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[Group][Orcarella]: but it kind of stopped being fun
[Group][Orcarella]: i mean until I joined you guys
[Group][Solace]: The most fun I’ve had in CKII was when I’ve been losing
[Group][Solace]: There was this one time I got usurped by my evil uncle and banished to a tiny corner of Sicily
[Group][Solace]: Where I sat plotting my revenge for 18 years
[Group][Solace]: And another time my entire dynasty died out because my only heir was a pious homosexual who hung out in Jerusalem with a poet
[Group][Orcarella]: lol
[Group][Orcarella]: you should have had him assassinated
[Group][Solace]: O.O
[Group][Orcarella]: sorry that sounds really homophobic
[Group][Orcarella]: i just meant because it was game mechanically suboptimal
[Group][Solace]: *snerk*
[Group][Solace]: Some people are game mechanically suboptimal. Get over it.
[Group][Orcarella]:?
[Group][Solace]: I might get that on a T-shirt.13
[Group][Orcarella]:??
There was another silence-equivalent. Drew really wanted to move the conversation on, but he wasn’t sure what to say.
He stared at Ella and Solace sitting on their rock. The moon was full and silver. And it suddenly occurred to him that he was using this game, for which he paid a monthly subscription, as a glorified chat client.
But he was having such a nice time he didn’t mind. It was a bit stressful because he was used to having something specific to talk about in most of his social interactions. With the guild, it was raiding. With Andy, it was Frisbee. With his parents, it was did he have socks and was he eating properly. With his coursemates, it was gaming and the course. There’d been this one time when Sanee and Steff had got into a big argument, and Sanee had sat in Drew’s room crying for hours, but that had been weird and a bit uncomfortable, and they’d never mentioned it afterwards.
But with Solace, it was just sort of…being with someone you like being with. And that felt…nice. And seemed kind of important somehow. Which made him wonder if it was important to heras well. And then he wondered if she was wondering the same thing. So maybe he should tell her, so she would know. But he wasn’t sure how to put it, in case it came out wrong, and sounded all intense and creepy.
[Group][Orcarella]: I like the way you play games
[Group][Orcarella]: you seem to get a lot out of them
[Group][Solace]: You don’t think it’s weird?
[Group][Orcarella]: well maybe a bit at first
[Group][Orcarella]: but what’s weirder? playing a game because you like it or playing a game because you feel you have to?
[Group][Solace]: Is that how you feel?
[Group][Orcarella]: sometimes
[Group][Solace]:?
[Group][Solace]: *hugs*
[Group][Orcarella]: but i enjoyed tonight
