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[Finally, after all this time! Mulder has found that much-desired basketball. He's in luck too, as it's well-inflated, not a sign of wear or tear on it. Too many times, he's come across half-deflated or otherwise messed up ones. But this one is perfect. It's as if there's finally some compensation for all the usual rounds of disappearances and so on. He's really needed this. He starts dribbling the ball right as he leaves the shop and continues bouncing the thing everywhere he goes throughout the day. It can also be heard in the background of his voice transmission.]

Does anyone have any unique birthday traditions they care to share? I wonder how similar these traditions might be between the worlds... Let's just say I'm curious, for purely theoretical reasons.

...By the way, is there anyone out there who'd be up for shooting some hoops or even getting together a pick-up game of basketball? Of course, we'd actually need to throw together a hoop somehow first, but minor details! If you've never played before, I promise I'll go easy on you.

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Luceti doesn't have an economy, unfortunately. [ She effortlessly makes the next basket while sponging everything Fox told her. ]

All right. Make baskets when I have the ball and bounce it. Try to get the ball if the opponent somehow gets it. Sounds really simple to me. Hmph, I can probably use this game and teach it to Iruka-sensei at the academy for the kids to play. Thanks for teaching it!

[ She bounces the ball over to him. Of course, she doesn't have much to add not playing basketball ever, but she will bow in gratitude. ]

Of course! It works great with groups of kids, that's how I started out playing. Usually you could put five players on a team, when you're playing with a group... they'd each have a position to play. One on one is a lot simpler.

[Mulder grins wryly seeing that this might take some time if they keep going at it.]

Why don't you take the ball first?

Hm... I can learn the positions another time, right? I'd rather get down the fundamentals before I go into more complex stuff. [ She'll nod at his proposition. ]

Sure! Thanks for the help, mister.

Of course! I'll give you a full tutorial of the entire game, anytime you'd like.

[Mulder is enthused to do that, too, since sports in general are a favorite hobby of his. And in some weird way he likes having the reminder of home.]

All right. Let me just learn the fundamentals for now. [ She gives off a brief nod before she begins to dribble to the right to make a shot.

ooc: Just out of curiosity, how tall is Fox? Tenten is around 5'3" so feel free to use height to his advantage, haha. ]

Excellent. You'll get a good feel for it in no time.

[He moves along, on the defense and guarding.]

(ooc; 6'0"! So pretty tallish, he'll be sure to do that. ;))

[ Tenten immediately turns her back on him to block his path while still dribbling. ]

[And Mulder keeps on her, not letting up the closer they get to the hoop.]

[ And then Tenten will try to twirl before jumping upwards to aim and shoot for the hoop. ]

[Mulder watches, waiting to see if it makes it, ready either way to catch it.]

[ The ball goes through the hoop as Tenten does an elbow thrust downwards; a brief celebration. ]

All right! This is fun!

It is! It's definitely one of my favorite sports.

[His world is just awesome for things like this. And he gets the ball next, dribbling along.]

[ At this point, Tenten tries to charge at the man. She's surprisingly quick, but being a ninja this may not be very surprising. He should be able to dribble around it, having very superior experience and height. ]

What other sports from home do you have?

[Mulder manages to get by, though it's definitely a challenge given how speedy she is.]

Let's see... another all-time favorite of mine is baseball. There's also football, tennis, soccer, hockey... we have a lot to choose from, back home.

You're going to have to teach me those too someday, if you want. [ She keeps on him, more or less keeping an equal pace as she's blatantly determined to steal the ball. ]

[Good thing he's played most of them! Some more than others, but he could at least go through basics and rules for them.]

I'd be up for that. We could use more entertainment around here that isn't Malnosso-caused.

Yeah. I'd much rather learn new sports than end up turning into King Arthur again. [ Horray for learning more cultural sports! Maybe Luceti can have its very own basketball team....

That does nothing, at all, since there are no opposing teams. ]

"Turning into King Arthur?"

[Yeah they would... have to set up a couple of teams somehow. Mulder could see how it'd be tricky with the disappearances and reappearances, but getting a couple groups of five once in a while... it could happen.]

Basically, I felt a compulsion to find a legendary sword and kill every dragon I could find. I went into the woods for days looking for a dragon, but, to no avail.

[ If it did happen, you're free to call on Tenten if you need an extra member! o/. ]

Ahh, yes, the experiment. I think we all got more than our standard share of the fairytale genre on that one. Here's hoping they don't try horror or worse, Ice Capades, next.

[He definitely will!]

Ice Capades....? Is that some sort of snow movie? [ On a scale of one to ten, Tenten gets a twenty on the confusion scale. ]

I'm convinced it was a form of torture secretly invented by Soviets back in the Cold War. [Half-joking, half-serious on that one.] But for all intents and purposes, it involves... people ice skating. Theatrically.

That sounds so boring, and, really weird. [ Seriously? What kind of sorcery is this... There are better things to spend your time on doing stuff besides Acting.... ON ICE... ]

That's exactly how I feel about it. It's best it never happened. [At least he can spread the word on what to avoid at all costs, too. He feels his day is more complete somehow.]

Why would anyone pick that over watching the Chuunin exam finals or anything? [ Ice Capades will be dying a slow death thanks to the combined efforts of Foxy and Tenten. ]

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