The Club Fair, Gym, Friday Afternoon

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Though he'd heard about something like it being in the works, the club fair wasn't what Simon had been looking for.

Regardless, it was what he found, just as it was being set up. He almost left straight away, to avoid being in anyone's way, but then his curiosity won out. So, he decided to stay and take a look at the club schedule.

Couldn't hurt, could it?

[ooc: Wait for the OCD! OCD achieved, have at!]

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Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

Karla had to laugh at that. "Cradle is a fun game!" she protested. Which, granted, probably didn't carry too much weight while she was laughing like that. "Lots of people really like it!"

None of them male.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

"Lots of girls like it," Warren stated. "Cradle is like the female equivalent of manly chest-thumping after successfully shooting a moose in the Canadian wilderness, somewhere before the moment where they realize that they have to clean all of the shit out of it before their wives will let any piece of that animal into the house."

... Warren watched a lot of television growing up.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

"...I have no idea what the Hell you're talking about," Karla said, looking very, very confused. "Cradle has nothing to do with hunting."

Mother Night, Karla. Metaphor.

LIKE STUBBING YOUR TOE!

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

"So far as I can tell, cradle doesn't have anything to do with fun, either. It's way more on the 'what have I done wrong in my life to deserve this punishment' end of the spectrum."

Warren didn't speak like this often!

But damn, cradle deserved it.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

Karla looked hurt at that. "That's not true!" she argued. "It is fun! You just...didn't give it a chance!"

Or drunk enough while giving it that chance.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

"How many chances do I have to give it before it counts?"

How many afternoons had he lost to that female-brained male-torture-instrument?

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

[ICONS. STOP CHANGING ON ME!]

"How many do you think you'll need before you like it?" Karla asked.

It was a legitimate question!

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

She had to be kidding.

"... I don't think I'll live long enough to play the game that many times," he intoned. "Have you ever met a male who understands it? Because I sure as hell don't."

Stupid cradle.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

"Maybe you just need to go over the rules again?" Karla suggested, flashing an unsure-but-game grin at him. "It'll be more fun if you understand it, really."

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

"Which rules? There are only twenty-six different sets of them."

He wasn't just learning one game, he was learning damn near thirty. All at the same time.

Also part of the evil of cradle.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

"Well, it's more twenty-five variations on a central theme..."

Karla, you weren't helping your case, here.

"Besides, I haven't made you play in like a month!"

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

And there went Warren, displaying one eloquently raised eyebrow.

"That wouldn't be because I freaked out the last time we were playing, would it?"

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

"...You worried me," she said, which meant 'Yes.' "And even though it wasn't cradle's fault--I'd do anything to not have to see you like that again."

Which meant if he really didn't want to ever play again, she wouldn't make him.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

Warren ducked his head and closed his eyes, lifting a hand to run fingers through his hair with a sigh. The reaction hadn't entirely been him, either, but his frustration with that game had been real enough.

"I won't be like that again. Cradle or none, I won't lose myself like I did then, Karla. Not again."

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

"It's not that I think you will," Karla said, leaning over the table to try to lace her fingers with his. His claws were barely given a second thought. "But it still scared me. And if cradle was a kind of trigger for that..." She shrugged. "We don't actually have to play it anymore."

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

Warren let her take his hand, and gave hers a little squeeze.

"No, it's fine. It's not my favorite game in the world, but I think my reaction was... way more about the fact that there was an alien disease trying to take over my brain, and all."

That sort of thing tended to make people act weird.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

Like cursing and punching walls. That had been really not like him.

"How about we compromise," Karla said, giving him a smile. "You let me join the frat and I'll try to teach everyone cradle. If none of the males like it, I'll never ask you to play again."

How could you turn that offer down, Warren? How?

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

Was she insane?

"I think no amount of healing factor in my blood wouldn't be able to save me if I pulled that. When I die, Bobby gets all the stuff in my room, okay?"

That's a no.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

Karla was pouting at him. Again. "You're exaggerating."

Of everyone who signed up, only Ben, Seifer, and possibly Goose could take him. And Ben already played cradle.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

"There are way more of them than there are of me," Warren pointed out. "And frat is supposed to be fun."

... He loved you, Karla. And that was why he could be brutally honest about your stupid game.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

MOTHER NIGHT, IT WAS AN AWESOME GAME!

"Well, now I am feeling all kinds of unspecial," she announced with a toss of her hair. "I can't join a frat and you hate my favorite game."

What was next? Would he insult her baking, too?

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

"What happens when they boyos get into that mindset that I mentioned earlier, and instead of being able to retreat, they're made to play cradle?"

Warren kind of suspected that it involved blood.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

"They go out and spar with Lucivar for a really long time," Karla admitted.

And then pled injury and fatigue the next time one of the coven wanted to play.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[wwiii]

And so, Warren's deadpan. Karla was getting it.

"So, no, no cradle in the fraternity. Poker, maybe. Cradle is strictly banned."

If anyone else in the frat knew what it was, they'd give him a medal for this executive decision.

Re: Talk to the Representatives - Kappa Kappa Gremlin

[glacial_queen]

"I've played poker before!" See? She could still join the frat! "I even kept most of my clothes on!"

...Or not.