AMETHYST

[dramatispersonae]

You find yourself back on the race track, this time with a variety of materials scattered across several tables. The audience cheering has died down, but you can still hear distant voices, murmuring, waiting.

Comments

[DISCUSS]

[dramatispersonae]

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[ihulk]

[reading over the instructions]

Hmm. Not bad.

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[oedipuswreck]

[perks up a little when he sees he's with Amethyst]

It seems a little interesting . . .

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[ihulk]

[waves hello]

Hey. You wanna go for one thing, or try to be balanced? We might win if we pool all of our points into something.

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[oedipuswreck]

Well . . . it says, "to best represent your team." So . . .

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[ihulk]

Then we'd have to paint it purple. I think we're a pretty balanced team which would mean getting a little bit of everything. Or focusing on what we want most.

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[oedipuswreck]

A good balance, with a slight focus in one direction?

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[ihulk]

Or a good balance and sabotage spells. They're expensive, but maybe they're worth it.

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[oedipuswreck]

Sure.

So where should we start?

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[ihulk]

Balance would be the four-wheeler. It gives us a boost in everything. That leaves us 300 points to go wherever.

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[oedipuswreck]

Shields and wings look useful, but aren't too expensive. And . . . a giant lizard . . .?

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[ihulk]

It's kind of like the rockziles, yeah. Let's get the lizard. The shields and big wings puts us at 505, right?

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[oedipuswreck]

Yeah . . . which is too much if we want to sabotage anybody. If we want to just try to balance it instead . . .

[making some notes?]

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[ihulk]

[taking a look]

Oh, yeah. We don't have to sabotage anyone if you think this is good. I think it looks pretty balanced, and we've got enough speed to get a good head start over everyone.

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[oedipuswreck]

Ah, wait, we can't have two of those, so . . .

[TRYING TO REBALANCE]

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[ihulk]

Aww, seriously? Well maybe we can put those points into something else...how about wheels? Spiked wheels would give us more attack.

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[oedipuswreck]

Okay . . . spiked wheels. And then if we change it to eagles, we have—8 in everything, 7 in attack, and 9 in style?

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[ihulk]

Oh. Hmm...yeah, okay, that's a pretty good balance. Let's do it.

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[oedipuswreck]

Okay.

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[ihulk]

You're pretty good at this.