Hacking #09: Distractions

[technologic]

Characters: April and anyone else!
Setting: Floor 15, Floor 14, Floor 99 and Dorm Room 2-04 (Locked to Aleph).
Format: Brackets to start with, but I can match you!
Summary: After the events of the other week, April has decided that the best course of action is to distract herself as much as she possibly can with whatever she can.

[Floor 15]
[April tended to try to have something to work on when she's at the workshop, and today is no different. It's a bit awkward to try to work on things when one of her arms is still injured, but it hasn't stopped her before and it isn't going to stop her now. Plus, she's using her powers to help her move and bend metal anyway. And she seems to have a collection of things that she's working on, judging by the small collection of jars she has along with the random bits and pieces of metal and wire laying across the table she's working at, along with a few small lights and cds and attempts at making miniature wheels.

… Yeah, it's not really clear what she's making but at least she seems enthusiastic about it]

[Floor 14]
[Video games also tend to be a good distraction, at least to April anyway. Though her attempt at playing a racing game doesn't seem to be going well, judging how she keeps crashing the car to the point where she has to start the race over again. Which is just what happened now as she huffs and slumps in her beanbag chair slightly, pouting at the tv screen.]

D-dammit, this is really hard...

[Floor 99]
[She had never really explored this floor much before, so her restlessness eventually led to her looking around the caverns. While April did give herself a headache by examining the crystals too curiously, she does eventually decide to see what would happen if she used her electricity to reflect light through the crystals. And she is rather pleased her her results, judging by how she soon becomes focused on the little light show she managed to create along the cavern walls. And it is pretty to look at, if a bit blinding too thanks to how much twinkling is going on]

[Dorm Room 2-04. Locked to Aleph.]
[April had said a while ago that she would make a few things for Aleph, and today she's making good on the promise. Which is why she'll be knocking on his rooms door, a bag slung over her shoulder.]

Hey, Aleph, you there?

Comments

[culbutiri]

Stress relief, that sounded useful. Monster hunting wasn't really appealing, as it seemed so useless, monsters would just reappear and nothing changed.

"If you do be wanting to..."

[technologic]

"Sure! It's easy enough to do once you get the hang of it." April gives Nesir a small smile, and then shows the controller to her.

"You use the stick or the arrow buttons to move around. The function of the buttons with the symbols on them vary in each game, but in this one X makes you move and B makes you slow down and stop."

[culbutiri]

Nesir took the controller, it was a little awkward to hold especially with her missing fingers but she got the balance right eventually.

She nodded and began trying to move the thing on screen, crashing into a wall almost immediately.

[technologic]

Well, April isn't too surprised that had happened, but she still chuckles sheepishly.

"... It, ah, takes a while to get used to. And racing games are kinda tough, in my experience."

[culbutiri]

She scowled and tried again crashing into a different wall. "What do it be, I do no be understanding."

[technologic]

"You're controlling a vehicle and the goal is to race against the other vehicles, without crashing or anything, and to win the race. Though we can try another game if you want, there a quite a few different types."

Plus racing games tended to cause more stress than help relieve it, in April's opinion.

[culbutiri]

"A ve...ah...cul?" Nesir struggled with the word she had never heard before but she thought she had said it right, even if she didn't know what it was, apart from the thing on screen.

Yes maybe another game would be better...

"What other games do there be being?"

[technologic]

"Yeah, it's a method of transport. It something people use to get from one place to another quickly."

April moves off her chair to go looking through some of the games, picking out a few as she goes.

"Let's see... There are puzzle games, fighting games, games that involve exploring dungeons, horror games, dancing games, games that involve jumping a lot, shooting games... I tend to like fighting games the best."

[culbutiri]

Nesir followed her, reading the titles with a tilt of the head. Puzzle games sounded interesting, and fighting games sounded fun, she wondered how you would even fight in a game.

She didn't want to play a horror game, they had enough horror, and dancing was stupid. Because she was bad at it.

"We could be playing a fighting game." If April liked them then they were bound to be good.

[technologic]

"Sure! Let's see..." She takes the fighting game and switches the racing game disk with the fighting game disk in the console, making sure to grab another controller before going to sit back down, and clicking a few buttons to the character selection screen.

"Okay, so first things first, you have to pick what character you want to be." She motions at the selection of characters on the screen.

"Each one has a different fighting style, and it shows at the bottom what they're good at. So, the one I'm picking now-" She selects one of the characters. "- Is very fast, according to the description at the bottom of the screen."

[culbutiri]

Nesir nodded and worked out how to move the pointer so it went through the characters, reading what it said about them. "So this one do be being good at defending?"

[technologic]

April smiles slightly and gives Nesir a small nod. "Yeah, that's right! So pick what character you think would work best for you based on what they're good at and click the X button when you're sure."

[culbutiri]

Nesir smiles back and clicks through them reading the descriptions. Finally she chose one, looking for the X button before pressing it. "There we do be going."

[technologic]

April nods and chooses and stage for them, before motioning to the controller. "Okay, in this game quite a few buttons are used. But X and B are the attack buttons, and Z and A are the defending buttons. So if your opponent attacks you, you have to press one of the defending buttons before the hit connects to avoid taking damage."

She then points to one of the two green bars at the top of the screen. "That's your character's health bar, and it goes down each time your character gets hit. The aim of the game is to completely deplete your opponents health by attacking them."

[culbutiri]

Nesir nodded, balancing the controller awkwardly as she looked at the buttons, working out which ones were which and practicing moving her thumb between them.

She looked back to the screen, "So when your opponent do be having no health they do be being dead and you do be winning?"

[technologic]

"Yep, that sounds about right." April gives her a nod back, her smile brightening a bit.

"So, you ready to give this a try?"

[culbutiri]

She smiled in response and nodded. "Alright let's be fighting."

[technologic]

"Right, let's go!" She'll start to game up then and go to have her character attack Nesir's.

[culbutiri]

Okay time to press buttons, she presses the button to block, and then the one to attack. "Do that be being right?" She looked up from the controller to the screen to see what was happening.

[technologic]

"Yep, that's right! So you managed to block my attack and then attack my character." April nods, before she hums thoughtfully again.

"One thing you can do when attacking is something called a combo. If you quickly press the attack button a number of times, your character will perform a series of attacks that are hard to block."

[culbutiri]

Nesir nodded and looked at the controller again before pressing X and then B quickly. "Did that be working?"

[technologic]

"Yeah, that's right! You're getting the hang of it now." April grins, and then moves to have her character attack Nesir's again.

[culbutiri]

She grinned and pressed more buttons, after a few turns she had them memorised and could watch the screen instead of her hands. That made it a lot more interesting.

[technologic]

And now they can get more involved in the game! So April will now focus on trying to bring down her opponents HP, and April isn't too bad at this kind of game.

[culbutiri]

She keeps up for a while but as April starts getting the upper hand she begins to get annoyed that her character isn't fast enough, and begins just mashing buttons in the hope that it will make things better.