Dolly's Totally Normal Cozy Creature Comforts May and June Catchall

[autumnrainrunaway]

Who: Dolly and YOU! :D

What: Catch-all and Maybe Quests

Where: The Clinic, The Bay, and more to be added as time marches on

When:Throughout May and June :3c

Warnings: Pokemon Typical Violences and more to be added as time zooms on by on it's motor bike.

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[firstrateduelist]

Kaiba hasn't been terribly receptive to visitors since waking up, but he's equally unable to leave with his current injuries (at least not without Anasui likely giving him grief or further injury about it). He's (un)kindly requested reading material and something to write with and on during his forced stay, in order to keep his mind busy, but nothing really does keep him...enriched, to put it simply.

It's to the point that he'd been considering a jailbreak by the time Dolly shows up, and it's only because she showed up at all that he has to let the idea go. Witnesses are hardly ideal.

If she approaches him though, he gives an annoyed snuff. He's seen her before, and most egregiously importantly, he remembers her gifts. She had given him things for the holiday season, however foolish that was. But he had found value in her tokens, so...

"Taking pity on the injured?"

...so he still reacts like a jerk, because he is one. Alas.

[autumnrainrunaway]

Ah yes, it wouldn't be a standard Kaiba interaction without his well seasoned antisocial disposition. Dolly wouldn't have it any other way, this was the natural state of Kaiba and has come to accept that by now. Chances are it means he's healing like the grumpiest dragon ever should be.

"More like I came to play a game with you, to pass the time. Even smuggled in cookies since I figured by now you're getting sick of the berries."

Dolly wasn't going to beat around the bush so to speak as she enters the room, gently trotting towards Kaiba before using the ribbon feelers to pull herself up onto the bedside chair.

There, all nicely situated on the rather uncomfortable seat of wood.

Congratulations Kaiba, you have to play a card game with the pink cat-fox-dog creature with a flopped over right ear from that run in with Ditto. All Dolly has to do is patiently await his response to the offer.

[firstrateduelist]

A game. Of course. They weren't friends, but she knew enough to realize where his interests lie. Well, almost, anyway.

"I'm sick of everything here," he admits testily, "but I don't care for sugary food."

Again, it's him being contrarian for the sake of it, and the reality is that perhaps, at some point, he would eat a singular cookie. But that's not half as important as the challenge, so he sits up a little straighter, with a slight wince.

"What game?"

Well less snark and more 'LET'S DUEL!!'

[autumnrainrunaway]

Right, leaving the cookies on the bedside table within Kaiba's reaching range without harming himself. Dolly understood he'll eventually take a cookie sooner or later. "Should've known better, I'll be sure to bring sherry glazed Ducklett with a side of bacon riesling orzo next time."

Carefully, Dolly pulls out her own deck, the Potions and Poisons card game that she made for herself, showing Kaiba the cauldron cat shaped cards.

"I figured we could play Potions and Poisons. It's a pretty competitive game where you try to gain as many potions as possible. Poisoned cards deducts points when claimed. It's a pretty fun game, good for placing bets on."

A pretty straight forward game, also oddly educational on what things are highly poisonous.

[firstrateduelist]

"Tch."

The sound seems displeased, but if he actually were, he'd have turned away from her on the spot. Instead, he glances at the cards with a half-lidded expression. She had given him a set for the holidays, and he'd gone over the rules by now. Still, he hadn't actually played anyone, so the opportunity is not terrible.

"The idea isn't so complex," he comments haughtily. "If that's what you want to do, it's a level above reading the same book over again. I guess I'll trust you to deal, not like I have much choice."

If his attitude hasn't chased her off yet, then what's a little more bound to do? But once they start playing, it'll probably shift into something less...irritating, and more in line with trash talk at best.

[autumnrainrunaway]

"That's fair enough, I can deal out the cards then." Dolly goes to do the shuffling with the ribbon feelers before dealing them out between Kaiba and herself. "Though, agreed, they really ought to give you more reading materials rather than the one book."

There is a mental note of bringing the boardgames next time to give Kaiba some more variety while he recovers. The dragon needs his enrichments, that's what Dolly has learned so far.

Soon enough, the cards are dealt and Dolly is ready to play whenever Kaiba is as she sends out the first card to start the first round up. The art depicts a little mason jar as the holder for the potential potion or poison to build up.

Dolly has no clue about the trash talk that's to come, but given that she wasn't driven out from the attitude...Kaiba is likely going to be stuck with Dolly for a while.