Ideal World Endgame

[idolpro]

Who: Beautiful dreamers
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 271, morning

[When you wake, the folding chairs and divans from before have all been cleared away. You're lying asleep on the floor, healed of all injury.]

[You remember the events of the worlds you've visited as though visions seen in a dream -- though for those of you torn from your perfect existence, there is an ache inside you which will not fade for some days... the pain of something precious that has been lost.]

[Out beyond the windows of the tower, the sky is no longer a perfect blue; the vegetation is no longer as lush and inviting.]

[The view is of Tokyo-F, exactly as it's always been.]

[Near the far wall, there is an open book on a pedestal. The pages are empty. It is titled GUEST BOOK, and a pen waits nearby.]

GUEST BOOK | SOUVENIRS | WINNERS

Comments

[bad_crowmance]

[ He's here to be as minimal baggage as possible!

That being said, he tilts his head with interest when Thancred speaks. ]

You've got my attention.

[jobchange]

[He puts on a grim smile, one that doesn't reach his eyes at all. Then -- makes a gesture as if wiggling a bottle.]

Would you like to get a drink? I could use the company of someone with no strings attached.

[bad_crowmance]

[ He grins at that, though the way it plays on his face makes it a bit more subtle that it hasn't reached his eyes either. ]

Now there's a proposition I can get behind. I was just thinking I could go for a drink or three.

[jobchange]

Wonderful. A few drinks, and no one to caution us on wise behaviour.

[That is exactly what Thancred needs. Definitely.]

Are you free, or shall we meet after you've tied up any loose ends?

[bad_crowmance]

Wise behaviour's highly overrated.

[ And Ordine's restraint was outsourced to a guy who isn't around so there's no one to stop him! ]

I'm free as a bird so just name a place and let's get going.

[jobchange]

Hm... To be most economical, we should obtain a few whole bottles. After that, let's head to... hm. I've been meaning to try out this "arcade", but drinking in the park would feel relaxing... You've been around longer than I have. What do you think?

[bad_crowmance]

The Arcade's likely to be less busy right now than usual, most people are going to want to return to their dorms after a rough game. So this would be a great time to check it out if you're curious.

[jobchange]

Then that's what we shall do. And if it proves unengaging, we'll move along.

[Good plan! Now just to get the booze...]

[bad_crowmance]

Sounds like a plan to me.

[ Ordine's pulling out his phone. ]

It costs a little extra, but there's a delivery service app that'll bring the booze right to us once it's ordered.

[jobchange]

Oh, convenient. Shall I send you half the cost and let you make an order?

[How much booze do we need, he wonders?]

It's quantity over quality right now, I'd say...

[bad_crowmance]

Sounds good to me. Let's go for four bottles of cheap whiskey, specially delivered.

[jobchange]

Perfect. That's... [checking his phone...] ...350 each?

[Then he will send Crow his half!]

[bad_crowmance]

[ Ordine grins. ]

Alright, let's do this!

[ Once the points are received he puts in the order for four shitty bottles of whiskey, delivered via Black Cat Delivery service... via drones this time around, depositing them neatly in front of the duo within moments. ]

[jobchange]

How convenient.

[he's just grabbing two of those and pasting on a grin.]

Now, onward to forgetting our problems!

[bad_crowmance]

To forgetting our problems!

[ He's grabbing the other two and heading towards the arcade. ]

[jobchange]

[Following! He is going to find out what the heck a video game is and it's going to be great except where they're also going to be drunk and probably horrible at video games.]

[bad_crowmance]

[ Surely absolutely nothing can go wrong with Drunk Dance Dance Revolution Dance Super Station.

But it's definitely gonna be great. ]

[jobchange]

[Great! And they'll be having fun by the time they get there because Thancred is opening a bottle with his teeth while they walk. He needs this.]

[bad_crowmance]

[ Ordine's also definitely started in on a bottle by the time they get there. Fear hallucinations are the worst and sometimes you just need to self-medicate. ]

[jobchange]

[Yeeeah the good brain foggers...]

So. Tell me about these "video games". Do you play them?

[bad_crowmance]

Sometimes! I'm working on getting all the top ten scores for the shooter games.

[ Because he's a competitive butt. ]

[jobchange]

Shooter games, is it? I wonder if I could outperform you...

[Probably not, but competition is fun?]

[bad_crowmance]

[ There's a glint in his eyes at that. ]

You can try.

[ It doesn't matter how old he gets, the competitive streak will never go away. ]

[jobchange]

Show me the game and I will.

[he may not be a MCH but he is a GNB so he can do his best!!]

[bad_crowmance]

[ HE CAN DO HIS BEST!! Versus a former terrorist who has been shooting guns for hundreds of years at this point when not using his double saber.

That being said, he grins before he gestures, c'mere. ]

It's this way!

[ There's probably a wide selection of shooter games but he's gonna go for something dumb where you can rack up a lot of points shooting stupid-looking monsters. ]