[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.

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.

[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]

[turn in]

[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]

[yyyyyyyyikes.]

Well this fucking sucks.

[shortforever]

See something?

[survivaltricks]

[tapping his cheek thoughtfully, then pulling up a grin]

I think we can win this one.

Without being assholes about it.

[shortforever]

Does it involve giving points to other people?

[survivaltricks]

What? No— I think we can win without being self-sacrificial, too.

[folds his arms, tapping his fingers against his elbow]

I think it just involves a little. . . creativity.

[shortforever]

Alright, I'm listening. What's your plan?

[survivaltricks]

[tapping "the burdening" card]

What kind of punishment do you think is associated with this card?

[shortforever]

Probably someone gets partially crushed by a rock.

[survivaltricks]

Right? I bet that's what most people would think.

[draws back and spreads his arms wide]

But who here is carrying out the punishment? Us, right? Not the demon running this game. And part of the winning criteria is creativity, so. . .

[a pause]

What if the punishment wasn't being crushed by a rock, but being burdened with something else entirely?

[shortforever]

I can guarantee you the first time we soften the blow in some way, they'll make it worse.

[That still gets them one round of not being asshole though, so.]

We have to do two, so we could do something stupid and harmless with 'a crime of passion' too.

[survivaltricks]

[AHA. . .]

That's the usual way of things. But then again, the rules of each ritual aren't usually so strangely vague.

[. . . reaches out to rest his fingers against one of the cards]

I'm not interested in "softening the blow," per se. . . I doubt people will soften it for us.

But I want to do things our way. Like we usually do. So. . . if we commit to the bit, then maybe. . .

[shortforever]

I get it. How about you do yours to Bluebell? Crush them with some horrible knowledge or something. I'll take Clover and drop some worms in Lyra's hair and try to be real passionate about it.

1/2

[survivaltricks]

[SNORTS]

Naw. Peony. They're bound to play something on us.

And I'm going to burden them with the worst knowledge of all.

[LENGTHY PAUSE]

[survivaltricks]

My feelings.

[shortforever]

Man, fuck Peony. They're a bunch of emotionless pricks that need to be taken down a peg or two. Except Konabos I guess, he's alright. But they're not going to be burdened by your feelings.

[survivaltricks]

[flashes Odin a grin]

Probably not. But they'll be burdened by being forced to listen to me talk about them.

[AND HE THINKS THAT'S HILARIOUS!!]

[shortforever]

Take the rock with you just in case. I'm gonna menace some twins.