it's hard to lose a chosen one [open]

[determinedest]

Who: Frisk (+ potential bonus Chara) and YOU!
Where: In your room. Yes, your room.
When: August 21st - August 23rd
Rating: PG? PG-13? these threads always end up bouncing all over the place. Will adjust if needed.
Summary: There's a small child in your room. Maybe they're going through your personal effects without any regards for privacy. Look, this is perfectly socially acceptable behavior in an RPG, all right?
The Story:

The past few days have been a gross unbalancing of their equilibrium, and Frisk has made the unilateral decision that they need something to help them reach that sense of stability again. Too much time has been spent lying on the floor of their room, sometimes with Chara, sometimes alone, enjoying the nonexistent fruits of Napstablook's patented "Lying On The Floor And Feeling Like Garbage" coping technique.

Eventually, they get to their feet. And then they begin to wander.

They try random doors along every hallway. Step inside the room if the door should be unlocked - or they may recruit their partner to open the door if they so choose (Do you want to see how many rooms we can break into? Frisk may or may not have asked while they lay on the floor and contemplated the ceiling paint job. And, Sure, Chara may or may not have answered, because it meant doing something other than simply feeling like useless trash for days on end.)

The point is, there's a kid in your room now. There might even be two. They're going through your stuff, looking through desk drawers, reading diaries, opening dressers, checking under beds. It's not like this sort of behavior was ever really criticized back in the Underground. People had no problem with them walking into their rooms and taking their sweet time poking around.

So, you know, don't even worry about it.

[ooc: feel free to specify the date you'd like this child to enter your room and whether or not you'd like the Frisk-Chara bonus combo! PM me here, message me on AIM at arcaneswearwords or contact me at arrpee if you want to discuss what Frisk may find if you want them to go through your character's private belongings - they won't discover anything you don't want them to!]

Comments

[forwearemany]

After a moment, Legion gets up and retrieves a third controller from the closet.

"Videogame storylines and dialogue provide insight into organic thought and reasoning. Multiplayer and online play provide additional insight through observation."

They are, for instance, obtaining quite a bit of information about organic children and how they deal with losing.

"All Geth are equipped for combat. In addition, we have served as a member of the Normandy crew."

They hand Frisk the controller before sitting down again.

[determinedest]

Frisk accepts the controller with a quiet murmur of, "thank you," and plugs it in to join into the pixel-based carnage. It's obvious they've never really done this before. They catch themselves watching the wrong avatar, getting stuck against walls, and all in all getting thoroughly trounced by their competitors.

"So 'combat' can mean like - game combat too?" Frisk asks curiously, intrigued despite their general distaste for combat in general. Game combat sounds considerably more harmless.

[fulllifeconsequences]

Well, Chara feels a little better about their own salt-tastic playstyle, at least.

"It's called game combat for a reason, right?" Chara ventures. "It's just... a bit more vicarious than the real thing, I guess. Like video game dating, or racing, or... I dunno, whatever else you're learning about, Legion. That's kind of the point of games, I guess?" To lose yourself in a story. To live out something you'd never get to know about or experience otherwise.

To play a really long game of Anywhere But Here.

"But forget games. Tell us about the real thing! What's the Normandy like? Is Shepard a cool boss? Have you blown lots of stuff up?"