[OPEN] we like sportz

[blitzcheer]

Who: Open to everyone! Learning some sports, making some friends?
Where: Gymnasium
When: Grasshopper 20-22 (or the rest of grasshopper if you like!)
What: Getting people to play some sports, whether as beginners or finding people more on their level! Also can come in here for your personal sports games if you like?
Warnings: sportz. flying balls. (no)

As per Tidus's proposal on the netwrok on the 19th, the gymnasium has been set up around the next few days (or more!) around lunchtime--whenever those busy cooks in the kitchen deem it to be lunchtime--to hold a few ball games for all. It doesn't matter when a person comes in or their skill level, or even what they want to play. While there's a few set games, anyone is free to take the time to show off a sports game they're good at!

The set games are:

• Soccer: A team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. Numbers make this one tricky to play with a full two teams, but two or four players are possible.
  
  
• Volleyball: A game for two teams, usually of six players, in which a large ball is hit by hand over a high net, the aim being to score points by making the ball reach the ground on the opponent's side of the court.
  
  
• Badminton: A racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" and "doubles".

For those looking for a more easy-paced game, badminton or even table tennis may be recommended; the former easier to go with if you treat it like my secondary school P.E. classes and launch the shuttlecock into the air; the latter found at the table of the gym with its own fold out tables for games!

Jugs and beakers have been brought in from the kitchen with water for anyone who gets parched, set in a corner where....hopefully no stray balls (or other) will find themselves being flung into. While Tidus has put this together and can be chatted to, he's letting anyone who knows more about the games to lead things as they like!

( ooc: this is just a chill 'come play sportz' thing that you can play at your leisure! also feel free to pick a sports game that isn't listed, BYOS (Bring Your Own Sports), w/e w/e. )

Comments

[adregem]

[ If just moments before, Roland is quick on the take, replying just as fast as the inquiries come, now he slows down. Inigo expressing such naivete for a system of ruling that makes it easy to be corrupt is almost...blinding. He doesn't know how else to break it to the young prince that the ruling class oftentimes hid dark secrets, swept them under the rug, only for it to resurface later as dirty laundry to air out; a bargaining chip to be used by another monarch ready to strike.

Or worse, like Evan, still waters running so deep that they ended up overthrowing an entire family line. A coup that deposed a young king destined for the throne.

Even worse, thinking Roland couldn't be subject to the same temptations. How would Inigo react if one day he found out that another bearing Roland's face - one that shares his soul - did exactly that? Until eventually, he put the entire world at risk? ]

...Well, in the country I came from at least, it's an evil that has a long running history. So we've taken measures against it, so that nobody even has a chance of abusing that power. Even if they're upstanding citizens, like me. Heh. I'm glad to hear your line of Exalts lived and ruled honorably.

[ Roland decides that today was not the day for a serious discussion on the dangers of being the most innocent monarch in the room. Especially when Inigo's father was king - Exalt - and in fact, Roland had very little clue about that world to begin with anyway. So he just smiles and resumes swinging his racket about, diffusing his thoughts with a bit of humor. ]

[flatteries]

[ An evil that has a long running history.

.. It's weird. Inigo really can't even imagine what Roland's world must be like. It's a world that has a history of that kind of cruelty, but at the same time they have - voluntarily, even, by the will of the people! - chosen Roland as a ruler, who is so good in every single way, as far as Inigo is concerned.

How could that shift have happened? He doesn't know. He can't figure it out. But it'd feel weird to make some big deal out of it, especially after Roland says that last part. Inigo momentarily bows his head, and makes sure that by the time he lifts it again, he's smiling. ]

Ah, we should probably go back to playing sports, huh? Before Tidus starts yelling that we're just lazing around. [ Look, he may be using it as an excuse, but Inigo feels this is a very real possibility anyway. ]

Just don't forget that I still owe you a favour, considering you won our little bet.

[adregem]

[ Roland makes a mental note of maybe asking Inigo if he would like some advice on ruling, though he wonders how far that will get him considering such an idealistic point of view. And halidoms weren't exactly kingdoms, so that might pose a challenge. Still, the Chief Consul in him won't allow Inigo, a young prince, to befall a similar fate as others who assumed the best of the people around them. There was always an agenda, and he hopes one day, Inigo might know how to best defend himself from such evil.

For now, he nods at the young boy and grabs a fresh shuttlecock from the tube sitting nearby. It bounces on his racket twice before he catches it with his hand. ]

Tell him we're warming up. It's a process. [ He smiles with amusement. ] Sure. I won't forget. You shouldn't either. It's not everyday you get a president to owe you something, heh. [ There's a playfulness to that tone, but it's masked by his quiet voice and the determination forming on his brow all of a sudden. He tries to get some distance as he motions for Inigo to do the same, net in between them. ]

Alright, I'll teach you how to play for real now. Are you ready?

wow look at us, wrapping up threads LEFT AND RIGHT

[flatteries]

Ah..

[ It's a small surprised noise that escapes him - as is usual when the question are you ready happens when he is, in fact, not ready.

But a moment later he's already moving to create some more distance between them, grabbing his racket again. ]

Yes, I'm ready..! Let's go!