git gud

[thindarkduke]

Where: An arcade
Who: Crowley, Gilgamesh, and Rhea'li, and anyone else who wants to get their game on
When: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What: Crowley is Here to Help with their gamer dreams
Warnings: None

Kira wants him to get Rhea'li and Gilgamesh to win a video game? He can do some miracles on the subject. But first he needs to look the part.

Crowley has observed the video game culture of Magisteria, and he has drawn some conclusions. All the elite gamers are girls, so that's a requirement. And he's seen how they dress.

So when Crowley goes looking for her targets, she does it with a chin-length bob of curly red hair, dressed to kill: two artfully shredded tank tops in cyan and magenta, over a black lace bra, and a black snakeskin miniskirt and clompy black snakeskin platform boots over artfully shredded magenta and cyan fishnet tights.

Rhea'li

When she manages to find the arcade Rhea'li is in at the moment, she drapes herself over his shoulders from behind. "I hear you've been challenged to win some games," she says, without further introduction. She assumes Rhea'li will recognise her--he knows she can shapeshift after all--but it would also be funny if he didn't, so either is fine. "And that it would take a miracle, which is something I can help with."

Gilgamesh

The bugger calling himself Gilgamesh is easy to track down. He is, as always, loud and self-aggrandizing, boasting of his prowess at something or other while getting absolutely creamed by a girl who looks about fourteen who has cat-ear headphones nestled behind her horns.

Crowley leans against a nearby machine and manifests some cyan-and-magenta pom-poms. Kira wants her to make Gil win, but nothing said she couldn't make fun of him first. And he's so very easy to encourage.

She waves the pom-poms vaguely. "Gil, Gil, he's our man, if he can't do it, no one can!"

Comments

[lightduties]

Somehow, Rhea'li doesn't startle too obviously when Crowley drapes herself over him, instead going still. His ears, however, spring vertical, betraying his surprise. Turning his head, he sees a new 'gamer' he doesn't recognise despite there being something oddly familiar about her.

His brow furrows; is he being propositioned?

"If you were sent by the demon girls to distract me, I'm afraid it will not work."

[emet_sulk]

Rhea'li doesn't need a chaperone but Emet-Selch is bored enough to come out and keep an eye on him anyway. Unfortunately, nothing could persuade him to shapeshift the way Azem does and adopt a female form, and so he sticks out like a sore thumb amidst the other gamers. He tries to ignore the glances and whispers though, fixing his gaze on the leaderboard for whatever game it is that the Warrior of Light has thrown himself into.

Thus, he doesn't notice Crowley's initial approach until they bump into him.

"I beg your pardon," he mutters, shifting back.

[gilgamess]

Needless to say, Gilgamesh jumps to exactly the same conclusion that his current ... partner (ugh, King of Heroes does not take on companions, but whatever!) ... has done: namely that his would-be "business partner," whom he of course does not recognize in this form, is another demon girl come to mount some subterfuge effort.

On the other hand, Gilgamesh's ego is naturally such that the praises throw him somewhat. He could scarcely believe that any mongrel would cheer him on unless it is entirely sincere, being as that is what his majesty inspires. Thus he is presently torn between suspicion and supposing that this newcomer might be some chaos agent who has decided to switch sides. Or is she something else altogether? Magisteria is always full of surprises. If there is one thing Gilgamesh and the rest of the Otherworlders (no doubt) have learned, it is this.

"Hmph... of course, that is the case..." Gilgamesh agrees, readily. Praising him will get you everywhere, you know. "Yet who are you? Can it be that I have begun to form a legend in the gamer circuit, already?"

Despite, well -- he simply does not even look at the girl with the cat-ear headphones. Okay, Gilgamesh is not one to question those who sing his kingly praises, but what is going on here? Here he has been thinking how he and Rhea'li could enhance their training to fast-track them into gaming success, perhaps using some Magisterian time manipulation technology (if such existed) so that they could speed time 2-3x times during their arcade grinding. Certainly this is a reasonable method of training for such a challenge.