vision

[calescent]

Kiri's up early the next morning, restless with various low-level simmering concerns, and wanders out of her room.

Comments

[liakoura]

"I dunno, maybe something like Daisypicking only you want some blessings and not others? That might not be fair for those of us who share some, though..."

[calendarofcrime]

"True. Not to mention that I would be in an interestingly unique position."

[liakoura]

"Yeah, that too. I dunno."

[calescent]

"Maybe if - via whatever mechanism - you collect a set of anybody's blessings this allows you to do... something. Sarelle's would be harder to collect, but if the something doesn't target the person belonging to the blessing set and anyone can collect it, that wouldn't matter."

[pyrophyte]

"It favours those of us with better memories, but I suppose most things would."

[salt_of_the]

"I'm not seeing how. I mean, they're not a secret and half of us are wearing them."

[free_flowing]

"No, the guy's got a point, I've already forgotten two of his," says Loel, grinning. "But I don't think it's that big a deal. If we remind everybody at the start of the game, maybe, for those of us who don't know each other that well or forget things more easily."

[salt_of_the]

Patience nods. "Which leaves us with how we collect 'em and what happens when we get a set. I'm drawing a ghost coin here."

[liakoura]

"Pour 'em into bowls and... offer... trades? With some point value for each set, more for Sarelle's, and also points for having lots so even though nobody has, say, time in their birth set, you can still trade them away for other things two for one or whatever. So if I have clarity and intelligence I could give up a time and a resolve or whatever for somebody's power, and then I have Kiri's blessings and they have more total coins?"

[free_flowing]

"Ooh," says Loel. "That sounds workable!"

[calescent]

"And Sarelle and Ekador and, optionally, I have an advantage here because we'll know more about why someone might offer a trade, but not an overwhelming advantage, I guess... do we take turns or all talk over each other trying to get a set of coins we like fastest? When do we stop?"

[free_flowing]

"Take turns," Loel suggests. "Stop when, I don't know... when we go a full round and nobody wants to make any trades?"

[calescent]

"That works. Could go on for a long game, though. Where do we want me to sit?"

[free_flowing]

Loel laughs. "Depends, do you wanna spy on people?"

[pyrophyte]

"I thought the aim of this whole endeavour was to reduce magical cheating."

[calescent]

"Yes, but there's a tradeoff if I have to sit far away and ferry the coins to a midpoint and then back off so someone can collect them, on account of that would be tedious."

[free_flowing]

"Spy on me, I don't care," says Loel.

[calescent]

"All right, and you can pass anything I'm trading along."

[liakoura]

"Good, I wanna have a shot at winning and I dunno how well you'd partition, Kiri."

[free_flowing]

"Partition?"

[liakoura]

"Not use the things she reads, do what she would have done if she didn't know."

[free_flowing]

"Huh," says Loel.

[calendarofcrime]

"That is certainly a skill," says Sarelle.

[calescent]

"I can do it some of the time, and I think I can do it for the purposes of making uncontaminated trades in a game we just made up that I don't much care about winning, but I'm not a particularly good actress."

[free_flowing]

"I can't decide whether I'd be really bad at that kind of thing or really good at it," muses Loel.