Cosmic Encounter | Encounter 8 | Farren

[Allomancer]

Chosen, I'd like to remind you that I hold the upper hand here. If this negotiation fails and we each lose three ships, my strength only grows.

[Farren]

I offer a foreign colony for a foreign colony. That puts us both at two foreign colonies. Yes, my turn is coming up, but even if I win both of my encounters, that will only bring me to four.

No restrictions on either side - you choose which planet in my system you want to occupy and with how many tokens; I do the same with a planet in yours.

What say you?

[Allomancer]

I don't think an even deal properly represents the scenario. I'll take your colony trade, but I also require a random card from your hand.

[Farren]

I see little meaningful difference between you having a +17 bonus and a +23 bonus. Either one requires an overwhelming force multiplier to beat.

The only case where it would matter is when everyone allies against you - and so far, that hasn't happened. Plus all it would take for you to defeat that strategy is offer alliances yourself. People side with the winners, unless doing so makes them losers.

[Allomancer]

Ah, but my strength deteriorates each turn as people regroup their ships from the warp. Those extra 6 ships make that take six turns longer.

[Farren]

And you get that strength back every time the Shadow strikes.

[Allomancer]

Fine. I'll take your deal. A colony for a colony.

[Farren]

I offer a foreign colony for a foreign colony. That puts us both at two foreign colonies. Yes, my turn is coming up, but even if I win both of my encounters, that will only bring me to four.

No restrictions on either side - you choose which planet in my system you want to occupy and with how many tokens; I do the same with a planet in yours.

What say you?

Fine. I'll take your deal. A colony for a colony.

I claim a colony on Blue 1, using 1 ship each from Green 3, 4, and 5.

Where do you want yours, and with what ships?

[Mizzytastic]

So to confirm that it has been successful, the agreed upon deal is

Both players may put any number of ships on any one planet controlled by the other player.

[Farren]

Confirmed.

[Allomancer]

Take the three ships I was using for the attack and put them on Green 1

[Mizzytastic]

I've been in bed with a headache but I feel a bit better so now I am

here

and

doing things

.

In resolution

You have a successful deal, your ships go where you say you wanted, and Farren will have the next encounter.

Before we move on

, I noticed I made a small mistake.

When Emotion Control was played the first time, it should have ended up in the discard pile before the encounter cards from that phase because of when encounter cards get discarded. I did it wrong, and someone else got Emotion Control when Fido flare was played. Obviously it's too far gone to turn back time, but do people think it's better to resolve it properly from now on, or stick to how I did it the first time to keep it fair?

[Mizzytastic]

T-Bone

plays Quash from his hoard, annuling the negotiation.

Quash

Resolve a successful negotiation as if the two players failed to come to a deal.

Use this card as any player after a successful negotiation in the resolution phase.

Allomancer

and

Farren

, please choose which 3 ships to each send to the Warp.

[Farren]

Same ships that would have taken the base. (1 each from Green 3/4/5)

[Farren]

Miser, you surprise me. I would have thought if anyone would have the sorts of cards that would actually care about Warpish's bonus getting larger, it'd be you. Your turn isn't that far away, and there are still plenty of Blue cards left in the Destiny deck.

[T-Bone]

Maybe I want his power to grow.

[Farren]

I can think of a few reasons where forcing a breach would make sense.
Possibly you have a Mobius Tubes. It would make sense to play that at the start of your turn, especially if Destiny is tilted towards your encountering Warpish. A more powerful Warpish would not concern you if I'm the only one that potentially has to face them.
Possibly your main hand is running low on challenge cards, and you anticipate drawing a new one shortly; in that case, figuring using it is better than losing it.
Possibly you have no decent cards left, and genuinely do not care how strong Warpish's bonus is - figuring you are unlikely to gain allies in fights against them.

[xofelf]

Wow look at T-Bone here fucking ruining friendship.

[Mizzytastic]

hand, was a typo, it was from the hoard, sorry, will go correct

[Mizzytastic]

I am *not with it* today

[xofelf]

That's okay <3

[T-Bone]

Farren...The Warpish doesn't use his power on defense. I'm not concerned.

[Farren]

Warpish

Adds ships in warp to total

Hard Difficulty

You have the power of Necromancy.

You

must use

your power to add 1 to your sides strength for each ship in the warp.

Use this power as a

main player

, after you reveal an attack card during the reveal phase.

Afraid not, T-Bone. Main player means it works as both offense and defense. Only time it doesn't work is if Warpish joins as an ally.

[Allomancer]

Send the three I would've used for the colony to the warp

[Mizzytastic]

Moving onto

Farren

's first encounter.

No one expressed a strong opinion so will resolve cards going to the discard pile correctly. Sorry for the earlier mistake