Imeeji: IC Continuations

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Previous:
Speed Dating [Day 32]
Mistletoe Game [Day 71]
Social Bingo [Day 101]

Includes:
B's Fancy Dance [Day 102]
Kissing Game [Day 124]
Mistletoe 2 [Day 187]
Objective Game [Day 223]
Tokyo-F Stamp Rally (Age Up and Age Down Event) [Day 245]

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Duel!

[This is so much less dramatic when he has to shout card names and effects because they don't emerge as giant-ass holograms.

But he'll suffer this indignity]

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Is that better or worse than suffering the indignity to losing a perfectly mundane, no-stakes game of Duel Monsters?

That's up to Intensity to decide. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[There is no such thing as a no-stakes game of Duel Monsters!!!

But one obvious downside is when he falls to one knee afterward, he doesn't have Solid Vision to blame for it. Just his own rush of his own emotions as he slams a fist into the virtual floor.

Damn it!

He wasn't supposed to lose.

He wasn't supposed to---]

[puzzlekeeper]

[ DRAMA QUEEN.

King descends the rest of the steps, calmly pocketing his deck as he does so. ]

Still up to standards, then?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[SHUT UP.

HE ONLY KNOWS HOW TO BE NEEDLESSLY DRAMATIC.

But at that statement he just laughs.

And laughs and laughs and laughs.

His one universal truth in this fucked up existence.]

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Stopping once he's comfortably inside Intensity's personal space, unfazed by the usual crazed laughter. ]

I guess this means I get to choose my prize.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Oh?

[And Intensity staggers to his feet, laughter subsided but crazed expression not as he at least wants to be eye to eye with King as he makes his claim.

His pride won't let him settle for anything less than that]

[puzzlekeeper]

[ King waits until he's upright and has to crane his neck to look him in the eye.

Smugly: ]

For my victory, I get to go home with you.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[That---]

Wasn't the victory condition.

[puzzlekeeper]

The victory condition was that you leave me alone "if I so choose."

Well, I don't so choose.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Hesitates. As if he hadn't considered this to be a valid option. But now that he's faced with it---

He reaches out to cup King's face in his hands:]

You don't expect me to believe it's just that easy, do you?

Or that you can still get what you want even when you lose.

[puzzlekeeper]

[ His smirk broadens into something more like an actual smile. ]

And yet here you are, faced with the evidence of it. You're the scientist here.