risk
STORY: when i was almost age 13, still twelve years old, at the dormitory, we played a game called "Risk" c'. i saw an EDITED game map so i tell the story of that fateful morning and describe the editing of the map. note: this differed but i fixd it on april 22, 2021.
in autumn, in a dormitory, on the morning of the jewish new year, i heard banging on the metal doors. the guide was waking us for the long prayers. i hurried from my bed to get to the shower room before all the students poured into the one toilet room to empty the nights waste fluid. i got there and only one boy had arrived before me. so i went to the white rectangle on the wall and emptied the waste liquid that had accumulated during the hours of my sleep.
then i ran back to my room to dress. i was already wearing a robe therefore off came the pyjama pants and brief. on came a new brif and fancy pants for the holiday. then thin black soks one on each foot and last the loafers, a gift i had received from a young student a few weeks earlier as a gift to save me time instead of tying shoes each morning.
the lower half was quickly red'y as i slipd my feet into the loafers easily without tying. next off came the robe and the religious rectangle that i wore at night kuz somebody told me to. off came the pyjama shirt and the under shirt. on came a new undershirt with square edges and relijis tassles. this was also a time saving gift from a boy in the grade younger than mine. he was in 8 grade and i was a young "freshman" called "1992" the year our group would finish and he was in "93" the year he would graduate assuming the group did not fail.
after the undershirt, with special squared-corners came the white shirt same as i wore every day at the relijis school. i ramd my right hand first, thru the short sleeve and then the left as a brat had told me to, kuz in previous years i had not even thout about any order just jamd any arm thru a sleeve that was closest. next i buttoned from the second of the tops down until the bottom squeezing the button thru the small slot each time. last i tukd the shirts into the fancy pants dark blue with pale stripes around an inch between each gray pin stripe. next i wrapped a colorful tie around my neck and loopd its ends as somebody had taut me when i was at a wedding... i noticed a guy redoing his tie and begd him to teach the manner so i would not rely on my mom every time i wore one. so i wrapd the long strip of cloth as he had taut me. it hung from my neck decorating my boring and repetitive white shirt with added colors.
a jakkit that matched meaning the same fabric with same pattern as the pants. the relijis hat with a wide black brim that we all wore at the ultra-orthodox jewish skool. i did not know until later that the style was "italian mafia hats". then i noticed my roomates were also hurrying to dress.
i pulled on a gray thick coat over my jakt and hurried to the prayer hall to the assigned seat. i knew that adults paid for seats but mine was included in the tuition fee for the relijis skool.
PART 2
i arrived in the college prayer hall. the roof of that chamber was higher than the skool prayer hall in a different building where we usualy prayd during previous weeks. now both the younger students and the college students were assembling there. i reached my assignd seat. we had each waited for a turn to choose an available place on a map of benches. i chose one that was not yet assignd, near the entrance door. so as soon as i entered the hall i went to a bench near the doors and grabbed the assigned seat by the end of the bench. there was a "stand" like two wide legs supporting a box with a slanted roof. i pulled my prayer book from the box, kuz i had prepared puting the book there as soon as they assigned me that place, and moved it to the slanted roof for easy reading. i opend the book which was the size of the box of instant dinners. so about two inches thick with hundreds of pages and long 8 inches and wide across 6 inches.
i opend it to see the familiar columns for phrase by phrase translation, which i noticed wasted 70% of the paper on each page. i felt annoyd kuz i abhor the waste of usable paper. considering the empty area they coulda made bigger words filling more area and smaller page-width too. or two columns per page only short phrases, causing less margin but they chose both huge margins with stupidly small letters wasting two empty inches on each side of the six inch width. on the ryt column were hebrew phrases to praise the jewish god we called adony, and we read from ryt to left opposite of english and beside each phrase was the english meaning of the phrase and between that and the center too much empty white.
i rifd the pages, skipping until the morning prayers and the chanter or cantor began singing the added prayer before the familiar daily prayers. a very close frend walkd along the aisle from the door as he passed he tapped my sleeve of the jakt [i had hung my coat in the coat room]. first he neard the front bench near the front corner of the room. then he spun and pasd me exiting. i followed him out from the hall.
he was the "93" year and a very near frend that i had met just a few weeks before the festval. this tap reminded me of our plan "to play a long game instead of long readings." so we went to the hanger room like a long room with hangers on each side i grabd my gray coat and he grabbed his blak one and we went out to a small low building. he used a key to unlock the door of a hut, usually lokd and only opened as a hotel for guests who wanted to pray with us on festivals. he led me to a room and used a key to open it and there was the third player. his secret mate. they had reveald to me that they had an intimate relationship. there they had moved a desk from beside the wall to between the two beds in the room and we sat on them. i started to take off my coat and they said "not yet". so i waited. the room was cold autumn.
