paradisa | ☁ 001

[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.]

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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!]

[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??

Tic-tac-toe on steroids.

How are you even supposed to...?

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

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

[Ah hell she's got nothing else better to do.

She puts an O to the right of April's Xs]

Are you new here?

I guess so. Whatever "here" is.

[Then she does this, just to see what Alexis will do:]

Cair Paradisa, enchanted castle.

[She blinks at the grid.]

Do I get to go three times too?

I don't know. Do you?

You're just kind of making this up as you go along, aren't you?

[Obvious question is obvious.]

[No answer. Just this:]

You snooze, you lose.

[Sigh. Alexis just throws some random Os up because this is pointless anyway.]

Now you're getting it. Too bad you already lost.

There weren't really rules, so how was I supposed to know?

You weren't. I like to keep people guessing in tic-tac-toe; it's my strategy.

Kind of hard to play if you don't know the rules.

I think that's a general strategy for tic-tac-toe: keep people guessing so their opponent can't predict what box they're going to fill next.

If there are only six boxes it's pretty hard not to lose.

Nine. People do though, since it's an odd number. Someone has to lose.

Not if you're playing for three in a row.

Do most people do that?

Well, yeah; those are the rules.

The normal rules.

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