Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 12, 2007 19:14:40 GMT -5
"She gets the honor of kissing the winner!" Drew answered as if this should have been more than enough. And of course, his use of the pronoun was very deleberate and part of the teasing. He was also fully aware that if he pushed it too far, win or lose, no one was going to get any kissing... even if it was just the little cardboard people.
He tossed the die, rolling a two, which put him squarely on the number seven. He really wasn't doing too well, but still had that grand number 28 ahead of him. That was the good one to get.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 12, 2007 22:20:06 GMT -5
"The honor of doing such a grande thing?" Felicity giggled as she rose an eyebrow at Drew. The honor of kissing the winner? Was it really all that big of an honor? Felicity wasn't so sure, but she wasn't about to argue with the idea either, considering it sounded fair to her...as long as it was actually his cardboard boy doing the honor of kissing her cardboard girl.
"I don't think I can deny him such a thing as giving that kind of a prize to the winner, hmmm?" she continued after he rolled and moved his piece. "Your turn again, blank space," Felicity pointed out to the boy.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 12, 2007 22:32:44 GMT -5
"Getting.. the correct term is getting the prize," he corrected with a wide grin. Drew was getting sidetracked by the tease so he was a little confused when she told him to go again. "I just went. It's your turn," he said, not sure if he missed her roll of if she played by different rules than he remembered. Even if it was different rules, he hadn't taken an extra turn when he landed on five. Maybe they should have clarified how to play before actually starting.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 12, 2007 22:40:48 GMT -5
"Nope, not my turn. You're on a blank space, no pictures, snakes or ladders, so you go again." Lifting her light brown eyes to meet his gaze, she smiled gently. It was a part of the rules, a player got another chance when he or she either rolled a six, or landed in a blank square. When he was on square five, there was a ladder and a chute going through the square, therefore he got another go.
Grabbing up the die and handing it over to him, she did yet another dance. "And you're wrong, the term is giving."
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 12, 2007 23:05:13 GMT -5
"That's not how we used to play back home," Drew commented with a shrug. He hadn't gotten an extra turn on his first throw either so he wasn't exactly sure about this so-called rule, but if it got him an extra roll, he wasn't going to fight it too hard... just as long as no one accused him of letting her win.
Or maybe...
"Are you sure that's right?" he asked starting to wonder if she was making rules up to let him win.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 12, 2007 23:23:01 GMT -5
"Fairly sure," Felicity told him. That's how she'd always played, a blank square meant an extra turn. Of course, that didn't mean it was part of the official rules or anything of the like, and she surely wasn't about to let Drew win a game against her.
"I don't know if it's in the instructions or if it's just something mum and dad made up when they taught us how to play, but whenever we landed on a blank square, we got another go. If we landed on a square with some sort of a picture, the turn was over." If Drew played a different way, she wasn't opposed to playing his way, she was just used to the way she was taught. "Do you play differently?"
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 12, 2007 23:42:13 GMT -5
"We always got just one roll, no matter what," Drew answered with another shrug. Of course it had been a few years since he had actually played the game. maybe they had done the extra turn and he just forgot it. Either way, he was curious about this rule. "So what made the seven so special?" he asked, still not sure why that got an extra turn, but the three and five didn't.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 13, 2007 0:15:01 GMT -5
"It's a blank square," Felicity shrugged in return. Of course, the reason the three didn't seem to matter was because she hadn't caught it before, and the five was excluded because it actually had a picture in the square, a chute and a ladder were passing through it. "See, when there isn't anything in the square, it's just white, no other colour and there's no picture whatsoever in it, the person gets another chance."
Had she thought about it, she would've understood Drew's concern of why the three didn't seem special, but she'd already forgotten he had landed on said square. "We don't have to play that way if you don't want."
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 13, 2007 0:23:59 GMT -5
"So it's just the white ones? You don't get the extra roll on the yellow ones?" he clarified, making sure he understood this rule. It still didn't explain the three, but since it was early in the game, he was willing to let that one pass. "It doesn't matter which way we play, just as long as we both agree."
He scanned the board, looking to see how many squares this rule actually affected. It wasn't many. "So what about 69?" he asked, noticing just a bit of ladder in the corner of that one. "Or 61?" That square had an arrow guiding the player up to the next row.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 13, 2007 0:42:06 GMT -5
"Exactly, just the white ones," she answered with a firm nod. The yellow squares were coloured and not white, so players didn't get an extra turn on those. "Sixty-nine has the ladder going through it and sixty-one has the arrow in it, so they're not blank squares. The square must be completely blank of any colour in order to get an extra roll."
