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A Game of Noctis
A Game of Noctis by Deva Fagan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is the author? | Deva Fagan |
| How many games are officially recognized in the Book of Play? | 8,684 games |
| What is Pia's ranking at the beginning of the book? | 45 |
| What was the first game Gramps taught Pia? | Snatch - it |
| How do the rankings work and what happens when your rank drops to zero? | Ranks signify your standing as a player within the Great Game, from 1 to 100 - high was good and low was bad. When your standing fell to 0 you would be a pawn, either working as a maid for a great player family or being sent to the Pawn Isles |
| How old is Pia in the book? | 12(and a half) |
| Who does Gramps play queekers with? | Coy Angelo |
| What is Gramps' full name? | Luciano Paro |
| What is the history of noctis? | Dantessa had survived the great plague 3 centuries ago because the prince of Dantessa challenged Lady Death herself to a game. If the prince won, the city would be spared, but if the prince lost, her life would be forfeit. |
| How does Dantessa honor the original bargain with Lady Death and keep the city safe? | Now, every year a game of noctis is played in the Great Arena - according the the Book of Play, all contestants must be under 16, the age of the prince of Dantessa(now known as the Last Prince |
| Where does Gramps play against Coy Angelo? | On Angelo's gondola/boat - which was part of a plot to avoid the taxes of playing on land |
| How are queekers played and what are the stakes of the queekers game? | Queekers is played like checkers, but with one special piece(the queeker) that had special abilities, so to win, the player would have to capture the queeker - the stakes are 3 segna |
| Why does Gramps lose against Coy Angelo and what is his standing after that? | Gramps loses because he can't see clearly due to bad vision+improper glasses, and his ranking ends up going down to 1 |
| What are two ideas Pia has for raising Gramps' standing/rank? | She wants to play slaptrap with him and let him win or use segna to buy his ranking up at the tally-house |
| What are the Pawn Isles? | Three small islands in the waters beyond the lagoon(mostly farmland), which provides most of the produce |
| Where does Pia go to try to get more segna? | Dogo the Scamp - but he refuses her, a boy offering to play stumps and a group of kids who were actually playing touch-not |
| What do arbiters look like and what do they do? | Arbiters wear a black & white striped doublet - they are magical constructs that oversee the Great Game |
| Who saves Pia from the arbiter? | Vittoria Aslani |
| What is lesser Noctis and how is it played? | Like Noctis but on a board - similar to chess with different pieces with different abilities. Noctis has 4 endings: red, black , red & black or Death winning over all. |
| What happened the the land in the Damps area? | The land began to sink, so the wealthier families left their homes behind and moved further up in Dantessa |
| How does Vittoria light the candle before their match of lesser Noctis? | She uses a bronze fire wand she won playing quizzleback |
| In noctis, which color goes first? | Red, then black |
| What is Pia's history with Palazzo Brascia and the Brascia Family? | Gramps worked there managing Lord Brascia's accounts, and as Pia lived there, she began to see it as her home since she had grown up there and her best friend Renzo(Lord Brascia's son) lived there. |
| Why was Pia and Gramps forced to leave Palazzo Brascia two years ago? | Gramps had started to make mistakes with Lord Brascia's accounts - Pia realizes that Gramps was right - home was in her heart and her head, the only things that could not be lost to games |
| What is the outcome of the game of lesser noctis? | Pia is gonna lose when Vittoria sacrifices one of her pieces, and then later Pia decides to trap Vittoria instead of defeating Death(where both red & black win) because Pia thinks there's too much at stake. Pia wins and gets about 20 segna |
| What does Vittoria give Pia before she leaves? | Vittoria gives Pia a card and tells her to find her at the address: Snake Eyes. 17, Canal of the Cat when she's ready to stake it all, win big, and change her life |
| Who are Pia + Gramps' neighbors in their shared palazzo? | Signora Giulia Barone(former player in the Opera House) and her husband Giorgio Barone |
| What happens when Pia interferes with the arbiter and how much does it cost to recall a pawn? | The arbiter demotes her rank from 55 to 45 - the price to recall a pawn is 10,000 segna |
| How does the game Scrimsmoke work? | Players sculpt thick pale smoke into shapes/animals to unleash them against other players' creations |
