Squirrel Common Room, Friday evening

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

The weather intermittently sucked, so Walter had the radio playing in the common room and had produced a dart board from somewhere.

Pup kept running across the floor chasing uselessly after the thrown darts, but between music and his purchases from All and Sundries, Walter was not too bored.

[ooc: Open to whomever. It is a common room, after all.]

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[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"You know, I just can't play darts," Pip said as he walked into the room.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"You don't need depth perception to drink," Walter pointed out and nudged a clanking bag secreted behind a chair.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"In fact, it could be argued that depth perception is a hindrence to drinking," Pip said as he pulled out a clanking object and opened it.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter considered that for a moment before shaking his head and throwing his darts at the board, precipitating another bout of happy yapping on Pup's part.

"Does it keep you from having problems with double blurred vision?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn came into the common room and smiled. "Am I intruding on...boys time?" She thought she had the term right.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Of course not," Walter waved her in. "It's our common room. You might even like darts."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"Darts are like tiny arrows, correct?" She asked as she tok a seat.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Pip said. He didn't elaborate on how. It was a myster of the universe.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia meandered her way in after an afternoon of handwavily wandering about the woods. "Hey, people."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Yes and no." Walter handed her a dart and pointed to the board. "An easy way to start is to play 'round the clock.' Just throw in numerical order around the board and end in the center."

He demonstrated with a throw that pegged the dart in the center of the segment marked 1.

"Interested? I'm just playing for fun."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Hey." Walter turned away from the dart board to grin at Nadia. "I'm just killing time before we go on our little romp tonight. Do you play?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Excellent." That required a toast. "How were your workshops this week?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn nodded. "It looks like fun."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Brilliant!"

He retrieved the dart from the board and handed two more darts to Gwynn before retrieving the other set of three for himself.

"After you."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Pretty good," Pip said. "Someone said I shouldn't bother taking Karate and should, instead, help teach it."

[nadiathesaint]

"Never tried. I'm pretty good at throwing things, though,"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn got used to the weight and feel of the dart in her hand as she foucused on the board, then she let the dart fly.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It's good practice for throwing things with precision." And given that he was potentially playing with two novices, alcohol was an excellent accompaniment.

"Would you like something to drink? I have alcohol and soda. I know we have to be relatively sober for later."

[nadiathesaint]

"Relatively, though. One drink won't hurt me . . ." Nadia picked up one of the darts, turning it over in her fingers. "Now, how are you supposed to throw one of these?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It's a hazard when taking a workshop with civilians, I suppose." Walter shrugged and had a drink of something as yet unspecified. "But you can learn a lot from teaching."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Knock, knock, knocking on Squirrly's door, hey, hey, heyhey yeah.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter had expected Gwynn to do well and wasn't disappointed. "Here. Just a couple of small things with your stance."

He stepped up to the line that didn't exist anywhere but in his head and demonstrated.

"Everyone should have a few practice throws."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Come in."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn paid close attention to what he was doing and when he stepped back, she stepped up and did exactly as he had, letting the dart fly.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It's fairly direct." Walter showed her where the imaginary line on the floor was. "The important part is to never let your dart tip point down at any point during the throw."

He took a dart and demonstrated. "And don't forget to aim, not just throw."