1000 Blank White Cards II - Round 7!

1000 Blank White Cards

The cards aren't all made yet. We'll make it up as we go along.

GAME TWO!

So that first game was pretty fun, huh? Here is where the SECOND game of 1KBWC will begin!

The Rules

• Your turn begins when I send you a link to a card via PM.
• During your turn, play a card by posting an image of it to the thread and doing what it says.
• Unless otherwise stated, a card can be played on any one player, and any mention of "you" means "the player this card is played on."
• If a card requires you to do something, you must do it by your next turn.
• If you do not play a card within 24 hours of your turn, you lose your chance and the next player gets their card.
• Alternatively, after recieving a card you may skip the rest of your turn to get two more cards.
• At the end of the round, I post a recap of what happened and provide an update of the current game state.
• If we run out of cards or (equally likey) completely break the game, it ends and the player with the most points wins, provided no cards have changed the win condition by then.
• If you have a blank card, you may create a new card and PM it to me. I will add it to the deck and send a random card back to you.
• Submitted cards should be .pngs about 300×400 or 400×300.
• I may create other rules during the game in response to new elements your cards add.

• Make the game as fun as you can! That's what it's all about!

To Join

Just send me four cards of your own design in a PM and I'll add them to the deck! We use these to get started. Turn order will be determined by the order I recieve the players' cards in. Cards need a picture, a title, and a description of what they do. If the card has an ongoing effect( like giving someone a special ability or adding a new rule to the game), it stays in play and its effect ends when the card goes away. If it's just a one-time thing( like drawing a card or losing some points) the card is discarded after use. Usually.

Can people send cards without actually playing?

Sure! I always feel the game gets better the bigger the variety of people who contributed to it!

So far I've gotten cards from phantaskippy, Mezike, and TheJayMann. BlueHairedMeerkat, Silverleaf, and Ronway still must send me their four starter cards. As I mentioned in the other thread, this second game isn't gonna start for at least a week or so, so there's plenty of time to get them made.

Also, I've just created this one card that I'm really excited about and can't wait to see how it works! I don't wanna give anything away, so all I'm saying is cards that make players lose points will get pretty valuable...

Mine are sent. I'll be interested to see whether you allow one of them, Alex...

I have cards from everyone who expressed interest except Silverleaf right now. Hopefully we can begin soon!

Oh hey it looks like I got some cards from Silverleaf without realizing it! Everybody still wanna do this? I just need to set some things up and we can begin!

Yeah!

Starting hands sent!

The turn order this time will be:

1. phantaskippy
2. Mezike
3. BlueHairedMeerkat
4. Ronway
5. Silverleaf

Ready... GO!

(On a side note, I'm really excited for the card one particular person got in their starting hand)

I'll play this on BlueHairedMeerkat.

Mezike's turn!

Mezike has not responded within the 24-hour time limit. Thus, he has lost his turn and play goes to BlueHairedMeerkat. Sorry, Mezike, I gotta keep the game moving!

I play a CENTIPEDE!

Looking down, I count six legs that are mine; two human legs (definitely mine) and four chair legs (and the chair is mine).Now you may say that I'm being ridiculous, that I don't have a leg to stand on, but the card clearly states that it's just legs you have, not necessarily legs attached to you, so I so have a leg to stand on... and that leg brings me to 700 points :P

I am unnecessarily happy to see that card. 

I shall bring forth, the fearsome kitty!

For this round, I shall ask, how many Ronway's does it take to screw in a light bulb, when the ladder is lathered in soap?

(I was expecting people to use the Demon Cat to get information related to the game, but silly questions work fine too I guess)

Seven. One to rinse the ladder off, dry it, and put the freshly-cleaned ladder neatly away in the closet; three to form a human pyramid under the bulb; one to climb the Ronway pyramid and replace the bulb; and one more to operate the Ronway Cloning Device beforehand( yes, the device only works on Ronway. Nobody knows why).

Also, here are the rules for handling cards with HP:

Additional Rule: Cards with Hit Points

Any time you activate a card effect that causes player(s) to lose points as part of its use, you may shift the point loss portion of the effect from a player's score to the HP of an HP-holding card in that player's play area. Decide whether or not to do this for each affected player individually. If a card's HP is reduced to 0 or lower, it is destroyed. HP may be restored to cards in a similar fasion. It's possible for a card to obtain more HP than its starting HP.

More serious answers at a later date, but didn't have one yet.

It's fine. Anyway, Silverleaf's turn!

I gift Mezike the Mafia Penguin, since he missed his turn. You're welcome.

It feels weird making a play without puns. 

So Ronway Meerkat and I all send him one card for the Penguin.

Waddle we do if he doesn't come back?

(that pun was for you Silverleaf)

I neglected to include this in the rules, but in the game I'm basing this on if you miss your turn twice in a row you get removed or replaced. Given that Mezike hasn't been seen online for 5 days as of now, it looks like he might not find out the game began in time to play it. There don't happen to be any spectators who'd be interested in taking Mezike's place, does there?

Recap Time!

Phantaskippy kicked off the game by summoning Bill Cipher, the dream demon. Bill invaded the mind of a certain blue-haired meerkat, and gave phantaskippy intel and a pile of deer teeth.

BlueHairedMeerkat, in an effort to make sure his mental faculties were undamaged after the intrusion, decided to count his legs. Luckily, it seems he still knows how to count. He got a bit carried away and counted some other legs that weren't technically a part of his body, but... um... we'll cut him some slack, I guess. He's probably fine, right??

Ronway also called forth a monster; that weird, semi-omniscient cat thing from Adventure Time. He needed its special brand of almost-knowledge to determine how many of himself he would need to change a lightbulb.

Mezike went mysteriously missing, and has not yet acted this game. In his absence, the Penguin Mafia took over his play area, sent by Silverleaf at the round's end.

Status:

The deck has 66 cards remaining.

Phantaskippy has 0 points and 34 deer teeth.

Mezike has 0 points and might get replaced if he doesn't show up next round!

-May not play cards. Must instead give a random player all but one of the cards under Mafia Penguin. ▯

BlueHairedMeerkat has 700 points.

Ronway has 0 points.

-Can get one almost-accurate answer to a question each round. ▯, 500HP

Silverleaf has 0 points.

So wait, how does one get rid of the Mafia Penguin card if it's in their play area?

It is intended to go away once the text is fulfilled on the target's turn, litle oversight on my part.

Okay, I fixed it. And I sent you a card.

How Shall I play this Awesome Card I ask?

What Fiend, or Friend, deserves a fate so Grand?

The answer bold relieves me of my task.

In front of me I place it from my hand.

I am still around folks! Starting a new job tomorrow so my attention will be fully on that for quite a while. Given the tight timescales on this game I cannot commit to completing my turn on time so it might be best to sit this one out to prevent any unintentional disruption.

Have fun!

That's fine! I actually just got a job( as a game artist! ^‿^), too, so it's possible I won't be able to keep this running. I'll try my best, though. This is a lot of fun.

I think the simplest way to handle this is to just put Mafia Penguin back in Silverleaf's hand, let everyone who sent a card to Mezike get it back, and let Silverleaf play the Mafia Penguin card for free next turn.

And because I couldn't bear to see this card shuffled back into the deck, I'm gonna play it for Mezike before I dissolve his hand:

>You can read the aforementioned .txt file here.

Lemme just generate some Pochimeras for you...

OK! Phantaskippy gets a Weepinoom:

BlueHairedMeerkat gets a Magnebro:

Ronway gets a Grichoke:

And Silverleaf gets a Dragoneot:

Have fun! :D

a) Those are beautiful.

b) Dragoneot is beautiful. I want.

c) How do we use those abilities? Is it instead of a card play?

Oh, right, my turn. Hmm...

Oh phanta, why'd you play that on yourself?

For now I can't resist play'ng this on you:

You can use one or both abilities any time during your turn, except for ones that have been expended already. You may do so now, while it's still your turn.

