( OPEN ) we are here and going to make it everyone's problem

[cranekin]

WHO: Team Everlight and YOU
WHAT: Breaking the ice with a spontaneous slumber party
WHERE: Everlight wing
WHEN: Some time after arrival
WARNINGS: Destroying friendships with UNO or something. Will edit for real as things come up.

(The fun thing about being taken and thrown into a new place is no one really knows you so when Tsurumaru Kuninaga is missing from dinner, he's sure no one really notices. Eventually someone will learn that whenever he's missing for too long, he's probably up to something if he doesn't actually have something to do.

He returns some time towards the end of dinner, when most people have probably begun to settle a bit for the evening. He stumble-dashes back to the base with an armful of plastic shopping bags and oooh he is definitely up to something…)

& SET UP

In the Everlight wing, they need to do some ☆re-arranging☆. Some desks and chairs need to be borrowed from rooms to drag outside for the food. While they're at it, they might as well grab the blankets and pillows too. They might also have to figure out what appropriate music to play. So maybe someone knocks on your door to commandeer your furniture and time. Or maybe they figure out a way to play music so everyone can hear and you end up drawn out by music.

Maybe you get sent out to buy more snacks and drinks for everyone while you're standing around with nothing to do. Let's go, Everlights. It's time to drag people into early shenanigans.

& FOOD & GAMES

There is plenty of food to be found. Check out the mixed bottles of different flavored sodas and teas, assorted chocolates, and other sweets from the convenience stores. Eventually, a couple of pizzas and a few more substantial things might show up on the table. Some of them are traditional flavors characters will be used to seeing but others may… be more out there. There sure are a lot of more experimental foods combinations in the future, huh? Have you ever tried coffee-flavored water? Yogurt-flavored potato chips? Flaming hot lava chocolate? What about calamari Oreo pizza? Well, now is your chance.

There are also stacks of playing cards and maybe some other silly toys and games from whatever is the equivalent of a dollar/pound store in the future.The 100 Kryptos store? Which version of UNO do you know how to play? Do you know how to play Werewolf or Mafia? There are plenty of bottles to spin. Give someone a call and see if they answer or else you have to eat one of those cursed pizza slices. Of course, when enough people gather around, there are plenty of other ways to make your own fun.

& CHILL

For more introverted characters that might want a quieter place to hang out, some Everlight has probably left their room open. Pillows and blankets have been piled into the room to make it a quieter, more laidback place to hang out. When was the last time you made a pillow fort?

// WILDCARD/OOC

Hello, Tsuru gets bored easily and he wants everyone to have ☆good vibes☆ because bad vibes make him sad so he is steamrolling and dragging people into slumber party shenanigans. It's in the Everlight wing but other characters can hop over if they're curious or dragged in. I asked the mods about the potential consequences of staying the night and they said it would be fine for the slumber party so go wild.

Treat this as an open mingle and feel free to come up with your own ideas and tag around. If anyone really needs me for anything, you can DM me or catch me on plurk (yosakoi ).

Comments

[blindspotting]

Of course.

[ He does get the feeling he's going to be learning new rules as they suddenly arise, but that's alright. One way or the other, Shion will learn. He's always learned better by doing, anyway.

Once all of the initial dice have been rolled, he focuses carefully back in on Bakugou, all solemn attention as the first round begins. ]

Incidentally, what happens if you win?

[blastedass]

[Bakugou's already laid out the rules for this one; it's just a matter of reminding and recognizing. Well, adding the points, but it's still a game even someone who can't see can play. Albeit taking a bit longer with his turns.

Bakugou takes a roll, watching the dice end up on a 4, 5, 3, 3, and 6.]

Tch. [Nothing but a 5. Fifty points. So he sets that one out, rolls the four remaining die, and comes up with 1, 3, 2, and 6. Just a 1, so that's a hundred points. With that die out, a third roll... and there's neither a 1 or a 5 there. Bust.

Fuck. He scoops up the die and puts them in Shion's hand.]

