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22 - Harvest Moon Viewing
Who: Everyone!
What: Harvest Moon Viewing
When: September 10, 6 PM
Where: The Meeting Hall grounds
Summary: The Heavens are throwing a moon-viewing party!
Party Games
Moon Viewing
Mazed & Confused
Wild Moon
In Summary:
What: Harvest Moon Viewing
When: September 10, 6 PM
Where: The Meeting Hall grounds
Summary: The Heavens are throwing a moon-viewing party!
Party Games
- Children are dashing all over the moon-viewing grounds in the early evening, flying kites or playing tag and other games. Many of them are wearing cute seasonal rabbit masks made of paper, or sporting ink curlicues and scribbles drawn over their faces, if they've lost too many games.
Card games and spinning top battles, a few practice archery butts towards the edge of the park, poetry-composing competitions, and even badminton: there's something for everyone, and anyone who doesn't look too busy may find themselves offered a rabbit mask and a game to play. Or perhaps you'd like to try your hand at drawing people into your own game?
Moon Viewing
- The moon rises not long after sunset, looming over the garden in hazy golden and red splendor thanks to the volcanic fumes in the atmosphere. The games are winding down as darkness falls, and the faint scent of burning incense fills the air as people settle to view the moon rise. Shinki in their festival best, adorned with Amaterasu's golden chrysanthemum, are serving the guests. They set out trays of fresh seasonal fruit (Japanese pears, persimmons, and chestnuts) and plates of mochi, serve sake, and light portable grills to cook sweet potatoes and skewers of meat.
Mazed & Confused
- Part of the grounds have been rearranged into a hedge-maze made of tall, plumed grasses packed close together. A sign at the entrance reads, "Bring back my ribbon from the center of the maze,
and I'll give you a special prize!"
Unfortunately, that's harder than it sounds. The maze is full of dead ends, confusing turns, and twisty little passages, which all look alike. It's almost magical how easy it is to lose your way inside, and the tufted grass will prove to have painfully sharp edges if anyone tries to cheat by pushing their way through the "walls" of the maze.
Those who successfully find their way to the center will find a white ribbon fluttering from the top of a tall pole. If they can climb the pole, pull the ribbon free, and make it back to the entrance, they will hear the sound of a child's laughter, and the ribbon in their hand will disappear to be replaced by a round cake of mochi. Enjoy the prize!
Wild Moon
- One of the children participating most energetically in the games of tag and dashing around the party is wearing an oversized gray hoodie with the hood pulled up right to the edges of his happy rabbit mask. He's not being very careful, either: he keeps bumping into other party attendees and barely taking the time to mutter an apology before he sprints away.
Although nothing noticeable happens at the time, anyone who's been tagged or bumped into by that particular child will begin to feel more emotional, quicker to react, and less self-controlled as the night wears on. Those who he only brushed by won't be too powerfully affected, but the more times that he has run into someone, the stronger the effect will grow.
(Note: This won't cause anyone to have emotions that they wouldn't feel otherwise, but both ongoing moods and temporary reactions could be amplified.)
In Summary:
- Play party games
- Relax with snacks
- Try to solve the hedge maze
- Go wild
- Have fun~
Cards
[He may not remember a single thing about his life before becoming a shinki, but there are some things about a person that just never change.
Sakon invites himself over and takes a seat.]
Gonna start a game? What kind of deck is that?
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Honestly, he hadn't been considering starting a game. Mostly just latching on to something familiar and welcome.]
I guess we could play a game or something. It's nothing special just a standard deck. Four suits, cards Ace to King and two jokers.
Do you play?
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[He's not quite as familiar with that deck, but it seems pretty popular. Aside from the games on his phone, he hasn't really picked up much, but that doesn't mean he can't fake it. That's how cards games work, after all.]
I've played with that kind a little! I mostly use these.
[He pulls out his own deck of hanafuda cards and holds it up. He pretty much always has it close at hand, even if he can't always find someone to play with.]
