Betrayed In A Game of Risk

[Infected Mushroom]

Please consider the following hypothetical:

You and your friends like to play board games. One day, you decide to bring your Special Someone to the party. You decide to play some Risk. The game is free-for-all and there can only be one winner.

In the middle of the game, your Special Someone makes an alliance with you that will last 3 turns, a non-aggression pact.

However, after 2 turns, your Special Someone suddenly breaks the alliance and proceeds to attack you with everything they have. You are thrown off your balance and within a single turn completely eliminated from the game. Your Special Someone than proceeds to take out the other players one by one before being themselves eliminated.

Now Relationships are supposed to be based on Trust.

How does this impact the status of your Relationship?

Your Options:

1. Since I can no longer Trust the Special Someone, the Relationship is Off. I will explain this to them.
2. It is only a board game, the Relationship continues, however, my suspicion of them will greatly increase and the Trust level will go down an amount.
3. It is only a board game, the Relationship continues, there is no damage done to the level of Trust.
4. The act of betrayal has created an imbalance... to be reinstated in a future game where you will break an alliance on them for similar levels of gain.
5. Other

Please explain your justification.

After a very great deal of thought, I will go with Option 2. I do not take kindly to betrayals, at the same time, since it is "only a game" I would in the hypothetical, let it stand. However, I can't say that Trust levels wouldn't go down to a degree.

[Kowani]

that's how risk works
if i didn't expect a betrayal, i shouldn't have been playing the game

[The Giant Space Wyrm]

When it comes to board games, there is no relationship. If my special other lands on my Boardwalk with a full stack of Hotels God have mercy on my other cause I surely have run out of it.

[Gankands]

My opinion would be between 3 and 4. It's only a board game. Given the board game is Risk, I would likely have anticipated the betrayal. The next time we play board games and that person is invited, the previous betrayal in Risk merely gives a justified reason for betraying them in this game. I would likely take an eye for an eye if the game was starting to get uninteresting or whatever. They're only actions in a board game. Nobody means it. Everybody just wishes to play the game for whatever reason. Most often times, that is fun.

[Suriyanakhon]

After a very great deal of thought, I will go with Option 2. I do not take kindly to betrayals, at the same time, since it is "only a game" I would in the hypothetical, let it stand. However, I can't say that Trust levels wouldn't go down to a degree.

... it's a board game.

[Odreria]

If you don't go for the solo win you're not a man

[Kowani]

After a very great deal of thought, I will go with Option 2. I do not take kindly to betrayals, at the same time, since it is "only a game" I would in the hypothetical, let it stand. However, I can't say that Trust levels wouldn't go down to a degree.

... it's a board game.

i see you're unfamiliar with IM

[Punished UMN]

who hurt you

[Adamede]

It’s a fucking game. There literally for fun. There’s no stakes other than who wins the game.

[The Giant Space Wyrm]

It is very obvious that our fellow NS member has suffered a devastating betrayal from their other, let us begin the healing process with a group hug.

[The Chuck]

Pull out my loaded .45 and ask my "friend" to reconsider that option next time we play Risk.

[The Blaatschapen]

Three.

I would actually love her more for it. She knew the stakes, and she managed to kick my friends ass too, I like that.

That and I do not have to hold back in future games.

[Chan Island]

How dare they betray me in risk before I had the chance to betray them! I thought I was the only one allowed to betray people in a board game! D:

[The Holy Therns]

IM, what do you think Risk is about?

[Shanghai industrial complex]

Ok
Let's start a duel！

[Infected Mushroom]

Ok
Let's start a duel！

Yugioh?

[Twicetagram and JYPe]

Let's just say that OP got 3 '+4' cards against his/her name while playing Uno 3 hours ago.

Obviously three.

[Shanghai industrial complex]

Ok
Let's start a duel！

Yugioh?

Yes Of course. Yu-GI-OH

[The Huskar Social Union]

If you end your relationship with someone because they betrayed you in a board game you are a special kind of fuck knuckle.

[The Huskar Social Union]

who hurt you

This is the best reply though honestly.

[The Alma Mater]

I would be disappointed that she did not win

[Thermodolia]

It’s a fucking board game. Non aggression pacts aren’t even in the rules so I definitely wouldn’t be super trusty. Also how the fuck would it be possible to be wiped out in a single turn

[Infected Mushroom]

It’s a fucking board game. Non aggression pacts aren’t even in the rules so I definitely wouldn’t be super trusty. Also how the fuck would it be possible to be wiped out in a single turn

with the conquest soldier cards, if it's late game you can get 40+ soldiers a turn

you can get soldiers from other ways apart from continental bonuses

[Vivolkha]

I mean, if it's very early in the relationship, it depends on how the SO handles the situation and her attitude. If what happens in the game stays in the game, so does the betrayal and no harm is done.

[Thermodolia]

It’s a fucking board game. Non aggression pacts aren’t even in the rules so I definitely wouldn’t be super trusty. Also how the fuck would it be possible to be wiped out in a single turn

with the conquest soldier cards, if it's late game you can get 40+ soldiers a turn

you can get soldiers from other ways apart from continental bonuses

If it’s late game you deserve it. Games like risk aren’t for trusting people