THE MAP WITH PEN LINES THE MAP WITH PEN LINES
on the desk was a game-map of the land surface. a boy not named cal explained that the map of the game was far from accurate. he pointed at the broad orinj island called greenland that "is less than a third" the area "of that island," pointing to australia which seemd smaller.
the boy not named don said, cal will give the cards and to himself first due to his name with c before d of don, kuz there are two methods to play. the real rules are choosing the territories strategicly, but that has a flaw kuz people decide based on interfering with a "full continent" resulting in a mix. however the idea of continents granting bonus is too fake ergo either "agree not to interfere" with grabbing a continent, or better use cards to mix randomly. cal gave cards, each with the pic of a territory. the official purpose for later magicly give you two bonus armies for that territory, however we used them to mix sharing the land. 12 cards each to divide evenly. some cads were unused. i had playd in the past and expected FOURTEEN cards for three players but i did not want to be a nerd about 42 territorys on the game map. i liked that 36 better than 42 kuz divides evenly for 4 players. they offerd me to choose a color first so i chose blak. we each had the same number of cards and some of the cards stayed in the box unused.
the card irkutzk had handwriting "jordan r." i put my blak by the pen line in that location. the card japan had "w. india" [but better east tigris] written i put one by that pen line. i had a card yakutzk said w. china, [but better tak desert] so i put a blak there near the pen line.
my 4 odd card [oops] ural said caspian, so a blak in caspian sea. the pen lines caused twelve in asia, 12, in rows 5+4+3=12 kuz lines split india and mid into 4, but africa had lines totaling 8 regions.
alaska's neighbor was empty only six armys kuz some empty, amz 5, blue 3. later they would explain each territory was around 3.7 million square kilomters, for continent areas in million square kilometers: 44,30,24,18,10 plus two regions of australia.
cal's cards: the card nw in north had "nw sahara" but better atlas mountain region, so a second yellow in that one above the pen line splitting that desert from east to west in three parts but none beside alaska. central america card had central "amazon" totaling 5 in amazon continent kuz added pen line southward split brazil. the card central canada had central "sahara" by pen lines totaling: 8 units in the nile continent, need kuz more area. we can fix by naming the north: 3 names: atlas mr, sahara desert region, and niger river region insted of one
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nile 8 for 30 msk
amz 5, insted of four in amz continent, for 18msk
n. amz' 6 armys in six territories but 3 empty kuz north part of sphere
france area had 3 units for 3 territory: skn, ukr, south, but the rest including france was empty, similarli the green had 5 in south asia kuz a line split each india and jordan, [jordan rr, west tigris rr, east tigris rr, ganges rr] ergo middle east meant west tigris. then a row of 4 kuz caspian and a line split china. north of china 3 but three empty, besides 3 empty isles.
they both turned to me and said "why arent you complaining"–kuz i see the added lines"–good. then i askd what about the empty ones? cal explained that asia correctly has TWELVE however near the fat part of the ball is more area so china has two like india. in contrast by axis of the ball is less area so blue and green need empty kuz not real. don added that amz needed a fifth kuz near fat part of ball, and area 18 msk. africa 8, for 30 msk but canada near axis so only 6 territory not nine. cal concluded "each territory represents around [he said miles but i recalculated] 3.7 million square kilometer BASED ON "australia two" for 7, asia [east ural] 12 for 44 msk, and 8 for nile continent kuz 30 msk.
i praised the improvement. kuz each region is similar area not tiny germany. next don specified that the asia empties would be ignored but notice the pen lines in south asia kuz the fat part of the ball.
i counted 35 units as the rules, and for my cards placed a unit in each territory like the picture. three cards had hand-writing. a different place? i waited. cal put his twelve blue ones. as we set up one, the one not named cal tooted so don protested "GROSS", but cal replyd "you toot too." i was holding one kuz i did not want to be first to toot but now i let the gas toot and they both giggled.
the set up took an hour. after set up cal gave a big bag of popcorn to each and we shared a bottle of clear lemon cola called "7 up" kuz no caffien. i asked about the relijis ceremony of wine? assuming forbid to eat before the ceremony. don answered, "before meal time, is before the ceremony time kuz when people still pray." cal argued that is not the reason but kuz no ceremony is required by book mishna this day. don argued "if so also sabbath same". cal squinted surprised but after a short surprise said "same" meaning if mishna book not obligated then same sabath kuz mishna never required.
we munched popcorn and don asked me which part of the prayers do i think is most important. then he explaind that the sources differd from the practice and since the rabbis especially orthodox did it wrong and did not preserve the tradition, using long prayers that did not match the rabbinic instructions anyway better to play a long game. e
