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 Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:06 am
Rio was rather pleased with holding pretty much all of Australia, since that seemed a very defensible position on the board. Otherwise, he figured he would just take this as it came.
"Alright, Miss Aure," he confirmed, leaning forward in his chair to cross arms on the table. He'd placed the rest of his pieces around the board, concentrating on where his opponent held the advantage. "I think I am ready to begin."
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:36 pm
Aure nodded, looking pleased, as she collected the cards. This might actually be more fun than playing with Grandpa- she always knew she'd lose against her family's patriarch, and who didn't like teaching anyway? "Alrighty, since this is your first time playing, you can go first." She passed him the white dice. "I explained the rule to you, right? Attacker gets three dice maximum and defender gets two dice max?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:40 am
Nodding once, Rio took the dice and examined his opportunities. Asia seemed a very difficult bit of territory to hold, so he concentrated on other things- like Africa. Africa was looking pretty good. He attacked there, estimating his percentage of loss and calculating his next eight or so moves. The game became very logical when thought aobut that way, which was something he enjoyed.
"Perhaps everyone in the world should play games such as this," he murmured, eyes on the board. "Think of the wars we could avoid. Such a map system could be used in other ways as well...I shall have to consider the possibilities." n.n
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:43 pm
"Or, we could make up the armies of criminals." Aure rolled and scowled at her African armies; she put one of the apples back into the glass box and sulked. Luckily, she'd put three armies there, but she knew that this wouldn't go well. Beginner's luck and all, that's what it was, she assured herself. After all, they were dice. Geez. "I wouldn't mind if all the bad guys died. Sometimes I think they have to to preserve civil peace and prevent unrest." And to create a pure white world, a voice whispered. She shuddered and went back to considering her own moves.
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:20 pm
"Sometimes I wonder if our views of 'good' and 'bad' aren't highly skewed," the Fa'e murmured, adjusting his armies with thoughtful white eyes. "I have three friends- one who punched me, one who stole my wallet, one who is cold to the suffering of others. It makes them sound like quite terrible people. Silver, however, was only trying to protect someone, Aadil was ill and likely needed the money badly, and Astar...isn't near as 'bad' as he makes himself out to be."
He smiled, however, as he finished his move. "I think the criminals would be quite dangerous armies, however. Quite a bit of repressed anger to let loose on the world."
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:39 pm
"If they hurt others in interest of only themselves, then they are bad," Aure said, staring at the area of the world they were currently rolling for. "Maybe it sounds simplistic, but it's true. I don't believe in extenuating circumstances, and I find it very hard to believe I ever will." But something that Rionne has said made her pause in the knocking over of one of her last remaining armies on that country. Her views couldn't be skewed- she didn't know how she knew that. It was like a voice in the back of her head told her she was right. "I know good when I see it, and bad when it happens to me." She sighed and rolled her dice- double sixes. "I suppose before I was Aure I was someone who got really messed up by someone's view of right and wrong, though. I could always be wrong." The Illusionary shrugged and waited for Rionne to roll his turn.
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:28 pm
"I think there are just people- not good or bad, just people, who choose to perform acts of great cruelty...or great kindness." Rio couldn't beat her roll, but he could regroup a bit and take another tactic. "It is like a weapon. A sword is not good or bad- but it can kill or protect, depending on the hands that wield it."
Resting his chin on his hands, he examined the girl across from him after he finished his turn. "I think I have found this difference of opinion with others before. Certainly it is possible I've looked at the world oddly most of my life; my mentors have been pages and written words." Oh, and people who didn't really exist. He'd best not forget THAT.
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:19 pm
She switched their dice, taking the attacker's white dice and stacking them on her side of the board. With a quick reinforcement of her troops, Aure set about the conquest of South America. "That could be, but once someone's been dirtied it can't become clean again, and if you stay around dirty things, even if you're not like them, you'll become dirty yourself. It's sort of like Neitzsche said. Look long into the abyss and the abyss will look long into you." The blonde looked down at the board and considered her next moves- she wanted this planned.
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:16 pm
"But one has the choice as to whether such darkness clouds their eyes." He ceeded South America, and went about hacking off edges of North America. "Experience can change a person, make them jaded and bitter and hateful. It can also make them see the world with different, softer eyes."
He leaned back, having prepared his troops for the waves of attacks he was about to launch, and smiled. "Perhaps if you leave a person in a box they will never change or become evil, but they will never grow, either."
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:26 pm
Aure shrugged. "Perhaps that's not so bad?" She checked her watch quickly; her face fell. "My grandmother's going to be here to pick me up. We're gonna have to finish this fast, or else she'll realize I wasn't in the children's book section reading about Harry Potter." She paused for a moment, then said in a hurried fashion, "Not like I told her that's where I'd be. I try to make a habit of not lying."
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