Finish Him! (Kristina)

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The buzzer on the microwave buzzed and Brooke popped it open. With dainty fingers she pulled out the steaming bag of popcorn, and, taking care not to scald herself, pulled it open and poured it into the super large bowl, which already had a whole two other bags inside. Brooke hefted the bowl over her head and bounded across the apartment to the living room where she'd left her sexy counterpart.

"Got the noms!" she announced. "Let us begin!"

Begin what, you ask? We-he-heeelll, that's an awfully good question, and Brooke was more than prepped to answer it. In fact, the pile lay just aside the flat-screen TV, one box already flopped open and disc inserted into the Xbox. Which one was the lucky winner for this first run? Well, that was none other than Dark Souls, a classic, and a POS amazing, omg-this-is-frustrating game of awesome!

Brooke flopped on the carpet and set the giant bowl beside her. Then she grabbed the controller. Now, firsties I'mma give ya a quick demo so ya know watchur up against, kay?" Though the prospect of sending her roommate into the dungeons of doom blind was appealing as well. Brooke looked up to Kristina and put a meek finger to her chin. "Any qvestions?"

[Kristina Novak]

The first question that ran through Kristina's mind was why she was doing this. She'd been watching Brooke play one of her video games, and out of curiosity, had asked how it worked. Now there was a controller held tightly in her hands, staring at the screen with wide eyes. Already, she was confused. The game hadn't even started yet and the Czech girl was beginning to regret agreeing to Brooke's idea.

The smell of popcorn wafted into the living room with her return. She set the controller in her lap, reaching down to grab a handful. Kristina began munching, nodding. "Sounds good to me." She said through a mouthful of popcorn. A quick demo... she had a feeling she'd need a little more than that. Surprisingly, Kristina had never played video games before. At least, the kind her roommate played.

Wiping her hand on her pjs, she shook her head. "Not really. I'm totally clueless, I don't even know where to begin." She admitted. "So I'll apologize in advance." Kristina said with a snort, picking up her controller and waited to follow Brooke's lead. She could do this... maybe.

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Brooke had been stoked to find out that Kristina, the babe-alicious Kristina, was interested in coming over to the dark side, mwa ha ha ha ha! Speaking of, Knights Of The Old Republic was also on their list. Along with Saints Row and Metal Gear Solid and Devil May Cry(the good ones) and Prototype II(the first one sucked) and of course both Portals(she’d just do a speed-through of them because that was easier than getting frustrated with watching Kristina try to figure out her spacial awareness in that game.

D’awww, just lookit dat widdle pout, she such a kewwwtie~! Brooke could just pinch dem cheeks and wiggle ‘em ’til they flapped and fapped. And now they were all stuffed up with popcorn, could she get any cute!? Brooke was half inclined to toss the controller aside(she wouldn’t do this, that things was expensive) and pounce her purdy roommate in a single bound.

Wouldn’t be the most terrible thing in the world for her to do. And Brooke would benefit greatly, considering she’d been going through a dry spell over the past few months. School, work, and living had taken a priority over her sex-life. Siiggghhhhh…!!

Brooke took up her controller and zoomed through the start and set up screens like lightning. It didn’t really matter, all this intro stuff, just getting to the game was the important part. Once started, she maneuvered her character through the dank hallways of a dilapidated stone building. “So…if you keep reading these things over here…” She turned her character to a red mark on the floor. “Then it’ll tell you how to work the controls. There, you, go.” Now, she urged with a wave of her hand.

[Kristina Novak]

Kristina chewed on the popcorn slowly, eyes narrowing at the game on the screen. Brooke was speeding through the intro so quickly that she couldn't even keep up. After a second of trying, she gave up. Clearly, it wasn't important anyway if her roommate wasn't showing her the information. And someone with zero experience needed all the help she could get.

So, now she was learning, since both her and Brooke had the night off of work and no other plans. Not that Kristina ever had any if it didn't involve her job or her roommates. Toes curling up, her eyes adjusted to the surprisingly detailed scene in front of her. She found herself just staring, not moving, content to watch Brooke take command.

Until she prompted Kristina to follow. Her gaze landed on the controller, flickering between that and the television screen. She used the little moving thing to sporadically make her character's way over to the red mark. "What am I getting myself into?" She questioned, still pouting. "How do you do all of this? It looks so hard." There was definitely some newfound respect for her cute roommate; this stuff took skill. A skill Kristina evidently lacked. "So I just move around like this..."

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Oh, it was only kinda important, the info that Brooke was quickly scrolling past, but…it was faaar more fun to see what happened when Kristina didn’t know what was going on, nyeheheheh~

Well, she already didn’t know what was going on, so maybe Brooke was going overboard a bit? Ha! Ridiculous! Brooke was teaching her dear roommate the finer point of video games, which were primarily surrounded by not knowing a goddamn thing about what you were doing or where you were going! That’s what made them fun! The myyysteryyyy~ The susspeeeense!! The puuuzzzzles!!

Also, just watching Kristina struggle was hella amusing too. Brooke stated punching buttons. “So…what that thingy there is doing is telling us how to execute a super-rad fighting move!” Her character moved like so. “Just do what it says on the screen, punch ‘em in that sequence n’ stuffs, should work like a charm!” It didn’t take much skill, just good hand-eye coordination and good reaction time. The reaction time was going to come in handy in a few minutes. “Do it, do it! Try it!” she urged.

