CORAL

[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]

[blackjacked]

[. . . AS A MATTER OF FACT I DO]

[stuffs a token into the machine]

Re: [FEED THE MACHINE]

[dramatispersonae]

[ for each token that goes into the machine, a perfect, delicious-looking hot dog comes out. oh my god. they squish slightly when you touch them. does that feel like... foam? best not to examine it too closely.

you thought this was a competition for points? no — you know instinctively that this is a competition for hot dogs, a measurement equivalent to points yet infinitely superior. these are your treasure. this is the hoard you must expand and defend. are you ready, Aather? ]

[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]

[pitching]

Kit, you should join the cat and become thieving buddies.

[DECISION]

[dramatispersonae]

Re: [DECISION]

[blackjacked]

Sneak attack on Sapphire

[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 hotdogs

teams who tried to steal from you were: SAPPHIRE

teams who successfully stole from you were: SAPPHIRE! -6 hotdogs!

you automatically received 4 fresh tokens at the start of the round! once you convert them, you now have this many hot dogs: 12 ]

[DISCUSSION]

[dramatispersonae]

Re: [DISCUSSION]

[pitching]

I knew it. Those jerks.

Re: [DISCUSSION]

[heavens_mirror]

[snerk]

Looks like you were right.

[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 ]

[digitalemperor]

[So while Kit and Dragonfly bicker Shark and Canary give the hot dogs to the Dog.]