| What happened during last year's finale? | Both teams' players had been taken out quickly, leaving the princes to battle each other. The Whalers(black) prince had been taken out, leaving the Eels(red) prince to survive against Death, which was very tense for everyone |
| What happens during the swordfish fight between Tori and Carlo? | Vittoria and Carlo fight when Carlo triggers a 'Boon of Nostril Potence' and sneezes, trapping Tori in snot until she manages to break out. Suddenly, Tori disappears by using a boon she trigger while Carlo was picking out a swordfish and wins. |
| What role in Vittoria's team does Pia take? | She becomes the team's archer(her favorite piece) |
| Who is the patron of Vittoria's team and what is the history of the Seafoxes team? | Ginerva Cifra - proprietor of Snake Eyes, patron of the Seafoxes and former prince of the 1st Seafox team - one of the only teams not from the Diamond District |
| What game does Pia and Ginevra play? | Chameleon cakes - if you finish the whole plate, you win, but the cakes change flavor as well as color. Pia eats a green pistachio cake, a yellow cake that turns into dark purple pale oyster and a creamy-white mashed potato cake |
| What was the year of Desolation? | The finale had been a maze of shadows + tunnels, with Death taking all the players except for Octavio Jax(red prince of the Abyssals), who had survived by chance. He took all his winnings and left the city - started to run a secret gaming hall on his ship |
| What is the story of Clever Zara? | Clever Zara wanted to touch the moon, so she began to build a tower, higher and higher until she was an old woman and died. Her daughter continued that, and her daughter, until Clever Zara's great-great-great-great-granddaughter was able to. |
| How did Vittoria meet Ginevra? | Vittoria came into Snake Eyes and challenged Ginevra to a game of queekers - she said that if she won, Ginevra had to sponsor her team. Ginevra won in 3 moves but saw promise in Tori, so she decided to sponsor her team. |
| What is Carlo's full name? | Carlo Issel - stag of the Seafoxes |
| What is Pasquale's family history? | He was Lord Brascia's daughter but left the family when he thought the way the Brascias played was wrong, and also because he was trans. |
| Who is Benedetta | Carlo's purple-blue hermit crab that he's teaching to play sandcastles |
| Who is Lady Fortuna? | Patron of good luck and prosperity |
| What game do the Seafoxes play to practice and where to they play? | They play sharks and minnows - Carlo(shark) tries to tag all the minnows while the minnows try to evade him/pull his fin. Pasquale distracts Carlo while Pia snatches his fin. They play on Ashen Isle (connected to Dantessa by a bridge-Way of Sunken Bones) |
| What happened during the Seafoxes' game of touch-not? | In touch-not, you race without ground the floor to win. Carlo, Serafina and Vittoria beat Pia because she didn't go through the Grand Canal, which would have broke the city ordinances |
| Who were Tori's parents? | Teachers(maestros) at the collegium - her dad taught dueling and her papa studied the history + philosophy of the Great Game |
| What is puppet-master and what happens during the Seafoxes game of puppet-master? | Puppets wear a blindfold + collect tokens based on puppet-master's instructions(but the instructions can't be directions). Vittoria(master) + Pia(puppet) go against Carlo(master)+ Pasquale(puppet) as they try to collect jelly pearls - an arbiter appears. |
| What is the history of the Council Hall? | It used to be home to the royal family, but there had been no prince since the Last Prince. Instead, Dantessa has a Council, composed of the nine highest-ranking players that oversaw the ruling + matter of law in Dantessa. |
| What are the stakes for the Trial of Keys? | Originally 50 segna, but the Council(Lord Brascia) changed to 100 segna the morning of the Trial off Keys |
| Why does Pia challenge Renzo to slaptrap and what happens? | The Seafoxes are short 50 segna for the entry stakes and Renzo offers to give her 50 segna, but Pia refuses and challenges him to slaptrap. She learns that he sent her letters but they were never delivered, most likely due to Lord Brascia interfering. |
| What is Lord Brascia's rank? | 100 - the first Councilor of Dantessa |
| What happens at the beginning of the Trial of Keys? | Pia hesitates when it starts - the rest of the Seafoxes had already started running toward the Archives. One of the other teams sets off a boon taking out three teams: Gulls, Divers and Pearls |
| What is the riddle in the Trial of Keys? | The first may be found at the meeting of three, The second will be claimed by no victory, The third stands at the place of no breath, The fourth awaits between fortune and death. |
