Strike 2 [video]

[acebrotective]

[Who's glad that the curse is over with? This guy right here. It's much easier to do damage control on something intangible like fear after the fact than to try and defend people from it and, honestly, it made him feel totally useless.]

Yo, Vatheon's been pullin' some nasty tricks. First yours truly here slept through a friend's birthday, then this whole...shit [that's about all he can say to describe it] with the...fairies? Had to happen too. Now I'm just noticin' a good chunk of pals from my world are gone! I'm sick of this, man, who wants to go hit up the arcade? Or get some comics? Maybe hit a few balls in the park, seriously, somethin' needs to happen besides all this doom and gloom over here.

[There's a pause as he looks for a way to filter the broadcast before becoming too impatient to do so and sighs.]

Hey, Yukari, happy birthday. Left you somethin' in your room, didn't wrap it though, sorry.

[And it's kind of weird, too. Hey, giving girls bunnies is Akihiko's thing in another universe.

Either way he switches off the feed.]

Comments

[doormat_hikari]

An arcade does sound pretty fun.

[acebrotective]

That's what I'm talkin' about! Whoever heard of a problem that goin' to the arcade couldn't solve, amirite?

[No, he's not, and he very well knows it. Just going one place for a couple of hours still leaves the problem sitting somewhere else until one gets back.

But he can pretend.]

[doormat_hikari]

Games can help with a lot of problems

[ though ryou usually is playing card games, not arcade games. ]

[acebrotective]

Yeah like being a distraction when your senpai's giving some long boring lecture.

[doormat_hikari]

I suppose that could be pretty interesting.

[acebrotective]

...Not when one's a boxing champ and the other "executes."

[SHUDDER.]

[doormat_hikari]

Oh dear.

[acebrotective]

[And he very plainly does not want to go into detail of what any execution would mean.]

A-aaaanyway, what sort of games are you into, dude?

[doormat_hikari]

I mostly play card games - Duel Monsters, in particular -, but I play other games too.

[acebrotective]

Card games, huh? Like Spells: The Mustering? Can't say I've ever tried those, but what the hell we're stuck here so might as well learn something new. What about MMORPGs?

[doormat_hikari]

That sounds like the sort of game I'd play. I haven't tried MMOs but they do sound like fun.

[acebrotective]

I quit playing them a while back and gave over the info to my best bro for the most recent one, but yeah, they were good time-killers. I never got to co-opt with anyone, but all I've heard is people bitching about it.

--Oh--dude, we've been talking this whole time and I ain't said a peep about my name. The name's Junpei Iori!

[doormat_hikari]

I've heard both good and bad about them. They all seem very time consuming.

My name's Ryou Bakura. Nice to meet you.