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[Dean considers. He could teach this guy a few simple card games maybe? Might be fun. Though as the other guy takes out another deck Dean is putting his down and gestures to the table.]
I don't think I've ever seen a deck like these before. Explain it to me.
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[Sakon spreads the cards out on the table, separating them by suit with practiced ease.]
A hanafuda deck's got twelve suits, one for each month. Each card has its own point value, but if you're gambling, then you're probably playing Koi Koi, so those don't really matter so much. You gotta remember which combinations get you the most points and go with those. Probably looks pretty intimidating, huh?
[Because it's easy to remember what card is which when you've got four suits clearly labeled with letters and numbers. Twelve suits of four cards each that have nothing but pictures on them can make things about clear as mud if you don't understand how the rules are supposed to work.]
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Huh. That's something new. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before.
[Leaning forward he's reaching out picking up one the cards, looking it over with a tilt of his head.]
Koi koi? [Just ignore the way he screws that up, he can speak Latin but he's got to hear stuff a few times before he gets it right.]
Maybe a little but I'm sure you can explain it. It might take a few times but I'm a quick study. If you're of the mind to teach me that is.
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[He leaves the cards laid out as they are, drumming his hands on the table for a few seconds as he thinks over how to start.]
Okay, deck first, then rules.
[Because one probably isn't going to make a whole lot of sense without the other.]
So if you look at 'em, you'll see there are four kinds of cards. Plain cards, [He taps a card with a picture of a peony and nothing else.] ribbon cards, [He taps the card next to it, which has a picture of a peony overlaid with a blue ribbon.] animal cards, [He taps the last card of the set, which has a picture of a peony and butterflies, then looks up and frowns.]
Wait, shoulda picked a different suit. Uhh...
[He looks over the table, then taps a card in a different suit with a picture of cherry blossoms and a brightly colored curtain.]
Bright cards are the last kind. Not every suit has every kind of card, so you just kinda have to keep track of them by how they look.
[With that, he goes over the rest of the cards on the table, pointing at each in turn and saying its category. When he's done, he frowns a little.]
That's a lot already...
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It's alright.
[He gives a little encouraging nod as if that alone would prompt Sakon along.]
I think I get it. So you get five of these cards.
[Dean is picking up one of the cards.]
I'm guessing these Brights are the big point cards? These plains are probably low point - there's way too many of them for them to be anything unles they're all together?
[It does seem kind of complicated but everything does the first time or so around.]
It'll take a while for me to get the hang of it but keep going.
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[He's nothing if not honest.]
And yeah, ten plain cards together is one point in Koi Koi. And then one point per plain card after that. Same goes for ribbons, kinda. Five ribbon cards is one point and then one point per ribbon card after that. Get all the blue ribbons and that's six points, get all the ribbons with writing on them and that's six. So basically if you get every ribbon in the whole deck, that's 18 points. Every plain card together would be 16. But if someone let you do that, they seriously suck at the game.
[He lets out a huge breath. Like he's forgotten to breathe at some point with all this talking.]
Got that? Animals and brights are less straightforward.
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[Might as well be honest. Besides they're just talking cards. No point in lying about it.]
So basically they'd be me?
[Dean laughed softly giving a little shake of his head.]
Frankly, it's about as clear as mud but keep going. Even if I never pick up the game it's interesting to hear about.
[Honestly, he'd have to see the game played a few times before he'd be able to really get it.]
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[It's probably why anyone uses this for gambling at all. There's really not a whole lot of skill involved, but it does call for a lot of luck and if you don't know what you have in your hand, you can't take advantage of that.]
Anyway, so...animals. Five animal cards is one point and then an extra point for every animal card on top of that, but uh...
[He points at the card with the crane on it.]
That's not an animal card, but...
[He points at the bridge and sake cup cards.]
Those are. I don't get it, either. The sake cup counts as a plain card, too, if you want to use it that way instead. Also...
