Lunchtime Challenges

Jude was really, really hoping his new challenge was going to go better than the last one. His last one? A disaster, and he'd been forced to take several days off to get himself together. He wasn't sure if he really was, but Gyan had shown interest in Jude getting back out there, and he'd effectively picked Jude up to his house to bring him out for a challenge.

He'd also brought a friend. A man who didn't introduce himself, opting to smile politely as he watched Jude stop by the bench, waiting for the man he was supposed to be getting into a challenge with.

Okay. Right to the point then. Jude could understand that, and he shared a quick glance over his shoulder towards where Gyan sat with his friend, receiving a nod in turn.

"Alright," Jude said. "Twenty questions. I'll pick a thing--general, not specific, like 'handgun' rather than 'M1911', and only things from earth. You'll have twenty yes or no questions to narrow it down, and guess what the thing is. Once we're done, we'll flip, and you'll pick a thing with me guessing. If only one of us guesses the thing, they win. Otherwise, it's whoever guessed it faster. Unless you object, I'll start, and we can get this underway."

He'd already picked out his object, holding it in his mind's eye.

Jude certainly wasn't counting it as one of the questions.

"I mean, you can ask as many as you want in a row. It'd just be smarter to do them one at a time, so you can adjust your answers accordingly," Jude explained.

There was a small amount of discussion between the two watching Regalia on Jude's side, and he spared a quick glance over his shoulder, unclear on just what was happening. He definitely got the sense he was being... what, judged?

Probably.

That was. Okay. That was a question. It was a very, very long, very lawyerly question that summarized down to...

"Are you asking if it's a household item? The answer's yes."

So long. So lawyerly. Good lord.

Alright. So far, all his questions were more or less standard, and the more Augustus spoke, the more Jude became convinced that he'd accidentally just played himself. Because the only thing that really mattered was what his actual question was.

If Jude wanted to - if he really wanted to - he could absolutely play with that. But he didn't. He was trying to play for fun. Trying to take things less seriously.

"Yes," Jude said. A child could definitely use it.