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Week 0 | Friday

[syndromed]

[ since van zieks is apparently in charge of babysitting, rika is here shuffling a deck of cards! ]

What games do you know how to play?

[winebar]

[Me googling what card games they had in the 1890s.]

Hmm... I think I am most familiar with Whist, Draw Poker, and Euchre.

[syndromed]

[ me, unfamiliar with all of these. ]

Whist might be hard with just two, but we can play Draw Poker or Euchre. Or I can teach you a different game, if you want.

[winebar]

[Mood tbh.]

If you would prefer to teach me a game, I am amenable.

[syndromed]

We could play old geezer.

[winebar]

[I feel... vaguely attacked.]

And how do you play that?

[syndromed]

It's like old maid.

[ she is distributing their cards. even though he already went over the games he knows and it didn't include old maid. ]

[winebar]

[The wikipedia article literally says it's a victorian cardgame right off so yeah. Now he is suspicious he's being attacked.]

And what is the difference?

[syndromed]

Instead of adding a joker, or removing a queen so that the one left is the 'old maid' - in old geezer we remove a random card!

[ that doesn't seem like a very significant difference but okay. ]

[winebar]

[I feel like Rika just made this game up!]

I see. That does introduce a new level of challenge, because you won't know what's the odd card out.

[syndromed]

[ don't worry about it! ]

Exactly! But the rest of the rules stay the same.

[winebar]

Fair enough. I'll leave the dealing to you, miss Furude.

[syndromed]

I'm going easy on you, because these cards aren't mine.

[ she finishes dealing! and then does. idk the first step where you play whatever pairs you can. i'm not going to rp cards. but i got a 14 for her General Success This Game. ]

[winebar]

[I rolled a 5 so time to get destroyed in cards by an 11 year old.]

You needn't do such a thing. I don't mind losing to a fair opponent.

[syndromed]

[ i'm glad all of my relatively low rolls are somehow still winning. ]

Okay.

THAT ICON

[winebar]

[As they play in relative silence besides drawing cards from eachother;]

I hope you are not too unsettled by all this, miss Furude.

[syndromed]

It'll be easier to know how to feel when we know more about what happened...

So for now... I don't know.

[winebar]

[He sighs. Draws a card from her hand.]

That is true. In some ways the longer this goes on the more I'd rather have bad news than no news.

[syndromed]

[ she draws a card! and plays a pair. ]

It's hard to fight back when you don't know what you're fighting back against. At least bad news would be the truth.

[winebar]

[Oh good for her. He draws another card, still fails to make a new pair.]

Precisely. In all things, we should strive towards the truth, even if it is difficult.

Week 2 | Saturday

[syndromed]

[ wherever van zieks is, enjoying his nice drink, rika is wandering over! she probably wasn't looking for him, but comes over once she spots him. ]

That was a close one.

[winebar]

[Hey did you know I accidentally made a second catchall last thread. I am a fool.]

It was. I honestly was not expecting a correct vote.
[He sips his wine, morosely.]

It's not a victory. We still don't know how the other two died.

[syndromed]

[ i live in fear of doing this every day - which means that it's a very understandable mistake LOL ]

Me either... The ninja did seem more guilty, but it was very last minute, and Spike's silly story seemed really easy to fake.

It's still better than nothing.

[winebar]

[He lets out a short laugh.]

Whether it's the truth or not... he should have seen how easy it would be to assume that was a farce.

[Even the baby is skeptical!!!]

[syndromed]

It's really easy to look like you're in lots of pain.

[ she demonstrates, curling up a little and making a sad-injured-baby face. ... then she straightens back up. ]

And acting shocked that you're not in pain isn't so difficult either.