Post by Liar Game on Dec 9, 2011 16:17:32 GMT
As December creeps forth, you get an invitation to a Mystery Round. You wonder about all of your fellow contestants slain during Blood Money. You wonder what the Liar Game is going to do about those debts. Suddenly your chapperone arrives, and you stare at the vehicle with astonishment.
The plain-masked attendant is driving a reindeer-pulled carriage. Sitting in the back of the carriage, you watch the houses roll by as the attendant mushes the animals. Eventually, you ask him about the victims of the previous round, and he chuckles: "Don't worry about them. The Liar Game Offices have access to some of the most advanced medical technology known to mankind."
You falter: "But half of them were stabbed through the head!"
The attendant handwaves lazily. "Yes, modern medicine can work wonders, can't it?. After all, why do you think rich people tend to live longer than the poor?"
"But-"
"We're almost at the destination," he says.
Your co-winner of Blood Money is stood there, looking at two other players from the other set. Before you is a Christmas wonderland. It looks old and woebegone, as though any festive spirit had been sucked away a long, long time ago.
"Welcome to the Mystery Round!" Petrushka declares. Her voice is smooth and calm. "I'm sure you all had quite the fright last round. We hope to make it up to you now. This is a bonus stage!"
You can hardly believe your luck. A bonus round? Seriously?
She is chuckling. "Of course, we don't plan to make it that easy for you. The Liar Game Offices believe some of you more worthy of reward than others. So if you want your gifts, you have to fight for them."
"Welcome..... to CRAZY CHIMNEYS."
SCENARIO
Christmas is fast approaching , and because you've all been great players, the Liar Game is treating you all to a BONUS ROUND!
Four presents are going to come to you, but there's one problem: the chimneys through which they are to be delivered are broken! Also, there are a some punishments for the bad kids among you. Can you fix the chimneys and decide who's been naughty and nice in time for the deliveries?
OBJECT
Arrange the chimneys in such a way that the nicest presents land in your stocking.
SETUP
Because there are four players, there are four sections to the chimneys:
The game lasts for 4 deliveries, with each player taking a different role each time:
You all have 24 hours to decide between yourselves who takes which of the four roles. If more than one person seeks to be a particular person (e.g., two people seek to be Player 1), the player with the most stars wins out.
All subsequent rounds last 48 hours.
CHIMNEYS
The chimneys are thick pipes running through oblong blocks. Gifts descend from above and leave at the bottom of the chute.
Because they are perfectly cuboid, there are four ways you can install them: DEFAULT, INVERTED, BACKWARD, and BACKWARD-INVERTED.
DEFAULT is as the block is presented to you.
INVERTED is the block rotated 180 degrees on its axis (upside down).
BACKWARD is the block reflected from its default presentation (flipped back to front)
BACKWARD-INVERTED is a combination of the previous two steps (upside down AND back to front). This is equivalent to flipping it on its head).
As the astute among you have surely noticed, in the above example inverting the block doesn't appear to do much. In fact, you may see that certain block orientations will reappear in very inconvenient places.
At the start of the round, simply message the Dealer how you wish to install your segment. Failure to submit a correct segment instalation results in a penalty (see Stockings section). The block will be installed in the default configuration on your behalf should this happen.
STOCKINGS
There are four stockings at the bottom of the chimneys, sitting atop a roaring fire. These are four large woolen sacks, each with one of your face embroidered upon it!
They are presented in order of decreasing player star-count from left-to-right. This order will never change. Whatever comes out of the left-most chute will land in Aitou's stocking; whatever comes out of the right-most one will land in Ikenishi's one, and so forth.
In the event that you fail to submit a correct chimney block installation, you will receive a penalty: your present for that will fall out of the stocking and land into the fire. Of course, this will only happen if it's a good present. If it's a bad one, rest assured it will land in your bag.
PRESENTS!
Four deliveries of four unique presents will happen (i.e., 16 presents total). You will only find out at the start of a delivery what those four presents contain. You will also be told which one is being dropped into which chimney top. You will not find out which present lands in which stocking until the end of the game. You will also not find out what gifts are due to arrive in the next delivery until this one has been completed.
As all four presents are packaged identically, you won't know what is what until the end of the game. No peeking!
Not all of the presents are desirable, however. Some of you have been very naughty lately. For example, all of the MURDERING some of you did in the previous game. You monsters. Therefore, some of the gifts will be IOUs, others will be yen. There may even be a surprise or two along the way. The one thing we assure you this game is positive sum overall. But take nothing for granted.
ENDGAME
When all rounds have been played out, your presents may be unwrapped. You will gain whatever has landed in your stocking over the course of the game. Of course, any losses you have obtained will also be reclaimed.