Gubood subir, I cubannubot tubell uba lubie tubo yubou.

UbI wubas cubonfubusubed uband thubought thubat Ubi wubould gubain.

Ubalubas muby uberrubor nubow cubompuboundubed ubis.

Subo nubow Ubi wubait tubill subanubity rubegubain.

(Translation:  Yeah, I thought that 100cm was points for me, and was all, I can post in Iambic Pentameter, let's do this!  Now it sucks pretty bad.

Also while I'm cheating, I'm translating Iambic Pentameter into Ubbi Dubbi, so once translated it will ruin the whole thing.  I have no clue how to make it work otherwise.)

Alex: Awesome! Well, piling on phanta now would just be mean, so let's Thunderwave Silverleaf and confuse Ronway.

My god, this is going to require so much dice-rolling on my part...
Anyway, the Confusion move recharged at the end of your turn, the Thunderwave move didn't.

Also, let's make a rule that you can only be affected by one special condition at a time. Yes, this does mean that ****ing annoying confused/paralyzed combo isn't possible here like it would be in the real game, but I'm willing to make that sacrifice. What you did is fine, of course.

Anyway, Confused!Ronway, take your turn!

So I am confused this round? If so, do I randomly decide things or are you randomly deciding what gets played and on who?

The confusion only has a 50% chance to take effect. Just attempt to take your turn as normal, and afterward I'll

A) Tell you whether the confusion disrupted your card play(s), if any

B) If it did, I'll undo your card play(s), select a random player, and play a random card from your hand on them for each unsuccessful card play

C) Tell you if the confusion effect went away at your turn's end( a 1 in 5 chance)

Hmmm... Not sure what happened. I had typed up my turn, but for some reason it didn't submit. Oh well, summary!

BlueHairedMeerkat gets Double Kicked, then gets!

Ach, not that broody thang...

RONWAY is

confused!

...

RONWAY took

his turn normally!

...

RONWAY snapped

out of his confusion!

Also, Double Kick recharged at your turn's end. Silverleaf, I've sent you a card.

Right, this should be interesting. I use both Aerial Ace (to ignore the "sometimes this card effect won't happen" rule) and Dragon Dance (to double the effect of my next card play).

I play...

...on Meerkat, since he has the most points. You're welcome.

Also the Mafia Penguin takes a liking to Ronway. You know, the kind of liking that ends up with severed horses' heads in your bed.

[edit: misplaced apostrophe]

Oh wait, Meerkat doesn't have the most points since the Double Kick. How terrible. If only I could be bothered to change my target... 

Oh, good.

Eh. Revenge sha' come soon enough, wee ones...

Actually, since Thunderwave also gives card-granted abilities a 50% failure chance, then... hmm. Let me think this through.

First, I'll just go through all the things you attempted in the order they were mentioned, and determine which ones got through the Thunderwave.

Aerial Ace: Succeeds

Dragon Dance: Fails (because of Thunderwave)

Silly Match-3 Game: Succeeds automatically, assuming this is the extra card you played in conjunction with Aerial Ace

Mafia Penguin: Succeeds automatically, because I gave special permission.

So you manage to play both cards, but neither one is enhanced by Dragon Dance. And for future refrence, Dragon Dance doesn't work on cards played using Aerial Ace, because it ignores all non-pregame rules, including beneficial ones like the Dragon Dance ability.

Oh, you didn't make your normal card play for this turn. Was that intentional?

I didn't spot that bit at all!

Give me a minute.

Can i use Aerial Ace on my regular card play? I'm getting confused...

Nope. Whatever you put out next won't be your next card :P

Aerial Ace doesn't get applied to your regular card play, it is a card play in of itself. Activating its effect causes you to play a card, and for that card play only the non-pregame rules about playing cards don't apply. So when you used it to put Silly Match 3 Game into play, that card play wasn't affected by Thunderwave( but the use of the Aerial Ace ability was; it still had the 50% chance of failure). In Sentinels language, Aerial Ace is like a power that lets you play a card. So now you just have your ordinary card play left.

...but now your 24-hour period is definitely up. Sorry, gonna end the round now.

Recap Time!

Phantaskippy decided this game wasn't challenging him enough, and took a vow to speak only in iambic pentameter.

Speaking of challenges, Mezike left the game but started a Pokémon battle before relinquishing his hand( I helped with that). The Pokémon starters were a little... off, though. Um... y'know how two Pokémon can breed even if they're different species, and the offspring will always just be the mother's species? Turns out that's a myth. It's the only way I can explain the bizarre Pokémon chimeras (Pochimeras, for short) we found here. A Weepinoom, a Magnebro, a Grichoke, and a Dragoneot were given to phantaskippy, BlueHairedMeerkat, Ronway, and Silverleaf respectively.

BlueHairedMeerkat decided this game still wasn't challenging phantaskippy enough, and put a linguistic curse on top of his iambic pentameter-speak. He is now mostly unintelligible, but that's how you know he's HARDCORE. Ronway and Silverleaf weren't left out; the meerkat's sidekick took care of them. Ronway got hit by a psychic pulse that scrambled his brain, and Silverleaf got stunned by a wave of thunder.

Ronway was confused, but quickly snapped out of it and got even with that darn meerkat by burning his keyboard, then having his Pochimera kick him twice for good measure.

On Silverleaf's turn, the Penguin Mafia moved their base of operations over to Ronway's play area. Then Silverleaf retaliated against BlueHairedMeerkat while he was distracted with some new, addictive puzzle game. She tried to do double the damage, but the paralysis kicked in before her Dragoneot could use the mystical Dragon Dance.

Status:

The deck has 67 cards remaining. (Thanks to Mezike's hand returning to it)

-Anyone who destroys another player's Pochimera gets 1000 points and 2 cards. Pochimera cards are indestructable above 250HP. ▯

Phantaskippy has -110 points and 34 deer teeth.

-Loses 50 points every time he fails to speak in iambic pentameter. ▯

-Must convert his iambic pentameter into Ubbi-Dubbi before posting or lose 60 points. ▯

-Has a Weepinoom with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP

    -Absorb(Ready)- Steal random card from player.

    -Poison Powder(Ready)- Player loses 25pts at end of each round. Effect has 20% chance of going away at start of each round.

BlueHairedMeerkat has -400 points.

-Has lost his next turn. ▯

-Cannot use the letters I, J, K, or L. ▯

-Has a Magnebro with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP

    -Thunderwave(Expended)- For 1-3 rounds, when player plays card or uses an ability, has 50% chance of doing nothing.

    -Confusion(Ready)- When player tries to play a card, has a 50% chance they instead play a random card on random target. Effect has 20% chance of going away at end of their turns.

Ronway has 0 points.

-May not play cards. Must instead give a random player all but one of the cards under Mafia Penguin. ▯

-Can get one almost-accurate answer to a question each round. ▯, 1000HP

-Has a Grichoke with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP

    -Poison Powder(Ready)- Player loses 25pts at end of each round. Effect has 20% chance of going away at start of each round.

    -Double Kick(Ready)- Player loses 100pts. This ability activates twice in succession when used.

Silverleaf has 0 points.

-Each card play or ability use has a 50% chance of failing. ▯ (Thunderwave)

-Has a Dragoneot with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP

    -Dragon Dance(Expended)- Double the effect of your next card play.

    -Aerial Ace(Expended)- Ignore all non-pregame rules regarding card plays, and play a card. Then stop ignoring them.

I find it funny that the winning players are just the ones whose scores are still at zero.

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I AM THE PRETTIEST FROG IN THE WHOLE POND

(I drew a bunch of these, actually. They really are pretty neat.)

Thube Wubeepubinuboom ubis nubot uba luboyubal frubiend.

Ubas Mubagnubebrubo cuban subureluby nubow ubattubest.

