Go Fish: AlcheME! / avante en garde

[idolpro]

[Your chamber is a large, glass-walled room shaped like a slice of pie. Above, the glass walls extend up into darkness. If there’s a ceiling, it’s impossible to see. There don’t appear to be any other ways out of this room, either.]

[Although the room is lit, you can’t see any particular source of light. You cannot see or hear into the other chambers where the other idols are, but you can still see distorted glimpses of whatever is on the outside of your fish bowl. What could be out there...?]

Comments

Round 1

[idolpro]

[Down from the darkness above, five cards descend into your fish bowl on fishing lines. Pick cards to keep, or write on each card which team you'd like to send that card to.]

[You have received the following cards:]

Envenomation
Immolation
Butchery
Butchery
Strangulation

[...Hang on, what are you supposed to write with? Why, a marker that has been unceremoniously hurled into your chamber just now, which loudly ricochets against the glass floor of your chamber.]

[Enjoy!]

DECISION

[idolpro]

Re: DECISION

[gemuinemanagement]

[keeping all of them!]

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[gemuinemanagement]

[Checking the rules...]

Oh, we have a match already, that's good.

...Envenomation is... just a fancy word for poisoning, right?

Re: DISCUSSION

[threatmewted]

Beats me.

[She's a fightgirl and also a high school dropout.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[ergospheric]

Poison is eaten or breathed or absorbed, venom is injected.

But kinda, yeah.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heavyliesthecrown]

I believe it is the sort of poison received from an animal or other creature...

Re: DISCUSSION

[hypokriticoath]

Look at that. We already have a point.

Hm. Now how to play. I would have said hang onto all of them, since it'll give us better odds in making pairs, but being limited to sending only three cards each round... pity. It could be a fun gamble though.

Re: DISCUSSION

[heavyliesthecrown]

Ugh. I bet that was the rude twin.

[ Who flung the marker. Absolutely no manners. ]

None of these sound pleasant. I am glad that butchery happens to be our match. Though I am not particularly fond of immolation sitting up there.

Round 2

[idolpro]

[Your two matching cards form a pair and are removed from play, leaving you with:]

Envenomation
Immolation
Strangulation

[Two new cards drop down on their own fishing lines. One of them has your team's names written on it with red marker.]

Predation
Parasitism

DECISION

[idolpro]

Re: DECISION

[hypokriticoath]

Envenomation
Immolation
Parasitism

to Zraelpepfinwc!

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[ergospheric]

My new least favorite is 'parasitism'.

Re: DISCUSSION

[threatmewted]

...Are you serious? This is the game they decide not to send us anything?

Re: DISCUSSION

[heavyliesthecrown]

I do not want parasitism. [IMMEDIATELY]

Re: DISCUSSION

[hypokriticoath]

Predation, hm... I wonder who could have sent that.

Re: DISCUSSION

[gemuinemanagement]

...hoarding won't work if no one sends us anything, so I guess we just send the ones we hate the most now.

Round 3

[idolpro]

[Three of your cards are sent away, leaving you with:]

Strangulation
Predation

[Three new cards drop down on their own fishing lines to replenish your "hand," giving you:

Strangulation
Drowning
Strangulation

DECISION

[idolpro]

Re: DECISION

[hypokriticoath]

predation
drowning

to siv/hss

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[heavyliesthecrown]

Another match, at least. But now we are still left with a spare strangulation. Unless it cancels out too?

[ Hmm... ]

I suppose out of what is left, predation is the worst on the list for me. Drowning, while not pleasant, might be quicker. And it wouldn't leave any marks.

END

[idolpro]

[The lights flicker.]

[Some of your cards start to zip away, and three more cards start tumbling down—]

[—and the lights go off with a loud CLACK, plunging you all into darkness.]