“帝垣琼玉”这种游戏据说从古帝国时期便已存在,只是在仙舟联盟长久的星间漂流中失传了。多亏了太卜司某位不愿意透露姓名的卜者将其规则整理、带回了现代仙舟,人们才能有幸接触这法星辰天象而成的烧脑牌戏。
当然,仅有规则是远远不够的。于是,卜者又以书库中的图纸为饵,勾引自己在工造司的匠作密友为她打造了一副琼玉棋牌和棋枰,集自动洗牌上牌多种功能于一体,并经由后者名下的“四至棋牌馆”迅速推广开来。
如今,“帝垣琼玉”已经成为风靡罗浮的热门游戏之一。卜者不时会在书信中与那位匠作拿此事打趣:她称这玉牌本是为自己偷闲所用,不想竟还一举俘获千万罗浮人的心,真是始料未及。
“毕竟…能借着这休闲益智的牌戏光明正大地划水摸鱼,何乐而不为?”
Character Story: Part III
• Unlocked at Character Level 60
The game of Celestial Jade is supposed to have been around since the days of the Primeval Imperium, but was lost during the Xianzhou Alliance's period of long interstellar drift. Thanks to an anonymous diviner at the Divination Commission, the rules have been collated and brought back to modern-day Xianzhou, where the people are fortunate enough to have access to this mind-boggling tile game based on astrophysics and celestial phenomena.
Of course, rules alone are not enough. That's why the diviner used blueprints from her repository as bait to lure in close colleagues from the Artisanship Commission into crafting Celestial Jade tiles plus a board to play on. The auto-shuffling function is integrated into these boards, and quickly began to catch on in the Quatraboard Games Parlor (which is owned by the Artisanship colleague).
Nowadays, Celestial Jade is one of the most popular games aboard the Xianzhou Luofu. The diviner would joke about this in letters sometimes with her artisan friend. She'd originally wanted to use this game for nothing more than her own leisure, not to capture the hearts of millions of Xianzhou people. Now that's a completely unintended outcome.
"Well, it's not a bad thing..."
"After all... If I can use this leisurely brain game to slack off out in the open, then why not go for it?"