Fuboul Pubowduber cubosts hubim puboints hube cubannubot spubare.

Uband thuben, ubinstubead ubof gubivubing ubit uba rubest,

Lubousuby Mubechubanubics fuborce ubus uball tubo shubare.

I was wondering when that translator would show up...

Anyway BlueHairedMeerkat loses his next turn and play passes to Ronway.

Oh, and for the Poorly Implemented Drafting System, let me know which cards you all keep so I can keep track of where everything is still.

Alrighty, I send the cards besides 1 to Silverleaf.

I guess I could ask a question. How many Ronway cards are currently in the hands of the players?

Then I do nothing!

Answer: Basically all of them.

Silverleaf, it's your turn now. You're still paralyzed, by the way, so cards and card abilities will fail 50% of the time.

Oh hey! It's my card!

… I was hoping someone would question the fact that no one is actually sitting to the LEFT of anyone else, really, but… whatever.

Maybe we should do an update on cards in hand, I don't actually know what cards I have anymore.

Whoa, sorry for that inadvertant weeklong hiatus, there! Job things happened, and then animé con things happened, and a few depression things happened( or rather, caused nothing productive to happen). Also internet distraction things. They happened especially. On the plus side, I now know what it's like to be a father who's secretly an octopus.

Anyway, Silverleaf's 24-hour turn limit is definitely up now. I was waiting for her to complete the draft and tell me what cards she sent to Ronway, but she has yet to respond. The rules say if a card requires you to do something you must do it by your next turn, but I wasn't sure how to handle what happens when someone doesn't do the thing, the way your turn gets skipped if you take more than a day. I think I'll just choose a card for her at random and call it a day.

So... what else... Oh! At the end of Silverleaf's turn( or lack thereof), the paralyzing effect of Thunderwave wears off and her Dragoneot regains the use of Aerial Ace( but not Dragon Dance).

And yeah, a lot of cards changed hands this round, so I am going to PM everybody what their current hands are at the round's end.

Let's get this game back on track!

EDIT: I also raised the Poisonpowder damage from 25pts to 50pts, because it seemed underpowered and it hasn't taken effect yet anyway.

Recap Time!

Phantaskippy, despite being near-imossible to understand, gave everyone a hands-on( so to speak) lesson about sharing. He also apparently commanded his Weepinoom to poison BlueHairedMeerkat's Magnebro. I guess he's training it in ubiubamubic pubentubamubetuber so that it only recognizes commands by him? Perhaps there's more to his accidental speech impediment than we thought...

BlueHairedMeerkat's turn got skipped this round.

Ronway was glad to be rid of the Penguin Mafia, which turned out to be working for Silverleaf this whole time(!!). They gave her their stolen goods, but Ronway managed to sneak off with one of them. He also collected intelligence on the whereabouts of his signature Ronway cards with the help of the Demon Cat.

Silverleaf remained inactive this round, possibly busy diving in her piles of ill-gotten goods like Scroodge McDuck.

Status:

The deck has 64 cards remaining.

-Anyone who destroys another player's Pochimera gets 1000 points and 2 cards. Pochimera cards are indestructable above 250HP. ▯

Phantaskippy has -110 points and 34 deer teeth.

-Loses 50 points every time he fails to speak in iambic pentameter. ▯

-Must convert his iambic pentameter into Ubbi-Dubbi before posting or lose 60 points. ▯

-Has a Weepinoom with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP

    -Absorb(Ready)- Steal random card from player.

    -Poison Powder(Expended)- Player loses 50pts at end of each round. Effect has 20% chance of going away at start of each round.

BlueHairedMeerkat has -400 points.

-Cannot use the letters I, J, K, or L. ▯

-Has a Magnebro with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 450HP

    -Thunderwave(Expended)- For 1-3 rounds, when player plays card or uses an ability, has 50% chance of doing nothing.

    -Confusion(Ready)- When player tries to play a card, has a 50% chance they instead play a random card on random target. Effect has 20% chance of going away at end of their turns.

-Magnebro will lose 50 HP each round. ▯ (Poisonpowder)

Ronway has 0 points.

-Can get one almost-accurate answer to a question each round. ▯, 1000HP

-Has a Grichoke with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP

    -Poison Powder(Ready)- Player loses 50pts at end of each round. Effect has 20% chance of going away at start of each round.

    -Double Kick(Ready)- Player loses 100pts. This ability activates twice in succession when used.

Silverleaf has 0 points, and is in danger of being replaced if she doesn't take her turn on time next round!

-Has a Dragoneot with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP

    -Dragon Dance(Expended)- Double the effect of your next card play.

    -Aerial Ace(Ready)- Ignore all non-pregame rules regarding card plays, and play a card. Then stop ignoring them.

Cheers phanta! HAMMERTAHM!

No more Choccy for Ronway, Meercat gets 1000pts and two cards, and everyone except Ronway gets a temporary Choccy.

O, and Confuse and Dubba-Thwac Ronway, and Powder Phanta's Weeper.

Thunderwave has recharged, none of the other moves for either you or phantaskippy have.

Ronway's turn! He's confused once again.

Heck, I don't see why not. Time to break out some awesome magic!

Now I will show the darkside.

Anyone who wishes to sign this, I will allow them to draw an additional 2 cards on their turn, then take any card from hand and shuffle it back into the deck. What I ask for in return is any cards with Ronway written on it that are in or will be in your hand be handed to me instead. So who wants to sign a pact with Ronway?

Edit: Clarified my wording a bit.

A pact! My name upon the paper be.

Ooh, I'll take it.  Sign me up, I love a good Pyramid Scheme, no cards to send now, but the future awaits!

And luckily, Confusion doesn't kick in this turn. It has not gone away, however.

Okay. So, I really didn't want to have to reduce the number of players again, but Silverleaf has not interacted with any of us since March 16th. I think I'll have to remove her. :(

To Silverleaf and anyone else reading this: 1000 Blank White Cards is a pretty easygoing game. I have no problems with adding in new players mid-game. If you want to join, just let us know and I'll PM you a starting hand! This game is better with more people.

Sorry, things have been a bit mad and I kept forgetting to do stuff. I apologise for holding things up. :(

I want to join!

I can provide some card ideas too, if you'd like.

It's fine. I haven't dissolved your hand yet, so if you're less busy now I can just add you back and you'll get a turn next round.

The deck is a pretty decent size right now, so it's not strictly necessary, but if you want to submit cards you can!

Thanks Alex, I would like to keep playing if it's okay. 

Okay, so I'm gonna give jsz2 their turn now. First off, some late-joiner boons to even things out a lttle:

You get a Pochimera to battle with, too! It's a slightly creepy hybrid of Tentacool and Wartortle. We'll call it Tentatortle:

Also, let's say that you too have been splattered with the remains of Ronway's Grichoke, so for this turn only you may use its abilities.

Oh yeah, and of course, I have PM'd you a 5-card starting hand plus your card for this turn. Take your turn anytime within the next 24 hours!

Let's see…  We need more magic!

I will sign a pact with Ronway!

I will then use Ronway's Grichoke's Doublekick to hit Ronway.  I will then use Ronway's Grichoke's PoisonPowder to poison Silverleaf.

Question:  Can I use my Tentatortle to bounce other Pochimeras?  I don't want to at the moment, but I wish to know if I can.

Hmm... I think not, since they weren't technically played by anyone in the first place. They just sorta came into being because of another card, whose owner isn't in the game anymore.

Nevermind, answered my own question.

Sorry Ronway, I forgot that BlueHairedMeerkat had a positive score on account of splatting your Grichoke.

Recap Time!

Phantaskippy pulled out an inexplicably-buttery club and whacked Ronway's Grichoke with it before promptly dropping and losing it.

BlueHairedMeerkat finished it off with a mallet, splattering bits and pieces of the Pochimera everywhere. He then used some of the bits closest to him to kick Ronway repeatedly and poison phantaskippy's Weepinoom. He then used his own Pochimera to scramble Ronway's head.

