--- title: "Sports, Games & Pastimes" url: https://deovandski.github.io/HusbandOutWorld/lore/pastimes/ section: World Lore spoilers: public layer first, Behind The Scenes after sources: [Legacy/Behind The Scenes/World Lore/Sports, Games and Passtime.md] --- How people in Vraki have fun. Sports include Homeegg, a Forway team sport played in the air with the help of nari gels, plus Fast Fish, Fast Bird, fishing contests, Gandew and Forway duels, and egua races. Games include Territory Snipping, Stealball and Minari. For pastimes there's music, tavern-hopping, reading, theater and tourism. *(Summary written by AI from the author's notes.)* ## Sports ### Alcohol/Food competition * **Isekai History** * Held in some places. Famous for alcohol competition in Tolerideme. * **Rules** * Depends on who’s hosting the competition, but it's usually annual. ### Dueling Egua Race * **Isekai History** * Officially held in Forway City * **Rules** * Certain Soul Energy enhancements can be applied to the eguas & riders to make things more entertaining. All weapons allowed. ### Egua Race * **Isekai History** * Officially held in Forway City. * **Rules** * Certain Soul Energy enhancements can be applied to the eguas to make things more entertaining. ### Fast Bird * **Isekai History** * Held in some locales, but usually Forway city. * **Rules** * Certain Soul Energy interfaces/Nari gels are allowed. ### Fast Fish * **Isekai History** * Held in some locales, but specifically famous between Waterfall and Sanbi Kingdom, where people compete to see who travels the farthest. * **Rules** * Everything and anything is allowed, except for flight/gravity Soul Energy interfaces. ### Fish Catch Fish & Fishing Competitions * **Isekai History** * Held in some locales, but usually Sanbi * **Rules** * Fish, while being able to swim, is the Fish Catch Fish. * Wins can be considered by catch size, time, or quantity depending on the competition. ### Forway Duel * **Isekai History** * Like Gandew duels, but here Soul Energy and Nari gels are encouraged. * There are no formal rules. It’s more of a “common saying”. * **Rules** * Large duels among well-known duelists are held in Forway theaters for people to see. Also, in arenas, sometimes during a team deathmatch. ### Gandew Duels * **Isekai History** * Often, duels occur between Gandew residents, as that is how they resolve their disputes. * **Rules** * See Gandew Kingdom. No Soul Energy tampering allowed ### Homeegg * **Isekai History** * Common sport on Forway that makes use of Nari Gel to allow flight. * **Rules** * Two teams of 5 people. 4 people on each side of the attack, with the 5th on each team being the goalkeeper and strategist. Each team takes turns fighting in the center (like American football) to advance through flags. Each turn has 5 chances to advance the ball and drop it at the “nests” located on each pole. ![][image1] ### Soul Energy Art * **Isekai History** * Officially held in Forway city, but in some other places as well * **Rules** * The person uses everything available in the Soul Energy interface books to entertain guests creatively. ### Territory Snipping * **Isekai History** * \*For context, this board game is all about capturing territory and holding onto it, with some territories (e.g., yellow)being worth more. * Time is set, and the participants basically all play at the same time (until they run out of darts), while a third person keeps track of territories being claimed. * **Rules** * See Book 2\. Hiromi will explain the rules. ![][image2] ## Games ### Bone Sack * **Isekai History** * Usually done in taverns. * **Rules** * Small pieces of bone are thrown from a specific spot into sacks around the place, usually placed at weird heights or in places to make it difficult. Commonly, you need to take a big gulp of your drink every time you lose. ### Flat Steel * **Isekai History** * More common in Forway. It’s a fancier version of Stealball, as some richer people love the game but don’t want to be seen playing it on public streets. * ![][image3] * https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vJta5qDQBCM * **Rules** * It’s akin to Stealball, but played on a table. The table has nari ground nari stones added, and three players compete. One Table Manager that applies effects on the table and specifies dead zones where the table wins points by acquiring them. The table player fights each other or against the table. If they fight together against the table, the table can make an underhand proposal or increase the difficulty while increasing the winning pot. * Table powers. Bounce, slow, fasten, sink zones. Ball split. Hard ball where the ball won’t move. ### Minari * **Isekai History** * Started with wooden-carved statues, but evolved with age. Usually, one of them is the true version of a group, and the goal is to eliminate the true version (The one that has the Nari stone inside it) * \*The table is carved and has 3D dimensionality to it. Pieces of it can be plug-and-play. * **Rules** * Like Gwent, but with statues with Nari, usually bound with Nari stone, and Soul energy to reflect statue powers. Kinda like Gwent, but instead of cards, it is carved pieces. ### Stealball * **Isekai History** * Usually done among friends. * **Rules** * The participants drew a large square on the ground and then placed an equal number of balls (amethyst or higher) in the center. Then they use Pearl balls to steal each other’s balls by getting them to knock the balls in the center out of the square. * In poorer communities, they place pearl balls in the center and use small rocks to steal each other’s balls. ### Wood Bowl Spin * **Isekai History** * Usually done in taverns. * **Rules** * Roulette, where you place Balls on each open slot. Then you spin the wood bowl and drop a white ball. Wherever it lands, the person who spun the bowl gets the prize. Each person playing usually puts in an equal amount of money. ### Wood Hammering * **Isekai History** * Usually done in taverns. * **Rules** * Hammerschlagen ## Passtime ### Brothels * **Isekai History** * Because sticking your dick, or the reverse, or both, depending on taste, is fun. ### Drinking/Eating/Tavern-Hopping * **Isekai History** * Getting drunk is fun. Most people tend to have a favorite tavern that becomes like a second home. Dedicated restaurants are a strange concept. Some taverns require memberships, usually in Forway city, to maintain their standing as high-class establishments. * Tavern-hopping is a common trend for adventurers/travelers to taste different things. ### Music playing/Bands * **Isekai History** * Music is still medieval, but has certain vibes from today’s notes and rhythms—no electric guitar or anything like that. * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R16cVvg2OyY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R16cVvg2OyY) ### Reading * **Isekai History** * Novels about old tales float around. Usually reserved for richer people who can read. ### Theater * **Isekai History** * Commonly found in Forway city, theaters recreate novels or tell entirely different stories. ### Tourism * **Isekai History** * Usually done by adventurers or richer folks. They explore around POIs in different cities, and enjoy the scenery/city, etc.