Gloom: future is now

[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

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[justpure]

[ A piece of paper crumples itself up and launches itself at Medusa's face. ]

Ah! [ He flinches! Even though that mask he always wears shielded his face from the blow. ]

What the-?! Oh, I see where this is going.

[ Another sheet floats above his head and shreds itself to bits. Behold, confetti. ]

[nohalation]

Wowee!

[justpure]

It could be worse...

[ The balled up paper launches itself at him again. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[asonoficeandfire]

... we got a death card.

Re: DISCUSSION

[nohalation]

I do not want to play that card.

Re: DISCUSSION

[asonoficeandfire]

I would prefer not to either. It does end the ... game? Round? but...

Re: DISCUSSION

[justpure]

The rules stated it ends the game.

Re: DISCUSSION

[nohalation]

If we have received status effects this round then it is likely someone will die.

Re: DISCUSSION

[screenedcomments]

And a -30 card too. We could swap for a new hand...

Re: DISCUSSION

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I agree.

This one doesn't have a lot of good options.

Re: DISCUSSION

[asonoficeandfire]

That's probably a good idea.

Re: DISCUSSION

[screenedcomments]

I'm fine with swapping but it's important to remember we can only do so once. It's unclear how long this game could go before the unit writing our story ends it besides when a "death" card is played, which is very vague to start with.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Making sure to keep arm's lengths away from all the walls in the room. Fuck this, really.]

Yes.

And it appears that we're writing a story for another unit. So we end the game at the expense of killing whoever they are.

Re: DISCUSSION

[asonoficeandfire]

Aah, exactly.

[noting that]

Did you get affected?

Re: DISCUSSION

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Nothing to concern yourself with.

... Our new hand is garbage.

Re: DISCUSSION

[resonantblue]

Are we not trying to win?

Re: DISCUSSION

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

We can still win and not murder another unit.

[justpure]

Which means we could save that and use the treason or tentacle card-

[ Another sheet of paper folds itself into a paper airplane and flies towards Medusa, only to crash into his mask's visor. ]

... Unless we want to swap out the entire hand.

[asonoficeandfire]

We could swap.

Re: New hand

[justpure]

[ The poltergeists have shot the rubber band away from him, and they seem to be possessing his hair.

He just tries to ignore them as he looks through the cards, even though his wrists are still tied up over his head. ]

Oh, I know... How about we say Gogor tries to escape the Professor's lab, but is hunted down by her other mobile experiments and dragged back to her?

That would make great use of the hunted by horrors card.

Re: New hand

[screenedcomments]

That would definitely work! It's a shame it doesn't seem like Grogar would have bones to break, then we'd have a play that uses both our highest value cards figured out.

Re: New hand

[justpure]

[ He struggles with his own hair as he speaks. ]

Nobody... Said we... Have to... Gah! [ He frees himself. ] ...We don't have to play both cards on one person. Perhaps Helena broke a lot of bones during a freak--

[ And then the longer locks seize his arms and bind them behind his back. ]

... Accident.

Re: New hand

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Pass on the breaking multiple bones. How is that different from being trampled in a train except you don't die?

Horrors are just going to give people nightmares and everyone already has those to start.

Re: New hand

[screenedcomments]

Ok, ok, we'll just do the horrors. I figured injuring wasn't outright killing so, like, fair game, but apparently not.