Ronway, with no alternatives, turned to dark magic. He forged an infernal pact with phantaskippy, BlueHairedMeerkat, and new player jsz2, giving them better card draw in exchange for having them collect his personal Ronway artifacts for him. He then pulled out a spellbook, and began researching his first three spells: One to bring back the dead, one to aquire ice magic, and one to put down a source of Green Mana.

jsz2 joined the game, aquiring a Tentatortle and some more pieces of Ronway's Grichoke, which they used to kick Ronway some more and poison Silverleaf. They also brought a sidekick to the game, a girl with magic powers.

Status:

The deck has 50 cards remaining.

• -Anyone who destroys another player's Pochimera gets 1000 points and 2 cards. Pochimera cards are indestructable above 250HP. ▯

Phantaskippy has -220 points and 34 deer teeth.

• -Loses 50 points every time he fails to speak in iambic pentameter. ▯
• -Must convert his iambic pentameter into Ubbi-Dubbi before posting or lose 60 points. ▯
• -Has a Weepinoom with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 450HP
•     -Absorb(Ready)- Steal random card from player.
•     -Poison Powder(Expended)- Player loses 50pts at end of each round. Effect has 20% chance of going away at start of each round.
• -Weepinoom will lose 50 HP each round. ▯ (Poisonpowder)
• -Has, for his next turn only, a Grichoke with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP
•     -Poison Powder(Ready)- Player loses 50pts at end of each round. Effect has 20% chance of going away at start of each round.
•     -Double Kick(Ready)- Player loses 100pts. This ability activates twice in succession when used.
• -Has signed the Infernal Pact of Power. ▯

BlueHairedMeerkat has 600 points.

• -Cannot use the letters I, J, K, or L. ▯
• -Has a Magnebro with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 400HP
•     -Thunderwave(Expended)- For 1-3 rounds, when player plays card or uses an ability, has 50% chance of doing nothing.
•     -Confusion(Ready)- When player tries to play a card, has a 50% chance they instead play a random card on random target. Effect has 20% chance of going away at end of their turns.
• -Magnebro will lose 50 HP each round. ▯ (Poisonpowder)
• -Has signed the Infernal Pact of Power. ▯

Ronway has -400 points.

• -Can get one almost-accurate answer to a question each round. ▯, 1000HP
• -Is holding an Infernal Pact of Power granting anyone who signs it the ability to draw two extra cards then shuffle back one. In exchange, they must give him all Ronway cards they come across( I'll move these cards to Ronway's hand during each player's turn unless told otherwise by the player). ▯
• -Can cast a spell, gaining +1 Entropy Point, if he discards a card and instead of playing one and doesn't have 3 Entropy Points. ▯, spells are ▯▯▯
• -When he tries to play a card, has a 50% chance to instead play a random card on random target. ▯ (Confusion)

Silverleaf has -50 points.

• -Has a Dragoneot with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP
•     -Dragon Dance(Expended)- Double the effect of your next card play.
•     -Aerial Ace(Ready)- Ignore all non-pregame rules regarding card plays, and play a card. Then stop ignoring them.
• -Will lose 50 points each round. ▯ (Poisonpowder)

jsz2 has 0 points and 150 Cuteness Points.

• -Has a Tentatortle with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP
•    -Water Gun(Ready)- Move a card back to the hand of whoever played it.
•    -Water Gun(Ready)- Move a card back to the hand of whoever played it.
• -Can spend 25 Cuteness Points to change some quantity on a just-played card by +1 or -1, once per round.▯, 700HP
• -Has signed the Infernal Pact of Power. ▯

Phantaskippy has defected, and has brought the game with him.  Everyone is now

So for this post I will go ahead and gain 1000 points, draw a card and then for failing to jump through hoops gain 110 points as well.

I don't remember if Weepinoom's poison has recharged or not, but if it has I'll poison Ronway for the positive effect I am contractually obligated to play on him.

For how this card works, any card effect you play, explain how it will work with the reversal, some are easy:  Weepinoom's poison will now cause point gain, discard becomes draw, and vice-versa.  Destroying cards would become playing cards, play a card would cause destruction, etc.

If you can't figure out a reverse to a card, just say so, and Alex or myself will reverse it for you.  hehehe

In Soviet Russia, my Magical Girl reads thusly:

"Once per round, in response to a card being played, you may gain 25 cuteness points to prevent one of the attributes on the card from changing -1 or +1"

In response to Soviet Russia, I do not choose to active her ability, so the number of points you "lose" is modified to 999, and the number of cards you "discard" is modified to 2.

How does the deal on Infernal Pact of Power now work?

EDIT: Phantaskippy, your Weepinoom's poisonpowder is expended, but you have a one turn only Grichoke with poisonpowder that you can use.

EDIT2: if you saw this earlier, you should note that I changed how modified things slightly.  If you saw this after I did the modifications, ignore this note.

That's exactly what I want to know…

A couple of options:

1.  draw turns to discard, beneficial cards turn to non-beneficial.

2.  switch so that by signing up you don't draw cards or benefit Ronway, the people who don't sign up have to.

3.  Ronway draws two cards and plays benefits on the other signed people

I like to go with the person who controls the card deciding, unless they can't, in which case the moderator (Alex) can make something up, and it would be final.

It's quite fluid, so Ronway can choose how it reverses effect, as long as he has a decent explanation.

+110 points for me!

I agree.  The person who controls a card chooses how it reverses.

It has not recharged. Just check the Weepinoom's info in the Status section of the recap to find out. Aaaand… it doesn't recharge at the end of this turn, either.

Oh, wait, if I'm reversing all effects, then I was actually determining if it wouldn't recharge at the start of this turn! So from now on all expended abilities( I'm ruling that people still can only activate non-expended ones, otherwise everthing gets turned around 360 degrees and nothing's actually different) have a 2 in 3 chance to recharge at the start of that player's turn. However, at the start of your turn the reversing card hadn't been played yet, so nothing of Weepinoom's has a chance to recharge yet.

But there's actually nothing in Ronway's contract about playing beneficial cards on him. That was only an example in the card description. So it works out anyway.

I think the simplest way to reverse the "overall effect" of the Pact would be to swap the roles of the first party and the second party. That would mean that Ronway gets to draw 3 cards and shuffle back 1, but must give any Ronway cards he has to any of the three players that signed the pact( choosing each card's recipient separately).

Let's go with that, unless Ronway has a suggestion that sounds more fun.

Some general guidelines on reversing card effects:

• The opposite of drawing a card (moving it from the deck to your hand) is shuffling back a card (moving it from your hand to the deck)
• The opposite of discarding a card (moving it from your hand to the discard pile) is drawing a random discarded card (moving it from the discard pile to your hand)
• The opposite of destroying a card (moving it from a play area to the discard pile) is playing a random discarded card (moving it from the discard pile to a play area)
• The opposite of playing a card (moving it from your hand to a play area) is putting a played card in your hand (moving it from a play area to your hand)

Keep in mind that in the regular course of you turn, you still draw and play as usual. This is just for card effects causing you to do these things.

Uh-oh. Um, BlueHairedMeerkat, I have some bad news for you.

I think this means you are now only allowed to use those four keys when you type. Looks like you'll be relying heavily on pictures if you want to comunicate in Soviet Russia.

Let's see... you can still type

1. I
2. I'll
3. kill
4. Jill
5. Ill
6. ilk
7. 'K
8. JK

...I think that's it. Well, at least you're covered if you need to murder someone named Jill? Or seem to be murdering Jill, but turn out to be Just Kidding?

Wonderful! This is already even more mental than the first game!

Yeah, I can't wait to see what happens next.

BlueHairedMeerkat, I've sent you a card. Magnebro also recharged its Confusion attack, because clearly the game is not confusing enough yet

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Noo!!! I don't want to lose my Ronway cards! This is horrible!

