HELIODOR

[dramatispersonae]

[ you’re in a kitchen, with wide-silled windows set into every wall and framed by team-colored curtains! you’re seated at a table with a team-colored tablecloth. it’s a little strange here; the counters and cabinets are made of bone, as are your chairs and the table, and everything seems juuuuust a little oversized, though you can’t quite put your finger on how. warm sunlight streams through the windows; it’s very bright and cheerful in this room, though the shadows are equivalently deep and dark.

on a table sit a small pile of bone tokens, each stamped with the image of an animal on one side and a crescent moon on the other; there’s a rat, a pig, a bat, a one-winged hippo, a horse, possibly a giraffe, and others! there are ten of them. ... there’s a note next to them that says “For the machine.”

on the far end of the room there is a simple, brightly colored machine. the note next to it says “Feed me.” trying to put anything besides tokens in here causes it to smoke and spit the foreign substance out. ]

Comments

[FEED THE MACHINE]

[dramatispersonae]

[ the bone tokens are right there. you know you want to see what happens. ]

Re: [FEED THE MACHINE]

[everfixedmark]

Oh, hello.

Re: [FEED THE MACHINE]

[uneulogized]

Hey.

So we just ... feed the machine?

[ROUND 1]

[dramatispersonae]

[ each action you take requires you to give a certain number of hot dogs to one of your hosts so they’ll help you complete it. you can choose any combination of zero or one Category A activities, zero or one Category B activities, and either zero, one, or two Category C activities, or you may pass and keep your existing pile of hot dogs.

Category A

3 HOT DOGS: CUNNING SPYWORK (Cheshire spies on all the other teams for you, giving you the hot dog total of the 3 highest and 3 lowest scorers from their previous round.)

1 HOT DOG: GENEROUS DONATION (the Dog graciously carries up to 6 hot dogs to a team of your choice, for a small fee.)


Category B

2 HOT DOGS: SNEAK ATTACK (Cheshire sneaks into another team’s stash of hot dogs and brings back 6! will FAIL if your target has also used a sneak attack or guarded.)

2 HOT DOGS: BOLD ATTACK (the Dog storms your enemy’s gates and steals 6 hot dogs from them! will FAIL if your target has also used a bold attack or guarded.)


Category C

6 HOT DOGS: STALWART GUARD (no one else can get through the Dog to steal your hot dogs this round!)

4 HOT DOGS: ...HURK... (Cheshire eats 4 of your hot dogs and... uh... either that’s it or he pukes them back up, leaving your originals plus 4 more strangely unscathed hot dogs for your pile. 50/50 shot. this video of a cat hurking has been replaced by a kitten sleeping, that’s gross.) ]

[ DISCUSSION ]

[dramatispersonae]

Re: [ DISCUSSION ]

[everfixedmark]

Well... there's a number of different play strategies, then.

Re: [ DISCUSSION ]

[uneulogized]

We should pick a side to go with and stick with it.

[ DECISION ]

[dramatispersonae]

Re: [ DECISION ]

[uneulogized]

Sneak Attack, Turquoise.

[ROUND 2]

[dramatispersonae]

[ you can choose any combination of zero or one Category A activities, zero or one Category B activities, and either zero, one, or two Category C activities, or you may pass and keep your existing pile of hot dogs.

Category A

3 HOT DOGS: CUNNING SPYWORK (Cheshire spies on all the other teams for you, giving you the hot dog total of the 3 highest and 3 lowest scorers from their previous round.)

1 HOT DOG: GENEROUS DONATION (the Dog graciously carries up to 6 hot dogs to a team of your choice, for a small fee.)


Category B

2 HOT DOGS: SNEAK ATTACK (Cheshire sneaks into another team’s stash of hot dogs and brings back 6! will FAIL if your target has also used a sneak attack or guarded.)

2 HOT DOGS: BOLD ATTACK (the Dog storms your enemy’s gates and steals 6 hot dogs from them! will FAIL if your target has also used a bold attack or guarded.)


