[center][h3]Somewhere within Celestia...[/h3][sup]Collaboration between [@Banana], [@floodtalon], and [@The 42nd Gecko].[/sup][/center][hr]
[color=5cd8ce]"Are you guys absolutely sure we can't play a collaborative game? It's no fun when two of us have to lose for the other to win.."[/color] Tsukuyomi's complaint might ring a little truer if she wasn't currently counting out the rent money she was handing over to Susanoo. Tsuku was meticulous about it, and one might consider her hesitant, if they didn't know her and her obsession with counting. If one wasn't paying attention, one might not be sure if this was her double or triple check of whether the money was right. Regardless, her ears twitched and turned slightly, following the bounce of her eyes as she counted each bill.

[Color=blueviolet]"Of course sister! It is only through the domination of one's foes that you can grow as an individual!"[/color] Susanoo was drunk again, it showed through the blush on her cheeks and the whiskey bottle near her. She took the money with pleasure, her snake tail lazily waving back and forth behind her like a dog wagging it's tail. [Color=blueviolet]"Now then! I wish to build a hotel on Boardwalk!"[/color] She didn't even have any property on Boardwalk, much less the money for a hotel. She clearly neither knew the rules of the game nor cared, she just liked spending time with her sisters.

[color=red]"Susanoo was the one who suggested we play this game,"[/color] Amaterasu responded, barely any inflections in her voice. [color=red]"And besides, how will we grow individually when we always work together?"[/color] Amaterasu was uncomfortably monotoned, or at least she would be to anyone else. To her sisters, this seemed completely normal. Alas, her palm connected to her forehead out of annoyance as Susanoo tried to buy a hotel on Boardwalk. [color=red]"You need to own Boardwalk, first, Su-chan."[/color]

[color=5cd8ce]"But we always are together!"[/color] Tsuku quickly interjected, her ears going straight up as if trying to listen for a threat. The idea of trying to grow individually compared to her sisters practically anethema to her. She tried to calm down, placing a hand of her chest as she took a few breaths.  [color=5cd8ce]"Er, that is, I mean, that's our special thing. Heaven's full of gods who think they can defeat the forces of Hell or Machina all on their own, but we work as a team. Usually."[/color] This last word was stated with a glance towards Susanoo.

Susanoo frowned as she raised a hand to her chin, deep in thought about what Tsukuyomi was saying. [color=blueviolet]"Of course, and we shall continue to be together forever. But if we grow as individuals, than we are even greater when together! I think."[/color] She grabbed her booze and took another deep drink. [color=blueviolet]"Ama-chan, of course I own Boardwalk. Do you not remember when I slay the manager and turned it into my own personal kingdom!?"[/color] She was of course referring to about 5 minutes ago when she slammed the table really hard and poured a bunch of houses on Boardwalk.

[color=red]"If we are caught alone, we must be able to stay alive and bring honor to the other sisters."[/color] Amaterasu stated before she calmly lifted up the dice and placed them in front of Tsukuyomi. [color=red]"It would seem that the kingdom has gone into anarchy. Sorry Su-chan. Maybe next time."[/color] Amaterasu twiddled her thumbs a slight bit as she waited for her turn. She could feel one emotion right now, and that was how she was glad that she was the dog piece. She liked dogs and her sisters, but that was about it.

[color=5cd8ce]"I.. That.. is.. Of course, it's fine, if we're doing stuff individually for the group. With the... Uh.. Um.. Yes.. Everything is fine."[/color] Tsuku's ears slowly slouched back down a little. [color=5cd8ce]"So... I hmm.. Do you go to jail when you land on jail?"[/color] Tsuku hopped her little shoe over to the jail space, though not the "go to jail" space. And then she hopped back to where she had started, and counted again to make sure that was where she would land, gently tapping on each space as she passed it.

