[ picking up the scattered cards and shuffling them from the floor...then shuffling them again in front of Stoat just so it knows she would never cheat! ]
Sorry, I'm really trying to get into this game! I guess I got a little too involved.
I can't believe they blocked off access to all the perfectly good bells. What a buzzkill.
[Time to move again!!
1. Calculating damage. The Hawk perishes from the poison. Yor's Stoat deals another point of direct damage. The scales are perfectly balanced again. 2. GM-Stoat's Warren card slides forward to sit in front of the Stoat. 3. It draws from the main deck.]
I end my turn.
[The scales remain balanced. Yor has one Warren in her hand. On the board she has an unopposed Adder, and a Stoat in front of GM-Stoat's Warren. She has TWO squirrels left in her squirrel pile, and THREE cards left in her main pile. Does she draw a squirrel, or a mystery main deck card??]
[ she draws a squirrel because she has grasped these are needed to feed other predator cards (even if a Warren is neither an animal or a predators home) ]
We can maybe look for a different kind of bell for the next game. I-if you want to play with me again that is...
[Attack phase: 1 point of direct damage to Stoat, and 1 HP taken off of the Warren. (The cards, through card game magic, display their damage without any tokens required.)
Draw phase: Stoat draws a squirrel. It is its last squirrel.
Stoat's drone picks up the damaged Warren in its claw.]
So... Since the GM doesn't usually pay cost, there's not really a protocol for me removing things from the board to sacrifice. But my options are too limited if I can't, so I'm gonna. I'll just keep playing things in the back row once I pay for them, OK?
[It moves both the Warren and the Squirrel to the discard pile. It plays an Adder in the back row, ready to move up to where the Warren was next turn, in front of Yor's Stoat.]
I end my turn.
[Yor has one Warren and one Squirrel in her hand. She has one Squirrel in her draw pile. An Adder is going to appear in front of her Stoat next turn!!]
[ said with the confidence of someone who has no idea what's going on. how do the means of production work in a squirrel-based economy. this is nuts. ]
And if we find a scale later then we can borrow it with no problems, since it doesn't summon anybody I think. There isn't a summoning item for any other teams, right? If there were, I'd guess...it would be Phoenix, right? It looks like a bird perch...
[ she draws from the non-squirrel pile and puts down her squirrel and rabbit, then sacrifices them. she puts her recently drawn card down on the furthest lane. ]
It looks like a scale. If a bird perches on it, it's gonna disrupt the scale.
[The card Yor draws and plays is actually another Warren. So she gets another Rabbit in her hand.
Adder and Stoat's attacks give 2 damage. Stoat draws from the main deck. It moves its Adder forward, where it attacks Yor's Stoat, causing it to instantly perish.]
Okay. I end my turn. Ugh, I gave myself too many handicaps...
[Yor now has one Warren and one Rabbit in her hand. She has two cards left to draw from her main deck, and one Squirrel left to draw. Stoat is only 2 damage away from losing!
There is nothing on the back row. Stoat really does look like it's about to lose, internally trying to decide if it should change the rules mid-game to give itself a chance. But it should play nice for a tutorial...! And if it loses this way, at least it has a good excuse!]
But it looks closer to a bird perch than anything else, right? Since it's not a scale like those from a snake or fish, so it would be better suited for Phoenix than something that summons Basilisk or Kraken...
[ she puts a rabbit down in front of the adder row and draws one of the main deck cards, distracted now that she's thinking of important "what kind of object should summon each team" daydreaming. ]
Is there a card like the warren but for squirrels?
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Okay. I think that's...
[ looking at Stoat for guidance. okay, more judgement. but that's like negative guidance?? ]
...that's it? Ding?
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You countered the Hawk, so you cleared the most basic bar. Good job. But say "ding" more decisively next time!
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[ decisively slapping the flat of her palm on the table!!! ]
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Oh dear! I'm sorry!
