A card game played in Kulbak Prison. The game is played using gears for currency that were stolen from the smithy that were originally intended as spare parts for the prison's Construct guards.

Invented by Glavrun, the Dragul's greatest wartime strategist, the game is born of madness. She developed the rules for the game while confined to solitary for ninety days.

The game is played over a nine rounds. Each round has three phases.

• Scheme Phase: Play a card into the block. This is the players bid.
• Vault Phase: Resolve bids for each card in the block. The winning bidder adds the card to their vault.
• Warden Phase: The first player may swap the warden card with a card in the block.

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