Bribe
Bribe - Pay cookies to your opponent or complete the listed action before a card with Bribe may be chosen as part of playing a card/ability.
Characters with a bribe require their opponents to pay the stated number of cookies to the character's owner, or complete the action listed on the card, before the character can be targeted by a card or effect. Some character cards have the bribe as part of their effect (with the format "Bribe: [Cost]"), while other cards, such as Scenes and Fields can add bribes to characters.
The listed bribe effect is written from the perspective of the player wishing to target the card. You do not have to play the cost of a bribe to target your own cards. Choosing a character as part of a fight does not require a bribe. If multiple cards apply bribes, these bribes stacks.
Bribes do not trigger if the card in question is not explicitly chosen by a card/ability or if it is chosen at random. If you make an opponent's effect retarget a card with a Bribe, the opponent does not pay the Bribe, as you were the one that chose the new target. However, if a card's effect makes an opponent choose a card, Bribes apply as normal.