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[Open] It's a lovely day for a game
Who: Jack (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
decoyhero) & OPEN
When: 8/12
Where: ViViD
What: Testing out the various delightful experiences ViViD has to offer.
Rating/Warning: None yet, although I'm anticipating comic mischief, mild swearing, and possible violence. Will edit as changes occur!
[CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE]
decoyhero) & OPENWhen: 8/12
Where: ViViD
What: Testing out the various delightful experiences ViViD has to offer.
Rating/Warning: None yet, although I'm anticipating comic mischief, mild swearing, and possible violence. Will edit as changes occur!
[CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE]
SURVIVAL SIM // CO-OP
...//You are shipwrecked on a deserted island with nothing but the clothes on your back and whatever amount of wit you possess. There are plenty of resources available for the harvesting - berries, rabbits, heck, even the flowers are edible in a pinch. A deep gloom hangs over the island, however, even during daylight hours. Somehow, you get the feeling you don't want to be without a light source after the sun goes down. Can you find enough to eat, locate a suitable shelter, and gather enough resources to keep your campfire going before dark?
CO-OP: Work together to gather resources, cook dinner, and survive the night!
CO-OP: Work together to gather resources, cook dinner, and survive the night!
PLATFORMER // CO-OP
...//You find yourself the star performer in a theater filled with a myriad of intricate, maze-like death-traps. Your mission is to use your wits and acrobatic prowess to leap, climb, drop, and cartwheel to safety within the allotted time-frame. If you perform well, and collect enough of the secret tokens hidden throughout the level, you will advance to the next stage. If you perform badly, you'll have to try again. The only way out is by advancing forward, so failure is not an option!
CO-OP: Help your partner leap, climb, drop, and cartwheel to safety! The odds of beating the stage within the allotted time are much better with a friend.
CO-OP: Help your partner leap, climb, drop, and cartwheel to safety! The odds of beating the stage within the allotted time are much better with a friend.
FPS // CO-OP
...//A mystery lurks in an abandoned underwater city. The citizens are gone - fled, dead, or worse. Those who remain are mindlessly antagonistic, drug addicts whose humanity has sloughed away in the face of their addiction; they are mere shells of the people they once were, and they won't abide your trespassing. Your only option is to kill or be killed as you advance through partially flooded buildings, abandoned shopping malls, and empty city streets. There are a plethora of weapons at your disposal, from bludgeoning weapons to firearms. Ammunition is unfortunately less so, a scarce luxury in this underwater death-trap. You might use it as you find it, but it may be more wise to save it for the fight up ahead. It's probably going to be a big one.
CO-OP: Explore the watery city side-by side, watching each other's backs and murdering the heck out of anyone who tries to murder you!
CO-OP: Explore the watery city side-by side, watching each other's backs and murdering the heck out of anyone who tries to murder you!
FARMING SIM // CO-OP or PvP
It's a peaceful life in the valley. Everyone in the little village knows everyone else, and crime is something that happens in other places. Life is simple and slow-paced, and that's how the villagers like it. However, the annual autumn Harvest Festival is coming up, which means competition between friend and foe alike is at an all-time high. It's up to you to grow the biggest, bestest pumpkin and show up all the other country bumpkins on the village square floor.
CO-OP: Work together to raise the biggest pumpkin anyone has ever seen! Combat various dangers to your crops together - moles, mice, wild deer, everything that goes on four legs is keen to ruin all of your hard work, and your chance for glory!
PvP: Competition is at its most fierce between PCs, obviously. Sabotage between participants is frowned on by the village council, but only the sabotage they hear about.
CO-OP: Work together to raise the biggest pumpkin anyone has ever seen! Combat various dangers to your crops together - moles, mice, wild deer, everything that goes on four legs is keen to ruin all of your hard work, and your chance for glory!
PvP: Competition is at its most fierce between PCs, obviously. Sabotage between participants is frowned on by the village council, but only the sabotage they hear about.
