[ECHIDNA]

[guillotineroom]

[you open your eyes and find yourself in a conference room, of sorts. there's a large, ovular table in the middle of the room, surrounded by enough chairs to seat every person on the team. on one side of the room is a white board, equipped with white erase markers for your strategizing (or your shitposting). on the other side of the room, hanging from the wall, is a jumbo screen]

[there are no exits]

Comments

[ROUND 1]

[guillotineroom]

[on one side of said screen, you see a list of five actions, each equipped with a certain point value. On the other side, you see a list of the ten other teams playing in this game, each one highlighted in green, indicating that they are targetable. the screen is touchable, and in order to assign cards to other teams, you merely have to slide the card to the corresponding team]

[CARDS + POINT BANK + TARGETABLE TEAMS]

[guillotineroom]

POINT BANK: 10

PHOENIX
SPHINX
CERBERUS
YATAGARASU
BUGBEAR
BASILISK
KRAKEN
TSUCHIGUMO
UNICORN

NYMPH

CARDS:

Hallucinations (monster transformations killing their loved ones and/or just dead loved ones if that's too complicated) - 4
Compulsion to tie up/restrain a teammate - 1
Compulsion to scream all of your innermost thoughts, i.e. no brain-to-mouth filter - 2
Bloody nose that lasts way too long - 1
Dislocated limb - 2

Re: [CARDS + POINT BANK + TARGETABLE TEAMS]

[hommefatalflaw]

Compulsion to scream all of your innermost thoughts, i.e. no brain-to-mouth filter - 2 BUGBEAR
Bloody nose that lasts way too long - 1 UNICORN
Compulsion to tie up/restrain a teammate - 1 PHOENIX

RESULTS

[guillotineroom]

[once your choices are made, the menu screen vanishes, changing to a cute loading screen of an eldritch horror with many tentacles waving at you while tiny little hearts hover around its. . . head? the top of its. . . body? Whatever]

[and then, the results of your round are displayed]

POINT BANK: 11

PUNISHMENTS: NONE

[c. congratulations??]

[DISCUSSION]

[guillotineroom]

[remember you must play at least one card per round]

Re: [DISCUSSION]

[doublefried]

Oh dear.

[dothehomework]

So they are giving us a chance to prove ourselves after all!

[...though her voice is a little hollow as she says it, her full enthusiasm not behind the comment. It's annoying to be a pawn in someone else's drama.]

Re: [DISCUSSION]

[survivaltricks]

[oh]










MOTHERFUCKER.

Re: [DISCUSSION]

[begguiling]

Geez. Don't we at least get a PIP first? This is bad management!

Re: [DISCUSSION]

[warpweft]

OI!

[Nessa is yelling at the door.]

JUST BECAUSE YOU FIRED US DOESN'T MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE TO COMPENSATE US!

I WANT EIGHT WEEKS OF BACK PAY! OR I'LL SUE!

[....hey, it looks like she got a little taller. Wonder what the story behind that is.]

[downdraft]

Y'know, I think that's genuinely the most fucked up person I've ever met.

[dothehomework]

All right. It sounds like the idea is to give Bugbear the compulsion to scream thoughts aloud. We want to play our one-point cards, too. Who seems like they might come after us? Please enlighten us!

[ROUND 2]

[guillotineroom]

[all that jazz]

[guillotineroom]

POINT BANK: 11

SPHINX
CERBERUS
YATAGARASU
BASILISK
KRAKEN
TSUCHIGUMO

NYMPH
BUGBEAR
UNICORN
PHOENIX


CARDS:

Hallucinations (monster transformations killing their loved ones and/or just dead loved ones if that's too complicated) - 4
Dislocated limb - 2
Forget a significant memory - 4
Re-experience the worst pain of your life - 4
Lose a body part - 4

Re: [all that jazz]

[warpweft]

We want to swap our hand.

[dothehomework]

Dislocating a limb does not seem all that bad anymore.

[survivaltricks]

. . .

[a sharp exhale]

Yikes.

[begguiling]

Ohhhh, I see how it is. She doesn't like how smoothly we pulled that last round off! Time to up the ante.

[thisisalie]

It seems things will be getting more exciting shortly.

Re: [ROUND 2]

[warpweft]

...

...

There's no way we can play any of these.

Re: [ROUND 2]

[downdraft]

[collecting his head from where he left it cozy on a cushion]

Those numbers're getting higher.

Re: [ROUND 2]

[warpweft]

... ...

Oh, this is much worse.

[ROUND 3]

[guillotineroom]

[all that jazz]

[guillotineroom]

POINT BANK: 11

PHOENIX
SPHINX
CERBERUS
BUGBEAR
BASILISK
KRAKEN

NYMPH
PHOENIX
YATAGARASU
TSUCHIGUMO

CARDS:

Forget a significant memory - 4
Slow-acting poison - 4
Take someone's heart (DIY) - 5
Bullet wound somewhere on your body - 3
Burn somewhere on your body - 3

[discussion]

[guillotineroom]