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Days, Nights, and Everything in Between [Multiple Character - Open]

The City was the area of the ship that was frequented the most. Not only did some of the crew members made their homes there. But a lot of the more pleasurable areas on the ship could be found there as well. It was mostly empty, a ghostly graveyard for many of the buildings from the many worlds that had gotten saved by you lovable ship, Stacy.

The sheer size of the City itself was impressive and yet it wasn't hard to run into someone exploring it, or bump into one of the occupied buildings... Three of it's denizens now found themselves going about their everyday lives on the ship that had become their current home.

[[OOC: Didn't want to clutter up the comm with three posts, but I really wanted to do all of them! So this is a general post and you can go ahead and tag whichever you want to, wherever you want to! There will be an individual tag for each one of them.]]

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Ronnae giggled, and pointed at the one less life that she had on the side of the screen. "The ghosties ate you."

"If they touch you, the little ball implodes. I guess it's to signify that they ate him. Those there are how many tries you have until you have to restart the game." she pointed at the extra lives. "That's your score," she pointed at the numbers on the top, "And that's the ghosts." she points at the little colorful sprites.

"Oh, I see," Daja said, trying to remember all of this information. "But those ghosts don't look very much like ghosts. Is that what ghosts are like in other worlds? All bright and colourful?"

Picking up the joystick again, Daja attempted to once again run the maze. This time she did a little better, managing to at least pick up a few pellets before once again a ghost caught the yellow ball.

"I guess," Ronnae replied with a smile. "They're much more menacing in my world. But these are pretty cute. Even if they're still after the ill will of that yellow ball. Maybe the pellets have a sentimental meaning to the ghosts?"

Daja frowned. "The yellow ball is stealing from the dead?" she said, concerned. She didn't particularly like the idea of that. The dead should be respected, not stolen from.

Ronnie shrugged, "I don't really know, other than the 'Pac-Man' needs to eat those power pellets. And that he needs to avoid the ghosts unless he has that big one." she points at the larger pellet on the maze.

"Apparently that one gives him the power to eat the ghosts temporarily."

"He eats the ghosts?!" Daja repeated, horrified. "Is this 'Pac-Man' some kind of demon?"

Ronnae shook her head and gave a light shrug. "I don't really know. They're not clear on the story for the game."

"But in the end it's just a story, a virtual one nonetheless. Powered by technology and such, and making it so that you're the one controlling the way it goes. We can try another one if this one's not to your liking." Ronnae added with a smile.

"Perhaps another one might be better," Daja said, stepping away from the game. So far, she wasn't entirely sure she liked these. This was certainly was just too strange and bizarre.

Ronnae smiled and nodded, "Sure! How about a more story based one?" she asked happily as she moved over to another booth made out to have an rpg compilation. More specifically, a similar game to 'Final Fantasy'.

"In this one you follow a storyline as part of a group of heroes. You go on adventures and fight monsters with a final objective in mind. Or one that you unlock along the way."

Or at least that's what the manual attached to the booth said. She pointed at a few of the pictures on the attached booklet.

"These games seem to involve a lot of antagonism," Daja remarked. "Although I don't see how this could allow me to fight monsters. Wouldn't the machine be damaged, if I were to hit it with my staff?"

She peered at the pictures, still frowning.

Ronnie giggled and smiled. "Well you don't fight. The characters that you control do it for you. It's like being the leader of a group and issuing orders."

"So you just tell others to fight?" Daja said, peering at the screen. She looked back at Ronnae and smiled sheepishly.

"Perhaps it would be best if I watched you first," she admitted.

Ronnae nods and smiles. "Okies~!"

She moves to the front and hits the button to start the game. Soon enough the pair are greeted by melodious intro music with a female voice over retelling the story of what is currently happening. Ending with how it's up to the valiant heroes of the world to stop the evil that lurks in the shadows.

Ronnae goes on to follow the small clues in the game as she talks to every npc she finds along the way, even the ones that repeat the same thing again and again. "Hm, everyone in this town sure likes greeting you. I wonder if that's what their king asked them to say when approached."

"I thought you said this game involved fighting?" Daja said, confused. "It seems to involve more talking instead. Do you think there's something wrong with all those people? It's not normal for so many to say the same thing. And that would be a very strange order for a King to give indeed."

"Well the fighting happens out during the adventure. 'Random encounters' mostly from what the booklet said. Then there's the story based battles."

Ronnae laughed as she nodded, "Maybe the King has secrets!" she said happily as she finally left the castle area and onto the overworld... soon enough the screen flashed and battle music occurred. She was now in a different screen with a bunch of enemies and proceeded to give the commands for her party to engage them.

After winning the fight, she was rewarded with xp, gold, treasure and a little bit of music as the score was settled. "That was fun! And i got a new hat!" she cheered, looking to equip it on her main character. A series of continuous random encounters were had along the way to the appointed area were the clue said to go to.

"How would ordering everyone to say the same thing hide any secrets?" Daja wondered. "I would think that would simply create even more suspicion. But perhaps he is a King lacking in much sense. Do you think he tries to control everything they say?"

She watched Ronnae battle the 'enemies'. The 'xp' made no sense at all to her, simply looking like random numbers to her. "Why would you need to take their hat? Do you not like your own?"

"Maybe? Who knows. He's supposed to be a good and kind king. But that might just be the way people see him. Maybe there's someone pulling the strings from the shadows." It wouldn't surprise her considering the place she came from.

Ronnae giggled, "Cause it's better than the one I had. It's like treasure. Some items are more powerful than the ones you have and you need them to advance to the harder stages later."

"Perhaps he has passed laws to make sure people only speak well of him," Daja said thoughtfully. She hoped that was not the case - to be placed under such restrictions must be horrible for the people.

"But it belonged to a dead man! It's not right, taking from the dead. And this game wants you to do this?"

Ronnae tilted her head curiously and shrugged, "Spoils of war I guess, for a better purpose? If you don't get the stronger items you can't defeat the threat that the world is facing."

Daja frowned. "I am not sure I like this kind of game," she said, feeling disturbed.

Ronnae tilted her head curiously and saved her file before turning to Daja.

"We can try the sports ones, or the driving ones, those are always fun." she smiled as she pointed to one that looked like a tennis game and then to a much larger booth that had a car like seats with steering wheels and the usual controls for that type of game like gas and break and such.

"Driving?" Daja asked. "Drive what?" All those controls and wheels looked very odd and strange her to. Considering that she had no familiarity with cars at all, it was hard to imagine a game about them. She wondered over to the tennis game - she wasn't familiar with tennis in particular, but at least it looked more sensible than the other one. "Perhaps this one, then? What is this game called?"

"It's called tennis," Ronnae replied with a smile, grabbing the paddle shaped controller. "You use this here to bounce back the ball at your opponent. The goal is to get it past the opponent without them being able to bounce it back at you as long as you let it hit inside the court at least once." she pointed at the virtual court and did a small demonstration of how the game played.

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