ACTION/ADVENTURE // CO-OP or PvP
Darkness overshadows the land, and the only hope of combating it rests firmly upon your shoulders! Take up a sword and shield and stab, slice, leap, and parry your way through a land filled with menial side-quests and dangerous mini-dungeons. The only hope for restoring order and light to the world is to rescue the far-away princess, whose royal authority is the key to evil's defeat and world peace.
CO-OP: Stab, slice, leap, and parry your way through dangerous obstacles side-by side, watching each other's backs as you do so!
PvP: To the one who manages to rescue the princess first go the spoils! Probably! Stab, slice, leap and parry your way through the world's dangers, stabbing your opponent in the back somewhere along the way if you're able to do so!
CO-OP: Stab, slice, leap, and parry your way through dangerous obstacles side-by side, watching each other's backs as you do so!
PvP: To the one who manages to rescue the princess first go the spoils! Probably! Stab, slice, leap and parry your way through the world's dangers, stabbing your opponent in the back somewhere along the way if you're able to do so!
??? // CO-OP or PvP
Can't decide on a game? Use the Randomizer option, and ViViD will pick a game for you.
(AKA, if none of the above options are quite right, please feel free to write your own and toss it in!)
(AKA, if none of the above options are quite right, please feel free to write your own and toss it in!)
*excellent*
[ He can't lie- one of the reasons why he and Vaughn made it so long on Pandora was thanks to Fiona and Sasha. Kind of. He likes to think that when they got tossed out of the caravan, they did a damn good job by themselves, too. So how hard could this be, right? Gather some wood to make more wood stuff, kill some things, the life.
Rhys nods and gets to his feet, pointing to the woods. ] I can go in there I guess. Maybe they have those really big leaves we could use for a house. Or a hut. Or something.
[ Actually, wait. Splitting up probably wasn't a good idea, was it. ] Are you gonna come along with?
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[Aww, Rhys, buddy...!]
Sure. Might as well stick together until we get the hang of things.
[Time to explore! No sense in dawdling, so he'll start walking towards the woods.]
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It's hot. There was Pandoran desert hot, and then there's this. The air is hot and sticky and he's already sweating off his ass. Who came up with this stuff? How did they take the time to relay all the information into these games? The amount of work to make one feel humidity in a level of ViViD was half impressive, half not. ]
Can we just hack through this part? Or at least try to change the weather? [ His arm is connected to the network, after all. ] At least let me make it rain for a few minutes. I know we've just started and all, but it's already really humid and it's miserable.
[ sorry jack ]
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Not that Jack's feeling any better about the heat, but as someone who'd routinely put up with heat and cold and no atmosphere while working for Handsome Jack - usually separately but on several memorable occasions all at once - he'd at least been prepared to endure it.
Hacking is fine, though, if Rhys can manage it.]
Yeah, if you want? I'm not gonna stop you.
[He'll just be over here gathering his very first bundle of twigs from a spindly little twig bush while you do your thing, Rhys.]
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[ Rhys flips his palm over and brings up his interface, getting some kind of tiny notification about ViViD and all the great things you could learn from virtual reality games. And then there was safety information, hazards, agreements that you knew what you were doing, blah blah blah...
He runs a program he made by himself (RHY5-W1NZ, of all things) and lets it connect with the ViViD database. And automatically, he's open to changing all kinds of things. Weather, ocean conditions. Rhys could even spawn critters, if he wanted to. Maybe after he fixes the humidity problem, he'll fix them up some supper! ]
Okay! I'm in. Let me just fix this...
[ Rhys moves through the menus, selecting a few things, and a few moments after the sky turns dark. Super dark. ] Boom! Okay. It shouldn't storm really hard, but enough where it won't be so hot.
[ The sky goes even darker, though. It even kind of looks green. Whether or not you can see it, there's a funnel cloud slowly taking shape on the other side of the island.
Rhys doesn't notice this. ]
You're welcome.
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[The sudden change in atmospheric pressure sends a shiver down his spine, and he looks up to regard the black, black clouds with no small amount of concern.]
