Cosmic Encounter - PBP: Deep Space Water

Oh, didn't even notice that. Yep, that's cool. ReactB for VoyagerC, or VoyagerA if I'm not allowed to park in the warp in this deal?

Parking in VoyC in the warp would mean it counts as 0 colonies for you, so aiming at VoyA.

DEAL COMPLETED!

And then the Laser played a Quash. The deal is cancelled!

Both sides lose 3 ships. Which ships do you lose? And if Reactor has any leftover ships on the hyperspace gate, where do they return to?

what a shocking turn of events. Let's park this ship on D, I guess. The other three go in for a big hug but the ships are not equipped for hugs, so much as crashing violently.

3 from VoyA are gonna take a quick vacation to the warp. Luckily there's a cruise liner with a history of warping ships in the area so double vacay

And such... legal explosions happen.

Current game state:

Granolaman, the Voyager
Hand: 7
Foreign colony count: 4
A: 4
B: 3,1

D: 1
E:

Gatr, the Yin-yang
Hand: 10
Foreign colony count: 4
A: 1,1
B: 3
C: 4,1
D: 1,1
E: 3

Coldblooded, the Laser
Hand: 9
Foreign colony count: 4
A:
B: 2
C: 1
D: 1,1
E: 1,1

Robust Laser, the Reactor
Hand: 5
Foreign colony count: 4
A: 1,1
B: 1,3
C: 1,1,1,1
D: 2
E: 2

Cards on the reactor sheet:
None!

Jacquerel, the Tourist
Hand: 9
Foreign colony count: 3
A: 1
B: 1
C: 1
D: 11,1
E: 1


Cruise Liner: Blue system; 1

HYPERSPACE GATE

THE WARP:
9,10,11,5,11

VoyagerC: 1

Cosmic Deck: 37 cards
Cosmic Discard: 7 cards

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Negotiate
30
Quash
Emotion control
Negotiate
09
Cosmic Zap
Negotiate
15

Destiny Deck: 18 cards
Destiny Discard: 2 card

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Special(most foreign)
Blue(hazard)

Encounter #19: Thou Rist?

Remember what I said earlier about "I'm not specifically aiming at anyone?"
Well, as it is now the regroup phase I want to activate my möbius tubes, splitting my recovered ships evenly between my home colonies with the extra one landing on C.

The ships are freed from the Warp, including the ships on VoyagerC... where shall you all fly to?

I sure am grateful you liberated all my ships and also my colony and voyager powers.
4 to YYD, 3 to ReactC, 3 to TourD

I'll bring my ships home to B D D E E

Laser ships return home to B B C C C D D D E E E

split em between yin-yang B and E.

Is there like someone or something else we're waiting on? I don't think there's anything else for me to do until the next phase

No clue. I'd use this time to start diplomacizing at you, but I'm pretty sure CB has his plague conditioned to go off the moment I even think the words "victory conditions"

I was waiting on something, yes. Ships return home, when sudden, the Laser sends the Plague at the Tourist.

Please select three ships to lose and select your cards to lose (one of each type [types for reference are Attack, Negotiate, Flare, Artifact, Morph, Reinforcements])

Oh shit that was for real

Don't blame me, Granola was the one who activated it, you all saw it happen.

Lose ships from C, B, and D.
I'll discard my only Flare, a Negotiate, an Attack 04.

That didn't achieve much and wasn't very nice :(

The cards get discarded, ships explode. (Flare in question was the Love Flare)

Destiny is drawn: Blue!

What will the cruise ship do, with regards to moving and postcards?

Sorry Jac, but plaguing Granola would have been pretty useless after that last round where he decided to simultaneously shoot himself in the foot, knee, and both balls. And I could see in the mind's eye the boring nightmare scenario where you gain a colony here, and then you and Granola just waste time for the next three turns while the rest of us have to sit back and hope that you never get a lucky roll and just immediately auto-win the game.

If I'd known that you were about to draw Blue on this turn though I wouldn't even have bothered.

The cruise ship will make a sharp turn back into the Voyager system and send a postcard home to planet C.

"Wish you were here, in the system right next door to home."

Hey! I'll have you know those were precision tactical ball shots and all part of my genius plan.

Also who the hell's getting a postcard? My system's a ghost town.

Post card is sent home along with a ship, from the Voyager's hand.

Time for Launch.

I want to point my gate at colony A (I'm pretty sure I don't already have a colony there? I'm mildly colourblind and the owners of these tiny numbers are a little difficult to make out) and pile on two ships from Tourist A and two ships from Tourist E.
Which I... think surely must have several ships on them.

A marker of what ships are where post-tubes might have been helpful to be honest, but as long as I'm not emptying my colonies (I should have had at least 3 ships on each planet before I was plagued) then it doesn't really influence my decision.

I actually have been updating the current game state on the front page all along! Although i never actually told anyone that i guess...

Sorry about the numbers, even i had problems with the way i did it. Next time I'll colour the backgrounds of the characters instead.


HYPERSPACE GATE
Offense: 4
Defense: YinYangA(0)

Alliancery!

everyone is invited to help me win this game uwu