001 🎮 HEY YOU MOVED MY STUMP

[goneturbo]

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[ Okay, the Bay has seen better days. Ralph wasn't super jazzed about waking up in a coffin and maybe his emotions got the better of him. There are a few peices of it scattered here and there. The largest peice is buried in the wall over there. He might have punched the walls and floor a few times. A lot of times. Look, someone should probably come check on the tectonic stability of the place, is what I'm saying.

Ralph stood in the center of the catastrophe, massive shoulders and arms heaving from the recent spat of activity as his temper slowly calmed down. It wasn't the most graceful entrance, someone could have easily heard it if they were wandering by.

Ralph looked around, noticing the box that used to be on his chest (not that he remembered it at all), as well as the archway at the end of the cavern. The Schnee Welcoming Committee stuff was pretty busted up. Pamphlets were scattered everywhere, and the holographic console was knocked over with some debris burying half of it. ]


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[ Could Ralph use the buttons on this tiny tiny phone with his gigantic ham fisted fingers? To that he would say, 'ha!' ...that is, no. They were far too large. Fortunately the phone seemed to have some good context-sensitive programming so when he tried to shout at it, it seemed to open up a video for him. ]

HELLO?? Is anyone there?? I'm in a... cave? I guess?? It's pretty messed up. Someone- yeah it was like this when I got here, dang. Someone should uh- someone should clean this up, the mess. That I definitely was not involved in.

aNYWAY, where is-

[ He found the pamphlets but they are TINY and obviously designed for Nicelander-sized people. He's having trouble just picking one off the floor. ]

Stupid tiny papers. Where is this place supposed to be? It's not the arcade, obviously. [ Or else he would have been greeted by that ridiculously annoying surge protector. That's some relief, he supposed. ]

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[goneturbo]

Or, it would. If I had been responsible for it. Which I'm not.

[whatsbackup]

[Ralph, I think you're the first person in Genessia to actually get Ronan to laugh.]

Yeah, okay, big guy. If you're done, you got any questions?

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[goneturbo]

[ If he's done? You're the one who- ]

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[goneturbo]

[ Calm, Ralph. Caaaaaalm. ]

Well I guess knowing what this place is would be nice. Besides a name.

[whatsbackup]

[Ronan shrugs.] It's a place. It's not home. It's pretty weird, sometimes. Lot's of different cities, all of them wildly different.

[goneturbo]

It doesn't sound too different from the station, really.

[whatsbackup]

[He pauses for a second.]

The what?

[OOC: Can we have the fictional conversation? There's a special sort of irony in a video game character insisting he's not a video game character to a video game character.]

[goneturbo]

[ Its pretty much all I've been doing in this entire post xD. Although Ralph doesn't believe himself to be *fictional*, exactly. He's a real thing in his canon, he just knows he's comprised of code. ]

Game Central Station. It's the surge protector that connects all the plugs for the games in our arcade. And he always picks on me when I travel, the little punk...

[whatsbackup]

[That. Is. Awesome.]

...are you talking about being inside a power strip?

[goneturbo]

Yeah, it's the only place you can go during off hours. During long holidays when the arcade is gonna be closed for a few days you can venture out further into the power grid, but that's always kind of an adventure.

[whatsbackup]

[He pinches the bridge of his nose.]

I feel like I'm missing something really important here.

[goneturbo]

You have some other setup where you're from? Are you one of those console characters? I hear about those sometimes.

[whatsbackup]

...last time I checked, I was just a guy.

[goneturbo]

What's that supposed to mean?

[whatsbackup]

...I mean I'm human.

[goneturbo]

Yeah, sure. If you're human then how are you inside of a computer?

[whatsbackup]

That's easy. [He crosses his arms.] I'm not.

[goneturbo]

Pfff. Fine, whatever. [ He'd call you Buzz Lightyear if he'd ever seen Toy Story. ]

[whatsbackup]

That was easy. What, you don't believe in flesh and blood?

[goneturbo]

Jeez, you're a weirdo, aren't you? Are you in some kind of death cult?

[ Who casually throws around gorey terms like 'flesh' and 'blood'? ]

Gonna ask me if I worship bone and... I don't know, snot next?

[whatsbackup]

...that's what we're made of, idiot. Bones, muscles, blood, skin. Hair.

[goneturbo]

Only if you're in one of those newer grimdark games with the gross blood and guts stuff. My hair isn't rendered at all, it's more of a block. Kind of jealous of the newer generation sprites, honestly.

[whatsbackup]

[Great. This guy's a lunatic.]

....right. I guess they just don't make games like they used to.

[goneturbo]

[ Aw man, you triggered rant mode. ] You're tellin' me! Everything is guns and explosions now! Sure, I wreck buildings, but at least there's no crazy bugs that fly around and eat things and then become those things flying around!

[ SHIVER. ]

[whatsbackup]

[What the actual Hell are you even talking about, buddy?]

...right. Yeah, that sounds rough.