If I could get some help interpreting the pictograms?

Wait, so I think we have a situation where you cannot play a card if you can play a card.

And at the End of Meerkat's turn a card randomly goes from the discard into play.

So how do we deal with this?

Put random cards from the discard into Meerkat's area until one destroys REDACTED?

also. . .

+110 points for me.

@BlueHairedMeerkat: Hmm... I think I understand what you're asking.

The guidlines I provided don't really apply to specific cards having stuff happen to them. When one specific card is required to be destroyed, it doesn't make sense to try to reverse that(I suppose it could generate a second copy of that card, but then they'd start multiplying exponentially and flood the whole board).

This card is pretty complicated; I think instead of trying to find an opposite effect for every part, we should just reverse the parts that can be inverted easily. How about, "All cards must be placed face down under this card without being revealed, and all players must play at least one card if possible. At the end of your next turn, destroy this card and play all cards underneath it as if they were played by you. If someone doesn't get their own card played on them, it is instead played on you!"

Magical Girl alterations:

All but one cards played by other players must be placed face down under this card without being revealed, and all but one of the players must play at least zero cards if possible.

At the start of your next turn, destroy this card and play all but one of the cards underneath it as if they were played by you.  

However, if someone gets their own card played on them, it is instead played on you!

"Grin" - Citizen Anvil, Sentinels of the Multiverse, Issue 2

Just when you thought it couldn't get more confusing.

Also, oh god oh god, Phantaskippy's going to get all the points. 

the idea is that the end result reverses as much as possible.

Redacted does 3 steps:

1.  forces everyone to play a card

2.  takes those card plays from them

3.  On Meerkat's turn plays them as if they were his all along.

A few suggestions on how to reverse it:

A.  On a players turn Meerkat chooses a card for that player to play, they then play it, if they play it on Meerkat it is instead played on them.  This could be accomplished by random as well.

B.  any destroyed cards would go under Redacted, and then come out if redacted is destroyed.

C.  We lock down the game and see if cards put in play from the discard end up destroying Redacted.  (I think this is what Meerkat was trying to convey)

As the creator of Redacted I would suggest going with Alex's definition of reverse play:

"All cards must be placed face down under this card without being revealed, and all players must play at least one card if possible. At the end of your next turn, destroy this card and play all cards underneath it as if they were played by you. If someone doesn't get their own card played on them, it is instead played on you!"

Which, when combined with my Magical Girl adjustments, becomes:

"All cards but one must be placed face down under this card without being revealed, and all but one players must play at least zero cards if possible. At the  end  of your next turn, destroy this card and play all but one of the cards underneath it as if they were played by you. If someone  doesn't  get their own card played on them, it is instead played on you!"

Yes, Ronway's confusion will work slightly differently now, if that's what you're curious about. Now, there's a 20% chance it will not go away at the start of his turn, and whenever he tries to play a card, there's a 50% chance he'll instead send a random card already in play back to a random player's hand.

Did I interpret you correctly?

I read it as Meerkat recasting Confusion on Ronway, who is not listed as confused in the statuses at the moment.  Can Ronway be confused twice?

Okay, so now it's Ronway's turn. At the start of his turn he snaps out of confusion( thanks to it being a 4-in-5 chance now).

Your Spellbook has been inverted! Now, "casting a spell" means creating a copy of a spell card and adding it to your hand. On your turn, you may either:
✧Skip your play phase and draw a discarded card to cast 1 spell if you have over -3 Entropy Points and get -1 Entropy Point
✧Discard all cards created by this one and set your Entropy Points to 0

Your Demon Cat now asks you a question if you provide it with something close to that qusetion's answer, and flees if something canine is in the discards.

I've sent you three cards. You may begin your turn!

And remember [REDACTED]:

All cards but one must be placed face down under this card without being revealed, and all but one players must play at least zero cards if possible. At the end of your next turn, destroy this card and play all but one of the cards underneath it as if they were played by you. If someone doesn't get their own card played on them, it is instead played on you!

Alright, so I will send Alex the card to be put under [Redacted], I will also no longer hold up the deal on the Infernal Pack, thus letting is go away. No one touches my Ronway cards!!!

Next up: Silverleaf!

Dragoneot's Dragon Dance recharged, and it's two abilities now read:

Dragon Dance: Half the effects of your next card play.

Aerial Ace: Observe all non-pregame rules regarding card plays, and put an in-play card into your hand. Then stop observing them. (Whoa. That's pretty powerful.)

Hi, if I can I’d like to join. I’ve got some ideas for cards

I wanna use Aerial Ace to put In Soviet Russia into my hand. This game is confusing enough already without that!

And I'm going to play this on BlueHairedMeerkat, because he's in the lead. Must try harder, Meerkat.

Risky, I know. but what the hell.

Oh, this could work well for me…  

Awesome, more players! Send me some cards( if you want to) and I'll send you a hand. I'll make you a Pochimera, too, 'cause they're fun. You'll go after jsz2.

Actually, this card gets REDACTED… Oh wait, but reversed!Aerial Ace makes you stop observing non-pregame rules about card plays after activating it… except the card reversing it got removed from play during that time… hmm. I guess that means Aerial Ace changed halfway through its execution, starting with "Observe all non-pregame rules about playing cards" and ending with "Stop ignoring all non-pregame rules about card plays." So yeah. Your card play for this turn should actually be done in secret. If you still wish to play a card this turn, that is. Thanks to the Magical Girl effect, playing at least 1 card is no longer mandatory.

While you're doing that, jsz2 may go!

Also, thanks to the Magical Girl, one card can be played normally.  I'm not sure if that's one card per player, one card per round, or one card total, but  Attempted Murder is the first card played normally since [redacted] so it doesn't matter.

I am now completely confused. What?

Hm? Howzat?

Magical Girl enjoyed Soviet Russia.

I have no idea what's going on any more. And not in a good way. 

When [Redacted] was played, I abused Magical Girl's interaction with Soviet Russia to mess with quantities that really weren't designed to be manipulated.  That's all.

Don't worry, Soviet Russia confused pretty much everybody at some point, myself included. From what I understand, the Magical Girl modified [REDACTED] so that overall, putting a card under it is basically optional unless you try to play more than one card on your turn. So what you did earlier, where you played that card, was actually a legal play that did not have to get [REDACTED]. I messed up, and didn't read the edited card description carefully enough.

Or to put it another way:  Everything was confusing, but nobody has made any mistakes yet.  (Except for the mistake of thinking that there was a mistake).

And now to make the last of the confusion go away, I'm going to get rid of [Redacted].
 

I use one of my Tentatortle's water guns to return [Redacted] to Meerkat's hand.  (which will remove the alterations, so if it gets replayed, it will work normally.)

I will then attack Meerkat's Magnebro with a 

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78312723/1KBWC/Alex/Iron%20Sword.png[/img]

I spend 25 cuteness points to add +1 to the quantity of 1/4 of its starting HP, so the Iron Sword will now take away 5/4 of its starting HP on the start of my next turn.

So I'm going to classify the card placed underneath [REDACTED] as attached to it, going wherever it goes( but not vice versa). In other words, both cards are sent to Meerkat's hand.

And now a new player takes their first turn! First off, Humble-Knight, you get a faithful Pochimera sidekick:

And I've just sent you a hand and a start-of-turn draw!

So for my first turn I use Slowfable's Charm on Skippy

and...

Play 

Sorry Ronway

Opps, I put "be" instead of "by" on that card.

Yes you did

Aand thus ends what was probably the strangest round in the game thus far. Oh, and Charm has recharged.

Recap will be coming up shortly.

Before Skippy takes his turn, beware!  For I shall become a 

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78312723/1KBWC/Alex/Temporal%20Cheater.png[/img]

Oh, and it's a new round, so I can use Magical Girl again.  I spend 25 cuteness points to increase the number of bonus turns I take by +1.

