Rec Room, OTA

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CHARACTERS: Toshiko Sato and YOU
LOCATION: the Rec Room with the pool tables
WARNINGS: nothing unless you need a warning for handwaved pool playing
SUMMARY: Pretty much some people playing pool and talking.
NOTES: There are no rules to this log, feel free to team up and play or just grab someone to talk to. Make your own open threads if you want to claim a table and try to get a game going. BYOB. ;)


Toshiko has made sure the felt is clean, the cues are lined up, and the balls are racked. Now the only thing missing is someone to come and play.

Comments

OTA.

[jilt]

Irene Adler doesn't know how to play pool.

So her presence here is really more of an observational one, because if this is what everyone's going to be doing then surely she should be here to see if its something she wants to invest her time in. It was much the same with cards, back when she was much younger and newly come to her chosen life. She'd sat aside her first husband and watched him play until she'd picked up the rules and then she'd quietly bested him and his friends all at once.

That had been a good night.

So perhaps pool would be much like that, she reasons, and so she perches upon a stool and watches the play, mentally ticking off form and theorizing the rules as she does.

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Pool isn't one of those games that usually attracts a big group of onlookers, unless those onlookers are players themselves. This lady doesn't have the look of someone familiar with the game, but she definitely seems interested in it. And Tosh has to admit that she's glad to actually have another woman in the room.

"Thank god, I thought I was going to drown in testosterone here." She takes a seat on a stool as well. "Have you ever played before?"

[jilt]

They're all so forward, these people of the future. Irene does often mourn for the loss of manners, but really, there are bigger things to concern herself with. No use missing what can't be retrieved, isn't that what's said of it?

"Never. One of the drawbacks of being so far behind the rest, I'm afraid."

Being from the past, it's a huge drag.

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The woman is good at hiding her annoyance at the lack of manners, so Tosh just blithely continues on, with a smile for the remark about being behind. "I don't think I'd use this as an indicator of how up on modern times you are. Not everyone plays, and most who do don't play well."

She does offer her hand to shake, however, because she doesn't have bad manners. "I'm Toshiko."

[jilt]

If Irene were to play, which she'd not yet decided, she planned on playing very well. Do anything poorly, it wasn't really possible for Irene, unless she meant to. Perfection, it was something she couldn't stop herself striving for.

"Irene. It's a pleasure.

And she does take the offered hand, grip firm. She's not attempting to impress, not really, but first impressions are everything, aren't they?