Red Fishies

[mortalcoil]

Who: SS Red Fish crew and visitors
Broadcast: No
Action: Aboard the SS Red Fish
When: Around the drifting week (and probably a backtag party!)

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Comments

[child_of_bhaal]

Good.

[She's very pleased suddenly.]

I'm glad I got you something you'll get use out of. I hope it's enough of a challenge to keep your interest, even for a little bit.

[mortalcoil]

[he glances up again without actually raising his head and he huffs, his expression lightening around his eyes a little. his version of a smirk, maybe.

if there's one topic that might put him in a better mood and coax him into conversation, it's the subject of his own mind.

'Zhas used to get me puzzles. He stopped trying.']

[child_of_bhaal]

Really?

[Why would he stop trying?]

Well, we'll have to change that, won't we? We've got a universe full of puzzles. Some of them have to be up to par.

[mortalcoil]

[maybe he's just really eager for a distraction from the previous gushy embrace, because he seems pretty pleased with that thought. and it even leads to another idea.

'Do you play games?']

[child_of_bhaal]

[She nods.]

I do. Card games, chess, those seem to be pretty common. But I like trying new ones, if I can find them.

[mortalcoil]

[he perks up a little at that.

'you know chess?' he has to spell out the word. 'are you any good?']

[child_of_bhaal]

I'm decent.

[She's won some, she's lost some. It's really more of a wizard's game, but that's who she learned it from.]

Would you like to play sometime?

[mortalcoil]

[he nods, though he maybe looks a little disappointed at the fact that she's not secretly some sort of chess wizard.

'We used to play a lot,' he explains, obviously meaning him and Zhas.]

[child_of_bhaal]

[Sorry. She's only...not really human... Nevermind.]

We'll have to start the tradition up again. Do you have a set?

[mortalcoil]

[it's such a trial to be the smartest one around, you know. and he shakes his head with a little shrug.

'Had no one to play with,' he signs. 'Want to learn games from somewhere else too.']

[child_of_bhaal]

I'll get one.

[One way or another.]

And if you want, I could teach you some card games.

[mortalcoil]

['gambling?' he asks with a trace of preemptive grimace. that's what he understands card games to be about--all luck with no real use of the brain.]

[child_of_bhaal]

[She holds back a slight smile at the face he makes.]

Gambling is more of an add on. You can gamble on whether it will rain or not. I mean actual games, with rules and strategies.

Only if you want to, of course.