[ WP ] Julius Caesar , Genghis Khan , Alexander the Great , and Sun Tzu play a strategy game

It was the most complex strategy game ever devised, Sunny had developed it after an intense `` I-Ching'' session. Jules was drunk again, and Khan was about to be released from his holding cell after yesterday's bar-fight. 
 
 They'd been roommates for about 6 months now, and, like everyone in their 20's, we're convinced that they'd conquer the world. Alex was running late again, he had this weird habit of going out to parks and playing chess with this old dude early every morning, and, like the hipster he is, goes everywhere with a leather bound journal on his hip. Sunny laughed, the smell of incense permeating from his room, he needed take-out to help fuel his creative genius. 
 
 After borrowing Jules' mustang to pick up Khan, and the take-out, they made it back to the apartment just as Alex arrived. Sunny took out all the board games, and mixed up the pieces, monopoly properties made towns, domino tiles for roads and barriers, army men and chess pieces were troops and officials, and the board was more of a sandbox sculpture gone wrong, chalk drawings, a couple overturned bowls, and a spilled beer. All for hills and valleys. 
 
 Jules walked out of his room after hearing everyone up, some nervous kid in a polo and slacks was following him out of his room, holding a bottle of wine, apparently Jules had a new pledge to deal with. Khan ripped open the bags with the game pieces and scattered them across the floor, while Alex stood and waited, hoping to hear the rules out loud. Sunny sighed, he'd previously printed the rule-book and gave everyone a copy, this was the first time they were going to play; It did n't even have a name yet, but he was really pushing for something artistic. 
 
 
 Alex sat down after all the pieces were divided up and started building his base on the top of a bowl, Jules threw down his cup and barked for more to drink before his hangover kicked in. The pledge picked it up with shaking hands and filled it, stuttering when he handed it back. Alex rolled his eyes and sat down a Hotel piece in the middle, stacked over another one, and said he was done setting up. They all decided to name their bases, Jules said Rome, because he likes puns and said he ruled wherever he `` roamed''. Khan said Asia, because he saw the take-out container and could n't think of anything better. Sunny named his the Golden Dragon, thinking it sounded cool, and then sat back imagining a lizard that would talk, and light his pipes for him. Alex named his Alexandria, prompting everyone to roll their eyes, Jules made a joke about him being a narcissist. 
 
 Khan wanted to start dispatching troops immediately to grab the properties around him, while the others started mining resources for better weapons. Alex saw a group of knights coming for his city, but they would n't make it for another few turns. Jules made a pact with Sunny, grain for troops, and a focus on the other two before turning on each other. They seemed happy with it. 
 
 Khan laughed, hoping no one noticed that he was scattering his army out everywhere he could to claim the property fastest. Alex rolled his eyes and started using domino tiles to build a wall up, Sunny laughed; He did that in minecraft once, so big you could n't make it around. 
 
 Suddenly there was a commotion; Jules spit out his wine and yelled to his pledge that it tasted like piss and he needed something better. The pledge just snapped, poured the wine all over Jules and laughed, kicking him in the ribs and running out. Jules stared him down and said; `` Dammit Bruce, you're such a dick! Better go home because now you'll never make it in to the Greek!'' 
 
 While that was happening Alex finished up his wall and Sunny lit some incense to clear out the bad vibes. The next few turns, Khan tried to get around the wall to get to Alexandria, and found out he could n't, got pissed and threw the board across the room. `` This is bullshit! you guys know how much I hate walls!'' There was a pounding in his room, from the sound of it, he punched through his wall again, they sighed, guess he'd be buying more posters. 
 
 
 

