Day 23: Game Room, Evening Shift.

[zerstorung]

Fayt had been doing.. something. For some time, apparently, as he came in during the children shower scenes. Being over the age (yes, despite how he looked), he wasn’t sent there, meaning he had three options. Music Room. Game Room, and Sun Room

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[bond_off_lame]

Note: Based on an actual game of Monopoly being played at the same time as these posts

There was something almost endearing about knowing that there was at least one other member besides Roxas that wasn't out to stab him in the neck. Of course the redhead could very well take care of himself, but the less problems he had to deal with the better.

After driving his nurse up the wall by constantly changing his mind of where to go, Axel finally decided to settle down in the Game Room. He wasn't in the mood to indulge himself in a lot of conversation, which was a bit of an irony itself considering that the games given usually took two or more to play with. Well that was fine, he could always pretend to be two people.

In the end he pulled up a Monopoly game and began to set it up on a nearby table.

[oblivionsky]

Speaking of Roxas, he was there too, sitting on the opposite side of the table and helping set things up. They used to play a lot of games of Monopoly back in the Organization. Most of the time, they ended up lasting until some obscure hour of the night because someone kept hanging on by a thread despite the fact there was no way they could possbily win.

...And yet he agreed to play anyways, despite the fact he was probably going to regret it towards the end.

Once everything was set up, he picked the ship out of the plastic playing pieces, and waited for Axel to take his turn.

[bond_off_lame]

Axel found it surprising that even now Roxas was willing to dwell on the past and play a few games with him, but he had to smile nonetheless. They set up their pieces in no time and after rolling to see who would go first the redhead proved victorious. After rolling and getting a Get out of Jail Free Card, he watched as the latter rolled his turn.

"... WHAT?"

[oblivionsky]

It was a little amusing to see Axel start off with something so useless that early in the game. Was it foreshadowing something? Only time would tell.

When Roxas rolled, he actually ended up landing on the Chance space like Axel had, except his card was much more useful - Advance to Boardwalk. Which of course, he bought, because you'd have to be an idiot to reject Boardwalk.

[brilliant_azel]

Azel entered the room with a smile on his face; he was in an extremely good mood, having found someone to latch onto. Noah would, like the others he had encountered here, grow tired of his desperate need to be wanted, and discard him. But for now, it was new and it was good. It made him happy, for the moment.

He glanced over the few others here, further pleased by the fact that it wasn't too crowded.

"Hmm, maybe a card game." The petite swordsman mused to himself, as he let his gaze wander.

[judgemagister]

Noah was just as content with following the swordsman as the other was to latching on to him; solitude felt like a rather dull choice, and he'd rather had more than his fair share of it, especially what with the suspicion Vayne had beset him in Ivalice.

Otherwise, he would make sure to speak with Larsa later; he had a rather important bit of news to tell him, courtesy of Azel, and he found it important to inform the child before another night passed.

His eyes followed an invisible path through the room, spotting the two playing a rather complex-looking game on a board; they seemed the only ones to actually be involved in a game. It was hard to even remember the last time he himself had taken time aside for such a mindless, leisurely activity - and the ones during his childhood were lost in his rather dismal memory. He was sure he must have played many with Basch in his younger days, but now it seemed almost pitiful to think about it.

"I leave the choice to you," he said accomodatingly. "I've nary a memory of games to suggest one."

[brilliant_azel]

Azel grinned and took Gabranth's hand, hauling him over to the shelf where the games were kept. He was about to suggest just pulling one out and trying the rules when he spotted familiar black and white stones. "Oh! They have Array!"

He pulled out a plain 19 by 19 square board with two packets of stones, one black, one white. The box said "Go" on the side, even though Azel named it some other name. "You'll like this one, Noah. It's all about strategy and it's like you're playing two armies against each other. Is this okay?"

[judgemagister]

"Array?" Being easily dragged (he was getting quite used to it, it seemed) he looked curiously at the game, picking up a black stone to examine it closely. It reminded him of something at least; perhaps some idle thing the minor judges did in-between guarding shifts. The concept of it being representative of armies, however, was easy enough to understand.

Having nodded an affirmative, he made to clear a already rather empty table, ready to set it up if he could figure how to. "You'll explain the rules, I hope?" he asked, though it was a rhetorical question.

[part1of3]

[From here!]

Hmm.. by the looks of it, no Xigbar. This meant the guy he was looking for was probably in the Music Room. Although at this point he didn't really want to see the guy.. and he wasn't sure if he was going to be able to pull an apology out of him right now anyway, especially when his ex-lover old friend that he was currently fighting with (..?) had just done.. done what he did. There was that messy red hair that could only mean Axel. There was a guy with hair the same deep shade of blue of Rena's, the blond kid who could be Nedian, and that strange woman who showed up at the worst possible times. Axel was his only friend there, and he'd get to talk to him at dinner tonight anyway. (Mmm, dinner. It couldn't come soon enough

[faithful_dog]

Naoe wasn't in the mood to play games, his entire life was a game, but spending another shift in his room didn't sound appealing either. He wandered into the game room and took a seat away from the others that were already in the room.

He was silent, lost in his own thoughts. He didn't really see or hear anything around him. It made him vulnerable, but he didn't care at that moment.

[faithful_frost]

Haku smiled and bowed to his nurse, feeling better for the wash and for the plait his hair was now in. The bandages on his face were less and he was in a much better mood.

Of course, he could have done without the ribbon that had been used to tie his hair back, but the nurse had insisted it looked wonderful and wouldn't take 'no thank you' for an answer.

She also wouldn't allow him to go to the music room or sun room or even his room, instead, she said, a growing boy like himself should have some fun. Play some games or something.

Which is how he wound up here, in the Game Room, blinking around at the people here. He hoped he'd get to return to his room soon. Finding a quiet spot to sit, he smiled politely at the man sitting there and bowed his head, before sitting down himself. He reached up to finger the ribbon.

[faithful_dog]

Naoe looked up when there was movement close by. He frowned slightly at the boy that sat down. He may have been a very effeminate boy, but Naoe could tell the genders apart. There were wounds on his face as well.

In all of his time here, Naoe had yet to encounter a 'monster' and he couldn't help but wonder...

"Do you mind if I ask how your face was hurt?" he asked, being rude in that it was such a direct question but polite in tone of voice.

[faithful_frost]

Haku smiled and reached up to touch his face. "I suppose that depends on who you ask." He smiled and laughed softly. "According to the staff here," he glanced over at the nurses keeping an eye on everyone. "I'm terribly ill and did this to myself."

He shrugged. "I, however, think that monsters dressed as they are, with sharp blades for fingers tried very hard to blind me and missed." His smile never wavered. "It happened on my first night here."