The Wanderer
> Wave your finger in front of her and go "Tsk tsk tsk."
You pull the roll of wrapping paper out of the box it was in, waving it in front of the woman as if to taunt her. "You should've seen this coming, ya old coot."
"Old coot!? Who the hell are you calling an old coot!?!?"
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BREAKING: Scaramouche Reportedly Caught Doing the Fandango
Lovely Legilimens
> Swing the roll of wrapping paper at the ceramics to break them on her!
Middle-aged isn't elderly, and therefore, she's okay for Jackass to hit, right?
"I just want what everyone else has, that's all."
The Wanderer
> Swing the roll of wrapping paper at the ceramics to break them on her!
"You, bitch!" With as much upper body force as possible, you whap her on the head with the roll of wrapping paper. She stumbles back into a shelf of ceramic cat figurines, knocking one off the top of the shelf and onto her head!
"...What's happening over there?" Uh oh. That was Carol. She already creeped you out, but she was especially terrifying when her voice was laced with that kind of tranquil fury. It's best you avoid being on the receiving end of her rage...
- Current Time: 10:01 AM
- Current Goals:
- Go to Mitch Fuller's house and learn his hacker ways.
- Buy wrapping paper from Good Greetings.
- Current Inventory: Phone, Wallet, Notepad and Pen, Screwdriver, Phone Charging Cable, Protein Bar (birthday cake flavor), Rust Buckets concert ticket, The Dork of House Fyodor, The Trap, Dune (shoplifted), Wrapping Paper
- Funds: $28.00 (loose change), however much is left on your credit card
[input command]
BREAKING: Scaramouche Reportedly Caught Doing the Fandango
Lovely Legilimens
> Toss over the payment for the damages in cash and shoplift the wrapping paper outta here.
"I just want what everyone else has, that's all."
The Wanderer
> Toss over the payment for the damages in cash and shoplift the wrapping paper outta here.
You scurry as far away from Carol's wrath as fast as you can. As she goes to give her "you break, you buy" spiel to the Karen, you check the price tag on the wrapping paper you held. $6.00, it said. You quickly pulled six dollars out of your pocket money, tossed it on the checkout counter, and got the fuck outta there!
Carol's wrath has been avoided, but you've still got about an hour or two to kill...
- Current Time: 10:05 AM
- Current Goals:
- Go to Mitch Fuller's house and learn his hacker ways.
- Current Inventory: Phone, Wallet, Notepad and Pen, Screwdriver, Phone Charging Cable, Protein Bar (birthday cake flavor), Rust Buckets concert ticket, The Dork of House Fyodor, The Trap, Dune (shoplifted), Wrapping paper (technically paid for?)
- Funds: $22.00 (loose change), however much is left on your credit card
[input command]
Edited by Pogakure on Mar 25th 2024 at 8:35:01 AM
BREAKING: Scaramouche Reportedly Caught Doing the Fandango
Lovely Legilimens
> Rust Buckets is still bopping in your mind. Go to Conway Records to get a physical copy of their latest album if you don't have it yet. But if you do, perhaps check out some new tunes to jam to on the drive to Mitch's place... wait a minute, what's the travel time from here?
Edited by TroperNo9001 on Mar 26th 2024 at 1:52:16 AM
"I just want what everyone else has, that's all."
Everybody, Everybody!
> Look for an outlet to charge your phone.
Everybody loves the me! I’m a great athlete!
The Wanderer
> Rust Buckets is still bopping in your mind. Go to Conway Records to get a physical copy of their latest album if you don't have it yet. But if you do, perhaps check out some new tunes to jam to on the drive to Mitch's place... wait a minute, what's the travel time from here?
Mitch's house was a thirty-minute drive from Blake Street. If you and Eden left at around 11:30, that should be a good enough pace.
You still had plenty of time to waste, though, so you head to Conway Records to check out what they have in stock. They sold a variety of music, both new and old, on everything from CDs, cassettes, records, mini-discs - hell, they even had a few concert films on DVD if you were in the market for those. Their specialty, however, was being a forefront for Hamilton's local indie scene. Any band from Hamilton looking to make it big got their start selling their EPs and mixtapes here, including the Rust Buckets.
