Oh geez.. This poor little girl has never played a boardgame before? Let alone chutes and ladders?
At first that realisation makes her look surprised, but then she just looks sympathetic. How could someone live without playing fun boardgames! Clearly Madoka will have to find some way to make sure the girl can play them even if there's no boardgames on the train, if she's going to be stuck here. Even if she has to make them herself!
"Well, it's a boardgame.. Those are games you play on a board. Usually a piece of cardboard." It feels a little odd to explain something so basic - even Madoka's baby brother knew what those were! - but these are apparently the circumstances she has to live with here. "And for chutes and latters the board has a long path with numbers on it on the board, and the goal is to roll the dice and move up numbers be the first to make it to the end! But the chutes and ladders twist is that some of the numbers are connected by a chute or a ladder, which can move you up or down the path faster if you land on those."
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At first that realisation makes her look surprised, but then she just looks sympathetic. How could someone live without playing fun boardgames! Clearly Madoka will have to find some way to make sure the girl can play them even if there's no boardgames on the train, if she's going to be stuck here. Even if she has to make them herself!
"Well, it's a boardgame.. Those are games you play on a board. Usually a piece of cardboard." It feels a little odd to explain something so basic - even Madoka's baby brother knew what those were! - but these are apparently the circumstances she has to live with here. "And for chutes and latters the board has a long path with numbers on it on the board, and the goal is to roll the dice and move up numbers be the first to make it to the end! But the chutes and ladders twist is that some of the numbers are connected by a chute or a ladder, which can move you up or down the path faster if you land on those."