Video games on Floor Fourteen

[sonof_thrain]

Characters: Thorin and open.
Setting: Floor Fourteen- The Media Room
Format: Prose, will match.
Summary: Thorin stumbles across the Media Room on Floor Fourteen. He wants to know more about video games as Jonouchi mentioned them to him once.
Warnings: Possible angst and swearing.


It didn't take long for Thorin to enter the Media Room on Floor Fourteen. He had heard about these so called "games" from Jonouchi. The boy seemed quite versed in modern technology. Something, Thorin hadn't mastered quite yet as this was nearly his second month within the Tower.

He entered the room and noticed the soft, large chairs and the strange technology within the room. Boxes which were on the wall in front of the chair and wires of some sort. What did all of this do? He picked up a controlled for one of the games and pressed a few buttons out of interest. There was no image on the screen and wondered was it broken? Was something supposed to happen. He felt awkward and out of place. Would someone be able to guide him in working on of these machines? He sighed and felt like throwing the controller down in a rage.

Comments

[sonof_thrain]

Thorin watched the boy play the game with some wonder. How did it all work? He had never seen such a machine like it. Noise and sound mixed together. It was all magic to him. "How do you work the machine in which you are using?"

[gomu_ningen]

"Ne-?"

The young man cocks his head to the side, looking over the bearded individual with a rather blank expression. He lifts up the controller and presents it to the warrior, offering an inviting grin.

"Not sure, I just found this thing on and started messin' 'round with it. It's pretty fun! It's like a book but it moves when you press buttons! Wanna' try?"

[sonof_thrain]

"Like a book? It is like no book I have ever seen." Thorin frowned and didn't know what to make of it all. Damn it, he didn't even know how to work such things! Perhaps, he should not even be here. This was no place for a dwarf.

Yet, he wasn't going to be beaten. "Could you show me how to work this?" He held the game controller up to the boy.

[gomu_ningen]

"Sure thing!"

Luffy lifts up the controller, explaining the basics of how the game "Dig Dug" was played. The lad himself wasn't entirely sure how the game mechanics worked exactly, but he was knowledgable enough to inform the Dwarf Prince of how the delightful "moving book" was played.

"So all ya' gotta' do is keep tappin' the button and it'll blow the dragons and meatballs up! Here, give it a try!"

He offers up the controller with a bright grin, shaking it with an inviting vigor.

[sonof_thrain]

The words "dragons" and "meatballs" caused him to raise an eyebrow. Now, he was interested. Destroying dragons and turning them into meatballs? That sounded like fun.

"Aye. I will give it a shot." He took the controller and frowned. How did this work? Tap the buttons and blow the dragons up? Right. He looked at the moving picture on the screen as he smashed the buttons with his thumbs.

[gomu_ningen]

"Not bad! You're picking it up quicker than I did! Do they have video games where you come from?"

Thorin's button mashing was just the trick when it came to this game. Guys with beards must be really good at this sort of thing, Luffy thought. Now the question was, how did he get a beard of his own?

[sonof_thrain]

"Nay, there is nothing like this from where I hail." He could not help but smile slightly at that. Nothing like this ever hailed from Middle-earth. It was alien to him. Thorin's eyes fixed onto the screen once more, as he smashed the buttons and wondered if he was doing it right.

"Am I doing this correctly?"

[gomu_ningen]

"Yeah! There ya' go! Quick! Make sure you tap the button REAL fast when you get close to the dragon, yeah?"

[Luffy watches in amazement. This guy was a mighty warrior! He'd only watched the squirrel girl play it and he had learned by trying to copy her.]

"You must be really strong if you're really good at this game!"

[sonof_thrain]

Thorin smiled at the boy's enthusiasm. He really enjoyed these so called "games." Thorin, however, was not that good at using the controller. His large fingers bashed the plastic buttons rather hard and he felt as if he would break the controller.

"I am strong, but that is because I am a blacksmith and warrior."

[gomu_ningen]

[Cue the enthralled eyes.]

"Y-You're a blacksmith AND a warrior?! WHOA! I knew it! You've got the "warrior's beard" to prove it!!"

[sonof_thrain]

Thorin just raised his eyebrows at the boy. Warrior's beard? Was he being serious? Thorin did take pride in his beard, as did every other dwarf in Middle-Earth. "You seem in awe of me, yet, I am unsure why."

[gomu_ningen]

"That's 'cause you've got a strong face! You remind me of the giants where I'm from! They look a lot like you, but they're giants. They fight with honor and pride, and face everything without question! Yup. I can tell you're just like that!"

[Candid Luffy compliments. One dwarf at a time.]