fh_trips | Kellerman's Resort, Tuesday Morning and Afternoon, October 13th

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Kellerman's Resort, Tuesday Morning and Afternoon, October 13th

The weather at Kellerman's continued to be favourable, as the autumn sun shone down on the fields and streams of the area. The staff of the resort were busy but happy to help, bustling through the corridors and courtyard.

The boards outside were advertising a white water rafting trip today, for anyone willing to go out and risk the rapids; for the less adventurous, a trip to see the Cascade Falls might just do the trick.

[[ Cottage and Room List | Rooms | Activities Barn | Indoor Activities | Outdoor Activities | White Water Rafting | Cascade Falls | OOC | OCD up! ]]

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Which didn't stop her from sticking her tongue out at him for being right. "Hey, it's--" NotinthegoalnotinthegoalnotinthegoallookwillONEofyoukickit?

SLAM!

The ball was probably not supposed to bounce as high as the lip of the table before skating back towards Arthur's side. "...rough for me."

"Just try not to get injured," he said, in his best calming, patronizing voice.

This one was borrowed more from Gaius than Uther, really.

He was ready this time, executing a brilliant maneuver that mostly consisted of shoving and turning one end so hard the ball went racing back towards Francine as if it had hell itself on his heels.

If you asked Arthur, anyway.

"Hey, I'll have you know that aside from--- crapcrapcrap no--" Heading straight for her goal, and the best she managed to do was nudge it slightly with one of her guys so that it at least missed the hole - sorry, narrative readers - and banked back into play, at a much-reduced speed. "--Aside from people doing things to me, I haven't managed to get injured in Fandom yet!"

Where 'Not dodging a dodgeball' is included under that broad umbrella.

"Is that what we're calling yesterday's pratfall, then?" he challenged, allowing the ball to roll all the way down to the back row of his defenders.

He was starting to get the hang of this.

He also needed to stop acting like punting that thing at as much speed as possible was going to net him the win eventually.

Well, it was. Eventually. It just depended on whether he had the patience to deal with Francine the F(l)ail-Kicker until that happened.

Jam-jab-yank-break nail which doesn't count as an injury-jam with the other hand-suck on finger-watch ball roll back towards Arthur.

"Since when is falling in the water an injury?"

For all that Merlin's decision to try and circumvent Arthur's sense of competition by destroying his swimwear was completely insane, he had had a point about how competitive Arthur was. Yes, even opposite a girl, although on a milder level.

Not that you could tell.

It was falling into a nice rhythm of roll-towards-Arthur-find-a-good-handle-give-it-a-twist-slam-it-back-to-Francine-hope-there-won't-be-real-injuries. "I think it counts," he said, "If simply for the danger of drowning."

"No way." Francine was not precisely competitive, not like that. She was just doing the game-equivalent of putting up her hands in front of her face and slapping away in hope that nothing landed, in a fight. "Let's face it, if we went by danger of injury we'd have to say it happens every time I get out of bed."

There was just enough of a pause to signify that Arthur was maybe taking that a little bit the wrong way before he shook it off - literally. "You fell out of a boat," he said, "I think that qualifies as a little bit beyond that."

"Pfft. I'm not sure I could drown if I tried." Francine, why do you -- WHAP! Airborne? Airborne? No. Whew. -- say things like that? The fates are already laughing at you. "I float."

The ball bounced off the wall less than an inch from the goal. "Yes," Arthur said, finally, carefully, "I suppose you do, at that."

"Now if we're talking about injuring other people..." Why? Francine? WHY would you possibly have such a sense of fair play that you feel the need to say that?

"I do not need," Arthur said, after careful consideration (which involved the ball drifting aimlessly across the playing field), "To know about how your ability to float has injured anyone else."

He had to draw the line somewhere. Francine's breasts causing undue harm to Merlin would be it.

"...I was going for a combination of squirrels and my elbow. No floating involved." See, because she couldn't read narrative, he was spared the knowledge that yes, there had been breasts involved. Indirectly.

Oh look, a ball rolling slow enough that she could almost hit it with some precision.

"... Yes."

He had at last managed the facepalming-and-batting-back-a-ball routine. "Thank you. For that."

"Anytime."

THWACK.

Near-smothering didn't count, right?

It did in Arthur's creative mind, which hadn't quite managed to dislodge itself out of yesterday and Merlin in a pool and just.

Ngh.

Thwack straight back at you. "This is starting to get a bit monotonous."

Not really, since he was still trying to win, but it sounded like a good distraction.

"And now you know why I'm not into sports." Ahaha, no, Francine. That's not why and you know it.

Still, if he was bored, she could try for airborne... Just hopefully not airborne enough to completely leave the table.

"You don't have the build," he said, dismissively, "It would further increase your chance of--" Duck, Arthur. Duck. "--Injury."

...That was off the table, yes.

"...Sorry. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," Arthur said, drily, his head lifting back up after that very instinctive and very well-trained-in duck. "Thank you, Francine."

"...Why don't we count that as you winning?" Before somebody's nose got broken.

Arthur rolled his eyes, but restrained himself enough to say, "If you insist. Then by all means."

She was capable of picking up on a mood, if not necessarily recognizing the reasons for its existence. "I bet I can improve your week in four words or less." What. It was worth a try.

"I'm sure you can," he said, bending down to try and retrieve the item Francine had just so carelessly shot off into the blue yonder.

"You know it works better if you don't believe me, right?"

She was not watching the bending.

Oh fine, she was watching the bending. She was only human.

At least it improved her week?

Kellerman's Resort, Tuesday Morning and Afternoon, October 13th

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