dramatispersonae | ✧ Emerald (Chance Game)

The game is five rounds! Each round is allowed 30 minutes for discussion & choosing what cards to play, with a 15 minute window between each round.

Each team starts with 25 points.

At the beginning of round 1, each team gets 6 cards. At the beginning of round 2, 3, 4, and 5, they are dealt 2 cards automatically.

Each round you may choose to take 1 card from a team of your choice—or not.

Each round you can also choose to spend your points to play any of your cards—or not. You can play as many cards as you have points for per round.

The goal of the game is to play and trade cards to end up with as many points as possible.

Cards

There are three types of cards!

Point cards simply award you that number of points if they are in your hand at the end of the game.

Action cards cost points to play, and allow you to take a specific action.

Status cards affect your status, or can be traded away either by random draw or by using an action card to affect other teams' statuses.

Good luck!

❋ Bargain Hunter. All actions taken cost ½ the amount of points.
❋ Great Luck. You have a higher chance of drawing a good card from the deck AND from another team.
❋ Steal. Cost: 3. Take a card from another team.
❋ Protect. Cost: 8. Prevents other teams from stealing cards from you this round.
❋ Go Fish. Cost: 2. Name a card type and a team. If that team has the card type you named, take it. If they do not have it, pay another 8 points.
❋ 1 point

You may:
✧ spend points to play any of your action cards
✧ pick a team to steal a card from (to show up in your hand at the beginning of next turn)
✧ draw two cards (to show up in your hand at the beginning of next turn) (default, unless specified otherwise)

Please discuss your options, then comment to [DECISION] with your choices! You have 30 minutes to decide; the new round will go up 15 minutes after all teams' decisions are in.

Is it just me, or do we have really good cards?

[nods]

It isn't bad, is it?

How do you want to go about this? Stealing's not going to cost us much, and we're likely to get something decent. Want to try that?

I guess it won't hurt to start off with that, right...?

[nods] Real question is who. I think we have to pick, and there's no way for it to not be totally random.

I sort of feel bad taking from someone even though I know it's just cards . . .

I suppose any team is alright.

Edited 2012-11-07 01:51 (UTC)

[rubs the back of his head] Me too, a little. We're winners, like that.

How about Sapphire? They don't seem like the sorts to hold that kind of thing against anyone.

[nods]

[Steal from Sapphire. Cost: 1.5 points due to Bargain Hunter; Great Luck in play.]

(You can also steal a card with no cost from another team)

[Tiger's Eye, then!]

You currently have 23.5 points.

Your hand:.
❋ Bargain Hunter. All actions taken cost ½ the amount of points.
❋ Great Luck. You have a higher chance of drawing a good card from the deck AND from another team.
❋ Protect. Cost: 8. Prevents other teams from stealing cards from you this round.
❋ Go Fish. Cost: 2. Name a card type and a team. If that team has the card type you named, take it. If they do not have it, pay another 8 points.
❋ 1 point
❋ Great Luck. You have a higher chance of drawing a good card from the deck AND from another team. (status)
❋ Reshuffle: Cost: 10. Get an entirely new hand. (action)
❋ ??? points (a random amount! revealed at game end)
❋ 10 points

You can do all of the following:
✧ spend points to play as many of your action cards as you like
✧ pick a team to steal a card from (to show up in your hand at the beginning of next turn)

You also automatically get two cards at the beginning of next turn, unless you specify that you don't want them.

Please discuss your options, then comment to [DECISION] with your choices! You have 30 minutes to decide; the new round will go up 15 minutes after all teams' decisions are in.

...Definitely not reshuffling.

Want to try the same thing as last round, only with a different team?

[Steal: Kunzite. Are we *extra lucky* from our two Great Lucks?]

Edited 2012-11-07 03:00 (UTC)

You currently have 23.5 points.

