idolpro | Gloom: BARiTONES

[On the screen of your phone, you can find the rules:]

YOUR GOAL

Your task is to inflict as much suffering as possible on your family, by playing unfortunate events on them ranging from minor inconveniences to fatal experiences. Once any team plays a death card on a character, the game ends.

YOUR CARDS

Your hand consists of three cards. Each card contains an unfortunate event, assigned a number of points ranging from -10 to -30. The lower the point value, the more delightfully tragic the event. By playing a card on one of your family members, they will experience that misfortune and earn you points.

Some cards include an even more unfortunate death. While they earn no points, playing a death on a family member will not only end their life, but end the game. Hopefully you've brought your family's arcs to a satisfying climax by that point...

Each round, you may play up to two cards on your family. Cards may be piled on one family member, or played on different members as you see fit. You must play at least one card each round--you might find your own story has an unfortunate ending if you do not.

At the end of each round, you will be granted enough new cards to get your hand back up to three.

Once per game, you may swap out your cards for an entirely new hand.

YOUR STORYTELLING

Now, don't get too bogged down with talk of cards and points. At its heart, this game is about creating a compelling narrative.

Every time you play a card, you must narrate how the event comes to pass, under the STORYTELLING heading below. And of course the story must be a coherent narrative--if during round one, your family's patriarch is ravaged by raccoons while in round two they are lost at sea, your creative narrative skills must explain how that character got from the raccoon enclosure to the deck of the pirate ship that they sadly do not know how to steer.

Use your imagination and have fun with it! I certainly will.

YOUR VICTORY

The game will end after the first round in which a unit writes one of their family members to a fatal end via an unfortunate death card.

At that point, all of the negative points from all events played will be tallied. All you need to do is be one of the units with the lowest score, and you will be victorious!

Of course, any tale worth telling is about the journey, not just the destination. Victory will also go to one team for constructing the most enthralling tale.

Edited 2020-06-12 05:35 (UTC)

Stole from a stiff
-15
Is it still embezzling if they're embalmed?

Contracted consumption
-30
Conspicuous consumption is such a tragedy.

Went mildly mad
-15
There is no sanity clause.

You may swap out your hand: once

Edited 2020-06-12 06:12 (UTC)

Suffered from sores
-30
Apparently you ARE a sore loser!

Was marooned on the moors
-10
Stupid crows, stupid breadcrumbs, stupid moors.

Was bedeviled by doctors
-25
Darn those miracles of modern medicine!

You may swap out your hand: once

Was hunted by horrors
-30
Prey for salvation.

Was tried for treason
-30
It seemed like such a good idea at the time.

Death: Ran out of air
It's never appreciated until it's gone.

Well, who else imagines we are either inflicting this on other teams or will become the characters in this story if we lose?

RULES

YOUR FAMILY

YOUR EVENTS

ROUND 1

ROUND 2

ROUND 3

ROUND 1

DISCUSSION

Re: DISCUSSION

Re: DISCUSSION

CARDS PLAYED

Re: CARDS PLAYED

STORYTELLING

OUTCOME

ROUND 2

DISCUSSION

CARDS PLAYED

STORYTELLING

OUTCOME

ROUND 3

DISCUSSION