yes to scrabble ideas!! scrabble ideas please!
so 🤺 wrote the original games posts but we have discussed our ideas so here they are:
it would have to end with someone flipping the board. votes on this are either kevin or nicky tbh.
dyslexic nicky claiming that being made to play the game is hate crime (there was no ‘being made to play’, he was absolutely down for it). as he’s playing, he literally just lays tiles and hope something sticks. nothing sticks. all of his words have errors and he point blank refuses to correct them because that would be ableism.
kevin has a legit official scrabble dictionary for which he is, understandably, mercilessly mocked. he gets especially pissed when andrew just holds up a scrabble dictionary on his phone and shakes it at him. kevin insists it must be done ‘by the book’. neil makes a comment about even he has embraced technology and starts calling kevin ‘grandpa’, which is weird for everyone involved.
neil starts laying words from any language and also claiming that nicky’s nonsense words are from a variety of languages? aaron is not having it at all but the upperclassmen are sufficiently fooled. either that or they’ve run out of energy to argue with neil. one of the two.
they either play it tournament-style where the winner plays the winner OR, since they are the foxes, they go seriously more unhinged and all of them play at once. they can only have like 5 letters each. this has kevin literally in tears because the rules aren’t being followed!!
andrew’s memory serves him so well but he does not give a single fuck so he basically just plays three letter words until he whacks out a seven letter on a triple word space. this also has kevin basically in tears, because we know kevin’s feelings on andrew’s potential. neil finds kevin’s pain hilarious.
in a rare use of an english word, neil makes the work ‘serial’ off of matt’s ‘killer’ and everyone looks at him. he stares back entirely straight faced. the moment is so bizarre that andrew cracks a (very small) smile in front of them all.
aaron is trying so fucking hard which is absolutely hilarious because he’s doing so badly. he is also wound up by andrew’s uncaring attitude, which makes andrew care even fucking less.
matt and dan are both pretty good at scrabble but they’re mostly focused on keeping the game vaguely on track because it’s basically constant near fights after each word. matt tells nicky that as a fellow dyslexic, nicky has no excuse. nicky just throws a tile at him. matt’s a collegiate sportsman, so naturally he catches it. after which, he just gives nicky a massive thumbs up and a shit-eating grin.
renee makes the word ‘assassin’ from nicky’s ‘ass’ and nobody knows where all the damn s tiles came from. nicky just asks what ‘ass-ass-in’ means.
allison is just trying to make names of anyone vaguely related to the foxes, which makes kevin nearly cry because ‘there shouldn’t be any proper nouns!!’. allison just lazily flips him off and tells him to focus on andrew, who has successfully stacked three tiles on kevin’s head in the last thirty seconds. allison is really trying to make wesninski and neil has fully caught onto this but isn’t concerned because there’s no feasible way she’ll get the letters she needs.
in the entire chaos of the night, no one realises renee is just whacking letters out of her own bag, swapping other people’s letters to shit tiles and has consistently made sure everyone has less tiles than they’re supposed to. she doesn’t even care about winning, she just adores the chaos.
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part two of an odd textual mystery analysis (haikaveh focus)
(part one of my thoughts can be found here!)
immediately after wrapping things up at the house of daena, kaveh takes to finding alhaitham solely in order to tell him what went down regarding the book (i've heard that in the CN, kaveh apparently looked for alhaitham for half a day??? help. the dedication)
alhaitham is shown to leave his perusing of a book stall to approach kaveh when called, which is an extra animation? (for me this is similar to the extra animations in the flashback scene within their house in cyno's story quest ii, with alhaitham putting the book down when interacting with kaveh)
kaveh teases alhaitham, making him guess what he has in his bag - to which alhaitham goes along with, with his own dry sense of humour, guessing that it's the book, to which kaveh counters, but actually confirms by telling him that it's The Book
kaveh tells alhaitham about the circling of names being due to him as an inadvertent instigator, to which alhaitham replies that he knew something like this would happen, ever since he saw Kaveh having circled the murderer's name - to which kaveh questions, because kaveh recalls returning the book to the house of daena after doing so?
only for alhaitham to reveal that he read the book (previously?/after?) in the house of daena.. and that kaveh left the book in the study, after he circled the name of the killer. meaning that alhaitham saw the book that kaveh took out of the library, and was comfortable enough to open it, because he knew kaveh would be fine with it, because the study is their shared space??
