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Who: anyone
When: Day 53, evening
Where: the lounge & dining car

[So there were no nice breakfast and video games this morning, but there is a nice dinner and video games this evening!

Francis has made pizzas from scratch -- enough for everyone to have a few slices. They're all vegetarian, for obvious reasons! Those are laid out on the tables in the dining car, so have at.

Upstairs in the lounge the TV has been hooked up to a console that looks like a Switch with the serial numbers filed off and a lot of sparkles. Your game options are, essentially, Mario Kart and Smash, only... all the playable characters are just the Heroes themselves, including past characters you may remember!

This is friendly PVP go punch your video game self in the face.]

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Sunwalker vampires are totally cheating.

They might be, but so much media has them that I can't just not mention them.

Fair. Okay, now that we've spilled your hidden talents, time for butt-kicking.

Sure is time for it.

[ even if it'll take her a bit to figure out the controls, she knows the basics of smash since she plays Ultimate quite a bit with the others back where she's from and isn't half bad so that's pretty much a non-issue ]

[ He may not remember playing video games but the skills are definitely still there, as is the button-pressing speed and penchant for combos. ]

[ at the very least, Inaba's pretty good at playing this game so in HELL is she going to try to win.

but she's not familiar with the character in its entirety so she only is as good as the basics. ]

Keeping me on my toes?

Naturally! Can't make things easy.

Can you keep it up though?

I'd like to think of myself as a fast learner.

Let's find out!

[ Round 2! He's definitely picked up his game now that he's had some time to get back into the feel of things and his combos are coming much smoother and faster now. He's even managing to activate a few of the special moves. ]

[ thankfully after a single round, things have gotten easier. she can down-B pretty easily and her movements are honestly fluid enough that she finds herself fighting a little more easily. ]

Okay, yeah, this isn't too bad of a fighter. . .

You're getting used to her.

Quick learner. Plus, I play this more than I should.

There's no should when it comes to video games. You're learning crucial life skills.

I'll accept that the moment when video games will literally save my life, thanks!

Hand-eye coordination. Also I learned to drive from the driving ones.

. . . seriously?

[ spoken dryly ]

I was pretty certain that driving in reality is a hell of a lot different from Mario Kart. And hand-eye coordination is something you can learn in things that aren't games.

Who said it was that driving game?

I just gave it as an example. Which game was it, then?

I don't remember names. Just that it was probably one of those hyper realistic ones where you could flip your car and die horribly.

Oh, right. Weird amnesia thing.

. . . I don't know too many hyper-realistic ones that use all the regular car mechanics.

Not all of them but enough that you can feel your way around the rest. I mean, it's probably nowhere as good as actual instruction. But you take what you can get when you're on your own, right?