Checking Out the Competition

Writers: Devin, Chelle
Date Posted: 12th February 2016

Characters: Rhosyn, K'mai
Description: The two of them discuss strategy
Location: River Bluff Weyr
Date: month 4, day 9 of Turn 8
Notes: Mentioned: L'airev

K'mai

"We seriously need to change up our strategy. They know our plays,
K'mai." They had won the match the day before but it hadn't been a
victory of a large margin which worried the Weyrwoman. Rhosyn didn't
like to lose and coming close to it made her nervous. It was easier
when the games were effortless. She was thinking of the conversation
she'd had with a certain bronzerider recently.

K'mai laughed. "You're obsessed with winning." He liked winning as
well, but he was happy enough just to play.

"Oh, so you like losing?" Shaking her head, she pushed a bit of cookie
into her mouth. "And anyway, so I have some pride when I represent my
Weyr. Is that a bad thing?"

"I just like a good time. But if it pleases my Weyrwoman, I would very
much like to win." He grinned and snatched up a cookie.

"That's more like it. So, do you have any ideas?" She was trying to get her
brain to work but it was just not cooperating at the moment. Rhosyn was
looking over the plays and trying to imagine if the figures were in different
positions.

Full speed ahead. K'mai shook his head in amusement. "New players
would shake things up. Maybe one of the older weyrlings from the class
that just graduated?"

"Umm...they'd have to be wingriders for a full turn before. Just like
with crafting so they don't have distractions. They have enough to worry
about learning their new duties and everything. New players is a good idea
though. And maybe new positions for some." She pointed out a few names
she had thought about switching out.

"And that, my dear, is why I'm not a leader. I leave the big plans to
the people good with strategy." K'mai winked. Though he could
strategize perfectly well at dragonpoker.

"Fine from now on your captain duties only include scouting you wherry brain.
And maybe watching some of the other teams....you know..for thoughts." It
wasn't against the rules after all and it could be helpful to observe other
matches. She stretched her legs and made a few notes. "We can try these
new positions next practice and see if that helps."

"Watching other teams? I can do that." It was no hardship to watch
weyrfolk splashing around in next to nothing.

"And taking notes. Not just watching." She gave him the eye before she
scribbled on her to-do list.

"Okay, notes too." He was going to slip in a few observations on the
players' attractiveness, just for fun.

"We need a new ball or two. Where do we get those from again?" She didn't
really know. The ones they had had were already there when she'd showed up
but the things were going flat.

"One of the tanners makes them. Either we all pitch in for the cost or
someone generous buys one for the team." K'mai gave her a teasing look.

"I'm sure I can figure out something." She made a note to follow up with said
tanner. "We don't have anyone injured right now I don't think..." Biting the tip
of the stylus, it was a rare unguarded moment and it spoke volumes about just
how friendly she had gotten with the bluerider.

K'mai leaned an elbow on the desk. "You're even serious about your fun."

"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. And yes, whatever I do, I put all of
myself in it-even my hobbies." She had forever been one of those people that
always pushed and tried her hardest. It was just who she was. Rhosyn didn't
really have a way to turn off.

The bluerider turned serious. "Does it make you happy? Putting
everything into your hobbies? Do you feel better afterward?" People
were different, so he couldn't assume his idea of fun was the same for
everyone else. K'mai had friends that enjoyed having quiet evenings
most of the time, while he liked parties.

"I think of it the opposite way. If I didn't try as much as I could,
I'd be disappointed in myself after. Honestly, though, I really don't know
any other way." She was quiet, matching his tone and thinking about a past
not many knew about. "Before I went to the Weyr, I grew up in a farmhold.
We all worked hard and played hard because that's all we had. You sort of
go overboard on the other to compensate for how much work you have to do, I guess."

"Do I have to teach you how to have a good time?" A slow smile spread
across his face. "If there was a craft for fun, I'd be a master."

"Oh I know how to do that. The problem is I tend to go overboard. Just like
with this." She frowned thinking of all the things she'd managed to get into
over the turns. "You might have a reputation, K'mai, but so have I and it didn't
just come out of nowhere."

"Well aren't we a pair?" He remembered the little stir they'd caused
at that Dragonsfall Hatching. K'mai hoped he'd get invited along to
another one soon.

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