thirteenth snare

[fanstheflame]

[so, his girlfriend got knocked unconscious with a cake pan by his best friend's boyfriend - who, by the way, kind of stole her from him back home.

clearly, this is not exactly Happy Time for Gale. he's been spending most of his time at Ino's bedside, even though she's clearly not getting any closer to being conscious. now that people seem to be sane again, and Crowley's awake, and things are slowly edging toward as normal as house life gets, however, he figures he might be able to leave for a little while]

[House Filter]

Could someone please just ... keep an eye on Ino for me, today? I need to get out and grab some air. But I don't want her to be left alone too long, in case she wakes up ....

[/House Filter]

[with that, he'll bundle up against the cold and start a trek up to the castle, to see what's going on now that everything is back to normal, dictating into the journal as he goes]

I'm coming up to the castle ... since I figured I should maybe try to meet some of the new faces, or see if anyone needs my help with anything. Also, it's been a while since I played anything in the game room ... so if you want to come say hello, I'll probably be up there. My name's Gale - I'll be the tall guy with the dark hair wearing the green hunting vest.

[yes, that IS a brand new vest, it is his Christmas present from Ino, and he kind of wears it a lot. pardon him while he puts it to practical use by hunting down Pac-Man ghosts and Dig-Dug baddies. badly. arcade games are one of his Paradisa guilty pleasures, okay, and he can just pretend every little clump of pixels is Peeta Mellark's stupid clumsy dumb oaf face]

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[fanstheflame]

Oh - I moved in with my girlfriend and some of her friends. It's ...

[he laughs a little as he uses the edge of the coffee table to open his beer] Most of them are insane.

[i_got_this]

Sometimes I think it's a prerequisite for getting dragged here. Everyone is a little bit loopy.

[South brings her beer up to her mouth in order to pop the cap with her teeth, spit it out, then take a drink.]

[fanstheflame]

And some people more than others, yeah - [he cuts himself off when she opens the bottle]. How do you do that without breaking your teeth? .... That's pretty impressive.

[i_got_this]

[South smirks and shrugs her shoulder, happy she made an impression.]

Let's just say I'm one tough chick and leave it at that.

[fanstheflame]

Sounds fair enough. [he looks amused, mostly because it's seeming to him more and more that a lot of people here like their secrets]

So how do we play this thing?

[i_got_this]

Here, crash course. [She queues up a custom game where she can shoot him repeatedlyshow him the ropes.] Left toggle is to walk, right is to look, right trigger shoots weapons, left trigger throws grenades, blah blah blah, just push some buttons and see what happens.

[fanstheflame]

.... Wow, that's a lot of buttons. [he looks ... well, about the way people used to 8 bit Nintendo looked at Super Nintendo controls when they came out. TOO MANY BUTTONS WAT DO.

he gives it a try and ... promptly walks his dude into a wall]

[i_got_this]

[South laughs, running her little guy off and using a jumping/jetpack combo to cross the map. The first of the little aliens are now arriving, but thankfully she's set them to invincible with unlimited ammo, so he's got plenty of time to turn his guy around, or --]

Wait, hand me your controller for a moment, you'd probably do better if it wasn't inverted. [That's the setting she preferred, that usually confused the hell out of most beginning gamers.]

[fanstheflame]

Inverted?

[he's so confused right now, seriously, how did she do that thing with the jets and why is it every time he tries to turn the camera he ends up zooming in and looking at some weird spot in the rock and seriously where the hell IS HE RIGHT NOW

just take the controller. HELP HIM.]

[i_got_this]

[She brings up the settings menu and switches his gameplay buttons to something a little more streamlined for beginners, in addition to turning off the inversion, before handing it back.]

There you go, now up is up and down is down. Right trigger shoots, left throws grenades, 'A' is jump, [She takes up her own controller and continues to hammer out brief instructions while she takes out a phalanx of enemies with a single grenade and headshots a group of others with practiced ease.]