Floor 2 common room

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::the teeniest bit tipsy, Cally decides that reading alone in her room is no way to spend her friday night::

::unfortunately, despite her misadventures today, doesn't think anyone she really knows isn't preoccupied, so she just heads to the common room... and starts reading again::

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::fiddles with bag, and pulls out her tiles::

[ooc: I'll tell you in a sec... I'm doing too much math to figure out how simulate real scrabble better.]

::thinks about the one real party she's attended::

Yeah, getting drunk seem's to be number one on most people's agendas when it comes to parties around here. Poker's kinda like a simpler version of the card game back home, so I think I understand how it works alright. I keep wanting to declare Full Colors whenever I play it, though.

::looks at her tiles, A, U, O, A, E, J, R:: Huh.

::hopes River plays something to go off, because "JAR" doesn't seem like a rousing play choice::

Truth or Dare, though? ::smiles::

[ooc: and yes, I just compiled the list of all 100 scrabble tiles, and am rolling percentile dice to find my tiles, and am keeping track of what tiles are gone. Yay OCD.]

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River ponders the tiles she's got for a moment, then ventures a less-than-impressive initial sally. B-E-D, something she doesn't plan to get to until much later. "Seven points?"



She pulls out three new tiles from the pile to replace the ones she's used, and considers telling Cally that most peoples' thoughts get louder when they're drunk. Naaaah. She looked spooked enough when I first told her.

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River rolls her eyes at the tiles she got. "Yeah, Truth or Dare. I have no idea how it's played."

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[ooc: N, O, V. And check your email -.-]

::writes down 12 for River even though she seems convinced the play was only 7 points::

Truth or Dare, yeah. It's kinda self-explanatory really. ::looks at her tiles, looks at the board, and tacks E-A-R under the B of bed::

Bear. 6 points for me.

Truth or Dare's just going around a circle, and each person says if they want to take Truth or Dare... and then someone else then tries to make your choice horrible by either making you tell the truth about something embarassing, or dare you to do something probably even more embarassing. And after that time back home, I am NEVER playing Truth or Dare with Sparky.

::draws her tiles, I, T, H::

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River peers over at the notebook and reads the numbers even though they're upside down. "12? Ohh, jeez... I must be more tired than I thought. And the first word down counts for double?"

She looks at the letters she's just chosen, then pulls three out and sets them in front of the E that Cally just laid down. "H-O-V spells 'hove (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hove&x=0&y=0)'. Past tense of 'heave', for, um, ten points?"

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"Sounds like it could be an enjoyable waste of time," River quips. "And if nothing else, a party game like that could help those of us on the second floor get to know each other better."

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Whew, yeah, the colored squares change your score. The pink you start on doubles your score for the word.

::shifts the V slightly to show the light blue squard:: and that doubles your score for the letter. Fourteen for you, with all that.

::looks at her tiles, chews on her lip, and places T-O-A down above the D of Bed::

Toad. And that dark blue square means it triples the score... which means i get triple one! ::laughs:: Seven points for me. And yeah, Truth or Dare is one of those guaranteed ice-breakers. But then there's always the possibility you end up with more guys singing in the courtyard wearing only a hat and a thong. ::shudders::

::grabs her replacements tiles, O, V, N, and looks puzzled back at the board::

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Playing off the "O" in hove, River lays out another three tiles on the board. "F, N, T spells font. What's that dark blue square for?" She lets her fingers dance over the tiles and picks out another trio.

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::wonders if River isn't a little scatter-brained, having just explained, but Cally's nice enough to just take it in stride::

Oh, that triples your score for the letter... so... triple one! ::smiles::

That's nine points for you.

::after a minute of thinking, sticks a U between the T of Font and R of Bear, and throws an N at the end::

Turn... only four points, sadly.

So, what sort of games did you play back home?

::grabs a Q and and A. Thinks And I just used my U. Frak!::

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"Go, pai-gow, Chinese checkers... that sort of thing. I played tag a lot with my brother when we were younger, but I don't think that counts." She looks at her letters, then openly studies the board.

"Ah." She picks out three tiles, M, R, and T, and adds them horizontally to the junction of bed and toad. "That spells mart and me, for... ten points, right?"