Your hand:.
❋ Bargain Hunter. All actions taken cost ½ the amount of points.
❋ Great Luck. You have a higher chance of drawing a good card from the deck AND from another team.
❋ Protect. Cost: 8. Prevents other teams from stealing cards from you this round.
❋ Go Fish. Cost: 2. Name a card type and a team. If that team has the card type you named, take it. If they do not have it, pay another 8 points.
❋ Reshuffle: Cost: 10. Get an entirely new hand. (action)
❋ ??? points (a random amount! revealed at game end)
❋ 10 points
❋ 40 points
❋ Cash In. Turn all point cards into points that you can spend. (action, immediate - PM Zazzle)
❋ Reshuffle: Cost: 10. Get an entirely new hand.

You can do all of the following:
✧ spend points to play as many of your action cards as you like
✧ pick a team to steal a card from (to show up in your hand at the beginning of next turn)

You also automatically get two cards at the beginning of next turn, unless you specify that you don't want them.

Please discuss your options, then reply to this comment with your choices! You have 30 minutes to decide; the new round will go up 15 minutes after all teams' decisions are in.

So, does 'cash in' mean that our point cards become unstealable?

Oh, I guess so. That means we should use it then.

[And then, I guess we heard a voice in our heads/knew this, instinctualy]

[nodnod]

I see . . .

I didn't even know there were ways to steal points. I guess we just never got those cards...

. . . it might be safer to turn them in though, right? Or . . .

[thinks, then nods] Yeah, let's try that.

[nods!]

And we can steal again. Any thoughts on who?

(73.5 points!)

(They become points instead of cards! So they can't be stolen by card-stealing means, but can be stolen by point-stealing means.)

[Aside from the cashing in, which we've already done, stealing from Sapphire]

You currently have 73.5 points.

Your hand:.
❋ Protect. Cost: 8. Prevents other teams from stealing cards from you this round.
❋ Rob Blind. Cost: 20. Take 3 cards from another team. (action)
❋ ??? points (a random amount! revealed at game end)
❋ Full Swap: Swap your entire hand with another team.

You can do all of the following:
✧ spend points to play as many of your action cards as you like
✧ pick a team to steal a card from (to show up in your hand at the beginning of next turn)

You also automatically get two cards at the beginning of next turn, unless you specify that you don't want them.

Please discuss your options, then reply to this comment with your choices! You have 30 minutes to decide; the new round will go up 15 minutes after all teams' decisions are in.

...Good thing we cashed out, looks like. Though our special abilities got stolen.

It's okay! We still have a few things. Should we use protect?

Yeah, I think we can afford to.

[nods]

Which team should we pick next . . .?

Someone we haven't gone for before. Coral, maybe?

Okay.

[nods]

[Protect. Steal: Coral]

You currently have 20 points.

Your hand:.
❋ Rob Blind. Cost: 20. Take 3 cards from another team. (action)
❋ ??? points (a random amount! revealed at game end)
❋ Full Swap: Swap your entire hand with another team.
❋ Foresight. This card allows you to choose one team per round and see what cards they have in their hand.
❋ Rundown. Cost: 5. Learn how many points each other team has. (action)
❋ Take A Chance. Switch point values with another team. (action)

You can do all of the following:
✧ spend points to play as many of your action cards as you like
✧ pick a team to steal a card from (to show up in your hand at the beginning of next turn)

You also automatically get two cards at the beginning of next turn, unless you specify that you don't want them.

Please discuss your options, then reply to this comment with your choices! You have 30 minutes to decide; the new round will go up 15 minutes after all teams' decisions are in.

T-twenty...

Taking a chance. Stealing from Heliodor.

You started with 20 points.
You swapped with Peridot for -3 points.
That sucks.
You stole from Heliodor, but they were protecting.
Your luck sucks.
You were sabotaged by Iolite! Points were divided by 2.
Which
makes it . . . go up . . .? -1.5?!

Your final hand:.
❋ Rob Blind. Cost: 20. Take 3 cards from another team. (action)
❋ ??? points (a random amount! revealed at game end) (0) . . .
❋ Full Swap: Swap your entire hand with another team.
❋ Foresight. This card allows you to choose one team per round and see what cards they have in their hand.
❋ Rundown. Cost: 5. Learn how many points each other team has. (action)

Final score: -1.5

✧ Emerald (Chance Game)

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✧ Starting Hand

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✧ Round One

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