[He's in the middle of some cad repression, he'll be more snarky later when properly motivated. He goes to meet Joshua in the common room (which takes a couple of floors of checking, but not too long) and settles down in a chair next to a coffee table so he can set up the board.]

What sort of games do you usually play?

[Though from a Nietzschean perspective, everything is a game and everything is worthy of life and death odds.]