TIGER'S EYE

[dramatispersonae]

[Entering your team-appropriate room, you'll find that it's rather sparsely decorated, all told. There are benches on the sides of the room, enough room for everyone to sit comfortably at least, and there's a small table in the center with another basket of flowers on it.

What's probably more interesting, however, is a chart on the far wall, which lists all of the teams, as well as the number 3 next to each of them.

The white rabbit from earlier comes in through a small hole in the back wall and looks at everyone.]

Hi! I'm Peter Cottontail. I wanted to meet everybunny and get to know you a little, so I thought we'd play a game. Okay?

Comments

RULES

[dramatispersonae]

Each round, you will be paired with another team, and each team will have the following option: Give, or Take. You can't talk to the other team when making this decision. However, the chart on the wall will update after each round with pair-ups, decisions, and final point totals.

If both teams choose Give, both teams get 2 points.

If one team chooses Give and the other chooses Take, the Give team loses 2 points and the Take team gains 3 points.

If both teams choose Take, both teams' point totals remain unchanged.

Oh, and um, if you have negative points, you don't have any to Give, so you can only Take.

The game ends after five rounds, or once at least one team gets to 9 points, whichever comes first.

QUESTIONS FOR THE BUNNY

[dramatispersonae]

ROUND 1

[dramatispersonae]

You are paired with Peridot!

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

DECISION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[imaginemeandyuu]

Ummm you can only get ahead by taking, but that seems jerky, so you wanna start by giving?

Re: DISCUSSION

[yourewaitingforagate]

The game seems easy enough. I don't mind giving if you do.

Re: DISCUSSION

[imaginemeandyuu]

I figure we can either play to get the most points or be the most giving or whatever...

Re: DISCUSSION

[yourewaitingforagate]

The Persona seems like a pretty nice guy, for a rabbit . . . Let's go for most giving then.

Re: DISCUSSION

[imaginemeandyuu]

Woo!

Re: DISCUSSION

[yourewaitingforagate]

Right. Let's show them what Tiger's Eye is made of.

Re: DECISION

[imaginemeandyuu]

TAKE OUR LOVE AND AFFECTION we are giving!

ROUND 1 RESULTS

[dramatispersonae]

[The chart on the wall suddenly updates itself as soon as everyone's cast their votes. First each matchup that happened, then each decision, then the change in points, followed finally by the new totals. Perhaps it may surprise some of you. Perhaps it may not.]

Coral	Jasper
GIVE	GIVE
+2	+2
5	5
Carnelian	Citrine
GIVE	TAKE
-2	+3
1	6
Tiger's Eye	Peridot
GIVE	TAKE
-2	+3
1	6
Emerald	Turquoise
GIVE	TAKE
-2	+3
1	6
Sapphire	Kunzite
GIVE	GIVE
+2	+2
5	5
Heliodor	Iolite
TAKE	TAKE
0	0
3	3

ROUND 2

[dramatispersonae]

You are paired with Turquoise!

A SURPRISE

[dramatispersonae]

[Peter pops up again.]

Um, um, there's one thing I forgot to mention earlier. In between rounds, like now, you can choose to give one of your points to any other team you want. You don't have to, though. And I won't tell anybunny what any other team decides until the next results go up.

DISCUSSION

[dramatispersonae]

DECISION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: DISCUSSION

[imaginemeandyuu]

Hmm. What do you want to do?

Re: DISCUSSION

[yourewaitingforagate]

If we wind up in the negative it'd make things kind of hard for sticking to our goal.

Re: DISCUSSION

[imaginemeandyuu]

Not sticking to our goal also makes it hard to stick to our goal. Our goal may not get stuck to.

Re: DISCUSSION

[yourewaitingforagate]

So do we try to stick it out or is it time for a new goal. I guess that's the question.

Re: DISCUSSION

[imaginemeandyuu]

Hmm.

Taking is literally the only way to advance -- there's no way to lose points if you take every round, just go up. The teams who used 'Take' will definitely keep using 'Take' every round because they decided to go with that strategy.

So what if, now that we have a first round guide, we use 'Take' on every team that used 'Take' int he first round, to keep us both at the same point level, and use 'Give' on every team that used 'Give' in the first round?

I mean it may change between rounds but...

Re: DISCUSSION

[yourewaitingforagate]

But then where does that leave us? We can't get by the teams that are taking that way, and we won't be very "giving" either.

We know that we can give for one more round. If Turquoise turns their game around then we can keep giving for a little while longer. Or maybe someone would feel a little generous.

Re: DISCUSSION

[imaginemeandyuu]

If everyone stonewalls the take teams, then all the give teams start climbing. But that involves everyone reading how that works.

We could take to 'block' Turquoise, but give our one point to another team with one point...?

Re: DISCUSSION

[yourewaitingforagate]

Maybe take from them and give back to Emerald? Something like that?