[SPHINX]

[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

ECHIDNA
PHOENIX
CERBERUS
YATAGARASU
BUGBEAR
BASILISK
KRAKEN
TSUCHIGUMO
UNICORN

NYMPH

CARDS:

Lost sense of balance - 1
Take someone's heart (DIY) - 5
Random - 4
Compulsion to tell your teammates everything you hate about them. - 3
Faint/swoon suddenly - 1

R1 TURN IN

[inklongdry]

Lost sense of balance (1) 🠊 TSUCHIGUMO
Compulsion to tell your teammates everything you hate about them (3) 🠊 CERBERUS

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: 8

PUNISHMENTS:

1) Dislocated limb
2) Hallucinations (monster transformations killing their loved ones and/or just dead loved ones if that's too complicated)

[please comment here with whomever is taking the punishments, to be decided OOCly!]

[DISCUSSION]

[guillotineroom]

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

[derailer]

...

[He sighs, dragging his hands down his face as he processes the setup.]

Well. Here we are, again.

I would like to state for the record that I don't care if we win the game. But I would like to stay alive for my brother's sake, if no one else's. What are everyone else's thoughts on the broader picture here?

Re: [DISCUSSION]

[pagereturner]

[He looks.]

[Really, really annoyed about what just happened to Echidna.]

[hearthwarming]

[ peering down at the 'Compulsion to tell your teammates everything you hate about them' card. ]

It... It doesn't feel good to say, but... This one doesn't seem too bad? If we played it on a close-knit team, hoping that they might be able to move past it...

Otherwise, I'd like to suggest only playing the two smaller punishments.

Re: [DISCUSSION]

[naturalcauses]

[internally dragging hands down face why this]

How do we want to play this? Never a question with any fun answers.

[inklongdry]

I think we are resolved to play our three point card against Cerberus. I posit we keep one of the smaller cards for now until we know how cards are distributed between rounds.

That leaves us one single-point card to play against someone else, if we wish to. Any preferences?

[ROUND 2]

[guillotineroom]

[all that jazz]

[guillotineroom]

POINT BANK: 8

ECHIDNA
PHOENIX
YATAGARASU
BUGBEAR
BASILISK
KRAKEN
UNICORN

NYMPH
TSUCHIGUMO
CERBERUS

CARDS:

Take someone's heart (DIY) - 5
Random - 4
Faint/swoon suddenly - 1
Severe migraines - 3
Forced obedience - 4

R2 TURN IN

[hearthwarming]

Faint/swoon suddenly (1) to BASILISK
Severe migraines (3) to UNICORN

[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: 8

PUNISHMENTS:

1) Non-fatal stab wound

[please comment here with whomever is taking the punishments, to be decided OOCly!]

[derailer]

...At least—whoever played cards on us last round will not be able to do so now.

We will play the 1-point card we saved, of course. Do we... think we should play one of the others, to be safe? Or hold off?

[inklongdry]

As much as I hate to admit it, if we take another hit like that with only a one-point card to play in return, it will put us dangerously low.

Mayhap we should play the random card and hope for the best.

[hearthwarming]

[ Frowning down at their current selection, both with cards and with teams they can target. ]

...Of these teams... Which ones are we comfortable targeting?

[ She bites down on her lip. ]

Perhaps we ought to work from there and then pick cards.

[inklongdry]

Bugbear... Unicorn? Phoenix only as a last resort or for something mild. I would not wish harm on Mister Sholmes, for Sprezzatura's sake.

... Ah. Actually. I do have an inkling that Basilisk might be willing to target us to save us, but as we couldn't actually discuss a plan of action, an inkling is all I have.

[derailer]

That's a good point. We're eliminating Basilisk and Yatagarasu from possible selection, correct? We will not play any cards there.

I would prefer to eliminate Bugbear on the grounds that they've been shot and fainted already.

Otherwise, I am flexible.

[ROUND 3]

[guillotineroom]

[all that jazz]

[guillotineroom]

POINT BANK: 8

ECHIDNA
CERBERUS
YATAGARASU
BUGBEAR
KRAKEN
TSUCHIGUMO

NYMPH
PHOENIX
BASILISK
UNICORN

CARDS:

Take someone's heart (DIY) - 5
Random - 4
Forced obedience - 4
Forget a relationship - 4
Lose a body part - 4

R3 TURN IN

[inklongdry]

Random (4) 🠊 ECHIDNA (if this rngs out to a DIY, Suyeong will enact it)
Forced obedience (4) 🠊 TSUCHIGUMO

[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: 4

PUNISHMENTS:

1) Hallucinations of dead loved ones
2) Burn somewhere on your body

[please comment here with whomever is taking the punishments, to be decided OOCly!]

[discussion]

[guillotineroom]

[inklongdry]

Seven hells...

[ THAT'S IT THAT'S ALL HE'S GOT ]