Cosmic Encounter | Encounter 8 | Farren

[Mizzytastic]

Encounter 7 | Farren

Aliens

the worst is the Shadow who removes others' ships
Allomancer is the Warpish who adds ships in warp to total
Farren is the Chosen who takes new encounter card
T-Bone is the Miser who gets second hand
xofelf is the Parasite who joins alliance at will

Spoiler: Full Alien Abilities

Shadow

Removes others' ships

Medium Difficulty

You have the power to Execute. You must use your power to send one enemy ship from any colony to the warp whenever a destiny card other than your colour is drawn. You must choose a ship of the player the destiny card corresponds to, but if it is wild you can choose any player, not only the one the offense chooses.

Use this power as any player, when the destiny card is revealed in the destiny phase.

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.

Chosen

Takes new encounter card

Easy Difficulty

You have the power of Divine Intervention. You may use this power to draw three cards from the cosmic deck. You may choose an encounter card from the 3 and discard the rest. You may replaces your encounter card with the chosen one, discarding the previous one. If both the new and the old encounter cards are attack cards you may choose to add them together or replace the old card.

Use this power as a main player, after revealing encounter cards in the reveal phase.

Miser

Gets second hand

Easy Difficulty

Game Start: You are dealt 2 8-card hands. Choose one to be your hand and one to be your hoard.

You have the power to Hoard. You may use this power to use a card from your hoard instead of your hand any time you would play a card.

Other players cannot look at or draw from your hoard. If there are no encounter cards left in your hoard, you may reveal it, discard it, and draw a new 8 card hoard.

Parasite

Joins alliance at will

Easy Difficulty

You have the power to Infest. Unless another effect prevents alliances, you may use this power to ally with another player whether they invite you or not.

Use this power as not a main player, during the alliance phase.

Spoiler: Win Tracker, Hand Size and Ships in Warp

Win Tracker

T-Bone has 2 foreign colonies
the worst has 1 foreign colonies
Allomancer has 1 foreign colonies
Farren has 1 foreign colonies
xofelf has 1 foreign colonies

Hands

the worst has 4 cards
Allomancer has 4 cards
Farren has 6 cards
T-Bone has 6 cards, and 2 cards in his hoard
xofelf has 7 cards

Warp

the worst has 3 ships in the warp
Allomancer has 5 ships in the warp
Farren has 4 ships in the warp
T-Bone has 4 ships in the warp
xofelf has 4 ships in the warp

Spoiler: Systems

the worst's System

Purple 1 has 3 Purple ships - OOO
Purple 2 has 3 Purple ships - OOO
Purple 3 has 3 Purple ships - OOO
Purple 4 has 4 Purple ships - OOOO
Purple 5 has 4 Yellow ships - OOOO

Allomancer's System

Blue 1 has 4 Blue ships - OOO
Blue 2 has 3 Blue ships - OOO
Blue 3 has 4 Blue ships - OOO
Blue 4 has 4 Blue ships - OOO
Blue 5 has 4 Purple, 3 Green, 1 Yellow and 3 Red ships - OOOO OOO O OOO

Farren's System

Green 1 has 3 Green ships - OOO
Green 2 has 3 Green ships - OOO
Green 3 has 2 Green ships - OO
Green 4 has 2 Green ships - OO
Green 5 has 3 Green ships - OOO

T-Bone's System

Yellow 1 has 1 Yellow ships - O
Yellow 2 has 2 Yellow ships - OO
Yellow 3 has 3 Yellow ships - OOO
Yellow 4 has 2 Yellow ships - OO
Yellow 5 has 3 Yellow ships - OOO

xofelf's System

Red 1 has 3 Blue ships - OOO
Red 2 has 3 Red ships - OOO
Red 3 has 3 Red ships - OOO
Red 4 has 3 Red ships - OOO
Red 5 has 4 Red ships - OOOO

Combat

Target:
Offense's forces:
Defense's forces:
Offense's card:
Defense's card:

Spoiler: Destiny deck discard

Yellow
Yellow
Purple
Yellow
Purple
Blue
Wild
Red
Least Ships in Warp

Spoiler: Cosmic deck discard

Cosmic Zap
Attack 20
Attack 8
Reinforcement +3
Reinforcement +5
Attack 10
Attack 20
Mobius Tubes
Plague
Card Zap
Attack 10
Attack 15
Attack 6
Negotiate
Attack 4
Attack 4
Reinforcement +2
Attack 10
Cosmic Zap
Emotion Control
Quash
Negotiation
Attack 4

Spoiler: Public Flare cards + locations

In xofelf's hand:

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.

