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Miu Matsuoka ([personal profile] extremelycute) wrote in [community profile] tornheart2017-05-24 10:23 pm

The Legend of Laurinda [Open/Closed]

Who: Ayu Maruyama (Miu Matsuoka) and open; Ayu and Natsume Maruyama (Nakigitsune)
Where: A local video game store; Ayu's house
Summary: It's time to treat herself, so Ayu heads to her favorite place to forget about the app; later, she and her brother tiptoe around discussing the same app while playing an old video game
Warnings: N/A

[Game On; Open]

[It’s been a rough...what, week and a half now? She’s just a kid, it’s not like she’s keeping track of the days or anything. That strange app she can’t show mom. She hasn’t even showed Natsu. Part of her feels like she’d be in big trouble if they found out she’s be talking to strangers with the cavalier attitude she’s been employing, like some sort of internet troll. Part of her is just...worried. And it’s not fair, Ayu thinks, it’s not fair to be worried about something so intense when she hasn’t done anything wrong.

As a result, Ayu decides that Wednesday is the perfect day to treat herself. She can forget all that stuff about Miu Matsuoka, people stealing vegetables, real and fake Baalberiths, and creepy chatrooms. She wanders into the local video game store (GameShop?) and starts looking for a cheap game to enjoy. Of course, she gets distracted several times along the way. Anyone looking to buy video games (or maybe comics or other nerd items, come on) might notice Ayu putting the display figurines in questionable poses.]


They’ve decided to embrace a life of sin and divorce.

[That’s what she’ll say if she gets caught. She’ll also flip through the latest comics and peruse the DVDs before finally settling on an old game from the portable game section and rushing home with some sodas.]

[The Legend of Laurinda; closed to Natsume/Nakigitsune]

[When he gets home, Ayu has already invaded his room. But that’s okay. He’s not like other teenage boys. There aren’t dirty socks on the floor or dirty magazines in his mattress (she pretended to check once just to get a reaction from him), so she feels pretty safe about invading his personal space. Instead, there’s a giant bowl of potato chips right on the floor like it’s not a great way to attract ants. She’s also busy hooking up an old system to her big brother’s TV, and he enters just in time to hear a familiar chime, a start-up movie movie playing right after.

The Legend of Laurinda: Chain’s Wakening.

She steps back, proud of her handiwork. She might not have the newest system, but the older ones come with all those cool gadgets so you can play handheld games on them.]


Wow, this game’s even older than I am. Hey, what’s that look for? You should be excited! You love Chain. Or you will. Probably.
kouteipenguin: (no goggles - 67)

[personal profile] kouteipenguin 2017-05-25 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
[She's not the only one who's had this idea. Michi's been in the market for more distractions than ever before lately, and it's gotten to the point he's willing to trade in some things in order to get new ones. He wanders in, stack of already beaten games in hand, and on his way to the counter he slows... stops...

For a while, he just takes in what he's seeing. Endmyth 5's Lierth and Kuma Daivus have been painstakingly positioned to the very limits of their articulation, fawning over the questionably armored final boss of a completely different game. Even Gonky Gonk is somehow in on this, despite being a legged puffball with no arms. It takes him about that long for the amusement to overtake the astonished surprise on his face, and he's immediately heading over towards her as she moves on to see what she can do with Vetta. The tail doesn't seem to bend, which might limit options...

The explanation just makes that better. He could judge this, or...]


Oh yeah? I think they're missing Duskalor.

[He reaches for said multi-armed spider person to hand her. Needs more freaky boss characters - if she's going to mess with them, go for broke.]
kouteipenguin: (no goggles - 71)

[personal profile] kouteipenguin 2017-05-30 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Michi's eyebrows shoot up in complete surprise when she pulls Duskalor's horrifying head right off his body. He hastily agrees, but he's not paying as much attention as he should be. Curiosity pulls his attention back to the stand to see what she could possibly be doing. When she pulls the head off of Rukumi, though, he starts laughing, and that laughter only increases in volume as she switches them out.

Duskalor poses menacingly, all six muscular arms spread out, menacing clawed hands aimed forwards to catch or parry anything that comes his way. He crouches low on muscled legs. His scarred chest and hairy back support a wide, innocent smile and red doe eyes. A cascade of auburn hair falls down his spiked back. To complete the image, his small horns are replaced by floppy bunny ears. And Rukumi looks hilarious - a snarling, mandibled horror with a curvaceous body and not much clothing to hide it.]


Perfect. That's the best thing - hang on. I've got to get a photo of this.

