Parlour Games, Friday, 6/21

[bitten_notshy]

There was a sign on the classroom door directing students out to a side lawn of the school. Once the students were assembled there, they'd find Jack fussing with the last of a series of six hoops.

"This isn't a proper parlour game, but it's certainly a game, and it feels silly to waste a beautiful summer day sitting around playing cards," Jack said. "Today we're playing croquet. Some of you have no doubt played it before. For the rest of you, here's a sheet of rules. The goal is to use the mallet to hit the ball through all of the hoops before anyone else can. So it's a bit like miniature golf, except with goals that stick out of the ground instead of being dug into it."

He went over the rules for a few minutes longer, than stood back. "And now -- time to play."

Comments

Sign In [6/21]

[bitten_notshy]

Sportily!

Re: Sign In [6/21]

[tigerundercover]

Raven Darkholme

Re: Sign In [6/21]

[myownface]

Sparkle

Class Stuff [6/21]

[bitten_notshy]

This is not a parlour, Professor Priest...

Play Croquet [6/21]

[bitten_notshy]

Get the ball through the hoops. Or wander off and hit things with mallets. Or stare at clouds.

Re: Play Croquet [6/21]

[tigerundercover]

Charles' mother sometimes seemed convinced she lived in Victorian England instead of 1950s New York, so Raven had actually played croquet a number of times in the past.

Her favorite parts were when she could use her mallet and ball to knock someone else's way off the court. But she was pretty decent at the rest of it, too.

Talk to Jack [6/21]

[bitten_notshy]

He is practicing his own croquet stroke off to the side.

OOC [6/21]

[bitten_notshy]

It is too hot to think.