Challenge 10: Buy the Bullet

[xofelf]

{ROUND 10: PAIR CHALLENGE}

Buy The Bullet

{Pair A}

{Cephrir, Radja}



{Pair B}

{Klick, racefan12}



{Pair C}

{Xalxe, Shadoweh}



{Pair D}

{RedCoyote, zoraster}



{Pair E}

{Save The Dragons, Haschel Cedricson}



{Pair F}

{pablito, DeathRowKitty}



{Pair G}

{animorpherv1, PiggyGal15}

Original challenges are great, aren't they? Except, this isn't one

we

came up with. We borrowed it from pablito! Earlier this year, pabs came up with this really fascinating, very easy game to play that relies on both strategy and some social skills. When you have limited resources, just what will you do with them in order to win? Let's find out, shall we?

Buy the Bullet is a negotiation, bidding, and targeting game based on concepts similar to Ready, Aim, Fire! and Ferris Wheel. Each round one bullet will be offered and the player that earns the bullet can then target any player who will then be executed. However, earning that bullet will require negotiation and strategy based on the limited resources that you have to start. Furthermore, executed players still have a chance to affect the outcome, because their unused cards can be pledged to alive players for use later in the game! Who will buy the bullet and who will bite the bullet?

Rules

• Every player begins with four cards in their hand, one of each card suit. Players will not be granted any new cards until all cards in the alive players have been used. No new cards will be given to any players unless everyone is empty-handed.
• Cards are used to bid for the bullet. Each round, players will either privately play a card in their hand or no card. Players are given 24 hours to PM the mod their choice for the first round, and 12 hours for every round thereafter. The player that bid with the highest ranked unduplicated card for that round will win the bullet. In the case of ties all around, no one will win the bullet and all cards in that round will be discarded. Each round all bid cards will be discarded whether a bullet has been bought or not.
  If all bids are in, the results may be announced earlier than the given deadline.
• Cards are ranked in this order Diamonds ♦♢ > Hearts ♥♡ > Spades ♠♤ > Clubs ♣♧.
• For example if in round one, five players played the following:
  A - No card
  B - Diamond ♦
  C - Diamond ♦
  D - Heart ♥
  E - Club ♣
  Then D would win the trick. Diamonds cancel each other out for duplicating, and the next highest card in the trick is Hearts. However, if E played a Heart, then no one earns the bullet, and all played cards are discarded. All bids are made public on each round. All cards in hand are also public.
• If all alive players submit "no card", then all dead players will have 24 hours to publicly vote for which alive player should lose their highest-ranked card as a penalty for the unanimous "no card" submission. The alive player who receives the most votes will lose their highest-ranked card. If there is a tie, then all of the votes on the tied players will be removed and the alive player who received the next most number of votes will receive the penalty and lose their highest-ranked card. If this means that no player has earned the most votes due to cancellations, then no player will receive the penalty to lose the highest-ranked card.
  
  
• When submitting which card you would like to play, also select a living player you would like to shoot in the event that you win the bullet. Whoever wins the bullet will have their selection announced, and that player will be executed. In the event that no name is given, your shot will be randomized. The executed player is then removed from contention from winning. The executed player retains all cards still in his/her hand and will likely affect the outcome of the game. Alive players can communicate via PMs. Dead players can continue to post only in thread after death to continue negotiating with players.
• Because it is very likely that alive players will run out of cards before the end of the game, dead players may pledge one card each round in his/her hand to any alive player. To do so, a dead player must post in bold like so
  Pledge: Heart to xofelf
  . Once a card is pledged to an alive player, the choice cannot be undone unless the recipient is later executed.
• Once all alive players run out of cards, all pledged cards will be given to alive players.
• After pledged cards have been given to alive players,
  once a round occurs in which all dead players run out of cards or no more cards are pledged in a round, then all dead players
  are fully removed
  can no longer pledge cards in the game and all alive players are given four new cards.
• Failure to submit a bid before deadline will give a player a strike. First strike - Submit "no card". Second strike - Submit "highest non-winning card". Third strike - DQ from challenge. Every failure to submit after the first strike will result in an overall activity strike for Clash of the Mash. Conditional submissions are acceptable when you will not be online during a 24-hour period.
• For every round a player stays alive, that player earns one point for their pair. The pair with the most cumulative points at the end will win the challenge, earning safety and the power of team captains for the next challenge; in the event of a tie, the pair with the player who stayed alive the longest will win. The pair with the least cumulative points will be today's losers, automatically entering the Brawl to fight for elimination; in the event of a tie, the pair to have both of its players eliminated the earliest loses.
  
• Play continues until only one player remains.

