Ponysona: The Rise and Fall of Tartarus

[Checkmate]

Checkmate nodded and sat near the wall, checking a notepad before pulling out his game and playing against himself.

[Grizzly]

The blue mare sat still for a few minutes, but as she was here for so long she needed desperately some distraction. She was looking at Checkmate and soon just sighed and sat next to him, setting the board of the game anew. "So, what's your name?" she asked, all her shyness taken away by how tired she was.


(( sorry Check! i figured you're playing chess, so i just jumped in hope you don't mind. Oh and its RAINING HERE!!! finally ))

[Checkmate]

((Lucky...))

Checkmate looked at her for a few seconds, his eyes zooming all around, before he spoke up.  Checkmate.

[Grizzly]

"I'm Blue Star, everypony calls me Blue." she said and made her first move. "You're a friend of anypony here?" she asked.

[Checkmate]

Checkmate looked at her confusedly.  Friend?

[Grizzly]

Blue tilted her head. "You don't know what a friend is?" she asked, and after a few seconds of silent staring she sighed. "Its like an acquaintance, but closer." she tried to explain.

[Checkmate]

Checkmate nodded, scribbling that down quickly.  Visible in the notebook was now the words "Friend=Vulnerability?"

[Grizzly]

As blue saw the scribble she frowned and sighed. "Friends aren't a vulnerability, they're a reliance. You got their back and they got yours, and there is strength in numbers." she sighed again and made another move.

[Checkmate]

Checkmate made his move, scribbling further and scratching out the "Vulnerability."  An ally, then?  Someone to be used when the moment suits it?

[Grizzly]

"That's more accurate. But there's a lot of trust in that alliance." she said with a sigh and made her move.

[Checkmate]

Checkmate made his move while scribbling further, his facial expression not changing.  "Friend=Trusted Ally: Trust?"

[Grizzly]

Blue made another move, sighing again. "So, what do you like? Your favorite food? Favorite color?" she questioned so that the conversation would not stall.

[Checkmate]

Checkmate moved quietly, before sighing.  He figured this mare couldn't hurt him with this knowledge.  Nothing, nothing, and nothing.

[Grizzly]

Blue raised an eyebrow. "So why do you play chess if you don't like it?" she asked and made another move.

[Checkmate]

Ponies seem to dislike it when I attempt strategems on them.

[HunterOfTheDark]

"You sound like Sherlock." Dusk groans as he comes to, having listened into the conversation.

[Grizzly]

"What's a strategem?" blue questioned, then turned her head to Dust, jumped away from her chair and the game and hurried to his side. "Oh my gosh you're awake!" she gasped. "Do you need anything?"

[Checkmate]

Checkmate watched quietly, keeping his words to himself.

[HunterOfTheDark]

Dusk chuckles. "A stratagem is another way of saying strategy. As for if I need anything, how about an explanation. What the hay happened back on the roof?"

[Grizzly]

Blue shrugged. "I was knocked out, when i came to you guys were out too, so i don't know." she said and folded her ears.