[video | open]

[rotafortunae]

[someone's been busy in the junkpile as well. He's got a human sized table... sort of. One that's on the ground, at which he's kneeling. And he's got... stuff... on the table. He is, as usual, idly shuffling his cards.]

Well, well. When beasties aren't attacking the place, it can get downright dull around here, hmm? I mean, one can explore, of course, but that gets rather lonely; and one can garden as well, if one is human, but when all the chores have been done, what's there to do?

[he gestures to the stuff on the table. It... looks like a bunch of games. A lot are pretty beat up -- he did pull them out of the junkyard -- and with a few it looks like he's cobbled together extra pieces from spare parts. It looks like he currently has Yahtzee, backgammon, a whole bunch of dice, several decks of cards, what looks like a truly ancient Senet board, parcheesi, and checkers. And then... some odder ones. For instance, for some reason there is a Lord of the Rings Monopoly board. And then... Settles of Catan and... something called Pixel Lincoln.. It looks like he may have gathered even MORE in the background.]

A few weeks worth of work. But they're here for the taking, and I'm always up for a game of any sort. And yet, still no chessboard.

Beyond that... if you're not the sort for games, I've a little skill at fortune-telling with the cards. You can ask me any question you like and I'll try to give you an answer.

[ooc: so yeah, board game collection. I figure most games can be handwaved; Luxord will usually win at most games unless a character is spectacularly good in canon, or a supercomputer. I, the mun, am pretty good at some but terrible at others. I think there's online versions of a lot of these if we wanted to be really silly?

AS FOR CARD READINGS: I will do IN CHARACTER tarot card readings for people! I am still working out the system I want to use (developing a unique one for Luxord) and reading tags will be very, very slow. I will be using actual cards, and winging it. Luxord's got no magical fortune telling abilities or way to know the future, he just does it for the lulz... unless you WANT him to accidentally happen to draw a card that has a particular bearing on your character's life? ]

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IT'S ALL SLEIGHT OF HAND BABY

[rotafortunae]

Well, that's one way of reading it.

[shuffle]

You can take it however you like, or you can ignore it; you can decide that higher forces or my own brilliant intuition are trying to tell you something or you can dismiss it all as the vagrancies of random chance. It's up to you, really.

Luxord, are you enjoying this brief peek into the train wreck that is Starscream's psyche?

[my_own_trope]

[There's another pause, this time much shorter as Starscream makes up his mind on how to proceed. The verdict: human garbage that can't mean anything because seriously, humans.]

Random chance then; that was just a display of a less evolved species trying to find sense out of nonsense.

[he feels better already]

Entertain me some other way.

Yes, yes he is.

[rotafortunae]

How's this then: you can come over to Trion's temple and we can play a military strategy game, one that simulates world conquest. Is that acceptable?

It's all down hill from here

[my_own_trope]

[If he had a tail, it would be wagging. Just look at that: a human obeying an order and offering entertainment. And what's better? A game! Starscream hasn't played a game since... since he had a planet that wasn't ransacked by war. And not just any game; a military strategy game. Starscream knew he excelled at those. HE LOVED WINNING.

This was going to be so much fun!]

That is acceptable. I will be there in 3 hours.

[Because... walking]

[rotafortunae]

[THREE HOURS LATER... this game takes forever to set up]

[Luxord is also wondering how the hell starscream's going to manage the pieces]