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

[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?

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

We did, mm.

We had a DIY beat unconscious card. I played it on Jinx.

[ahh, fond memories]

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

... You. Played a DIY beat unconscious card on Jinx.

How did that go?

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

[he grins, for the first time since he woke up here]

I hit him in the face with a soccerball.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

[ There's a short pause ... and then she just. Lifts a hand to her mouth and laughs, quiet and faltering but genuine. ]

Geez, Kudo-kun!

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

[what a good distraction. He seems more like Kudo Shinichi should be, at least for now]

What? He deserved it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

I bet he did.

Had he done something particularly obnoxious? Though I know "particularly obnoxious" is just a state of being for him.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

I'd say his face is a good reason.

[. . . ugh he misses his stupid broken thief]

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

You wouldn't be wrong.

... though, you know, that reminds me. Can I ask you something about him?

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

Sure? What is it?

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

Did Isabelline-san forgive him for ... [ Makes a swirly MONOCLE gesture around the appropriate eye. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

Ah - yeah, she did.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

I knew it.

[ Claps her hands together lightly, satisfied. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

Is that something he remembered . . . ?

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

... His first memory of her was telling her about it. I think that was his only memory of her.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

Ah . . .

I remember talking to him about it, after he told her . . . [a little wryly] We ended up drinking together.

Re: DISCUSSION

[clocksandroses]

You're pretty good friends, huh.

Re: DISCUSSION

[evenimprobable]

. . . something like that.

[it's hard to put it into one word]