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[ picking up the scattered cards and shuffling them from the floor...then shuffling them again in front of Stoat just so it knows she would never cheat! ]
Sorry, I'm really trying to get into this game! I guess I got a little too involved.
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[Time to move again!!
1. Calculating damage. The Hawk perishes from the poison. Yor's Stoat deals another point of direct damage. The scales are perfectly balanced again.
2. GM-Stoat's Warren card slides forward to sit in front of the Stoat.
3. It draws from the main deck.]
I end my turn.
[The scales remain balanced. Yor has one Warren in her hand. On the board she has an unopposed Adder, and a Stoat in front of GM-Stoat's Warren. She has TWO squirrels left in her squirrel pile, and THREE cards left in her main pile. Does she draw a squirrel, or a mystery main deck card??]
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We can maybe look for a different kind of bell for the next game. I-if you want to play with me again that is...
Oh, ding!
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[Attack phase: 1 point of direct damage to Stoat, and 1 HP taken off of the Warren. (The cards, through card game magic, display their damage without any tokens required.)
Draw phase: Stoat draws a squirrel. It is its last squirrel.
Stoat's drone picks up the damaged Warren in its claw.]
So... Since the GM doesn't usually pay cost, there's not really a protocol for me removing things from the board to sacrifice. But my options are too limited if I can't, so I'm gonna. I'll just keep playing things in the back row once I pay for them, OK?
[It moves both the Warren and the Squirrel to the discard pile. It plays an Adder in the back row, ready to move up to where the Warren was next turn, in front of Yor's Stoat.]
I end my turn.
[Yor has one Warren and one Squirrel in her hand. She has one Squirrel in her draw pile. An Adder is going to appear in front of her Stoat next turn!!]
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[ said with the confidence of someone who has no idea what's going on. how do the means of production work in a squirrel-based economy. this is nuts. ]
And if we find a scale later then we can borrow it with no problems, since it doesn't summon anybody I think. There isn't a summoning item for any other teams, right? If there were, I'd guess...it would be Phoenix, right? It looks like a bird perch...
[ she draws from the non-squirrel pile and puts down her squirrel and rabbit, then sacrifices them. she puts her recently drawn card down on the furthest lane. ]
S-so I put this down and then...that's it? Ding?
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[The card Yor draws and plays is actually another Warren. So she gets another Rabbit in her hand.
Adder and Stoat's attacks give 2 damage. Stoat draws from the main deck. It moves its Adder forward, where it attacks Yor's Stoat, causing it to instantly perish.]
Okay. I end my turn. Ugh, I gave myself too many handicaps...
[Yor now has one Warren and one Rabbit in her hand. She has two cards left to draw from her main deck, and one Squirrel left to draw. Stoat is only 2 damage away from losing!
The board looks like this:
YOR: Adder 1/1, empty space, empty space, Warren 0/2
STOAT: empty space, empty space, Adder 1/1, empty space
There is nothing on the back row. Stoat really does look like it's about to lose, internally trying to decide if it should change the rules mid-game to give itself a chance. But it should play nice for a tutorial...! And if it loses this way, at least it has a good excuse!]
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[ she puts a rabbit down in front of the adder row and draws one of the main deck cards, distracted now that she's thinking of important "what kind of object should summon each team" daydreaming. ]
Is there a card like the warren but for squirrels?
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[Yor draws a Hawk (3/1, flying and with a cost of 2 blood).]
There's nothing exactly the same as the Warren, I think. There's the Squirrel Ball.
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[ sorry, she is too engrossed in the idea of tiny waltzing squirrels to play just yet ]
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It is pretty stupid.
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...oh. I suppose that is something that makes sense. Even if I think it sounds counterintuitive to squirrel behavior.
[ she puts down a rabbit and then uses it and the warren to call up the hawk in the lane where the warren was. ]
I think that's it for my turn.
...they don't have a Stoat ball either, do they?