Talk:Paradox-Billiards-Vostroyan-Roulette-Fourth-Dimensional-Hypercube-Chess-Strip Poker/@comment-69.85.248.178-20190830133337

I think whatever's making the Ultramarines so OP, Kitten's refusal to cut off Gulliman's life support, and his winning streak with card games are connected.

Hear me out:


 * Something* is granting the Smurfs improbable victories and retconning their failures into successes or not having actually happened. Emps, suspecting something, orders Kitten to put down Papa Smurf, something the Emperor's most loyal and competent hand-made personal bodyguard would be all too willing, let alone able, to pull off. The Retcon Effect kicks in, though, and against all odds, Kitten refuses this order that would have ended the Ultramarines' impossible winning streak. When Emps pushes the issue, Kitten continues to refuse the order despite being unable to give a reason why, so as a final effort he challenges him to a rigged card game, arming Kitten with a joke deck and hastily-installed knowledge on how to play, vs. his milennia of experience, OP deck, and completely unfair cards. Once the failure condition is set to "send Kitten and co. to Ultramar so he has no choice but to carry out his order", though, the retcon kicks in, and Kitten finds he is conveniently and inexplicably able to draw whatever cards he needs to defeat his opponent's current play. Thus, he is able to defeat the Emperor himself and evade going to Ultramar.

This effect appears to have been permanent as it allowed him to defeat Tzeench himself, again, when the stakes were being sent to Ultramar while his orders to kill Gulliman still stood, even when the latter was actively cheating and using a deck of banned cards.