Recap Time!

Phantaskippy turned the game on its head by bringing everyone into Soviet Russia. This temporarily freed him from his speech impediments and heightened BlueHairedMeerkat's to such a degree that he was forced to communicate through images.

BlueHairedMeerkat tried to retcon this, but only succeeded in redacting Ronway's card play, thanks in part to Magical Girl's reversed powers going haywire.

Ronway refused to have the tables turned on his Pact, and willingly broke it so as to keep his cards.

Silverleaf had had enough of this Soviet nonsense, and used her Dragoneot's Aerial Ace to pull it out of the game. It is now being closely guarded in the immense treasure horde of cards that is her hand. Then she channeled the wrath of her profile picture, attempting a murder... of crows. On BlueHairedMeerkat.

jsz2 used their Tentatortle to wash away the last of the weirdness brought on by Soviet Russia: [REDACTED], which had been changed by cards in a really confusing manner. Both [REDACTED] and the censored card beneath it were sent back to BlueHairedMeerkat's hand. They then swung a magically-enhanced sword at his Pochimera, with enough power to knock that Magnebro into negative hit points if it's not blocked.

A Humble-Knight then joined the game, bringing with them a Slowfable, which Charmed phantaskippy. They then summoned an aspect of Ronway: The Ronway of Not Caring! Now they don't care about losing points as much.

Status:

The deck has 36 cards remaining.

• -Anyone who destroys another player's Pochimera gets 1000 points and 2 cards. Pochimera cards are indestructable above 250HP. ▯

Phantaskippy has 1219 points, 34 deer teeth, and 7 cards.

• -Loses 50 points every time he fails to speak in iambic pentameter. ▯
• -Must convert his iambic pentameter into Ubbi-Dubbi before posting or lose 60 points. ▯
• -Has a Weepinoom with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 400HP
•     -Absorb(Ready)- Steal random card from player.
•     -Poison Powder(Expended)- Player loses 50pts at end of each round. Effect has 20% chance of going away at start of each round.
• -Cannot target Humble-Knight with undesired effects. ▯ (Charm)

BlueHairedMeerkat has 100 points and 8 cards.

• -Cannot use the letters I, J, K, or L. ▯
• -Has a Magnebro with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 350HP
•     -Thunderwave(Ready)- For 1-3 rounds, when player plays card or uses an ability, has 50% chance of doing nothing.
•     -Confusion(Ready)- When player tries to play a card, has a 50% chance they instead play a random card on random target. Effect has 20% chance of going away at end of their turns.
• -Magnebro will lose 50 HP each round. ▯ (Poisonpowder)
• -Magnebro will lose 625 HP at the start of jsz2's turn. ▯

Ronway has -400 points and 7 cards.

• -Can get one almost-accurate answer to a question each round. ▯, 1000HP
• -Can cast a spell, gaining +1 Entropy Point, if he discards a card and instead of playing one and doesn't have 3 Entropy Points. ▯, spells are ▯▯▯

Silverleaf has -100 points and 10 cards.

• -Has a Dragoneot with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP
•     -Dragon Dance(Ready)- Double the effect of your next card play.
•     -Aerial Ace(Expended)- Ignore all non-pregame rules regarding card plays, and play a card. Then stop ignoring them.
• -Will lose 50 points each round. ▯ (Poisonpowder)

jsz2 has 0 points, 150 Cuteness Points, and 5 cards.

• -Has a Tentatortle with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP
•    -Water Gun(Expended)- Move a card back to the hand of whoever played it.
•    -Water Gun(Ready)- Move a card back to the hand of whoever played it.
• -Can spend 25 Cuteness Points to change some quantity on a just-played card by +1 or -1, once per round.▯, 700HP

Humble-Knight has 0 points and 5 cards.

• -Has a Slowfable with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP
•    -Water Gun(Ready)- Move a card back to the hand of whoever played it.
•    -Charm(Ready)-Player may not target you with undesirable cards or other abilities for 1-3 rounds.
• -Reduces all point loss directed at them by 100. ▯

Matchstickman approves of the Ronway of not caring picture, especially as it is on a card Ronway has made a mistake on.

Alright.  It's my turns, so my Iron Sword goes back into my hand, killing the Magnebro, giving me 1000 points and 2 cards.

Then I shall skip the rest of my two turns and draw 4 additional cards.

Well that was clever. Okay, phantaskippy may go!

Subo nubow tubo thubis, dubear frubiends UbI shuball rubetuburn.

Muby mubothuberluband dubestruboyed buby lubittlube tuboys.

UbA prubomubise thubat muby vubengubeance hubot duboth buburn,

Mubore frubequbuent nubow muby cubomrubadubes tubo ubannuboy.

Gubo fuborth uband stubeal cubards nubobuble Wubeepubinuboom!

thuben puboisubon uband rubechubarge tubake plubace ubeach tuburn.

Ubit’s pubowubers shuball Ubi wrubeck ubupubon thube ruboom,

Tubill ubof ubit’s dubeath ubin subadnubess Ubi shuball lubearn.

effect*

I recognise that badly-drawn face!

And yeah, I didn't spot that I'd used the wrong word. My bad. 

It's not a mistake, you were referencing the Ronway of not caring card having a spelling mistake too.

Which you had seen before it was released.

Probably.

Yes, yes and yes. Totally intentional…

The fact that she referenced a card that she hadn't seen yet with a card that she couldn't control when it had been played was a reference to the card played right before my turn.

Something about Brittish people and time-travel.

You know why the Prime Meridian is based in England as Greenich Mean Time don't you?

It's because that way we get twice as much time as the rest of the world, we have a regular day and we get to do stuff in the meantime; we're twice as productive (or lazy, depending on how you look at it).

Actually, I had seen that card a while back. 

Don't you mean that you were going to have had seen that card sometime previously in the while forward?

Aargh, sorry I've been so bad about updating the game, everyone! My mother had brain surgery, and then a bunch of relatives visited, and blah. I'll get this game moving again tomorrow.

Hey, don't worry Alex, other things are more important than a forum game! Take whatever time you need.

And I hope your mum's doing okay. Tell her some random internet person she's never even heard of is thinking of her. (If that won't weird her out... ;))

I'm with Silverleaf on this, take the time you need, we'll be here when the game gets going again.  Best to your mother.

I play Get Well Soon! on Alex's mother!

Now you can tell your mother that three random internet people she's never even heard of (RIPSNEHOs) are thinking of her.

*four

Let's just say that a whole forum's worth of random strangers are all rooting for her.

Aw, thanks you guys. You're the best random internet people. Happily, the surgeons were able to successfully remove the (benign, non-cancerous )tumor from her head, and my mom is doing very well. She's been making jokes about trephining a lot, so at least she's nice and upbeat about the whole thing. With my dad working, though, I'm the only one who can drive her places since she's not recovered enough to do so herself. So I'm a bit busier than usual nowadays. Should still be able to run this game, too, though.

So!

Weepinoom's Absorb has recharged, Poisonpowder is still expended. And about Just Assume I'm Always Doing That: The other players' Charm and Poisonpowder effects now affect phantaskippy every turn. Both these effects are of limited duration; one will go away sometime in the next three rounds and the other has a 20% chance of going away each round. Has JAIADT made them permanent duration, or shortened their duration so that they could fade each turn instead of each round?

No more Sovet Russa means game needs FUN!

FUUUUUN!

Excellent! I know what I am playing next!

that card says it's when it means to say its

Thube Wubeepubinuboom rubears ubup tubo subee ubits prubey.

Frubom thubeft ubof cubard nubo mubortubal cuban bube subafe.

Ubacruboss thube tubabuble Rubon ubit subees thube wubay.

Uband cubasts ubabsuborb, hubis prubecubiubous cubards tubo tubake.

Absorb has recharged, Poisonpowder has not.

