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Weiss in thomassia
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Weiss gets a stream of people that smile at her, and look on in curiosity, although none choose to approach her and ask about the chess set.

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Her interest flips back over to boredom really easily; This is a known Weiss Fact.

Maybe she can try to join one of the arcade-playing groups? Do they seem to be paying to run the machines?

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One of them swipes a card once in a while against a reader, but they don't pay constantly like you did for arcade games back on Earth. One of the boys finds so Weiss so cute that he just hands over one of the extra plastic swords, and soon she can just join them, blocking virtual arrows and flying bats. It's incredibly fun.

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Aaaaaaa she feels a little bit skeevy getting random gifts from boys aaa-

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-Don't overthink it, just have fun! She's more athletic than a small frame would suggest. She hits everything almost perfectly, and tries to set up everyone else for cool moves and not show off too much. She's barely breathing hard when it ends, though.

"Is that a good score?" She wonders aloud at the end.

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Well, it's higher than the other guy's, but the scores on the leaderboard are much higher.

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She puts the plastic sword back and/or hands it back over, whichever seems correct, with a flourish and a bow.

"That was fun, thanks. Do you know a good way to find people interested in playing complicated board games around here?"

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"Well, I think the most high-end board game club is probably the one on the first floor of the Rain Dance Hotel & Game Room? It's..." he points awkwardly behind a few skyscrapers. "A fair bit away, I think it'd be a bit far for a walk".

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"I like walking on nice days like this. Thanks. Hope you have a good day."

She bounces and hums as she begins her quest walk.

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He waves at Weiss as she heads off. If she just keeps going, it takes around 40 minutes, walking past many beautiful parks, including water parks, and tall buildings, before finding a very culturally-dubious looking skyscraper. It's decorated to look like it's made with animal skins, and there's a big totem pole-like column that splits the building's left and right sides by the front entrance.

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She gets distracted wandering through a flower garden for half an hour on the way but-

-Eugh, why, this is some cringy mall-tier thing- No, no, don't be too harsh. Is there a sign indicating that this is Rain Dance Hotel & Game Room?

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Looking closer, she can indeed see the sign above the main entrance, although the text is fairly small; clearly, the totem pole is meant to let you know.

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She will enter the hotel, walking like she clearly knows where she's going, and take a look around.

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She enters straight into the lobby, but looking through a side door, she can see that there's a huge room full of casino-style tables with green felt, with people playing board and card games of all types taking up most of the first floor.

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Exactly what she was looking for!

...Do people seem to be betting? The tables make her think of poker...

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Maybe? A few of the games actually use poker-style chips, and sometimes chips switch hands, but it seems to be quite rarely, not every round like in poker, and it doesn't seem like people can control how much they lose if they lose.

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....Any obvious GMs or staff?

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There are a few tables further apart from the others with judges keeping a close eye on the players and the game, but nowhere else has anything that looks remotely like staff or GMs.

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Instructions or explanations written anywhere?

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Nowhere to be seen! Apparently, the players know everything that it's necessary for them to know.

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Annoying. Also, what she gets for sneaking around, maybe.

She'll have another wander around the environs of the hotel, trying to look talk-to-able and not vaguely mad.

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Quickly afterwards, a man dressed in a short blue skirt notices her wandering. "Most people that get here go straight to the game room! Is there something you're doing while you're wandering around like that?"

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Yeahhh between the weird language and weird clothes she must have been gone from Earth longer than she thought.

"-Well, I don't know the rules, and I didn't want to... Bother people by asking. Hi. Oh, also, I might have a few experimental games."

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"Nice to meet you! I'm a bit surprised that you'd come here without knowing the rules for the games you were hoping to play, but if you were thinking about the experimental games of your own, I can see why you'd go somewhere with so many fanatic boardgamers. What are they like?"

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"I have one about farming and building a town that's mostly cooperative worker placement, and one called chess that I'm not sure if it's popular here, and one that's a dice game where your characters are trying to win a tournament and each one has a different ability."

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