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Janet Pluchinsky ([personal profile] sorrowandsorrow) wrote2023-10-08 08:59 am

Open Post: Welters

It's probably been noted before, but Janet's not actually dumb. The people of this mansion are varied and mercurial. They're not like Fillorians, some of whom are little bitches but who were largely cow-eyed and willing to accept her authority just because she was a pretty girl from another world.

So. She has to win people over. Maybe everyone needs a little fun to take their minds off things. Conveniently, welters is absolutely Janet's idea of fun. There's a bunch of insane rules, violence is encouraged, and you win if you're good at magic and being bossy.

The mansion grounds are also a little tempestuous as to their character, but apparently the master magician toying with all their lives is feeling charitable today. She's found a big, flat stretch of undisturbed grass, and she's sketching out welters squares with a piece of chalk.
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-08 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, no, it's just the moons. They're very large in the sky, so no matter where you are, one of them will be taking up about a third of it. The stars get lost in the moonglow, a little."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-08 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"A tragic loss for a good old-fashioned pasttime, but I suppose. Is the game actually less dangerous?"
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-10-08 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Tell me more about this game," he says. He is a little discomfited by the warmth of the marble ball in his hands, and eager to vouchsafe it to her again. "Is this how you play? Catching rocks? I'd expected more from magicians' entertainments."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-10-09 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
He tips the ball into her hand, then folds his own hands at his back. "Something like a wizard's duel," he guesses. "But wielding the elements as blades."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-10-09 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Would I wielded such powers!" says Laertes, and he sounds genuinely envious and interested. "This game makes mine own middling duels appear no more than schoolboys' brawls."
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-09 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
She nods. "It is. Not seeing one of them was honestly the thing that threw me most when I got here."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-09 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Sent by you, I suppose."
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-09 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Mmm, that falls into the same category as the drinks: I'm not surprised. About the rules or your adherence. Will you explain it to me?"
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[personal profile] timebethine 2023-10-09 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Immediately, Laertes's gaze--previously fixed on Janet's eyes to avoid her other orbular parts--snaps to Janet's weapons. "What are those?" he asks. Where before his interest had the kind of guileless curiosity one might expect to accompany pure ignorance, at the mention of a weapon, his focus sharpens. He is, Janet may notice, wearing a rapier strapped somewhat incongruously over his well-fitted jeans.
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[personal profile] ravkanwitch 2023-10-09 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
“It doesn’t really matter to me as long as they don’t try to order me around,” Nina shrugs, then gives Janet a smile. “Except maybe if it’s you.”

“What kind of game is it?”
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[personal profile] sagramore 2023-10-09 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Gratifyingly, he does look impressed. "You can change the whole yard into different things?"
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[personal profile] sporesprouter 2023-10-09 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
"It's round, yes. The moons are evenly spaced around it. The island I grew up on wasn't far from the Verdant lunagree."

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