Third Floor Common Room, Friday Afternoon

[lockestheway]

You'd think that with his roommate gone, Peter would have been indulging in a lot of the teenage boy's equivalent of cat-stretching across his new space, but... well, one, that was immature and unnecessary, and two, he'd been enjoying his newly private room well enough right up until he got stuck waiting on an important informant to get him some information.

Which apparently wouldn't be happening for a few hours, and Peter had exhausted all other means of making himself useful.

So instead he had moved up into the common room and dragged out some of the board games. Well, one of the board games. Well, Risk. Things had not gone entirely smoothly with Loki the last time, so he was planning to see if there was anything else he could exploit in the future.

By... playing against himself. What? It was exercise, and he could easily slip his mind into the mindset of a competitor. He thought. Whatever.

[[ open! though I'll be gone but on SP a few hours from now, la I am< gone, and on SP for a while! Be back in a few hours. ]]

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[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn wandered in after class and started poking through the cupboards in search of lunch. Peter got a bit of a distracted smile once she found some ramen.

"So," she asked with a glance at the board, "who's winning?"

[lockestheway]

"I seem to be," Peter said, looking up, "But I'm an unpredictable bastard, so who knows?"

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Right. You might be holding back on your best moves," Quinn nodded. "Or maybe you're just bored and not really trying anymore."

She found a pan and started adding the water for her soup.

"Good luck, either way."

[lockestheway]

"Thanks," Peter drawled. He sat back in his seat. "So, how have you been?" he said, and after a second, added, "I know what you're thinking, but I'm willing to risk frustrating my opponent by engaging in social talk."

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

Dany was out for an afternoon wander through the dorms with her dragons in tow. By now they were getting too large for her to carry all three, so they scampered ahead of her, flicking their tongues out at things curiously. The idea of taking them out to the grounds had crossed her mind, but for now, remaining in the relative warmth of the dorms seemed to be the best plan. For the dragons' sake, of course, and not for her desert-loving and chill-hating benefit.

She peeked into the common room a few floor below her own, eyebrows raised at the map she could see from the doorway. "Whatever are you doing?"

[lockestheway]

"Getting in some practice playing Risk," Peter replied. "It's... a board game."

He pulled his fingers away from the pieces so he could give her more of his attention. "I'm in the middle of a spirited match with myself, but I think neither of me would mind company."

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

Dany meandered over to peer at the board. "It's a map, isn't it?" she noted curiously, pursing her lips. "How do you play?"

[lockestheway]

"Well, to start with, the goal of the game is to take over the world," Peter said, gesturing over the map. "You start off with some tokens that symbolize armies. Players take turns claiming territories and distributing their armies, until the whole map has been taken." He gave another gesture at the fully-occupied map. "Then the real game begins. You get to draft new armies with each turn, attack nearby territories occupied by your enemy, and whether you win or not depends on a roll of the dice."

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

Darcy was just going to sit there and stare. "You have dragons."

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"I do," Dany said with a smile, keeping a watchful eye on said three dragons. "They're young, yet. Don't worry. They shan't hurt you."

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

"You have dragons." Darcy repeated, still stuck on that thought. "Adorable, baby dragons."

[zetabetabrat.livejournal.com]

Rebecca took two steps into the room, took in what Peter was doing, and laughed.

"Oh my god, how did I not guess that this was something you would do?"

[lockestheway]

Peter looked up, disturbed. "Because you don't actually own a window into my mind?" he asked.

[zetabetabrat.livejournal.com]

This was a fair point, Peter. And yet here was Rebecca, who thought she knew everything. Eeeeverything.

She flopped onto a neighboring couch where she could lean over the arm of it and watch him play. "I just mean, it's such a you thing," she explained. She was basing this off of the whole... one conversation they'd had about politics, yeah. "What are your strategies?"

[leavingthenest.livejournal.com]

Rapunzel still had her mask from art class (http://a1.s6img.com/cdn/box_002/post_12/354605_14819622-prn01_lm.jpg), though it was dangling in one hand rather than actually on (for the moment) when she wandered through the third floor and spotted Peter.

"Oh!" she exclaimed, then clapped her hand over her mouth and tried to suppress her natural excitement. "What are you doing?" It looked very, very, very serious.

Very serious.

She didn't want to disturb him.

[lockestheway]

Sigh. "It's a game," Peter answered, not wanting to seem too rude, seeing that he didn't know this one yet and hadn't had time to assess whether or not she'd be of any use. "Don't worry."

[leavingthenest.livejournal.com]

Oh, Rapunzel was very useful! If you wanted someone to be super-cheerful and possibly bake things for you.

"Oh." Rapunzel moved cautiously closer so that she could peer over Peter's shoulder. "It looks very... um... serious."

She didn't know Peter yet, so it didn't occur to her that it might just be him.

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

"That. Is a cool mask." Darcy informed the girl. "And you have awesome hair." She was also still humming the Titanic song under her breath.

[leavingthenest.livejournal.com]

Rapunzel did not know that song. Yet.

"Oh, thank you!" Rapunzel beamed. "And I like your hair very much, too." That wasn't just Rapunzel being polite, either. She was totally leaning forward to get a closer look.

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

Darcy had the main song from Titanic stuck in her head and was looking for anything to try to get the ear worm out. Not literally. "I think you're supposed to play against other people. Or do I heard. Hi. I'm Darcy."

[lockestheway]

"But what would be the fun of doing everything according to the rules?" Peter asked - mostly rhetorically. "Hello, Darcy. I'm Peter."

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

"In this case? Not knowing your opponents moves, strategy, and hair care routine might be more fun." Dar y informed him cheerfully and plopped down on a couch. "Nice to meet you Peter."

[momslilassassin]

Ben wandered in searching for a snack and caught a glimpse of the game Peter was playing. "Of course you're taking over the world," he said.

[lockestheway]

"What?" Peter said, looking up. "It's just a board game, Skywalker. Really."

[momslilassassin]

"Is it one you can only win when you're playing both sides?" Ben asked, smiling sweetly.

Ben, you should know better than to play Wiggins in board games.