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3.0 - week three
WEEK THREE
Last night might have been exhausting for any number of reasons - maybe it was the emotional
toll of dealing with those ghosts, or maybe you stayed up too late after watching Jim Shrok. Who knows, but Saturday is over, even if some of you haven’t quite left it behind and half spirits that are still hanging on, tethered to you and weighing you down…
But that’s not going to stop a new week from starting. There’s no breaks in an eight week course.
There’s very little fanfare to the start of your third week of the course, though it does seem like the fog has lifted even more. It’s a bit more of a trek down the abandoned streets of Estelline, but surely a mile is walkable? Or you could grab a bike or try to hotwire one of those cars in the mall parking lot… Whatever you plan to do this week is up to you. All you know is you've got some new locations to explore.
As always, Florence and Lorelei are available.
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
TASK LIST
( OOC Note: Luci, Mutsu, and Mae will each receive a small roomba! Congrats on the successful egg drop. It's a tiny little friend that cleans extra well, though this also means its trash compartment is a little smaller so it'll need to be cleaned more often. )
toll of dealing with those ghosts, or maybe you stayed up too late after watching Jim Shrok. Who knows, but Saturday is over, even if some of you haven’t quite left it behind and half spirits that are still hanging on, tethered to you and weighing you down…
But that’s not going to stop a new week from starting. There’s no breaks in an eight week course.
There’s very little fanfare to the start of your third week of the course, though it does seem like the fog has lifted even more. It’s a bit more of a trek down the abandoned streets of Estelline, but surely a mile is walkable? Or you could grab a bike or try to hotwire one of those cars in the mall parking lot… Whatever you plan to do this week is up to you. All you know is you've got some new locations to explore.
As always, Florence and Lorelei are available.
TASK LIST
( OOC Note: Luci, Mutsu, and Mae will each receive a small roomba! Congrats on the successful egg drop. It's a tiny little friend that cleans extra well, though this also means its trash compartment is a little smaller so it'll need to be cleaned more often. )
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[... it's a mess. Either way, he's shocked out of his pessimistic mumbling by Cater's eagerness.]
Eh, haah, the... the game parts are just using placeholder assets so i- it's not really good to look at... um...
[... this is where a normal human would offer to show Cater what is done. But, but- it's embarrassing! What if he thinks pixel art is lame?!]
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But you, like, had to make the placeholders yourself, too, right? Isn't that super cool? Cay's way too dumb to do anything like that, yanno?
[But art in general is cool? And pixel art is totally retro-chic right now?]
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["Cay's way too dumb to do anything like that, yanno?"]
[Something about that comment is different to him than it would have been before. He's not as likely to just accept "too dumb." Not without proof.]
... o-okay, fine, come over, I'll sh-show you the placeholders don't do it justice...
[... because the placeholders are literally just big squares of color that take up the appropriate space. As he starts it up and clicks through things it's like a cubist wet dream. It does have all the pieces of an application- but with none of the finish work that makes it actually glow.]
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[He wasn't expecting Idia to actually let him see, like this. So, yeah, he takes a second to collect himself from the surprise before shuffling over and actually sitting next to him on the bed, peering down at the tablet.
And the mess of squares of color.
It's incomprehensible at a first glance, but the longer he looks at it, the more he thinks he kind of maybe understands a little.]
Hey, hey, tell me what's going on.
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[and asks for an explanation? He was expecting it to just be a one and done...]
... Um, well, see, I press this to enter combat. [teal square]
Then i- it's a three-person party, with the enemies over here...
[So, blue, a checkerboard, and yellow versus five black cubes.]
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[The more Idia explains, the more it starts to make sense, and the more recognizable the little squares become.]
And they... fight. What happens when they win?
[Oh, wait, also-]
Who are the characters gonna be? Do I know them?
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[He's at least considering that he shouldn't go too in-depth about the numbers. Cater was interested but he was still a normie. Some normies didn't even understand EXP!]
[... but Cater knows him enough to suggest that he's making the units based on characters.]
Th- That- um- the characters- the characters are- ... u-undecided!
[he blatantly lies with the checkerboard box there]
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[He sure has heard those words before.
Anyway - he asks about characters, and Idia immediately gets flustered, which, you know, makes it pretty obvious he's lying about them being undecided. Especially with that checkerboard box.]
Eeh? Are you sure~? That one totes looks like a stand-in for Hien... You see it, too, right~?
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... w- well, you know, isn't it rude to assume that? M'lord Static is more than just his eyes!
[He did not say "you are wrong" tho.]
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Well, yeah, but like. If you're gonna use something distinctive as a placeholder, it'd be that, right~? So, so, who are the other two?
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Th- That, um, uh... [sweats in awkward nerd]
... this is... Sir Sabo... [he points to the yellow]
[maybe if he identifies those ones Cater will have mercy and not make him explain that the blue square that matches his hair is obviously him??]
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Mhm, mhm~
[So, Hien and Sabo, and it's pretty obvious at that point that the blue one is meant to be Idia - it matches him, after all! But... there's one more person it matches, too, so. The friendly bulli continues.]
Oh, so that last one must be Shizu-chan~ There's always a cute girl healer in these kind of games, right~?
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[he denies it before even thinking because, well, that's not good game design!!]
... sh- she would be cute though...
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[Huh! Neat! But that means-]
Aren't you totally a support class, too, though?
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... W- Well, you- you didn't ask me t- to show you an effective set-up! Sometimes the tutorial does things you shouldn't actually do!
[weh weh, he bulli'd]
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Oh, or are you not a support~? A samurai character totally isn't support, is he? He'd be like woosh~! slash~!, and kill the enemies super fast, right?
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[He's teasing! Mostly!]
So which type are you actually, then?