12th Resurrection - How to Make Friends & Influence People

[sanctus_dei]

[A pale young man sits alone at the park at an outdoor chess board during the afternoon. There's pieces on the board, and a few have been moved around. Mostly, he's reading through an old, old book as he sits there. There's no title on the cover, or if there was, it rubbed off ages ago. There's another book sitting next to him too on the bench - just a run-of-the-mill library book on basic car care. He smokes as he reads, and occasionally puts the book down to make a move on the chessboard. Yep, against himself. He has no one else to play with at the moment. Captain Crankypants here knows that he needs to make allies if he ever wants to overthrow this town, or crack its mysteries... but he also really hates 90% of people, and wouldn't know how to make friends with someone if his life depended on it. And without his spellcasting ability, there wasn't much he could do...

Nonsense! There's plenty Theo's capable of... right?

He also knows that he needs to find a relaxing hobby in this town before he goes completely mad. After all, he was just threatening to beat a girl with a wrench for messing with his car that he doesn't even *care* about. And that he already pretty muched FUBARed it on his own. Obviously mechanics will require more study before he jumps in head-first again...

So this was as far as Theo could make it to being social. He's outside, what more do you want? Well, maybe you want to join in and play some chess. Or maybe you just want to point and laugh at him for being a bitter loner. The choice is yours.]

Comments

Theo's bringin' in all the ladies to pay chess, aww yeah /shot

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Well playing versus myself doesn't seem to be very interesting.

Theo's chess brings all the girls to the yard...? *is shot*

[teacup-parry.livejournal.com]

I expect it wouldn't be.

*she'll take a seat, sipping her tea*

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

[He arranges all the pieces again. He gets black, you get white.]

You any good?

[teacup-parry.livejournal.com]

I've had some experience with the game. I'd like to think I'm at least decent. ((Re: She'll probably completely humiliate him, y/n? XD; ))

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

I haven't played in a long time, and the guy who taught me was pretty much a moron, but I'd like to think I'm pretty decent as well.

_{[[Theo is good enough but somehow I am thinking most definitely YES here. XD]]}

[teacup-parry.livejournal.com]

Well, then... white goes first, yes?

*making the first move*

((Go ahead and skip to complete humiliation if you want XD ))

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

[Theo is almost in awe of how swiftly Shina defeats him. He grows more agitated with every move, cursing under his breath the whole time. When he loses, he sits back in the bench, practically boiling.]

"Pretty decent"?! Bullshit!

Notifs where have you gone?

[teacup-parry.livejournal.com]

*tea sip*

It's not healthy to take a mere board game so seriously.

been broken for days, it sucks >:C

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

[Glares at you, lighting a cigarette] You lied. I've never seen anyone move so fast.

[teacup-parry.livejournal.com]

It has been some time since I played Chess. You could say I wasn't sure if I was rusty or not.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, something tells me you're not. Either that or my former mentor really WAS a terrible teacher.

[teacup-parry.livejournal.com]

Chess must be rather important where you come from.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

[He sighs heavily, running a hand through his hair.]

No, no particularly. I just wasn't expecting such a throughout beating. Guess I'll have to practice and challenge you to a rematch sometime.

[teacup-parry.livejournal.com]

*teasip*

Well, I'll look forward to it, then.