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 Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 9:59 pm
Chel tilted her head. "I secretly have been pining for you for ages and also I want a million dollars." Chel was just as serious as Jack, clearly. "Also mad sex and for you to get me off the island for forever. All for a coffee machine."
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:09 pm
He scowled and waited for a real answer.
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:11 pm
"Really, there's no reason. I already got everything I want in this apartment thing, so I have a bunch of extra money to blow on you guys. I'm already getting Finn's birthday present ready. I was thinking really nice alcohol? It's November 23rd so I have time, but still ..."
Chel was happy to fill any gaps Jack might have left with his scowling.
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:23 pm
"So you cooked for me, gave me ice cream, and bought me a coffee machine for no other reason than because you felt like it."
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:24 pm
"Consider it a lesson on friendship!" Chel said with a bright smile. "And a lesson on hanging out, I suppose. Which you sorely needed."
She gestured to the pathetically small TV screen she had, which was hooked up to an old school N64. "Wanna play Mario Kart?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:38 pm
This was the most baffling lesson he'd ever been given, and it showed. He still looked mildly confused even as he took a sixth scoop of ice cream and then placed it back in the freezer. "O...kay," Jack said as he tossed the scooper in the sink and joined her, eying Chel like she was a different species of humanoid. "How do you play?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:42 pm
"You can take the ice cream home by the way." Lord knew chel wasn't going to eat it.
She sat down on her "couch" (which was literally 2 couch cushions she had stolen from one of the dorm lounges that were set down next to the edge of her bedframe, so that one could rest their back against the bed while sitting on the cushion) and hit the power button, waiting for it to power up. "You never played Mario Kart? Now that s**t's just sad." She handed him one of two controllers (the only two she owned, sadly. She was looking in to getting more). "No wonder you're so grouchy, you never had Mario Kart in your life."
Sadly, the controllers were once a vibrant, happy color, but due to the way the island's barriers worked with electronics, they had now been reworked into an ugly gunmetal grey with the familiar sky blue runes. In a way, it was kind of badass looking. But she missed the bright blue and green colors. "Uhhh, so it's like a race. You pick your lil racer dude, and then you press A to go and B to slow down. But if you slow down you're a wuss. You can also pick up items and s**t, which help you out."
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 11:20 pm
"No freezer," he said ruefully. "Just a shitty mini fridge." And he wasn't about to trust leaving it in the communal fridge either.
Plopping down next to her on the "couch" (and both scoffing at and acknowledging the creativity behind it), he took the offered controlled and familiarized himself with it. "Stick to steer...What items are we talking about?"
Then Jack stared at the character selection screen. "What are...Is that thing a lizard?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 11:24 pm
Chel scooted a little closer (what? Just to get more comfortable! Of course!) and pointed to the small yellow arrow on the d-pad. "Use that one to drop your items."
She followed his eyesight back to the screen and said, "Yoshi? Nah man, he's a dinosaur. Mario rides him around and s**t." Chel picked Peach, naturally, "Toad's like peach's lil servant mushroom dude. Mario and Luigi are plumber brothers who rescue the princess from bowser- that's the turtle mohawk guy. He kidnaps Peach like literally ever ******** time. I don't even know why? I think he wants to ******** her or something." Yes Jack, you had entered a world of princess ******** turtles. "Donkey Kong's the monkey guy- he's from a different game but he's just a ******** monkey. Last one's Wario- he's kind of like evil Mario but not." She looked at him expectantly. Which would he take??
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 11:56 pm
Jack tucked his arms a little tighter to avoid excessive touching. "Mario the plumber rides a green dinosaur named Yoshi. A little man mushroom named Toad serves some chick named Peach. She gets kidnapped by a turtle on 'roids who's probably raped her, but she'll happily play go-kart racing with him for some reason. There's both a ***** fatass in this kid's game and a ******** monkey." Okay.jpg.
(Sometimes it was like Jack literally was a machine: repeating everything back as facts just to make sure the data was clear before saving it.)
Luigi looked like the most sane person there, and so he was chosen. It was not at all because he was tall and thin and wore green.
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 12:05 am
Chel laughed and said, "Oh my god Luigi is literally the lamest one." Well, he was.
She picked the most basic track (after all, shoving Jack on rainbow road would be funny, but just cruel) and the race began. She of course, employed the trick where you hit the A button right as the screen said "go" without telling Jack about it. She had to keep SOME of her secrets. "So I kinda couldn't tell. Are you upset with the coffee machine or ...?"
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medigel rolled 1 20-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-20)
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:40 am
Naturally Jack called bullshit because that made no sense that was not how acceleration worked ******** you game physics. And then the karts started bumping him around like a pinball machine, and before he knew it he was dead last and piddling behind. Irritated, he growled in reply, "No. People just aren't that nice for no reason." Which was what he called her friendship lesson apparently: a non-reason. "Now how the ******** does this red shell thing work." chiickadee rolled to see how well he did at first /laughs into the sunset
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chiickadee rolled 1 20-sided dice:
6
Total: 6 (1-20)
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:13 am
Chel was normally abhorrently against screencheating, but she had to know how Jack was doing. Jack was doing very, very badly.
Screencheating made it so that she fell relatively low in the ranks as well because she was distracted, but Jack came in a solid last place. She laughed, only because she had FINALLY beaten him in something. "Sorry, I know that's kinda mean. Everyone sucks their first time though. And I told ya- you fire items with the d-pad. Up makes it go in front of you, down makes it go in back of you. Red shells are awesome 'cause they auto-lock on to people and ******** 'em up. Green shells just go flying they don't lock on to people so they kind of suck. Bananas you slip on, fake blocks you slip on ..."
She was a little unsure how Jack was feeling about the game at this point. "Want to keep playing?" While she waited for his answer, she stood up and grabbed herself and Jack another beer. Sitting back down on the couch, she figured if he didn't want it, she would just down it as well.
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medigel rolled 1 20-sided dice:
13
Total: 13 (1-20)
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 10:40 am
" D-pad sounds like something for a PMSing a*****e. Just thought you should know." He shot her a look, as if offended she couldn't tell that yes, yes he did. Chel had found his competitive button. Getting promoted first? Fine, whatever, she had been there before him anyway. Losing to her in a stupid video game? Unacceptable. He had even been lapped, god damn. "How many tracks are in a cup? Four?" Jack snapped the beer open and took a few gulps before setting it back down and grabbing the controller. "Best out of four." And woe to the karts that got in the way of his shells this time.
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chiickadee rolled 1 20-sided dice:
7
Total: 7 (1-20)
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 11:03 am
"It stands for directional pad, dipshit." She grinned and said, "And assholes don't PMS, vaginas do. I don't blame you for not knowing female anatomy though."
She covered a smile, finding a fired up Jack to actually be- god forbid- adorable. It was in a moment like this that she was reminded that Jack was just a 20-something kid trying to find his way through this academy, just like the rest of them. It was hard to recall that when she spent so much time thinking him some godly figure come down to smite them all with glaring and coffee cups.
She picked up her controller and said, "No it's not best of four. See at the end of the race, they give you a certain number of points based on how well you did. So like I got like five I think, and you got zero. So then at the end of the cup, all those points are tallied for first, second and third." She pressed the A button to continue, making the screen pan a custcene of Moo Moo Farms. She took a drink during the cutscene and then headed into the game ...
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