Designs, colours, anything of the sort meant the turn was ended. And because there were so few squares that were completely blank, Felicity had never argued the rule with anyone when they'd played, she just figured they were special squares and because there were so few of them, it made it easier to play in such a way.
"Ninety-seven, seventy-nine, thirty-seven, seventeen, thirteen, seven, and three are the only ones that are special enough to be landed on and get the player an extra roll." Once more, Felicity had completely not realized Drew had landed on square three to begin with. "So, still your turn."
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 13, 2007 1:01:59 GMT -5
"Thirty-seven has ladder in it," Drew corrected, not trying to be a stickler, but really needing to make sure he understood it all. She had mentioned three as one of the squares, but still, Drew didn't press the missed roll. By his count, there were five of these special squares. Not a major amount and the odds of landing on one was pretty low.
Of course, he had already landed on two of them, but he figured that was only because he was still pretty low on the board. Once he got past the second row, the next blank square was 79.
He took the die and rolled another two, grinning as he got the chance to climb up to 31. It looked like he'd be getting that victory kiss after all.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 13, 2007 1:12:51 GMT -5
"Right you are," Felicity agreed as she inspected said square. Her eyes had missed the ladder in the top corner, looking for it in the bottom corner instead. "So exclude that one from my list and there's the ones you may roll double on." Watching as he took his turn, she grumbled jokingly as she watched him move the pawn from square nine to thirty-one. Even if he was ahead now, she was more than confident her piece would win.
Taking the die, she rolled and got a number five. Close to six, but at least she hadn't rolled one as it would mean being back on the first row all over again. Fifteen was a safe spot to be in at that time.
Handing the die over to Drew, she heard a bit of foot shuffling and turned slightly to see her dad creeping into the room. After catching his daughter's eye, he made pretense look to be getting a book as he took a look at the game they had going. "Chutes and Ladders?"
The tone of his voice was quite clear, he didn't understand why they'd chose to play that game when there were a ton of others available.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 13, 2007 1:24:15 GMT -5
As Mr. Hjort made a predicted return Drew watched the man nervously as if Felicity's father would somehow know that Drew had merely been thinking about kissing the girl sitting so close to him. If worse came to worse, Drew would try to pin the blame on his little boy pawn. Sorry, chum... he appologized silently. With any luck it would be the marker that found himself on hit cardboard butt in the snow.
"Yes sir," he answered the man, not sure if Mr. Hjort was expecting a response, much less an explaination. Even if he didn't, Drew figured it was the polite thing to do.
He didn't know about any six rule either but fortunately for him, it didn't come up. He took the die and rolled a four, landing him on 35 which was white but had a bit of slide snaking through it.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 13, 2007 1:48:33 GMT -5
Raising a curious blonde eyebrow at Andrew, Ib nodded slowly, still not sure why the pair were playing such a simple game when there were more complex ones available in the cupboard. Then again, it only made him hope a little that Drew wasn't as bright as he seemed to make himself out to be in the beginning of the night. Then again, that made him curious about whether he should really leave the two alone. Felicity was sitting awfully close to Andrew, and the boy had a peculiar expression of guilt written all over his face.
"Very well," he finally replied, grabbing his book and reluctantly returning to the kitchen with book in hand.
Shaking her head, making the blonde locks fall away from her face, Felicity nudged Drew. There really was quite a funny look on his face, and she'd noticed how her dad's blue eyes had seemed to almost read it. Whatever it was, she didn't know.
Taking the die, the Gryffindor rolled it across the board, landing on a three. Moving the red head along the path, she stopped on eighteen which had nothing special for her to do either.
"So, why do you look like the boy who was caught with his hand in the cookie jar?" she asked innocently, curious.
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Drew Thornton
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 13, 2007 1:55:02 GMT -5
Drew tapped square 87 seiously. That particular act was punished by the longest slide on the board, but Drew wasn't really sure what she meant by asking it of him. "Me?" he questioned, not aware that he had looked any particular way. And while he had felt as if her father coukld read his thoughts, Drew hadn't even noticed that burning his ears did when he got embarassed.
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