IT'S A GOOD DAY TO HAVE A BAD DAY

[cascadingfailure]

Who: Day 373
Where: The Hotel Lobby
When: Day 373, late night

[ So how about that ruined lobby? Despite damage to the city usually being repaired overnight, barring acts of Heaven and Hell, it's still blown wide open and also the entire ground floor of the hotel is flooded.

The intercoms have fallen silent since the guest stars made their mark, but for some reason, they've started up again. They're having problems, though - they undergo a constant loop each time they buzz to life, first playing just thirty seconds of a song familiar to some which distorts and slows and slows and slows and slows until all that's left is

uh, this? Which speeds up until it becomes this this, and then just sort of breaks down. And then the loop starts over again.

It's...a mingle?! Do you really want to be here...? ]

Comments

[proceedwithcautus]

Mm... sort of! Or close enough, anyway.

Maybe it's a little retro...?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Higher tech place, huh?

[proceedwithcautus]

I guess that's possible! Although, I guess, also, there's only so many ways to make a train, right?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Sure, but you got like those old-fashioned steam trains, and then you got, like... the shinkansen.

[proceedwithcautus]

Ah, um... well, it's all the same to me right now, so I suppose I'm not an engineer.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah, me neither. Pretty sure that's -

[crossmyheartandhope]

Ah, crap, that's our train! C'mon, we gotta run!

[Takes off running for it]

[proceedwithcautus]

[ she is going to run best she can on her little short legs, and it turns out she is at least in pretty good shape, so they get there, barely. ]

Phew! I didn't think about that, sorry...

[crossmyheartandhope]

Hey, no worries. They come pretty quick, so we wolda got another one without too much trouble.

[proceedwithcautus]

It's convenient!

[ very convenient! goes very fast

fast enough to fast-forward toooooooo: the arcade! minutes in the future but not many. ]

Ah, is this it?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Sure is.

[Heading on in!]

[proceedwithcautus]

Ah—there's so much of it!

[crossmyheartandhope]

Right? This place is great.

[proceedwithcautus]

Do you really like games, then? I don't know if I've played things like this before.

[crossmyheartandhope]

I ain't into it as much as some people, but they're pretty fun.

[proceedwithcautus]

Ah—what would you recommend, then?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Well... depends what you think's fun.

There's fighting games and racing games and shooting games, and stuff where you gotta jump from platform to platform to get somewhere, or there's stuff you don't play on a screen, like air hockey or skeeball.

[proceedwithcautus]

I can safely say I don't know what I find fun yet! So... maybe I should just try something?

Like, um—the first one you said.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Fighting games, huh? Sure thing, dude.

[Waves her over to one of the machines]

[proceedwithcautus]

How do you play this one...?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Well... first you gotta hit start and pick your character.