Of course, we only have McBehrer's word that he has 66 dinner plates. It seems like too many for a domestic household and not enough for a restaurant - we need photographic evidence of this unusual quantity of prandial chinaware! Otherwise I claim that he has become carriaged away with his estimation. Then again, it's unusal that he didn't smash any of them for the extra points.
All of this frenetic cardplay is a signal to me to take some decisive action, and I have a smashing idea. From the safety of Steve I play the following:
I have a horrible feeling that this could backfire on me. I think it's worth the risk so that I am not left on the sidings even if the pace of this game could leave me shattered.
You sir, are a horse's caboose! That's a rather unsteamly, yet admittedly quite clever, workaround. So, how do I go about doing the redacted card? I'll send it to Alex, so he knows which one I'm putting face-down. But I'll let you cross that bridge when it comes time for it. I'll pass on the extra card play.
All right, all right, don't rail me! ;) I've been out this evening doing vocal training - when you're in a choir (I'm actually in three) this time of year it seems like a large proportion of your time is taken up with Christmas carols and we're certainly cutting it fine leaving ourselves only 4 weeks in which to engineer an entire concert.
Yeah, I talked about something completely irrelevant with no ties to the game at all in order to shoehorn a few more puns in. I have no shame.
BlueHairedMeerkat began the round with an ominous ritual that summoned Ronway from the æther. He helpfully pointed out that we had forgotten to follow a key rule last round, so we pulled out the previous three discarded cards and reapplied them, among them Omnitrunks and the Signature Virus card. This allowed Meerkat to restore his beloved signature to normal, as only those with the virus in the first place are allowed to change their signatures later. And this time, Ah, Satan Sees Natasha summoned Bill Cipher the Dream Demon( Man, Meerkat isn't even trying to hide how he's probably some sorta devil-consorting warlock cultist, huh?) to invade Mezike's mind and do what he does best.
Mezike, after having the very cards in his hand revealed to the sneaky Meerkat, was galvanized into a bout of shutting all information leaks and began REDACTING all cards the moment they were played, though as of now not even he knows what he just censored.
McBehrer decided to do something BIG this round, playing the game-changing [REDACTED]
Silverleaf smartly followed up with a never-before-seen-card, whose name is only now being relea[REDACTED]
Incidentally, I have to say that one of the things I'm most looking forward to in the upcoming playtesting is t[REDACTED]
Status:
The deck has 29 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 107 points and 34 deer teeth( fun fact: I actually checked online to see how many teeth a deer has just to make that card!)
-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 600 points
-REDACTS every card played until his next turn, at which point he plays every card he REDACTED this way.▯
Well I could play a card, but what would be the point? Mezike would just redact it... I could just not play a card, maybe, but that would be poor conduct, and so bad. Hmmm, if only I had some kind of training that let me do something else with my turn...
OH WAIT :D
Yes, I'm de-siding to sidestep Mezike's cunning trap, by doing some magic instead of sitting station-ary. I discard Unloading to cast a spell of Silverleaf. Let's see you pun now...
(Side note: MWAHAHAHAHAHAH. And coupling that with another of my spells will make it even worse...)
Ah! But if you look at the wording on the card, you will notice that "casting a spell" is equivilent to "creating a copy of a spell [card] and playing it." So the act of spellcasting still causes a card to be played, and therefore your card DOES get REDACTED. Sorry, looks like that spell backfired! :D
Rightio then, I have been authorised to lift the veil on previously top secret information about this game!
Clearly, the most humourous and fitting thing would be for Meerkat's Keyboard Kurse to backfire on it's owner, but then again he does still have that Hubba Bubba HoTep card and revenge is cruel. I am far too much of a gentleman to play such a card on a lady so that rules out Silverleaf and, I dunno, possibly everybody for all I know. Either way, Silverleaf is getting too far ahead on points so she must learn the reason why one never leaves a Quattro Stagioni on the kitchen table when the door is wide open...
McBehrer is far too quiet over there at the moment, so let's see how he copes in PANIC MODE when he suddenly finds himself completely out of options:
Which just leaves me to decide who shall suffer from a dysfunctional keyboard. Well, I like to live dangerously so have no problem incurring the wrath of a magically charged desert Mongoose, regardless of the added potential of shady Oligarchal connections. It just wouldn't make sense to play this card on anyone else but Meerkat - something has gone very wrong indeed when your own spells come back at you!
Conscious that I have now painted a big fat target on my back, this seems like the perfect time to show a little bit of elan. In fact, I think that elan will now accompany me in my tree, serenading me with sweet tunes on her Mandolin.
I'm pretty sure the hedgehog makes YOU discard your hand. That's why it's not "a player discards their hand," but "you discard YOUR hand." So, yeah. Nope.
well that kind of completely undermines my basic understanding of how the game works. The rules don't say anything about playing cards in front of other people, just playing them and having their effects happen as written. The card doesn't say anything about playing it in front of a player, and the rules say that no addendums, additions, or changes can be made. So I guess I'm just really confused as to how the game is supposed to work, then.
I guess I should've been more clear in my explanation. I'm sorry. Unless the card specifies who you can play it "on," the default rule is any one player can have the effects of the card applied to them, determined by the card player. Since the hedgehog card didn't say "play only on yourself," any player may be the target of that card.
Well, I don't want to put anyone out of joint so in a grand show of compatriotism I will also discard my hand. The rest of my cards were pretty rubbish anyway!
