When it came to games and game playing, Shrieky was pretty quick on the uptake. He liked the dice, he liked moving the pieces, he liked going up the ladders, he liked going down the snakes, and then, eventually, he figured out that when Rex looked away, he could usually just gently slide his playing piece forward a few spaces, and no one would ever be any the wiser.
He already had a strategy in place for when Rex inevitably caught him, and it was a strategy of pleading absolute ignorance, as if even the possibility that one could move their piece further than instructed by the dice was some kind of mad dream! If that failed, he'd just pretend that he was terrible at counting. People acted like he was an idiot anyway, so he saw no reason not to exploit this unfair perception in the name of board game victory.
Sadly, this turn, Rex seemed to be paying attention, so Shrieky dutifully moved his little yellow man as far as the dice instructed, before sliding the dice across the board to Rex.
"Your turn." He eyed the board, mentally noting the closest snake to Rex, "I hope you roll a four."
FOR SHRIEKY
He already had a strategy in place for when Rex inevitably caught him, and it was a strategy of pleading absolute ignorance, as if even the possibility that one could move their piece further than instructed by the dice was some kind of mad dream! If that failed, he'd just pretend that he was terrible at counting. People acted like he was an idiot anyway, so he saw no reason not to exploit this unfair perception in the name of board game victory.
Sadly, this turn, Rex seemed to be paying attention, so Shrieky dutifully moved his little yellow man as far as the dice instructed, before sliding the dice across the board to Rex.
"Your turn." He eyed the board, mentally noting the closest snake to Rex, "I hope you roll a four."