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[nooooo]

[April woke up three hours ago, and she has no idea what's going on.

Okay, so that's not 100% true. She's explored her room and scanned the journal, so she has an extremely basic idea (sitting in what looks like a really fancy hotel room, in possession of a weird communal journal that doesn't seem to obey the laws of physics, something big involving a lion happened a few days ago), but beyond that? Absolutely no clue.

Right now, the journal is the most interesting thing. It's definitely the most unusual, and so she figures that if she wants her other questions answered, it's her best bet.

Especially because it seems like people are using it to communicate. Somehow.

First she has to test it out, though. She could introduce herself to everyone, or write an impassioned plea for information, or start screaming her head off about having been kidnapped. But... nah. Instead, she'll do this:]



[OOC: If you want your character to play tic-tac-toe with her, just save the image to your computer and draw in their O! Or, if you can't/don't want to do that, you can tell me which spot their put their O in and I'll fill it in myself.]

Comments

[gottaknockhard]

[Spike happens to notice to drawing in the journal completely by chance. It doesn't seem that odd; he's surprised he doesn't see people doing this more often. Maybe they do and he just doesn't pay enough attention. For whatever reason, he's curious enough to scribble on the page.

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|X|
| |O

He never did learn his lesson about playing games.]

[nooooo]

[Oh look, it's a taker. Cool. April's just going to continue the game without saying or writing anything else.]

[gottaknockhard]

[He isn't sure how long they've been waiting, but they were quick to respond. Fast enough that he didn't have time to turn the page, so he keeps it up.

|O|
|X|
|X|O

At least some games are universal.]

[nooooo]

[She hadn't been waiting long before his reply came, and even if she had... well. It's not like she has anything else do.]

[gottaknockhard]

[He probably does, but who cares? This is a better use of the journals than most of it.

|O|X
|X|
O|X|O

]

[nooooo]

[You are April's spirit animal, Spike.]

[gottaknockhard]

[There's an obvious move here, but he pauses before deciding to be contrary. He's a rebel even in tic-tac-toe

O|O|X
X|X|
O|X|O

]

[itisourfight]

What is the meaning of this?

[ Please to teach the elf how to play this game. ]

[nooooo]

Tic-tac-toe, duh. Who doesn't know tic-tac-toe?

[itisourfight]

I have never heard of it.

[nooooo]

Wow. I thought it was pretty much universal.

You have to put an O in one of the empty spots and keep me from getting three Xs in a row.

[itisourfight]

I see.

[ Well, she has to give it a go now, doesn't she? ]

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|X|O
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Like so?

[nooooo]

Yup.

[raisingdad]

[Alexis is sitting in her room, bored, when she sees the drawing and figures she'll play along, even if she doesn't know who's on the other end. She's got nothing else to do anyway.]

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|X|
||O

[nooooo]

No.



We're going all-out now. Game on.

[This is Tauriel's fault.]

[OOC: I do not at all blame you if you don't want to try to draw out that monster grid on DW, so if Alexis plays along you can just write something like [She fills out row 15, column 4] or something and I'll do it!]

dictated;

[raisingdad]

[ooc: lawl Alexis is going to wtf first.]

[Her eyes almost pop out of her skull as she stares at the grid.]

What the heck is that??

dictated;

[nooooo]

Tic-tac-toe on steroids.

dictated;

[raisingdad]

How are you even supposed to...?

[She makes an O in the upper right corner.]

dictated;

[nooooo]

Get a whole row or column. You can't win on a diagonal.

[Dictated]

[putuporshutup]

[Yeah, Meg sees your out of control tic tac toe, stranger, and she's not impressed.

Never mind the fact that she's not impressed by... well. Anything.]

Holy shit. Can you say overkill?

[Dictated]

[nooooo]

[April says nothing. She just draws this:]

Re: [Dictated]

[putuporshutup]

[Meg just wishes up a bottle of dark red ink and empties it onto the page. It probably kinda looks like blood, and definitely oozes off the page.

She's just an asshole like that. Tic Tac Toe, bitch.]

[Dictated]

[nooooo]

Oooh, and the magical dream notebook takes a hit.

[She would do something to counter that, but she only has a pen and hasn't figured out wishing yet.]

[Dictated]

[putuporshutup]

And the newbie speaks!

[Yeah, she's been stalking. She's good at it, when she cares.

Not that she

you know

does.]

[Dictated]

[nooooo]

Ewww, don't call me that. I'm not a newbie, I'm a visiting foreigner.