Good afternoon guys. Did you have fun with the scavenger hunt?
Because your third task is another hunt. But not a fun hunt in merry spirits like last time. No. This hunt will be much more serious, with far more at stake. Be warned, this task will take much more time to complete than the previous ones.
You will all be hypothetically placed in a forest, with your own encampments. Each player gets one precious item they must protect, some play money ($100 with an extra $20 for jumpluff, who had the best performance in the previous task), and a shotgun with one round. You can get additional rounds at a store in the middle of the forest (see below). You will also be informed of an additional precious item that is being carried by someone else (though you won't be told who). This item will be what you are hunting for.
The hunt will consist of four cycles. Each cycle will end in 24 hours. To move on to the next task, all you need to do is hold both your initial precious item as well as the one you were assigned to hunt for after all cycles are completed.
During each cycle, You have a few choices of actions, which you must PM me once per cycle. They are listed below, in order of priority.
1) Stay at camp. This action itself has three variations. One is that you can fire a single round from your shotgun and scare off any would be thieves, protecting your items. The other is not firing anything. This is the default action if you idle. Your precious item will not be protected, but the identity of the culprit will be known if it gets stolen. Lastly, if you have a shotgun round, you may choose to protect someone else's camp, but as with the options outlined below, this leaves your own camp vulnerable. Note that protecting either your camp or someone elses consumes a shotgun round, regardless of what actually happens.
2) Go to someone else's camp and attempt to take ALL of their precious items. If two people attempt to go to the same camp in one night, priority is given to the user who PMs me first.
3) You can go to the store and bid on a shotgun round, auction style. There are only 2 rounds sold per cycle. First come, first serve, and sold to the two highest bidder. As the owner of this store, I also accept currency in the form of precious items, so you can use your precious items as an additional $25 in your bid. At the beginning of the following cycle, I will post which precious items are in the shop and they can then be bidded on in future cycles, just like shotgun rounds. I will also post how much each shotgun round sold for. Again though, keep in mind that if you bid with precious items, your bid will be reduced accordingly if your precious items get stolen during that cycle.
Again, note the priorities here.
There will also be two trading periods. These will be conducted after the first and third cycles. You can trade any combination of shotgun rounds, money, and precious items. Like the hunting cycles, they will last 24 hours, and you may trade as many times as you wish within it. To conduct a trade, PM me with "Trading my [X] for USER's [Y]". It is not necessary to be this formal, however, if both you and your trading parter are on IRC and can confirm your trades to me in real time, this will also work. Trades are only finalized when two players have shown through either method that they have agreed to the same terms.
Finally, after the last cycle, there will be a special auction. If you failed to meet the criteria for survival (carrying the precious item you were assigned to hunt and the one you were given initially), you have an additional chance. I will confiscate all excess precious items and auction them off to the higest bidder, where the bidders can use whatever money they have remaining. All money made in this auction will be paid to each respective holder of the excess item in question. I will also offer one more opportunity for survival, though the price is steep ($200). I will award the advantage in the next task to the survivor with the most money at the end. If you still fail to meet the criteria to survive after all of this, you will be eliminated from the competition.
Before we start with the actual hunt though, I will be PM each of you your assigned and target precious items. I will also give you a 24 hour grace period before the first cycle. Use this time to talk to the other players as well as to devise any strategies.
Feel free to ask me any questions, this task is far more complicated than the others!
As always, good luck!