| What is the answer to the first line of the riddle and who solves it? | Triton Square at the statue of the Abyssal Lord - Serafina solves it |
| Who claims the 1st key and how? | The Sirens claim the key by following the Seafoxes using flying boons |
| Which teams win keys 2 and 3? | The Krakens and Dolphins |
| What is the answer to the 4th line and who solves it? | A statue of Lady Fortuna on top of a tomb on the Ashen Isle - Pia solves it |
| How do the Seafoxes win key 4? | The Anglers began chasing the Seafoxes using flying boons but Carlo and Pasquale fought them off using Vittoria's boons. The remaining two Anglers use flying boons but Serafina takes them down as Vittoria helps boost Pia to get the key |
| What happened to the Typhoon team in last year's game? | Their purple uniforms fit so tightly that they couldn't lift their arms above their heads |
| How did Fabrizio become a pawn? | He broke his arm 3 years ago and now works as a tailor under Signora Sforza. |
| What does Fabrizio miss about being a player | Arbiters always believe players over pawns and Fabrizio can't control his own accounts |
| What is the other tailor(Pasquale's tailor) doing while sewing? | She was playing a mercantile game where she was trying to best her own speed at taking measurements |
| Who is the strongest player on the Sirens team according to Vittoria? | Their peacock |
| Who is the prince of the Sirens? | A redhead girl named Elena |
| What happened to Carlo's dad? | He wasn't a great player or father, and ended up losing everything because of his temper and was sent to the Pawn Isles. |
| What is Carlo going to do with the segna if they win? | He's going to use it to send his sister(who's almost 12) to the collegium |
| How does the archer mask look like? | There's a single tear below each eye socket |
| What is the first round? | Seafoxes versus Dolphins |
| What color is the Dolphins' uniforms? | Purple and gold |
| What are the stakes for the Seafoxes vs Dolphins and who offers the challenge | The Dolphins offer the challenge stakes of 200 segna |
| What is the riddle in Seafoxes vs Dolphins? | Seek the center, beware the flame, only then shall you win the game. To find your way, look for the clue, even, then the way will not open for you. |
| What is the arena for Seafoxes vs Dolphins? | A flaming maze with numbers |
| What is the answer to the riddle? | Pia must get to the center of the maze while avoiding the flames. Even numbers lead you wrong so follow the odd numbers |
| What does the Dolphin prince offer Pia? | She tries to bribe Pia to tell her how to get to the center with 1,000 segna |
| How does the red prince escape? | She uses a water boon to clear a temporary pathway through the fire maze |
| How does Vittoria change the maze to help the Seafoxes win? | She uses her sword to slash a 2 into a 3 and the 5 into a 8 |
| What is a spontie? | A boon that manifests spontaneously by the Great Game |
| How many people die every year from ingrown toenails? | 3 people |
| What is the arena in Krakens vs Sirens and who wins(and how)? | The arena is a giant cavern full of electrified webs and metal spiders that spit acid. The Krakens win because they had way more boons of shield and release. |
| What is the name of One-Eyed Jax's ship and where is it? | The Folly is just past Ashen Isle |
| Who raised Serafina? | One-Eyed Jax; he found her after a wreckage |
| How does Jax decide if the Seafoxes can stay or not? | He rolls his dice: Even, they stay and odd, they leave |
| Why does Jax wear the arena key he won during the year of Desolation? | To remind him that Lady Death always wins |
| How can the Seafoxes play Jax? | Only if they challenge him to a game he's never played before |
| What game does Serafina teach Pia to play on the Folly? | She teaches her to play deepfish - where you can keep everything you catch |
| What is the name of Serafina's skeleton? | Mario |
| What does Sera catch when playing deepfish? | A old boot with a skeletal foot |
| What does Pia catch when playing deepfish? | She lets her line go down a little too deep, too close to the deathly tides and Lady Death's domain, so she catches her sickle |
| What does Pia trade Lady Death's sickle for? | She trades it for a boon of Tactus Mortalis - instant and permanent removal from play with no defense |
| What are some of the boons the Seafoxes get from playing on the Folly? | Boon(s) of zebra stripes, all-food-tastes-disgusting, stink, decoy, force and invulnerability(as long as you balance on one foot) |
| In Seafoxes vs Krakens, what does the arena look like? | Open water with aquatic animals: dolphins, bullfish, seahorse, etc |
| How do the Seafoxes get off the little sand island and into the water? | They use harnesses they find on the island and attach them to sea animals |