[He points out the butterfly, boar, and deer cards.]
If you get these three, it's five points. So basically get all the animal cards and that's 10 points.
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[Dean is looking at the cards brows furrowing a bit as the other points out the cards. Then frowning.]
How the heck is the bird not an animal card? But the drink and the bridge are? That's completely crazy and makes zero sense.
[He's shaking his head and crossing his arms over his chest.]
You're right this game is weirder than I expected.
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[It's the only explanation that makes sense to him.]
Maybe that guy hated poetry or something, too. Cause, see, this card's a bright card, right?
[He points at the card with a picture of a man in traditional robes on it.]
But if you have two other bright cards with him, it doesn't count as a hand of three brights, so no six points. Even if you get a fourth bright along with him, it's only eight points. It'd be 10 if you had four bright cards without him. Get all five and that's 15 points.
[He drums his hands on the table for a second.]
That's all the standard scoring. Different places may have some other hands they recognize, so you gotta check. Usually stuff like six points going to the dealer if no one wins a hand.
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[Hell if Dean knows he has no idea he's just going by what he knows.]
Maybe? Yeah I see it.
[his brows furrow a bit and he gives a little shake of his head.]
That makes absolutely no sense at all. Like I'm glad most of the games I've played have pretty finite, universal rules.
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[He gathers the cards up and starts shuffling them together.]
But like I said, scoring is the hard part.
[He deals out eight cards a piece, the eight cards face up in the middle of the table. He then sets the deck next to the face up cards.]
The rest is easy.
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Gambling dens? I haven't heard of that one. I assume that's like a casino or pool hall? Something like that?
[Dean is watching him gather and shuffle the cards. Trying out a few hands can't hurt. It'll be a good way to kill time. Taking the cards he's dealt he's peering at them.]
Sounds like it's worth a shot.
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[He looks over his cards, then the cards on the table. It's not that bad a hand, all things considered.]
So anyway, when it's your turn, you have to try to make a match. If you've got a card in your hand that's the same suit as a card on the table, you can take that card.
[He picks up one of the clover cards from the middle and sets it on his side of the table, pulling a clover card with a red ribbon on it out of his hand and setting it next to it.]
Then you get to turn over a card from the deck. [Which he does.] If you can make a match with it, you get to keep the cards. If not, it stays in the middle.
[And since he can't use it, he leaves it in the middle.]
If you can't make a match with what you've got in your hand, you pick a card and leave it in the middle. You still get to turn a card over from the deck, though, so it's not a total bust.
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[Casinos aren't his usual place to game after all dive bars are more his speed. So he's eyeing his cards and watching the other so he can learn because how else is he going to?]
And when you say suit that's the flower motif thing, right? Kinda like how my cards have hearts and diamonds..
[He's picking up a peony card and adding it to one in his hand setting them both aside. They're both plain but it's fine. Then he flips that second card from the deck. He hand use it so he's placing it were he'd taking the first one from.]
It'll likely take me a couple hands to get this but I'm game for killing sometime.
[Scoring seems to be the most complicated part.]
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[Yeah, there are more rules...]
Basically, there's a way to try to beef up your score that can totally explode in your face.
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[Dean doesn't mind he's a-okay with keeping the first few games bare basics so he can get a proper hang of it.]
How so? I mean how does it blow up in your face?
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[He mimes an explosion.]
So sometimes you've gotta end a hand and get a grand total of one point if you think the other guy is gonna get something better.
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[Dean nods listening then arching a brow. It sounds kinda like canasta actually. Sometimes there were instances where you could meld out but you'd have a low score. He gets it.]
That is actually something I'm pretty familiar with. I think I get it now. This was pretty cool of you teaching me your game. You're an alright guy.
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[Sakon beams.]
Maybe I should start getting a group together to play cards, since I guess I don't totally suck at explaining it.
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Maybe. It might be a good idea. Cards is definitely a good way to meet new people, that's for sure. Do you know other kinds of card games?