Sabra La Tau

Who: Everyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 283, Bright and goddamn early
What: :) :) :)

[There's that pull again; a sharp, icy tug at the pit of your gut. It feels as though it would be unwise to resist it.

The set up is much the same as yesterday. The lights are still dim, and shadows fall where none should. Flickers of motion follow the blanks all the way to the small circle of buildings at the throne's base; the doors are currently still shut tight.

Game Master's statue watches the blank's approach from beneath his hood.]

Welcome again, poor souls. Are you ready to begin anew?

[Sign-in | More Mingling | Room Assignments/Session 2 start | Endgame | Memories

As with yesterday, coming late and leaving early is absolutely acceptable. Just sign in so I can keep tabs on scoring easier :|b Also this is a list of people who have been missing since this game began.]

Who: Everyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 282, Late Afternoon
What: A game :)

[The pull today is insistent and excited, if soul-chilling as is usual for Game Master. Someone's eager to get started on whatever he has planned, it seems. The Arena, when blanks arrive, is also dimly lit as usual as well. However, something about the lighting seems a bit . . . odd. Shadows falling where there should be none, flickers of movement just at the boundaries of your vision.

Even stranger is the small circle buildings waiting at the foot of the throne when blanks first reach it. It isn't as though the buildings are strange in and of themselves, but there are only three of them. A rather unorthodox number considering the number of all the team, and even the paired partner sets.

In the center of the three buildings are a number of computer writing tablets.

Game Master sits in the throne, face hidden from view beneath his ever present hood.]

Welcome to you, blanks. Welcome, new and old alike back to this stadium of despair and triumph. Will you, I wonder, enjoy the game I have prepared for you today? Will you delight and take pride in the challenges conquered? Or will you, perhaps, despair and curse my name as you often have before?

Let us find out together, you blanks.



[OOC: Sign-in | Mingle | Do a thing | Room assignments | Post-game mingle

COMING EARLY, LEAVING LATE, AND OTHERWISE COMING AND GOING AS NEEDED ARE ALL COMPLETELY ACCEPTABLE '-'b The sign in is strictly for scoring and sorting purposes.]

Who: Whoever
Where: The Arena
When: Day 273, after the game
What:

HAHAHA, WHAT THE FUCK WOULD YOU EVEN DO WITHOUT ME, YOU SAD LITTLE DWEEB?

[Soldier is laughing, the bar is fully stocked, and there are still a few stray corgi puppies running around.]

Who: Everyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 273, Afternoon
What: :)

[The arena has been dimly lit with torches that leave much of the area dark. Only a patch to the base of the Judge's statue has been lit, and from there eight more paths stretch out to doors that have been lit with colored torches according to each set of partner teams. Game Master's statue is seated on the throne, head turned beneath the hood to watch the incoming blanks.

—and then some dick started blowing a vuvuzela.]

Soldier!! You're going to ruin my game!

((Mingle | SOLDIER!!! | Rules and Explanation | Posts))

Who: Everyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 254, Morning
What: :)

[Back to the arena once more, colored torches still lighting the area. That same encouraging urge to bring your dead and injured along is there as well, and Game Master sits on the throne again, but this time his gaze is turned towards a large pedestal placed at the base of the throne.]

Welcome once more, blanks. You will find your outcomes in your rooms. Go now, and see which of you were rewarded, which of you fell into debt. Will you be satisfied with the way you wielded your fates? And for your dead . . . how many of you, I wonder, will be able to pay the price?

((Mingle/Healing | Revivals | Team Posts: Hydra | Vulpecula | Pyxis | Cygnus | Monoceros | Lepus | Lacerta | Cepheus | Canis | Ursa | Orion | Cetus | Pavo | Delphinus | Lynx | Corvus))

((POSTS ARE NOW UNLOCKED ♥ Also: Orbs may be shared for revivals only. You may not share them to purchase any of the other items in the post-game "store".))

Who: Everyone
Where: The Arena
When: Day 253, Early Afternoon
What: :)

[Back to the arena of colored torches you go. Those with dead or injured will feel a strong compulsion to bring them along as well, feeling a strange assurance that this is the right thing to do. Game Master is seated in the throne again, hands folded before him as he regards the approaching blanks from beneath his hood. He seems to be sitting a little straighter today . . . and today, he speaks.]

So many interesting decisions yesterday, and yet . . . it feels lacking. I’ve been disappointed. A change of plan is in order, I feel.

Today and today only will I be gracious enough to return your dead to you. Following this round, you will each be required to exchange a number of orbs in order to see your dead comrades returned to you. A mere price of ten orbs for the lives of your loved ones. Will you play with more seriousness? Perhaps you'll be able to afford the cost if you choose to do so.

You may begin your next round as soon as your dead are returned to you.

((Mingle/Revivals/Healing | Team Posts: Hydra | Vulpecula | Pyxis | Cygnus | Monoceros | Lepus | Lacerta | Cepheus | Canis | Ursa | Orion | Cetus | Pavo | Delphinus | Lynx | Corvus |
The OOC post from the previous game; ignore parts 3 and 4 as we are shortening/condensing the game!))

