video | un: furuderika

[miiraculous]

 [Near the end of the month, after playing Jumanji more times than she cared to, Rika is able to face some realities. Those being that her house is more empty than before and that she's feeling lonely. She's never lost a friend in the way that she has lost Rena. There's no way to flip a switch and have her back, and that has been weighing heavily on Rika's mind.

And yet, the matter for which she makes a network call is rather childish and unimportant in comparison.]

Is the Trench always like this..? I never expected that a game board would be so mean... Games are supposed to be fun, not like that.

[She sounds more disappointed than traumatized. Perhaps a sign of maturity? Or being numb to so much suffering.]

Where I am from, my friends and I had a club where we played games together. Games let us leave our troubles behind for a few hours and spend time together, in a piece of the world where everything was fun. It makes me sad to think that games might have been ruined for the people here, because one of them was naughty. So I...

[Rika's voice trails off. She briefly imagines a cheerful Rena and how she would react to this. As part of her grieving, Rika tries to follow in the imaginary Rena's footsteps. This is more proactive than Rika's used to, so she can't help but sound uncertain.]

I want to make a game board that isn't mean and play it with everyone here. Does anyone know where I can find some paint? And a biiig piece of wood, or something similar, for the board? I've never tried this before, but... I would quite like to try. I do not wish for the fun of games to be taken away too.

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[the_obedient_servant]

[They smile. It reminds them a bit of watching the monsters discovering the wide array of media available to them on the surface.]

There's a game called Earthbound that I like.

[miiraculous]

Earthbound? It sounds interesting! Is it about going back to Earth? Is there space?

[Rika is eager to learn more. It sounds sci-fi and she doesn't get much of that in Hinamizawa.]

[the_obedient_servant]

An alien force called the Giygas envelops the world with it's hatred and turns the very planet itself hostile against the main character, a boy named Ness. He has to travel to different towns and find different melodies so he can defeat the evil.

I won't spoil anything beyond that, but there is elements of sci-fi.

[Like time travel. Frankly, the game reminds them of home a little.]

[miiraculous]

What an un-nice alien. [Rika picks her childish word with purpose.

She doesn't know if the alien is intentionally mean or just lacking kindness. They're different.]

So music saves the day in that story? That sounds really interesting! I never thought of melodies as a way to defeat evil before.

[the_obedient_servant]

RPGs have a habit of choosing very strange weapons. In another I played, ballet shoes and a tutu were reasonably powerful artifacts.

[That would be their home world.]

But music is a recurring one in the genre, I've noticed. My partner and I did have to sing at an enemy to pacify her once.

[miiraculous]

That sounds amazing. People are so creative...

I'd like to try them. Video games sound so much different from the board games I play.

[the_obedient_servant]

Well, I saw that you were considering creating another club.

Perhaps I can introduce them to you. They are on our Omnis.

[miiraculous]

Mii! I would like that!

Another club, too… Would you like to join a games club if I did that, Chara?

[the_obedient_servant]

Well, however could I represent the wide world of video games without joining?

Yes, I would. It sounds interesting.