Dayshift 31: Game Room (Fourth Shift)

[uruz_vii]

"Games are a perfect way to meet new friends, Akihiro!" Sousuke's nurse gushed after dragging him away from Hinasaki and into the Game Room. He didn't quite understand her fascination with making him do these ridiculous activities that seemingly had no point, but for now he'd follow her lead. He didn't want to be sedated again, not when he had a

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[for_marian]

[free]

Leon had no desire to play games--he wasn't sure he even knew how to play any games, as they certainly had not been part of his upbringing--but he'd hoped the game room would be at least a little less crowded than the Sun Room. He'd been right, but it was indeed only a very little bit less crowded.

Well, he'd take what he could get.

[robin_fox]

Robin had done a quick round of the game room and picked up some loose money from Monopoly and a couple of strange discs, unaware that none of it was real currency.

Once he'd walked the room completely, he sat down with a game called 'Scrabble'. It has little squares with letters and numbers and a board with lines and a few colourful marks. It didn't make much sense to him so he began to read the the instructions in the lid. Whoever had written it had even less of a grasp on the Englishe Language than Robin. They'd missed out a whole load of silent Es!

He leaned towards another fellow and smiled.
"Are you familiar with this game?"

[for_marian]

Leon managed to hold back a sigh, but only just barely. So much for some quiet time alone.

"No, I've never played any games." He didn't even have to look at the game, though, to know that he was not familiar with it--he wasn't familiar with any games, though he'd seen other soldiers sometimes playing things that involved dice or cards. This didn't seem to involve either, when he actually bothered to look at it.

[robin_fox]

"Oh, but everybody plays games! Perhaps not games as peculiar as this. But as a child life's just one big game, is it not?"
Even the King played games. It was just another part of life, and one that you rely mustn't deny.

[for_marian]

"Not me. I had lessons, and swordplay drills. That's all." Normally Leon would not have admitted even that much about his past. But having told Kratos everything--almost everything--about his childhood earlier today, the words came marginally easier.