Round 1 deadline: (expired on 2016-11-08 18:00:19)

[xofelf]

Randomidget is going to be playing for racefan

[xofelf]

Yeaaaah, also mods entirely crashing and sleeping for hours tends to be things. Sorry about that.

[xofelf]

Round 3 Results

Holy no cards Batman, people really don't like to play shit do they?
Radja and Klick both play clubs, and just waste their cards, very sad.
Zoraster plays a spade, oooo, does he win the bullet this round?

Spoiler:

No, because Haschel plays a Diamond and wins the bullet and murders poor Klick. It's very sad. Because this means that Klick and racefan will automatically go to brawl here Which also means that the card pledged to Klick must now be pledged elsewhere.

(expired on 2016-11-10 16:07:58)

[xofelf]

Round 4 Results

Well this sure was a round.. everyone but one person submitted no card. So I want you all to sit there and think about what you haven't done. Yeah, you think about your inaction. Think about that real hard.
So what did happen? Shadow played her diamond and won the bullet, which is truly a girl's best friend because she has chosen to shoot...

Spoiler:

Cephrir

Current Standings:

(expired on 2016-11-11 04:13:03)

[xofelf]

Yeah! Much to everyone's surprise including myself, I went to sleep at a decent time, SO results will be going up now, if ones I were missing came in as I was asleep then that'll be fine, if not well *shrugs* I did prod people so idk man.

[xofelf]

Round 5 Results

This was a very eventful round!

Yeah okay that was a damn lie. Most of y'all did nothing, and while both Ani and pabs both played cards, they were both spades so no one won the bullet and this round means nothing. Let's just slow clap it out friends. I'll just add this to my own personal bullet stockpile.



(expired on 2016-11-12 02:05:47)

[xofelf]

Round 6

Delays were had to deal with weekends and timezones because we the mods are nice to people who are in weird ones and like to party and have hangovers the next day.
Most people continued this trend of snoozing through rounds, but not everyone.
Save the Dragons played a spade!

Spoiler:

Slight problem...zoraster used his heart to protect us all from STD. What a nice guy!

(expired on 2016-11-12 22:28:19)
So I know that MS is supposed to possibly migrate this weekend, so deadlines won't be heavily enforced(not like they have been already or anything, but even less so.)

[xofelf]

Round 7 Results

Oo, things are sure heating up! Lots of people saw a lot of action this round
There were still a bunch of you who did nothing, cuz I guess that's what people do.
Haschel, Ani, and DRK all had a little heart-to-heart(-to-heart?) and couldn't bring themselves to shoot anyone after it.
But here comes zoraster, yet again being all badass with his bullet winning abilities and dropping his diamond like he doesn't even give a fuck. Coolest otter who ever lived.

Spoiler:

He shoots... Piggy!

(expired on 2016-11-13 04:39:28)

[xofelf]

Hey hey, so we're all back up and so the sooner I can get those last actions in the happier a xofy I will be

[xofelf]

Round 8

Okay, so I'd prefer no more unnecessary delays kthx.
Some stuff has happened. But was it good stuff?
So many passive players, so little time~
Shadow's poor heart is broken over the departure of her dearest Pigiggy, and RC finds it in his heart to try to comfort her after the cold actions of his partner.
Pablito remarks that a gem that shines that bright will sorely be missed.

Spoiler:

He shoots RedCoyote.

(expired on 2016-11-15 01:41:06)

[xofelf]

Round 9

Ohohoho, how the turns have tabled.
Surprise! People did nothing. Much shock was not had.
DRK drops a diamond, and we lose our second complete pair from this challenge. But who could it be?!?!?!

Spoiler:

I don't think this is really a surprise to anyone, BUT THIS IS ALL I HAVE PEOPLE
It was zor. Of course it was zoraster.

(expired on 2016-11-15 10:32:17)

[xofelf]

Yeah, so while I'll totally be awake for this deadline, I'll totally not be online for it. So rabble if you must, I'll be at a doctor's office instead.

[xofelf]

Round 10

Shit happened. Some people didn't do shit. We still judge them for it. You know, same old shit, different round.
So what ACTUALLY matters here?
Ani played clubs, did he win the bullet by doing the absolute bare minimum here?

Spoiler:

No, he didn't.
Radja is overachiever and played a diamond and shoots Shadow in the face.

(expired on 2016-11-16 03:50:02)

[xofelf]

I may not be qualified to participate in this competition for your diamond, but when you say badass dragon I think of this:

[xofelf]

Round 11

We're getting down to not too many cards or living people! So did anything interesting happen?
You bet your bottom on it missy!
Radja played his spade! Whether or not he actually wins the bullet, until no one alive has any cards, Radja will have no choice but to no card!

