First Floor Rec Room, Tuesday Morning

[vanillajello]

This was one of those mornings were Kate just woke up way too early and couldn't go back to sleep with the way thoughts were just whirring around in her head. After trying anyway, she'd given up and headed down to the salle for a half-mandatory pre-class practice session, intended to center her again, and maybe reduce her stress levels about whichever way certain people she wasn't even supposed to pay attention to were probably going to be interacting in class.

Even a good while spent attacking dummies hadn't killed all the time she had left before her class that was still hours away, though, and she found herself having a need to just take it easy now. With some video games. And the rec room was the perfect place for that since she'd never gotten around to hauling her XBox to Fandom even though it was just gathering dust back home. Not like Marshall ever played anything without her.

She parked her ass on a couch, controller in hand, and made herself comfortable. Meta for Little Big Planet was totally good practice for her reflexes too, right?

[ooc: Open like a rec room! ETA: There is a good chance of SP until my evening. Today is weeeird for me.]

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[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan didn't have any classes today which made being awake a major fucking downer. Laying around in bed held some merit but he got a little bored after awhile so he'd gone wandering.

Still yawning, he padded into the rec room when he spotted someone familiar. He didn't say anything because he was too busy flopping down beside her and stretching his legs out.

"Whatcha playing?" he finally asked, glancing over at here. "There any hookers you can beat up?"

Hey, those games were fun.

[vanillajello]

Kate couldn't judge him for that. Those games were fun, and they were both terrible people.

"Sorry, no," she said, glancing over. "Just a little guy made of felt running around. I think I saw a copy of GTA laying around somewhere though."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Why are you playing this -- " Nathan asked, pointing to the screen and said little felt guy " -- when you could be beating up hookers and stealing cars? Honestly, Kate, when did you turn into some goody two shoes?"

[vanillajello]

"It was the first thing I happened to grab," Kate shrugged, then nodded vaguely at her training bag on the floor not far from her feet. "Thought maybe I'd done my bit of violence for today already."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Lame," Nathan decided but made no move to try and make her change games. He'd just rolled out of bed a short time ago and had no desire to move right now. "What's the point of this game? To see how long it takes me to start wishing for a stroke?"

[vanillajello]

"To run around solving puzzles and collecting those shiny orb things," she drawled lazily, eyes on the screen. Run, little felt boy! "Irishmen wishing for strokes is just a side benefit."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Oh my fuck, I'm already wishing for a stroke," he declared, slouching further down on the couch and shaking a little convulsively. "Are you actually enjoying this? Is this fun for you now? Has your want of a normal life made you...dull?"

[vanillajello]

"It's Tuesday morning," Kate replied, because that totally made a difference. Totally. "I'm allowed to be dull if I want to."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Since when?" Nathan asked, slanting a seriously confused glance at her for that statement. "Maybe you're allowed to be dull in private but bringing your overwhelming dullness into a public arena is a shit move, Kate. Shit move."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

Elphaba was actually looking to fiddle with the piano in the rec room when she was pleasantly surprised to see Kate.

She was, however, very puzzled as to what she was doing.

"What are you doing?" she asked, making the previously line of narrative quite redundant.

[vanillajello]

"Playing a game," Kate answered, because that was utterly helpful. She did realize the possible need for further explanations once she actually glanced away from the screen and at Elphaba, though. "Uh, they probably don't have video games in Oz?"

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"We don't even have videos," Elphaba pointed out gently, moving over to sit nearby. "I take it you're... actually, I have no idea what you're doing. You're controlling the game with the TV?"

[vanillajello]

"That is correct," Kate said, waving the controller a bit. "With this. Press a button, something happens. That's pretty much it."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

Elphaba tilted her head a bit. "It's almost like a puppet," she said. "Like the controller is the strings to a marionette on the television."

[vanillajello]

"Kinda." In this case, that was particularly true. "You wanna try?"

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"I can try," Elphaba said, slightly skeptical. "Is there a goal in this game? I probably should at least watch you play, for a bit. To understand it a bit more."

[vanillajello]

"The goal's really just to get through the levels," Kate explained, lips twisting in thought. "That's kinda... like a shorter segment of the game as a whole, I guess." A pause. She was so not a teacher. "But yeah, I should probably just play and explain as I go."

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

Proto had only recently (re)discovered video games. And he'd found he really, really liked them.

Which explained why he swung by the rec room during prime sleeping-in hours. And found that someone had already beat him there.

[vanillajello]

Kate glanced over when she saw him come in. "Hey --" Okay, they'd played cards once, but apparently that didn't mean her remembering his name. "-- dude."

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Proto knew Kate's name... began with a 'K'... "yourself."

[vanillajello]

"Kate," she filled in with a wry sort of smirk. "Hi, again."

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

He grinned back. "Proto."

"What'cha playin'?" There didn't seem to be any awesome explosions going on...

[vanillajello]

Hey, there was the occasional explosion! They just tended to be brief and kind of non-threatening.

"Little Big Planet," she said, turning her attention towards the screen again. "And it's totally not lame."

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

Proto snorted in amusement. "I never said it was."

[vanillajello]

"Just trying to prevent you from saying it," kate replied with an idle shrug. "Boys are so judgmental about games sometimes."