Catch all of some kind

[unpunchman]

Who: Josuke Higashikata and y'all
What: Just some shenanigans
When: Don't worry about it too much
Where: The AV center and the kitchen
Warnings: Shotguns

-1: Video James-

The AV center is occupied. Josuke came here from the year 1999, so the technology here is significantly more advanced and he is taking advantage of that. In an era when Half-Life 1 is still considered as looking phenomenal, anything resembling an actually modern game is MIND BLOWING.

In this case he's got GLOOM (2016), a first person shooter about fighting demons from the underworld on a ruined research base on the moon with a wide variety of over the top weapons. Josuke is the kind of gamer who shouts at the TV, leans to the side in real life to try and dodge stuff in the game, and makes a variety of FANTASTIC faces as various horrifying things happen on the screen.

Also the volume is WAY up. You can feel the bass from outside the room every time he fires the shotgun.

-2: Italian Cooking-

All he wanted was some spaghetti. There was a really good Italian place back home, and he missed it. So he figured "Fuck it. I'll make some spaghetti. How hard could it be?"

Half an hour later, the fire alarm went off. By the time you got to the kitchen to see who had wrecked it THIS time, however, there was nothing there but a pile of uncooked ingredients on the table, a frazzled looking Josuke, and a faint smell of smoke in the air. Nothing was out of place.

If you were VERY fast, you might catch the ingredients flying away from the stovetop on their own and landing back into neat piles on the counter, and (if you're supernaturally inclined) the fading sight of Crazy Diamond vanishing behind him.

Josuke himself is wrapping a bandaid around his finger, scowling. The incredible psychic power that saved the kitchen didn't save him, apparently. "They make it look so easy on TV..."

Comments

spaghetti adventure

[founderinglight]

[On the heels of the fading smoke comes Izunia, looking slightly panicked... And then immediately baffled by the repaired kitchen.]

There was smoke in here, was there not?

[unpunchman]

Cleaned it up.

[A non explanation, if ever there was one.]

[founderinglight]

[Blink. Blink.]

...Oh, right. Like the table.

[He's got this. ... He may have just woken up in a panic, because with that settled, Izunia immediately summons a cup of coffee. He nods at the noodles.]

Do you need any help with that?

[burninglight]

[A short while after the initial Pasta Incident, Izunia walks into the kitchen again, yawning as though he's just woken up.]

[...Except scruffier and wearing an orange scarf, with yellow eyes and hair in a low ponytail.]

[So probably not deja vu all over again.]

...having trouble?

[unpunchman]

I think I got it this time...

[Josuke looks up from stirring noodles and does a double take. Dude LOOKS like Izunia, but not quite.]

Do you have a brother?

[burninglight]

Depends. What the fuck'd he do this time.

[That's a yes, and another cup of coffee pulled from thin air to confirm it.]

Gaming

[stormkingofshepherds]

Nathaniel sticks his head into the room slowly, a hand rubbing his forehead. "What game is causing all that noise?" he mutters, staring at the television as if he's looking right through it. "Can't you turn it down?"

[unpunchman]

"What? I can't hear you the game's too loud!" Check it out that demon with a jetpack getting sawed in half with a chainsaw.

[stormkingofshepherds]

"Then turn the sound down!" Nathaniel raises his voice somewhat, although probably not loud enough to actually be heard.

game

[nojohnyouare]

[If there's anyone who's not going to be annoyed, it's the person who is also from 1999. Well, 2000 now, technically, but she was barely back home before coming here anyway. Mai steps in and stares for a while.]

Is that fun.

[unpunchman]

Eh?

[Josuke paused the game.]

Well, I just unlocked a missile launcher I can attach to my machine gun, so...yeah it's pretty fun.

[nojohnyouare]

Oh. ...It's strange. That a game would look so real. Though that seems to be what most of them are like here.

Three for three

[byanyother_name]

[A little bit after Ardyn, another redhead wanders into the kitchen. He, thankfully, does not look identical to Izunia, green eyes blinking a few times as he sniffs the air lightly.

The kitchen looks remarkably okay given the smell of smoke and scorched tomato. It's counter to what he's come to expect from these moments.]

...this is a pleasant surprise. Nothing looks exploded or deadly.

[unpunchman]

I cleaned it up. Do people make a mess in here a lot?

[byanyother_name]

Less than they used to, but it still does happen semi-regularly.

...I think Goro still has the grenades he made from that one curry attempt.

[Sometimes things just happen. Kurama makes a faintly pained expression and produces a cup of coffee with a brief sparkle of green. He usually prefers tea but he needs coffee if he's going to be remembering The Curry Attempt. Siiip.]

bideo game

[riderofcharlemagne]

[Astolfo was just casually walking outside when suddenly - BOOM.

It's enough to knock him over backwards (a yelp would be heard were the volume not so loud), and so it takes a good few moments before he actually gets in the room.]

What was that?!

[unpunchman]

[Astolfo stumbles in just to see a creature with rocket launchers for eyes get shoved off a cliff into a sea of magma. This game is fucked up in the best way possible.

Josuke almost dropped the controller when the door slammed open.]

What was what?!"

[blackestwitch]

[ Some time after Kurama, there's another redhead wandering in. Quite a bit different than the others - for one, she's a girl. For another, she's clearly in her mid-teens. For a third, she's using a white cane to feel around, signifying she's pretty blind.

She pauses, sniffing the air. ]

Smells like somebody burned something pretty bad.

[unpunchman]

I saved it.

[Josuke glanced over at Maddie, but couldn't focus on her properly, as he was now focusing on checking if the noodles were ready. Some part deep in his soul was immediately on guard. She had red hair, after all. Would the universe taunt him a third time with magic coffee?]

Kitchen

[bastilashan]

[Bastila comes running in. Her lightsaber is active.]

What is going on? I sensed there might be some danger.

[The fire alarm just started going off. She looks around. She sees Josuke and the food flying onto the table.]

Oh, hello. Do you need any help?

[unpunchman]

Wow, you guys are all on a hair trigger for that fire alarm.

[Now that the food wasn't flying around like that, everything looked perfectly normal in here.]

Nope, I'm good here. Just had a little accident, but I cleaned it up.

Game

[bloodyashes]

[And in response to a particular loud bang, the door opens and... an entire symphony sticks its head in?

Kidding, it's Asch, with some of the AV center's headphones hung around his neck. Since they're noiseblockers, he proceeds to put them over his ears and -

Well. Crank up the volume of his own music until he gets Josuke's attention, because there's seriously no way to be heard over all this. If Josuke's looking closely, he might notice that the redhead seems to be very slightly glowing.]

[unpunchman]

[For a moment, Josuke thought it was part of the game. Then he realized that no he could still hear electric guitars playing some other song underneath this new song. So what the f-

He paused the game and turned around to see Asch standing menacingly in the door way.]

...Hi?

1

[zweihandler]

[ Erina is not a particularly stealthy girl for a number of reasons, with the overwhelming majority of those reasons being her entire personality. But she can be quiet when she wants to be, or when there's a near-deafening shooty bang game further camouflaging her presence. So she creeps on over and waits patiently just behind the sofa, for a lull in the action.

In fact, she waits for a particularly tense moment of quiet before she announces her presence by slamming her hands onto his shoulders from behind and asking, probably a little louder than she needs to; ]

So what're you playing?

[ Erina is a good friend. ]

[unpunchman]

WHAT THE HELL!?

[Josuke jumped with a truly satisfying amount of surprise and alarm.]