Week 1: Slumber Party Mingle

[whirlingmace]

[ After getting permission on the staff, they take over the lounge. Futons, blankets, sleeping bags, and pillows are all dragged out into the middle of the room. Time to build a fort, guys!

Or come to the Lounge to find it made and everyone chilling out. There's hot chocolate and snacks! ]

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[enter_the_darkness]

[ WHY THE HELL IS HE HERE.

He just wanted some hot chocolate, yet here he is. With pillows surrounding him. He could probably get out of here, easily?

But he's just. Sitting there, drinking hot chocolate.




Whatever. ]

[justonezero]

[Scooches next to! He has hot chocolate as well, and the mug even has a cute face printed on the bottom a la the icon.]

Comfy, right?!

[enter_the_darkness]

[ He gives a quiet sigh. ]

If this is what you could consider comfy.

[jumpedtheshark]

Oh... I didn't expect to see you here Vanitas-kun.

[Look at him, probably unintentionally socializing.]

[enter_the_darkness]

That makes two of us.

[ He just. Takes a long sip of the hot chocolate, and then shrugs a shoulder, barely managing to not wince as he does. He's managing to just keep a wry look of acceptance, for now. ]

Trying to leave felt like more effort than it was worth.

[ What the hell does he even mean by that. Leaving would be easy, right!!! ]

[latebluemer]

[Blue Angel is not in her pajamas this time for some reason, but has changed into her full Blue Angel outfit -- and since they're in the lounge, they can disturb passersby as well as deal with the people who are actually here for the forts and the sleepovers and everything else. She's holding steaming hot chocolate in a brightly-colored golden mug, and furiously tapping away at her tablet with the other. Also sitting on top of one of the couches. Because that's how you sit when half of them are taken up by blanket forts and whatnot.

Eventually, once enough people have wandered by or into the lounge, she'll put down her mug on the nearest flat surface and tap twice at the floral-framed screen strapped to her wrist. The little AI voice that some may have heard gets pretty decently amplified, so there's just this great big sonorous HEY.]

So, some of you know this, but Nanashi and I have been working on a project. It's a card game from back home, from Link VRAINS -- it's called Duel Monsters, and we've imported a more basic and streamlined version directly into the tablets. It's not the full game, or the full inventory of cards, because we're only working off the data that I already have.

[And probably the staff are 'helping' with their own knock-offs, who knows. Go wild here.]

But it's good enough, and we can transfer it to any one of your tablets. More importantly--

[And here she straightens a little, wings and all.]

Some of you decided to go punch a wall, or each other, or whatever after everything that's happened this weekend. Fine. It happens. But we all have better things to do. [not to mention a reduced amount of people to patch y'all up??] So try this: I'll duel anyone who thinks they can take me on, for the rest of the time we're here. I guarantee you it'll be more interesting than trying to hit something. I can't guarantee you'll win, though. How about it?

[rosebridled]

[ ... ]

This is the kind of dueling you like.

[latebluemer]

[She looks extremely confused for a split-second, but of course she's looked over her own profile enough times. It just never occurred to her -- card games enthusiast that she is -- how easy it would be to misunderstand 'dueling' based on just that. She hasn't been shy about explaining it, after all.]

Oh. Oh. I thought-- [that since Anthy seemed like someone who knew how technology worked, that she wouldn't go to the more archaic forms of it] But yeah, this is the kind of dueling I've always done. No swords, or guns, or anything. I wouldn't propose something like that here.

[Or anywhere, we beat up each other's duel monsters like civilized people here.]

[wrongtiming]

[Immediately, because he is a Nerd (TM):]

I'm in!

[latebluemer]

[HELLO HUNTER it is time to obtain your card game badge of nerditude. But first off:]

Great! So, you know how to work the tablet and everything by now, right? I just need that so we can transfer the game.

[theycallhimmrpchan]

A card game?

[He rubs his chin, looking at Aoi, then at his own tablet, which didn't seem to be any more damaged than the first day]

I'm not sure if it'd be a good substitute for sparring, but I guess I can try it.

