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Roland Crane ([personal profile] adregem) wrote2020-05-24 10:47 pm
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blitzcheer: (cinnamon sticks)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-30 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ excuse you he doesn't nose the passenger roster all the time--just when he's bored!! But okok Tidus isn't so cruel as to ignore Roland's pleas for help, answer his nudges with 'I'm trying to remember,' and beginning to move around the level himself, going from statue to statue... ]

Huh? Yeah, we showed up at the same time. She's Purple Team too, but she was on the last mission. [ Meanwhile, he's trying to click the statues, and geez, it really has been too long since he played this...

And Roland finding a fifth statue doesn't help jog his memory!! His avatar comes over to join him, and he swivels the view of the layout to see if there's any pattern, or if the answer will click. ]


Hey, it'd be useful for the missions. If all you have to do is wear it and it works--maybe we can get a few for some people on each team to hold supplies in? Or even Black Squad.

[ The specific generosity goes over Tidus's head. But a thought has clicked with him, and actually about clicking...! ]

I think we need to examine the statues in order. --but hey, I can try buying them too. I wonder if the train'll care?
blitzcheer: (ummmooo)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-30 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That snort-laugh-listen-to-me-I'm-so-funny!! from Roland gets a scoff that might as well be an audible roll of his eyes.

But he'd been looking between the different statues and figuring out with Roland which would be the best ones to split between them, saying, 'I'll take these two, and--you wanna go for the fifth or me?' in deciding their order. It looked like either of them would be able to make the run to the last one from where they end up. Actually--'I should, I've got the higher speed stat.'

Because everyone knows magic users are slow!! But as for the arms-- ]


You uh...waved your hand out, right?

[ did he get it. Actually, whether he did or not, he'll just say- ] Show me later. They're not too big though...maybe we can try a small order of them.
blitzcheer: (making a choice)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-30 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO GO DASHING TOO but who is Tidus to complain, as long as they got the thing to click! Also, as long as Tidus can't see the fist pump...

But then, he may be getting more into the zone now, little by little. He definitely chuckles confidently after the cutscene finishes and Roland's feeling all smug about solving the puzzle. Ah, to be as young (or as much of a newbie) as Roland...! ]


Uh...huh. Really? Huh. [ Well, that sucks, huh. And Tidus is going to forget that detail by the next time they talk, whoops. ] You think anyone could try fiddling with it? --if we get any spares, [ he adds, since he wouldn't want to offer up Roland's own personal one to tests of science. ] I know there's a magician here who sounds like she's got a few things she can do... oh yeah, and there's someone who can replicate things!

[ Huuhhh he's remembering a few things now-! ]
blitzcheer: (siigh it's tough!!!)

they just wanna talk workshop too much, the losers

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-30 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Stop taking all the heals, will you? [ He can't get an arrow off before Roland's going and breaking all the jars! Ugh! Leave some of the action for the rest of us!! But the beach leads them up along a stony bridge, which opens up into the forest that surrounds the tower like a fortress... very spooky. ]

Who cares what the train or whoever thinks? I don't. [ Huff. Can you hear the bitterness in him, 'cause that sure made it rear its head. ] If it's got some reason for running things the way it does, then it's on them for not letting the rest of us know. And I don't think very highly of anyone who'll risks other lives. If it's one life for a world of them--no. I'm tired of sacrifices.

[ And that sour lemon has led them near a split path, but nothing deep. Tidus goes to the left which leads to a dead end, but an item on the ground. Wild thorns and thicket helps to make sure they don't wander off and get too lost... ]
blitzcheer: (huff puff huff wuff wuff)

ur nose is clogged

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-30 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's fine that Roland says nothing of it. It's personal, that feeling, the heat that accompanies Tidus's scorn and displeasure. He's glaring into a visor and presses hard on the controls, though it makes no difference than the pressure put onto his fingers and thumbs. ]

It's the wizard that's up the top. We gotta get a potion to wake the princess. [ Sorry to spoil it, and maybe with a bit of a cold tone, but also, it was spoiled on the beginning screen that Tidus didn't give Roland any time to read. ] Slow down here--there's a few bats up ahead.

