Carnelian

[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

[godfatherly]

[ Curt, snappish, and... directed at the ceiling. ]

Explain the effect of having attacks played against a team.

Re: Discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Injury. Perhapsss death.

Re: Discussion

[godfatherly]

[ Nod. ]

Re: Discussion

[doubleminded]

If we play all our blue stones on a team and play black stones on it as well, it's effectively using all the defense on ourselves-- it's risky, though, if someone else plays black stones on the same team.

Re: Discussion

[tocatchafallingapple]

[ right away ]

All the blue stones on Sapphire.

Re: Discussion

[doubleminded]

Only if we're using black stones on Sapphire.

Re: Discussion

[tocatchafallingapple]

Sorry, no.

Re: Discussion

[thankyouverymooch]

Hold on. I understand wanting to protect your friend, but we shouldn't decide so carelessly right off the bat.

Re: Discussion

[fighting_alena]

...because of Apple?

Re: Discussion

[witheyesofgold]

We can simply not attack them, along with the other teams we care about. Perhaps split the blue stones among those.

Re: Discussion

[fighting_alena]

Ah, the dreaded stones again.

Re: Discussion

[witheyesofgold]

We're not attacking Coral. Other than that, I don't care how we distribute these.

Re: Discussion

[godfatherly]

Nor Ruby, nor Tiger's Eye.

Re: Discussion

[fighting_alena]

Agreed!

Re: Discussion

[thankyouverymooch]

I'd rather not attack Turquoise if possible, but my preference isn't as strong as yours. I won't mind if it becomes necessary.

You know the other teams better, so... what are the chances of people using stones to protect the newest teams?

Re: Discussion

[fighting_alena]

I agree with that too.

Probably next to nothing, everyone will worry more about the relationships they have with the teams they know.

Decisions

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Decisions

[godfatherly]

[ Sixteen red, eight blue, and two black... all on Iolite. ]

Results

[dramatispersonae]

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

Re: Results

[doubleminded]

Ha! [leaves sans cookie.]

Re: Results

[godfatherly]

[ Taking any cookies Ling doesn't... to feed to Ling later. ]

Re: Results

[thankyouverymooch]

[and this is why you're my favourite (he's taking just one)]