[Mizzytastic]

At the start of the turn Farren is now the offense.

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During the regroup phase Farren returns a ship to Green 3 via automove

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Onto the Destiny phase. Farren first draws a Green card but there are no opponents colonies in his some system so he has to draw another.

He then draws a Red card. He will have an encounter with xofelf at a planet in their home system.

@the worst: choose a Green and Red ship to send to the warp

[Farren]

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

Given that I'm the next player up, I didn't think I could consider the issue from a neutral point of view. Thanks for clearing this up.

[Farren]

Going to see what the Shadow decides on before loading up the Gate.

[the worst]

must you fight, friends?
alas.

the warp devours one from green-5, one from red-5.

[Farren]

Some choices are made for us. An encounter is inevitable.

However, destroying Parasite's ships may not be necessary here. I see that one of Parasite's planets is undefended, with only Warpish present. No blood need be shed.

Put 1 ship each from Green 1/2/3 into the Gate and point it at Red-1.

Parasite. Do you have interest in negotiating during this challenge? As a sign of good faith, I am aiming away from your fleet.

[xofelf]

I would love to negotiate.

[Farren]

Very well. You have given me no reason to distrust you.

I invite no allies.

[xofelf]

My only friend today is Green.

[Mizzytastic]

Everything that's happened so far looks good. Sorry I've not been around much. xofelf is playing the Fido card which will give Farren the Attack 4 and xofelf a random card that it will sort out with nicer formatting this evening when I'm not on my phone

[Farren]

The Chosen plays an encounter card face-down.

[Mizzytastic]

Resolving Destiny~Launch~Alliances - all good. Onto planning

xofelf has played the Fido card and drawn a card from the deck. Farren gets the Attack 4

Combat

Target: Red-2
Offense's forces: 3 Green Ships
Defense's forces: 3 Red Ships
Offense's card:
Defense's card:

[Mizzytastic]

And the reveal

Combat

Target: Red-2
Offense's forces: 3 Green Ships
Defense's forces: 3 Red Ships
Offense's card: Negotiate
Defense's card: Morph (acting as Negotiate)

Farren uses the Chosen's ability, picking up then discarding 3 Negotiate cards.

[Mizzytastic]

After collectively realising Red-1 has blue ships, the encounter has been moved to Red-2

Onto Resolution

The Negotiation timer is coming sooooon

[Mizzytastic]

Negotiation

xofelf has requested the negotiation is delayed. I'm ok with that so long as Farren agrees and neither of you discuss anything until I post the timer.

[Farren]

No objections here.

[Mizzytastic]

I'd just like to apologise for being pretty out of it the last few days. It's been impacting the accuracy of my modding and in a game with as many moving parts as this it's important.

[xofelf]

No worries. Yeah tomorrow we can deal with this, let's all take a night off, yeah?

[Farren]

I will second that. Things happen; life goes on; it's a game, intended for fun.

[Mizzytastic]

There has been some confusion about the rules on my part and I'm sorry. I learned this game with an older version of the Fantasy Flight rules and it had a specific section saying you can't target a planet with none of the defenses ships unless you had no other choice. I had been working under this assumption but it's not the case in the current version of the rules Farren was able to aim at Red-1 even without any red ships there, my correction was in error, and in future that will be an option.

Again, I'm sorry for the series of screw ups recently. I think I might need to take a few hours recouperate. My head is completely messed up right now.

[xofelf]

You're fine, promise <3 You've gone and mentioned every time there's something that needed adjusted or changing, and you've been incredibly gracious in doing so. And you've been ridiculously accommodating in reminding people of what they can and can't do every round. You're doing fantastically well, and we appreciate you and all your hard work. Be kind to you, your modding has been superb.

[T-Bone]

Let's take a night or two off, gonna be a weird 24 hours or so.

[the worst]

the shadow gratefully approves a 24-hour ceasefire.

When you are darkness itself, 24 hours is nothing.
But also, screw today in particular.

[Mizzytastic]

If everyone is OK I'll restart this tomorrow

[the worst]

good w/ me.