| Which animals do each members ride? | Vittoria - seahorse, Serafina - jellyfish, Pia - dolphin, Carlo - ray, Pasquale - bullfish |
| How did Gramps almost lose a game of audits? | He had forgotten he had a itemized deduction boon, but still won in the end |
| How does Carlo take out the Kraken's archer? | He uses the boon of zebra stripes and it tricks the archer's zebra fish into thinking Carlo is another zebra fish, making it impossible for him to shoot an arrow |
| What boon does Pia use when she shoots at Renzo, and what happens after? | Pia first shoots at the stag, which clears the way for her to use her perfect-aim boon to shoot an arrow at Renzo, only to have it sent back by a rebound boon. Luckily Pasquale deflects it using his staf |
| Who pulls Pia out of the water? | Renzo, on his turtle |
| What does Pia thrown in the bullfish's mouth? | The food-tastes-disgusting boon |
| Why did the bullfish go after Pia? | The Kraken's hare used her octopus to sneak a green-yellow chartreuse scarf on Pia's back that angered the bullfish before Pia shot her |
| What does Pasquale(and Pia) accuse Renzo's team of doing? | They accuse them of cheating, saying that they knew beforehand to bring a chartreuse scarf and bubble-head boon. Renzo retaliates by saying their hare(Lucia) found the scarf and the boon was a spontie |
| What happens when Pasquale tells the arbiter? | The arbiter detects no violations since it's one player's word against the others. However, the arbiter makes Renzo and Pasquale show their standings(92 and 80) - then lowers Pasquale's rank down to 30 for the accusation |
| Where did Ginevra's parents work? | At the docks of Dantessa |
| What does Pia drink with Pasquale? | Hot cider |
| Where does Pia find Pasquale? | On the roof - Ginevra told her he likes to feed the pigeons there sometimes |
| What does Lord Brascia always say to his children? | 'You never play alone. When you win, House Brascia wins. When you lose, House Brascia loses.' |
| How to play nightshade? | To win, you trick your opponent into sipping from one of a dozen cups - the one that contained a deadly poison. It's a mortal game, where the stakes are not segna but your own life. |
| Why did Pasquale leave his family? | His father tried to make Pasquale challenge Lady Nazari's daughter for the family's honor, but really because he wanted to gain standing and make it on the council. When Pasquale refused, he made Pasquale's cousin Angelina play, and she lost. |
| What does a spectacle do? | They can show an sustain images when activated but will wear down after a couple of years |
| What did Vittoria do with her papa's notebook? | She was going to throw it into the lagoon since she had heard her dad and papa arguing about how the work was dangerous, and Tori didn't want her papa to get in trouble. |
| What happened to Vittoria's parents? | The arbiter found Vittoria with her papa's notebook so they confiscated it. The Council said it was treason + stripped him of his standing - Vittoria's dad tried to challenge the ruling; he was also stripped of his rank(both were sent to the Pawn Isles. |
| What does Pia and Vittoria discover about Lord Brascia and Lucia? | They find out Lord Brascia is plotting/making Lucia cheat in order to win - she plans to make sure the Krakens have the right boons to defeat the Dolphins and that the Sirens get 'notes' of how the arena looks like so they can beat the Seafoxes easily |
| What do Pia and Vittoria realize about the footprints? | The footprints are wet, and they seem to come from a wall |
| What do Pia and Vittoria find behind the stone wall? | A tunnel with coded glyphs |
| When did Pia start loving codes? | When Renzo taught her them and she even once left him a message that took him a week to decode - it told him where she hid the last piece of his favorite fish pie(sock drawer???) |
| What does Vittoria propose instead of cracking the code? | Follow the footprints |
| Where do Vittoria and Pia end up after following the tunnel? | Under the lagoon, on the ocean floor with glass surrounding them |
| Who is the Master of Games and what does she do? | Moggie - the Last Prince of Dantessa. She designs the arenas and can edit the Book of Play |
| How is Moggie still alive after 3 centuries? | The terms of her challenge with Lady Death wasn't quite clear - in the match Moggie ended up taking the crimson prince, but Death herself wasn't actually defeated so the game goes on until Death truly wins or loses |
| What is Moggie's ranking? | 100 |
| What do Vittoria and Pia realize about Moggie and how she thinks the Great Game is 'fair'? | They realize she believes the Great Game is completely fair - but it's simply human with many flaws. However, they can't convince Moggie otherwise |
