Event || Terra Incognita

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Characters: Anyone who signed up for the trip!
Where: The Enterprise / Mysidia.
When: Starting from the 18th of November.
Summary: The first trip to the Continent of Ruins is finally happening! The Heroes of Light, the Enterprise Crew, Cid and O'aka are all onboard for the trip. What will the Heroes of Light find there? Will they come back alive? Feel free to start your own top-comment thread about your character exploring Mysida and its surroundings! For details regarding Mysidia, please click here.
Warning: Nothing (yes, they'll come back alive).

Open Mingle || The Enterprise
Event || Welcoming Committee

Comments

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

Eighte-

[What?!]

No wonder you passed out! You should go back to the inn and get some rest!

[She WAS getting rest, clearly, but falling asleep on an arcade cabinet can't be comfortable.]

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

It's okay... this kind of thing happens to me a lot when I'm gaming. Sometimes I even forget to breathe.

[nbd]

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

That...that can't be good for you at all.

[He rubs the bridge of his nose, trying to figure out how to deal with this. Finally he gives up and leans in to look at the machine.]

So what were you playing?

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

Super Chimp Ball. It's simple, but really addictive.

[What with its bright colors and fun music and monkeys rolling around in goofy hamster balls.]

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

[Cloud narrows his eyes as he looks at the screen. It's not a game he's really familiar with but he's willing to give it a shot.]

How do you play it? Can I try?

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

Sure. You can watch me to get an idea for the controls, and then you can try the second level.

[Since a game like this is easier to demonstrate than to explain outright.]

The important thing is to control your momentum or you'll run right off the edge.

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

[Cloud nods as he watches. Personally he'd prefer to give it a try to get a handle on it but he sees what Chiaki is talking about. The character on the screen does seem to be running a bit out of sync with the controls, he'll have to be careful.]

The controls look a little loose. And there's a bit of a delay on turning...

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

Yeah, that's what I meant about momentum. You have to slow down and start your turns before you reach the point where you need to be moving in a different direction, or you won't make it in time.

[But, as usual, Chiaki makes it look easy.]

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

Right.

[When Cloud gets his turn he stumbles a bit at first. He runs off the cliff twice before he's able to get a better idea of the movement. Soon he's up and running through the level at a decent clip. He's not doing as well as Chiaki but his speed at learning the game is impressive.]

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

There you go. You're getting the hang of it now.

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

[Cloud frowns as he works the controls. He's definitely getting the hang of it but he's not sure if it's a game he'd want to dump a lot of money into.

He's nearly through the whole level when the character swings wide into a course hazard.]

OH COME ON!

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

Oh, yeah, I forgot to warn you about those.

[After all, it would be too easy if there weren't things rolling and swinging around to knock you off course.]

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

[The next few tries don't go too much better, mounting frustration at the traps lead Cloud to make the same mistakes and then even simpler ones. After a few tries he stops and takes a breath to clear his mind.

It's the attempt after that one in which he finishes the level.]

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

[Chiaki just stands there watching silently as he tries. And once he's finished with the level, she smiles.]

It's tougher than it looks, but you did pretty good.

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

Thanks a lot. I guess I'd just need to play it a bunch of times to get it down. I can see why you think it's fun though. So what happens if we get through all the levels?

[He's certainly played worse games. He swears that rock paper scissors fighting game the arcade has is rigged. This one just seems finicky.]

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

Nothing special, really. You just compete for the high score and best time in this one.

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

Ah okay. The motorcycle game over there just drops you out to a game over and then the title screen even if you win. Those games are fun but it'd be great to play a game with something more to it.

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

Arcade games tend to be a little simpler since you can only play for as long as you can keep putting money in. If you want something more involved, what you really want is to get a dedicated gaming computer or a console.

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

[Cloud blinks a little in surprise.]

So wait...they have a way you can play games like these at home back in your world?

[He just hopes that the amount of jelly he's going to need to hold isn't above 99.]

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

Yeah. There's computer games, gaming consoles, and even handhelds.

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

Wow....they must be really expensive though right? Or bulky?

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

Kind of. But most of them aren't too big. Especially the handheld models, since they're meant to be portable.

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

Wow...that's kinda amazing. I think they might be able to make something like that in my world? But ShinRa controls most of the tech development in Midgar and they mostly just make cars and mako reactors.

[And arm a military force to invade neighboring regions for their resources.]

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[line_piece]

Yeah, I heard about them from Sephiroth a while ago. I still don't understand why an electric power company needs its own private military force.

Re: Chiaki Nanami | Gaming Central | OTA

[neverfirstclass]

Yeah...they mostly said it was for the security of the reactors and the cities and towns near them. There was also the war with Wutai but looking back I'm not sure if we were on the right side of that fight. It all started when I was pretty young when it all started anyway.

[In spite of Wutai being relatively close to Nibelheim it still felt so far away. It was past the mountains after all.]