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Who: Everyone!
What: Thanksgiving + New Feather party.
When: Evening of the 20th.
Where: School cafeteria, nicely done up.
Summary: There's food. And there's also board games, are you game for some Snakes and Ladders?
Rating: Let's put this all over the board. Strange stuff can happen, man.
[Thanksgiving may not be a familiar holiday to most in Luceti, but everyone understands potluck, at least! Hopefully. Preferably.

It's all done buffet-style as usual. Thanksgiving stuff greets you first when you grab a plate and get in line at the buffet lines (food and drink provided by everyone, Thanksgiving stuff courtesy of the Welcome Centre and Ginia). Though of course, don't think that you have to stand in a line while eating! There's tables and chairs for sitting and talking and— eating, obviously. Reach out and grab a drink! If you get one that's been prepared by the Welcome Centre, it's non-alcoholic. Can't really say the same for anything else brought by others, so you may want to be careful. Y'know, just in case.

'course, there's also board games if you're interested in 'em. Just check out that corner over there!]

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[Those board games are pretty tempting huh? Just look at them, sitting there in that box, waiting to be played with...

And to one side of this box, a five year old is shaking a game of snakes and ladders around. It rattles! This is an awesome toy. Now if only she knew how to play-- Oh, the box just flew open.

The die from the box rolls across the floor and towards Pao-lin. Yotsuba will be chasing after it. She didn't break the box or the game. Nuh uh.]

[Whoopsy-daisy! Seeing a need for some minor damage control, Pao-lin sets her food aside and goes to pick up the fallen game board and game pieces. She holds it out to Yotsuba.]

Here you go!

Thank you! [Taking the game back with a happy smile... Which eventually just turns to a bemused look as she turns the game over a few times and tries to make head or tails of it.]

What is it?

Ah... [Pao-lin cranes her head a bit to get a better look at the box.] It's called Snakes and Ladders. I've never played this game before...

Oh... [Looking the box over one more time, and then holding it up to Pao-lin.] I don't either! Wanna play?

Sure! [Adorable green-haired girls unite!] Let's play on that table over there, okay? [She gestures at an empty table nearby.]

[All the adorable right now! Looking over at the table and running off to set the game down, open the box and take out all the pieces.

Once they're all out on the table... More staring. Yotsuba only knows one thing from seeing this game:] I'm gonna be the green one. [Taking the green counter. It's her counter now.]

I'll be yellow, then! [Pao-lin takes the sheet of instructions to look over them and figure out how to play this game.] Oh, I'm Pao-lin, by the way.

My name is Yotsuba, welcome Pao-lin! [Looking up at the back of the sheet of instructions as Pao-lin reads them, as though by staring at the back of the sheet something will happen.] ...Can we play the game now? Is it gonna be fun?

I think it will be! It's really simple. We'll put our pieces here on the first square [she demonstrates with her yellow counter], and then we take turns rolling the die. We move our piece however many spaces that the die tells us to, and if we land on a square with a ladder, we can move our piece up the ladder. But if we land on a snake, we have to go backwards down the snake.

[Nodding along with everything that's being said... Most of that went right over her head. But she can at least move her green piece onto the first square! Leaning over the game board to do that now.]

Avoid the snakes, they're bad! Baaad!! [...] Who died? Why are they telling us to move?

Nobody died! [After placing her own game piece on the first square, she picks up the die and shows it to Yotsuba.] This is called a die. When you roll it, it gives you numbers. [She demonstrates, gently tossing the die onto the table. It shows a five on the top.] See, there are five dots on top of the die, so that means you get to move five spaces.

Ohhhh! So when you die you roll along and you give everyone a number, got it! [...Cough. Yeah, she sort of gets it? Sort of...]

So that means you would move to... [Staring at the board for a moment.] Space number five!

Yep! [It's close enough! She hands the die to Yotsuba.] You can go first.

Okay! [Going to roll this die like a professional, like no other die roller could... Which involves slamming the die down onto the game board, watching as it bounces up into the air and lands back down on the table.

Two. All that for a two. Moving her piece along now.] Did I do good?

[Pao-lin smiles and nods.] You don't need to throw it so hard, though. [She shakes the die in her hand a little bit before dropping it onto the table. A four! She moves her piece along.]

[Not as hard? Okay, she's ready for her next turn. Taking the dice and dropping it very gently so it lands on five.] Ohhhh, a five! [That might be cheating... But she moves her piece along and lands on the bottom of a snakes tail. Looking at Pao-lin for a moment, then the snake. Does she doing something here?]

[Pao-lin shakes her head.]

You only have to move if you land on a snake's head or at the bottom of a ladder.

Oh. Okay.

[...Slowly moving her piece up the snake's tail anyway.]

Ah, no, you shouldn't do that yet. It's my turn now, after all.

[Oh. She should probably move it back then?

...

Yotsuba moves her piece half-way down the snake's tail and then looks back at Pao-lin. How do I snakes and ladders?]

[Pao-lin shakes her head gently, and reaches out to move Yotsuba's game piece back to where it had originally landed.]

There, see? Like that.

Ohhhh, so right to the bottom. Got it, you go all the way to the bottom of the snake, and not up it!

[...Wait.]

So it's bad to land on the snakes then?!

[Giggle.] If you land on their head, yeah. Because then you have to move backwards, when you have to move forwards to the end.

Snakes are very bad. Don't land on them Pao-lin, they make you go backwards, and then they eat you!

[This game is much scarier than she had imagined. Where's the age rating on this thing?!]

When it's your turn you best be careful, don't land on a snake...