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👹 SETSUBEANS 👹

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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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.

Each team receives 7 beans labeled with a status effect to start with: 3 copper, 2 silver, 2 gold.
Each team will also have a toplevel that combines both discussion and beans shot at you.
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.
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!
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.
When status effects become active, teams must have at least one character assigned per effect.
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!

The game is divided into two rounds of 45 minutes each, divided by one 30 minute intermission.
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:

two teams

except for any beans they ate

third winner

Edited 2022-01-23 02:53 (UTC)

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."

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

[ 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~✧

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RULES and WINNING

SOME DEFINITIONS

TALK TO HADASSAH

ROUND 1