"Hello, Michael! How's it going, dude?" Scott was a guy you've known since middle school; a family friend. Even though he was only about ten years older than you, his ponytail, ragged beard, and hippie glasses made him look old and wisened, an erudite scholar in the field of hard rock.
Scott extends his hand to you. You walk over to him and bring it in for a handshake. "I'm good, man! Uh, I'm looking for some Rust Buckets..."
"Well, that's great to hear. Unfortunately, we just sold out of Rust Buckets products, so... you're kinda shit outta luck. You going to the concert? Shit's gonna be hype!"
Well, drat. There goes your chance of getting some merch to have signed at the concert... You can manage, right?
> Look for an outlet to charge your phone.
"You got any outlets around here? I need to charge my phone."
"Well, we do have outlets... Not for charging phones, but for music equipment." Scott puts his hand on your shoulder and whispered, "I can trust you not to unplug anything important, right?" as if he was practically begging you to fuck something up by messing with the plugs.
- Current Time: 10:07 AM
- Current Goals:
- Go to Mitch Fuller's house and learn his hacker ways.
- Current Inventory: Phone, Wallet, Notepad and Pen, Screwdriver, Phone Charging Cable, Protein Bar (birthday cake flavor), Rust Buckets concert ticket, The Dork of House Fyodor, The Trap, Dune (shoplifted), Wrapping paper (technically paid for?)
- Funds: $22.00 (loose change), however much is left on your credit card
[input command/dialogue]
BREAKING: Scaramouche Reportedly Caught Doing the Fandango
Everybody, Everybody!
> Snoop around to check for important plug-ins.
Everybody loves the me! I’m a great athlete!
Lovely Legilimens
> Check out other artists you might like to listen to on the way to Mitch's.
"I just want what everyone else has, that's all."
The Wanderer
> Snoop around to check for important plug-ins.
Just when you thought you couldn't find a good appliance to unplug, you suddenly spot a speaker display in the corner of the store. And would you look at that — one of the speakers is hooked up to a USB outlet! You unplug the speaker and plug your phone in its place. You should probably remember where you put it so you could take it out when it's done charging.
> Check out other artists you might like to listen to on the way to Mitch's.
Thank the lord up above that Eden had a CD player in her car! Thinking about picking up an album to listen to on the ride to Mitch's, you waltz over to the CD section.
The CDs were split into different genres: Classical, Country, Dance, Experimental, Hip-Hop, Novelty, Pop, Classic Rock, Modern Rock, Soundtracks/OST, and Techno.
[Choose Your Music Genre!]
BREAKING: Scaramouche Reportedly Caught Doing the Fandango
Lovely Legilimens
> Check the Soundtracks/OST section for some video game tunes.
"I just want what everyone else has, that's all."
The Wanderer
> Check the Soundtracks/OST section for some video game tunes.
You peek into the Soundtracks/OST bin in search of some classy video game arrangements. They were nowhere to be found. All you could see in the bin were soundtracks from Broadway musicals. Fuckin' theater kids...
- Current Time: 10:08 AM
- Current Goals:
- Go to Mitch Fuller's house and learn his hacker ways.
- Current Inventory: Phone, Wallet, Notepad and Pen, Screwdriver, Phone Charging Cable, Protein Bar (birthday cake flavor), Rust Buckets concert ticket, The Dork of House Fyodor, The Trap, Dune (shoplifted), Wrapping paper (technically paid for?)
- Funds: $22.00 (loose change), however much is left on your credit card
[input command]
BREAKING: Scaramouche Reportedly Caught Doing the Fandango
Lovely Legilimens
> Check the Modern Rock section. Maybe there are other rock bands besides Rust Buckets that you like?
"I just want what everyone else has, that's all."
The Wanderer
> Check the Modern Rock section. Maybe there are other rock bands besides Rust Buckets that you like?
Thumbing through the Modern Rock section, you see a veritable mixed bag. Pop Punk, soft rock for male manipulators, classic bands releasing new material for the first time in aeons, lightly used Avenged Sevenfold records. Nothing too abnormal.
[Go on, pick an album!]
Author's note: I'm currently hosting rounds of both the elimination game and Mad Libs atm, so updates will be more sporadic than usual. Just letting you know in advance.
