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description= Block your opponent's Emperor from being able to move |
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stashes = 4 |
sets = 5|
other_equip = custom board of partial chessboard |
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=='''Here's What You Need'''==
You and your opponent (let's call him Johnny-John Other-Guy) will each need a four-by-four board with spaces big enough for a medium pyramid to lie [[orientation|flat]]. These can be two physically distinct boards, or just quadrants of a standard chessboard. You will also each have a separate set of pieces, consisting of the following: eight Commoners ({{PL|::S|gray|3em}}; two in each color), six Nobles ({{PL|::M|gray|3em}}; two each in any three colors), a High Priest ({{PL|::L|blueviolet|3em}}), and an [[Andrew Looney|Emperor]] ({{PL|::SL|brown|3em}}). Your {{PL|::S|gray|3em}}s and {{PL|::M|gray|3em}}s should match Johnny-John's exactly, while your High Priest and Emperor should be in colors that don't match his.
{|style="margin:auto;" class="wikitable"
|style="text-align:center"|{{PL|::S|grey|4em}}
|style="text-align:center"|{{PL|::M|grey|4em}}
|style="text-align:center"|{{PL|::L|grey|4em}}
|style="text-align:center"|{{PL|::SL|grey|4em}}
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|Commoner
|Noble
|High Priest
|Emperor
|}
<p align="center">[[Image:Impshuffle1.JPG|The opposing forces]]</p>
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You may find this asymmetric coloration to be aesthetically unappealing to an astonishing degree, in which case, fine, go right ahead, make 'em the same color. Of course, then you'll need to alter the forthcoming definition of a "match" to include the clause "unless it's a High Priest ({{PL|::L|blueviolet|3em}}) or an Emperor ({{PL|::SL|brown|3em}})", and you'll throw the internal logic of the game all to hell, but hey, as long as you're happy, what do you need with internal logic, anyway?
==The Set-Up==
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*Emperors ({{PL|::SL|brown|3em}}) cannot move off the edge of the board and wrap around.
*The reanimation that happens with the High Priest ({{PL|::L|blueviolet|3em}}) ''only'' happens for the active player at the end of a turn in which he has pushed his High Priest. If your opponent makes a move that lines one of his living pieces up with the space where your High Priest happens to be, and you have a dead piece that matches his piece exactly, too bad. It doesn't happen automatically.
==How's It Going to End?==▼
If it's your turn, and your Emperor ({{PL|::SL|brown|3em}}) is unable to move because there are just too damn many corpses lying around, you lose. Johnny-John Other-Guy should feel free to say derogatory things about your mother, and you can't do anything about it. You know why? Because you lost, that's why.▼
==Example Game==
<center>'''A Typical Game Begins'''
{|style="background-color:lightyellow; border:2px solid coral;"
|[[Image:Impshuffle2.JPG|One possible starting position]]
This is just one of the thousands of ways the boards could look at the top of the game.▼
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▲|style="text-align:center"|Example starting position: This is just one of the thousands<br> of ways the boards could look at the top of the game.
|}
<br><br>
Suppose you have gotten your pieces on the board fastest. You get the first move.
[[Image:Impshuffle3.JPG|The first move]]<br>
[[Image:Impshuffle4.JPG|The second move]]<br>
But what's this? Johnny-John makes a move that kills off one of your green
Commoners ({{PL|::SPE|green|2em}})
▲==How's It Going to End?==
▲If it's your turn, and your Emperor ({{PL|::SL|brown|3em}}) is unable to move because there are just too damn many corpses lying around, you lose. Johnny-John Other-Guy should feel free to say derogatory things about your mother, and you can't do anything about it. You know why? Because you lost, that's why.
'''One Possible Losing Position'''
[[Image:Impshuffle5.JPG|Game Over]]<br>
If this is what your board looks like at the beginning of your turn,<br>
well, sorry, pal, your goose is cooked. Your Emperor ({{PL|::SL|brown|3em}}) is blocked in at<br>
every turn by the stiffening bodies of his loyal followers, and that can mean<br>
only one thing: Johnny-John's gonna be crackin' wise about your momma.<br>
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