A complicated game 47

A child who wasn't too far from Asahel had smiles on his face as he guided his avatar from obstacles along the path and also attacked others as well, if he failed he would have to start from beginning and gain all the points he had lost

Each point from 10 to 100 has a prize of that same number attached to it but you could gain extra points to surpass 100 by going further into the game and becoming obstacles for the other participants and this can only happen when you've at least reached 80-100 points 

You can't become an obstacle below 70 points but once you're 80-100 you can choose to get your prize and start all over again to win another prize or you can become an obstacle and eliminate a participant then you get just 10 points added to your own.

The bigger prizes has points mark from 150 to 300 and the only way to get them is to reach a 80-100 be an obstacle to someone and get 10 points up to five or more, and win a bigger prize

But there were disadvantages for the ones becoming obstacles.....the game itself still had obstacles to defeat the players or make them lose some points and it still applies to those who wants to be an obstacle

So while they target the lower point participants the game obstacle targets both sides,

 if they are not able to avoid falling into such traps then they would loose 5 points by each obstacle that trapped them while the participants who are below 70 points will lose 10 points

And if any sides lose all their points they would have to start again 

Asahel hadn't won a single prize before because prizes that had 10 to 50 points were all won, although this was due to her greediness from the beginning. in fact she could have won a lot of lower points prizes but she thought to save it so as to accumulate more points and then obtain the bird

And she couldn't get more than 50 points before, whenever she was close, someone would attack her and the game too would attack her making her lose alot of points till she had to start all over again

and of course she had to pay another copper coin 

As if that wasn't enough once all the 50 points and below prizes were won the game payment changed. 

Before you had to pay again once you're down to no points but now if you're in 30 points you get to pay another copper coin even though you're still in the game 

This was why Asahel was paying continuously even though she hadn't won a single thing and even though she didn't start all over again every time 

And this was also why some parents felt it wasn't worth it but some were happy to help their kids 

The child who was close to Asahel had over 200 points, of course he had failed quiet alot but not as Asahel still he was able to figure out how the game works unlike a certain older child who was still oblivious and played for fun

The game was very big and over a hundred people could play at once that's if they had a good person to watch the game to avoid cheating.

As of now the children playing weren't up to fifty so it was much easier to watch the game also the game master reduce the number of participate since this was a festival they were too much crowd but luckily the children playing weren't that much infact some just wanted to watch and that was what made the number increase because some tried once or twice and stopped playing then they watched while others continued, and some couldn't afford paying over and over even though it didn't cost much.

The child beside Asahel was also aiming for the bird and that bird had 300 point mark on it, so after failing for some time he stopped to observe the game and then continued

The golden rubber fish Asahel got had 60 point mark, once you use your point to get a prize you'll have start all over again unless you still had some points left 

Asahel had been selfish some time back and was aiming for the mechanical carved bird which was why she didn't get any prize with her previous points cause they kept decreasing once she was caught in a trap

 but when Dana gave her some advice and told her to get a prize first she did just that and got the fish 

Now that she got the fish she felt she could get the bird as well so she focused to avoid getting caught and surprisingly it was working or so she thought

Dana who finally had an idea of how the game worked didn't want to wait for the brat to take forever to win the bird so she used other methods