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Who: Anyone
When: Day 65, early evening
Where: Anywhere
What: It's a mingle!

[Enjoying your slowly impending watery doom, Thusia?

If you aren't busy, why not stop by our snake-friendly shrine room, where our gods are +1 free today!

He's sitting on a stone ledge just above reach, stroking a pair of red and black snakes.]

Even thessse ssshrines are dull. You have no tasssste at all.

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[Hell yes. Gesturing to the Go board.]

I suppose it couldn't hurt. Black or white?

*Aww. Her tails droop slightly. Of all the people to take her up on her offer, it's the one she knows she can't beat. But she does enjoy the challenge nonetheless.* If you're to be my opponent, Yukari-sama, I must choose black.

[Hey, Ran, maybe she'll go easy on --

yeah no you're fucked.]

Just so. [Sitting down with a smile.] It's been a while, hasn't it? I've probably gotten a bit rusty.

*Dryly, arching a golden eyebrow.* You would hardly need me to calculate the odds of that.

*But she draws a black piece and places it on the board nonetheless.*

[Puts down another white piece almost instantly, seemingly without thinking. GOSH, LOOKS LIKE SHE IS TRYING TO PSYCHE YOU OUT, RAN.]

You flatter me. I hardly remember the rules.

As if that mattered. *And Ran puts hers down only slightly less instantly. At this stage of the game, calculations take no time at all.*

[Another piece, and a brief laugh.]

Whatever do you mean? A game can't work at all without rules, can it?

You mistake me, Yukari-sama. Even if you had forgotten them, it's simply inconceivable that you wouldn't grasp the rules by examining my play. *Her piece, just as quickly.*

[And Yukari's piece.]

That's so... but in that case, I must trust you to follow the rules which I have forgotten.

Mm?

Yukari-sama, I can't help but feel slightly insulted. *Her piece.*

I never said I was unwilling to do so.

[A pause, and then Yukari's piece.]

And yet the mere insinuation that I would act outside of set parameters is anathema to my existence. *For once, she puts down her piece faster than Yukari's.* But it is as you say.

[Piece, super quick this time.]

Rather, there is no one I would trust above you with such a responsibility as teaching me how to play a board game. Be honored!

An honor I shall treasure until the end of my days, surely. *A piece. And then a glance.* You've allowed me to capture you, Yukari-sama.

Oh dear. Have I?

[Another piece.]

What a novice mistake. I told you I was rusty.

True, that is indeed what you told me.

*She clears Yukari's pieces from the board and then places her own.*

[Places another piece.]

Are the odds in favor of my honesty rising, then?

*She goes.* It's a ruse that would be beneath you, Yukari-sama. That does not mean you would not do it.

How mean.

[Another move. Seems to be doing something kind of weird. Are you sure Yukari wasn't serious about being rusty?]

I see no reason to assume maliciousness in an honest observation.

*Yep. Pretty sure. In fact, she's so sure that now she's taking longer to make her moves, trying to analyze potential traps.*

[Yukari is still moving fast.]

You wound me, really, calling it a ruse.

I could call it a trap, perhaps.

...alternatively, a third possibility comes to mind. You may be playing an altogether different game.

[Smiiiiiiling.]

What game would that be, do you think?

The game wherein you place stones completely at random in order to take enjoyment at my increasingly puzzled attempts to deduce a coherent strategy in your moves.

[... Places another stone.

This one seems to make more sense. Maybe.]