You win. No one's doing prizes.

[blindspotting]

The pride of victory, then.

[ Sounds as good as anything.

Shion considers the collection of dice in his hand for a second, feeling them as they shift. He could conceivably figure out a way to roll exactly the numbers he wants, but that seems like a lot of effort for a very silly game. Perhaps some other time.

For now, he just lets them roll, then frowns as he considers the results. 3, 6, 1, 6, 4, and Shion carefully sets the 1 aside to roll the rest again. 1, 2, 2, 3, and another 1 set aside. 6, 6, 5, and the 5 goes to join the others. With that, finally, his luck seems to have ended, and with a small smile he gathers the dice up to pass them to the next person. ]

How was that?

[blastedass]

Uh-huh. [Just a grunted response to that musing comment. Of course it's the pride of victory. That's why it's Bakugou's aim to win in every competition he's in! (And being naturally and aggressively competitive, that can be a lot of stuff.)

He watches Shion palm the die, wondering what kind of skills the guy has to compensate for his blindness. Isn't that how it works? Blind people, especially combat types, find ways around their handicap. Enhanced senses. Additional senses. A different kind of sight. Tactile. Sensory. Etc. Some people can even manipulate the things they do because of their blindness...

But Shion rolls. Gets up to 350 before he busts.] Halfway there. [The die pass off to the other two.] So what, is your sense of touch or hearing that good?

[Might as well bluntly get the elephant out of the room and learn.]

[blindspotting]

That is part of it.

[ And it's true enough, that his hearing makes up for a lot. But that's not what Bakugou is really asking, and when the urge to tease comes over him Shion has a hard time rejecting it. Perhaps part of him will always be a performer at heart.

While the person next to him is deliberating, Shion liberates one of the banked dice and holds it out to Bakugou. ]

Here. Roll this and don't tell me what it says. I promise not to touch.

[blastedass]

[Figures. Enhanced hearing is usually how the blind compensate (in comics) for the lack of sight. Meaning that'll be a problem if he's working with the guy. He doesn't want to blow his sensitive eardrums out by setting off an explosion next to him. Despite it being a game, Bakugou doesn't mind using it to learn more in regards to their future missions.

He blinks at the sudden offer of the dice. Uh... The fuck?] Haa? I'm not doubting you!

[Even as he rolls it between him and Shion. Five.]

[blindspotting]

[ He just smiles faintly and folds his hands on the table in front of him. It takes a moment to focus in enough on the little die, Shion's eyebrows drawing together slightly, before enough detail settles into his perception. ]

Ah. Five.

[ There, no senses necessary. Or at least not any of the usual ones. ]

[blastedass]

[Bakugo pays attention to Shion the entire time, noting his ears, eyes, nose, brows, face, hands, anything that might give a tell on how the man is sensing the die. Even if he knows it's his hearing, there are elements that he wants to draw out if possible. Just in case.

Like noting that it takes a moment and there's obvious focus since the Shion's brows knit. Not as fast as sight, but still quick. Good to know. There's a small delay necessary for him to either pick out the sound and/or decipher it.

At least that's what Bakugo's thinking...]

Yeah. I heard you. You've got good ears.

[He takes his turn, rolling the five die across the table. 1 2 3 4 5.] 750, first one in!

[And promptly sweeps the die up again and rolls them. 2 2 5 6 6.] Tch. 800. I'll take it.

[If that 5 had been a 4, he would've lost the lot.]

[blindspotting]

[ Apparently his performance can use some work, then. Ah well, good to know.

He lets himself be distracted by the game again anyway, carefully tracking Bakugou's actions like he might be tested on them later. When the dice come to him again, he rolls faster this time. 3 3 5 4 3. 350?

After a moment's consideration, he sets the five to the side and rolls again. 4 6 5 2. This time he nods and decides it's not worth the risk. ]

400, then. Better, I think?

[blastedass]

[Bakugou's still not sure how the guy managed to know it was a 5 just by hearing... There's a difference between feeling the dice face and hearing it. But that's the only logical conclusion, outside of feeling vibrations, and even that's a stretch. Unless Shion's got some other way of knowing the number... Possibly.

