[gm card room - rose]

[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

[card round rules - known ic]

[crittersheep]

PUNISHMENT CARDS:

• For each card round, your team receives a hand of six Punishment Cards. Each Punishment Card holds a hint to the punishment it will give, an indication of how many people it will affect, and an indication of how many points it is worth.
• Every team begins with a bank of 20 points by default. They gain points by playing cards on others, and lose points by having cards played on them (e.g. if Daffodil plays a 4-point Punishment Card on Clover, then Daffodil will gain 4 points and Clover will lose 4).
• Each card round, your team will be required to choose who to punish from three other teams. You are NOT ALLOWED to play your own Punishment Cards on yourselves.
• You must play a minimum of TWO cards per round from your hand, on a minimum of TWO teams. You may play a maximum of FOUR cards per round.
• If a round ends and a team has not played the minimum requirement for the round, the gamerunner will RNG FOUR cards from your hand, and play them on your selection of teams at random.

OPTIONAL CARDS:

• Teams may also choose to spend points and purchase the following:
  • SHUFFLE - COSTS 5 POINTS - replace 3 Punishment Cards of your choice in your current hand with new ones.
  • SUPPORT - COSTS 15 POINTS - adds 10 points to the bank of another team you choose, during the current round.
  • VOID - COSTS 15 POINTS - negates one Punishment Card placed on another team of your choice. This will be picked from the cards of LOWEST point value played upon them that round.
• You may only purchase each type of Optional Card once per round (so maximum 1 Shuffle, 1 Support, 1 Void.) PING ME right away if you play either Shuffle or Support since they will take effect immediately! Void can be played with your punishment card turn-in and will be taken into account while sorting punishments.
• Teams may go into the negatives from having Punishment Cards played on them, but not from buying Optional Cards. So if you start a round with only 5 points, you can purchase SHUFFLE, but not SUPPORT or VOID. If you start with less than 5 points, you can’t purchase Optional Cards at all.

OTHER:

• When you have locked in your choices, post them under Turn In and ping me in #game-alerts. You are OOCly free to go after that, as results won’t be up until a couple of hours after turn in. Just note the start time for the next round!
• Teams ICly are stuck in their rooms until all card rounds are over. Teams will also not learn what punishments are in detail, until the card rounds are over and the punishment round begins.
• If you do anything crazy and out of bounds ping me. I will try to be around for the entirety of each card round, but I do have some RL stuff I may need to take care of as well so I may respond a little slower if I'm on mobile.
• One winner will be determined by the card rounds! The team with the highest total point bank at the end takes this win slot.
• In the punishment round, you will have to enact the punishments you played on other teams with your own hands. Up to three additional winners will be determined based on your enthusiasm, commitment and creativity regarding the punishments.

ROUND 1

[crittersheep]

This round runs Friday Jul 19 5 PM PST-9 PM PST, with your answers due by 9 PM PST. Results will be up by the next morning before Card Round 2 begins.

[hand]

[crittersheep]

The demon’s voice issues from the crystal ball, and the names of your three potential targets glimmer into existence inside it. You know it’s time to flip your cards and see what you’ve got to play.

Begin.

Your current point bank is: 20 points.

The teams for you to punish this round are THISTLE, LILY, CLOVER

Your six-card hand is as follows:



(While the subject matter is clearly gruesome, all card images are heavily stylized cartoons, in blacks and whites.)

[discussion]

[crittersheep]

Re: [discussion]

[wants_the_phd]

[Shuffling the curtains]

Wait, no, I wasn't done looking at the demon! Let me out!

Re: [discussion]

[strateelgic]

[I just want you to know that in my mind all the cards look something like this.]

Of course Lily is one of our options.

[Sigh.]

Re: [discussion]

[wants_the_phd]

[her thoughts exactly!!]

Do you suppose they got us, too?

[debug_mode]

What a coincidence... we could use that shirt right about now.

Re: [discussion]

[poisonista]

I can't say I'm feeling entirely sympathetic to them, but I'm not in any mood to hurt them, either.

[turn in]

[crittersheep]

Re: [turn in]

[strateelgic]

[Plays the Strangling for Thistle and The Vestments for Clover.]

Re: [turn in]

[crittersheep]

Thank you, Rose.

[a deck of ordinary cards, a plate of biscuits*, and a tea set appear on the table for them to entertain themselves until round end.

*some of the biscuits are meat, for Azdaja]

ROUND 2

[crittersheep]

This round runs Saturday Jul 20 9 AM PST-1 PM PST, with your answers due by 1 PM PST. Results will be up by 3 PM PST.

[r1 result]

[crittersheep]

Collectively, the flocks played 13 4-point punishments, 3 6-point punishments, 2 10-point punishments, and 1 cross-team optional card this round.

You have received the following punishments, but do not know who played what:

THE ARMY OF ONE (several figures whose heads appear to be melding together) / 10 pts / FULL TEAM
THE BEHOLDING (an open staring eye above a white circle) / 4 pts / 1 TARGET
THE REFLECTION OF THE PAST (a bloodied mirror) / 4 pts / 1 TARGET
THE HEART-TWISTING CURSE (an anatomically correct heart held in an open mouth) / 4 pts / 1 TARGET

[hand]

[crittersheep]

Three new targets and a fresh hand of cards appear.

Interesting…keep going, won’t you?

Your current point bank is: 6 points.

The teams for you to punish this round are DAFFODIL, BLUEBELL, PEONY

Your six-card hand is as follows:



(While the subject matter is clearly gruesome, all card images are heavily stylized cartoons, in blacks and whites.)

[discussion]

[crittersheep]

Re: [discussion]

[wants_the_phd]

[WE LOST 22 POINTS IN THE FIRST ROUND!?]

Looks like some motherfuckers have been going above and beyond.

Re: [discussion]

[poisonista]

[ Hmm. Now he's looking tense. ]


Either we pissed someone off really badly or people have far more people they care about on other flocks than they do us.

[ Oh these cards look bad. ]

Re: [discussion]

[stirtheblood]

[EDGELORD IS HERE NOW]

...Eh? The hell is this bullshit??

Re: [discussion]

[wants_the_phd]

Edgelord?

Hi? What are you doing here?

Re: [discussion]

[poisonista]

Oh, Mr. Edgelord. Why are you here?

[ Huh. ]

Re: [discussion]

[strateelgic]

Just the usual.

[turn in]

[crittersheep]

Re: [turn in]

[wants_the_phd]

REFLECTION OF THE PAST (4) to Bluebell
THE LONG SLEEP (10) to Daffodil

[r2 results]

[crittersheep]

Collectively, the flocks played 11 4-point punishments, 4 6-point punishments, 3 10-point punishments, and 1 cross-team optional card this round.

You have received the following punishments, but do not know who played what:

THE FULL MOON (a group of werewolves looking up at the sky) / 10 pts / FULL TEAM
THE HEART-TWISTING CURSE (an anatomically correct heart held in an open mouth) / 4 pts / 1 TARGET
THE CONFESSION (a figure knelt in front of a confessional. a sinister shadow is emerging from the door.) / 4 pts / 1 TARGET

Your final point bank is: 2

The curtains around you draw away into empty space, leaving you in the pasture…