Castle Game: future is now

[idolpro]

[Suddenly, you hear the wailing of a horn. Outside, tension is turning to panic. You can't see anything, but you can hear people gathering up their things, sobbing in fear or speaking in harsh whispers. A lone voice calls from the distance:

The enemy approaches!

Upon the map, an unfamiliar geography appears -- several small nations, clustered together. Outside of them, an endless sea of enemy forces, identified only by a symbol of a cracked skull. Each of the small nations is marked with a flag in one unit's colour, and a tiny model of a castle.

You are at war. How will you protect your people and yourself?


(Rules & questions are here. Cleo is your gamerunner!)

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'll play how everyone else wants to play. We're in this together, aren't we?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

We're in this together to win.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Win what exactly?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

The game. You can't possibly be happy that we've lost the last few games like this miserably.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

We in no position to lose this miserably unless all the other teams miraculously break 10 this round.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

...You just want to spite them. Prove we can get to 9, and then give away all our points like it doesn't even matter.

[surely that's it and not that he's having feelings]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Surely.

Surely that must be it]

Or maybe I like standing at the edge of a cliff and staring down at the abyss knowing that it stares back.

There's no thrill in safety.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

[huffs]

....Well, our win could clearly be secure at this point. I'm fine taking a calculated risk to prove we're willing to do it when we're not playing a game with no real options.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Ah. So even the detective can be persuaded to go off script every now and then.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Well, this hardly has the challenge of a real mystery. I have to take my entertainment where I can find it.