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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[moderndaydragon]

What?!

[Karasu quickly switches it off, looking up in surprise.]

What's wrong?!

[stealshinies]

[He leans over the railing, his hands gripping it with wide-eyes. He does his best to try and look angry instead of flustered.]

What the fuck was that?!

[moderndaydragon]

...It's a vacuum cleaner. It cleans up the floor.

[Really? What is he, a dog?]

[stealshinies]

...Just use a broom.

[He grumbles and disappears back over the railing.]

[moderndaydragon]

A broom won't do as well in this sort of building. So, no. I'm using this.

[stealshinies]

But it's so loud! Can't you make it shut up?!

[He's never heard anything so loud before.]

[moderndaydragon]

Tell the intercom lady to stock silent vacuums or something, but until then, no. You'll just have to put up with it.

[stealshinies]

Rrrghh... You're so picky. Who cares if there's some garbage on the floor!

[He pulls the pillow over his head. At least that might drown it out. He also can't breath.

He'll take what he can get.]

[moderndaydragon]

I do, because I care about living somewhere clean. If you don't like it, you're welcome to keep the dorm and I can move somewhere else.

[It would be annoying to do that again, but this is her dorm. She turns the vacuum back on, "accidentally" drowning out whatever his reply would be.

Though considering the volume of his voice, it probably wouldn't come close if he started yelling.]

[stealshinies]

[All he had to say was "shut up!" and it was easily drowned, even with his voice raised.

The entire time the vacuum is on, he just grumbles.]

[moderndaydragon]

[Just to spite him, Karasu takes her time with it, going over the entire room instead of just the spot with the splinters like she intended. But it's done before too long and she turns it off, putting it up and going back to fidget with her bed.]

[stealshinies]

Finally!

[He makes sure to say it loudly when she's done.]

I hate that thing.

[moderndaydragon]

Well, I'll warn you before I use it so you can get out. Sound good?

[She's going to start doing this every day, just because it's nice to have something that irritates him for once.]

[stealshinies]

Whatever.

[He tosses another splinter he missed over the railing just to spite her in return.]

Are we going to continue those lessons?

[moderndaydragon]

Whenever you're ready for them, we can. Do you want to pick it up now?

[Ignoring that to be the better person.]

[stealshinies]

Might as well. I have nothing else planned for today!

[Not that he usually has stuff planned.

Bakura jumps clean over the side of the bunk and lands heavily at her side.]

[moderndaydragon]

[She raises an eyebrow at that, but grabs the journal from its spot to go sit on her bed.]

All right. Sit down and let's get started.

[stealshinies]

[He takes a seat beside her, drawing his legs up until they're crossed in front of him just like before.

...He's bored already just by looking at that book.]

[moderndaydragon]

[She's really trying not to make it boring, but without some of the special SUPER FUN LEARN A LANGUAGE software, this is about all she can do.]

[stealshinies]

... [Bakura hunches over, propping his head up in his hand as he tries to pay attention.]

...So the half-circle makes a "ss" and a "kuh" sound, and when you put it next to that other letter it makes a "chuh" sound? It just couldn't make up its fucking mind, could it?

[moderndaydragon]

Apparently not. It does make things harder to sound out, but we have less letters to work with on top of it, so...

English is pretty hard to learn, or so I've heard. So you're probably not alone in thinking that.

[stealshinies]

Well at least I already know how to speak it, eh?

[Apparently. He's not sure if this spontaneous ability to speak it will actual translate to him being able to learn how to read it.]

But these letters are boring me! And what's this one? You didn't say it before.

[He points to a question mark.]

[moderndaydragon]

Only through Campus magic. If that ends up failing, I somehow doubt everyone's going to retain any knowledge. You thought I was speaking Egyptian, after all, didn't you?

[She looks where he points.]

That's punctuation. Basically, it's a symbol we put at the end of a sentence to show what type of sentence that is. Whether we're asking a question, or we're stating something, or yelling it.

[She writes "ARE YOU HUNGRY?" on the page below it.]

This, for instance, is asking if you're hungry. The question mark is what shows it's asking. If you do it this way -- [She writes it again, using a period.] -- it becomes something you're stating rather than asking.

"Are you hungry?" is the question, "Are you hungry." is the statement.

[stealshinies]

H-heh heh... Everything would go to shit if that happened.

[But moving on, he actually tries to retain the information she's giving him. It works up until she gives him an example.]

...What? The only difference is how you're saying it. That doesn't mean it's not a question. Unless you're being sarcastic.

[moderndaydragon]

That's exactly it. English uses inflection along with grammar to determine what you're saying. "How you say it matters as much as what you say," sort of. In this case, that sentence sounds awkward in English because we have certain ordering of words that always imply one thing or another, despite inflection.

In this case... "Are you hungry?" is the way you'd say the question. To make it a statement, it would be "You are hungry."