Game Night (Open/Mingle)

[majestic_keiki]

[Following a recent paycheck and as a way of passing time, Kei had acquired a fairly large collection of board games, but such things obviously needs other players. As such a game night is held for the pilots and support staff of Unity Group. The venue? The only place on any of the bases suitable for a large gathering possibly sticking around until late in the night - Asagi's room. Several board games are scattered across the room, taking up both table, bed and floor space, though one table is reserved for snacks. It holds a variety of different ones, centering on a large number of Kei's strange, technicolor cakes, but also featuring more ordinary ones for those without hummingbird metabolisms or who just have a sense of taste.

So what are people playing and how many friendships are ruined by brutal backstabs or lame jokes about what to give in exchange for sheep?]

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[herodrawing]

Hey! Let's play this.

[Oh shit, Izuru is holding up Monopoly - space edition. The most expensive place on the board is in fact the Star Rose.]

[brought_it_back]

...What is this game designed to teach?

[herodrawing]

Capitalism, I guess?

[majestic_keiki]

Doesn't it take really long to play?

[Kei had already helped herself to a big slice of one of her cakes that.]

[herodrawing]

I don't know. I never played it before, but how bad can it be?

[brought_it_back]

Um...I've never done this sort of thing, so...it may take a while for me to understand...

[cloningblues]

Isn't this the infamous game that ruins friendships? Can't we play Arkham Horror instead?

...And why are we playing in my room?

[gold_four]

Oh yeah, a Lovecraft game, that's gonna be so fun. Maybe if there were cute girls or something...

I call the light frigate.

[That's a game piece now.]

[herodrawing]

I don't know what Lovecraft is. But it sounds like girls are involved. And, umm, romance? After all "Love" is in the name.

[brought_it_back]

[Eva has taken to reading the box.]

'Vie for the love of the woman of your dreams-or nightmares. Resist the enticing corruption of the dark powers and save the world, or fall to darkness and embrace the many-tentacled nightmares that lurk on the edge of sanity...'

...A game about interpersonal relationships...

...We will play this one.

[booty_chaser]

Aw man. I wanted to play the other one.

[Playing Monopoly against Ashe would most definitely not be a winning proposition]

[majestic_keiki]

Maybe we can split up to play two different games? Can six people even play this one at the same time?

[brought_it_back]

We will be playing this game.

[herodrawing]

Well. Looks like Eva has a really strong opinion about it so why not?

[booty_chaser]

Wait a minute, Izuru.

You're not here to give orders to the rest of us, Eva. If you want to play with everyone else, you play what we all decide together. So if you want to play this, ask it nicely and we'll see if we all want to.

[Ashe is not about to put up with any That Guy crap, even if it's That Girl]

[armowrpiercing]

(A cat sits on the table.)

Good day, everyone. Any kind soul that are interested into playing Wings of Wars with me? I have been collecting and painting the miniatures for a long time, but never got a chance to play it.

[keep_your_dignity]

[The massive form of Major Kagura was some distance away, in that sort of immobility that only a robot body with nothing to do at the precise moment can achieve. However, she approaches the table, the huge frame sort of shadowing the table as the faceless head turns and looks at it]

AND THIS IS?

[armowrpiercing]

Just the most detailed and exciting world war one aerial combat game ever!

(The cat looks really excited)

I have the rule book and collected the miniatures, but I never got the chance to play it! For some reason my friends weren't too interested on it.

(Maybe that's because the rule book is an inch thick and looks as complex as a real plane's manual)

[keep_your_dignity]

I SEE.

IN CASE YOU DIDN'T NOTICE, WHISKERS, THIS THING PRETY MUCH REQUIRES THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS READ THE ENTIRE MANUAL BEFOREHAND. HOW EXACTLY WERE YOU EXPECTING PEOPLE TO JOIN YOU JUST LIKE THAT.

[The Major is looking at the miniatures, though. Though what she thinks about them, anyone's guess]

[armowrpiercing]

I can teach you! It's not actually that complex.

You see, your plane can move on as many hexes as your engine stat divided by the wind vector. The wind vector is derived by comparing the roll of a twenty sided dice with wind direction table and your plane's nose direction...

Do you like the miniatures, Ma'am? I painted them myself!

[keep_your_dignity]

GOOD THING I HAVE AN EMBEDDED CALCULATOR.

AND THIS SEEMS A GOOD LIKENESS OF A HANNOVER CL III. YOU PAINT WELL FOR HAVING PAWS.

[armowrpiercing]

I painted it very carefully.

[keep_your_dignity]

SO I PRESUME.

VERY WELL. I HAVE TWO HOURS. I CAN PLAY YOUR GAME.

I'LL TAKE THE FOKKER DR I AND D VII AND THE HANRIOT. THREE VERSUS THREE. YOU'LL HAVE TO ROLL THE DICE.

[A focus on planes that were renowned for maneuverability - Kagura may not know the rules, but she clearly has a plan already. And apparently knows a bit about WW1]

[armowrpiercing]

Joys and jubilations!

Anyway, you have good eyes, major, but can you fight against my wing?

(Archie carefully pushes forward three plane with his paws. A SPAD XIII, and SE5, the cat chose the fastest fighters with the most powerful engines from the war! And more so, it's led by a SPAD XII, a prototype fighter infamous for its cannon gun. Clearly the cat loves high horsepower and massive firepower.)

I move first! I move forward and split my wing three ways.

(The cat pushes the miniature planes on the hex map toward different directions. Apparently it's trying to attack Kagura's wings from three different directions at once using its advantage in speed.)

[keep_your_dignity]

[Wordlessly, Kagura slides her miniatures. The three planes, slower, move right between the enemy vectors, climbing altitude in the way only the german triplanes ever could. It might strike the cat that from this position, his speedy craft is going to need to perform some very large and very open curves to get on the enemy's tail, while the Fokkers' wings allow them to loop on themselves easily with turn widths of less than half distance. The smaller planes are right in the middle of the uncomfortability radius of the larger planes.]