(this reminds me a parade of providence where kaveh stresses that it's fine to look through documents that alhaitham has left out, since alhaitham wanted kaveh to look through them, but now it seems that the study is canonically their shared place? im thinking of kaveh's birthday letter calling it 'my' study, due to him being so comfortable with his residency with alhaitham... oh :D)
kaveh being embarrassed about being caught out, but not annoyed with alhaitham looking through the book. they really are at so much more ease with each other!!
kaveh then asking if alhaitham if circled a name, to which alhaitham confirms, saying that the second one (green ink... being the complimentary colour to kaveh's red ink okay...) is his, all in order to signal a red herring to throw off the people checking out the book after kaveh, in order to avoid kaveh spoiling the killer
kaveh then questions why alhaitham only circled one, in contrast to other people, to which alhaitham rationalises by saying that circling two names is more than enough to avoid a spoiler, considering that kaveh used permanent ink when creating the spoiler
kaveh pulls alhaitham up on this and says that alhaitham only circled one name on the first page, too, because he thought it would be funny - to which alhaitham agrees, saying it's more fun that reading the book, and kaveh agrees!
in the line with their new rapport in bickering in cyno's story quest 2, this truly is just inconsequential bickering, they're enjoying each other's responses and chasing it, not misunderstanding the other and actively getting hurt. they've improved so much!!
alhaitham congratulating kaveh on officially owning the book, to which kaveh dismisses dejectedly - the camera pans out onto the traveller and paimon, but we see alhaitham say something to kaveh, continuing their banter outside of the player's knowledge
this quest essentially happened because alhaitham and kaveh are that comfortable in sharing things with each other, and believing the other to want to share things, such as alhaitham perusing through a book that kaveh checked out from the house of daena, and feeling comfortable enough to interfere with one of kaveh's actions - using permanent ink to spoil the killer, in order to avoid spoilers for the next person, and, perhaps dually, repercussions on kaveh's part. kaveh shows no upset with this action, nor alhaitham looking through the book he left in the study
it nicely ties together the beginning and the end - kaveh and alhaitham dually act as the catalyst for the quest in their actions regarding the book, and we immediately cut to kaveh going to tell alhaitham about it when the problem is sorted. we start with alhaitham and kaveh, although we don't know it at first, and we end with them? it's an inconsequential quest, v fun, and v silly, but i love how we get lil insights into haikaveh's life in their home outside of the player <333
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Nothing burger comic \('-' )/ kid got told to clean his room
Takes place in gorms village when they over-winter there between ch2 and 3. Ref and rambling below
Obv i hadta make the beach much bigger but ref this location in ch2
Also the 'potential new recruits' are some of these losers
And the boathouse is based on the 1 they originally pulled the shipout of in iceland (but without the dragon head cause theyd be removed, right?
I also found an image online of a larger clinker boat being credled w logs like i drew, but idk ┐(‘~` )┌
Also. Also. Thorfinns sleepin in the same spot at the ships stern. Originally had the rudders tiller bar visible, but realized in storage itd be removed + just outta the water, the rudder'd hafta be turned completely to the side, so still not visible :T
Last thing is just HC- but i think thorfinn probably stayed/slept out in the boathouse as much as possible while everyone else partied in the longhouse you can see in the background of gorms village. He already doesnt like his 'co-workers' but too everyone in this village loves askeladd and woulda just watched him lose a fight. Kid probably just wants to be left alone.
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