dramatispersonae | [ * ] Coral

[ * ] Coral

[ Your team is left alone - strange, how it didn't seem like you went anywhere, just everyone else disappeared.

A woman's voice - can be heard now ]

Ah . . . what I would give . . . no, what you will give? Your choices will determine that, so let us play a simple card game. But first, choose your stance.e.

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[blinks as he reads their cards, silent for a loooong moment as it all sinks in]

[and then he just. l. . . laughs]

[???]

[his shoulders quiver with each chortle, and he shakes his head]

Ha! S'nothing, I swear.

[bright smile]

We just picked a good role, that's all.

Edited 2013-01-01 00:20 (UTC)

[Nods]

I'm glad.

[leans against his shoulder slightly, and there is a significant lack of tension in his stance]

Now it's just a matter of mitigating the damage as best as we can.

It's hard to guess at all really, but at least it will hopefully help someone.

Minimizing as much damage as we can is the important part.

Edited 2013-01-01 00:38 (UTC)

[Nods]

I'd rather do that than win.

. . . so would I.

[and someone is finally happy he can do that without hurting his own team]

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I guess we know what it meant now.

[seems extremely pleased]

I should've known, honestly. Let's just ignore it. It's none of our business, anyway.

Edited 2013-01-01 00:22 (UTC)

[ smiling ]

We can focus on the game now. So, what teams, and what card?

We predict which teams chose 'martyr' and 'attack' and play the 'weaken' and 'nullify' cards on them, obviously. I know Carnelian and Jasper tend to play games like this to win, and neither of 'em are particularly self-sacrificing. Sapphire and the knights, on the other hand, probably chose 'martyr.'

[folds his arms and lets out a thoughtful hum]

The reflect card, on the other hand, poses a different problem.

In that case, we should definitely use nullify on a martyr team, and weaken on an attacker.

If we use reflect on a team we think chose advisor, then there wouldn't be any damage to begin with, right?

Right. But then we'd be nullifying whatever good they might do. So I think we should play reflect on a team that's likely to have either weaken or nullify played on 'em by another adviser team.

[idly toys with the cards in his hand as he thinks]

Carnelian is known to play hard, so let's play reflect on them, assuming another team will either weaken or nullify their attack. Jasper can get our weaken card. . .

And either the knights or Sapphire can get nullify.