but there's something in his eye that's close to that]

What, you had to think about it? You can hit more people if you want to. I won't stop you.

[ huffs out a breath ]

Yeah, you caught me. I was really looking for an excuse to stab some guys today.

It's not a bad way to vent your anger. I'd love to be able to just get into a fight once or twice.

Well, if you guys would stop with the don't pick fights with demons, Ceph, we'd have more chances.

[mimics his voice back at him]

How are you going to beat a demon in a fight, Ceph? Share your wisdom with the class and we'll see if it sounds like a good idea, or if it sounds like we're throwing away all of our points by guaranteeing an extra punishment.

[ rude???? ]

I'm not saying right now, geez.

If not now, then when? The demons don't exactly hang out around the pasture for you to attack as you please.

Okay, I'm never gonna do anything that I think would blowback on you guys. You know that, right?

I know. But if we all agree on it then it's fine. We should murder some demons, but everything we've tried has come up empty so far. So we have to be clever about it.

We should have a demon-killing strategy session one of these days.

We could do it right after this!

Actually? That's a good idea.

It would be kind of fun to focus on, actually. I wonder if we could con--convince our Lady to tell us any demon weaknesses.

Worth asking. She might be willing to give us something...especially there's a weakness some have that she doesn't.

Yeah, exactly. I just don't want her to start withholding information from us because of it. So if we ask, we should make sure to phrase it appropriately.