ITP: Chess and Other Games

[mind_over_metal]

[--oh oh oh man, it’s the worst feeling, like one of those slow-motion disasters in the movies, where you walk in on something and you immediately know that you’ve walked in on something, the awkwardness hits before your foot touches the ground for your next step but it's too late for you to turn around, the inertia is already carrying you forward

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[goddamnemperor]

How unusual.

[mind_over_metal]

*visibly more energized than usual -- and while that doesn't diminish in any way when Leto addresses them, Charles does seem just slightly... embarrassed...? caught in the act, as it were. though he covers for it well enough for it not to be apparent to an average observer.*

Different than normal, yes.

[goddamnemperor]

I hadn't realized you two could be normal in any way.

[mind_over_metal]

*his tone joking, though the content is true*

It perhaps sometimes takes a little bit of effort.

[goddamnemperor]

Bez pracy nie ma kołaczy.

[mind_over_metal]

Sine labore non erit panis in ore.

[goddamnemperor]

[laughs]

And it always ended with "That's what she said". Latin aside, people don't change all that much.

[mind_over_metal]

Not fundamentally, perhaps. But that thing that is unchanging, that central defining framework, is always having to readjust relative to its environment.

Also, don't forget "in bed." That's a reliable ending as well.

[goddamnemperor]

Isn't that the point of an environment?

So it is! Not that I would know. I'm only fifteen years old.

[mind_over_metal]

That's no barrier to a good inappropriate joke. In fact, possibly the opposite.

[goddamnemperor]

Ha! I wonder.

[mind_over_metal]

*with mock sternness*

Just don't look to me for any corrupting. I have a reputation to uphold here.

[goddamnemperor]

You? Corruptible? Hardly. I find the opposite is more true.

[mind_over_metal]

..."the opposite"?

[goddamnemperor]

I am easily corruptible. Your emotions of love, fondness, kindness. They will do me in, someday. [looks away] The day I fall back into my selfishness is the day I die. Ironic, isn't it? Or perhaps it is simply the fate of gods.

[mind_over_metal]

Today is apparently not that day, though. So you're still here. Would you do me the pleasure of a game or two later tonight? I'm getting a bit sick of winning.