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[Adragis]

"No problem. And Tea, wouldn't it be 'board game plays you'?"

[IcyTea31]

"Isn't that what has happened? I was there, smiling and silently cheering for Tiruin, but now this Russian rules revelation turnsitallaroundandwe'vebeenhugeidiotsassumingtherulesweretheusualonesdespite_{thembeingshownnowhereand...}"

Tea stops to breathe, sighing.

"The board game has played us. Let's hope nothing too bad will happen. Or that I'm wrong."

[Tiruin]

Tiruin checked the board.

"I wonder why there's this Soviet Russia and the winner is the loser thing. This board is distinctly European, or at least Scandinavean."


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[IcyTea31]

((Yes, I had planned the different ruleset (called "Poddavki", by the way) from the beginning. I had kept it secret from HugoLuman as well by keeping my explanation of the room's mechanics vague, but that was a bit of a wasted effort as he didn't come play after all.))

"Maybe whoever designed this room had little very understanding of human culture. That would support the theory of this whole thing being an alien abduction."

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As the ebony statue stops moving, Tiruin gets a sudden feeling of DANGER. It might be a good idea to call for more help before acting hastily.

[WillowLuman]

(I told you, I don't know how to play checkers)

[IcyTea31]

((Only after I had presented the room. I guess it hasn't mattered much so far.))

[FallacyofUrist]

"I have rope."

"Well. If there's enough of that, we can lower the rope into the pit and pull them out- when did you get here?"

[Tiruin]

((Yes, I had planned the different ruleset (called "Poddavki", by the way) from the beginning. I had kept it secret from HugoLuman as well by keeping my explanation of the room's mechanics vague, but that was a bit of a wasted effort as he didn't come play after all.))

Spoiler: You have to be kidding me. :I I had no danger sense at all poking at anything {other than apprehension}. My radar is broken! (click to show/hide)

Linkie Reference

Suicide Russian Checkers (also called Poddavki) is a variant of checkers game with the same rules as in Russian Checkers but with exactly the opposite goal: to force the opponent to capture or block all player's checkers.

The board is an 8×8 grid, with alternating dark and light squares. The left down square field should be dark.

Each player starts with 12 pieces on the three rows closest to their own side, as shown in the diagram above.

The white (lighter color) side moves first. Players then alternate moves.

The men move diagonally forward to the next square, when nothing can be captured.

When a piece reaches the furthest row from the player who controls that piece, it is crowned and becomes a damka (дамка - literally: "lady"). One of the pieces which had been captured is placed on top of it so that it is twice as high as a single piece.

If a man reaches the last row by capturing an enemy piece (i.e. by jumping over it) and it can continue to capture additional enemy pieces as a damka then the move must be continued.

Crowned pieces can move freely multiple steps in any diagonal direction exactly like a Bishop in chess.

Men capture opponents pieces that are diagonally adjacent to them by moving two consecutive steps in the same direction, jumping over the opponent's piece on the first step. Jumping can be done forward and backward. Multiple opposing pieces may be captured in a single turn provided this is done by successive jumps made by a single piece. These jumps do not need to be in the same direction but may zigzag changing diagonal direction. A 180° turn, however, is not permitted. A piece that is jumped is captured and removed from the board, when the move is completed (but not during jumping). Jumping is mandatory and cannot be passed up to make a non-jumping move, nor can fewer than the maximum jumps possible be taken in a multiple-jump move. When there is more than one way for a player to jump, one may choose which sequence to make, not necessarily the sequence that will result in the most amount of captures. However, one must make all the captures in that sequence.

A damka jumps over and hence capture an opponent piece some distance away and choose where to stop afterwards. If an ordinary piece moves into the damka's row from a jump and it can continue to jump backwards as a damka then the move should be continued. Also if there is a piece in the damka's path that can be captured, the damka must capture it, provided it's the player's move. There is no choice whether to do it or not, but the player can choose where to land after the capture.
[No notice however on non-damka pieces]
A player wins by leaving the opposing player with no legal moves, i.e. by capturing or blocking all of the opposing player's pieces.

