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[spellslots]

What's up, chucklefucks, it's me, Taako, everybody's favorite wizard here to beg, desperately, for you to entertain me for next eight fucking hours while I mess with this spell.

["This spell" being his transmutation stone that he needs to remake, but it takes eight hours to prepare and honestly, he's going to go crazy.]

I'll even help you out here but giving you a starting point or several, cause I'm just amazing like that.

First off, give ch'boy some movies to watch or music to listen to. Don't bother recommending Beyoncé I'm all over that already. I can't imagine any of you being interesting enough to keep me amused for eight hours so like, this is my back up plan.

The main plan is let's play a fucking game, I was gonna go with truth or dare but it's hard to police that shit on the network so we're doing two truths and a lie instead.

Ready?

1. I've been a professor
2. I turned a dude into a cat for cheating on me and never turned him back
3. One time I fucked up a spell and everything I drank tasted like key lime gogurt for six months

[[ooc: feel free to threadjack on this one if it gets interesting]]

Comments

[bottombitch]

[ Bless him, clearly a man who understands the true value of pure unadulterated comedy gold.

Aoba meanwhile frowns at his device, but chooses to ignore it. He assumes he's just being trolled, which is. Fine. ]

So you come from a low tech kinda reality, huh?

If you're into video games, Noiz and I have been working on a VR project you might like.

I'm Aoba by the way.

[spellslots]

I mean, we have a spaceship and like, robots and shit

We just don't have phones or video games

[It's complicated.]

What kinda game is it? VR is pretty broad

1/2

[bottombitch]

Robots and spaceships? But no games?

[ Aoba's brows lift helplessly and he flops back on his bed, palms pressed into his eyes as he yells in frustration. WHY HAS EVERYONE BUT HIM BEEN IN SPACE?! He's the most uncool person in quarantine, he knows it now! It's confirmed.

But he can't just wallow in a total absence of self worth, so he blindly reaches for his comm device until he finally finds it. Thinks hard of something to say. ]

[bottombitch]

It's a secret ☆

[ Look at this kid trying to act all cool and secretive. ]

[spellslots]

✨✨Magic✨✨

[It's a slightly facetious answer, but also the truth. A lot of the more "advanced" technology in their world is a result of magic.]

Bit of a weird market strategy there, pumpkin. Kinda hard to build up interest in a product if no one knows what the fuck it is.

[bottombitch]

That's fair! But it's only because I help with the hardware... the software is handled by someone else. Sorry.

Don't worry, it's nothing like that creepy Lampyr stuff.

[spellslots]

The who what now?

[bottombitch]

Eh? Oh, you must've missed those freaky commercials.

Some dubious stuff some creeper was trying to get people to be guinea pigs for that touted itself as a cure for everything.

Anyway, it's nothing like that.

[spellslots]

I'll be real with you, I don't pay that much attention to this thing unless I'm bored

["This thing" being the network; he's either scrolling it at 3 am because everyone is asleep or he doesn't look at it for days.]

Could you even use VR to get creepy and weird?

[bottombitch]

I guess? Depending on the game, sure.

Wait

Do you mean 'weird' or like... weird.

[ mmmlook at that totally helpful distinction! ]

[spellslots]

Like mind control or making you crazy weird

[bottombitch]

Nothing like that. VR is just a virtual environment. It's just an illusion, really.

It doesn't do weird stuff like mind control.

[ Not like he can. ]

[spellslots]

Cool cool cool

I mean, not that I think you're shady or whatever, but you never fucking know with this place

[bottombitch]

No that's totally fair! [ He's seen some shit himself. ] I guess the portal takes all kinds.

Anyway, how does this magic stuff work for you?

Don't you need to concentrate or use your hands or something?

[spellslots]

I gotta concentrate but that just means not doing anything that's super distracting, like getting stabbed or whatever. I can text and watch a movie and shit, as long as 99% of my focus is on the spell

[bottombitch]

[ Mhh, this makes it difficult. Aoba hasn't really made time for his usual gaming habits, so he suddenly misses it... and realizes he's not really knowledgeable with this reality's gaming. ]

So while we wait for that to be ready for distribution, do you have a game system or should I look at bringing one to you?

...Hmm, do they even have any good multiplayer games here that ran from our comm devices?

fun fact i legit got jossed today bc VR now exists in their canon

[spellslots]

I got someone who can hook me up if I want a system

[AKA he trusts Cisco a lot more than he trusts some guy on the network.]

There's like those ones where you build up fake tiny armies and fight people???

HFDJSKLGHJDS HAHAHAH

[bottombitch]

[ FAIR TBH ]

You mean those ones where you try to gather rare members in your army?

There are a lot of those! Are there any here you like? I can sign up for one and join you!

thanks griffin mcelroy

[spellslots]

Hang on, lemme send you a couple links

[because someone's too lazy to make up fake video game names, Taako sends a handful of links to whatever dumb apps he's got.]