Cosmic Encounter | Encounter 8 | Farren

[xofelf]

Aaaaa, noooo, Ducky, you ruined my aesthetics ;~;

[Mizzytastic]

The Warpish coming at you with +11 from ships in the warp - not a problem

Ruining a e s t h e t i c s - criminal

[the worst]

the warp has a mind of its own. I would apologise, but they would be empty words.

[Allomancer]

Alright, let's go after Red 1 with two ships from Blue 1 and one from Blue 2

[Mizzytastic]

Alliances, alliances!

First

Allomancer

then

xofelf

can request alliances, and then anyone offered can pick if/who they go with.

[Allomancer]

I require no assistance.

[xofelf]

The Warpish coming at you with +11 from ships in the warp - not a problem

Ruining a e s t h e t i c s - criminal

See, you understand.

[xofelf]

I would love help if people would be willing to give it.

[Farren]

So Warpish gets an automatic +11 from their power, and +3 from their ships.

Parasite gets +2 from their ships.

So before cards, it's 14-2 in favor of Warpish.

Everyone else has a decent amount of tokens in the Warp - and they might see this as an opportunity to get some of them out. I, however, do not.

Do you have any encouraging words, Parasite? Can you defend against a Warpish onslaught if properly reinforced? More importantly, will you?

[T-Bone]

I will decline to aid you, considering you have gone against me recently, Parasite.

[the worst]

the chosen takes the words straight out of my mouth. i would rather help you than not, but cannot do so in vain. such would not be fitting of the future emperor of the galaxy.

[xofelf]

I understand that. I.. do not know that I can do anything here. There is a slight chance, but I can also understand not wanting to risk anything. It all really depends on luck, so by all means, not strengthening the Warpish does seem to be in our best interest here.

[the worst]

i respect your pragmatism. let us win together next time.

[Farren]

Decline to ally.

[xofelf]

I am nothing if not filled with pragmatism, friendship, and murder.

[Mizzytastic]

(phone posting right now, so I'll resolve stuff tomorrow)

[the worst]

the three core tenets of the shadow empire.

decline to ally.

[Mizzytastic]

Onto planning

Before choosing cards

xofelf

plays the Fido flare card

Fido Flare

If you are not the Fido

, force your opponent to take the top card of the discard pile and add it to their hand, then draw a card from the cosmic deck.

Use this card as a main player, before encounter cards are chosen in the planning phase.

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If you are the Fido

, you may collect all the encounter cards discarded from the encounter and use your power for each of them one by one.

Use this card as any player, after encounter cards are discarded in the resolution phase.

They get the top card of the deck,

Allomancer

gets Emotion Control (the last card discarded), and then the flare card returns to

xofelf

's hand.

Spoiler: Emotion Control

Emotion Control

Treat all encounter cards played as negotiation cards. The main players have 24 hours to come to a deal.

Use this card as any player after encounter cards are revealed in the reveal phase.

Combat

Target

:

Red-1

Offense's forces

: 3

Blue

ships

(+11 ships in the warp added in the reveal phase)

Defense's forces

: 3

Red

ships

Offense's card

:

Defense's card

:

Could the main players please submit their encouter cards.

[Mizzytastic]

Also I just want to say that I'm posting the game state at the start of each encounter but I try to keep the one in the first post as up to date as possible with each phase. This also means I am more likely to miss something or make a mistake there. If you think I have done that - or you would prefer that I update the one at the start of the encounter - feel free to poke me about it.

[Mizzytastic]

And the reveal

Combat

Target

:

Red-1

Offense's forces

: 3

Blue

ships and

11 ships in the warp

Defense's forces

: 3

Red

ships

Offense's card

:

Attack 4

Defense's card

:

Attack 4

Allomancer

is currently winning 18 to 7.

[xofelf]

Lol yup, I couldn't have won no matter what without help. ;~;

[T-Bone]

If only your good friend The Shadow struck a deal with me and then agreed to aid you. Oh well!

[xofelf]

Oh I don't blame The Shadow in this. That's far too easy.

[Mizzytastic]

Been as you all know it's in his hand anyway I think it's ok for me to say I'm just waiting for Allomancer to decide if we wants to play Emotion Control and force a negotiation.

[Farren]

We all must live with the results of our choices.