User blog:Mudbrain/A blog regarding blogs

A blog sounds like a sub aquatic creature that lives off excrement. I can imagine it now, communicating through a series of high pitched screams akin to that of a human baby being strangled to death by a naked mole rat. Which I imagine would not be a pleasent sound.

In any case this blog post here is the keystone of the future posts I shall write for in-character ideas. Things like new games to go along with the poker idea, one of the sources of inspiration from this is Fable II's very own Keystone pub game. See that sneaky forshadowing earlier? Anywho since I've a deadline to meet (dinner) I'll just copy and paste the idea from the Fable II wikia page. That's a thought, lots of my stuff is inspired by the Fable series. Strange.

Keystone is a pub game in Fable II and Fable II Pub Games that is described as a mixture between Rouletteand Crappes. In this game, the player bets on the tiles of a board shaped as an arch. These bets, called "arch bets", are placed at the start of the game on any number from 3 to 18 and are kept until they are won or the game ends. Then the player makes "inside bets", which are effective only on the present turn and can be repeated in future turns. Inside bets can be placed on any number from 3 to 18, a range of numbers (4 to 9, 10 and 11, or 12 to 17) or a group of numbers (red, black, even or odd). The player may also bet on other different combinations. The player then rolls three six-sided dice, the addition of which is a number on the board.

Each time the dice are rolled, the resulting number is removed from the arch. If this number is rolled again, then an adjacent tile is removed. A lower number is removed if the result is 10 or less and a higher number is removed if the result is 11 or higher. The game ends when all the tiles have been removed, if both keystones (10 and 11) are removed or if one base stone (3 or 18) is removed. If a 3 or 18 is rolled in the first turn, it is a Jackpot; all Arch bets are paid and the game is over. Payouts depend on the probability of the rolling the number or combination specified.

Keystone may be played in the Cow & Corset Inn in Bowerstone Market and in other locations. In Bloodstone, a variation of Keystone is played. It is called Bloodstone and the player bets against the die rolls. In Bloodstone, all bets win the player 10 gold, due to the greater probability of winning. However, if the player loses a bet, the amount lost is greater. The payouts can be checked using the odds button (left trigger) while playing.