Nyssa ([personal profile] infiniteregress) wrote2015-11-20 05:01 pm

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)
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Re: INTERMISSION MINGLE

[personal profile] unlimitedcoffee 2015-11-21 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
They're going to think Nyssa hijacked us again or is manipulating us, in either case. Already had that yelled at us more than once when we were out there.

If they're going to hate us-- me later, fine. I'm willing to take that risk to protect what's most important to me to the best of my ability.

[ All-in-all, let's murder Nyssa. ]
tormado: (Who took my pop-tarts?)

Re: INTERMISSION MINGLE

[personal profile] tormado 2015-11-21 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Clenches a fist.]

She can't keep this up forever.

She already lost to us once. She's not as strong as she wants us to think she is.

[And no, he doesn't give a fuck if she hears that, he already said it right to her face.]
unlimitedcoffee: hammer_space @ lj (do you put the balls in?)

Re: INTERMISSION MINGLE

[personal profile] unlimitedcoffee 2015-11-21 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
She's got us all as a captive audience right now, so even if we balk hard at her here, it's only going to backlash on the teams.

[ Normally he would be gung-ho about fighting against her, but when the teams are the ones at risk and not just his own person, that makes things a lot different. ]

Strong or not, she's got us on a leash right now and I'm not about to risk Epona or Takshaka for testing her limits.
tormado: (...there's a wasp behind me isn't there.)

Re: INTERMISSION MINGLE

[personal profile] tormado 2015-11-21 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Deep breath, his fists unclenches and he forces the anger out of his voice.]

Yeah. You're right. I was just. [He was trying to make himself be okay with this shit by thinking it might be the last time they have to do it.] ...doesn't matter.

...good luck with Takshaka.
unlimitedcoffee: iconmerge @ lj (Am I the Most Desirable Hunk Alive?)

Re: INTERMISSION MINGLE

[personal profile] unlimitedcoffee 2015-11-21 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That's all good and well, but he doesn't want to call this "over" with Nyssa until everything's done. No reason to try to put all your eggs in the basket and have everything break. ]

We can all celebrate when we've bucked he from power. For now, we just need to take this game on.

[ And with the good luck on Takshaka, he's glancing in Panther's direction. ] It's not going to be an easy one.

[ But not as hard as ponies, for him... ]