GM - Tiger's Eye

[dramatispersonae]

The room is like any other room, really—a cabin with a door, and windows, and beds. But the fireplace never gets warm, and the beds are hard, and the air is cold.

(Is it familiar, this place? It's hard to tell . . .)

On the table there is food—water, and dry bread, and there is a pot of stew that always stays warm, and full, and smells delicious.

There are also five cards, waiting for your decision.

[full instructions, of which your characters will be ICly aware of the pertinent details]

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[karlsefni]

[levelling a look on her]

As far as it takes.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bunny_ears]

Just remember we all have to live with what we do here.

Re: DISCUSSION

[karlsefni]

I'm a viking, we do shit like this for a living. Lay it on me if you can't accept that kinda shit.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bunny_ears]

Nice try, but teams don't work like that. We can't just say 'well, we let Leif decide which cards to play, so its his burden to bear and not ours'. We have responsibility, whether we like it or not.

There's also the problem that as soon as a few people start playing lots of cards, everyone will feel like they have to to keep their teams safe. Which means more damage that we might not be able to keep up to.

[is thinking now, pacing]

Re: DISCUSSION

[karlsefni]

[well I could just knock you all out and then it could actually legitimately just be my responsibility]

[but hmmm]

So we damage 'em first before we can't keep up.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bunny_ears]

This isn't like a fistfight. I don't think we can knock teams out by just hammering at them until they fall over.

Look, we have to play one card or three get played for us. Let's see how that goes. If we get hammered, we'll rethink our approach. Even I don't mind hitting back when people hit me hard.

Re: DISCUSSION

[karlsefni]

It's just gonna get fuckin' harder and harder to do that. Half the teams are gonna do it that way and the other half's gonna hit hard from the beginning an' the latter's the ones that ain't as desperate by the end 'cuz they got the points.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bunny_ears]

Which is why I'm just asking for one round to see if anyone is going to be ruthless. I don't want to be the first team to start shit, and I don't think Pastel and Phoenix can be talked into it. You'll have a better case to talk them into it if we get hurt, and we can't block this first attack regardless of what we do this round.

Re: DISCUSSION

[karlsefni]

Fine. We're gettin' a barrier at some point, though. If we get a barrier then none of us are gonna get hit an' that means we don't have to play more'n one card anyway. It's better off for us an' it means less damage.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bunny_ears]

Right.

Just remember, you're protecting the team by doing this. You're keeping us from getting into another fight and having someone think it's a good idea to sleep on the roof or something.

Re: DISCUSSION

[karlsefni]

I know damn well what protectin' a team is. Maybe a team shouldn't be needin' protection from both the inside'n out though.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bunny_ears]

Maybe, but it's what we got.

Re: DISCUSSION

[karlsefni]

Figures.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bunny_ears]

Yep.