Do you have access to a spreadsheet? RAND() in one column and the card names in another would work. Just highlight both columns and sort in order by the one containing the RAND() function.
This is a test:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78312723/1KBWC/Blank.png
If that link to this picture doesn't work for you, please let me know.
OK, everything seems to be in order! A quick recap of the gameplay:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
I'll send everyone their starting hands in about an hour, after I return from a doctor's appointment. Are you excited? I'm excited. See you soon!
Areyouexcited?'CauseI'mexcited.I'veneverBEENsoexcited--well,exceptforthattimewhenIsawyouwalkingintotownandIwent *GASP* but I mean, really, who could top that?
Cards sent! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
Interestingly, nobody started out with any of their own cards.
Turn Order:
- BlueHairedMeerkat
- Mezike
- McBehrer
- Silverleaf
Aaaaaannnnd...
BEGIN!
As my turn begins, I invoke the INFERNAL PACT OF POWER.
I offer to each other player the ability to play an additional card every turn; the condition for this deal is that you do not play any detrimental cards (IE those with harmful effects or negative point scores) on me. If you agree, simply sign the document (in blood, preferably, but I won't hold you to it).
And since that's an 'at any time' type deal, I get to play a card still. I choose to learn magic.
So I draw three cards to attach to this one, and then end my turn :)
No detrimental cards? eh? Madness sir! And for you to think I would give up that opportunity so easily.
At times like this, the only sensible thing is to hide in a forest and to wait and see what happens next. Having seen some of these cards i've been dealt, quite frankly I am a little scared of you lot now.
Nope, I'm not coming down from this tree, you can't persuade me. I'm quite attached to it now and think that I shall make this my home. This tree is my friend, I shall name it Steve. Friend tree Steve.
I'm not allowed to sign anything without my lawyer being present. Not after that thing with the bridge, anyway.
Ok, I'll sign. Extra card play, but I can't target Meerkat with negative effects? Ok.
Step 1:
I own 66 dinner plates, so I'll take 66 points, please.
Step 2:
Anna... you're all right, I guess. So, marginally wonderful?
*awaiting top card of deck to play and complain about*
Oh dear. Turns out this card was next:
(card-mandated complaining)
You switched the title and the effect text around! How DARE YOU!
... Hard to complain about my most anticipated card in the game, though.
(Also, important note regarding the nature of the card: the original text that I submitted it with specifically said that anyone who already had the virus as their signature before the card was played was exempt.)
Oh yeah. It seemed self-evident, so I just left it out when I resized it. Sorry!
Well, it seems like I have to adopt the Greater than Games Signature Virus as my signature.
Nothing here says forum signature, so this obviously means real life physical writing and signing for stuff signature. And surprisingly enough, the Greater Than Games Signature Virus actually looks exactly like my own signature so it has no real effect on me.
But everyone else will have some problems trying to use a signature that looks exactly like mine for their own banking/credit card purposes. Good luck with that, people.
I guess that's the signal for my turn, so I choo-choo-choose to play this wonderful card.
More puns, that's the ticket! I can't express how happy this makes me, it's great chance to let off some steam. And of course since Paul's probably not paying too much attention, this is surely the perfect platform for this kind of silliness. I really hope we can keep track of all these train puns and that the thread doesn't get completely derailed. I mean we have to draw a line somewhere and switch things around before this turns into a complete train wreck and everyone goes a bit loco. Mind you, I'm starting to get tunnel vision and I'm becoming obsessed with these puns - hopefully I'll be able to decouple myself from it and won't get any ideas above my station.
So, time to gauge my points. 1600, unless I'm very much mistaken. That's a perfectly viaductable score.
Oh wait. 1700.
No, it's your Greater Than Games signature. You know... the one for the Greater than Games forums? nice try, though.
Nope, that is not what the card text states. It just says "their signature".
You can't just make stuff up on the spot Jim! I'm a doctor dammit! or something...
Recap Time!
BlueHairedMeerkat kicked off the game by offering a deal of infernal origin: An extra card play in exchange for not hitting him with any bad cards. Then, in a move I'm sure had nothing to do with his newfound demonic connections, began learning magic. His first three spells? An incantation to set someone's keyboard on fire, a curse that forces people to speak in Ubbi-Dubbi, and( most terrifying of all) the power to summon Ronway. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Mezike refused to sign any demonic pact, and did what any sane, godfearing magic user does on their first turn: Put down a land card. He then proceded to hide in a tree, and named it Steve.
McBehrer, on the other hand, saw no problem signing away his soul for an extra card play, using it to create a meetup between SATAN and some girl named Natasha, which predictably unleashed a plague upon the forum signatures. He also did something weird involving dinnerplates and trunks for a robot, getting him 66 points( HMM... SUSPICIOUSLY CLOSE TO ANOTHER NUMBER, I SEE).
Then it was Silverleaf's turn, who lightened the mood by making way too many puns about trains, and inviting the other players to do the same.
Status:
The deck has 34 cards remaining.
All players must make at least 1 train or smashing-related pun on their turns, or take a 500-point penalty. Each additional pun after the first is worth 100 points.▯
BlueHairedMeekat has 0 points
-Can cast a spell if he discards a card instead of playing one.▯
-Is holding an Infernal Pact of Power granting an extra card play to anyone who chooses to sign it and refrain from using negative cards on him.▯
Mezike has 0 points
McBehrer has 66 points
-Has signed the Infernal Pact of Power.▯
Silverleaf has 1700 points
Oh, and about that forum signature virus card: This is just a suggestion, but rather than fight the wording on the card it would be much more in the spirit of the game to just do it for now and create some kind of "antivirus" card. I know at least one of you has a blank in their hand!
The meerkat wizard begins a chant. It starts of quietly - well, have you seen a meerkat's vocal cords? - but it builds, louder and louder, until it is not just his voice chanting but the voice of the dead and the unborn, the voice of life and fire and fear, of salvation and damnation and eternity all ringing out as one, in a sound that somehow chills not just your bones but your soul, and makes you think very, very hard about whether life is worth living. From this chanting, finally, two words ring out, followed by silence. The words?
DAMMIT, RONWAY!
[spell; discarding a blank from my hand to cast it]
The voice scares even the plucky meerkat producing it, and the fearsome Ronway even moreso, but this is what he's been training for. Images begin to flash up in front of him. A robot in shorts:
[Seven points to me!]
Then that's gone, and the images flash up faster, first a devil, then a girl...
And the voice returns as the devil and the girl merge, and their voices join the cacaphony:
"ANNA... YOU ARE GRACE AND BEAUTY; YOU ARE DEATH AND NIGHT AND GLORY; YOU ARE LIKE ICE AND THE FIRE AT THE HEART OF THE SUN."
And then from the melded forms of the devil and the girl, a new image:
34 deer teeth tumble into a heap around the meerkat, and from his tree Mezike feels his mind opening, his thoughts involuntarily leaking out and streaming towards the meerkat.
More images; it's becoming harder to keep track of them all now, too many are floating past, but words are forming too...
And a voice, an echo this time, a quiet call that sends a shiver down McBehrer's spine: that's his voice.
"Also, important note regarding the nature of the card: the original text that I submitted it with specifically said that anyone who already had the virus as their signature before the card was played was exempt."
[And so I am exempt :D]
Then the noise dies, the colours fade, and what's left is just a meerkat and a pile of teeth.
[I make that 107 points to me, plus 34 deer teeth and a peek at Mezike's hand.]