"Yeah, I think I remember Checkers..." Rose bit her bottom lip, "Can only move diagonally, capture pieces by jumpin', and you can jump extra if there's another open jump, right?" She blinked in surprise that Clara seemed to recognize Gallifreyan -- enough to know it was ridiculously circular, at least. She wondered if she really knew, or was just bluffing. It shouldn't be possible, right? But then again, this wasn't a real normal dimension cannon jump, since, if what they said was true, time was pretty much frozen here. "You know -- You've heard of Gallifrey?" she glanced curiously to Clara, tryin' to downplay it.
She wasn't sure how much to reveal. That she'd only heard there were different rules in passing, that the Doctor liked to curse things out, including various other games whose rules didn't match up to his standards, or even that she was looking for him, was a secret wrapped in an enigma that could destroy universes maybe. Rose temporarily closed her eyes, trying to think rapidly. If the woman was from the past, then perhaps she was from before the Time War. Was the Doctor in danger if she mentioned Gallifrey, or him? Should Rose resort to her code name?
Turning to Will, she put her hands in her pockets, and stuck her head out, leaning beyond the confines of the square to test for glass walls or the like. "Gallifrey's a planet." A burned one. All gone. She'd only mentioned it because she'd just meant to use it as an example of another planet's weird rules for the games, all circular. And because she'd assumed... no one would know what it was, so it was like a nonsense word. Like bluffing her way past the Sycorax, which failed but... It raised a lot of questions. Was this woman a TimeLord? How much did she know about Gallifrey? Was it another Sarah Jane style companion from before the war? What dimension was she even from? Rose pulled her head back, finding no glass panes, and gave Clara a puzzled frown. "Most people think it's a myth. Like dragons or fairies or unicorns." Well, okay, fairies were real, and Rose was pretty certain after much dimension hopping that so were dragons, but that was neither here nor there. If anything, Gallifrey was supposed to be far more gone than either dragons or unicorns. Impossible.
"You can call me Bad Wolf," she leaned back on her heels, still keeping her hands in her pockets. She wanted to say 'Or Rose,' but that was clearly the Doctor's influence. They were terrible at codenames, really. John Smith, or the Doctor. Like that didn't stick out. Still... until she knew better what was going on, Bad Wolf would have to be the stamp she went with. "Assumin' this is ah -- normal human rules, yeah? Let's just be really careful not to move out of line, and go diagonal, right?" She winked to both Clara and the boy. "No fancy circular alien moves unless our opponent says otherwise. Although... maybe there's a rule board we can look up, yeah?"
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She wasn't sure how much to reveal. That she'd only heard there were different rules in passing, that the Doctor liked to curse things out, including various other games whose rules didn't match up to his standards, or even that she was looking for him, was a secret wrapped in an enigma that could destroy universes maybe. Rose temporarily closed her eyes, trying to think rapidly. If the woman was from the past, then perhaps she was from before the Time War. Was the Doctor in danger if she mentioned Gallifrey, or him? Should Rose resort to her code name?
Turning to Will, she put her hands in her pockets, and stuck her head out, leaning beyond the confines of the square to test for glass walls or the like. "Gallifrey's a planet." A burned one. All gone. She'd only mentioned it because she'd just meant to use it as an example of another planet's weird rules for the games, all circular. And because she'd assumed... no one would know what it was, so it was like a nonsense word. Like bluffing her way past the Sycorax, which failed but... It raised a lot of questions. Was this woman a TimeLord? How much did she know about Gallifrey? Was it another Sarah Jane style companion from before the war? What dimension was she even from? Rose pulled her head back, finding no glass panes, and gave Clara a puzzled frown. "Most people think it's a myth. Like dragons or fairies or unicorns." Well, okay, fairies were real, and Rose was pretty certain after much dimension hopping that so were dragons, but that was neither here nor there. If anything, Gallifrey was supposed to be far more gone than either dragons or unicorns. Impossible.
"You can call me Bad Wolf," she leaned back on her heels, still keeping her hands in her pockets. She wanted to say 'Or Rose,' but that was clearly the Doctor's influence. They were terrible at codenames, really. John Smith, or the Doctor. Like that didn't stick out. Still... until she knew better what was going on, Bad Wolf would have to be the stamp she went with. "Assumin' this is ah -- normal human rules, yeah? Let's just be really careful not to move out of line, and go diagonal, right?" She winked to both Clara and the boy. "No fancy circular alien moves unless our opponent says otherwise. Although... maybe there's a rule board we can look up, yeah?"