[gm card room - clover]

[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, DAFFODIL, BLUEBELL

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]

[aididitmyway]

What the hell?

Re: [discussion]

[sweetsmarts]

I'd rather we give Bluebell one o' the lower points cards if we can.

Re: [discussion]

[aiwillneversmile]

[quietly going to pat her head, staying put]

Re: [discussion]

[psynchroneyes]

[ she’s SCOWLING at these cards ]

What… what the hell is he summoning a demon like this for?! Do we really have to go through this crap again!

Re: [discussion]

[aididitmyway]

Wasn't his last ritual one of the better ones too?? This seems pretty... twisted.

Re: [discussion]

[eonsadrift]

This doesn't pose well for what might be played against us, either.

Re: [discussion]

[aiwillneversmile]

We may get different flocks for the next round if that affects strategy for this round.

[he sees you all dog piling on peony...]

Also, do we think this is a game we can actually win?

Re: [discussion]

[aididitmyway]

If we take things at face value, I'm not sure there's gonna be any actual winners.

[turn in]

[crittersheep]

Re: [turn in]

[eonsadrift]

Playing The Confession on Bluebell. (4)

Playing The Paired Offering on Peony. (6)

Playing The Ducking Stool on Peony. (10)

Re: [turn in]

[crittersheep]

Thank you, Clover.

[a deck of ordinary cards, a plate of shamrock cookies, and some shamrock shakes show up on the table. Clover can use these to occupy themselves until next round, if they want.]

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 VESTMENTS (a human head wearing a scold’s bridle) / 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: 32 points.

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

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]

[sweetsmarts]

So we did a 10, 6, 4 last time which woulda been 20 to make 40, and have 32 - so we're lookin' at some kinda 8 points o' punishment, right?

[ He glances over at Cygnus bc it's math but - ]

So we probably got two 4 pointers laid on us. And it looks like we don't see where from, which is good to know.

Re: [discussion]

[psynchroneyes]

Uh—

... I can't tell if this means we lucked out or everyone's actually taking it easy.

Re: [discussion]

[psynchroneyes]

[ The mood is still ]

So... Nobody's off limits between those three, right?

[turn in]

[crittersheep]

Re: [turn in]

[psynchroneyes]

The Base Offering on Thistle. (4)
The Whispering Curse on Lily. (6)
The Full Moon on Rose. (10)

[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 CIRCLET OF THORNS (a spiky crown on a bloody skull) / 4 pts / 1 TARGET
THE BURDENING (a figure stooped and nearly crushed by a boulder) / 4 pts / 1 TARGET
THE REFLECTION OF THE PAST (a bloodied mirror) / 4 pts / 1 TARGET

Your final point bank is: 40

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