Unit 6 - Where in the Hotel gains access to a pool table. No need for a bar.

[namedforcat]

[Early one evening, if one happens to walk through the hotel lobby, they may notice something that hadn't been there when they had left through those doors.

A pool table.

Thanks to that odd offer of the powers that be to give them back something from home, Gaignun (somewhat jokingly) asked for the pool table from his office, and got it much to his surprise. It's a well loved pool table, well made with a few nicks and scratches in the wood work that speaks to the fact that it actually got used.

So there it sits, in the side of the hotel lobby, fully decked out with a sign posted saying "Free to play, just take good care of it."

It's owner, a face familiar to mosmt is right now just happily noodling around on it, making random shots. Feel free to join him, he's always up for a game.]


[[ooc: So the hotel now has a pool table, which is free for anyone to use. It's now a fixture there until he finds somewhere else to put it so feel free to appropriate it for other threads and what not.]]

Comments

[want_a_vacation]

*Just coming in from work-well, he recognizes that pool table, if barely.*

Is that what you got back from home?

*So, Gaignun, did you manage to notice Allen before he spoke up?*

[namedforcat]

[He'll never admit it, but Allen totally snuck up on him.]

Ah, Allen. Yes, it's the one from my office. I'd know it anywhere.

[want_a_vacation]

*Sob, he wasn't even trying.*

I guess this saves the trouble of finding somewhere with a pool table if you want to play.

[namedforcat]

I guess so. I'm honestly not happy about where I have to store it, but it's not as if I can fit this in the hotel room.

[monohoshizao]

[Kojiro doesn't always lurk in the lobby.

But when he does, he take a good look at every corner. And this pool table? He have... around little to no idea about it.

I am samurai and what is this.]

[namedforcat]

[Better then being 12 hey Assassin?]

Ah, fancy meeting you here. [He still remembers you.] So, what do you think? Lovely isn't it? [He's so proud of this pool table.]

[tolettheworldbe]

[As odd as this place has been so far, Snake could use a moment of relaxation. It hadn't been his first time playing pool (headcanon), after all.]

You any good?

[want_a_vacation]

Just another reason to get out of the hotel as soon as possible, I guess. Do you mind if I play?

[namedforcat]

Me? [He turns to Snake and smiles. Gaignun Kukai never turns down a challenger] I'd like to consider myself so. Would you like to play and see for yourself?

[Warning, he's good. (his actual skill level is headcanon buuuut...you see it in his office in cut scenes so...)

[namedforcat]

No, please, join me. [He waves his hand over to where the other cues are kept]. I'd love some company.

[want_a_vacation]

*Picking one of them up. He's had enough practice by now that he seems perfectly natural with it.*

Any guesses about why we're getting this stuff back?

[tolettheworldbe]

Not exactly a professional myself, but I'll take a crack at it.

[Snake will be grabbing one of the pool sticks and twisting some cue chalk on the tip of it.]

[namedforcat]

Either this is a genuine gesture, or a carrot on a string. Either or, if it happens again I'm going to have to be a little more careful about what I ask for.

[Sure, he complains, but he smiles fondly as his fingers brush over the various scratches that mar the wood. Stupid Jr and his stupid holsters.]

[namedforcat]

May as well. I enjoy playing, no matter who it's against. I don't believe we've met, I'm Gaignun Kukai.

[tolettheworldbe]

Solid Snake.

[After the gruff greeting (implying everything he says isn't already gruff...), Snake will do the polite thing and get to racking the billiards.]

[namedforcat]

[He's heard of weirder] Nice to meet you, I'm looking forward to this.

[seeslights]

[This, much like cars and phones and a hundred other things here in Prospero, is something Rapunzel has never seen before. And she's very curious. Wanders closer, tilting her head a little as she watches him, her hair trailing along behind her]

[namedforcat]

[After one last shot, he turns to his now found watcher.] Hello there Miss, is there something I can help you with?

[tolettheworldbe]

[One of these days, someone will pick up on the sexual pun.

Once the racking is done, Snake will stand off to the side indicating that he wants Gaignun to go first.]

Likewise.

[want_a_vacation]

Maybe I'll ask for my old crossbow back. Then again, I'm not sure it'll work without my Ethers and I doubt it would work during Dark Hour, either way...

*He grabs the rack and starts setting up for a proper game.*

[sawthelight]

Oh! [smiles brightly] I was just wondering what that is. I've never seen anything like it before, but that's not unusual for this place, it seems.

[namedforcat]

Perhaps. Though it may well work on skill alone if you bought the arrows from here. [Ok, so he he still finds the image of Allen with a cross bow to be kind of funny, but he'd never laugh in his friends face about it.]

To be fair, I don't own anything smaller.

[namedforcat]

Thank you. [He steps forward, carefully lining up his shot.] Have you been in this place for very long?

[namedforcat]

This? It's called a 'pool table', and it's used for playing the game on it. Would you like to learn?

[tolettheworldbe]

[Snake will take that opportunity to light up a smoke.]

Twelve days. What about you?