Susanoo expression morphed into one of annoyance. [color=blueviolet]"So the peasants believe they can defy their empress? I shall show them how wrong they are once I return!"[/color] Susanoo grabbed the dice after Tsuku-chan made her move, throwing the dice at the table so hard they were partially embedded into the wood. This had happened enough times that they needed to get special dice that wouldn't shatter from Susanoo's sheer strength. She then smiled and moved her little tophat 11 spaces onto Park Place which was currently owned by Ama-chan. She was the tophat because she was an empress, it only made sense really.

[color=red]"No, Tsuku-chan. You would be just visiting the jail tile."[/color] Amaterasu looked down at her Park Place card and checked how much the rent was. [color=red]"Thirty-five dollars, Su-chan. That is the rent."[/color] Amaterasu lifted up the dice afterwards and gently rolled them on the table, rolling a six and a five, and landing her on the Community Chest. [color=red]"Tsuku-chan, can you read the card for me?"[/color] Amaterasu asked, seeing as the pile of chest cards was closer to Tsuku than herself.

[color=5cd8ce]"Oh, um, sure!"[/color] Tsuku looked around for a moment before spotting the cards, a bit surprised at the request. [color=5cd8ce]"Ah, hmm hm."[/color] She cleared her throat, as though she were about to give a dramatic reading rather than inform Amaterasu of the happenings of a simple game card. [color=5cd8ce]"Advance to go. Collect $200."[/color] She enunciated clearly but with energy. Energy that defied the rather plain nature of the card. [color=5cd8ce]"Oooh, that's wonderful, Ammy! Do you think the $200 is in addition to what you get for landing on go, or that it's just reminding you?"[/color] Tsuku sat up to be able reach across the table and give Amaterasu a side hug, bumping the table on her way up. This knocked one of the only buildings Susanoo had legitimately purchased from her territory to the "Go To Jail, square." The peasant uprising indeed.

[color=blueviolet]"Oh? You would make your own sister pay just to spend a night in her home? How cruel Ama-chan."[/color] Susanoo had the puppy dog eyes going, which was kind of ruined by the fact that she was leaning towards Amaterasu and was about to fall over on the board. She flailed her arms wildly and hit the table at the same moment Tsukuyomi did, jostling the board and knocking over several buildings. [color=blueviolet]"Haha! Perish, for you have disobeyed your goddess!"[/color] She hit Boardwalk as hard as she could, cracking the table and basically obliterating both Park Place and Boardwalk. She then realised what she did and giggled. [color=blueviolet]"Oh, sorry Ama-chan. The peasants had to be punished for their insolence."[/color] Susanoo leaned over the table, knocking the pieces all over, and hugged her sisters. Board game night was so much fun, now she just needed to convince them to play Risk.

[color=red]"I believe that it would be a re-"[/color] Amaterasu paused mid-sentence as she witnessed the destruction of the two tiles, and about half of the GO space. [color=red]"... it would seem that you owe more now, Su-chan."[/color] Why did she agree to playing these games every time? It always ended with the trio buying another game because Susanoo broke it. [color=red]"In any case, I will be the one to buy Boardwalk, where I shall quell this 'rebellion'."[/color] Amaterasu passed four-hundred Monopoly dollars to Tsukuyomi as a small bit of blue light appeared where the broken part of the board was. It was solid, so it could support houses and such. [color=red]"Your turn again, Tsuku-chan."[/color]

[color=5cd8ce]"Ahhh..."[/color] Tsuku sighed contentedly as Susanoo's absurd strength drew the sisters together in a very physical sense. She burrowed her face deeply into the hug, perhaps never to leave, when she was distracted by Amaterasu passing her something to count. [color=5cd8ce]"Yeah.. One second.."[/color] Tsuku kept counting the four hundred dollars, even as she was told it was her turn. Tsuku's habit of counting everything two or three times nearly held the game up as much as Susanoo needing the rules explained to her. She eventually did come around to rolling the dice though, and mirroring Amaterasu, landed on Chance. But the chance cards were nowhere to be seen. Had they gotten knocked clear off the table or something? Tsuku looked around, ears twitching at a nibling sound, as she found the culprit. [color=5cd8ce]"Heng'e! Don't eat the chance cards!"[/color] Tsuku floated over to her rabbit, which had somehow managed to sneak the chance cards away from underneath the noses of three goddesses. Perhaps during the confusion of the hug? It had begun gnawing through them with astonishing speed. Picking up the bunny to try and save as many cards as she could, she couldn't stop Heng'e from eating one last card in her mouth.