| What does Pia see in Moggie's place that Moggie painted herself? | A painting of Moggie's family before the plague |
| What old saying does Moggie tell Pia? | The sea never plays fair |
| What do the Seafoxes do with the plans for the arena? | They all vote to use them |
| What does the arena look like in Sirens vs Krakens? | Candy land |
| What was the Seafoxes' plan for the game against the Krakens? | Whoever found Elena would set of fireworks and Pia would come activate the skull boon to take her out |
| Where does the skull boon send Elena? | Into the land of the dead, Lady Death's realm |
| Where does the door lead to when Pia goes thought it? | A garden |
| What is Lady Death singing? | Hey ho, hey ho, hoist the sail and go! Let the wind blow and soon enow I'll see my lass once more!Wh |
| What did Lady Death want to do with Elena? | Death wanted to use her as compost for her flowers/plants |
| What is the solution Death tells Pia if she wants the great Game to change? | They must defeat Death together and completely while also getting a new Master of Games |
| After Elena and Pia escape Death's realm, how do the Seafoxes win? | A decoy Carlo and Vittoria fight the Sirens when the real Carlo sneaks up and takes out Elena |
| How does the Council celebrate the two final teams? | They host a gala the eve of the finale |
| What do Carlo's fans show him and the Seafoxes? | A painted banner with Carlo's face and a rainbow coming out of his head which Carlo calls and aura of triumph |
| When they were young, why is Renzo so sure he and Pia will make it to the finale? | He tells her all Brascias that have competed make it to the final, and even though Pia isn't a Brascia, she's his best friend and he won't go to the finale without her |
| What is Pia's favorite food that Renzo brings her the night of the gala? | Pistachio cornetto |
| What does Lord Brascia let slip about the stakes for the finale? | If Lady Death wins, then she will take the lives of a third of the Dantessans which will be the pawns |
| What does Lord Brascia offer the Seafoxes? | 10,000 segna for each of them and their family members returned from the Pawn Isles in return for dropping out of the finale and letting the Sirens face the krakens |
| What does Lord Brascia do when the Seafoxes refuse his offer? | He accuse them of false play and the arbiters believe him since he ranks 99 and Vittoria ranks 95, which means the Seafoxes are disqualified and their access to the arena is banned |
| How do the Seafoxes escape the arbiters? | A scrimsmoke kraken turns the gala into chaos |
| After the Seafoxes lose their key to the arbiter, who do they go to for another key? | Jax |
| How do the Seafoxes reclaim their spot in the finale? | They use marshmallow boons to stick the Sirens |
| How does the finale arena look like? | Like a noctis board - Moggie set the arena back to 'default play state' |
| When Lord Brascia tries to get into the arena, what happens? | He is stopped by an invisible wall - but this doesn't stop arbiters who advance with each move |
| Who is taken out by the arbiters? | Lucia, Carlo and the Kraken's peacock |
| Why can't Lady Death strike Pasquale? | He has a boon of invulnerability as long as he stands on one leg |
| Who strikes Lady Death first and how? | Serafina strikes her from the back with her dagger |
| When Pia is about to sacrifice herself, what does Vittoria do? | She jumps onto the tile Pia is on since Death must strike the one in front of her, but now there were two in front of her |
| Who strikes Death 2nd? | Renzo |
| How is the last blow dealt? | Pia shoots Death but her sickle deflects it - however, Vittoria's sword strikes her the 3rd time, and the Seafoxes + Krakens win against Lady Death |
| When Death takes Moggie, who tries to claim the title of next Master of Games? | Lord Brascia tries to since his standing is 99 but Vittoria's standing is 100 from defeating Death, so she becomes Master of Games |
| What changes does Vittoria and the Seafoxes make to the Book of Play? | They take away standings + pawns and let trade with goods start which is driven by the mayor of the Isles. The Pawn Isles are renamed the Plentiful Isles can former pawns now control the produce they make |
| Where does Pia live now? | In a apartment with Gramps, in the same building as Vittoria and her parents, near the collegium |
| Where do the wealthy Diamond District families go? | They move to the mainland and are supposedly establishing New Dantessa where they can 'preserve the old traditions' |
| What was the outcome of the duel for the Diamond District council seat? | Lady Nazari completely obliterates Lord Brascia hahahha |
| What is the game Pia and Vittoria play and what are the stakes? | They play lesser noctis simply for fun!!! |
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