vision

[calescent]

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

Comments

[calendarofcrime]

Sarelle assists.

[salt_of_the]

"Do you always have to give up a coin of the right element or can you just take the pile if you'd rather?"

[free_flowing]

"Ooh," says Loel, contemplating this. "Sure, why not, you can forfeit even if you don't have to. That should make things interesting."

[calescent]

"I'm not sure when you'd want to - I guess if you think the pile's going to go around if you don't take it now and you only have one of that element?"

[free_flowing]

"Yeah. Or you only have two and don't want to risk somebody else putting down the other one before it reaches you. Or you want to make people think you're out of that element, and it's a short chain so it's worth taking one or two more shame coins to do it."

[calescent]

"Interesting strategy implications. I guess I'll just sort of fling my coins from a safe distance and Loel will pass me my allotted dose of shame?"

[free_flowing]

"Sounds good," giggles Loel.

[liakoura]

Aleko passes out the bowls once he and Sarelle have them all even.

[salt_of_the]

"Who's going first?"

[free_flowing]

"Me," says Loel. "Same reason as Aleko last time. And we can go the same direction, even."

[salt_of_the]

"Okay." Patience starts looking through her bowl to see what she's got. "This would be easier if there were little mini bins to sort them into... I guess then it'd be easy for people to see how much you had of any given thing though."

[free_flowing]

"Yep," says Loel.

He hmms a little, sifting through his coins, then puts down resolve.

[calescent]

This game goes handily to Ekador, with the first person to run out of coins being Patience. The only person to collect a victory is Aleko, but he has so much shame in his heap as to thoroughly counteract it.

[free_flowing]

"That was fun!" says Loel. "Now I'm all proud."

[calescent]

"A productive day of game design, certainly. I'll have to write the rules down. Maybe we can come up with a few more and publish a little booklet of blessing coin games."

[free_flowing]

"That'd be cute."

[calendarofcrime]

"I would support the venture."

[salt_of_the]

"Now I'm gonna spend all day coming up with book titles."

[calendarofcrime]

"Will we be permitted to hear them?"

[salt_of_the]

"Only if they're not terrible! They'll probably be terrible."

[free_flowing]

"Aww, but what if the terrible ones are cute?"

[salt_of_the]

"Noooo my ideas for things are all awful," laughs Patience.

[free_flowing]

"I bet they're cute," Loel declares firmly.

[salt_of_the]

"Oh, you'd probably think it was cute if I wanted to title the book... I dunno, 'Book'. That is not a proper idea, by the way, it's a joke."

[free_flowing]

"That would be adorable. You are completely right."