Category C

6 HOT DOGS: STALWART GUARD (no one else can get through the Dog to steal your hot dogs this round!)

4 HOT DOGS: ...HURK... (Cheshire eats 4 of your hot dogs and... uh... either that’s it or he pukes them back up, leaving your originals plus 4 more strangely unscathed hot dogs for your pile. 50/50 shot.) ]

[ HOT DOGS!!! ]

[dramatispersonae]

Re: [ HOT DOGS!!! ]

[dramatispersonae]

[ your HURK was a: N/A

your WANTON LARCENY was a: success! +6 hot dogs

teams who tried to steal from you were: N/A

teams who successfully stole from you were: N/A

you automatically received 4 fresh tokens at the start of the round! once you convert them, you now have this many hot dogs: 18 ]

[ DISCUSSION ]

[dramatispersonae]

Re: [ DISCUSSION ]

[everfixedmark]

That's a lot of hot dogs. We could try a hurk along with something else.

[ DECISION ]

[dramatispersonae]

[ROUND 3]

[dramatispersonae]

[ you can choose any combination of zero or one Category A activities, zero or one Category B activities, and either zero, one, or two Category C activities, or you may pass and keep your existing pile of hot dogs.

Category A

3 HOT DOGS: CUNNING SPYWORK (Cheshire spies on all the other teams for you, giving you the hot dog total of the 3 highest and 3 lowest scorers from their previous round.)

1 HOT DOG: GENEROUS DONATION (the Dog graciously carries up to 6 hot dogs to a team of your choice, for a small fee.)


Category B

2 HOT DOGS: SNEAK ATTACK (Cheshire sneaks into another team’s stash of hot dogs and brings back 6! will FAIL if your target has also used a sneak attack or guarded.)

2 HOT DOGS: BOLD ATTACK (the Dog storms your enemy’s gates and steals 6 hot dogs from them! will FAIL if your target has also used a bold attack or guarded.)


Category C

6 HOT DOGS: STALWART GUARD (no one else can get through the Dog to steal your hot dogs this round!)

4 HOT DOGS: ...HURK... (Cheshire eats 4 of your hot dogs and... uh... either that’s it or he pukes them back up, leaving your originals plus 4 more strangely unscathed hot dogs for your pile. 50/50 shot.) ]

[ HOT DOGS!!! ]

[dramatispersonae]

[ DISCUSSION ]

[dramatispersonae]

[ DECISION ]

[dramatispersonae]

[ROUND 4]

[dramatispersonae]

[ you can choose any combination of zero or one Category A activities, zero or one Category B activities, and either zero, one, or two Category C activities, or you may pass and keep your existing pile of hot dogs.

Category A

3 HOT DOGS: CUNNING SPYWORK (Cheshire spies on all the other teams for you, giving you the hot dog total of the 3 highest and 3 lowest scorers from their previous round.)

1 HOT DOG: GENEROUS DONATION (the Dog graciously carries up to 6 hot dogs to a team of your choice, for a small fee.)


Category B

2 HOT DOGS: SNEAK ATTACK (Cheshire sneaks into another team’s stash of hot dogs and brings back 6! will FAIL if your target has also used a sneak attack or guarded.)

2 HOT DOGS: BOLD ATTACK (the Dog storms your enemy’s gates and steals 6 hot dogs from them! will FAIL if your target has also used a bold attack or guarded.)


Category C

6 HOT DOGS: STALWART GUARD (no one else can get through the Dog to steal your hot dogs this round!)

4 HOT DOGS: ...HURK... (Cheshire eats 4 of your hot dogs and... uh... either that’s it or he pukes them back up, leaving your originals plus 4 more strangely unscathed hot dogs for your pile. 50/50 shot.) ]

[ HOT DOGS!!! ]

[dramatispersonae]

[ DISCUSSION ]

[dramatispersonae]

[ DECISION ]

[dramatispersonae]

[ CATS OR DOGS: THE ETERNAL QUESTION ]

[dramatispersonae]

[ please choose what you want to do with your hot dogs! the Dog and Cheshire will not share, so you can't divide them up and give them to both. ]

Re: [ CATS OR DOGS: THE ETERNAL QUESTION ]

[uneulogized]

They go to the cat, of course. Sorry, dog, but the cat just fits our style.