teamposts | Iris

Rules:
-Each team is dealt a hand of four cards. Each card has a point value between 1 and 10 and an attack.

-Each team will pick one card to play, and their first, second, and third choice of which team for the card to be played on.

-There is a 12 point limit on what cards will actually be accepted. Cards with higher values will be accepted first. After 12, the only cards that will be accepted are one with a matching point value. (e.g. if the highest card submitted is an 8, it will be accepted. If the next highest card submitted is a 7, and three 7s are submitted, all 7s will be accepted, but nothing lower than a 7 will be accepted).

-Only cards which are accepted will have their attacks carried out.

-Teams that have their cards accepted are protected from the attacks of other teams. If a team's first choice is protected, the card goes to their second choice.

-Teams whose cards go through also will not have to participate in the possible second round, should the game require one.

[You find that once the robot has moved away you cannot see or hear the other teams.

Your robot hands you four large, heavy stock cardboard cards, each with a point value and attack on it. You also get a black card, and a sharpie to write your choices on.]

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In the end, that's what this comes down to, isn't it? Kill or be killed.

Sometimes there are other options.

I... agree with Kit. I think there are other options, and we shouldn't play any higher than we feel comfortable with.

... We should play to survive, not to win, in this case.

[shakes his head]

No. This game isn't a matter of winning. It's a matter of picking well enough to defend ourselves from any other attacks.

[...nods]

I wish... we knew how other teams were going to play, aside from the obvious ones.

. . . Teal won't play extremely hard, but they'll do their best to defend themselves. Sage probably will play the lowest card they can.

And Celeste and Copper Rose will probably play the highest they can, right?

... Everyone else might be a midlevel card.

If that's the case. . . we might get away with playing a midlevel card ourselves.

[...nods]

I want to do that, if we can.

[pulls up a small smile]

Me too.

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It's either killing in order to defend blindly, or figuring out which teams are likely to attack us and with what severity. Since only the two highest cards will go through, we wouldn't have to defend against a low attack, but how can we predict the way other teams will play?

[inhales and exhales deeply]

Celeste and Copper Rose will play their highest cards in an attempt to defend themselves. Out of those two, I think Copper Rose is more likely to direct their attack to us.

The others. . . well, they're up in the air.

So there is a distinct possibility another team will play to kill us.

Depending on what cards they have in their hand.

Then it's a matter of how willing we are to take that risk or not.

And how willing we are to kill another team to protect ourselves.

[. . .]

I don't want to kill anyone.

Not even Celeste?

[. . . :')]

Celeste will play their highest card. Assuming it's on the level of ours, there's no way it won't be accepted. Any attacks we direct to them will be defended against.

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...With teams like Celeste around, wouldn't it become a matter of luck?

. . . not if we play our highest card. That's a guaranteed way to defend ourselves. Anything lower and we risk our attacks not being accepted, which would leave us open to attack.

Yes, that's what I was thinking, too. So it's either trust our luck, or play that card.

I... If we weren't all here... I'd think differently, but...

[l-laughs, but it's humorless]

If we weren't all here, I'd play the lowest level card I could.

. . .

[haha]

Maybe I'd play something a little higher, if it wasn't hurtful... Like a 2 or 3.

. . . I've been told I'm too reckless. Maybe you're just a little less reckless than I am.

Mm. Maybe we'll have to find out if that's true in the future... But this is not the time to be that way, I think.

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