http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120711-114038-f232438a.htmlSo it's a four player game, I've got King's Courts, Stables, and money galore, and one of my opponents keep having their king hold court in council rooms-- pretty awesome! But the first player to buy early Possession just so happens to be to my right, and he keeps possessing my wonderful eight-card starting hands, using my deck to buy Provinces rather consistently while my sloppy seconds five-card hands can't really do that-- pretty terrible!
Except his mad rush for points and slight misunderstanding of Possession's effects results in this:
--- minakichan's turn (possessed by Omy29) ---
minakichan plays a King's Court.
... and plays a King's Court.
... ... and plays a Stables.
... ... ... discarding a Silver.
... ... ... drawing 3 cards and getting +1 action.
... ... and plays the Stables again.
... ... ... discarding a Copper.
... ... ... (minakichan reshuffles.)
... ... ... drawing 2 cards and getting +1 action.
... ... and plays the Stables a third time.
... ... ... discarding a Copper.
... ... ... (minakichan reshuffles.)
... ... ... drawing 1 card and getting +1 action.
... and plays the King's Court again.
... ... and plays a Bishop.
... ... ... getting +$1 and +1 ▼.
... ... ... minakichan trashes a Province and gets +4 ▼.
... ... ... TW2012 trashes nothing.
... ... ... Omy29 trashes a Copper.
... ... ... Badoosh trashes nothing.
... ... and plays the Bishop again.
... ... ... getting +$1 and +1 ▼.
... ... ... minakichan trashes a Copper.
... ... ... TW2012 trashes nothing.
... ... ... Omy29 trashes nothing.
... ... ... Badoosh trashes nothing.
... ... and plays the Bishop a third time.
... ... ... getting +$1 and +1 ▼.
... ... ... minakichan trashes a Gold and gets +3 ▼.
... ... ... Badoosh trashes nothing.
... ... ... TW2012 trashes nothing.
... ... ... Omy29 trashes nothing.
... and plays the King's Court a third time.
... ... but plays no action with it.
minakichan plays 3 Silvers.
minakichan buys a Province.
... Omy29 gains the Province.
(minakichan reshuffles.)
(minakichan draws: a Stables, 3 Silvers, and a Bishop.)
minakichan discards the "trashed" cards (a Gold, a Copper, and a Province).
You might see the problem here, but my unfortunate opponent didn't: Yup, Possession says nothing about VP and they therefore all go to the possessed player. In this Possessed turn, he gains a 6-point Province but gives me 10 VP. This happened several times throughout the entire game-- even with some King's Courted Possessions-- and he usually Bishopped the biggest cards for the biggest number of points.
I dropped a few hints, and I know I probably should have explained the situation, but... it was kind of glorious for me and I wanted to see how far it could go (sorry, opponent!).
I think the best moment in the game is around turn 13 though-- another opponent gets a similar idea and plays King's Courts Possession, giving the last opponent (Badoosh) 29 VP without having to lift a finger. Unfortunately, it seems that Badoosh, as my only opponent who likely truly understood Possession, saw how I was getting unfair amounts of free VP and resigned just beforehand, missing out on this huge VP spike completely-- ouch!