MISCELLANEOUS
The plain-masked attendant is driving a reindeer-pulled carriage. Sitting in the back of the carriage, you watch the houses roll by as the attendant mushes the animals. Eventually, you ask him about the victims of the previous round, and he chuckles: "Don't worry about them. The Liar Game Offices have access to some of the most advanced medical technology known to mankind."
You falter: "But half of them were stabbed through the head!"
The attendant handwaves lazily. "Yes, modern medicine can work wonders, can't it?. After all, why do you think rich people tend to live longer than the poor?"
"But-"
"We're almost at the destination," he says.
Your co-winner of Blood Money is stood there, looking at two other players from the other set. Before you is a Christmas wonderland. It looks old and woebegone, as though any festive spirit had been sucked away a long, long time ago.
"Welcome to the Mystery Round!" Petrushka declares. Her voice is smooth and calm. "I'm sure you all had quite the fright last round. We hope to make it up to you now. This is a bonus stage!"
You can hardly believe your luck. A bonus round? Seriously?
She is chuckling. "Of course, we don't plan to make it that easy for you. The Liar Game Offices believe some of you more worthy of reward than others. So if you want your gifts, you have to fight for them."
"Welcome..... to CRAZY CHIMNEYS."
SCENARIO
Christmas is fast approaching , and because you've all been great players, the Liar Game is treating you all to a BONUS ROUND!
Four presents are going to come to you, but there's one problem: the chimneys through which they are to be delivered are broken! Also, there are a some punishments for the bad kids among you. Can you fix the chimneys and decide who's been naughty and nice in time for the deliveries?
OBJECT
Arrange the chimneys in such a way that the nicest presents land in your stocking.
SETUP
Because there are four players, there are four sections to the chimneys:
TOP SECTION (T)
UPPER SECTION (U)
LOWER SECTION (L)
BASE SECTION. (B)
UPPER SECTION (U)
LOWER SECTION (L)
BASE SECTION. (B)
The game lasts for 4 deliveries, with each player taking a different role each time:
Player 1: T -> U -> L -> B
Player 2: U -> B -> T -> L
Player 3: L -> T -> B -> U
Player 4: B -> L -> U -> T
Player 2: U -> B -> T -> L
Player 3: L -> T -> B -> U
Player 4: B -> L -> U -> T
You all have 24 hours to decide between yourselves who takes which of the four roles. If more than one person seeks to be a particular person (e.g., two people seek to be Player 1), the player with the most stars wins out.
All subsequent rounds last 48 hours.
CHIMNEYS
The chimneys are thick pipes running through oblong blocks. Gifts descend from above and leave at the bottom of the chute.
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Because they are perfectly cuboid, there are four ways you can install them: DEFAULT, INVERTED, BACKWARD, and BACKWARD-INVERTED.
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As the astute among you have surely noticed, in the above example inverting the block doesn't appear to do much. In fact, you may see that certain block orientations will reappear in very inconvenient places.
At the start of the round, simply message the Dealer how you wish to install your segment. Failure to submit a correct segment instalation results in a penalty (see Stockings section). The block will be installed in the default configuration on your behalf should this happen.
STOCKINGS
There are four stockings at the bottom of the chimneys, sitting atop a roaring fire. These are four large woolen sacks, each with one of your face embroidered upon it!
 |
They are presented in order of decreasing player star-count from left-to-right. This order will never change. Whatever comes out of the left-most chute will land in Aitou's stocking; whatever comes out of the right-most one will land in Ikenishi's one, and so forth.
In the event that you fail to submit a correct chimney block installation, you will receive a penalty: your present for that will fall out of the stocking and land into the fire. Of course, this will only happen if it's a good present. If it's a bad one, rest assured it will land in your bag.
PRESENTS!
Four deliveries of four unique presents will happen (i.e., 16 presents total). You will only find out at the start of a delivery what those four presents contain. You will also be told which one is being dropped into which chimney top. You will not find out which present lands in which stocking until the end of the game. You will also not find out what gifts are due to arrive in the next delivery until this one has been completed.
As all four presents are packaged identically, you won't know what is what until the end of the game. No peeking!
Not all of the presents are desirable, however. Some of you have been very naughty lately. For example, all of the MURDERING some of you did in the previous game. You monsters. Therefore, some of the gifts will be IOUs, others will be yen. There may even be a surprise or two along the way. The one thing we assure you this game is positive sum overall. But take nothing for granted.
ENDGAME
When all rounds have been played out, your presents may be unwrapped. You will gain whatever has landed in your stocking over the course of the game. Of course, any losses you have obtained will also be reclaimed.
MISCELLANEOUS
- Contracts are forbidden. It's the season of goodwill.
- Accounts remain frozen. Don't forget your golden marbles.
- Once you have selected which role you wish to have in the setup phase, you will follow that set schedule of positions for the entire game.
- Santa Claus is real, and he works for the Liar Game Offices for the other 11 months of the year.