Who: You
Where: The Arena
When: Day 252, evening
What:

[It's been quite a long time since anyone was drawn in by this particular call, to a dark Arena filled with colored torches. And yet, for those of you who remember it, there's something a bit off; and Game Master himself seems unnaturally quiet today...]

((Mingle | Game Start | Team posts: Hydra | Vulpecula | Pyxis | Cygnus | Monoceros | Lepus | Lacerta | Cepheus | Canis | Ursa | Orion | Cetus | Pavo | Delphinus | Lynx | Corvus
The OOC post from the previous game; ignore parts 3 and 4 as we are shortening/condensing the game!))

Who: Lacerta, Monoceros, Pavo, Canis, Pyxis, Cepheus, Lepus
Where: The Arena
When: Day 109, morning
What: Game 74

[Familiar butterflies lead the way to the arena, which is coated with a fresh, lush layer of grass, as it tends to be when Beauty is in the house.

Before the throne are several small marble tables, meant to be used by sitting on the ground. There is one for each team, and on each table is a small stack of cards laid face down. For now, they are all blank.]

Good morning, everyone. Please take a seat, we will be playing a variation of one of Messenger's favorite games today. Talk among yourselves, and we will begin shortly.

((NOTE: Game has changed due to mod request, so this is a 100% harmless game.

Mingle
Rules
Team Discussions
The Game
Memories))

Who: You
Where: Arena
When: Day 95, midnight
What: End game

[It's the familiar tug, letting you know, now, that it is over. No more fear of Ophiuchus coming to your door. No more lost limbs, eyes, slow deaths. You can gather yourselves and begin the trek to the arena.

When you arrive, it is ominously the same. The bright circle, the colorful flames, and the cloaked man on the throne. His voice does not boom, but is loud and even in the darkness.]

Blanks. We are all but done. The fifth day is now gone, and you have no more chances to save yourselves or others. What you have chosen will result in your own fate, for every choice has a consequence.

Those of you injured, those of you with dead, with crippled with sick. Into the light. Any ills gained from my Cards I will lift from you.

And when you are done there, into your own circles, one last time. You will learn if you have won, or lost. If you will return home to treasures or emptiness.

It has been a pleasure, for me, Blanks. You will not wish it, but I will run games for you again.


Now, to your circles. To the end.

((Okay guys. First,
HEALING works by anyone who is dead or lost any body parts or sustained any injuries from the cards directly will be healed. If you are injured because, say, you got into a fistfight with your teammate over who should take the card punishment, THAT won't be healed. But even incidents like. Oh. Ash or Zim going completely overboard? Fixed. 100%

ICly, winners will only be announced privately. If your characters want to know which teams have won, they will have to figure it out. or the winners can announce themselves. Doesn't matter!

OOCly, here are the final numbers:

HYDRA = 34
VULPECULA = 30
CYGNUS = 23
MONOCEROS = 23
CEPHEUS = 13
PYXIS = 9
LACERTA = 7
ORION = 0
DELPHINUS = -2
PAVO = -3
LEPUS = -6
CANIS = -41

Hydra and Vulpecula won in points, and Lacerta won the lotto.

I will be unlocking all the team posts, so you can start doing your snooping, and I'll have a HUGE INFO ESSAY on this game going up soon too.

Thank you for the great game, guys. It was fun and I'm glad a lot of characters got traumatized \o/

Vulpecula
Hydra
Pyxis
Cygnus
Monoceros
Orion
Lacerta
Canis
Pavo
Delphinus
Lepus
Cepheus))

Who: You
Where: Arena
When: Day 95, morning
What: Final day

[It is the triumphant final day of the Game Master's game, but nothing about the arena has changed to reflect this. The revival circle still stands ready. The rings of colorful, torchlit flame still await your arrival. Await your Choice.]

Welcome, Blanks. Bay now I am sure you know what to do. I am sure you are eager to be done! So let us finish this game, let burden of choice weigh on you only once more, and soon you may return to your weak and listless ways.

Enter your circles, Blanks, play your cards. The rules are as they have been, and for those of you who ignored them, if you haven't yet learned your lesson, I will still be glad to send Ophiuchus to take a hand or two.

Tonight you will return to me, when the torches are at their lowest. You will return to your circles and there find your fate. Those with Orbs remaining will be able to spend them on resources you may find useful. Those in debt will learn their fate, and the winners will find their memories.

You're almost there, Blanks. Let us finish this.

((END GAME will be tomorrow at 6PM MST unless I need to move it for some reason, in which case it may be a bit earlier or a bit later. No I won't be saying who won before that. Since that is a LOT LESS TIME than the three days there have been between things before, please think of endgame as a bit of a forward dating, and continue playing out your final Ophiuchus punishments even after ♥ Who knows when the next chance to mangle your characters will be?

Also, since End Game happens at midnight of day 95, all final punishments will be carried out by then. And that is also when GM will restore all dead, repair your limbs, etc.

