Tiger's Eye

[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

[antreegonist]

. . .

*:I*

Re: Discussion

[ferrissaves]

Can we agree upon a quest for alcohol now?

Re: Discussion

[orange_sun]

*:T*

[virtuallyroyalty]

... I feel like we should start defending ourselves before anything happens.

[scratched]

You can't defend yourself.

[orange_sun]

Do you guys have a team you want to defend? We're kind of thinking that we should each pick one and then split among the rest.

Re: Discussion

[ageplay]

[ will try to take the red stones and put them on Carnelian ]

Re: Discussion

[ferrissaves]

I know what you're doing. He's not the only one on that team.

Spread it out so it isn't as obvious, at least.

[virtuallyroyalty]

That was quick.

Re: Discussion

[genderbinary]

Shadow-san.

Re: Discussion

[scratched]

Board games. Seriously?

Re: Discussion

[ferrissaves]

Considering the persona, odds are the decisions made here will translate to real action later.

This one wouldn't think twice about causing harm to us.

Re: Discussion

[orange_sun]

*:TT*

...no victory conditions; we can assume that survival may or may not be one. We can't control our own. Strategically, if we spread our red stones evenly, it minimizes the risk of overloading a single team.

Re: Discussion

[ferrissaves]

Yes but.

[Well, Shadow and Carnelian 8|]

Re: Discussion

[ageplay]

That only works if everyone else does the same . . . or we all just kill each other, by trying to be equal.

Re: Discussion

[genderbinary]

There has to be a way to distribute these as evenly as possible.

Re: Discussion

[ferrissaves]

Bias is going to prevent that.

Re: Discussion

[orange_sun]

The best I've got is we each pick a team we don't want to hit and split stones up between the rest.

[SUMMARY SO FAR]

[orange_sun]

*walks out into the middle of the area and raises his voice to drill sergeant levels*

Right! Here's what we've got so far and we've got a couple of choices left to make.

We've agreed not to attack Peridot, Sapphire, Ruby, Amethyst, ourselves and Sleuth and Mithos's choices of team. We've also agreed to defend each of the remaining teams except Carnelian, and the two new teams.

That leaves us two red stones left to place and the choice of whether to use a black or not, and if so, where. I'm against using a black stone and don't care where we use the remaining reds. Who else has opinions?

Decisions

[dramatispersonae]

Re: Decisions

[orange_sun]

Carnelian: 2 red
Emerald: 2 red, 1 blue
Turquoise: 2 red, 1 blue
Iolite: 2 red, 1 blue
Citrine: 2 red, 1 blue
Jasper: 2 red, 2 blue
Heliodor: 2 red, 2 blue

Results

[dramatispersonae]

You are unfortunate. Sssome of your defenssse has been thieved.

[With that, an unseen force strikes out at all those who are present, leaving deep scratches on any exposed flesh. It isn't anywhere close to a fatal attack, but it is painful.]