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[undaunts]

"Heyyy, you've reached Ruby! Er, well, you haven't really reached me, because I'm not actually here right now! Eheh...heh...

Anyway, I'll get back to you! ...No really!"

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[undaunts]

Good! So we won't have any trouble.

[nailed it.]

Do you want to go first or do you want me to? Or should we flip a coin... hm, I don't have a coin...

[fatalstriker]

I'll let you have the honors, since you're so enthusiastic about it and all.

[okay and maybe because he just... doesn't care... oops.]

[undaunts]

Okay!

[SHE SURE IS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THIS SIMPLE GAME.

So yeah she's going to draw a card.]

Aaaand... blue!

[With great aplomb, she moves her gingerbread man two spaces forward to the next blue space.]

Your turn!

[Yeah, they're really doing this.]

[fatalstriker]

[she's so enthusiastic and he has no idea how to deal with it. yuri is decidedly less enthusiastic as he draws the card, looks at it... and then moves his three spaces to a yellow tile.]

...So it's really just this? [where is the exciting plot twist.]

[undaunts]

Yeah, it's really just this.

[She draws another card. Moves her freaky gingerbread man ahead a few spaces.]

It's usually more exciting back home, I promise.

[...]

But that's because it involves Yang.

[fatalstriker]

Kinda sounds more to me like it had more to do with that than the game itself.

[for whatever reason. it's gotta have something to do with the experience, because he can't see any way this game would actually be fun otherwise. he's sure not all board games are like this but it's.... simple.

like it's meant for really young kids, and there's not much appeal in that for him. but he'll still keep playing, drawing a card and moving the piece forward. is there any satisfaction that comes in winning something like this? there's no strategy at all.]

[undaunts]

... Are you saying you can't spice up a board game, Yuri?

[SHE THOUGHT BETTER OF YOU surely you're on Yang's level!!!

Even as she takes her turn too. Yuri's winning for now, but Ruby thoroughly intends on making a comeback here.]

[fatalstriker]

Aren't you asking a lot of an injured man?

[okay, so it's not really that. it's the fact that this game is kind of boring as sin and he doesn't have much expertise in the way of board games to start. the only way this seems like it could be more interesting is under the influence of a lot of alcohol.

which is obviously not an option for too many reasons.]

[undaunts]

I... totally forgot that you're injured.

[Whoops.

She blinks, peering at him more closely at that, forgetting about the game temporarily.]

Are you really that badly hurt? [:'(!!!]

[fatalstriker]

Convenient time to forget, isn't it?

[you know, while they're in a hospital room and he's a patient and all.]

Not bad enough that I need to be here, but probably enough that I shouldn't be getting out of bed for a few days. [or so. ribs, who needs 'em.]

[undaunts]

... I came by to entertain you but I think you're mostly entertaining me, but I don't know how to fix it.

[Casually...confides in him...]

I'm not very good at this sort of thing.

[fatalstriker]

You don't see me complaining, do you? Would've been better if you got me out of here, but this still beats the hell out of trying to find something to watch on TV.

[there's nothing on at this time of day, and he's barely interested in tv-watching most of the time anyway.]

[undaunts]

Maybe I should've brought video games.

[It's just a musing thought, and then she grins at him.]

But thanks for reassuring me anyway. I'll just... come up with a better way to entertain you! [She's still playing candy land though.]

Liiiike... okay, so, did you know that we have this thing back home called "dust", and it lets you do really, really cool stuff? Like--blow monsters up and stuff.

[fatalstriker]

[it's okay, he can deal with idly playing the game. it's a little less painful when there's an interesting conversation to go alongside it.]

You never mentioned it before, so it's pretty tough for me to know that. I'm not a mind reader, Ruby. [he's teasing, really.] But you had be interested at "blowing up monsters."

[undaunts]

Well, I dunno, you might have something like that! ... Even though you don't have Grimm or... Huntsmen and Huntresses or... anything like that...

[.. Okay, no, it was dumb to say and she recognizes that.]

Anyway, yeah, dust! Weiss uses it in her sword, for example. She can change out the type of dust to change the element of her attacks! And blow up monsters.

She blew me up with it once.

[fatalstriker]

[well, he was going to ask more about how the dust thing works, and the elemental shift because—it's interesting, and sounds different than what he's used to.

but unsurprisingly, she manages to throw him for a loop.]

She... blew you up.

[undaunts]

Yep. It was my first day of school, too.

[... ughhh.]

It was really embarrassing, and then Jaune called me craterface. Which is rude.

[fatalstriker]

Sounds like it was probably true, too. Explosions and all.

[snort.]

[undaunts]

... Am I going to regret telling you this, because I really don't like the craterface nickname at all--

[fatalstriker]

Guess you should've considered that before you told me, huh? [he probably won't until he wants to tease her a lot. oops.]

[undaunts]

Yuuuuriiiiiiii.

[Ah yes, the 15 year old whine.]

[fatalstriker]

Hey, you're the one who brought it up to begin with.

[undaunts]

I didn't think you'd be mean about it--

[...]

No, scratch that, I have no idea what I was thinking. That's pretty Yuri of you.

[fatalstriker]

Ah... so now I'm mean.

[wait for it.........]

What's the make the girl insulting the injured guy? [yuri.]

[undaunts]

[Yuri........................]

Probably someone who's kind of--

Ooooooh.

[She got it. She figured it out. Aren't you proud.]

Got it. I'm not mean at all, for the record! I came to visit you because I like you, okay!