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[*] Carnelian

[ 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.

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You can choose to be an attacker, be a martyr or be an adviser. It is hardest to win as an adviser. But to be an attacker you must be callous and to be a martyr you must have a taste for pain.

Also, please name two teams you wish to know more about.

Edited 2012-12-31 23:00 (UTC)

...Since it's not just me, I'm assuming martyr is out of the question, and I'm fairly sure we have more talent as attackers.

Edited 2012-12-31 23:11 (UTC)

Attacker seems fine.

What about the two teams we want to know more about...? Should we pick one we have no connection with, or do you want to know something about a specific team?

We should know Heliodor, if we're targeting them again.

I'm fine with that. How about Peridot as the other team...?

That sounds fine.

Then it's decided.

Our choice is attackers.

As for the team we'd like to know more about, we're going for Heliodor and Peridot.

[ THREE CARDS APPEAR - on one side is an ax, on the other is text. ]

The first reads: "inflect minor injury"
River wants least To go back into the Book ever again.

The second reads: "inflict medium injury"
Beatrice wants least for for Peridot to lose respect for her

The third reads: "inflict major injury"
Seeker wants to stop being a fuck up :'(

You will play all three cards simultaneously, but choose which order you want them to be used. Reflect turns a card back on whoever played it, nullify cancels a card's action and weaken will bring a card's action down a rank.

The other cards that teams may be playing are martyr cards - a minor, medium or major injury to their own team or adviser cards - reflect a card back to the player, nullify a card's effect and weaken a card's effect. As attacker please choose a team to attack with each of your cards.

We should use the highest attack on a team we think would be attacker.

Why not use them all on the same team?

I'm concerned about the possibility of them reflecting. If they nullify it, we lose the game, but if they reflect we take that damage onto ourselves instead.

But it's true that if it works, we'd likely win.

Edited 2013-01-01 00:32 (UTC)

Right, so we should try to pick a team that hasn't chosen advisor if we use that strategy. Martyr should be fine as well, though.

I doubt we have many martyrs around. It's much more likely most teams picked advisor and attacker. Many teams don't like the idea of hurting others, but they wouldn't want to harm their entire team either unless absolutely necessary-- and the position of advisor gives them the chance to not hurt anyone.

That's why aiming for an attacker is much safer. Given who's playing I'm fairly certain that was Jasper's choice, but I'd rather not harm them. So we need to pick another team we're sure would go for it.

We can't be sure with any of them. Advisor would be hardest to win with, so that should give us some advantage. And I don't know the teams well enough to say who would definitely choose attacker. What about Heliodor or Peridot?

I'm almost entirely certain Peridot won't pick attacker. When I played with them, they were reluctant to cause any damage to people at all.

But Heliodor is a definite possibility-- especially since last game they were the ones who sent us the spear that hit me.

They're an easy target, and nobody has any strange attachments to their team. Should we risk it?

[ thinking thinking thinking

if this reflects their attacks they are pretty much dead, not just injured

but hey, they're not going to get anything without risking. ]

I'm fine with it.

But just in case, we should pick a proper order and two other teams as well. We're not certain they'll take all of these on one team.

My suggestion is to use the major attack on Heliodor as last, anyway.

Major attack on Heliodor second. If you think Jasper is likely to be an attacking team and you'd be willing, they could get the minor attack first. That would leave the medium attack third.

Mm...

Fine. Minor on Jasper first, high on Heliodor second, and medium on Iolite last. If we can play all on Heliodor, then the order is still the same.

Edited 2013-01-01 00:58 (UTC)

Unless you've got another suggestion for the first team to attack.

If it's minor damage it's no problem. And I have no doubt she'd pick attacker.

Then we're decided.

Please reply with what order you are playing the cards in and on which teams.

[ ie - 1: major attack on sapphire
2: minor attack on emerald
3: medium attack on coral ]

[1: minor attack on Heliodor
2: major attack on Heliodor
3: medium attack on Heiodor

…AND IF THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PUT ALL THREE ON ONE TEAM:
1: minor attack on Jasper
2: major attack on Heliodor
3: medium attack on Iolite.]

Unlucky. You gained a less than minor injury card, a major injury card and two medium injury cards.

[ round 1 - an attack card that was minor was downgraded to . . . less than minor. round 2 - your major card reflected and also downgraded to medium, round three your own medium card reflected and another team's major attack card. ]

Do you wish to combine them . . .or take them separately. . .?

[IDK LING BETTER ANSWER THIS ONE MALIK IS POSSIBLY UNAVAILABLE.

leave a message at the tone.]

[ is less surprised than could be ]

... Can we decide which of us take which, or are both of us supposed to take equal damage?

Both of you, it is a team effort.

[ hahahah ]

Then we're taking all damage right now.

[ With that two very large axes materialize out of nowhere and swing once - but man is it a good swing. Maybe it gets you in the neck or head or whatever but it's a fatal blow.

You can go be a corpse in endgame if you like ]

… [looks away from Ling.]

It seems like our bet didn't quite work out. Funny how I was talking about luck just before we started.

Ha! This had nothing to do with luck!

[ it has more to do with people knowing we play to win that's true ]

Maybe. Really though, having to take this much with you here is annoying.

But I suppose it's better if it's you and not Teir.

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