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]

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. ]

[jobchange]

[Yeah Thancred's going to get totally destroyed. But he can at least hold his own! It will be an actual challenge on Crow's part.

...Once Thancred figures out how the system works. But he will! And they will play this shooter until they are both sick of it, and Crow still has not lost a single game, and they have both gone through an entire bottle of whiskey. The scores are dropping.]

...You are a very talented man.

[bad_crowmance]

[ The scores are definitely dropping, talent and skill will only carry you so far when you're getting plastered. He gives Thancred a wink at that comment. ]

I know.

[ He says it with a good deal of self-confidence, but then he adds-- ]

You're a pretty good challenge though, I appreci-- appresh.... I like that.

[jobchange]

I do have some experience with firearms.

[He can be suave and confident too! Or just like. Pretend to be, because it's fun.]

I'm glad to know my skills were satisfactory.

[bad_crowmance]

I can definitely tell you've got skills. Makes me wonder what else you're good at.

[jobchange]

Oh?

[Well. He's on the bad decisions train, so he's just going to lean on this machine and smile all slow and nice.]

I have a variety of useful talents. Some more acceptable for polite company than others.

[bad_crowmance]

Wee~ell, no one's ever accused me of being polite company.

[ He winks at Thancred. ]

[jobchange]

[By the Twelve you are a shameless man.

Good thing Thancred is also a shameless man, at the moment.]

In that case, I assume, you have something in mind...?

[bad_crowmance]

[ Who needs shame?! ]

Oh, I've got a thing or two.

[jobchange]

And I'm curious. What say we find a cozy spot and I'll show you whatever you'd like to see.

[bad_crowmance]

I know of a place around here.

[ It's the love hotel, surprise. ]

Let's go.

[jobchange]

After you.

[He is gonna be swaying a bit but he's still all for it. Drunkcred only does smart things!]

[bad_crowmance]

Right this way.

[ Neither of them are entirely steady on their feet but Ordine is pretty good at finding his way to the love hotel regardless. He isn't particularly looking for a specifically themed room, just grabbing an available one and leading Thancred to it. ]

[jobchange]

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