[ Indeed, it looks like an extra large chessboardโor, from Lucius' perspective, a squared regicide board. Lucius leans back in his seat, glass full of moonshine in his hand, and at first, his only response to that proclamation from Eridanus is a soft click of his tongue against the back of his teeth.
To the explanation of the rules themselves, he says, ] It sounds quite like regicide. Many of my brothers played that game together to pass the time, but I never saw the point of it myself. Hone your strategies all you like, but a game of rote movements will never teach you to dominate a battlefield.
[ But here Lucius is, straightening to better regard the board. Frankly, it's only because Eridanus has asked him for an occasion of importance that Lucius intends to make an effort; he thinks of what fethesi pieces had aligned in their movements, more or less, with those of regicide, and what few opening gambits he had bothered to learn over the course of a century and a half of being roped into occasional games, and it's attempting to thread that needle that gives him his opening move. He'll work out the rest as he goes. ]
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[ Indeed, it looks like an extra large chessboardโor, from Lucius' perspective, a squared regicide board. Lucius leans back in his seat, glass full of moonshine in his hand, and at first, his only response to that proclamation from Eridanus is a soft click of his tongue against the back of his teeth.
To the explanation of the rules themselves, he says, ] It sounds quite like regicide. Many of my brothers played that game together to pass the time, but I never saw the point of it myself. Hone your strategies all you like, but a game of rote movements will never teach you to dominate a battlefield.
[ But here Lucius is, straightening to better regard the board. Frankly, it's only because Eridanus has asked him for an occasion of importance that Lucius intends to make an effort; he thinks of what fethesi pieces had aligned in their movements, more or less, with those of regicide, and what few opening gambits he had bothered to learn over the course of a century and a half of being roped into occasional games, and it's attempting to thread that needle that gives him his opening move. He'll work out the rest as he goes. ]