So, given the opportunity, what games would you play with shrunken women? To be perfectly clear, ‘with’ here means that she’s not on the other side of the board, she’s part of the board.
I’m working on an idea for a story and this came to me: chess or checkers, where every piece is a tiny woman, each in elaborate (or skimpy. Or elaborately skimpy, depending; my example that started this has giants hiring prostitutes to use as pieces, so the apparel would match their budget) outfits with matching colors. Each captured piece goes to the one who captures them, the winner gets all the remaining pieces on the board; no one leaves alone. Or, quite frankly, in a group of less than two digits.
For promotions, in the context I’m envisioning, there’s little crowns to give to the new queens or whatnot to symbolize the change, but in other versions, pieces are arranged by size, and are grown when promoted to match their new roles.
There’s also tournaments, which play by different rules: each player keeps the pieces they capture, yes, but the surviving pieces remain on the board and the open positions are restocked from the large general pool of women prepared beforehand. It’s an elimination style match, so the first out have a fraction of the prizes of those of, say, a semi finalist, and the champion is the one who claims the board, including both Empresses (aka the Kings), who are for that final match prepared with particular style for the occasion… I’m thinking wearing only a crown and covered in edible paint.
Depending on the available pool of pieces, if there’s not enough for later games an equal amount of captured pieces from every one’s pools will be removed to sub in, with a certain minimum maintained so, again, no one leaves alone.
