👹 SETSUBEANS 👹

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Who: festive idols like you ✨
Where: the Game Tower
When: day 438, mid-morning

[ You're going about your business as usual and—
No, just kidding, you're in the elevator to the Game Tower.

Today when you enter, though, it doesn't look like the inside of a building at all. Instead, you find yourself in the midst of what appears to be a traditional Japanese street festival—complete with a lantern-hung shrine just down the way. The eaves of buildings are hung with even more lanterns, and ropes woven into fringed streamers crisscross overhead. Here and there are hung brightly-painted oni masks.

—And, at the center of it all, everyone's favorite giant snake (citation needed) is seated on a high tripod stool, dressed in some kind of needlessly cleavage-baring and thigh slit-having version of a miko outfit. ]

Wasn't yesterday just so much fun?
So I thought: Why not continue the festival atmosphere with something a little closer to the culture of our very own Tokyo-F?

Dearest Lantana came up with the basic rules for this one... but I think my version is even~✧ cuter~✧!
[ You're ushered to roped-off areas with banners sporting your unit's name and color... though there are a few multi-unit "teams" with special names for the occasion. ]

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RULES and WINNING

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Every team has a bowl of soybeans in different colors (copper, silver, and gold) indicating different point totals, a magnifying glass, and a set of pea-shooter guns in their team’s color (or combined colors).

Copper beans = 1 point
Silver beans = 3 points
Gold beans = 5 points

Each bean has its actual effect written on it in black calligraphy—hence the magnifying glass. You aren’t in too much of a hurry to read those, are you…?
(OOC note: This is meant as a way to justify characters/teams ending up with beans they'd normally be determined to avoid; your characters can read/fail to read the beans as much as you want.)

SEE THE FULL LIST OF BEANS HERE.

Rules:
Rules and win criteria appear on every character's phone.

1. Each team receives 7 beans labeled with a status effect to start with: 3 copper, 2 silver, 2 gold.
2. Each team will also have a toplevel that combines both discussion and beans shot at you.
3. You can choose to shoot any number of beans at any unit at any time. Mention it in your discussion threads, then post a comment under the header of the unit you're throwing at linking to the comment where you shot the bean.
4. You can also yell across the game tower to the other units to negotiate or argue. Wanna swear an oath to a Taisho later to get them to stop shooting beans at you? Sure can!
5. Characters cannot be affected by status effects which they have naturally. You may stack as many effects that are not mutually exclusive or obviously redundant as you like! It's not super strict.
6. When status effects become active, teams must have at least one character assigned per effect.
7. If a character chooses to swallow a bean, they are immediately hit by the effect in question—unless they already have that status effect naturally, in which case they will cough the bean back up. If a bean is consumed this way, no one but the bean-eater will experience that effect. It’s bean quarantine.
   Status effects from consumed beans are not removed from winners.
   Consumed beans are automatically replaced by another bean with the same point value, which magically appears in the team’s bowl. Ping me (Degen) in discord's #game-channel to notify me!


8. The game is divided into two rounds of 45 minutes each, divided by one 30 minute intermission.
9. During the intermission, any held beans have their associated statuses take effect. This persists through the end of Round 2. After Round 2, status effects update to their final holders, lasting until endgame.
   If you end up in a situation where you would be required to take a status effect that is something on your DNW list (unlikely, but just in case), DM me and I'll swap it for another status effect at that point tier.



WINNERS:
The two teams (and all affiliated units) holding the lowest sum will be declared winners and, as of that announcement will not suffer any of the effects on their beans—except for any beans they ate. There will also be an additional special double secret win condition for a third winner.
Losing units retain their status effects for 1-3 IC days. (If a character is on a winning unit and for some reason wants to keep a status effect as though they lost, they are free to petition Hadassah, of course.)

