Coral

[dramatispersonae]

[Upon entering your team's cloud of mist, you find yourselves transported to a bare stone room with a single stone table and chairs. (The chairs have been bolted to the floor.) On the table are a 16 red stones, 8 blue stones, and a 2 black stones. There are also indentations around the edge of the table, each one marked in the color of one of the teams.]

Comments

Instructions

[dramatispersonae]

[Jabberwock's voice echoes through the room]

Heroesss, the rulesss are ssssimple. The red stones are pointssss of attack that you mussst play againssst another team . . . or more if you ssso choosssse. The blue ssstoness are points of defensssse that you may play on othersss. They may not be played on yourselvesss. The black ssstoness are usssed to sssteal defenssse from another team. One ssstone is worth half the pointsss of defenssse they have accumulated. With both ssstones you will take all of the pointsss. However, if two teamsss thieve from the sssame target, the defenssse will be divided between them.

All red ssstones musssst be played, but it isss your choiccce how many of blue and black to play. When you have decccided, put the ssstones into the depressssion marked for your chosssen team or teamsss.

OOC

[dramatispersonae]

+Red stones are points of attack! You must play all of these stones.

+Blue stones are defense! You may choose to play only some or none of these stones, and you may not play them on your own team.

+Black stones are stealing! 1 stone steals half the defense points from the team it's played on. Both stones together steal all the points. You may choose to play none of these stones.
++++However if two teams steal from the same target, the points are divided. ie: X steals 100% of points from Z, but Y steals 100% too! They both get 50%. Or if X steals 100% and Y steals 50%, both get 50%.

+If there are further questions for Jabberwock, please ping Yayoi in IRC.

Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Discussion

[overboard]

I don't like the sound of that.

Re: Discussion

[becoming_hope]

Me neither!

Re: Discussion

[fairlyheroic]

. . .

Re: Discussion

[blackjacked]

[. . . oh good, a knight]

Zack.

Re: Discussion

[digitalemperor]

I don't think we've met.

[Distracting time for introductions.]

Re: Discussion

[mylittlecavallone]

Zack.

[ Why is everyone on this team tiny. ]

Re: Discussion

[pitching]

. . . did you check your pillow when you woke up.

Re: Discussion

[blackjacked]

. . .

Re: Discussion

[digitalemperor]

[Tap on your arm, just a light brush of fingers.]

Re: Discussion

[pitching]

. . .

Re: Discussion

[seldomseen]

[. . .



. . .]

. . . Uryu . . . It's just a game, though, right...?

Re: Discussion

[becoming_hope]

I don't know, Cub. [making to scoop him up and hug protectively]

Re: Discussion

[digitalemperor]

[Patting cubs head!] Hm, the winning conditions weren't stated though.

Re: Discussion

[blackjacked]

For the Persona, sure.

[watching Anemone scoop him up]

Knowing this guy, we should take this game as literally as possible.

Re: Discussion

[mylittlecavallone]

[ Oh jeez. ]

Re: Discussion

[blackjacked]

-- yo!

Re: Discussion

[pitching]

What kind of attack are we talking about . . .

Re: Discussion

[digitalemperor]

You have to attack...?

[This is a numbers game, but Mikado doesn't need math skill back to know how back it looks regardless or the distribution...]

Re: Discussion

[blackjacked]

Oi, guys. Listen up!

So far the plan is to play one attack stone on each team-- skipping Coral, of course. That leaves us with three extra to play on three other teams.

We'll use three blue stones to cancel out the extra attack points on those three teams. The other five we can play on teams we want to protect.

[takes a breath]

So the question is, which teams do we want to play the extra points on? And which ones do we wanna protect?

[a beat, because he was deliberately ignoring the issue up until now]

And do we want to protect ourselves more by playing the black stones?

Decisions

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Decisions

[blackjacked]

[in the end, Coral's stone distribution is as follows:

Coral - 0 stones
Ruby - 1 red, 1 blue
Jasper - 1 red
Citrine - 1 red
Carenlian - 1 red, 1 blue
Tiger's Eye - 1 red
Heliodor - 1 red, 1 blue
Peridot - 2 red, 1 blue
Emerald - 1 red, 1 blue
Turquoise - 2 red, 1 blue
Sapphire - 1 red, 1 blue
Iolite - 2 red, 1 blue
Amethyst - 1 red
Kunzite - 1 red

And no black stones]

Results

[dramatispersonae]

[Two cookies appear on the table. How ominous—I mean no. You can proceed to endgame.]