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Picky Minch ([personal profile] imjustpicky) wrote2011-11-07 12:47 pm

03 - Just One More Level? Please?

[Action A - 7132 Brooks Lane, Morning]

[Having heard in passing that people were getting stuff back in the mail, Picky was anxious to check his own mail to see what he'd be getting. Monday morning he volunteered to bring in the mail, and atop the usual bills and flyers was a box with "Picky Minch" written on it.

...the town didn't seem to care that he had been going by a different name. Huh.

But never mind that. A box! A box for him! He scooted back inside, set all of the mail down on the table by the front door, and hastily tore his package open.]


Hey! My Game Boy!

[And it was his, not just any dumb Game Boy plucked off a shelf. It had a scuff and dent on the bottom from when he dropped it, and it had the sticker over the battery cover that he had put there himself. And it was real, because when he flicked it on, the little red light lit up and the green-yellow screen powered on, and the "ding!" of a proper start-up sounded. Followed immediately by the first few strains of the Tetris title screen music.

...he shook the box out to see if any other games were included, but alas, none were. Still, Tetris was pretty good. And he really should play a little, to make sure that it worked properly... Someone's probably going to have to shoo him out the door to get him to go to school.]


[Action B - Mayfield Elementary School]

[Class has gotten dull, and Picky is no longer paying attention. He has his Game Boy on, volume turned down, tucked partway beneath his desk. He won't get caught, right? No one's paying attention, right?]

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[Lunchtime isn't much different. Rather than concern himself with peanut butter sandwiches and classmates, he's off at a table by himself, not eating, determined to get past level 4. That's where he's been stuck at this past while. It just gets so fast...]

[Action C - The Park, Afternoon]

[You know what happens when you play with your Game Boy all day? The one that had the same batteries in it from the before, that you haven't replaced in a while? The batteries run out.

Picky is on a bench in the park, manipulating those Tetris blocks, just about to get to level 6 when the dim red light finally flickers out. He starts, lifts his head, holds the Game Boy out in front of him, and then gets upset.]


Drat!

[Phone - Early Evening]

So, uh... hey. Does anyone know if you can get double-A batteries in this place? Or, or even better, does someone have a charger for a Game Boy?

It, uh, might be easier to get the batteries, but... but I've gotta ask.

B

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-09 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ have someone suddenly looking over your shoulder at lunch. because idk, i guess that's what he does now. ]

You kinda suck at that.

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-12 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
That's what I'm talking about. You gotta keep your head in the game no matter what happens.

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-12 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
I am pretty much as good as it gets. When it comes to Tetris, I guide those blocks like Sacajawea leading two clueless douchebags to the Pacific. Without me, that naive L block would get consumed by a rabid bear or some shit. But nope sorry you're going right where I need you to go so I can complete my line and delete you while racking up points. It's like leading unknowing lemmings to their demise. They think you're getting them and snug and comfy, tucked together, not realizing that soon they'll be gone from this world.

/bows

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-12 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
All the levels. Every single one.

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-13 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah okay. How'd you get this thing anyway?

[ regardless, he accepts it. and while perhaps not quite as good as he claims, luckily he actually is quite skilled at tetris. enough to sort of live up to all his trash talking anyway. ]

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 08:21 am (UTC)(link)
That's pretty cool. All the stuff I've gotten in the mail is pretty lame.

[ though by lame he actually means cool. or something. idk there are definitely layers of irony at work right now. ]

But dude, when are you from, the Stone Age? This thing's more like a relic than a viable present option.

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-15 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. No wonder. [ the nineties. wow. dave almost feels bad for him now. ]

Yeah I'm from 2009. Time is pretty weird here, guys get dragged here from all over the place.

hehe thanks

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-16 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude Game Boys are ancient. They're more like relics of a lost civilization than viable gaming options these days.

Nowadays it's all about touch screens and shit.

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-17 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah the screen gets all touchy feely on you. Pretty trippy. Also creepy.

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-19 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
There's a reason people are so into retro stuff.

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-20 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I mean, at least some people do. Out there. Somewhere. [ shrug. ] There are a ton of these things now, kinda hard to find the original like this.

You could probably get some mad cash pawning it.

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-21 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah didn't think you would. [ and oh hey a new high score... with that accomplished, he'll hand the gameboy back. ]

Right here that thing is pretty much priceless anyway.

[identity profile] timetables.livejournal.com 2011-11-21 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Might want to keep that on the down low. Who knows what might happen if some video game addict in withdrawal finds out you've got that thing.

Shit could get ugly.

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