Newbie Shuttle, Portalocity Terminal, BWI (Saturday Morning Fandom Time)

[ultron_junior]

After everyone was done shouting at and/or hugging him to say goodbye – and there had been a lot of both –Victor Mancha had two choices in getting from Los Angeles to BWI. The first was taking a commercial flight, which would have been reassuringly normal.

The problem was that, even if he somehow got past the metal detectors, he suspected his circuitry might count as the kind of portable electronic device that wasn’t very takeoff-and-landing-friendly. He didn’t exactly have an easy off switch, and crashing a plane by mistake seemed like a big step towards super-villainhood.

Which meant he got to the Baltimore airport via portal. He’d never been through one before so he didn’t have much to go by, but it seemed like a nice portal: If nothing else, it smelled far better than Cloak’s ... cloak had. Victor was grateful to know that hadn’t been the state-of-the-art in teleporting.

And now he was on the East Coast other than New York for the first time. Once he’d exhausted the little potential for exploration the terminal had, he sat in a semi-comfortable airport chair, suitcase at his feet, and tried to break the Tetris high score on his phone while keeping watch for any other kids.

[OOC: Operation newbies: Go! I will be slow for a few hours after 5:30 EST, but otherwise around all night.]

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Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]

[ultron_junior]

"Like blackjack but no dealer," Victor summarized. "Cool. And then if you go over 20, you lose?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]

[suitably_heroic]

"Pretty much," Atton agreed easily. "You pick a main deck of ten cards, you draw four cards, which you can put into play whenever you think you need the edge."

He put down the card. "First person to get three wins, wins the game."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]

[ultron_junior]

"We still have some time to kill," Victor decided, sitting down. "May as well spend it on a game, right? Hey. I'm Victor."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]

[suitably_heroic]

"I'm Atton," Atton said. Gotten used to saying that, so that was fine. "And sure. We'll play Republic Senate rules the first couple of rounds until you get the hang of it."

Hey, he was fair. Sort of.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]

[ultron_junior]

Victor eyed him. "I don't know what Republic Senate is," he said. "Is that code for 'little guy loses his shirt'?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/04]

[suitably_heroic]

"Nah, you can keep your shirt on," Atton said, stacking his cards. "'Republic Senate' is a nice way of saying 'wasting our time swapping cards back and forth without any credits involved, so everybody loses and nobody wins'."