Boardgames Night Makes For A Wild Friday

[tothosewhobait]

[Is there any greater joy than being able to play boardgames again with someone who doesn’t flip the board?]

[Needless to say, Azul plans to take full advantage of having four players available now (even if one of them is a flipper). He has invited everyone to the lounge and is currently busying himself with setting out drinks, snacks and a few choices for them while he waits for people to arrive]

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[unpaidovertime]

[Nanami wouldn't show up empty handed, so he has a nice bottle of non-alcoholic sparkling grape juice. Both so he can drink it and so he isn't responsible for drunken board game fights. Both very important to him. He's going to help full and set up if need be, but mostly he's going to make sure Azul relaxes a little and has fun himself.]

I'm sure we can take it from here, Azul, don't worry yourself too much.

[tothosewhobait]

I like keeping my hands busy. I promise to relax once everyone is here.

[unpaidovertime]

All your hands? Impressive.

... I might want to warn you that I've already met your new friend. He was transformed into a tiny little mascot and I helped him avoid the cherubs. I don't want to think about what they would have done if they caught up to him.

[tothosewhobait]

Thank you…for helping him. Idia is one of my fellow housewardens. We are also in board game club together, as you may have guessed.

[unpaidovertime]

I didn't know they had clubs for that sort of thing. And you know I will help whoever is in need here, if it's within my capacity to help.

[His wings puff up just a little in an involuntary display of happiness.]

[gl00my]

[guy who only showed up because he thought it was the him-and-azul hour comes knocking at the door with a box of LIFE]

Azuuuul are you ready to get demolished?

[tothosewhobait]

[Goes to get the door and immediately spots the game]

I see you have chosen Life. Do you wish to die?

[gl00my]

Step one's already complete last I checked. You're not gonna de-spawn over a game, are you?

[says the fucking table-flipper]

[tothosewhobait]

[Scoffs, stepping aside to let him in]

I told you that I have been working on my technique. Bold of you to assume I'll be the one to lose.

[gl00my]

[Grinning, smug]

Boardgames are the time to be bold, you should know tha--

[Idia comes to a screeching hault as Nanami steps in front of him.]

[unpaidovertime]

[Normally he might be a little upset to hear about someone demolishing Azul but the game makes it less worrisome. He does wait for the two of them to banter it out a bit before he comes to say hello.]

Idia. It's good to see you back to a more reasonable size. At least, I have to assume this is closer to your usual size and shape.

[gl00my]

[Idia starts walking into Azul's place, blissfully unaware that this isn't the "him-and-Azul" parade. He stops in front of Nanami, looking shocked at there's another person here. That it's. This person.]

Oh-- y-you... [He didn't commit Nanami's name to memory, he's bad at that sort of thing in general. That and he figured "when the fuck am I gonna run into an accountant"? Well. Here we go. Idia looks up at him.] I... yep... yeah this is me.

[Shittalk!Idia can't come to the phone right now, NervousAroundStrangers!Idia's already on the line.]

[unpaidovertime]

[Nanami isn't thrilled to have to look up at this man, he doesn't normally feel so self conscious about his height, but this is a special occasion.]

Azul has been wanting to get people together to play games and it seems you were the missing piece to bring it all together, so welcome.

[He is on his best behavior, though. This is Azul's friend and he wants to make a decent impression. Even if his name didn't stick.]

[gl00my]

[It's strange to be looking down on him, too. Really he should have expected this, having met the guy before, but there's a difference between intellectually knowing that you're taller than the accountant whose palm you're sitting in and seeing that you're taller than him.

It dawns on him that Nanami has some of Azul's things at his hotel room. The "why" of it doesn't yet to occur. But the puzzle advances.

He grips at the game in his hands] Oh, y-yeah we're in a BG club together... so...

[So??]

[outrageon]

Oh hey.

[pointing at guy who definitely did not intend to see other people here.]

It's Blurazz boy.

[gl00my]

[MORE PEOPLE?? This is not his beautiful house!!! This is not his beautiful wife!!!]

Y-you too??

[outrageon]

Wow. You almost sound like you're not happy to see me.

[gl00my]

.....I didn't know there'd be a party.

[outrageon]

[Whether or not she was invited, Velvet's here, because somebody isn't answering their phone and she's got nothing else to do. She should probably not be sitting on the back of a couch in such a fancy lounge and all but like, hey, at least she doesn't have her shoes on the leather.]

So, are you starting with Monopoly?

[She remembers his 'joke' from arcade day, okay—]

[tothosewhobait]

I do not want to start a war this early on in the evening. It is too intense for the starting game...we have to work up to it.

[outrageon]

Ohhhh. Mmhm! Mmmhm!

I understand.

[tothosewhobait]

I....get far too "into it".

[unpaidovertime]

I didn't know you liked board games. Or are you here for something else?

[He's trying so hard not to just quietly accuse her of things. It shouldn't take so much effort but he's trying anyway.]

[outrageon]

And yet, I could take one look at you and pin you for the board game type, huh?

[she would probably seem less full of attitude if she wasn't chewing bubblegum at this very moment]

[unpaidovertime]

I do enjoy their challenge from time to time.

You do have a way of reading people.

[A somewhat obnoxious way, but it gets results.]