Cosmic Encounter - PBP: Deep Space Water

Tourist is now a happy owner of a Flare! The not-so-happy offense ships fall into the warp as they retreat, one by one.

Reactor's turn to select the two rewards, and then return their ships.

The reactor has always had that extra ship on planet E. It has always had whatever extra cargo is on it that nobody can remember. Everything is fine.

Where will your defending ships return?

Oh, right, those. You can put those wherever. C and A seem fine, just toss them on and we'll clean it up later.

A ship is returned, and a card is gained.

An ancient voyager scroll says
"Queued up reward: 1 ship, 3 cards. Return 2 to VoyA, 2 to VoyB, 1 to VoyC"

Thus concludes encounter #6.

Current game state:

Granolaman, the Voyager
Hand: 15
Foreign colony count: 1
A: 4
B: 5
C: 4
D: 3

Gatr, the Yin-yang
Hand: 3
Foreign colony count: 1
A: 3
B: 4
C: 3,2
D: 1,1
E: 1

Coldblooded, the Laser
Hand: 7
Foreign colony count: 0
A: 3
B: 3
C: 3
D: 2
E: 4

Robust Laser, the Reactor
Hand: 7
Foreign colony count: 1
A: 4
B: 3
C: 4
D: 3
E: 5

Cards on the reactor sheet:
Laser flare

Jacquerel, the Tourist
Hand: 6
Foreign colony count: 1
A: 3
B: 3
C: 2
D: 3
E: 3


Cruise Liner: Red system; 2

HYPERSPACE GATE

THE WARP:
6,6,5,0,2
VoyagerE:

Cosmic Deck: 28 cards
Cosmic Discard: 15 cards

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Reinforcement+2
Reinforcement+3
06
14
04
01
40
Negotiate
00
05
23
10
12
13
Aristocrat Flare

Destiny Deck: 14 cards
Destiny Discard: 6 card

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Green
Orange
Blue
Special(Most cards)
Red
Purple

Laser's turn, on encounter #7.

Lasers regroup to planet D.

Regroup done.

Destiny is draw.... PURPLE!

There are no enemies or empty plants in your system, so you get to redraw.

Destiny is... Purple(HAZARD)

Same, same.

Redrawing: Special(Most foreign colonies[break tie to the left])
This means you end up with fighting.... the Reactor.

Destiny phase is ending, and since a hazard was drawn, one of the tourists will fall overboard, unless someone wants to kindly zap the use of power, saving them. None of the other effects will happen as they are in the No Hazard paragraph.

The tourist who has accidentaly launched their escape pod, tumbles into the warp.

Laser may Launch ships at the desired planet in the Reactor system.

Er, headsup, the map has gone cattywampus. Ship counts are ranging from 17-23 per player.

On hold until i double check everything, good thing i made copies at the end of encounters...

edit:
at the end of #1 yy turn:
voyager was good
yin-yang was good
laser was good
reactor was good
tourist was good

now checking #2 yy
voyager was at 21!
yin-yang was at 19!
Laser was good.
Reactor at 17!
Tourist 23?

--

Reactor fixed
Tourist fixed

All fixed!

My errors were:
Voyager colony count after launch did not decrease on YyD, fixed.

Yin-yang's first regroup failed because he targeted a planet with no ships on them and i didn't catch it that time, placed a ship on B instead of D to fix it.

Alternatively i reinforced voyager when Yin-yang erroneously reinforced that planet

Reactors returned to the tourist world.

I am terribly sorry! Thank you Granola for being vigilant. If the current tally is okay, we may launch.

We will launch four ships to Reactor E from Laser A, B, C, and E.

"Hello again Reactors, we hope that you've had enough time to reconsider our offer of friendship. If you agree to invite no one besides the yin yang than we can still meet at the negotiating table and try to work out a mutually beneficial deal. Otherwise you will be destroyed without mercy."

HYPERSPACE GATE
Offense:4
Defense: ReactorE(5)

Laser's power activates! You have to dazzle away 1 to 5 random cards from the Reactor's hands, before allies are invited. Laser still has encounter cards so they don't have to draw.
At least since the power is Mandatory and you have to select cards Up To the ship amount, you get a say in how many will you force aside.

(Of course, the Reactor can still reply to your diplomatic message before you select the amount, but they still have to confirm the invites during their turn of inviting people)

Oh wait hold on I thought this was like, we were gonna just chill and watch the spaceball finals. Like yeah I'll invite whoever but I'm not bringing any guns that'd be rude. I think i know where I put the 7 layer dip....

(I have a negotiate to play, assuming I can see it)

Alright cool, in that case we'll just zap the one card then.

A blinding flash, and one of the cards is blinded.

Alliance phase.

Actually hold on I am going to get a confirmation about this because the "up to" part of the power keeps making me confused, hold on.

e: uugh why does bgg forces you to wait for a thread to be approved, i have Important Questions :|

THE BGG GODS HAVE SPOKEN: " The "up to" is there because he might have fewer cards than that in his hand. "

Soooo Laser is now going to blind 5 cards because of the 5 reactor ships. Rerolling those...

Reactor sets aside 5 cards, and has 2 left. You may now continue, and sorry again.

Oh geez.

Laser =/= best diplomat?

Really? Well that's annoying. Do you happen to still have any negotiates left, non-Laser Laser?

Oh yeah, and if anyone wants to negotiate with me in the future I guess it would be a good idea to only send one ship.

I always have extra 7 layer dip.

Alright then, we'll invite the Yin-Yang and no one else. It doesn't really matter though, we're just doing this to avoid the penalty for not inviting you.

Who does the Reactor invite?

Yeah, sure, the Yin-Yang can come along.

Yin-yang may now accept alliences.