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Gaheris Rhade ([personal profile] truth_is_cold) wrote2011-05-10 03:49 pm

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With the exception of a few I've never seen a more miserable, pathetic example of parenting that was presented over this weekend. Many weren't deserving of the title of "parent" and I'm utterly repulsed by their behavior.

[However, some of your moms are very, very hot.] I'm grateful for the ones that seemed to gather the importance of caring for their offspring.

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What's your current condition? [Because asking, "How are you?" just can't happen with smug soldier men.]



*OOC: If you think you're on this filter you are.
collector: (black dirt will stain your feet)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-11 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
I'll set it up, if you're up for it now. [Then he can concern himself with invading Russia (always a bad idea) instead of what the runt of the litter is getting up to.]
collector: (you want three wishes)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-11 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Chartreuse is gonna get you good, Rhade.] I'll have the tea ready.
collector: (this time she won't understand)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-14 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Assumeliness this time? He is holding off a little before more prodding, especially because of bad mood re: Narvin.
collector: (this time she won't understand)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-14 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
It probably wasn't too well-hidden, in that Rhade is getting to learn the many layers of tricksy Brax pulls out and--okay, maybe we should spam this. I am such a failure. Binky, you decide.
collector: (revolutionaries wait)

[Spam, even though Binky never lets me foist responsibility onto her]

[personal profile] collector 2011-05-14 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Tea. Food. A game board. The room rearranged as it invariably is. Nothing out of the ordinary. He even forced himself to lock his door as it usually is, instead of leaving it unlocked on the hope that somebody would barge in randomly and try to kill him, giving him justifiable cause for tearing out a throat.]

[The tea's really good today, though!]
collector: (wheels are turning in your head)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-14 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Nothing is out of the ordinary, certainly not as he opens the door for Rhade. For a brief moment, there's a piercing, impassive flicker of eyes taking measure of Rhade and then the welcoming smile. But the moment was presented as a signal for Rhade. He is still concerned.]

Good afternoon, Commander. Take a seat and we can lay out the rules.
collector: (confident with your back to the audience)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-14 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
A map of the Earth. La ConquĂȘte du Monde. Our goal is to try to occupy all territories and so push all other players off the map. [Except that Brax's goal is to see if he can get them into mutual destruction. One day, he'll learn to play games straight.] Should I ask why you've decided to dress this way?
collector: (I am locked in my head)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-14 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
[He offers a brief grimace at the extremely practical purpose of sleeves, but also adds,] You look quite handsome. [One of the pluses of befriending Brax: he is sincere and unreserved with compliments about appearance, even if he can be very critical in those respects. Rhade's tea, made as he usually takes it, is already there.]

For the opening, we take turns claiming territories. [Now for the single-most important question in any game of Risk:] Which colour do you want?

[A general behavioural note: Braxiatel wants to be more aggressive and violent with his gestures, so he is curbing back on that, measuring each movement down to his fingertips, then glossing it over with his practised smoothness that irons out elements of artificiality. And this is something that he engages in regularly, so the truth is layers deep: you have to look over the glossing to see the precision, then hazard a guess whether or not this is his usual precision or an unusual precision, and then decide what it is supposed to be hiding, because by this level, it is muddled what the precision is meant to be countering.

And all this while Braxiatel is asking Very Important Questions about colours with his usual deadpan irony and filing away every little detail about Rhade's behaviour. He is compiling mental reports and assessing and re-assessing the data, attention that is masked but closer to the surface than usual, possibly because something is wrong with him and he isn't controlling himself as well, but possibly because he wants Rhade to know he is paying attention, this discrete critical assessment being the Irving Braxiatel equivalent to asking if somebody is all right. Of course, there is the possibility that he is making it overt in order to draw Rhade's attention to self-reflection and thus distract him from something wrong on Braxiatel's end, and it could simply be that, as Braxiatel thinks Rhade is intelligent enough, he isn't going to bother to hide something he believes Rhade already knows to be going on.]

[Rhade should definitely pick his favourite colour. It is the simplest set of possibilities that Braxiatel is offering right now.]
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collector: (stop at nothing just to get what I want)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-14 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[He knows the conversation was turned to block an outright denial. But that won't stop him from pressing back.] Clothes are part of presentation. They are important, vital, even, for immediate social communication. They don't say who you are but who you want people to think you are. A very quick form of speaking. I'll take black, by the way. We can be a bruise on the world. Who are you talking to, and what are you trying to say?
collector: (with eleven minutes)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-15 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[He puts the rule sheet for Risk on the table. It's Braxiatel's calligraphic hand-writing in ink on vellum.] I can lend you a rule sheet for my clothing later. [Possibly a joke. Possibly not.] I do appreciate the fittingness of a traitor presenting a dutiful image: the sort of irony that loops back around to be exactly as it seems once more. Sherry is waiting for her chance to hunt you. She appears convinced that you are her personal prey. [Which is why she has found somewhere very sneaky to hide (probably under the sofa) and is waiting for Rhade to stop paying attention.]

[The game of juggling subjects asks for quick play. Throw in something in the middle, twist, and see the result.]
I imagine I would enjoy the Jaguar Pride. There will have been something called the Heletian Empire, evolved out of a troupe of colonist actors, who revere and devote themselves to theatre. The really tragicomic thing about them is that their politics are more poorly staged and less interesting than what I knew back home. Have you ever heard of Henry Irving?
collector: (things have gotten closer to the sun)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-15 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
I always despised the Coordinator's company and appreciated his presence. If ever I had a very bad day, I knew he would leave me ample opportunity to let the venom out. It is why, I confess, I am not altogether distressed that he is here. [Clearly he is only miffed about the tongue thing because it gets in the way of arguing.] Henry Irving was an actor-manager from England, Earth in what was known as the Victorian period. He did a lot of good work for Shakespearean acting. The actor-manager is a person that more or less vanished from theatre by the end of the following century, replaced by those who were strictly managers. It is the distinction between armies where generals direct from the back and those where generals lead from the front lines. When the Heletian Empire collapses, it is because they were hoist by their own petard. [He puts down his first black piece to claim a bit of Asia.]
collector: (things have gotten closer to the sun)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-15 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
I hear it will be a good piece of theatre that topples them. [He puts down some troops in Australia.] I'm rather surprised you wrote to him. Might I ask what you said? [Rhade left the opening. Braxiatel had to take it.]
collector: (with eleven minutes)

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[personal profile] collector 2011-05-15 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He allows himself a little snort of amusement at that.] And why him? When there must have been a number of others you to whom you showed your competitive side.

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