RE: Cloudsea - The Chronicle of Alice Van Vaugen
08-11-2017, 12:30 PM
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Empty has been silently and secretly hiding nearby, waiting for Alice to call them for aid. Instead, for brevity, Empty will relay the short version of the rules of Child's Play to you.
To start: Alice wrote the rules for this game at age 16, after getting annoyed at her instructors using the phrase 'child's play' too many times in regards to insulting her ability to perform tasks that were outside of her standard skill set. It is, as stated, a variant of Rock Paper Scissors. . .
With somewhere in the range of ~25 symbols. It would be a lie to say she didn't spent WAY too much time on this, she even has a small paperback manual, and cards with cheat sheets of information on them. . .
And decks of cards. Really, it's only like rock paper scissors that some of the symbols defeat each other in a fashion that could be considered logical.
You reveal two cards, or if you're in company of others with hands that can perform the signs, there is a list of hand signals that equate these cards. Alice did make sure that this game could be played by just about anybody, however. Mostly because she wanted to use it as an excuse to get out of doing actual work.
So. Two cards. The cards are divided into three types: Offensive, Defensive and Support. Some Offense cards defeat Defensive. Some Defensive cards defeat Offensive. Support cards do a variety of things, usually modifying what your other card does.
No- We will not be getting into the full list. Alice isn't even REALLY asking for advice? She made the game, she has a pretty good idea of how it works. . . She hopes that 'Suit' isn't very quick on the uptake, that's all.
You are welcome to suggest that she play say- two offensive, or one defensive and a support, or a offense and a support. . . Anything really. More importantly, while this is happening, who should we check in on?
(?) Please submit any two of the following: Offensive, Defensive and Support cards.
- List of side bits to examine while this is going on:
( ) Viss and/or Qhen
( ) Earl and/or Jude
( ) Katie and/or Seb
( ) Hard cut back to the island to check on the progress of the crew. . . new villagers? What should we call these people?
( ) No, we really want to see what goes down with Alice and Suit.
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