Marathon!

[mitochondriaaya]

Aya had trained faithfully, just like she promised (and despite her period starting a few months after that promise. Really? She didn't need that!). The weights had been added by about the second month of training and she was really, really proud of her stamina!

And the marathon they'd chosen as their first was coming up this weekend, with fund raising as done by Elcy...and yeah. "Don't tell me you have to cancel!" she said into the phone, pulling one foot up to stretch out her thighs. "Don't! I can't go and do this alone!"

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[sliceitwithwind]

"We could use it to keep track of hell points." Dilan said, "You know, so that we know when we've banked enough to skip M-hell."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Oh, good call!" Aya pulled out three pegs and set them at one end of the board. "Any other boards up for discussion?" Yes, don't mind her as she busied herself with markers to make the white pegs different colors!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Snakes and Ladders," Dilan said, "And, uh...Life."

Braig grabbed pillows off of the bed and lounged on them.

[mitochondriaaya]

"Snakes and ladders has a lot of empty squares to write new things on, so yes!" Aya offered for that ones. "And...I don't know about Life? How does it translate?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Well," Braig said, "we can move from the main board to Life to pick up more cards and tokens."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Huh." Aya pulled out the board in question and unfolded it so they could look it over. "There are a lot of spaces empty here too, we could use those. "What kind of tokens? You have to get a car and family, that's how Life works, but beyond that?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Take a sharpie and scribble token amounts on some of the tiles." Braig said, "That'll be where we pick up Hell points."

[mitochondriaaya]

"And otherwise play as normal or should we stick ejection and card draw spots on the board as well?" C'mon, she had pens to pass over if they wanted to write on things too!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Draw and ejection spots." Braig said, nodding. "Just one of the ejection spots, though. If you miss it, all the way."

[mitochondriaaya]

Obviously he needed a pen! "You pick that one then! Dilan? I'll fill in the board, or most of it, leaving some blank, if you write up some Life related cards?"

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan nodded and started writing down cards...he liked doing that rather than letting Braig, because his handwriting was beautiful and Braig's looked like chicken scratch.

[mitochondriaaya]

This was why the labor was divided in this manner! "You know, when we finish this...game giant thing we'll have to redo the cards so they're all the same size and stuff." And hammer out the rules.

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah." Dilan agreed, frowning, "We can...you or Braig can use an art program to do that. I can get card stock."

[mitochondriaaya]

"That'd be fun," Aya admitted. "We should put the game name on the backs!" When they figured that out! "No one mixes up our cards in other games by accident!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Okay." Dilan said easily, "I still think we should just call it the monster game."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Hmmm, maybe just Monster? It did eat all the other games." And Monster rolled off the tongue better than The Monster Game!

[sliceitwithwind]

Braig laughed, "Fair enough. Monster it is."

[mitochondriaaya]

"You hear that game? You are hereby dubbed 'Monster'!" It was a proud kind of announcement! "Hmmm, it's going to eat souls isn't it?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Nah." Dilan said, "We'd've had to name it demon for that."

[mitochondriaaya]

"And then the boards would drip blood or something and giggle at us!" Which would be bad, honestly, they'd put too much work into Monster to have to douse it in holy water or something!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah. So Monster." Dilan nodded, setting the new cards into the stack.

[mitochondriaaya]

"It's a fun Monster." Aya agreed, sitting back on her knees to view the squares she'd filled. Looked even enough to her! "Okay! Looks like we're good!"

[sliceitwithwind]

About halfway through the game Elcy called them down to dinner, Dilan looking at all the pieces and he said, "We should clean this up. We don't want kittens to choke on it."

[mitochondriaaya]

"...yeeeeah," Aya admitted with a sigh. "Rematch another time!" She probably wouldn't have gotten out of M-Hell anyway!

"They're so tiny! Do you think they'd really try to eat the pieces?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Do we wanna risk it?" Dilan asked as he scooped pieces back into their various boxes, "Remember all the stuff Cat got into?"

"Yeah, not risking it." Braig agreed, shuddering.