WWTBAM RPG 18

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Good luck, players! Here we go!
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Disembodied voice: This is Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Defense, show number 1, VTR twelve, twenty-five, thirteen, airdate TBD. Take one.  (FFF lights up cue)

Director: We are rolling, standby...ready in five.

In three...
...two...
...one, go theme music, bring it up!

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(woowho takes the stage as the main part of the theme swells)

Oh hello!  Thank you very much!

Thank you very much, merry Christmas to those of you celebrating today, and welcome to a brand new version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire--one we're calling "Defense." I'll explain more about it as we play tonight, but you may have noticed one change already--there is, in fact, not one, but TWO Hot Podiums here.  Anyway, I've blabbed on enough--please welcome the first two players to play the new "Defense" format: Kimarough and millionairefan64!

(Both players take the stage--Kimarough101 at the left, orange podium, and millionairefan64 at the right, blue podium)

Welcome, players, nice to have you with us for this debut edition of the Defense format.  Let's get to know you two a little bit better, and Kimarough, I'll start with you--tell us a little bit about yourself, including what categories you want to see and which ones you'd rather stay away from.

Excellent, well, let's hope a lot of pop culture questions come up today for your sake. Good luck to you.

There's someone standing at the blue podium, though, that has something to say about that--here's millionairefan64, everyone, make him feel at home, please!

millionairefan64, let's get to know you a little bit better--including what you hope does and doesn't come up on the category tree today.

Very good, well, nice to have you with us.  This'll be a nice match, we've got math on one side, pop culture on the other.  They balance out on paper, I would think...but how will they turn out in today's match?  Let's find out, shall we?  Lots of luck to both of you, let's have a look at the categories and the available money in your Round One...


Well, I can probably say each of you will have at least one question in your respective wheelhouses, from the looks of things.  Question is, where will they end up?  Because on this show, everyday I'm shufflin'!

(audience laughs, some groan as the categories are shuffled)

Cover up those dollar figures while you're at it, won't you please?

(brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrip)


Now normally this is where I'd say the money has been shuffled as well, except Sir Mix-a-lot over there didn't do that. 

You see, this is why we call the game "Millionaire: Defense."  While you're both going to be playing this same stack at the same time, YOU will secretly assign the money to your OPPONENT'S questions.  How you decide which money amount goes where depends on whether you think your opponent will answer the question correctly based solely on the category.  So, the general idea is, if you think your opponent will get the question right, you'd probably want to assign a low dollar figure to that particular question.  Conversely, attach high dollar figures to the questions you think they'll get wrong.

Got it?  With all that being said, players, it's time to cover up the cash.  Assign your dollar figures...now!



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Players, please PM me your dollar figure assignments within the next 48 hours.  DO NOT POST THEM IN THIS THREAD--any assignments posted in this thread will be considered null and void, and will be randomized.

Remember--you are not assigning dollar figures for your own stack!
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all done

Certainly don't know a lot about Harry Potter but my instinct tells me Chamber of Secrets. So i'll go for A: Chamber of Secrets, Final Answer.

Can of corn kind of question, I gotta say, you're both right, we're off and running. (audience applauds)


Both of you are gonna earn some money, but let's just see how much...show us some money, please!



Good kick-start to the bank.  Both judged it'd be a fairly easy question, so they both went relatively low on the money.  millionairefan64 leads two grand to one, but it's only question one.

Incidentally, I neglected to mention before the game started the lifelines available to you--you have 50:50, Ask the Audience, and Double Your Money.  Results will be revealed to you and you alone, unless of course you both use the same lifeline for the same question.

Where strategy is key lies in using your Double Your Money.  I should clear up one thing now--you can't Double and then use a lifeline--by the same token, you can't 50:50 and then Double.  Or ask the audience and then Double.  Or Double and use both.  You get the idea.

Sir Mix-a-lot, meanwhile, is probably sick of hearing me talk and is already putting up the next question:

Not sure either, i'm actually going to go with D: Record Player, Final Answer.