[gm card room - thistle]

[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 PEONY, BLUEBELL, 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]

1/2

[survivaltricks]

[AT FIRST HE IS LIKE]

[BIG SIGH]

[survivaltricks]

[. . . then he pauses, considers the rules and cards more carefully, and his features turn pensive]

Oh.

Huh.

[shortforever]

See something?

[shortforever]

[yyyyyyyyikes.]

Well this fucking sucks.

[turn in]

[crittersheep]

Re: [turn in]

[shortforever]

Lupin will play "The Burdening" on Peony. He's going to have a boulder-shaped balloon with him while burdening Peony with his emotions.

Odin will play "The Strangling" on Clover. He's going to blow up one of those 'animal balloon' balloons and make a snake out of it before using it to strangle someone. (The balloon will pop before actually killing anyone.)

Odin and Lupin together will play "The Circlet of Thorns" on Bluebell. They're going to make a balloon crown that has mashed blueberries in it and then place it on someone's head. Then they're going to pop it with a thorn.

Re: [turn in]

[crittersheep]

[the demon answers]

Thistle will have to follow the base requirements of the punishments when they are revealed.

They may not necessarily reflect your plans.

Do you still want to play these two cards on these two teams?

[survivaltricks]

[STICKS OUT HIS TONGUE]

You are ruining our bit.

[survivaltricks]

[after talking to Odin]

Mmm. We do.

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.

A punishment you issued was VOIDED.

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

THE PAIRED OFFERING (a pair of eyeballs in a pair of cupped hands) / 6 pts / 2 TARGETS
THE CONFESSION (a figure knelt in front of a confessional. a sinister shadow is emerging from the door.) / 4 pts / 1 TARGET
THE STRANGLING (a ropy serpentine creature wrapping up a humanoid figure) / 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: 14 points.

The teams for you to punish this round are DAFFODIL, LILY, ROSE

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]

[survivaltricks]

[. . .]

[mutters]

I want to make the ten point card a giant get-along sweater—

[survivaltricks]

[. . . . .]

Hysteria could be being forced to listen to a series of extremely bad jokes. Maybe involving balloon animals??

[survivaltricks]

The surprise is obviously spooking someone with a fake cockroach. Haha. Gross.

[turn in]

[crittersheep]

[survivaltricks]

Beholden - Lily
Confession - Rose
Hysteria - Daffodil

[crittersheep]

[the demon laughs from inside the crystal ball]

Very good. Accepted.

[Y'ALL CAN HANG OUT UNTIL PUNISHMENT TIME you still have the treats and cards from R1 if you want them!]

[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 BASE OFFERING (an eyeball in a pair of cupped hands) / 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: 20

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

[survivaltricks]

[. . . HUH. . .]

All things considered. . .