Weepinoom is hurt py poison! (Now at 300 HP)

Sorry I took so long to update! Been busy with stuff. Anyways, Ronway may go now!

Time for me to do some haunting!

Now it is put into play 3 times in succession! first one will target Phantaskippy. I already know what card I will be claiming, but I still want to see it. Now to decide who else I want to look at... I guess I don't have to pick now, since I assume I do each card in order and not at once?

Hey!  That's the card you took from me!

I'm going to use absorb every turn it recharges, on whoever has the most cards, if theres a tie pick one of them at random or just steal a card from Ronway.

(-110 points, bah.)

I should probably mention that I have subtracted points from you a few times in the past when your posts started off in ubiubamubic pubentubamubetuber but ended with a statement that was not. I get that you're just trying to make yourself understood, and maybe I should've interpreted the cards differently to allow the parentheticals, but it's too late for me to go back now. You could try bolding the key parts of your poems if you're looking for a way to make their meanings clear without losing points, like this:

Thube Wubeepubinuboom rubears ubup tubo subee ubits prubey.

Frubom thubeft ubof cubard nubo mubortubal cuban bube subafe.

Ubacruboss thube tubabuble Rubon ubit subees thube wubay.

Uband cubasts ubabsuborb, hubis prubecubiubous cubards tubo tubake.

Then it doesn't take much effort to see that this poem is about Weepinoom using Absorb on Ronway.

Most cards? That would be jsz2, with a hand of 12 cards.

When Ronway's turn ends, Absorb will not recharge but Poisonpowder will. And then Weepinoom drops to 250 HP.

I'll cast poison powder on the non-weepinoom highest HP pokemon thing, or the player with Highest HP if no pokemon are left.

Rules question, I thought I read that the pochimeras couldn’t be killed if they had more than 250 hp. Magnebro had 350 when the sword went off so how is thay handled?
Also has charm gone away or is it staying through my turns? Ie does it wear off on skippy’s turns or mine?

I assumed it was reduced to -275 hp, at which point it was destroyed for having less than 0 hp, and was not indestructible because -275 is less than 250.

To quote The Price of Spring:  

> 'Killed her,' [he] said.  'You. Killed her.'

'Well.  More precisely, we wounded her profoundly and then she died,' the pale man said.  'But I'll grant you it's a fine point.  The effect is much the same.'

Yeah I just reread the card and it makes sense now. I was reading it as, "If the pochimera is above 250 hp, it can not be killed with a single attack," when it instead reads, "If the pochimera is above 250 hp, it cannot be destroyed save reducing it to below 250 hp and using a destroy effect or reducing it to 0 or fewer hp"

I'm still waiting on the Charm question as it pertains to his use of poison powder, though I believe right now my Slowfable is immune due to  Ronway of Not Caring

I think Charm should still be active until at least the beginning of your turn, and it could last longer than that.

I'm not sure whether Charm or Ronway of Not Caring would cover your Slowfable, but I think that Charm definately should, and RoNC might.

He mentioned that "they have a little protection" in his recap and the other part of the plural can only be Slowfable.

Oh, I missed that!  Good catch!

Since Just Assume I'm Alway's Doing That alters the freqency of the card effects so they occur every turn, I'm ruling that the duration of Charm and Poisonpowder also got sped up. By this point Charm has worn off. Poisonpowder is still going.

Also, sorry for the delays between updates! Now I know what webcomic artists feel like... If I were a player I'd have totally disqualified me. But I'm gonna try to be better about this from now on. You're all great sports and deserve a fun game. ◕‿◕

Anyways, I'm assuming Ronway has finished sending the necesary PMs to resolve the three instances of Haunted by Ronway. Silverleaf's turn now!

Yay! you're back!  (of course, everyone else seems to be gone now)

Yes, it is I, the GM! I'm pretty sure the other players are still here( I was just talking to Ronway a couple days ago, in fact, so at the very least he's still actively playing); Silverleaf probably just hasn't checked back here yet. Of all the players, she misses her turn the most often (no offense ). I think I'll give her until tomorrow to take her turn since it's understandable for people not to be checking this everyday given the recent update frequency. My plan is to sort of ease back into this so everyone has a good chance to notice it's running at a normal pace again.

Also, as per phantaskippy's instructions, I have had his Weepinoom randomly poison one of the three other Pochimeras, Silverleaf's Dragoneot. Since JAIADT only applies to card effects affecting phantaskippy, the Poisonpowder effect on the Dragoneot is not sped up by this card. When Silverleaf's turn ends, Weepinoom will drop to a mere 200 HP due to poison, and it has been determined that neither ability will recharge this end of turn.

Welp, that's it for her turn. Next up, jsz2!

Welp, I think that it's time to

Which, with recursive engineering should give me three extra draws, and three extra plays.

Sorry guys, things have been mad busy around here and although I meant to take my turn, it escaped me. I'm not likely to have any time until Tuesday, so feel free to skip me if my turn comes round again before then. 

I wanted to wait to see what I drew, but I want to keep the game moving, so I'll post the three cards I'm playing now.

First off, I'm going to use my Tentatortle's second water gun to bounce Just assume I'm always doing that back to his hand.

Then I shall play a

Targeting Humble-Knight, Phantaskippy, and BluehairedMeerkat to take three additional turns.

Then I shall release my 

Which, if I understand how Recursive Engineering works, will cause 3 players to lose 25 pts at the end of my turn, and will produce 3 copies at the beginning of my turn.  I'm not sure if the copies will be affected by Recursive Engineering, but that still means a lot of bunnies.

Finally

Nooo!!!!!!!

Oh dear gods, not the bunnies...

If any of you have cards you can play out of turn, now's probably the time to use them...

Who wants to be my fwend?

I DO I DO I DO

I don't lose points...

Don't worry, I plan to make everything better next round.  (two of my extra turns will be after the round end, right?)

I have an ominous feeling that the game will imminently become broken 

I don’t think I’ll break the game too badly. But it will become interesting.

I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Aararargh. Sorry, been busy with Real Life Problems lately. I'll have the game up to date by tomorrow.

jsz2, I've sent you a card!

I can't actually see the card (it's coming up as 404 not found), but I'll just play something else in the intrests of moving forward.

So, first things first:  My bunny produces three more bunnies.  Then, if my water guns recharged last turn, I'll use them on the Ubbi Dubbi Curse, and then on Iambic Pentameter.

Now, it's time for some

[Removed to avoid confusion]

Which gets played on Phantaskippy, Ronway, and Humble Knight.

Then my bunnies attack!  I'll send all the damage to Humble Knight, where it will be absorbed by the Ronway of Not Caring.

Now it's time for a new round, in which we shall all become fwends!

Oh, now that I can see the card I drew, I'd much rather play that.  So just pretend that instead of Son Jaliscience, I instead played

So that we all gain 3000 pts x3

Oh, whoops! Forgot to roll for that!

...Nope, your Pochimera's abilites don't recharge.

So is the way Catigious Ronway works that you take extra turns during the skipped turns of the players you used it on?

Also, I'm fairly certain "catigious" isn't a word? Was that supposed to be "contiguous" or something?

Recap will be up momentarily.

Ooh! That even includes me! Thank you!

Yeah, for some reason I butchered the spelling of it!

I'm still going to get this done, but summer classese have started this week and I don't have as much free time now. Sorry to make you all wait so much, I hope you still manage to enjoy this game despite the slowness.

I don’t mind. On the other hand, I’m the only player who has played a card in over a month.

Recap Time!

And boy, do we need one. Terribly sorry it's been so long since some of you had turns; after this recap the rest of the updates shouldn't be hard to do and I'll be able to do them despite being more busy now. My tentative goal is to update at least once every two days. Let's see if I can get this thing moving at a good pace from now on; things are getting interesting!