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Actually... the M's on a double letter score... so you get it twice. So that's sixteen for you.

::She is so going to mop the floor with me, frak!::

::racks her brain for a good play, but just doesn't see one. Sighs, and places H and A in front of the T of Toad::

Hat. Six points.

::grabs her two replacements, W, and N. Yep. I'm so not going to win::

So, you have a brother? He doesn't go to school here too, does he?

[ooc: and yes, I'm keeping track, since scrabble ends when there are no more tiles, so the game would never end. -.-]

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River examines the board, as though it were a mathematical equation to be solved. "Hmmm. OK, here." She curses her lack of a second E, then lays out three tiles vertically downwards from the T in mart. "Tend, for four points?"

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Well, it's 5 for the letters, plus E's on a double letter, that makes 6 actually

::rubs her eyes, but fights the sleepiness::

::looks at the board, realizes she could have played "oath" instead of "hat" and scored a double word. Frak! Must be the rum getting to me.::

Ha! ::puts down I and N on top of "tend":: Intend, 7 points. Look at me catch up by a point! ::smiles::

::grabs new tiles, E and L, making her holding "j, q, w, o, e, v, l". She stares, and rearranges them to spell "jq vowel" on her tray::

[ooc: and the current score is River: 57, Cally: 29. As to be expected.]

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River plucks three tiles off her stand and runs them horizontally off the D in tend. "Dirk. For nine."

[ OOC: And my three new pieces are 80 (S), 32 (F), and 30 (E). ]

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::Starts wondering if River is colorblind::

Triple letter on the R, so it's eleven, actually.

::Maybe I should keep letting her score herself... I might actually be able to catch up::

::looks at board, and her letters::

::What? Cheat at Scrabble? Cally, you have not sunk that low quite yet::

::thinks for a minute, and plops down o-v-e-l under the N of Turn::

Novel... scoring twelve, thanks to the double letter on the v::

::See, you're doing just fine. No need to cheat::

::grabs her replacement letters, E, Blank, I, and T, making her at Blank, j, q, w, e, i, t... and she quickly smiles as she arranges q-blank-i-e-t on her tray::

Your turn.

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[ OOC: No, I just don't have a colored board in front of me and hadn't bothered to look back up the page for the graphic. Which isn't labelled, anyways. *grin* ]

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

[ooc: no worries, just doing my best to explain things in character, like. I figured that was the case. *smile*]

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Aha. Finally. River places four of her tiles around the E in novel, to spell codex. "Fifteen points, if there's none of those unusual score-modifiers around."

[ OOC: New tiles are 58 (N), 29 (E), 50 (L), and 35 (G). ]

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::stares for a second at the play, her mouth open::

::Frak! There goes playing "quilt" on the triple word to catch up. Then, she notices the dark blue behind the X and the C. So much for catching up, ever::

Erm, Triple Letter on the C and the X, actually. So... thirty-seven.

::stares at her tiles, wondering if it really matters what she plays now::

::thinks really hard, chewing on her lower lip. Ha! Got One!::

::builds vertically off the K in "dirk", W-I-Blank-K-E-T::

The blank one's a C. Wicket. The I hits a red, so that means triple score for the whole word. ::does quick math in her head:: Thirty Six! Don't think you can leave me in the dust quite yet! ::smiles at River, severely enjoying herself::

::reaches over into the scrabble box and pulls out new letters: E, O, S, N, I. This brings her to JQEOSNI. Cally stares at her tray, and pokes it hoping the letters will magically form a word out of the mess. Sadly, it doesn't::

[ooc: River - 103, Cally - 77.]

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"Oooh, nice one." River stares at the letters in her own queue, trying to figure out where on earth they might fit in. "Leesh" is not a word. "As part of making another word, can I make one of the existing words plural?"

She silently hopes the answer is "yes". Otherwise, she's stuck with a number of less-than-useful tiles.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

::nods, smiling:: As long as it makes a word, plural or not, it'll work fine.

[river-dancing.livejournal.com]

River bares her teeth in a wicked grin. "Well, then..." She lays out G, L, E, N, and S so that the S falls directly below font. "Glens and fonts. For sixteen before any multipliers."

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[ooc: and I already took the n o v into account when sending you the list of tiles that were gone, ok?]