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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[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."

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

"Well, not me." That was totally a lie.

Proto moved to flop down nearby. "So... what's the point of this one?"

[vanillajello]

"Basically, you run around through levels as the cute little guy, collecting the orb things and solving puzzles," Kate explained with another little shrug. "Kinda your basic platformer."

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

"I haven't played a lot of platformers," Proto admitted. Make that any.

[vanillajello]

"Well, basically you just jump from platform to platform a lot. It's not hard." She gave him another glance. "Lemme guess, you more of a shooter kinda guy?"

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

"I'm kind of new to the whole video game thing," he admitted. "But that's mostly what I've played, yeah..."

[vanillajello]

"Well, do you wanna broaden your horizons and try this one?"

It was the obvious question, after all.

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

"Sure..." Proto decided.

[vanillajello]

Kate held out the controller for him. "Here you go. Play X to jump, that's kinda the most important thing to remember."

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

Proto nodded. At least he knew how to use the controller. "So... I should just... run around and jump on things?" He started to do just that.

[vanillajello]

Always a good strategy.

"Well, you're supposed to be trying to reach the end of the level," Kate added. "And collecting those shiny orbs as you go, 'cause you get points for that. And sometimes you get, like, stickers and stuff from the bigger ones."

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

"Oh... Which way is the end of the level?" He was currently just wandering back and forth.

[vanillajello]

"Right now, I think it's to the left," Kate said, eyes on the screen again. "I mean, it's gonna be this kind of a sidescroller thing all the time, but sometimes you have to go up or down. But it's pretty easy to tell where you're supposed to be going, I mean it's kinda meant for kids."