endgames: (Grin)
Nara Shikamaru ([personal profile] endgames) wrote2012-11-13 05:44 pm

029 -- [Action || Video]

[The afternoon finds Shikamaru bundled up against the cold and out and about in parts of the village he won't normally be in. Wandering, it might look like; he drifts in and out of high-traffic areas like the bar and the item shop to places less visited. The coffee shop he'll be at for sure, and his final stop will be the building that was once Azzip's Pizza.

This will do.]


[Video]

[Later in the afternoon, with dark still far off, the journal feed will click on to see Shikamaru surrounded by various colorful boxes among other things. He folds his hands over a table.]

It's come to my attention over the last few months that some of you have never heard of boardgames, or have otherwise never played. As a reasonable guy, I can let a lot of things go, but that... just seems sad.

[He shakes his head here. With woe, even. And then he gestures to the board games from various worlds strewn in the background. Close inspection will find a shogi set, a chess board, Go, Pai Sho, Plateau, Candy Land, Mouse Trap, Jumanji and so on. You can pretty much make up any family-friendly board game you want here and he will have it somehow. Go for it, actually. He hasn't played all of them.]

I'm here to tell you why they're awesome. [...] And possibly to petition for a partner. It's troublesome, but you'd be surprised how hard that is to accomplish here...

Katara. [Hint, hint.] Kotomi-chan. [Who he can't tease as well, so he'd best clarify:] If you're still up for that.

[He shakes himself with a grin, saluting at the journal with his left hand. He picks up the nearest game.] Anyways, let's get started. It goes like this...

[And from here he'll be giving the abridged rules of the games he knows to start. Feel free to interrupt him, or call him out on any games he skips.]

[/end Voice]

[Action || Locked to Konan]

[Much later in the night, after he's seen to everything he needs to, Shikamaru takes a box out of a drawer and goes outside. From it, he withdraws an origami hummingbird, and contemplates it slowly for a few quiet minutes.

When he's done, he holds it up at eye level and speaks seriously.]


It's about time we spoke again. Don't you think?
greenjacketed: (♖ nothing gained truth be told)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-16 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
...Oh. [ he's not DISAPPOINTED, per se. just confused. ] Sounded like somethin' else, for a moment.
greenjacketed: (♖ everyone's got a mother tom)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-17 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Rat-baiting. Only with mice, like. But you'd need a dog for that...

[ again -- not disappointed. it's a horrid game and it reminded sharpe too much of his youth. too much of the foundling home. ]

I were only going to ask how folks gambled on it, that's all. But it don't sound like that sort of game.
greenjacketed: (♖ who do they think they are?)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-17 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
To be honest, the trapping mice game sounds like a better time all around.
greenjacketed: (♖ feelin' crazy)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-18 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Do you have a favourite...?

[ whoever you are. ]
greenjacketed: (♖ like making a mule into a racehorse)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-18 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
Haven't heard of any of'em, I'm afraid. The men play games on the march but never me.
greenjacketed: (♖ i came and i was nothing)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-19 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Know it? Aye.

[ if sharpe is completely honest -- which he'd hardly be with a friend, let alone a stranger -- he'd confess that his best knowledge of chess came from working with men who used soldiers as their pieces. battlefields as their game boards. wellington is a chessmaster. lord pumphrey, too.

and sharpe's role varies from pawn to rook to bishop to knight. he'd court their queens but never be king. but he would also never allow any chessmaster to sacrfice him prematurely. he's old, now. and tired of having this or that intelligence officer tell him that he'd die only when it was convenient to wellington. ]


I'm afraid I haven't the patience for boards and cards. [ or he hates that he always loses. ] I'd sooner take a sort of sport, I fear.
greenjacketed: (♖ ten salvos; you've missed every time)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-20 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
In what way? It requirese pieces? Patience? Both?
greenjacketed: (♖ a man you knew was falling)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-22 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Aye? Which ones?

[ the pawns, sharpe. always the pawns. pawnship was universal. ]
greenjacketed: (♖ but he gets results)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-23 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
...Nine. And the king? Aye. Could have predicted him. But what of his queen?
greenjacketed: (♖ with loads of shooting in it)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-24 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
And what -- pray tell -- can the Generals do?
greenjacketed: (♖ cat and dog)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-25 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
...At least that sounds something like what a General does. I suppose.
greenjacketed: (♖ write a bloody good book)

[personal profile] greenjacketed 2012-11-26 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
That's all, eh? [ a sharp bark of a laugh -- not exactly unlike a rifle's cough. ] Poor bugger. Don't know what he's getting into.

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