BREAKING: Scaramouche Reportedly Caught Doing the Fandango
Neptunia Ichiban
>Look at the new material from classic bands
shouldn't his favorite genre be RPG and not point and click though
The Pride of Nazumah
> Look at albums and loudly criticize them.
Better to fight, than to live in fear.
Tenth in line for the throne
> Just pick a random album that starts with the letter "V", bonus points if its a generic "Villain playlist", similair to the ones you've binged on ThouTube, Extra bonus points if it has a handsome shirtless man on the cover.
Edited by Dejayed on Mar 30th 2024 at 9:42:38 AM
Viva la je!
Lovely Legilimens
Minor nitpick, but "YouTube" was already fine because real-world brands were namedropped in this text adventure before... but what's not to say about Expy Coexistence?
Edited by TroperNo9001 on Mar 31st 2024 at 6:39:40 PM
"I just want what everyone else has, that's all."
The Wanderer
>Look at the new material from classic bands
You scrounged through the Legacy Acts bin, itching to find out which old geezers were still holding onto whatever relevancy they had left in the modern era. Before you was quite the selection: Road, Every Loser, The Sick, The Dying... and the Dead!, Memento Mori (not sure why Depeche Mode are in the rock section but ok), among others. Not too shabby!
> Just pick a random album that starts with the letter "V", bonus points if its a generic "Villain playlist", similair to the ones you've binged on YouTube, extra bonus points if it has a handsome shirtless man on the cover.
You dive into the bin labeled R-V and picked a random album from its lower end: Vicarious.
You were familiar with this guy; some pop-punk emo kid, popular with the Tik-Tok crowd. He was a huge sex symbol apparently, as you knew four different people who were unironically attracted to him. You had no clue why, exactly; the dude looked spindly and, frankly, kinda malnourished. It appears you picked up a copy of his self-titled debut.
> Look at albums and loudly criticize them.
Holding up the Vicarious album like you were appraising a precious artifact, you cleared your throat, putting on your best snarky critic impression.
"I fail to see how Vicarious could ever be a sex symbol," you loudly proclaimed. "I mean, he looks like a banshee, and he sings like one, too! What were they thinking?!?"
The few other people in the store stopped what they were doing to look at you like you were a freak of nature, which you could see coming from a mile away.
- Current Time: 10:11 AM
- Current Goals:
- Go to Mitch Fuller's house and learn his hacker ways.
- Current Inventory: Phone, Wallet, Notepad and Pen, Screwdriver, Phone Charging Cable, Protein Bar (birthday cake flavor), Rust Buckets concert ticket, The Dork of House Fyodor, The Trap, Dune (shoplifted), Wrapping paper (technically paid for?)
- Funds: $22.00 (loose change), however much is left on your credit card
[input command/dialogue]
BREAKING: Scaramouche Reportedly Caught Doing the Fandango
Tenth in line for the throne
> "Eh, fuck it, it's not like there is anything better in here, or in the industry, really", you say, as you take the copy of "Vicarious" with you and go to the outlet where you charged your phone. Allthewhile silently praying that nobody stole the darn thing.
Viva la je!
The Wanderer
> "Eh, fuck it, it's not like there is anything better in here, or in the industry, really", you say, as you take the copy of "Vicarious" with you and go to the outlet where you charged your phone. Allthewhile silently praying that nobody stole the darn thing
You didn't really have that much against Vicarious. Sure, he looked ugly as sin, but his music wasn't that bad. You grabbed the CD and unplugged your phone from the corner of the room. Then you took your stuff to the front counter for Scott to ring up.
"That'll be 20 bucks, jackass."
[input command/dialogue]
BREAKING: Scaramouche Reportedly Caught Doing the Fandango
Lovely Legilimens
"Do you accept credit?"
"I just want what everyone else has, that's all."
Tenth in line for the throne
> After figuring that you don't really live up to your name right now, you also ask Scott about a dozen albums that don't exist, and whether or not the store has them. Those goodie-two-shoe jerks behind you will have to wait, whether they like it or not.
Edited by Dejayed on Apr 1st 2024 at 8:01:22 PM
Viva la je!
>While she is distracted, move the ceramics precariously close to the edge of the shelf, then ask her to get you one. Then, surprise her while she is about to get the ceramics.