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Day 43: Game Room, Third Shift

Aug 17, 2009 10:41

Peh. "Graduates." Who were they trying to fool? It's not like anyone here believed them, and no one ever visited the institute. What was the point in keeping up this sad little charade? To add to the realism of it? Well, whatever. If they wanted to continue this exercise in futility, that was fine with Porky. All it meant was that they spent more ( Read more... )

evangeline, grell, jun, s.t., klavier, kristoph, tsubaki, porky, eva, tyki, souji seta, the flash

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toxicspiderman August 19 2009, 01:59:05 UTC

The nurses would only allow a patient to stand in front of the bulletin board, scribbling notes and then casually circling the room to allow replies to trickle in, for so long. S.T. rolled his eyes at one last juvenile taunt, and considered the situation.

You are in a solarium. There is a bulletin board. A cafeteria is visible to the north. North? Was that north? It was 'up', which was good enough. Other exits lead SW, NE, E, SE, and S. The south door is guarded by a scorpion princess and a three-headed dog. More commonly known as a nurse and orderly, though vague glimpses last night made the comparison more apt than he wanted to dwell on. Hell with disco. He went EAST.

The game room was less Cave of Wonders and more dentist's waiting room by day, but there were a bunch of people looking at least no more dyspeptic than usual. He walked over to one of the guys playing solitaire (any ones playing solitaire chess were either budding meglomaniacs or complete geeks).

"There's machines in here that will do the hard part for you, you know. Sixteen games of Klondike in sixteen-color glory. Hell if I know what the other fourteen are for, though." He was grinning as he said it.

tyki_pon August 19 2009, 18:36:45 UTC

He could've find someone to poke for a card game later, or that person could just come to him. That worked just as well. Saved him the trouble to look for a suitable victim opponent, at least. Tyki paused his game to look at the guy that had approached him from behind his glasses.

He definitely didn't understand what Mr. Vague had meant here. Much less the apparent joke that went with the comment, judging by the grin. "Huh? Machines?" the Noah repeated, brushing a hand through his messy black hair. "What'cha talkin' about?"

He couldn't really help it people were apparently nearly a century or so in his future.

toxicspiderman August 19 2009, 23:21:28 UTC

There were reference points shared among many of the "patients" at Landel's -- video games had been a common one on the board, but not universal.

"There's machines that will -- " How was he supposed to explain decades of computing research and innovation, harnessed so that bored corporate drones could play solitaire instead of taking smoke breaks? "Nevermind. What's your game?" S.T. pulled up a chair and flipped it around so he sat straddling the back. One hand drummed on the tabletop.

tyki_pon August 20 2009, 22:38:39 UTC

Tyki listened to what was supposed to be the beginning of an explanation until- it was caught off. Probably too difficult to explain, then. Or a pain. Well, whatever. It wasn't like his life depended on whether he knew or not.

"My game?" the Noah said, blinking. Weird question, because the other guy had just implied he knew something about card games. Ah well, maybe this guy was from a different world or something that had other games. He shrugged. "Just a simple game o' solitaire, nothin' special."

toxicspiderman August 21 2009, 03:09:12 UTC

"Naah, not what I meant. Did you want to play something a little less mindless? Or was that your polite way of telling me to fuck off?" S.T. didn't make a move to leave; even if it was, he was bored and the nurses would probably just herd him right back in here if he tried to wander off. "Poker? Gin?" How about a nice game of chess? Except the chessmasters in here all looked a) prepubescent and b) serious about the game. "War? Competitive shuffling?"

"Or we could just get on with the enforced meet-and-greet. I'm Sangamon Taylor." He extended a hand over the spread of cards.

tyki_pon August 21 2009, 10:13:26 UTC

Tyki grinned at the suggestion of playing a different card game. "If yer gonna fuck off, playin' an interesting could get a lil' difficult," he said, wondering if the other man knew he was challenging a card shark. "How 'bout poker? It's just too bad we can't really make the gamble even more fun with the nurses 'round." They'd probably throw a fit if the other guy ended up in his underwear. Too bad...

He returned the gesture of extending his hand. "Tyki Mikk. Nice t'meetcha."

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