idolpro | BARiTONES & avante en garde

[ 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 3pm PST/6pm 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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Hm. The question is, are we against someone trying to be tricky, or someone relatively predictable.

We could use this game to try and figure it out. Three for predictable spots, 3 for tricky?

Sounds good. I'd guess predictable would be corners and center, and tricky would be—well, most other places.

Maybe... spots like G4 and D7?

Mm, I think those are decent picks.

Mm, those should be tricky enough.

Maybe let's pick a couple of the corners, too, and get digging.

Sounds good. Top left and right? And maybe center?

Sounds just perfect.

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[rolls in late 15 minutes with Hellbucks

jk she doesn't have any Hellbucks.]

So this is a game, huh?

It is! You got a relaxed one, so that's pretty lucky.

...Did you ever settle on a name, dear?

Oh, that's good. I'm here for relaxed.

[hhhh names make it seem like she's here PERMANENTLY! DISLIKE!]

Kiiiiiinda?

Well, you know, take your time, but it's better to decide that sort of thing before someone else decides it for you.

[ like ruby. ]

We hid some things, so now we're digging for someone else's treasure, apparently.

That's happened like twice. Well. One-point-five times.

[yeah, it was ruby]

Ooooh, what kind of treasure? Can we keep it?

Welllllll I think it's partially just a game abstraction, like a board game, but if we win, we'll get points you can spend on whatever you want. Like your memories.

...I mean, we'll get points even if we lose, just it's only a pittance.

I guess that works out, then, though I wonder how all this actually works. This is the most intense board game I've ever played. [A beat.] That I remember.

I hope we win, you're not kidding about the pittance. [Seriously, eight hundred to one wee, that's a lot.] Bit of a gap, there.

It's really pretty impressive, isn't it? Sometimes they go in for these big production values.

And there's got to be an incentive to try hard, right? You can get a bit more either way if you hew to the unit image.