infiniteregress | CAT ROLE/MINGLE IN GAME

Cats will NOT participate in regular mingle. They will have their own special mingle where the rules are explained to them!

The game is called KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE and when game starts, the Cats will be expected to introduce themselves (you can go wild here, as long as it's flashy).

Cats will be HOSTING each rounds, two Cats to a team/team combination. I will post the tentative assignments here but you guys are free to make requests or anti-requests. These are subject to change. As hosts/announcers, they are allowed to riff to each other and will be reading the questions and potential answers to the questions, and answering dramatically when people succeed or fail.

For each participating character, they will have three questions each. Everyone else will have a ten minute period in which to guess the answers. The first THREE answers will be accepted, and Cats have to cut them off after then. If the Cat hams up their hosting role correctly, they'll be able to offer hints to the teams later (ask a teammate, charades, etc). I'll let you know at the end of the hosting round how your characters did.

-If the Cat attempts to help the teams, hint at or outright state an answer, their words will be bleeped out as if they were swearing (feel free to have fun with this), and they'll take on a penalty, as will the team(s) they're hosting for. Please let me know if this happens, though I'll be keeping an eye on it myself.

AT THE END OF ALL THE ROUNDS, teams will (or intermission if it drags on too long) spin a Wheel of Torture for what the penalties entail, and Nyssa will offer the chance for a Cat to lessen or erase their penalties if they agree to deal out the penalties themselves. Other incentives will be provided, as well, specific to your Cat. If they take this option, they will be unable to reveal their motivations in any capacity until the game is over. (IE; you can't hint or tell teams you're doing this for their sake. This is only for the duration of the game, once it's over, it's fine)

Another option for Cats to lessen/erase penalties is if they make a special deal with Nyssa. If you take this option please be advised this involves become Nyssa's puppet or otherwise owing her a "favor" in future happenings, (Opening you up to Plot and which she will likely use to harm others) and it cannot be undone or retconned. Make sure you're prepared for the consequences of this if you should choose to take this option.

Cats are allowed to visit team rooms and interact with team characters in between rounds, however, they cannot offer hints or information or aide. Furthermore, they must treat the team members as if they're being cheezily interviewed, and can only interact with them in that capacity.

Aka: How are you feeling becomes -> AH, OUR GUEST OF HONOR! How are you feeling? Nervous? Accomplished? That was quite a round!"

I'll update things accordingly when R2 rolls around and add any tweaks.

All of this is IC knowledge EXCEPT that they'll be able to reveal their true motivations when the game is over and what will happen to them if they make a deal with Nyssa. (obviously they can guess it'll be Terrible)