[ But his annoyance isn't anything directed at anyone, just the leftovers of what was there still clinging to him. Tidus slows his avatar's pace, quiver being pulled and striking at a bat hanging asleep, not yet woken. He manages to do the same for two more, but an arrow misses--and it wakes the bat up with a squeal, coming for their heads. ]
blitzcheer: (hand onnnn HIP!!!!)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-30 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're looking for a date, maybe it isn't me you should be playing with? [ Maybe one of the other super duper old fogeys on this train??

At least for Tidus, this area is more suited for his archer, though he does seem to have to keep telling Roland, 'hey, don't run off ahead' just to stop him from triggering all the bats around. Tidus is trying to take them out the sneaky and easy way, and...failing at it even without Roland, but hey. He doesn't go for sneaky usually, alright. Sometimes he forgets to look in the other direction. ]


Huh, what? [ Game? ] Uhh-- blitzball?

[ Was that the one? Considering blitzball isn't just a ''game'' to him...! ]
blitzcheer: (/)_(\)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-30 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh.

[ That's what you get for taking that this far, old man! An ugh that's deserved at this man thinking a cool young guy would be after him! Or would struggle to? Find out in all your Voidtrecker doujins of your favourite ships, there's no judgment here. ]

What did I tell you-- [ why doesn't this guy listen! Why is this now a babysitting job! ] Just keep running--I'm not telling you anything about any blitzball 'til we blitz out of this match!

[ Which with both of them they can, though after Tidus fires an arrow at it to try and keep it back before joining their avatars into continuously running on the spot until the game finally lets them leave the area. Tidus keeps having his character run, saying as he does so- ]

We go the other way, through the swamps! Let me take the lead, alright? You're gonna use all your magic up before we get to another fountain.

[ And running ahead is exactly what Tidus is going to do until they get to the fork in the path that Roland decided to choose for the pair. ]

Okay. [ Okay!! He's even turning around his avatar to regard Roland. ] We go down here, and frogs are gonna jump out from the swamps. You activate them, run, and I can hit them from afar. Okay?

[ Look, a plan. A plan that's sensible! Because that's exactly how he and Light played this last time. So absolutely nothing can go wrong this time, right? ]
blitzcheer: (i should've gone for lyrics)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-30 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Tidus doesn't see him, but he's sure he can feel the guy getting tense beside him, or that's just the effect of his words and all the small mutterings he lets out. Tidus is trying to be quick in his aim, telling Roland, 'hit that one!' at times when he thinks he needs more time, and in an instance where Roland's magician gets pounced on from both sides, trapping him in place.

Too bad about him falling into the gooey green anyway. ]
Just keep movin' to the platform that goes into the swamp. You can't jump out, no matter what you do. There was one back there.

[ 'Back there' being where they came from, but Tidus doesn't turn his avatar in direction. He wants to deal with some of these frogs by trying to activate them early by shooting into the sections where fat bubbles can be seen popping up onto the surface of the swamp, unfortunately to not effect. So he runs in and out, before the frogs can pincer or grab at him with their long tongues. ]

You see any cousins in here?

[ Because you know he gotta. ]
blitzcheer: (meerrrrily merrily meerrrily)

tidus will never be rich bc he be spending it all

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-30 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ yeah yeah mister fancy pants with the moves, show off more! ]

You ever thought about putting on a stage play? I got a friend I told who should try adapting some of her adventures into some. You should play a part in one.

[ Considering how dramatic he gets when playing a video game. Heck, if the guy is like this with a videogame, let's see how he is when he actually has to put on an act! Tidus might not be able to move, allowing Roland to go ahead after all with a, 'alright, we'll try you first--I'll see what I can hit' but he does do as he promises: firing off a few arrows towards the bats in the distance. He catches the closest few, but the way ahead is long, and anything else, Roland will have to deal with on his own.

But if that leaves Tidus free... ]


My 'game', Blitzball--you play it underwater. One ball, two teams, and you got to get it in the other team's goal. I played professionally, if I didn't tell you already--was even the star player back home, once.