Spoiler:

What's this?
Ani has played his diamond and murdered poor pablito. What did pablito ever do to Ani--oh, he has the highest score, nevermind. Ani ALSO will default to No card until the last remaining cards in the other living players hands have been played.

(expired on 2016-11-16 08:01:22)

[xofelf]

ANY PLEDGES POSTED AFTER THIS POST WILL NOT TAKE EFFECT UNTIL THE NEXT TIME ALL PLAYERS ARE OUT OF CARDS.

This is going to take a little bit longer, so apologies on that front. I'm going to resolve the rounds actions and cards at the same time so that there's only one image. If a card of yours was pledged to a living player, it will be removed from your hand. I'll try to make a list of what are pledged to people but can't be given yet as well.

[xofelf]

Round 12

Boy oh boy, I wonder what happened here?!
Ani and Radja both auto no card as is to be expected. But what do Haschel and DRK do?

Spoiler:

They both play clubs. No one is surprised. Cards are given out as they are pledged. Ani fills up his entire hand, DRK gets a diamond and a spade, Haschel just gets a Diamond, and Radja gets nothing. Poor Gretchen.


Play continues until all players either die or run out of cards again and deadlings cards matter again. Please to keep pledging as you see fit for whatever reasons you see fit or not as your conscience or whims dictate.

Spoiler: All pledges for future reference

Pledge my heart to ani




<3

**

Pledge a spade to DRK

**

pledge a heart to ani

pledge my club to ani

**

Pledge diamond to DRK

>:3

**

Pledge Spade to Animmorpg

**

pledge diamond to ani

Nice dragon

**

All aboard the

pledge my diamond to ani

train, choo choo!

Pledge diamond to HC

**

Pledge a diamond to drk

(expired on 2016-11-17 03:10:41)

[xofelf]

Round 13

Has Wheel of Chess ended yet?
No, no it hasn't.
Radja auto no cards.
Haschel voluntarily no cards.
And DRK and Ani throw diamonds down and cancel each other out and since I don't feel like spoilering shit, here we are.



(expired on 2016-11-17 16:43:27)

[xofelf]

Round 14 results

Now this is where things get very exciting! Yes I mean now, not back when they actually first got exciting right before cards were pledged and it made sense to call it exciting because people were playing more than they were no-carding. That's dumb.
Radja auto-no plays of course.
Ani plays his heart!

Spoiler:

And Haschel plays his diamond, and shoots DRK thus ending her glorious reign. She went as the best viqueens do, in the heat of battle.
He will now default to no cards too.

(expired on 2016-11-18 07:19:02)

[xofelf]

Round 15 and 16

Due to auto no-cards, and because I can, combining two rounds.
Both Haschel and Radja auto-no card.
Ani plays his spade and shoots Haschel.
Radja auto no-cards.
Ani voluntarily no cards which is where we're currently at.



Due to how the rules work, whenever alive players choose to all no card, you vote which player should lose their highest ranked card. And see, while technically that is only Ani, he is down to only one card, which will then go to pledging and hand refills. So, rather than using the 24 hours for all of you dead to vote for which alive player you are going to take cards away from, I am giving that 24 for pledging purposes.

(expired on 2016-11-18 20:00:49)

[xofelf]

Yeah, the spreadsheet didn't do things right, updated scores:

[xofelf]

Okay hi, sorry. Apparently it became sleep an obscene amount of hours night. Pledges after don't count yada yada, this probably resolves in like, 2 rounds anyways so whatevs.

[xofelf]

Round 17 part uno

Ani's club hits him over the head for being a dumbass who didn't use it. And now pledged cards matter.
Ani gets: 1 diamond, and 1 heart
Radja gets 1 diamond, and 1 spade.
Let's keep going~

Spoiler: Pledges that matter

pledge a heart to ani

All aboard the

pledge my diamond to ani

train, choo choo!

Apparently that is not how anything works

Diamond

PLedge a Spade to Radja

(expired on 2016-11-19 19:18:35)

[xofelf]

Round 17 part deux

Rocks fall, everyone dies!

Okay... so not quite.

Diamonds are rocks though. And at least one of them was played in this round. Does anyone die though?

Spoiler:

No. Since both Ani and Radja played their diamonds, they canceled each other out. And they both live.
Normally, this would just go to another round. But, there's no point. There is no way for Radja to stall this out or kill ani in a way that he can prevent Ani from winning anymore or win this himself.
Final scores stand:


Due to how tiebreakers work on tied scores, because Ani outlived DRK,

Ani and Piggy win this Challenge!

Klick and racefan have lost and Brawl will go up some time later today.