vision

[calescent]

Kiri's up early the next morning, restless with various low-level simmering concerns, and wanders out of her room.

Comments

[salt_of_the]

"Who's going first?"

[free_flowing]

"Me," says Loel. "Same reason as Aleko last time. And we can go the same direction, even."

[salt_of_the]

"Okay." Patience starts looking through her bowl to see what she's got. "This would be easier if there were little mini bins to sort them into... I guess then it'd be easy for people to see how much you had of any given thing though."

[free_flowing]

"Yep," says Loel.

He hmms a little, sifting through his coins, then puts down resolve.

[calescent]

This game goes handily to Ekador, with the first person to run out of coins being Patience. The only person to collect a victory is Aleko, but he has so much shame in his heap as to thoroughly counteract it.

[free_flowing]

"That was fun!" says Loel. "Now I'm all proud."

[calescent]

"A productive day of game design, certainly. I'll have to write the rules down. Maybe we can come up with a few more and publish a little booklet of blessing coin games."

[free_flowing]

"That'd be cute."

[calendarofcrime]

"I would support the venture."

[salt_of_the]

"Now I'm gonna spend all day coming up with book titles."

[calendarofcrime]

"Will we be permitted to hear them?"

[salt_of_the]

"Only if they're not terrible! They'll probably be terrible."

[free_flowing]

"Aww, but what if the terrible ones are cute?"

[salt_of_the]

"Noooo my ideas for things are all awful," laughs Patience.

[free_flowing]

"I bet they're cute," Loel declares firmly.

[salt_of_the]

"Oh, you'd probably think it was cute if I wanted to title the book... I dunno, 'Book'. That is not a proper idea, by the way, it's a joke."

[free_flowing]

"That would be adorable. You are completely right."

[calescent]

"We should also name this second game. For that matter, they both fit the name 'Blessing Bowls' equally well..."

[free_flowing]

"Yeah, I was afraid of that," says Loel. "'Blessing Chains', for mine? I'm not gonna pretend it's genius, but it gets the point across... and the other one's more like 'Blessing Trades'. But if every single game in the book starts with 'Blessing' that's going to get old fast. I dunno."

[liakoura]

"We could title the book Blessing Bowls."

[free_flowing]

"That is a good plan."

[calescent]

Kiri scoots her chair in towards the circle - within range only of Loel, Aleko, and slightly Patience - to ruffle her twin's hair. "And the games can be Trades and Chains and so on, and people can specify if there are also card games or whatever by the same name."

[free_flowing]

"That makes sense!"

[salt_of_the]

"We need more than two games for a book but I don't want to make up another one right now, I'm hungry."

[free_flowing]

"I will make food," says Loel, getting up.