[*] Kunzite

[dramatispersonae]

[ 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.

Comments

Re: discussion

[surefire]

It certainly can't hurt to ask.

Hey! What happens if a reflect card is played on an adviser or a martyr?

Re: discussion

[dramatispersonae]

Nothing to an adviser, but it will double a martyr's burden, of course.

Re: discussion

[surefire]

Ooookay, so let's steer away from martyrs...

Though what teams would pick that, anyway.

Re: discussion

[isfet]

Well, Carnelian's sure as hell not going to be a martyr. But I'd be awkward to explain if we got them killed through their own attack.

Re: discussion

[supersensitive]

We don't want to reflect an attacker or martyr if we can help it, yeah. So who's likely to pick "adviser"...

Re: discussion

[surefire]

I guessed Coral before, but it's a risk I'd rather avoid. ... A team that's not too focused on winning, but not pointlessly self-sacrificing. Any ideas?

Re: discussion

[isfet]

... Turquoise? Sapphire? Uh...

Re: discussion

[surefire]

I'm fine with Turquoise.

Re: discussion

[supersensitive]

I think... Heliodor or Tiger's Eye might too. Do you think Meadow would be okay with us risking Turquoise...

Re: discussion

[surefire]

Oh, right, her other brother... [shrugs] Heliodor, then.

Re: discussion

[isfet]

Well, it's not like he's playing. But Heliodor is fine with me.

Re: discussion

[supersensitive]

So... first round: nullify Jasper; second round: weaken Carnelian; third round: reflect Heliodor? Or is there another order that would work better...?

Re: discussion

[surefire]

Is there any good way to predict what order people will play their cards in? What order would we play ours, if we were attacking...

Re: discussion

[isfet]

I'd play my best attack in the middle. Not the first round, when people are likely to be blocking.

Re: discussion

[surefire]

In that case, should we switch nullifying Jasper and weakening Carnelian, do you think?

Re: discussion

[isfet]

I think this game has too many variables to be able to strategize properly!

Re: discussion

[surefire]

Fine, then we'll just leave it!

Re: discussion

[supersensitive]

Really? All right... Flip the nullify and weaken rounds, then? I feel like reflect should go last, since we'd want to... well, reflect Heliodor's reflect, if they are advisers after all, and that seems like the hardest one to pin down what to do with... But maybe not.

Re: discussion

[surefire]

Leaving reflect for last is fine... For the first two, I guess it doesn't really matter. I might be off in my predictions, anyway.

Re: discussion

[isfet]

That sounds fine to me.

Re: discussion

[supersensitive]

[nods!]

I do think we should switch to Carnelian in the first round and nullifying Jasper in the second round, though. Thinking about it... the most intuitive ways to order your attacks are from lowest to highest, highest to lowest, or what Shes said, right? So if we do "nullify" in the middle, we have the best chance of catching a medium or high-level attack, where if we did it first or last, it might catch the lowest level attack. Assuming people are thinking the same way I would, at least...

So: weaken Carnelian, nullify Jasper, and reflect Heliodor. Right?

Re: discussion

[isfet]

Not bad.

Re: discussion

[supersensitive]

[nods!!]

Looks like we're all agreed, then.

Re: discussion

[surefire]

[ruffles his hair]

And you say you can't do strategy...!

Re: discussion

[surefire]

Sounds good!