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003. Video/Action (Nageki's Delivery Service)

[Nageki is on the roof wearing a bird-shaped gas mask. He's been flying around to avoid the... things Wonderland created.]

If anyone would like to send supplies to people who need it, I can fly it to them. I just need to know where they are. I can use the windows to enter and leave if it's necessary.

[True to his word, he'll be stopping by windows to pick up or deliver supplies should anyone ask him to. He will also being carrying water bottles that he grabbed from the closets and giving them to anyone who will take it as he flies around.]

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I haven't seen you in ages. Watch out for those... gross spore things.

Miss Photographer, right? I'll be careful.

[Send and then...]

Are you alright?

Yup. Max.

I guess so? Its been pretty crazy

are you holding up okay?

Yes. I can fly to the places that the fungus and those creatures haven't reached yet.

Just don't fly into anything you can't get out of, okay?

I won't. [At least, he won't so long as there isn't a compelling reason.]

Kinda wish I was helping out more but tbh I wouldn't be very useful.

Eg. I can't fly

[Or shoot. Or heal people. Or swing axes/knives/baseball bats.

She can, what, make the zombies feel self-conscious as she takes their pictures?

Fft.]

[The flash could blind them?]

No one seems to need it so far. [Which is good but it does mean he isn't actually helping.]

At least that's a good sign.

Yeah.

Where are you right now?

That big ship by the dock. we've shipped off already. But you could defs fly out here if you need a safe place.

[He doesn't need a safe place but he is (surprisingly) bored. He flies over to the ship and searches for Max. It's a good way to kill some time.

So, Nageki is soon knocking on her window/door. Whichever he finds first.]

[Once she wasn't needed as much on deck, Max retired to one of the smaller cabins, keeping to herself. Alone for now. Still worried about a possible infection, which is part of the reason she doesn't want to stay in a crowd. She hears the tapping on the window and glances out to see Nageki. She opens up the window as best she can.]

Hi Nageki. I didn't think you'd come all the way out here.

It isn't that far for me and I wasn't doing anything else at the time.

[Funny how it's no big deal for him, whereas Chloe and Max had to go through a lot of crap to get onto the boat. Perks of having wings.

She wants to make a joke about it, but frowns instead. If Nageki came from the mansion, then he might have news. The stuff on the network has her worried, so far.]

How is it over there? It sounds like a lot of people got hurt...

The creatures are wandering the hallways. But I think most people are fighting them or have found some place safe to stay until they're gone now.

Okay, that's... good. [Max sits down on a nearby stool, balancing herself against the rocking of the boat.] Just have to hang on for a couple of days.

...

Are you holding up alright?

Just okay. I kind of hate just sitting here, but I couldn't think of anything I could do to help out. [She is, after all, just your everyday high schooler. Not a good bet against zombies.]

Would keeping busy help? We could try to play checkers or something like that. [Please say yes. Nageki could use the distraction, particularly since his offer to help doesn't seem to be working out.]

Uhh. [She's a little hesitant- it's actually a good idea, definitely better than sitting around doing nothing. But she doubts she could really focus on it. It's worth a try, though.]

Sure, but you're gonna have to teach me.

Alright. [He closets won't give him games right now but Nageki does have paper and a pen. He draws the checkerboard and tears up a second piece of paper for the pieces before scribbling on half of them. He also places a small picture for the king on the other side of them. The black kings get a dot so that they look different from the white kings. He carefully places the pieces on the board and waves Max over.]

The pieces can only move on the dark squares so they have to move diagonally. At first they can only move forward. [He demonstrates with one of the white pieces.] Each piece can only move one square at a time unless they are jumping over an opponents piece. Like this. [He demonstrates again by moving a white piece next to a black one and having the black piece jump over it. He then moves the white piece off the board.] A piece can jump multiple times in one turn.

Pieces become Kings when they reach the opposite side of the board. Kings can move forward or backward. The game ends when one side loses all their pieces.

[If Max doesn't have any questions, he'll set the board back up so they can play.]

Right, so... only diagonally and only forward. And they jump when they eat another piece. [She watches Nageki reset the board. She's most probably going to mess up for the first few turns and lose pretty horrendously after that. It's hard to concentrate on the game and not reach for the phone in her bag. The network's probably buzzing with news, but what's she gonna do from The Jolly Roger anyway?]

Who goes first?

I'll go. [That way Max can see how Nageki moves the pieces. He takes the piece on square 24 and moves it square 20.]

[Honestly she's still a bit too distracted to focus much on the game. Though it's better than sitting around, doing nothing. So she forces herself to spend several seconds thinking about her first move... but just ends up mirroring Nageki's, on the opposite side.]

...I have no idea if that's good.

I think it's normal. [At least that was what Nageki used to do when he played this game with his family. He continues the game.]

[She glances up at the talking bird on the other side of the checkers board, in a cabin on a pirate ship, out at sea avoiding zombies prowling inside a mansion. None of this is normal, she thinks, with a weary smile. But she doesn't say it out loud, instead letting an awkward silence settle over their game.

Her next few moves are nowhere near good, but they're not really terrible, either.]

Edited 2016-05-13 12:18 (UTC)

[Nageki doesn't go easy on Max just because it's her first game. After a while, he points to a piece that made it to the opposite end of the board.]

That's a king now.

[Well, he's got a king, so that probably means she's losing right?]

So if I checkmate that, I win? [It's a joke- and her amused glance up at Nageki says as much.

She doesn't really appreciate the king's ability to move backward and leaves herself exposed, instead moving another piece up the board in the hopes of promoting it in a turn or two.]

[The piece gets through at the cost of a couple other pieces. Nageki tries for a second king.]

Edited 2016-05-14 19:06 (UTC)

[Hey she has one of those king things now. But her pieces are awfully thinned out and she can't stop Nageki from getting a second one. So she might as well just have fun with her uber-piece. She brings it around the board in a fun way, eating any pieces left behind. It's satisfying, but pretty much loses her the game as she leaves her few remaining pieces exposed. Toward the end she even accidentally places her own king in a position where it can be eaten.]

Pretty sure I'm losing this. [She smiles at Nageki.]

You are. [he confirms as he takes her king. A lot of his own pieces have been eaten so he takes some time chasing down Max's pieces to corner them. The game still ends faster than he wants it to and the board only has a few pieces left. The rest are in a neat pile off to the side.

Nageki pushes them onto the board so they don't end up all over the floor.]

[Well, that turned out kind of how she expected it to. But it was a good distraction, anyway.] Kinda thought I'd suck more than that. [She stands up to stretch slightly, swaying in time with the bobbing of the ship.]

There aren't many rules. I think that helps.

I guess. [She looks down at the pieces on the board. A good distraction, yeah. But somewhere out there, in the mansion, there are people that need help.

And suddenly this all feels very silly.] Hey, Nageki, I'm gonna... hang out on deck for a bit, okay?

Alright. See you later, Miss Caulfield.

[He picks up the board, pieces included, and leaves for the mansion through the window.]

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