Welcome to Gaia! ::

One of the side doors that was always there in the massive town hall complex is now unlocked with a big sign on the door announcing its purpose.

Also built into the town hall, this is a room designed for indoor games that would normally bother people trying to watch a movie or read a book in the entertainment room.

There is a foosball table, a pool table, air hocky machine, a library of board games, a few pinball machines (Jurassic Park-themed, and Back to the Future themed among them), and several video game full arcade machines: from some older classics like Area 51, Pac Man, Time Crisis, Rampage, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Marvel Vs Capcom, Burnout 3, and Hydro Thunder, to newer ones like Star Wars Pod Racer, Guitar Freaks, DDR MAX 2, Para Para Paradise, and Silent Scope 3

Meanwhile, Sabin, now stuck doing exclusively moniter duty and other menial chores about the island, had just recived in one more shipment from mainland of equipment that was to go to the rec room. He had assisted in moving a lot of the heavy equipment there when it was being set up after Moreau had figured out that compared to most of the labtechs on the island, Sabin was actually strong enough to be decent manual labor.

Admittedly, this was one of the games that he had specifically ordered, otherwise he would have been more peeved that it fell to him to move the damned thing. Loading it onto the back of a flat, he drove down to the village, Rampage in tow.

Sabin was wheeling the dolly with the game into the room, the game bulky enough to not really see where he was going very well other than knowing that the thing was going to go into the back-right corner of the room. Therefore, he didn't see Aubrey when he nearly plowed her over with a full-sized arcade machine.

Awen had gone into this room awhile ago and had been playing various of the new arcades. She couldn't believe she hadn't known of this place before...or perhaps it never was around? Surely she would have seen this place another time...so it must not have been. She glanced up briefly when AUbrey had come in and started to pick up streamers, but mostly stayed in the back arcades out of the way.

Cass was on the lookout for something hopelessly normal to do. A movie struck her as being a good idea, so she had made her way to the entertainment room first.

Then she'd remembered that pinball machine she'd seen once. She had a small fondness for pinball, and rarely got to play. If she was going to end up losing her hands, as Greer had... she might as well play while she still could.

She slithered into the room, and tilted her head in surprise. Aubrey... and Sabin...? And some blue-haired girl Cass wasn't sure she'd ever met. Her tongue flickered.

It would be a good idea to turn around and leave, she knew. But it was fairly unusual to see one staff member hanging around, let alone two at once.

"Getting run over by arcade machines, apparantly," she said with her brows creased, not amused.

She stood up and tested her tender foot with a hiss. "What's it look like I'm doing, I'm picking up after Colche's party. I accept your apology, by the way." You could almost feel the waves of cold coming off Aubrey today. Being up at arms with Moreau did nothing for her attitude.

Sabin shrugged, not going out of his way to amend the lack of apology, and slid the machine carefully off the back of the dolly and plugged it in- initiating a loud noise as the game sprung to life before Sabin adjusted the volume.

It was only after this that he finally turned around and regarded Aubrey, giving the cupcake a long lick of the icing off the top. He didn't seem to care it had been sitting out overnight.

"What bug crawled into your shirt, Aubrey?" Sabin asked, glancing down at her foot. at least you still have your job he thought irritably. Moreau would never strip that from her. Go behind her back and trust HIM to carry out a plot that she was too weak to handle, yes. But as soon as he worked on something on his own that went along WITH his own damned project he got his job suspended. "Last I checked you weren't being penalized and being forced to do the job that maintence or custodial work unlike some of us." He muttered.

"I'm sorry," she hissed. "What bug crawled up my shirt?" Her eyes darted quickly to Awen and Cass, so she lowered her voice and limped (a bit overdramatically perhaps) closer to Sabin. "I might not be be forced to physical labor but trust me I'm not exactly being put ona pedistal for sticking up for you. Oh, and nice way to thank me, nearly running me over. You should be thankful you have any job after the stunt you pulled. You're lucky Miss Delaney's not your new bunkmate, eh?"

Sabin gave a growl under his breath at the reminder that Aubrey had recently stuck up for him. He had been rather involved in his own throughts of self-pity with losing the lives of several of his projects and his priviledges.

"Look, I appreciate what you did, really I do. I just wish that he wasn't so damn unreasonable sometimes!" He took a bite out of the chocolate cupcake as he leaned against the machine, not really paying attention to the other people that were peering his way, and not having noticed Awen behind some of the rows of games.

"You're acting like I bumped into you on purpose."