[It's like the centerfold of a fashion magazine fell open. Steph's not sure if fashion magazines really have centerfolds, but they should.]
Guess that means I better be careful around you guys.
[She opens the box and puts the board in the middle of the floor, then puts the little tile racks in front of them. She puts the bag of tiles aside for the moment.]
[She'd roll her eyes, but she chooses to explain the game.]
Basically, everyone gets seven random letters and has to make words out of them. For example...
[Her hand goes into the bag to pull out the tiles.] I can spell "fire." So, I put the tiles on the board. Right here, because it's the first word. [She points and puts the tiles down.] Since I got rid of four letters, I pick four more tiles from the bag. [Which she does.]
Now, pretend I'm Ezio and laying around all cool and casual in my modern clothes. I need to make a word off of what was previously put down. Any of these letters on the board can be used. [She puts down a few tiles, and now the e has been turned into "enter."] See? You kinda keep building off. If you put tiles next to each other, it's got to spell a word. So no horizontal or vertical words can be right next to each other because you'll have nonsense.
Easy, right? If you can't make a word, you can exchange some tiles for some more random letters.
The colors bring me to the next thing, which is scoring. All the tiles have points on them. When you make a word, you get to add up all the ones in the word, and if you placed a tile on the right square, sometimes that score can be doubled or tripled for the word or the letter on that spot.
[Steph's pretty sure she knows where your talents lie, Ezio. ;)
... in being an assassin, or whatever, right? Right. Whatever she's thinking, she shrugs.]
I'm not a pro at this, either. I'm pretty sure Lucrezia is going to destroy us.
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Guess that means I better be careful around you guys.
[She opens the box and puts the board in the middle of the floor, then puts the little tile racks in front of them. She puts the bag of tiles aside for the moment.]
I hope this game won't bore you too much.
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Are we to make verses with these?
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[He looks at the board. Yeah, he has no idea.]
Is it chess with letters?
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Basically, everyone gets seven random letters and has to make words out of them. For example...
[Her hand goes into the bag to pull out the tiles.] I can spell "fire." So, I put the tiles on the board. Right here, because it's the first word. [She points and puts the tiles down.] Since I got rid of four letters, I pick four more tiles from the bag. [Which she does.]
Now, pretend I'm Ezio and laying around all cool and casual in my modern clothes. I need to make a word off of what was previously put down. Any of these letters on the board can be used. [She puts down a few tiles, and now the e has been turned into "enter."] See? You kinda keep building off. If you put tiles next to each other, it's got to spell a word. So no horizontal or vertical words can be right next to each other because you'll have nonsense.
Easy, right? If you can't make a word, you can exchange some tiles for some more random letters.
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Is that only for decoration?
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It does seem easy... but certainly not where my talents lie. It should make an interesting challenge.
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[Steph's pretty sure she knows where your talents lie, Ezio. ;)
... in being an assassin, or whatever, right? Right. Whatever she's thinking, she shrugs.]
I'm not a pro at this, either. I'm pretty sure Lucrezia is going to destroy us.
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I would never destroy you, I like you too much.
[ But she is already eying the colored tiles. Hmmmm. ] Should we set a prize for the winner?
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[He rifles through the tiles. He wants good ones.]
I like prizes. [Ezio glances to Lucrezia with a grin.] You're most likely to win ββ what are you playing for?
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I want a mystery gift wrapped in perfumed silk.
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It is settled then. How shall we begin?
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[Oh, Lucrezia, you know how it is, girl B) He picks through his letters.
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What the fuck. He's going to lose at this already.]
This is going to be harder than expected...
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We'll let Lucrezia go first. That way, when she kicks our butt, we can say she had the advantage.
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Then I will be sorely embarrassed if I lose.
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I don't think there's a worthwhile word in my possession.
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Remember, if they suck, you can trade them in.
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Could we just keep trading until we found exactly what we wanted?
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[As she explains, she puts down "WAIL" off the "I" and nabs U C I.]
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