Cutthroat Games, Monday, July 8, 2019

[sith_happened]

Anakin who had not gotten lost in the maze all week NO REALLY HE HADN'T, was at the front of the class playing with tiny board game pieces and giving Aeryn a smirk. He was winning RISK today, dammit.

"Welcome to today's class on a game called RISK," Aeryn told them. "It is a game that is very important to both of us, that Anakin loses."

Putting it out in the universe.




NORTH AMERICA:
Alaska, Northwest Territory, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Oikiqtaluk, Greenland, Western US, Eastern US, Hawaii, Central America

SOUTH AMERICA:
Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Falkland Islands

EUROPE:
Svalbard, Scandinavia, Iceland, Great Britain, W. Europe, N. Europe, S. Europe, Ukraine

AFRICA:
North Africa, Egypt, East Africa, Congo, South Africa, Madagascar

ASIA:
Middle East, Afghanistan, Ural, Siberia, Yakutsk, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Japan, Mongolia, China, Siam, India

AUSTRALIA:
Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, Western Australia, Eastern Australia, New Zealand

Anakin was scowling very hard, even though he knew that didn't affect Aeryn in the slightest. "This is a very fun game about taking over the world using dice, and tiny fake armies."

And sulking. Soooo much sulking.

"You will be given Earth countries to start from, and I'm not sure how accurate some of these are at any point in time," Aeryn continued, not even paying attention to the scowling. "On your turn you'll try to invade a surrounding country, or add armies to what you already have."

"If you win the high score, you get the country. The one with the most countries--other than me--at the end of the game win," Anakin said. "It's fun and only slightly violent."

"Unless anyone throws the board," Aeryn said.

"Well, be sure to duck," Anakin said a little waspishly.

"And no cheating," she said, looking directly at him this time.

Comments

Re: ROUND ONE

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Hmmmm. Well. This should certainly be interesting. Sidon ruminated over the map and the game in general for a moment, trying to get in a good mindset for it. For most of his life, and, really, for most of the history, even during the Calamity, Zora's Domain was a peaceful, practically pacifist country, learning to fight only to defend itself from inevitable enemies. The idea of overtaking a world and invading other kingdoms did not sound like the sort of leadership role he would ever wish to take, especially since that's what Evil Entities like Calamity Ganon did.

Still, it was just a game, so, in the spirit of that, he would try his best.

Most of his armies were going into Afghanistan and Egypt, as it seemed to be quite in the center of it all, which meant the Middle East was clearly the obvious choice to try to overtake first, sandwiched as it was in the middle of them.

So he made the attempt, letting out a slightly relieved but also a little disappointed, "Oh, fish," when he proved unsuccessful.