dramatispersonae

IOLITE

This small, thin tent does little to keep out the cold, but at least you're dry. It's dark, and hunger lurks in the pit of your stomach. Fortunately, you have a few items to give you warmth and tend to your needs. Right?

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You start with these items: two blankets (which keep you warm), three bowls of hot stew (which sate hunger and provide a little bit of warmth), and three lanterns (which provide light and a tiny bit of warmth).

You instinctively know the following:
♦ the Duckling and Faith will not allow any harm worse than discomfort to come to you.
♦ there will be three rounds of this game, in which the goal is to amass and keep the most items...or is it?
♦ blankets are worth the most points and lanterns the least, with bowls of stew in between.
♦ if you run out of any single item, you will suffer a minor status effect.

Each round, you have the option to take certain actions as a team.

You must take one or two of the following separate actions, no more than once each:
⇒FETCH an item of your choice from the storehouse outside the tent. This action has a 50% chance of failing, since it's dark and snowy outside and you might get lost and wind up turned around back at the tent.
⇒STEAL an item of your choice from another team of your choice. This has a 100% success rate, unless the team in question is watching out for your team in particular (see below).
⇒USE an item of your choice currently in your possession; this adds its points to your total permanently, even if another team tries to steal from you in the future...but it removes the item from your stock, risking a status effect if you lose the rest.
⇒GIVE an item of your choice currently in your possession to another team of your choice; you lose the item and the points associated with it, but the other team is more comfortable...and something might happen? The Personae aren't telling, but this option is there...

You may also take as many of the following actions as you want per round, or none at all, but no more than once each:
⇒ENCOURAGE a single team of your choice with warm feelings. Does this have an effect on the game? Who knows.
⇒TAUNT a single team of your choice mockingly. What effect could that have on the game?
⇒WATCH OUT FOR a single team of your choice, making it impossible for that team to steal from you.

You're cold, hungry, and in the dark. Choose your actions.

Well, this seems like a nice game, ignoring the status effects thing. I suppose if we run out of something, we'll be cold, hungry, or cold and hungry?

It doesn't look too extreme, no.

Then... going with things, I assume that encouraging will... probably help deal with a status effect...? Well, there's no way to be sure. Either way, I'd like to do that every turn... But, are you okay with us just fetching and using every turn too, or should we try and steal...?

I'm fine with fetching so long as you are.

Then, let's do a fetch and a use! Let's start with blankets this round.

Oh, but who should we encourage?

We should try a team that usually gets ignored in these games. Like Tiger's Eye.

That sounds good, yeah. Tiger's Eye's a good team, after all.

[I like Tiger's Eye, yes.]

Is everything okay as it is, then?

So use a blanket and fetch a blanket?

That's what I was thinking, yeah.

Fine with me. It'll give us an idea of how this plays out.

Then, I'll put it in.

All right.

We will Fetch a Blanket and use a Blanket!

We'll also Encourage Tiger's Eye!

You successfully fetch a blanket from the storehouse outside.

You use up a blanket. You cuddle under it (whether together or just by yourself...) so furiously that it's worn to shreds.

You now have two blankets, three bowls of stew, and three lanterns.

You're still cold, hungry, and in the dark. Choose your actions.

Well, so far so good... Should we keep it up, or try using something else?

We'll probably make things more interesting if we try another item. Maybe the lanterns this time. And let's encourage Heliodor.

Well, if we're going for something interesting, why don't we give someone a lantern instead of using one? I must admit, I'm curious about what the "something might happen" is.

We could try that.

Then, should we send it to Heliodor too, or someone else... Maybe Kunzite?

Yeah, let's send to Heliodor and encourage Kunzite.

So that's fetching a lantern, giving a lantern to Heliodor, and encouraging Kunzite, right?

Yeah, I think that should work.

We're fetching a lantern, giving a lantern to Heliodor, and encouraging Kunzite.

You fail to fetch a lantern and wind up back at the tent instead...

You give away a lantern to Heliodor and Sapphire. Citrine has given you a lantern!

You now have two blankets, three bowls of stew, and three lanterns.

You're still cold, hungry, and in the dark. Choose your actions.

That went pretty well, I think! Then, next is the stew, right?

That's right. The gift from Citrine was unexpected.

[ He looks pretty happy about it though. ]

Then, should we give them the stew this round? It's only proper, after all!

I have no problem with that. Maybe encourage Turquoise?

Then... Fetch some more stew with our last move, then?

That works.

I'll go put them in, then! Let's see how it works out!

Right.

We're fetching some stew, giving stew to Citrine, and encouraging Turquoise!

A wave of warm feelings rolls over you from the direction of Heliodor and Sapphire.

You successfully fetch a bowl of stew from the storehouse outside.

You now have two blankets, three bowls of stew, and three lanterns.

The snow dies down a little outside, and you can go to endgame.

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IOLITE

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