SOME DEFINITIONS

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• Bane: means an instinctive revulsion for and/or discomfort around the thing. Optionally, this may include specific effects such as a burning feeling when in physical contact with the bane. It can also just manifest like a supernatural allergy, if you want.
• Compulsion: means not so much a desire as an obligation; in fact, the character might not want to do the behavior at all. Creatively finding ways to mitigate the behavior is fair game, e.g. "unable to directly lie" still allows for half-truths.
• Craving: means a powerful desire or hunger; unlike a Compulsion, it includes a mental desire as well.
• Become: means physical transformation—mental changes are not included!
• "Normal" human: Deliberately left up to player discretion whether or not a character is already a "normal human."

TALK TO HADASSAH

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[ She does seem to be here in person. Holograms are so boring~✧ ]

Re: TALK TO HADASSAH

[at_heart]

[ ...Up he comes to say hi! ]

Uh. Nice to meet you?

[ Really feels like he should be taking every chance he gets to know the gamerunners a little better....... ]

ROUND 1

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LiliS

[idolpro]

BAD END=DEAD END

[idolpro]

avante en garde

[idolpro]

cyber☆city (future is now + ☆ZRAEL + WILD CITY)

[idolpro]

softHearted (sensitIV + Heart Soldier Senshi)

[idolpro]

energy DRINK! (pep!pep! + AlcheME! + BARiTONES)

[idolpro]

INTERMISSION

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Re: INTERMISSION

[proceedwithcautus]

Eh? I don't feel anything, anyway...?

[ bane: holy symbols please let me know if holy symbols are about thanks ]

Re: INTERMISSION

[wayofthehousekeeper]

[ Become: centaur & Craving household chores. ]





Where are my pants.

Re: INTERMISSION

[doublefried]

[ EXTREMELY LOUDLY ]

I can't believe we got so unfairly targeted even though we did nothing wrong.

Re: INTERMISSION

[at_heart]

[ Cool, cool, cool, so, physically all of LiliS is sprouting flowers, sparkling, and centaur'd. This is fine. ]

...Gonna go ahead and say it now, this is too many legs.

[ Someone went sleek solid black horse for the lower half of their body, because of course they did. Despite his complaint, he seems to be regaining his sense of balance pretty fast. ] [ Also dealing with: compulsion for touch, household chores, and inability to directly lie, but those're a lot less obvious. ]

Re: INTERMISSION

[temperedinpride]

[Just a ghost wanting to hold hands please hold where are Ascians. I mean other people can come too but that's what he's looking for.]

Re: INTERMISSION

[unbr8kable]

[Nemesis sits in proper seiza, head bowed slightly as is polite,]

Apologies to all for any offense inflicted in the last round. If you have any concerns, please feel welcome to make them known.

Re: INTERMISSION

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Out here with golden retriever ears and a fluffy golden retriever tail]

[He's tugging at one of his own ears]

I mean. That coulda gone worse?

Re: INTERMISSION

[irregular]

[So, uh...

[extra eyes, insect wings, tentacles, dog temprament, become undead, become: oni

[is really way too fucking many status effects and that's without looking at Valor, so K is just going to be standing very still.]

I fucking hate all of you, by the way.

Re: INTERMISSION

[identitypolitics]

[ local woman is tapping at the halo floating above her head irritably, like, what even. ]

This is silly.

Re: INTERMISSION

[thisismagrave]

[Here is Normal Human, AKA his ears are now rounded. Also his eyes are a pale blue....?]

[With a halo just cause.]

[Also bane to sweet and morality swap but WHO KNOWS WHAT THAT MEANS.]

[May Be Staring At Hands.]

ROUND 2

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LiliS

[idolpro]

YOUR STARTING BEANS FOR ROUND 2:

(1) Flowers sprout from hair and/or body
(1) Constantly shed sparkles
(1) craving: household chores
(3) compulsion: unable to directly lie
(3) compulsion: seek physical contact/touch
(5) become: Centaur

PRE-ENDGAME

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[ Hadassah claps her hands and lets out a delighted whoop. ]

Oh, that was delightful~✧
For now, enjoy being just a little bit monstrous, and I'll return with our winners after this brief commercial break~✧

Re: PRE-ENDGAME

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ Why did they get stuck with BANE: Sweets.... ]