[color=blueviolet]"Alright then Ama-chan, just this once. I gift the kingdom of Boardwalk to you to apologize for razing the land of Park Place!"[/color] Susanoo passed Amaterasu $40 dollars with a smile, unfazed by her use of hard light to replace the board she destroyed. Tsuku counted her $400 several times, not noticing Heng'e sneaking off with several chance cards until it was too late. Susanoo began to laugh uproariously, nearly in tears even though it wasn't nearly that funny. [color=blueviolet]"Plucking chance from the mouth of a rabbit! Truly an apt metaphor for life!"[/color] Susanoo slammed a hand on the table while laughing, the dice bouncing up and down from the sheer force. One dice read four while the other read three. Susanoo was too busy laughing to notice that she technically just rolled the dice, leaving one of her sisters to move for her.

Amaterasu sighed as she moved Susanoo's top hat to the Income Tax space, making Susanoo passing go on the way. [color=red]"Su-chan gets two hundred dollars, but she must pay two hundred for the income tax."[/color] There went that money for Susanoo, but that was besides the point, it was Amaterasu's turn now. A roll of the dice landed Amaterasu on... [color=red]"Connecticut Avenue. What is Connecticut...?"[/color] She asked the other two sisters, wondering what the word meant or where it was. She never heard of this 'Conneticut' in the Nexus, but maybe the other two sisters knew something. 

[color=5cd8ce]"Well. It is.. clearly.. Um.."[/color] Tsuku started confident, before quickly becoming less confident. She liked to read, but, apparently this particular factoid hadn't been in any of her books. She looked at Heng'e, the rabbit grumpily staring back, neither liking having been picked up or deprived of paper to nibble. [color=5cd8ce]"It is clearly.. A place."[/color] Correct, if accidentally, but one didn't get much credit for using that broad of a wildcard. [color=5cd8ce]"In.. Um.. Hell? I think?"[/color] Tsuku continued guessing.

Susanoo stopped laughing as she dug through her memory of a place called Connecticut. [color=blueviolet]"Well Ama-chan, Connecticut is..."[/color] She frowned as she put down the whiskey for just a moment. She lightly hummed to herself as she recounted her many adventures and battles, none of them had taken place in "Connecticut." Tsuku guessed Hell and Susanoo's alcohol addled mind filled in the blanks for her. [color=blueviolet]"Ah yes! Thank you for the reminder Tsuku-chan! Connecticut is indeed a desolate land, filled with horrible monsters and ravenous man eating plants! Truly a dangerous battlefield."[/color]

Amaterasu shrugged. [color=red]"Connecticut seems like a place where people just exist and do nothing."[/color] The wolfy girl's ears perked up as she looked over at a tea kettle on the stove, steam erupting from the pipe. [color=red]"Tea. I'll go get it."[/color] Amaterasu's tails brushed against Tsukuyomi's side as she stood up, walking into the kitchen and preparing the tea for the trio of girls, making sure to add in some whiskey for Susanoo. She would pitch a fit if it didn't have that.