Are you. Are you sure? Because that's. That's pretty ominous. Those clouds, I mean.
[He hasn't seen the funnel cloud yet.]
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[ But then he hears it. Something...kind of weird? It's not close enough to scream 'tornado!', but it's loud enough to signal that something isn't quite right.
Rhys doesn't want to think that, though. ] ...Do you hear something?
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[Sarcasm? From Jack? Naaaaah
And...yeah, he heard that. Unfortunately. With the feeling of a man who is about to turn around to face his own doom (which actually probably isn't too far off from reality at this point), he turns, sloooooowly, to inspect the source of that alarming sound with his eyeballs.
....]
Oh come on!
[He would apologize for that flawless Handsome Jack impression but he's honestly not all that sorry. Also, distracted.]
This game is called "Don't Starve", not "Tornado Simulator 2020!"
[He whips around to face Rhys again.]
Turn it off! Before it turns us off!
[Shhh, that totally made sense.]
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[ Sarcasm noted. Rhys could snap back but he knows what he's doing! For the most part. He's hacked into plenty of stuff before so this should be no different. If anything it should be easier, because Helios had the worst security systems. They were armed to the teeth, seriously.
The noise gets louder, but Rhys doesn't really think much of it. It's the wind blowing through the trees, right? It's not until Jack says something...very Handsome Jack-ish (creepy) that makes Rhys turn around, and oh yeah. That's a tornado. ]
Oooh shit, that's bad! This is really really really bad... [ Rhys turns his palm around to open his interface again, frantically reading over the code. ] It doesn't make sense! I just told it to rain, that's all! I didn't want a tornado!
[ He hops from one screen to the other, trying to find a way to turn off the tornado...with no success. A message pops up, seconds later: Hackers are bad.
Oh. ]
I can't stop it. It won't let me stop it! It's pissed because I hacked!
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[Seriously, Rhys? Seriously?? Have you spent any time on a planet in your whole life?]
What? What the heck are you talking about? How do you piss off a computer?
[It's a stupid question to ask, because he's done it himself, and he still feels like a shit for it. At least Felicity had been something tangible that could be...disarmed, in the end. Throwing bullets and grenades at a tornado would be about as ineffective as it was stupid.]
Would it help if you apologized?
[It hadn't helped with Felicity. But then, Handsome Jack had deleted all the parts of her program that might have responded to an apology, so it was really no wonder.
He looks around wildly, taking in the trees, and the grass, already starting to sway gently in the breeze. He flicks open the game menu with a sense of doomed desperation, looking for anything that could possibly help them survive the approaching storm.]
Shit, shit, shit...
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[ the answer to that would be no, not really. ]
I don't know! I tried to fix the tornado and it sent me a message saying Hackers are bad. Look at this! [ He holds out his palm, like Jack looking at it will do a lick of good. Rhys is literally a big ball of anxiety at this point in time. ] And how will apologizing help? How do I do that?
[ Rhys is horrible at trying to survive in a place that isn't Hyperion. If it wasn't for the fact that he had a bunch of buddies on Pandora who knew what they were doing, he probably would have died forever ago. Leave it to luck that he has the same problem in a virtual reality game. ]
Oooh, okay. So what if we- [ He looks out deeper in the little wooded area, trying to ignore that with every passing second the wind is whipping around even more. ] We could make a raft? Take whatever wood we can, just tie it up with something and wait it out in the water?
That can happen, right?
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[Swiping frantically through the game's menu doesn't give him a whole lot of hope. Most of the items they'll eventually be able to craft are locked, either due to a lack of materials, a lack of the appropriate device with which to prototype them, or a combination of the two.
He can make rope, though. He just needs to gather three bundles of grass, first. He looks up from the menu to begin looking desperately for the needed grass, when Rhys shows him the angry little display in his palm.]
I dunno, type "I'M SORRY" at it? You're the genius hacker, why are you asking me?
