DRAMA

[principals]

[You step into a small room, reasonably comfortable room with plenty of chairs for you to sit on, and the door promptly locks behind you. Everything is decorated in your team colors, with splashes of neutral cream.]

On one wall is a huge, laminated poster bearing your instructions. On the lone table in the middle of the room, you find a tall glass cylinder labelled "Bank"; it contains 15 small orbs in your team color. You also find: four buttons (Hand, Shield, Lunch, Kit) that you can press should you wish to make a purchase; the six cards that are to be your starting hand; and five card-shaped, team-colored slots. Your team color is notably missing.

Everything is utterly indestructible, no matter what you try to do.]

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

[ Pull yourself together, A—Coco. She breathes, deep and slow, before forcing her hand to drop down to her side and straightening up. ]

That sounded painful. You okay?

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

[casually shakes out his hand, like he didn't just do that]

Just fine. Perfect.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

Well ... please don't break your knuckles just yet.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

It would take a couple of punches before I managed that.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

Still! Bruised knuckles aren't much fun, either.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

I guess not.

[fine he won't hit anything . . . for now]

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

We'll find you a ball later. You can kick that to your heart's content.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

Yay.

[deep breath] So. These cards.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

Mmm ...

We've got some low ones that we can use. I'd suggest History and Science. [ Spoken bluntly and a little flatly. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

[he frowns at the cards, reaching up to run a hand through his hair]

Physical deage and prosopagnosia? . . . beat unconscious isn't bad if someone is . . . quick about it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

Mmm ...

Those are my preferences, though I wonder if we shouldn't replace deage with beating unconscious anyway.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

It's more points, but . . .

Maybe we can play all three?

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

I'd rather not. Not unless we have to.

The reason for my suggestion is because ... you know, if they're smaller, they'd have less of a chance of being able to defend themselves, right? A beating might not have such lasting consequences.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

. . . mmm, but I'm more concerned with having enough points to defend, once the "nice" cards are gone, too.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

Understandably ...

If we get hit hard in this round, we can play harder ourselves in the next.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

. . .

[he doesn't say anything, because he is fairly sure they're going to get hit hard just because he's here alone]

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

I know, Kudo-kun.

My team lost badly when we played this at the Library.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

[w e l p]

. . . [lightly] Then I guess we're cursed, because Monoceros got hit hard a lot, too.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

Mm, I know. Tiramisu had some ... memories.

Maybe Kit's luck will cancel ours out.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

. . . mm, maybe.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

Could we chance it, just for this round?

If I'm wrong, I'll take responsibility for it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

. . . I'm not going to make you take responsibility.

I might say "I told you so", though.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

That's fine by me ...

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

Mmm.

[well if we're done I'm just going to go find a chair to slump into]

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

[ Coco stays where she is, fiddling with a couple of the cards. ]

Say, Kudo-kun ... in your version of this competition, did you have DIY cards?