[And he digs out his phone, ignoring a certain app that's larger on his screen than it used to be, tabbing to the camera...]
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[personal profile] kouteipenguin 2017-05-30 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
What?

[I have that, too. Michi's fingers stall, his need to take a photo completely forgotten. That's nowhere near as important as the fact she could see the app. This girl can see the app! This earns her Michi's undivided attention as she fumbles with her phone, eventually sending it clattering to the floor.

Michi bends down to pick it up, staring at the app with wide eyes. There was no mistaking it.
That was the same thing.]


That's ... No way. There's no way.
kouteipenguin: (no goggles - 23)

[personal profile] kouteipenguin 2017-05-30 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's not going to hold onto the phone. If she makes a move to snatch it, Michi easily lets it go. What he won't do is immediately recover after this.

In theory, all of those names on the app belonged to real people, but he hadn't really connected that to the possibility of ever meeting any of them. They were names on a screen. Michi never considered this could happen until suddenly he's confronted with it. What does he do? What does he say?

Fortunately at least one of them has words. It jumpstarts Michi into talking.]


It just installed itself on my phone! I even reset it to factory default to try to get rid of it! I have no clue why it's on my phone and not someone else's... it's the same for you, right?
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[personal profile] kouteipenguin 2017-05-31 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[He still almost can't believe he's hearing this. It somehow makes it feel just that much more real, listening to someone voice thoughts that either of them would have been completely unable to say to anyone else. Freeing, but terrifying at the same time. He just nods.]

Yeah. No matter what I do, there's something that's watching me. I can't stand it, but what can I do? That's how it's been for me ever since the stupid thing showed up.

Oh, uh. I'm Michi. By the way.

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[personal profile] foxhands 2017-05-25 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
[It's been a rough week for Natsume, too; he'd been planning to come home, flop on his bed, space out for a bit...a nice short break from thinking, from all the stress of both the increasingly worrisome mystery app and helping the theater club prepare for the flower festival.

And then that familiar sound rings out from his room.

He looks at Ayu, at the TV, back at Ayu again.]


...Maybe this is my excited face. [Dumping his backpack by the wall, he plops himself down next to his sister and grabs a handful of chips.] Is he going to wake up before or after saving Laurinda?
foxhands: (at least food can't lie)

[personal profile] foxhands 2017-05-31 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's true, he definitely looks dead right now...but we all know he'll be alive again once you press start. It's the way of video game protags.]

Maybe you can play as a zombie, if you wait long enough. [Or wait 180 times for that special color intro!

....Not that he can wait that long. His patience is about as long as this bowl of chips, I gotta be honest here.]


That egg looks tasty.
foxhands: (was that too forward)

[personal profile] foxhands 2017-06-05 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like a pretty tasty boss, though. Maybe you could fry it instead, that sounds more interesting.

[Edible either way! Also let's say they share their games, that's the sibling thing to do.]

...There's not enough space for Usamin......how about Fluffy?
foxhands: (it's tasty too)

[personal profile] foxhands 2017-06-06 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[If Ayu stares at Natsume she'll see him staring thoughtfully at the screen, an uncrunched potato chip held up to his mouth. Hmmmmmm.........crunch.]

Sounds good to me.

[Your brother is an Usamin-loving nerd, the toughest guy in town! He hides issues of Cat Fancy under his mattress! Naming your character Umaibo is encouraging him to eat the rest of the snacks while you're busy playing!]

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[personal profile] truthkills 2017-05-28 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kiran's got a big box full of gaming crap that he is pretty sure is stolen, so clearly the right thing to do is to unload it on some poor idiot before the police come sniffing around. He just hadn't been expecting to run into his niece here.]

Excellent composition, but you might want to watch out for the guy with the shoulder pads, looks like he's gonna fall over and everyone with him.

[He should maybe not offer this critique while he is still holding his box.]
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[personal profile] truthkills 2017-05-31 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Rest in peace, shoulder pads guy.

[He looks down at the box.]

Yeah, I'm gonna see how much they'll give me for the lot.

[Probably not much; this racket's more of a ripoff than he is, as far as he's concerned.]
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[personal profile] truthkills 2017-06-01 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
That's my job! Making sure I stay solvent, keeping the old cash flow going.

[It is entirely possible the poor employee behind the counter there has realized exactly who's hauled in a big box of crap and is wishing he were anywhere else.]
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[personal profile] truthkills 2017-06-03 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Haggled with him.

[Look, you don't get very far in Kiran's current profession without being good at driving a hard bargain.

The poor employee visibly pales when Kiran sets that box of stuff down on the counter. It's a big box.]

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