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[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy is over by the pool table, attempting to learn how to play properly.

Judging by the fact that he just hit a ball, it jumped off the table, bounced off the floor and wedged itself in a random person's shoe, he still has some work to go.

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[bigarmy_strangepants]

"I don't think this is meant as an attack?" Ragnar says when the ball hits his shoe.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Oh, no, sorry Ragnar." Guppy says, retrieving his ball meekly.

"New haircut?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"What?" Ragnar says, reaching up to his head. "Oh, that must have been the four years that passed, and the tattoos."

He has more of them on the side of his skull now.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Oh, that was fast." Guppy says. "Did it go well?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"They were four years," Ragnar says. "Deaths, births, harvests, raids and feasts. I have two new little sons, Ubbe and Hviserk, and a third on his way."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Oh, congratulations!" Guppy smiles. "How are they doing?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

""They are doing very well and are about as lively as a pack of puppies in the sun," Ragnar says, proudly.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Are you going to bring them here?"

[bigarmy_strangepants]

"Perhaps Hvitserk," Ragnar says. "Ubbe is too big already and could talk about the strange place. Gyda might like him, too -- she never had a little brother. At the moment, though, she hates me."

[electro_kinetic]

"It's been a while since I've seen someone that bad at pool," Noriko says, hands in her pockets.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Yeah, I got mocked in the consultants' staff room for it earlier in the week." Guppy says. "Coral was playing me earlier today standing on a stool and she did better than me." he nods towards the little girl the other side of the bar, who is playing some sort of complicated game with two toy rabbits and a spoon.

[electro_kinetic]

"Do you want lessons?" Noriko chuckles, bending down to pick up the cue ball and tossing it from hand to hand. "I mean, I'm not gonna take the top spot at the Taylor championship anytime soon, but I can bet safely and win."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Sure if you have time, thanks."

[electro_kinetic]

"Sure thing," she says, and sets the cue down on the felt table, rolling her shoulders in the trim sleeveless silk shirt as she takes a cue. "You know how to rack the balls?"

[guppy_sandhu]

"Oh yeah, I know you have to arrange so that you've got a sort of flower in the corner, then you switch the two lower ones..." Guppy has a go, and manages to remember.

[electro_kinetic]

"Well, that's one way to do it," she says, studying it. "What about the break, you know how to do that one?"

[guppy_sandhu]

"As in you hit the white ball towards the pack?"

[runningred]

Jay laughs and catches the ball as it bounces towards him. "Want a hand there?"

[guppy_sandhu]

"Thanks, I got mocked shamefully by the other consultants in the staff room earlier in the week." Guppy laughs. "How are you Jay?"

[runningred]

"And from what I can see, rightly so." He teases, coming over to correct Guppy's grip on the cue. "I can give you some pointers if you like. There was to time there I hustled pool for a living."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Thanks, sounds like a good plan." Guppy laughs. "Do you want a drink?"

[runningred]

"Just a beer thanks." Jay resets the tables, lining the balls up and checking the cues to find on the right length for Guppy.

He teaches Guppy the basics - where to aim, how to get out of a tight corner, when to miss a shot so you're in a better position for the next one.

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy gets him a drink, and has a go at this... probably if he could shoot in a straight line it would help.

[runningred]

Jay chuckles and takes it back to basics - how to hold the cue, where on the white ball to aim, encouraging Guppy to think of it as angles and lines.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Oh yeah, like physics..." Guppy laughs. "Fry would like this when he's big enough to reach."