Text, UN: xXGalOmegaXx [Forward-dated to charity stuff]

[goodgames]

hello everyone. my name is nanami chiaki. i haven't been here very long, but i have a request to make. i know things have been scary lately and people got hurt, but i hope you'll still hear my idea out. it's because so many need help that i want to do this with as many other people as possible.

you see..... i noticed lots of people are doing different things to raise money for charity. especially to help everyone who got hurt. but what if you don't have a lot of chroma to give away, right? or it's not easy for you to get more, right? i think..... the more ways everyone has to help, the better.

so what i wanna do........ is put together a kind of video game tournament.

if people donate lots of prizes, we can have lots of different goals, like...... rhythm game played longest, or adventure game finished fastest. most monsters collected, or cutest monster created. there's so many different types of games! so anyone can play, and they can play however they wanna play and still have a chance to win something. all they need to do is pay an entrance fee, and all the fees we collect can go to helping people.

as for consoles and games, it'd be easiest if people who have those things already let other players borrow them or join them for co-op or versus play. video games are most fun when you play with other people, you know! and it's not like games are one-use consumable items, so.... it'll be fine. everyone will get a chance to play, and all the helpers should get their games back. i think.

...but if there aren't enough, i'll try to get more... no, i'll definitely get more! even if it takes a lot of chroma, i really think we can help this way, so i'm gonna do my best!

......probably.

so.... if you think you can help with prizes or games, or you know you want to play, please reply to this post. i can't do this by myself, so.... i hope it's ok that i'm counting on you all.

Comments

[goodgames]

the lessons i learned from your games...... aren't the kind i think i'm gonna use a lot in real life, laffer-san.

[loungelizard]

You'll understand when you're older.

I'm assuming you cheated past the age verification quiz. Even I can't remember half the answers and I wrote them!

[goodgames]

it's not cheating if you look up the answers to the questions before you play and then remember them later! then it's just learning.... probably.

[loungelizard]

Of course it counts as cheating! Back then, you couldn't "look it up". Not even the hint book would help you.

Don't worry, I'm not mad. Just disappointed.

[Not really, he's just messing around. I mean, there's street art and billboards around here that are more graphic than some of his games, for crying out loud. It changes your perspective.]

[goodgames]

.............i think that's wrong, but... i'm sorry.

[She could've looked up some of the answers in an encyclopedia back then, she thinks, or asked someone who knew things about movies and politics, or even pressed CTRL+ALT+X, but...]

i didn't want to skip it. the age verification quiz.... is part of the experience of the game, right?

[loungelizard]

Uhh...yes and no?

It primarily serves as a barrier so I'm not the reason why some kid asks their mother what a "lubber" is. But there's some naughty questions in there for fun, too.

[goodgames]

it also asked about cooties. i remember that.

[loungelizard]

[???]

Uh, what version was that?

[goodgames]

the original, i think..... 1987.

[Google wouldn't lie to me, right?]

[loungelizard]

[I've never had it come up in my own playthroughs and it's not in my reference guide, buuuuuut I never claimed to be an expert and neither is Larry. It may be his own life but you live through several retcons and it all becomes a weird blur, especially when your mun throws out a ton of outright contradictory material.]

Huh. Like I said, I don't remember half of them.

Please tell me I didn't make it an allegory for STDs.

[goodgames]

[God, I can't believe something I read on the internet probably wasn't true. HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME.]

is that what they are....? i read it was a kind of schoolyard game kids play, but... i don't think we have something like it in japan.

[loungelizard]

[If Word of God says it's true, it must be.]

No, you're right about the schoolyard thing. I think it had to do with lice or something?

Actually, now that I think about it, if you consider lice a disease, then crabs would count.

[Larry.]

Oh, sorry. Anyway, do kids do this thing where they're like "other kids of the opposite sex are gross" in Japan? That's probably what it's in reference to.

[goodgames]

hmmm.......

my girl classmates.... definitely tried to keep some distance from the boys. at least, some of them did, usually during the free time we had. it wasn't cuz they were gross, i think, but sometimes they... did things that were weird.

[loungelizard]

Yeah, that sounds about right. Guys are weird at every age.

[He would know.]

[goodgames]

some of the girls thought they were unreliable and stuff, too. but.... we all did our best in the end, no matter what gender we were.

[loungelizard]

"In the end?"

[goodgames]

[Oops.]

some..... unexpected things happened on our class trip. cuz we didn't really know each other well yet, it was hard for everyone to work together...... at first. still... it probably turned out ok.

[loungelizard]

Okay, you somehow managed to make it sound even sketchier. Is everything okay? Are you okay?

[goodgames]

i'm ok. hmm, i guess that came out more dramatic than i meant.

what i really mean is, everyone should have been on their way back. i don't know for sure....... the next thing i knew, i was here.

[This is all technically true.]

[loungelizard]

What kind of "unexpected things" happened...? I'm starting to suspect this was more than a flat tire.

[goodgames]

[She's starting to take a while to formulate her response.]

it was supposed to be a fun island trip where everyone learned about each other and built relationships...... but someone else took over supervising the trip right at the beginning. everything got confused, so it was harder for everyone to trust each other.... we ended up having to solve a lot of mysteries.

[loungelizard]

"Mysteries"? What, did it become some sort of The Most Dangerous Game meets Battle Royale?

[Okay, technically Battle Royale is well past his time, but let me have this he-has-no-idea-how-close-this-comes-to-home joke.]

[goodgames]

[hlep.]

if i had to compare it to something, it'd be a point-and-click investigation game more than a battle royale.....