Before anyone could react, a wormhole opened up and a temporally-displaced jsz2 appeared, completing the sword strike he started last round instantly! Before BlueHairedMeerkat could work out what was happening, his faithful partner Magnebro was cut down so harshly its HP technically went NEGATIVE. Not content to cheat continuity just once, Jsz2's Magical Girl enhanced the move and created a double time loop! Jsz2 acted twice at a time when he shouldn't have acted at all! He used the extra time to accumulate cards.

Phantaskippy used Silverleaf's signature move to make everyone assume he had permission to always use his Pochimera, even on other people's turns! It whiped itself up into a frenzy of energy( er, card)-draining and toxin-slinging. However, the extra exertion really didn't do anything to help Weepinoom's poisoning, which started weakening it significantly faster.

BlueHairedMeerkat thought that traveling to Soviet Russia was really fun, and decided to take everyone on another journey: A mobile defense platform containing another mobile defense platform containing another mobile defense platform! The recursion started trippling every played card's effect.

Ronway turned into a ghost, stealing cards from phantaskippy.

Silverleaf missed her turn.

jsz2 used their Tentatortle to put an end to Just Assume I'm Always Doing That. They also pulled me into the game somehow, gaining three more card plays in the process. They then channeled Ronway's power to clone himself, replacing the next turns of Humble-Knight, phantaskippy, and BlueHairedMeerkat. Next, jsz2 summoned an army of Gene-Bound Bunnies, which began multiplying exponentially. They attacked the same three players. Finally, they pulled out even more rodents and handed the spiny things to Ronway, Phantaskippy, and Silverleaf. The hedghogs' painful pricks caused them to lose their hands.

Humble-Knight's turn got replaced by jsz2, who realized he'd been pretty mean to everyone, and just gave everybody 9000 points to make up for it.

At the end of the round, phantaskippy's Weepinoom survived the poisoning! It faded away!

Status:

The deck has 20 cards remaining.

• -Anyone who destroys another player's Pochimera gets 1000 points and 2 cards. Pochimera cards are indestructable above 250HP. ▯
• -All cards, when first played, have their effects applied thrice in succession. ▯

I have 9000 points.

Phantaskippy has 9754 points, 34 deer teeth, and 0 cards.

• -Loses 50 points every time he fails to speak in iambic pentameter. ▯
• -Must convert his iambic pentameter into Ubbi-Dubbi before posting or lose 60 points. ▯
• -Has a Weepinoom with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 150HP
•     -Absorb(Expended)- Steal random card from player.
•     -Poison Powder(Expended)- Player loses 50pts at end of each round. Effect has 20% chance of going away at start of each round.
• -Has lost his next turn, in which jsz2 will go instead. ▯

BlueHairedMeerkat has 9075 points and 8 cards.

• -Cannot use the letters I, J, K, or L. ▯
• -Has lost his next turn, in which jsz2 will go instead. ▯

Ronway has 8600 points and 0 cards.

• -Can get one almost-accurate answer to a question each round. ▯, 1000HP
• -Can cast a spell, gaining +1 Entropy Point, if he discards a card and instead of playing one and doesn't have 3 Entropy Points. ▯, spells are ▯▯▯

Silverleaf has 8850 points and 0 cards.

• -Has a Dragoneot with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 450HP
•     -Dragon Dance(Ready)- Double the effect of your next card play.
•     -Aerial Ace(Expended)- Ignore all non-pregame rules regarding card plays, and play a card. Then stop ignoring them.
• -Will lose 50 points each round. ▯ (Poisonpowder)
• -Dragoneot will lose 50HP each round. ▯ (Poisonpowder)

jsz2 has 10,000 points, 125 Cuteness Points, and 11 cards.

• -Has a Tentatortle with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP
•    -Water Gun(Expended)- Move a card back to the hand of whoever played it.
•    -Water Gun(Expended)- Move a card back to the hand of whoever played it.
• -Can spend 25 Cuteness Points to change some quantity on a just-played card by +1 or -1, once per round.▯, 700HP
• -Has 4 Gene-Bound Bunnies, each with the following properties: ▯, 3HP
•    -1 player loses 25 points at end of jsz2's turn.
•    -1 more Bunny enters play at the start of jsz2's turn.

Humble-Knight has 8800 points and 5 cards.

• -Has a Slowfable with two single-use turn abilities: ▯, 500HP
•    -Water Gun(Ready)- Move a card back to the hand of whoever played it.
•    -Charm(Ready)-Player may not target you with undesirable cards or other abilities for 1-3 rounds.
• -Reduces all point loss directed at them by 100. ▯

Alright!  I'm going to take Phantaskippy and BlueHairedMeerkat's turns in a row so in order to save on time.

Turn 1: Let's be Fwends!

First, my bunnies multiply.  I'm not sure whether the three bunnies made by the first bunny are affected by recursive engineering.  If they are, then I get 12 new bunnies.  If not, I get 6 new bunnies.

Now it's finally time for all of us to become

I use 25 more cuteness points to choose two players, rather than one player.  Recursive Engineering then takes effect, so I play Fwends three times.  The first time make me friends with Humble-Knight and Phantaskippy.  The second makes me friends with BlueHairedMeerkat and Silverleaf, and the third makes me friends with Ronway and Alex (if Pile on the Squid is still active).  

Now a water-gun bounces

back to whoever's hand the card came from.

(Wow.  Typing without using I,J,K, and L is harder than I expected.  Thank goodness for Humble-Knight's Slowfable.)

Incidentally, I should be loosing points for not talking in Iambic Ubbi Dubbi, but the point losses are convinently canceled by Ronway of Not Caring, so I'm not caring.

Now, my indeterminent number of bunnies deals an indeterminent amount of life loss to some of us, but it's all canceled by the Ronway of Not Caring, so I don't care.

Now we don't have any opponents, which would make the game a bit boring.  But I have a solution!

 

Turn 2:  Attack of the Platypodes

First off, all the bunnies make more bunnies.  We should now either have 64 or 24 bunnies, I'm not sure which.

Suddenly, a

Appears!

Only, because of recursive engineering, three platypodes appear!

Then our bunnies start attacking the platypodes.  I'll distribute the damage as evenly as possible, which is either 1,600 damage to each platypus or 225 damage to one platypus and 200 damage to the other two.

Also, we and the dragoneot loose points due to poisonpowder, but we don't care about that, either.

Also, I think we have a combined total of 64,254 points.

Also (again), I'm now very sorry I made you discard Just Assume I'm always doing that, Phantaskippy.  It would have worked well with Fwends to create a bunnysplosion,

PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

That was beautiful.

Go Team Not Platypodes!

Boo Duck Billed Egg laying Mammals!

I think that since they weren't technically played, the copies aren't affected. So the original spawns 3, and the other 3 spawn 1. So there are 10 bunnies at this point.

Argh, totally forgot that PotS! should've gone away at the start of your turn! Let's just say it went away at the end of the round. Also, Humble-Knight's score should've been 8800, because he didn't care about the bunnies. Lemme just uptate that real quick…

22, actually.

Oh god, why do all your cards make so much work for me? Um. So. Let's see. I'll need to expand the board…

…deal in 3 new hands( Only 5 cards left in the deck now, folks!)…

I think, to make this more interesting, I'll give Team Platypus a little bit of AI. Like, if the card does something bad, they won't play it on another platypus. Other than that, everything they do is random.

As for the bunnies, there are 22 now, so you can sic 7 of them on each platypus, plus one extra. So Platypus A loses 200 points and the other two lose 175.

Theeeen… at your turn's end, everybody's Pochimeras attempt to recharge their powers. The status is now:

• Weepinoom: Absorb is ready.
• Dragoneot: Dragon Dance is ready.
• Tentatortle: Both Water Guns are ready.
• Slowfable: Charm is ready.

Ah, right. I was thinking of the first bunny as three bunnies, which added two to my calculation

I don't know when I can act but I'm going to absorb a Platypus as soon as I'm able.