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[liketofu]

Who: Everyone!
What: Thanksgiving + New Feather party.
When: Evening of the 20th.
Where: School cafeteria, nicely done up.
Summary: There's food. And there's also board games, are you game for some Snakes and Ladders?
Rating: Let's put this all over the board. Strange stuff can happen, man.

Comments

[lightningcute]

Food is a foolproof way to get Pao-lin to go almost anywhere. She can't cook yet, but seeing the wonderful things that everyone else has made for this party is really inspiring her to learn how. Not just so she can enjoy the things she likes, but also so she can make others happy with the things she makes.

For now, though, she's just going to savor the culinary treasures of the buffet table. But she's also eyeing the corner full of board games too...

[lightningcute]

[Pao-lin smiles and nods.] You don't need to throw it so hard, though. [She shakes the die in her hand a little bit before dropping it onto the table. A four! She moves her piece along.]

[rollypolyclover]

[Not as hard? Okay, she's ready for her next turn. Taking the dice and dropping it very gently so it lands on five.] Ohhhh, a five! [That might be cheating... But she moves her piece along and lands on the bottom of a snakes tail. Looking at Pao-lin for a moment, then the snake. Does she doing something here?]

[lightningcute]

[Pao-lin shakes her head.]

You only have to move if you land on a snake's head or at the bottom of a ladder.

[rollypolyclover]

Oh. Okay.

[...Slowly moving her piece up the snake's tail anyway.]

[lightningcute]

Ah, no, you shouldn't do that yet. It's my turn now, after all.

[rollypolyclover]

[Oh. She should probably move it back then?

...

Yotsuba moves her piece half-way down the snake's tail and then looks back at Pao-lin. How do I snakes and ladders?]

[lightningcute]

[Pao-lin shakes her head gently, and reaches out to move Yotsuba's game piece back to where it had originally landed.]

There, see? Like that.

[rollypolyclover]

Ohhhh, so right to the bottom. Got it, you go all the way to the bottom of the snake, and not up it!

[...Wait.]

So it's bad to land on the snakes then?!

[lightningcute]

[Giggle.] If you land on their head, yeah. Because then you have to move backwards, when you have to move forwards to the end.

[rollypolyclover]

Snakes are very bad. Don't land on them Pao-lin, they make you go backwards, and then they eat you!

[This game is much scarier than she had imagined. Where's the age rating on this thing?!]

When it's your turn you best be careful, don't land on a snake...

[lightningcute]

I'll try my best not to!

[Rolling the die! She gets a two, but that puts her at the bottom of a ladder, so she moves her piece up it. As she hands the die to Yotsuba, something occurs to her.]

Oh, my name is Pao-lin, by the way.

[rollypolyclover]

Ohh, okay, I'm Yotsuba. That's Yotsuba's name. It's a nice name!

[Taking the die and... Staring at the ladder Pao-lin just moved up.]

Can you really climb a whole ladder like that so quickly? Are you some kind of afflete?

[lightningcute]

[Pao-lin laughs.]

It's not that hard to climb ladders quickly. You just have to be careful, that's all.

[rollypolyclover]

[Welp. Now she may-or-may-not try climbing a ladder as fast as she can the next time she has the chance. As fast as she can whilst being careful!]

Just be careful? Got it! Yotsuba will remember for when there's a ladder that must be climbed really fast. Set a World Record!

[Rolling the die properly this time. Six. Finally she moves away from that snake and instead lands on a space right in front of another snake. THIS IS TERRIFYING.]

[lightningcute]

[Pao-lin rolls the die and gets a three. One, two, three -- ooh, she just barely missed landing on a snake's head. Close call!]