I suppose I should rephrase that. If you thought that was a hammer, it looks like a quick attempt to get a lynch and avoid things swinging back towards you.
The reader places the next card down. The center of the card is occupied by an Egyptian goddess. She stands in a bed of poppies beside a small stream. behind her is a huge field of flowers, a waterfall, and beyond that is a distant mountain.
"Who is she?"
"Selket, the funerary goddess of protection, magic and healing."
A huge white dove soars beside her. A huge disk is directly behind her. It looks almost like a part of her flower-headdress, until the querant realizes the disk as actually the earth. Another disk looms higher, it's lower portion visible at the top of the card. It's a deep orange color, that reminds the querant of Mars, or a huge harvest moon.
"What does it mean?"
"I'm not sure. Unless..."
The querant gives the reader a sharp glance. "Unless???"
"Well, this is the Empress. She usually represents motherhood, nurturing, even protection."
"So someone -- my mother? -- is going to protect me?"
"Possibly, but I think the card could actually represent your own actions to care for yourself. It's a path outward, beyond passively waiting for the disruptions of the Tower to pass. It suggests that to start the process of rebuilding, you should focus on taking care of yourself and being careful to stay true to yourself as you start over."
She taps the card beside the Empress. "Remember the Moon, and the indications that you might be trying to slow down this wave of change? I think this card explains why. Your focus has been to protect yourself, rather than to embrace, or at least submit to the Tower. The shadow side of this card suggests that you could be over-protective, basically smothering yourself. To smother oneself with self-protection, or to be swept up in uncontrollable, cataclysmic change. Both options look dangerous, eh?"
"Yes. Both."
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
The reader smiles. "Though the first few cards suggested you were in the grips of a situation you couldn't control, these last two cards suggest that you have found your feet and are making your own way through the situation, with care, particularly care of and for yourself. I think you have found your way through the cataclysm.
The querant smiles with relief.
Town wins!
Congratulations!
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Thanks so much for playing! And extra thanks to NorthSideGal, garaputo and AnonymousGhost for replacing in! And Extra-Extra thanks to everyone who played all the way through! I hope you enjoyed the game!
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Apologies to anyone/everyone I offended.
I was very into this game. It was neat to follow along after my death. Mad props to Garu for fighting an uphill battle from replacing in. I wish I could've been alive to play alongside you.
Ftr I was force replaced because I was compromised by drealmer who told me about his role after he was lynched when he thought I was replacing out even though I had rescinded the request (not his fault).
hi meet my mafiascum gravestone, the flowers were probably left by camn or schadd or Prism, blow them kisses for me would you?
I think the design thread is a pretty good representative of how chaotic the design process for a uPick game can be. You'll see that there are two sets of role PMs, and you'll see how much impact the reviewers had on the final form of the game. Based on Nacho's feedback and the creativity he brought to the design, I would up tweaking almost every role, and I feel like the final form of the game was much improved by Empire and Nacho's feedback. I would definitely ask them to review a game again, and hopefully they'd like to do that some time.
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Also, NSG deserves a lot of credit making me sweat at the end there, I was considering conjuring up a reason to vote porkens rather than no lynch and would have probably no killed again to have forced even one more day had that happened...
As I said in the scum thread, it was a real uphill battle, I probably made bad choices but felt I had low odds to begin with so why not sow some confusion...
gg scum! And thanks for not giving into your paranoia about me North It was good working with you at the end there, you put me on the right track. Nice work.