idolpro | Heart Soldier Senshi

[ Standing on the deck of a grand galleon rocking in the midst of clear, turquoise waves. In front of your boat is an island--deserted, of course--and next to the steering wheel you'll find two large chests, one filled with bags of gold and the other filled with dark, round, innocuous looking balls, as well as two maps--one clearly depicting the uncharted island in front of you, and the other--a treasure island. And apparently just for shits and giggles, there's a pile of pirate-themed accessories in your unit color(s) you can put on--eye patches, plastic swords and water pistols, fake stuffed parrots, bandanas, a Captain's hat--even a peg-leg or two.

Your phones chime and instructions to choose where to hide both the treasure and traps on your island based on your map appears. ]

[ Players, note that you have until 6pm PST/9PM EST to make sure your unit's card is completely filled out and ready to go! Feel free to thread out burying the treasure, just selecting the spots, or fighting over the accessories, whatever floats your literal boat. ]

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A warning whistle resounds from the boat signaling game start, and the ship pulls away from the shore. It steers itself to a new island--one that looks just like the one on the bottom map/grid. Your phone updates with new instructions now:

Avast! Find as much booty as ye can while avoidin' the traps set by other scallywags. Six be the magic number o' plots ye can search each time.

For the reverse of the placement logic, we should choose something less intuitive to guess...

It may also be valuable to search a continuous enough area to see if there's some kind of pattern. Perhaps, the block of six from D3 to F4?

That continuous rectangular area?

[ hmm. ]

We're likely to catch boobytraps and treasure that way.... But since the traps aren't supposed to be harmful, I don't see why that would be a particularly bad way to check, at least to start.

We're likely to catch both regardless of whether it's continuous or not. They could be placed anywhere, so this game is barely better than random. If we do better than 4 treasure for every 3 traps, which is the overall proportion, we'll be doing well.

I mean... is there gonna be logic to it at all?

It ain't like hitting one thing guarantees what'll be next to it like in Battleship or nothing.

It would make most sense for it not to. But our opponents may not be playing in the way that makes the most sense.

Edited 2020-06-30 01:27 (UTC)

What, like they're gonna draw a picture or whatever?

Who knows. Perhaps.

And it's not as if we're less likely to hit something by guessing continuously, even assuming it's random.

Yeah. Way I figure, if it's just random, we're as likely to hit something as not.

If it ain't random... well, we'll see pretty soon.

You don't have any objections to those guesses, then?

Go for it, dude. Can't even start narrowing it down till we see what comes back this round, right?

One square's as good as any other.

Yes, it is. We'll begin with that, then.

Sounds good to me.

[ nods. Seto's right; it's pretty much a guessing game with random luck at this point. ]

We might be able to have a better idea once we're through this round. For now just about any strategy is as valid as the next.

Pretty much.

...you think the treasure's cool? We better get to keep like some gold chalice or something.

That's a good question. I suppose I had imagined it might be something like a crown or coins... what sorts of things do you think pirates are most likely to steal?

Whatever's there, I guess. They're pirates.

Well, more reason to try to find out, then!

D3, E3, F3, D4, E4, F4

D3 & F3 yield treasure! You have 2 POINTS!

Arrgh! You thought you'd found treasure, but alas! It's a BOOBY TRAP at D4 & F4!

TALK LIKE A PIRATE! Like it or not ye'll be stuck TALKING LIKE PIRATES for the rest of the game. *Colorful swears, accents, and slang all acceptable.
IT'S A SING-A-LONG! Ye'll be feeling the desire to sing some ye sea-shanties, land-lubber!

[It is time... to talk like a pirate]

Edited 2020-06-30 02:36 (UTC)

Heart Soldier Senshi

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