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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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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...

I'll try my best not to!

[Rolling the die! She gets a two, but that puts her at the bottom of a ladder, so she moves her piece up it. As she hands the die to Yotsuba, something occurs to her.]

Oh, my name is Pao-lin, by the way.

Ohh, okay, I'm Yotsuba. That's Yotsuba's name. It's a nice name!

[Taking the die and... Staring at the ladder Pao-lin just moved up.]

Can you really climb a whole ladder like that so quickly? Are you some kind of afflete?

[Pao-lin laughs.]

It's not that hard to climb ladders quickly. You just have to be careful, that's all.

[Welp. Now she may-or-may-not try climbing a ladder as fast as she can the next time she has the chance. As fast as she can whilst being careful!]

Just be careful? Got it! Yotsuba will remember for when there's a ladder that must be climbed really fast. Set a World Record!

[Rolling the die properly this time. Six. Finally she moves away from that snake and instead lands on a space right in front of another snake. THIS IS TERRIFYING.]

[Pao-lin rolls the die and gets a three. One, two, three -- ooh, she just barely missed landing on a snake's head. Close call!]

[And Yotsuba audibly sighs once Pao-lin jumps over that snake's head! Are you okay, it didn't try to bite you or anything, right?!

...So she might be taking this board game a little too seriously. Taking the die and rolling it. Two! One, two-- AND NOW THE SNAKE IS DIRECTLY BEHIND HER. Will it ever end!?]

[~~THIS IS THE GAME THAT NEVER ENDS, YES, IT GOES ON AND ON, MY FRIENDS~~

Pao-lin's next roll of the die nets her a four, which allows her to climb another ladder. This one is much shorter than the one she climbed earlier, but still -- Yotsuba better catch up!]