Something to talk about later. Bakugou nods at the first summation of Shion's points. The man's picking this up quickly, both the scoring and telling the numbers due to that faster roll. A natural?]

Yeah. You need 750 to start banking your points though. Can't lose anything rolling those last three.

[Three of a kind still gets Shion points, or he could eek his way back to rolling all five again if he keeps getting 5s and 1s.]

[blindspotting]

Ah. I see.

[ So many rules to consider. Still, he doesn't seem particularly bothered by the loss, idly listening as the turns go around the table. There does at least seem to be some sort of increasingly heated competition happening, which makes him tip his attention back towards Bakugou. ]

Thank you, incidentally. I appreciate all of the assistance.

[ It would be much easier to simply leave him in the dust, and honestly Shion wouldn't have minded. But if they are going to play the game, he might as well try. Having someone to explain it all neatly has been invaluable. ]

[blastedass]

[It's certainly a bundle at the start, but they come together quickly enough and don't change. Mostly lucky rolls and addition. The game really gets going once the four of them are all on the board, and then becomes a race to see who can reach the 10,000 marker first.

Did you get lucky and roll three or more of a kind to rake in a big point take? Did you get greedy and roll those last two die to try and score more, only to lose what you could've kept? Or did you cling by your teeth and scrape your way up with a bunch of one's and five's to reroll the entire set for another chance at combos? Or did you play it safe and stop after netting a few hundred points, thinking slow but steady will ultimately prevail over risky gambles?

Bakugou goes for the big rolls, elated when his luck soars, but exploding the rare times his ambition gets the better of him and his luck turns a fucking traitor on him. He more often banks what he gains rather than risks it all on a single die roll...]

Hmph. [Getting thanked earns a brief grunt of acknowledgement before Bakugou passes the dice to Shion.] Could you really have played cards?

[It's gruff, but genuinely curious, rather than sarcastically assuming the blind man can't.]

[blindspotting]

Probably not.

[ It's an easy admittance, as Shion begins his rolls. He's a much more reserved player, seemingly content to press on until he has enough points for it to count before moving on. Then again he isn't particularly concerned about winning, so when the goal is just to provide a challenge for someone else, it becomes easy enough to risk less. ]

But it seemed worth trying, when offered. [ Maybe there could have been just enough imperfections on the cards that he would have been able to tell them apart, maybe it might have been a game that didn't require being able to read the faces. Not likely, but possible. Maybe he does gamble, in his own way. ]

It's good to try things even if you might fail, I think.

[blastedass]

Haa!? You were getting ready to be dealt in!

[This guy just say that so easily! Wasn't he aware of what happens in a card game? It'd be like trying to play most video games blind! Impossible to do unless there's some other version of sight happening. Though Shion currently has the highest single-turn point pool, having rolled a 2 through 6 (for a 750) and then three 1's (an additional 1000) on the following roll. Brought him from last place roaring up to contend with the other three players in a neck and neck race.]

Tch. Have you ever played cards before? [While he can't fault the guy for wanting to try new things, being unafraid (or unbothered) by failure, especially in the face of his own handicap, there's also this thing called logic? Whatever, if that's what this guy wants to do, then he can do it. In Bakugo's mind, it's far more fair playing ground to compete at a dice game with a blind man than it is to play cards and feel like he's taking advantage of someone's handicap. Simple as that.]

[blindspotting]

I have not.

[ Undoubtedly if he'd tried before someone would have objected in much the same way Bakugo has, though Shion can think with amusement of at least one former clanmate who would have been delighted to take whatever advantage they could. He's not stupid enough to try to play for anything like money, at least. A loss of imaginary points, he can handle, actual gambling is probably a bit much. ]

But there are a good many things here I've never encountered before, so why not?

[ There's a voice in his head that reads messages to him. Surely a card game can't be that much stranger. ]

You're fond of these games, I take it?