((Only difference is non-gendered pieces. :I  Good thing there's no 'must eat' rule.

BUT, since I've got IC reasons to believe otherwise [not relying on the OOC reveal], I'll check it.))

Tiruin felt a disturbance in the force. She held up her right hand at the serpent, index finger pointing to the ceiling with thumb sticking out.

"I'll...see if I feel better if I do otherwise. Everyone, prepare weapons. Or get us out. Twinwolf, get by the ledge. Not touching the ledge if indeed its trapped."


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[WillowLuman]

"Aw, shit." HugoLuman hoists his axe, preparing to intervene. Though that would involve dropping 10ft and then running another 50.

[IcyTea31]

You have to be kidding me. :I I had no danger sense at all poking at anything {other than apprehension}. My radar is broken!

((And here is a problem with having multiple writers for a work of fiction. Different interpretations of character powers. How sensitive is a first-level ability, especially when danger is hard to define? Too much, and everything is a danger: you could stumble, fall and break your neck at any time while just walking around. Too little, and nothing is.

I've interpreted the ability as pretty binary: you either are in imminent danger or aren't. Beforehand, you weren't, really. Despite your play increasing the chances of this becoming dangerous, only this last move might cause just that.

If this doesn't match your interpretation, I'm sorry, really am, but a retcon would get weird.))

((Good thing there's no 'must eat' rule.))

((There is, actually. How would it make any sense to play to lose if you couldn't force your opponent to do things?))

--Jumping is mandatory and cannot be passed up to make a non-jumping move--

She held up her right hand at the serpent

((The bear, actually; the serpent got captured last turn.))


The crowned knight doesn't seem to budge in that direction.

[Tiruin]

Tiruin shivered as she pulled on the wood...She did not feel good when looking at the aggressive-knight.

"Kevak? Now's a good time to use that rope. We're either about to win and I weirdly feel bad about winning, or something may happen like a trigger or a switch. Twin, may I have my bow? Thanks."

She made sure Twinwolf was on the same side as IcyTea.
((Just moving Twin so that people who aren't/can't post now are together.))
((The 'binary' actions did not indicate any notion towards win/lose consequences, btw. The indicator came already too late since I..well, not 'since' but more like 'I can't see any alternative than the last 2 moves and that's when the indicator came about...'))

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[IcyTea31]

((The indicator came already too late since I..well, not 'since' but more like 'I can't see any alternative than the last 2 moves and that's when the indicator came about...'))

((Good point, actually. Danger Sense probably should have triggered on the turn before the one with the triple capture move. Sorry.))


For a moment after the maceman strikes the bear down, all gets quiet and nothing seems to happen. Then, with a few moments of creaking, a part of the engravings fall apart and fall to the ground. Behind the engraving, there is a bright red background, with a pair items hung on it in a cross. A gold-coloured sickle and hammer.

With that, the balsa wood and silver statues start to move on their own, though still diagonally. The silver one seems much, much faster than the wooden ones.

[kj1225]

Kyle's commie sense is tingling.

[Arcvasti]

Arcvasti yowls and hisses. The statues still seemed bound, at least partially, by the rules of the game. The rules weren't especially clear in Arcvasti's head at the moment, but they could only move diagonally. And most, if not all, of the statues looked to be one particular colour of square.

Arcvasti positioned themselves, via undignified bounding, on a square adjacent to the statue closest to one of Them and tries using it as a scratching post.

[Rolepgeek]

"Goddamnit!" Rolep says, as he drops down, drawing his sword and pulling out a water bottle.

"Thank god there's only one silver one. Don't let the wood ones reach the other side! Fucking bullshit backwards rule. Son of a bitch."

He begins to chug the green potion, wondering how his newfound ability will affect it...