Chess?

[heroic_commoner]

Hey, Kyon, you were saying something about board games, right?

Well, Celice taught me how to play Chess. Wanna give it a try?

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[a_normal_human]

Sure, why not. The name definitely rings a bell.

*whispers behind his hand* If I win 3 games, will you give me the answers to the science test next week? I think that's the only hope I have of passing it.

[heroic_commoner]

Nope!

[a_normal_human]

*sigh* Well, it was worth a shot.

[heroic_commoner]

It's not like I have access to the answers before the test, anyway. People always assume that for some reason.

Anyways, do you know how to play? I should be able to explain it as I go if you don't.

[a_normal_human]

Explanation would be appreciated. Even if I was a chess genius before I came here, there's no hope without memory of the basics of how it works.

[heroic_commoner]

All right.

So, you set the pieces up like this...

[[Hey let's timeskip ahead to later in the game for more conversationy goodness without having to plod through Chess 101]]

[[P.S. Please don't put Personality Change Kyon in tier 3! He HAS to interact with Bizarro Haruhi while normal. He just has to.]]

[a_normal_human]

((Roger that; he'll end up in tier 2. :D That, or I might not put him in at all. Somehow I could see him getting a little depressed that nothing exciting happened to him, but won't admit it outloud. And then S!Haruhi can make fun of him for being so boring. >:D))

...Well, I think I get it all now. Time for a real game, then?

[heroic_commoner]

Yeah, sounds good. There's a few more kind of obscure rules, but we can just ignore them for now.

You can be white if you want.

[a_normal_human]

Got it.

*begins game*

Aah, this is more like it. Indeed a much better way to spend my days here than running around doing errands for girl-Haruhi or getting my life threatened by the violent-apartment-mate-of-the-week or trying to convince my teacher not to kill himself.

[heroic_commoner]

*chess chess chess*

So. How are you adjusting to Memento Eden so far?

[a_normal_human]

*chess chess chess*

Adjusting as well as I can given the circumstances, I guess. Work was simple enough to learn how to do. It's surprisingly beautiful over there at the hot springs; sometimes it's easy to just forget about all the crazy things that I've encountered here over the weeks.

Has it really been that long... Time passes fast here. I feel like just yesterday, I was running into demon lolis shaking their butts and babies threatening me with bazookas.

[heroic_commoner]

Yeah, it's a weird place like that... sometimes it's really relaxing, other times it's just incredibly weird. Definitely has its ups and downs.

*knight takes bishop*

[a_normal_human]

Definitely.

*concentrative eyebrow arch*

...Did you ever meet up with that glasses guy who wears the same uniform as you? I can't remember his name at the moment, but I ran into him a while back.

[heroic_commoner]

Oh, you mean Kyouya? Yeah. He seems like a nice enough guy, if a little uptight. I bet he was one of the rich kids at my school.