[ He speaks about it fondly, but there is a wistful note--something not here, something missed. ]
blitzcheer: (ummmooo)

booo those SUCK

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-30 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just trying to find you more hobbies!

[ Let's not get crazy with ideas now! ]

The Zanarkand Abes, [ he starts first with Roland's questions, since best to go last to first. Maybe. There's pause between as he focuses on the games and for the fiends that respawn, the bats appearing from the fog that surround them and the frogs just hopping as they please onto his path. ]

And I can't be a star player if I'm all this way away from home, can I? And does no one else play sports in water? Everyone always asks me that.

[ Roland isn't the only one with tricks up his sleeves (or in his staff!), as Tidus shoots off arrows that explode as they make contact, catching more than one frogs in the way. Those are more trickier for him than the bats, which are made for an archer class to take down. Just as the slimes were a better match for Roland. ]

You never heard of training to hold your breath longer? It's not something everyone can do, but it's not impossible.
blitzcheer: (arms folding galore!!)

spoilers he's the villain!!

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-31 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Roland just likes to press the jumping button, doesn't he. ]

A game lasts ten minutes, five minute rounds each. [ The screen darkens as their characters go into the tower by the back door. One might think that realistically it should lead into a kitchen or some sort, but fool, this is a dark scary tower in an RPG, and so it leads straight into a small lobby with two armoured 'statues' standing on each side of the door going further in. Tidus hurries over to one of the pots before Roland can get to it and breaks it with his bow. ...literally, that's the animation, him whacking a pot with a bow.

He gets a healing item for his efforts. ]


But I can hold it longer than that! Half an hour, a lil' more? I haven't swam in ages though, so I'm probably getting rusty. But blitzball is about taking a beating, so I'm no wimp at what I do.

[ Before they go into the next area, Tidus warns as an aside, 'We've got soldiers to deal with, ice magic's good for 'em', and it's what Tidus has been saving up most of his own magic arrows for. And indeed, when they move onto into the next area, similar statues stand as they did in the other room, motionless... until they come close, and then they draw their swords and flails! ]
blitzcheer: (a hundred and ten percent!)

even protags can be villains :(

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-31 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh no, is Roland getting needlessly corny about a random remark he made without actually thinking Roland did think him a wimp? ]

Don't overthink it! I know I'm good at what I do. I didn't get into the top leagues just by being okay. [ The continuing adventure of how you can't trust Roland!! But blitzball is one of those areas Tidus is happy to brag about, or sound like he's bragging--it wouldn't be fair on his teammates and how had any of them worked to do any less. Someone's gotta make sure the world...universe...whatever knows how great the Zanarkand Abes (were) are.

Like these dumb living tincans, for one. Once they reach a certain level of damage, pieces of their 'limbs' come off to reveal a dark shade that does nothing extra, but allows for more damage when hit. Which is good, since otherwise, Tidus is stuck using his magic arrows again than just going for the easier route, but the shades allow him--with some finicky aiming--to use his normal, unlimited arrows to strike them for better damage. ]


How 'bout asking me when you can see me do it? Chores, sparring, whatever you--want! [ And that comes out with a semi-grunt as Tidus dodges his character from the swing of a flail. Too close! ]
blitzcheer: (don't look at these icons)

same back!!!!

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-07-31 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll show you the cartoon they have here. [ IS ALL HE'S GOING TO SAY TO THAT, and flatly so. He is not cleaning out the bathrooms...!! ]

I've fought bigger armoured guys. [ Does that count. He's glad these aren't the size of those, though their hitbox would be bigger (then again, so would be their weapons). As soon as Tidus hears the dunk of them losing a piece of armour, he turns his attentions on those ones, throwing out- ] You leave the ones with less health to me!

[ Teamwork, buddy! But as for the rest of fiends-- ]

There's all kinds back in Spira. Those things before, the jelly things--they looked like flan. I don't know though. There were a lot of different fiends. I don't like anything that won't go down!

[ Which actually isn't going to be these pesky suited enemies for much longer, but it's still taking too much time! But another hit of one of Roland's blizzard spells does the trick! ]

Ugh, finally!

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wow bro...dude...rude....

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