[There's a tall tuft of grass just behind Rhys, so Jack darts around him to gather it.]
I seriously don't think we have enough time for something that complex. Besides, I don't know about you, but I personally wouldn't want to be out on open water with a funnel cloud looming that close.
[Especially not one that pretty clearly exists exclusively to punish them.]
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[ Okay, less discussion about their bad times on Helios, more focusing on trying not to die. Rhys frantically tries to flip through the opening menu, but the interface is froze. Just his luck! But he can type I'M SORRY in big bold letters.
It takes a moment or two to go through, and eventually the tornado freezes. The screen blinks, and then something else pops up. Promise you won't do it again? ]
It's asking if I won't do it again. Why does it have to ask that when it sends a tornado after us? [ Rhys only wanted to hack the weather because he wanted to show off, honestly. ] Why ask that?
[ But he types in 'YES' with another two lines of 'I'M SORRY'. Two seconds later, the tornado fizzes out. It starts to rain, and he can hear thunder rumbling nearby, but at least there's no tornado anymore! ]
Is, is it gone?
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Former Hyperion Employee group therapy. I like it.
[He finishes gathering his first grass tuft and moves quickly to the next nearest one. He's in the middle of gathering that, when the wind kicked up by the approaching storm abruptly stops. Jack blinks and looks back over at Rhys. This also gives him the opportunity to observe the still very visible but currently very frozen tornado in the near distance. His gaze switches tensely back and forth between Rhys and the tornado, and he's actually lucky enough to be looking at the tornado when it fizzes out of existence.]
It. Uh. Yeah. It seems to be.
[He blinks when the rain begins drizzling down, and looks back over at Rhys.]
Did it actually work? Apologizing?
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He makes sure to remind himself to ask Jack about that once the twister goes away. Which, eventually, it does! Thank god.
Rhys pauses, before checking out his palm interface. There was a little message that said, Thank you. :)
Wow. Okay. ]
...Yeah. Yeah, I think it did. [ Rhys visibly sags. Never before has he hacked something, only for it to come back and try to bite him in the ass like that. Absolutely astounding. ] The twister's gone, right?
[ Rhys closes his palm, totally ignoring the rain right now. ] I. Am never hacking again.
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[So his desperate suggestion worked...how about that.
...Except now he can't stop thinking about Felicity. There ought to have been something he could have done for her...right? Instead of just mindlessly following Handsome Jack's orders. It had...more or less made sense at the time, to do what they'd done, but now, looking back...
...Best not to think about it.
He clears his throat cautiously, testing to see if the modulator is going to give him more shit, and sighs quietly when it doesn't.]
That's. That's probably wise, yeah.
[Focus on "now" instead. No amount of useless regret is going to help Felicity now, way, way after the fact. They still have a game to win and money to earn.
He stares up at the sky for a few more moments, relieved despite the oppressive black rain clouds. At least the drizzle is combating the humidity somewhat. Then he realizes he should probably finish gathering his grass, so...he goes back to doing that. It only takes a second.]
Crisis averted. Now to beat the game and get paid.
[One grass tuft at a time.]
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His pride kind of hurts a little, but he'll get over it.
Getting paid sounds like a good idea. And an ever better distraction. Rhys watches as Jack starts to fiddle with the grass, one little piece at a time. ] How many times do we have to do this again? [ He points to the little...whatever that is Jack is making, giving him a curious kind of look. If this is going to take forever, he may or may not just back out. Screw money.
Either that or he try to hack again... ]
That's not going to take all day, is it?
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Three times to get a rope. And I think one game day is like...fifteen minutes? So we've already wasted a lot of time screwing around with tornadoes. We need to find wood and flint and make a fire before the sun goes down, or it's game over.
[Rhys seems like a pretty cool guy...Jack still gets the feeling they have a lot in common - loser nerds unite - but damn, son. Damn. That is some serious lack of work ethic you've got going on, there.]
If we do this right we'll be back home in a few hours with a load of cash, and probably just in time for dinner.