I can move mountains, I can work a miracle [OPEN]

[rassera]

WHO: The residents of Nonah 05 + YOU!
WHERE: Nonah, Residence #005
WHEN: All month long (January)
WHAT: Nonah 05 open log for January Shenanigans
WARNINGS: Obligatory Bull and Tetsuo warnings apply.


Starters will be appearing in the comments. If you want something specific from any one person (Kaneda rassera, Tetsuo iamtetsuo, Bull rideme and Ken amadaman), feel free to drop them a line and ask! Otherwise, feel free to add your own starters for the whole household or individual residents as you like.

Comments

[iamtetsuo]

[He mutters a soft, mild curse in Japanese, seeing that. Not all those enemies look familiar -what do the yellow blobs with rabbit ears do? - but he knows a few from the run Hazel did. There's that thing that took every ounce of Hazel's stuff to take out.

His eyes look over his battlefield, with half the structure slots empty and his wallet too low to purchase more. The paltry offering of stuff at the front is demolished with barely any dents in the oncoming death swarm. And the middle is undefended; he'd been going methodically from the back to the front, not really catching where the funds were until way too late.

The screen fills with mayhem. Channels of maze are merrily ignored.

How does he get more--

His answer comes when they finally reach his rearguard. Oh. That's how. Killing stuff, why didn't he realize-

Mistakes were made today.]

[deadtective]

[Tetsuo is having a rough time with everything lately, and so she's not going to make fun of him. even so, Hazel can't help but let an amused exhale escape from her; hopefully it's quiet enough that he won't notice in all of his concentration.

hey, remember how this was a pretty high level to start off in? that's becoming abundantly clear as a new enemy type slowly makes itself known: looks like the bad guys can chuck bombs right back at you now.]

[iamtetsuo]

[Dammit.

Urgently now, he's trying to replace the few structures that have any chance of stemming the tide. Too many have gotten too far; they're bashing down the gates at the end already. Those bomb throwing enemies take so much of his health bar away, it's impossible to even build something completely before they have thoroughly overrun the area.

That's it.

That's game. So...at least he knows what he's protecting exactly, now..

The phone sags down to his legs as he stares at it. Even in Japanese, this is incomprehensible. How do you even win something like that?

So.. is he just terrible at this, too then, or..]

[deadtective]

There's a level selection, you know.

[this helpful tip comes from Hazel and probably looks a little comical considering you can only see her eyes and up from over the bed.

just because she let him go through the superhard later level doesn't mean she's going to torment him with it. let the kid get his ass kicked at the appropriate learning speed.]

[iamtetsuo]

Hunh?

[Oh.... he'd not thought about that. Ordinarily, he'd have balked at the suggestion and tried to forge ahead on the hardest level anyway, just to prove the point.

Instead, he shifts back to the menu quietly and finds level 4. Because some small part of him just has to be edgy. Maybe it's just instinct by now.]

[deadtective]

[wow, Tetsuo. level four? slow down there before you burn the entire room down with your uncontrollable fiery passion.

four's about when they start introducing the more complicated stuff, so it's actually not a bad pick. Hazel tries to keep the amused smile off her face as it starts up...although she has to admit, she's going to miss his grappling with the burrowers.]

[iamtetsuo]

[YES LEVEL FOUR. YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW. FOUR IS THE COOLEST NUMBER. DUH.

He quickly tries to get something on every place now. Truth told, he's expecting the same bullshit nightmare that previous wave gave him.

When the wave comes in groups of countable ten at first, he's earnestly surprised. The towers take the first wave out fine. And then... then, like small winged puffballs riding the apocalypse, in come the fliers.

His structures are wrong. They didn't GIVE him anything that could hit them beyond the very basic one! What is he-

Oh.

The game pauses. There's a tutorial now.

..

He may have been able to puzzle this out from context, but it being in Japanese makes everything so much easier.]

[deadtective]

[FOUR IS DEATH IN YOUR STUPID CULTURE YOU GEEKLORD.

there's an aggressive sort of rustling from the edge of the bed as Tetsuo fights the good fight. if he strays from the game for a moment, he'll find that Hazel's pressed her face up against the bedspread as hard as she can; her shoulders are trembling mightily as she tries to quell her giggles.

this was a good idea. this was such a good idea. he's fucking adorable.]

[iamtetsuo]

[One, IT'S THE BEST CULTURE. Two, he's not adorable!!

At all!!

Pay no attention to the narwhals behind the closet door!

Tetsuo doesn't actually stray from the game. He's probably in for a rude shock if he does, but he stays transfixed, upgrading structures hastily to deal with the new flock of pests.

When does the death come? his face screams it, trepidation leading him to hover on and off structures.

The last flier dies. And.. that's it?




Oh, yeah. This was level four. That would make sense.]

[deadtective]

Good job!

[alright, so she sounds amused when she gives out the congratulations, but at least it's within the realm of believable excitement. he's pretty wrapped up in playing so it shouldn't be too hard for him to assume she's just psyched about his progress instead of endeared by his struggles.]

They're gonna give you tanks in the next one.

[she says this because she remembers. oh, she remembers her arrogance and the unexpected downfall.]

I lose it every time I see that icon

[iamtetsuo]

Tanks?

[He actually pauses before hitting next.]

You mean that big slow thing?

i don't know what you're talking about, it captures her kawaii nature perfectly

[deadtective]

Yeah.

[you know, the ones that made all your buildings achieve nirvana by merging completely with the ground beneath them. those things.]

But it's not a fucking million of them, so if you're smart you can manage them.