[latebluemer]

Hmm. It looks like you've figured out how to work with your tablet by now, Hibiki-kun.

[She sounds pleased by the fact that he's actually listened. This is more than some other people have done! So here's her holding out her hand for that tablet.]

It's a little basic for now, but I'll do my best to make it interesting. Let me see that, and I'll get it installed properly.

[enter_the_darkness]

[ There's a glance over in her direction when she starts the announcement, and then he's looking away, probably giving a good impression of boredom...

... But, not too long after it's done, he's shifting in his seat, black eye facing towards her as he lifts his eyebrows a bit. ]

A guarantee? Really?

[ She doesn't seem like she has much experience in anything related to physical fighting, so he's curious to know how she could make such a bold promise. To him, it just sounds like a lot of arrogance regarding some... card game. He's never... so much as touched one of those things? So he's clueless, here. ]

What's so fun about these cards?

[latebluemer]

[He's giving a good impression of a cat, is what he's doing, and Blue Angel just bemusedly waits for him to complete his pretend circling of the topic.]

A guarantee. It might still need some tweaking, and...

[Hmm. Of course she knows that it's not a perfect solution to the sheer amount of frustration, cabin fever and likely fear that's going to build up this week and throughout coming weeks if they stay trapped here. That's not how people work (even if it is a little bit how she works, go coping mechanisms).

She falls silent for a moment, contemplative, seems to come to several conclusions and breaks into a small smile.]

It's a game of strategy, and there's an almost infinite number of ways to build a deck. Like I said, this is a smaller and more basic version of the game than we have back home, but it's not too big for beginners to get.

[jumpedtheshark]

Duel Monsters?

[She recognizes the game, but Link VRAINS is new. Still.. this sounds like a good distraction. Tsumugi pulls her tablet out.]

Umm... what kind of decks can you build in it right now?

[diesifkilled]

[Well, that's weird. And fancy.]

I'll pass.

[dereban]

[ walks into the lounge with her usual bag strapped over her shoulder and just.


stares for a bit. ]

. . . This is. A lot.

[theycallhimmrpchan]

[Like Vanitas, he seem to have more bruising and cuts then he did when he left the execution, he has his left leg fully extended and slightly elevated on pillows as he sips the hot chocolate]

You guys really went all out.

[relentlesslyonwards]

[He was mostly just passing by but. This sure seems to be a thing, so he finds himself settled on the couch with a mug of hot chocolate. If anyone approaches, he speaks up:]

Haha... I'm a little more used to relaxing in the hot springs, but this isn't bad either.

[jumpedtheshark]

This isn't really the kind of mood you want at a hot springs episode...

[A depressing hot spring episode is fun for no one.]

[enter_the_darkness]

The what?

[ It was less approaching and more that he was already sitting on the couch that guy picked, thanks to the fact that Vanitas isn't doing much getting up. Either way, he doesn't know what the heck hot springs even are. ]

[diesifkilled]

[Why is Shirou here? It is a mystery. He looks distinctly uncomfortable with the whole slumber party thing and will probably run the fuck away as soon as he figures out a way to do that without seeming rude.

Please force him to stay here and have some fun.]

[whirlingmace]

[ Forcing people to stay is a thing she's been doing. S'up. She's in her moogle kigurumi ]

Hey hey, Debbiekins! How are you doing?

[delusive]

[katherine walks straight into the lounge and honestly she can't say she is surprised by the impromptu slumber party that seems to be happening here with the pillows, blanks and sleeping bags taking up majority of the space.

she was actually much more accessible for her to join in since it was out in the open instead of in someone's room but given what happened at the trial, instead of joining the others, she can be seem looking like she is about to leave? from the reactions she got, she isn't too sure if she is wanted or if people are still scared of her]

[justonezero]

[And from his pile of pillows:]

Oh, right! The Medic was the one who offered to give you blood, right?

[...His demeanor is totally the same as usual...]