Gloom: LiliS

[idolpro]

[The old-fashioned writing desk in the center of the room carries several blank pieces of paper, a fine wooden pen, and a piece of parchment covered in writing. When you take a look, you find the following epigraph in a vibrant scrawl:]

Congratulations, future wordsmiths, and welcome to your first exercise in the creation of a true masterwork of tale-telling. This evening you'll be penning a terrific tragedy, starring the family of unsympathetic ne'er-do-wells provided to you.

Your goal? Why, to construct the best story your mind can conceive, of course - and make their lives as entertainingly miserable as possible before writing one of them directly into an early grave.

Comments

[worldcup]

[ looks at these cards and hums ]

. . . What is a 'gangrene'?

[theyregooddogs]

It's a disease. Flesh rots away and needs an amputation most of the time.

[worldcup]

Ooh. . .

That sounds super painful. My favorite card is the ghosts!

[ PLEASE TELL HER THEY CAN PLAY THE POLTERGEIST CARD ]

[theyregooddogs]

I'm not opposed. Want to go for two or just one? Keep in mind this could come back to us.

[worldcup]

If it does come back to haunt us [ pun ABSOLUTELY intended ] I'd say playing one would be safer than playing two.

We don't know if 'our family' means that what we play will inflict us or if we're inflicting and killing other people. . . or if it really is just pure storytelling.

[ shrugs ]

Although if everyone else wants to play two, I think gangrene might be better than practically starving to death, in my opinion.

[ losing a limb is fine. ]

[theyregooddogs]

Two cards should mean trying to win, so it would better to get the extra five points. Want it to be as low as possible.

[worldcup]

That's true. . .

And we don't need to stack the cards on the same family member, so if we're using both of our high cards, we can just split it between the three.

[theyregooddogs]

Yeah, less likely to kill one of them that way too . . .

[worldcup]

Yep.