itsjustagamerp | Pretend I'm not late

Characters: Phineas and anyone that wants to join in
Content: Egg bowling!
Location: Deck 4; the cafeteria
Time of day: Afternoon
Warnings: ...Egg bowling.

[Upon entering the usual dining area this afternoon, you'll probably notice that Phineas has collected eggs. A lot of eggs. ~~And put them all in one basket.~~ Right now he seems to be putting the finishing touches on what look like several arrangements of ten small plastic stands. Yep, this is definitely gonna be interesting.]

All right, these should be able to hold the eggs up without simultaneously getting the way of knocking them over.

[He smiles. Is that even worth mentioning? He then heads over to a variety of balls he apparently found in places he could reach on the satellite, including one actual bowling ball, a few standard balls one might see on a playground, a soccer ball, a sleeve of tennis balls, and what looks like a small collection of super balls (tiny, but maybe the bouncing will make it more interesting?).]

We can use these to play! If you have any questions, I can explain anything. Other than that, just have fun!

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[Just exploring, still trying to get his bearings, when he wanders by.] What's going on here?

We're gonna play egg bowling! It's just like regular bowling, but instead of pins we're using the surplus of eggs that have appeared on the satellite. And we're not necessarily limited to using bowling balls, either.

Isn't that a bit... messy?

Yes. Yes it is. But we'll clean it up when we're finished!

I suppose there's no harm in that, then...

Do you wanna give it a try, too?

Might as well.

Now that he was out of the game, Sora had wandered back onto the upper decks, looking for something new to do. It was then that he came across the unusual 'bowling alley' on the cafeteria deck, and spotted Phineas at the front of it. He had to ask him about modifying those shoes, anyway.

"Hey there!" he said. He realized that Phineas had mentioned this game on the network, and was curious about it. He'd never actually gone bowling before. "Sooo...how does this game work?"

"Hi Sora!" he replied, walking toward one of the sets of stands. "You've never bowled before? It's easy! You just set up ten pins, or in this case eggs..." With that, he began grabbing eggs and placed them upright in a triangle. "...just like this!"

Once those were set, he walked over to the make-shift ball rental area. "For this version you can take whatever ball you wanna use." Phineas grabbed the soccer ball. "Then you stand back here and try to roll it across the floor and knock over as many eggs as you can. This is just for fun so we're not keeping score, but you're supposed to try to get all ten eggs in two throws or less."

He stood a few feet behind a previously unmentioned chalk line on the floor and, holding the soccer ball in his left hand, took a few steps and demonstrated something close to proper form. The ball knocked over five "pins" along the right edge, helped by the fact that a few eggs knocked over neighboring ones. Three of them were broken and oozing onto the floor. "Whoops, Brooklyn."

"I didn't have time to make a ball return, so you can pick it up and try again if you don't get a strike!"

Sora listened through Phineas's explanation...this game certainly seemed simple enough. However, his general policy on new games was that he learned best by doing them.

"Okay! That seems easy..."

Sora looked over at the available balls. It looked like something bigger would be better, at least to cover more area. He tried out one of the bowling balls, but that one seemed too heavy for him. He then picked up a basketball, which felt like it would do better.

He concentrated, then rolled the basketball down the makeshift lane and into the eggs. His aim was a little off, but he did manage to hit about five of the eggs, which then knocked over two others. This seemed like a decent enough start to Sora.

"All right!"

"Good job!" Phineas said. "Next time you try to knock over the rest of them. After that, we set up ten more eggs and start over."

"Sure!" Sora ran over to retrieve to where the basketball rolled, headed back behind the line, and tried again.

However, the second time he rolled it, the basketball got a bit of a bounce on it, and instead of going straight into the eggs, it sort of bounced onto them. But luckily, the bounce was enough to knock over the remaining eggs...or rather, to squish them flat. No matter what, squashing things was still fun.

"There we go!"

"Yeah, that counts!" he replied. "If bowling balls could bounce, that sort of thing would happen all the time."

Phineas had a mop and some other cleaning supplies ready, but he still wasn't sure if it would be better to clean between frames or just take care of all of it at the end. "You can keep trying if you want! Still need help?"

"Could definitely make it more interesting..." Sora mused. You had a lot less control over a ball that went bouncing everywhere.

"Nah, I think I got it!" Sora said. He decided he'd try a different ball this time...the bowling ball still felt too heavy, so he instead picked up the volleyball. It didn't seem quite as bouncy as the basketball, but still solid enough to knock things over.

[... she has to ask.] What kind of eggs are those exactly?

I think they came from those weird chicken things. They didn't start showing up until after they got here, at least.

Right, right...

They're not gonna hatch anytime soon, are they?

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