Week 5

[grimgrinningghosts]

[...So that was a mess. All of it was a mess, and things don't look to be improving any time soon. With tensions at an all-time high and conditions worsened, it seems pretty safe to say that this whole week promises a great deal of foreboding atmosphere.

But, hey, things aren't entirely bad. Just as Randall promised, you're now able to leave the Manor! 

Just don't stay out there for too long. There's still a lot of you, and you just can't afford to lose numbers.

24 guests remain]

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Comments

[sorrydoods]

Jeez, this is crazy...

[Thank goodness they stop, though. He wasn't sure if his shirt could hold any more of these things.]

Is this Shibuya place just, like, obsessed with pins or something?

[psychopinesis]

No, uh...actually yeah, there's a type of game that you use the pins for...it became popular recently, I guess, because I hadn't heard of it before a couple months ago.

[And of course, it became the focal point of one of his missions.]

It's called Tin Pin Slammer and you play it by...shooting the pins at each other and trying to knock them off of the playing field.

[It's sort of like marbles, but with more psychic fuckery for whatever reason.]

[sorrydoods]

[Which is the exact analogy Soos will use.]

Oh, so, sort of like marbles then?

[psychopinesis]

Kind of. You don't get to keep the pins you knock off, though, and you can only play with a maximum of six pins at a time.

[sorrydoods]

Oh.

[Soos is just gonna dump the pins in his shirt into the bag Neku's got before helping Neku get the rest of the pins that fell on the floor.]

Sounds kinda fun. You think I could try?

[psychopinesis]

Sure. I didn't see the machine spit out any launchers, so it'll be a little harder.

[Hmm, where would be a good place to play?]

We'll use one of the tables over there.

[He sets the bag down on the table, fishing a few random pins out of it.]

Go ahead and pick some pins. Some are lighter or heavier than the others, you don't really want those. I mean, I don't like to use them, but you can if you want.

[sorrydoods]

Hmmm...

[Soos is gonna grab the panda one, the 'K' one, the one with 4 on it, the dolphin one, the one with the living music note, and the one that says 'Live']

You said we need six of them to play, right?

[psychopinesis]

Up to six. You only need one, but you better be confident in your playing ability if you use less than two.

[He is not entirely confident in his playing ability, so he picks the red pin with the skull on it, one with flames, a couple with chains, and the 'M' and 'O' pins.]

Okay...so you pick a pin to start out, and put it at the edge of the uhh-- [He forgot to designate a playing field, didn't he? He grabs a marker from his pocket and draw a large circle on the table, then sets one of his pins on the line.] --circle. And then you just...flick it at your opponent's pin and try to knock it out of the circle. If that pin gets knocked out, you use another, until you run out of pins.

[sorrydoods]

[Soos nods a little bit after hearing the explanation, seeming to understand.]

Alright, sounds easy enough.

[He'll then put the panda pin at the edge of the circle and wait for Neku to choose which one he wants to use first.]

[psychopinesis]

[He'll set down the 'M' pin.]

Got one? Okay...ready, set, GO!

[He aims, and then shoots his pin towards Soos' pin. If Soos' aim is also good, they should ricochet off one another.]