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?))

Comments

[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."

[stealshinies]

Ughh. I'm not just learning to read, am I? I have to learn the whole fucking thing!

[He waves a hand irritably at her.]

But even when you're talking about English, all I hear is Egyptian!

[moderndaydragon]

Unfortunately, yeah. English is written the same as it's spoken, so...

[Pbbrrr.]

All right... let me try to say these two sentences in English, then. You just focused on speaking in Egyptian, right?

[stealshinies]

[Bakura shifts and lays down across the bed, folding his arms underneath his head to keep it propped up. He sounds a little bored.]

...Right. Go on then.

[moderndaydragon]

[It's probably a bit easier for her, seeing as she's used to swapping between languages, but Karasu closes her eyes, breathing out a bit and focusing firmly on making each sound, each word, in English.

It can't be Egyptian if he's going to figure this out. English.]

Are you hungry? You are hungry.

[stealshinies]

... [He blinks a few times, bewilderment written on his face. It's hard to tell if he even understood her at all.]

[moderndaydragon]

I guess that was English?

[If so, mission accomplished.]

[stealshinies]

I guess. What's weird is the fact I actually understood it, and it definitely wasn't Egyptian.

[He shakes his head, grumbling. Well, that was enough for today, right?]

Let's do something else.

[moderndaydragon]

You're making progress, then.

[She closes the journal, putting it away in the dresser and looking over to him.]

Like what?

[stealshinies]

[Bakura reaches into his pocket, pulling out Diabound again, along with a single spell card: Chain Energy.]

Show me how to play this card game you and the other Bakura always seem so damn interested in!

[If it means he'll get new cards out of it that he can summon... H-heh heh heh.]

[moderndaydragon]

Duel Monsters? Uh... yeah, sure, I can do that.

[That request seems almost too easy, but she nods at the door.]

Go sit at the table, I'll get all my spare cards and I'll try to help you out.

[stealshinies]

H-heh. Can do.

[Gathering himself up off the bed, Bakura does just that. By the time Karasu has made it back to the table, he's already learned that he prefers to sit in chairs backwards and lean forward on the backing.]

[moderndaydragon]

[Eh, it's the least worst thing he could do. She puts her bag down, digging out the stacks of spare cards and setting them up to the side.]

Well... the first thing is, you have to make a deck.

[stealshinies]

Sounds easy enough. [He takes a handful of her spares and starts to look through them until... Oh. Yeah. He kind of needs to be able to read to know what they do.]

Tch...

[moderndaydragon]

...Here. Just look through the cards and pick out ones that you get a feeling from and I'll read it out to you.

You can't just throw a deck together with spare cards. You have to actually put your feelings into it or it won't do anything for you.

[stealshinies]

All I need are good cards.

[He can sense darkness and power now more than he used to, thanks to his Akh's gift, so he'll do as she says haphazardly until he's got a good fifteen cards for her to look at. He really went off the pictures more than anything, but for a few of the monsters he tried to "look" into the darkness and see if they had any abilities he'd be able to make some use of.]

Here. [He flashes them towards her.]

[moderndaydragon]

[She has to resist the urge to roll her eyes at that, but she won't argue. He wouldn't listen, and if he wants to constantly get his ass kicked because his deck doesn't have his heart in it, that's fine with her.

After all, if he lacks even the barest pride of a duelist, there's no way he could stand up to anyone. And that's not her problem if he's not going to listen!

She takes the cards, looking through them and frowning. Dark Door? The Earl? This...]

These are the cards Bakura-kun uses. At least, some of these are...

[stealshinies]

[His lips stretch into a grin.]

H-heh heh, well that makes sense, doesn't it? [After all, they were the same man three thousand years apart.]

[moderndaydragon]

Yes, but I'm not making you a deck based off Bakura-kun's. You're different enough that I'm not going to help you take another duelist's heart.

[stealshinies]

[He frowns at that.] I'll pick whatever cards I want! I don't know my Akh's deck you know, it's not like I'm doing it intentionally! And even if I was...

I'm a thief. I'll take whatever I want, from whomever I want!

[moderndaydragon]

Fine.

[She just reads them out, then, putting them back on the table for him once she's done.]

[stealshinies]

[Bakura takes the cards back and, after tossing out a few he didn't like the sound of, keeps the rest.

He's got 21 cards now, and sounding way too confident for it.]

H-heh heh, okay. I think I'm ready~

[moderndaydragon]

You're 19 short. The cards for a deck have to equal at least 40.

[And this is almost painful to watch. Even she wasn't ever THIS bad.

...she hopes.]

[stealshinies]

Oh. [He looks at her pile again, feeling frustrated already.]

Fine then!

[Fifteen minutes later... And he's picked out 19 more cards and is handing them to Karasu.]