12th Resurrection - How to Make Friends & Influence People

[sanctusdei]

[A pale young man sits alone at the park at an outdoor chess board during the afternoon. There's pieces on the board, and a few have been moved around. Mostly, he's reading through an old, old book as he sits there. There's no title on the cover, or if there was, it rubbed off ages ago. There's another book sitting next to him too on the bench

Comments

[crawlininmytome]

Chess, huh? It's been a while since I've had a decent opponent.

[sanctusdei]

[Doesn't move, just looks at you from over the book.]

Same here. Haven't played in years.

[crawlininmytome]

[Sits down.] I've got nothing better to do right now.

[sanctusdei]

Well gee, don't let me interrupt your day.

[He sits up, and arranges the pieces. He gets black, you get white.]

I gotta say, I'm pretty rusty. And I didn't have a very good teacher.

[resurrectinto]

[Invading the open seat, grinning.]

You took my advice!

[sanctusdei]

[slight frown] Hnn. It'd been awhile since I played anyway. Not since my apprenticeship. My mentor was terrible at it anyway.

[resurrectinto]

I tried playing back when I was on the ship, but I really suck at it. Which sucks because it seemed fun.

[sanctusdei]

Playing on a ship sounds difficult. One stray wave and there goes all your progress.

Theo's bringin' in all the ladies to pay chess, aww yeah /shot

[sanctusdei]

Well playing versus myself doesn't seem to be very interesting.

[sanctusdei]

[He arranges all the pieces again. He gets black, you get white.]

You any good?

I tried to resist but this was too good

[weiss_tank]

[Ken was bored, and that was never a good thing. Ah, target acquired. He snuck up behind Theo and stole the book. He waited to see if he was noticed and then quick as he could, balanced it on Theo's head. Yes his pranks are the heart attack inducing kind.]

oh plz, you know i invite this kinda stuff XD

[sanctusdei]

[Oh Ken, you should already know how this is going to go already. Theo damn near jumps out of his skin when you pull the book away, and by the time he turns around to see what happened, it's sitting on his head. The old tome almost falls, and Theo manages to catch it before it hits the dirt. He clutches it for dear life for a moment, the swings around again to see who's there.]

WHAT IN THE HELL--?!

So true, the more dignified the character, the easier it is to fluster them

[weiss_tank]

[Ken just stood there and grinned. After a moment he just waved at Theo]

Hey there! Geez you're such a jack in the box! Oh! Hey, chess. I didn't know you played. I suck but a friend of mine likes it well enough.

[sanctusdei]

Christ, Ken! Don't DO that when I'm holding a fucking spellbook! This thing is ancient. If I dropped it, it's done for!

[Huffs, sets the book down, inspecting it again quickly just in case.]

Yeah, I play. Not in ages, though. And the person who taught me was a dimwit anyway.

[heartstar_blues]

[Guess who is walking your way down the street. Common... guess.]

[sanctusdei]

[FFFFFFFFFFF-

GUESS WHO IS IGNORING YOU

WITH A BOOK IN FRONT OF HIS FACE]

[heartstar_blues]

[Guess who is grabbing the book and tugging it down.]

Hey.

[sanctusdei]

[NO NOT THE BOOK! He pulls it back, trying to not have a heart attack, and places it behind him. Kill him, beat him up, just don't hurt the book.]

What the fuck do you want!