MINGLE: LASER TAG ARENA

[stealshinies]

[Being from Ancient Egypt and all that, seeing the dark, neon-lite laser tag room is enough to make him stumble back in awe. On the wall are vests with a sensor above the heart, as well as a set of guns.

Just beside that is a set of rules that Bakura sure as hell can't read:

EACH PLAYER TAKES ONE VEST AND ITS CORRESPONDING GUN.
DO NOT COVER UP THE SENSOR ON THE VEST.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE GAME IS TO HIT THE TARGET ON OTHER PLAYERS' VESTS.
WHEN YOU ARE HIT, YOUR GUN WILL TURN OFF.
THE LAST PLAYER STANDING WINS!

Needless to say, he just takes a gun and decides to explore the room.]

((ooc: decided to intro one of the new rooms that I added last week (I'll also add these specifics to the setting page). Anyway, play laser tag with each other, tag around, and have fun! Feel free to handwave your character re-entering the game if you want to keep playing after they've already lost once.

Also, feel free to be a big fat cheater and not play by the rules, if that's how your character rolls! That's the fun of RP, isn't it?))

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[stealshinies]

[Tch! Like I'd ask him!

Bakura removes his hand from the ring, ending their "call" as he focuses his attention back on Karasu.

...Just to spite his Akh, he slips off a bracelet and tosses it to her.]

Yes, and I'll give you this in exchange, so shut up and don't tell anybody!

[moderndaydragon]

[She drops the book to grab at the bracelet, not expecting to suddenly have it flung at her. Especially not after he seemed to zone out for about five minutes.

...it is a nice bracelet, though. And something from Egypt... she'll be looking over it as she talks.]

All right, all right. Thank you very much, and I'll keep it a secret.

[fluffydeathdealer]

...

[The soul fragment inside of the thief king is trying to contact its' master despite the thief king's severed connection.

Oi. He just paid Karasu to do it, after he said he wouldn't do it to you.

Silence.

Uh. Aren't you jealous?

No.

Huh? But he wouldn't pay you and he paid her! Aren't you mad or anything?

Go to hell.

But-

I SAID FUCK OFF! I don't care if you're me, you're annoying!

Really... these soul fragments wouldn't shut up! And if people didn't stop fucking interrupting his gaming, he was going to get mad...]

[stealshinies]

Good. [He brings his legs up, crossing them in front of him as he looks over at Karasu expectantly.]

Well? Start teaching me!

[moderndaydragon]

[...Why isn't she surprised he wants to start right away? She slides the bracelet on her wrist, checking the difference in sizes before sliding off the bed and starting to dig for one of those journals she found lying around.]

English seems to be the major language here that Campus uses, or at least converts everything into. So I'll teach you how to read in that. All right?

[stealshinies]

[Bakura stares at her for a moment longer, his brow knitting.

And then...

Wait for it--] ...What the fuck is English?

[moderndaydragon]

It's the language spoken in parts of the world in modern day. Since I'm only half-Japanese, I speak and read it just as clearly as I do Japanese. And since it's the one that Campus tends to default to, that seems the best one to start with.

[Here it is. She'll go over to the bed with the journal and pen.]

Ready?

[stealshinies]

Wait.

[He turns slightly to keep his eye on her, looking more bewildered than ever.]

...You're not speaking Egyptian?

[moderndaydragon]

No, I'm not. That's what I meant by Campus "defaulting" to English: it seems to be the language everyone's speech is translated into, unless they already know it or know multiple languages. I can write in Japanese and it stays Japanese, for instance.

I'd love to learn how to speak Egyptian, myself... but I don't know it, no.

[stealshinies]

... [Why didn't he notice any language change?! He thought everybody had been speaking Egyptian this entire time!

Has he been speaking English somehow, and he didn't know it...?! Now that he thinks about it, it doesn't really make sense for everybody to know Egyptian, but...]

That's impossible...

[moderndaydragon]

Not any more impossible than anything else this place is done. Considering it's kidnapped through space and time, caused the building to disappear, and has a barrier even I can't break, an "auto-translate" spell seems pretty simple to me.

[stealshinies]

[There definitely has to be a way for him to tell the different. For him to be able to hear it. How was he supposed to learn to read anything in a language he knew, but didn't know?!

Steeling himself a moment, he speaks deliberately, trying to speak in Egyptian.]

Is this...still...English...?

[moderndaydragon]

Yes, it is.

[She can tell what he's trying to do, putting her pen down to listen.]

[stealshinies]

Rrrghhh...

[He takes in a deep breath, clenching his hands to calm himself. This was frustrating, but he tries again, harder than before and with a hint of sarcasm in his tone. Maybe if he says something without any foreign words injected into it, like the "English" from before.]

Nefer sedjmetj.

[moderndaydragon]

[The confusion that spreads across her face should be enough to tell, but she says it anyway, just in case.]

I didn't understand that. That was probably Egyptian.

[stealshinies]

Then it is possible! [He grins, filled with a new sense of power now.

It was just a matter of training his ears now to realize the difference between the two. Just now when he'd spoken...he could feel the difference.

It was something he hadn't felt before.]

[moderndaydragon]

It seems so! [...it's jokingly, though she's almost regretting saying it] Maybe I should find a way to pay you for Egyptian lessons.

[stealshinies]

...H-heh heh heh, I'm sure we could think of something.

[He points to the journal.] But enough of that! Let's get on with this!

[moderndaydragon]

Well, then... we'll leave that for later.

[She's written the alphabet in her journal, and begins with trying to teach him every letter, using both her name and his to show what they are and how they mesh together.

It's only going to be a starter few lessons... but she's trying her best to make it interesting, or at least not dull as hell.]

[stealshinies]

[Most of the letters don't stick. The most he manages to remember are the first few, and what his name looks like when spelled. Even that's mostly thanks to the fact it has two "A"s and a "B" in it.

After awhile, despite her best efforts, Bakura is losing focus and lays back on the bed as he listens...and begins to doze off.]

[moderndaydragon]

So we...

[She pauses, looking over to him as he lays down, tilting her head.]

Hey. You asleep?

[stealshinies]

[The quiet, even breathing and those closed eyes suggest that yes, he's asleep.]

[moderndaydragon]

[...Oh well. She closes the journal, putting it on the night stand for later. She glances over to him, then grabs the blanket from the other bottom bunk, putting it over him.

Hopefully that'll be warm enough. She'll just be grabbing her book and leaving to the living room to let him sleep.]

[stealshinies]

[Bakura's not out for long. About thirty minutes is all, and when he wakes up he finds himself tangled in a sheet on an empty bed.

...When did he fall asleep?

Getting up, he heads out the bedroom and pokes his head into the living room. His hair is even messier than usual now.]

[moderndaydragon]

Good morning, again.

[Huh, that was fast. She didn't expect him to be awake that soon.]

How was your nap?