Tsuku's gaze switched between Susanoo and Amaterasu, bringing up Heng'e to cover her mouth as she wondered who to agree with. She just wasn't sure.. But wait! Susanoo had described the place, but Amaterasu had described how it seems. How a thing seems and what it is can be different. Thus, no contradiction! Yay! Lowering Heng'e and letting her go, the rabbit hopped off to some dark desolate corner of the apartment. [color=5cd8ce]"Ah, you've got the Tea? Oh, my cakes, I wonder if they're.."[/color] Tsuku scootched in alongside Amaterasu, to lean over and gaze inside the oven with squinted eyes to try and see through the tinted window. [color=5cd8ce]"I don't think the cakes will be ready for a while yet.. Shoot, my timing's off."[/color]

Susanoo grinned cheekily, taking another swig of her whiskey. She sighed with contentment and wiped her mouth clean with her sleeve right when Ama got up to get the tea. [color=blueviolet]"No tea is needed for me, I have plenty to drink!'[/color] She raised her whiskey bottle high into the air, only for her grin to melt away as she shook the bottle a little. Empty. [color=blueviolet]"On second thought, I'll have some tea!"[/color] Tsuku set down Heng'e and walked away, leaving the rabbit alone to bounce away somewhere else. Susanoo's eyes focused on her as she got onto her knees and hands, slowly crawling towards Heng'e. [color=blueviolet]"C'mon little one, I want to cuddle!"[/color] The last word was yelled as Susanoo leaped towards Heng'e, the rabbit jumping away at the last second leaving Susanoo to dive straight into a dresser. [color=blueviolet]"Owee. Heng'e, you're so mean to me..."[/color] She trailed off as she passed out on the floor snoring as the alcohol finally caught up to her.

[color=red]"I'll place Su-chan's drink in the fridge,"[/color] Amaterasu stated as she placed the whiskey tea in the door of the fridge, closing it shortly after. She did so only because she heard the thud of her wardrobe as Susanoo ran into it. There was probably another crack in it, too. [color=red]"I think that ends our game night, Tsuku-chan."[/color] Amaterasu placed the two cups of tea to the side as she went back into the living room, cleaning up the board game. [color=red]"Please go see if Heng'e is alright. I know how much you like her."[/color]

[color=5cd8ce]"Ah... I like to think Heng'e would be alright even if Susanoo caught her.. But.. I'm worried about whether Susanoo likes her or.. would find Heng'e delicious."[/color] Tsuku between the three of them was the only "prey" animal, compared to Susanoo's snake and Amaterasu's wolf, and sometimes she worried about that. But well, bunnies worried about everything. But after a glance with her bunny that seemed to know how to avoid trouble better than Tsuku herself, Tsuku took a seat to wait for her tea, and for the cakes to be done.  [color=5cd8ce]"Thank you so much for the taking care of us, Ammy. I know we're a handful.[/color]  

[color=red]"It's not a problem, Tsuku-chan."[/color] Amaterasu brought Tsukuyomi a small cup of tea as she placed another cup beside it, both being angled towards the television in the room. [color=red]"I'll be back in a minute,"[/color] Amaterasu said as she left the room, walking over to the fainted Susanoo and lifting her up off the ground and placing her in the bottom bunk of the triple-stacked bunk beds. Heng'e hopped over to Amaterasu afterwards, allowing herself to be lifted by the large wolfy girl. The two made their way back into the living room, sitting down on the futon and turning on the television. It was a sappy TV show, about this one purple kid who ate everything, but it seemed to be entertaining to Amaterasu, so she sat there and watched it, sipping tea and petting Heng'e.

[color=5cd8ce]"Mm... Sometimes, I think Heng'e likes you more than me."[/color] Tsuku glanced over at the ease with which Amaterasu attracted animals, including the otherwise skitish and skulky Heng'e. Taking a sip her tea, Tsuku wasn't really interested in what was on the TV. But she was happy to sit by Amaterasu, as long as Amaterasu would have her. Setting her tea aside, Tsuku laid down beside Amaterasu, resting her head on Amaterasu's leg, just shy of putting her head in Amaterasu's lap. An ear flopped over onto Heng'e. Nominally watching the TV, but mostly just savoring the warmth.