OH, ALSO, I am leaving to go to Phoenix at about 7:30 pm today. My mom is lending me her air card so I can use my laptop in transit, but that's still only an extra couple of hours. I'll be more likely to get a big naggy about final choices today, since if I don't have the info I need ready to go by 8 or so, you probably won't see it until after midnight, when I get home.


Vulpecula
Hydra
Pyxis
Cygnus
Monoceros
Orion
Lacerta
Canis
Pavo
Delphinus
Lepus
Cepheus))

Who: You
Where: The Arena
When: Day 94, Morning
What: Game

How are you feeling, Blanks? Has the crest of aggression washed over you? Or depression? Will you turn your gaze toward victory or seek shadows in fear of retribution? There are two days left of my game, make your choices as you will.

Oh, and, I have decided my previously added rules add to the game balance quite well. They will continue to be in effect for the remainder of the game, Blanks.

((Vulpecula
Hydra
Pyxis
Cygnus
Monoceros
Orion
Lacerta
Canis
Pavo
Delphinus
Lepus
Cepheus))

Who: You
Where: The Arena
When: Day 93, Morning
What: Game

[You must know the spiel by now, the arena is as it was before. Though some of you may have a longer walker, weighed down by the bodies of your comrades.]

Have you thought about your hands? Your plans? Have you schemed or returned with renewed foundations? Today marks the halfway point of my game, Blanks. I hope you are ready for what lies ahead. Remember, the choices are yours alone.

Yesterday's rule remains in effect. You may not attack the teams you attacked the previous day. As a new rule, you will no longer be allowed to get away with taking actions that may indicate what cards your team has played, such as conveniently arriving to help others with raptors and the like.

Now, bring me your dead, and I will return them to you. And depart to your circles. You have a Game to play.


((Vulpecula
Hydra
Pyxis
Cygnus
Monoceros
Orion
Lacerta
Canis
Pavo
Delphinus
Lepus
Cepheus))

Who: You (=
Where: Arena
When: Day 92, morning
What: Time to play

[Once again, morning has started with something tied around your soul, chilled and sharp, it tugs you to the Arena and if you resist you may well be cut.

Once again, the Arena is dark. The colorful circles are lit for each team. The only change is the addition of a single bright ray of light that shines directly at the feat of the Judge in a neat circle.]

I greet you, Blanks. Good morning. Most of you should still be alive yet. Congratulations. Those of you who are not... well. It is your good fortune that I keep my word. Bring your dead to me, and I will return them well and whole.

Those of you fortunate enough to not need my assistance, depart to your circles. To your Cards and your Choices. The game begins again, today.

There is one new rule you must all take note of. For today, you cannot attack those who you attacked yesterday. Perhaps this rule will stay in effect for the remainder of our game, perhaps not. You will also notice that some cards have been... edited. I will continue to tweak things as the game goes on, to make sure for the best, most balanced play. But fear not, the Choices are still yours alone.


((Since the loser game was canceled, this is going up early. You have until 9 or 10 pm MST before I start to get naggy about choices being placed. Again, if team members aren't around, you may need to decide with a smaller team, or decide OOCly and have it played out to save time.

Revivals

Vulpecula
Hydra
Pyxis
Cygnus
Monoceros
Orion
Lacerta
Canis
Pavo
Delphinus
Lepus
Cepheus))

Who: Ophiuchus
Where: Ophiuchus commons
When: Day 91, late morning
What: Work (=

[In the Ophiuchus dorms, there is the addition of a simple black bulletin board. On it is this message:]

"Ophiuchus, you have also had it easy until now. It's time to fulfill your duties. These tasks must be carried out by the end of each day, for tomorrow the board will be full with new duties. Do what you are assigned, you may not pass your duties to another, and earn your keep.

-GM

[These are the duties distributed among the Ophiuchus members. Though they also contain individual assignments as far as who must carry them out.

Lepus
Beat 1 member unconscious
Swiftly kill 1 member
Take 1 large portion of food from their dorm
Beat 1 member unconscious

Monoceros
Publicly wedgie 1 member

Orion
Steal 1 tool

Lacerta
Steal 1 supply of jerky
Take a 1 pint blood donation

Cepheus
Steal 2 tools

Delphinus
Steal 1 tool
Beat 1 member unconscious

Cygnus
Steal 1 supply of jerky

Vulpecula
Publicly wedgie 1 member
Taser 1 member

Canis
Plant 1 bearbee hive inside their dorm
Take all the food from their dorm]


((This is OOCly viewable to all so people can see Ophiuchu's reactions. But obviously ICly cannot be seen by anyone but Ophiuchus members.

Ophiuchus members, please figure out what tasks are assigned to you by visiting the OOC Card Results Page!))

Who: You
Where: Arena
When: Day 91, Morning
What: Game 64

( TL;DR )


((Lots of info for this game, I'll be making everything available over the next hour or so. Links to come.

Mingle
Introduction
Important Threat!

OOC Info/Rules/Q&A

Private Team Posts:
Vulpecula
Hydra
Pyxis
Cygnus
Monoceros
Orion
Lacerta
Canis
Pavo
Delphinus
Lepus
Cepheus))