[Kristina Novak]

Wiping her hand on her pants, Kristina took the controller in both hands and started following Brooke. She had been expecting a little bit of a tutorial, some sort of guidelines to follow before being thrown into the game. What if she died? What if she made them lose? Kristina nodded, watching Brooke's character on the screen move as she hit buttons.

"Follow what it says? Okay." Sounded easy enough. She pressed the buttons in order, and her character responded. "hey look! I did it!" Kristina's voice raised in excitement. Too bad the harder part of the game was to come. Her hand-eye coordination and reaction time weren't terrible, as Kristina's photography skills came in handy.

She did it a couple more times. "So, is that the only move you have to know then?"

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If they lost and died….well, that was no biggie either. It was still the beginning of the game, so it wasn’t like they were going to lose any hard-earned data or nothing, and even if they were further on, that’s what save-points were for!! Video games were so much better than reality for that very reason, you didn’t have to commit, and if you screwed up, you could go back and fix it and try again and all. It was the dorks who got cocky and tried to get through the games all in one go without saving who were the real losers, because maaaaan did they pitch a fit when they finally bit it! Their poor little egos, d’awww~

“Good gooooood,” Brooke praised the young padawan when she executed the move without a hitch. She nodded and did the move herself a couple of times along side her roommate. “Ha!” she barked at the question. If only it were that easy. “If ya wanna just be a regular n00b button masher forever, then suuuuuure.” That was the only move she had to know. But it would put her at a great disadvantage. And this game was set up so that for the first few missions, it taught the player how to execute specific moves that were needed to defeat the next boss.

“C’mon! Der’s just ooone more thingy t’show you.” Brooke took off around the corner where there was one more red mark to read. “This one’s a kewl one, try it!” Though before they could do much else, a pair of wildlingy-thingies came out from opposite doors down the hallway and started slowly groaning their way towards the heroic players. “There we go! Kill it kill it!!” she urged of her partner, making little move to do it herself.

[Kristina Novak]

"What's a newb?" Kristina asked, narrowing her eyebrows together. Newb as in newbie? New to the game? In that case wasn't she one? The negative connotation completely flew over her head. She had to assume it was bad because Brooke laughed, but she just sat there in her confusion. "I should write all of this down. Have a list of everything I need to know." Because in her mind, that was the only way she was going to be able to play this game.

One more thing. Kristina nodded, solely concentrating on the screen in front of her with a serious expression. She followed Brooke's character around the corner, where there was another red mark. Kristina made the motion to follow the motion when something came from the opposite side of the hall. Her eyes widened. Killing already? But she wasn't ready!

"Oh my god... oh my god." She exclaimed, before rushing forward and hitting the buttons, hoping in a vain attempt that it was the move that would kill them. She was definitely a noob button masher.

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“Doon’t worry, everyone’s a n00b at some point(except me),” she explained. The thing was, you never wanted anyone to know you were a n00b, because there was such a stigma against beginners that often veteran players didn’t want to play with them and would ignore them no matter how nice they were. And since they couldn’t get anyone to play with them and help them out, n00bs never got any practical experience and progressed slowly, having to figure everything out themselves. And then they’d come in asking questions that nobody wanted to answer because they were such obvious questions that only a beginner would ever ask them, and then the hate would cycle all over again.

Yes, in a perfect world, n00bs would be assigned their own gaming mentor, to avoid such sad situations.

“Mm, if you want to, but this game doesn’t pause, so you might die if ya stop to try.” An unfortunate aspect of this particular game. Brooke had died many a time playing it and then suddenly being distracted by a phone call or some such things happening around her. Brooke was looking forward to seeing how Kristina handled herself when the going got tough.

“Right, yeah! Like that, kill it kill it kill it!!” she encouraged with a hoot and holler. Brooke kept her character out of danger’s way, letting Kristina have all the glory to herself. And the experience points. Wasn’t she just so generous? They were piddly little things anyway, and wouldn’t take much to die either. See? Look, one was already down! “Now the other one, go go go!”

[Kristina Novak]

"I guess that's a little reassuring." Kristina agreed with a nod. Everyone had been on her level at some point. With practice and time, they grew more experienced. Maybe one day, the Czech girl would be too, if she didn't give up after today.

It was kind of fun, actually.

Frowning, Kristina said "Oh, that's too bad. Probably the point of the game, to keep it fast paced and whatnot." If she took her time and kept pausing, it defeated the learning purpose. Of thinking on her toes. She felt the pressure, not wanting to look away from the screen for even one second in case something happened.

Her eyes widened, fully attentive. Kristina continued to press random buttons, until one fell to the ground. Victory! "Yes! I did it!" She grinned, almost forgetting about the other one until Brooke encouraged her to go for the second kill. She tried repeating the same moves from earlier, since clearly things had been going well. After a few more struggles, the second one also dropped.

"Oh my gosh, what a rush." Kristina blinked, eyes strained from the intense concentration. How did people do this all day without getting a headache? "That was so cool, did you see that? I can't believe I did that."

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Yup, everyone had! Not Brooke, though, of course(lies!). But that didn’t change the fact that Brooke had to practice a lot herself to get to the skill level she was at now for video gaming. Kristina just had to be patient, and lucky for her, she had Brooke as her guru jedi master.

“Yeaaaaaahhhhh,” she drawled out. “That’s the ooooonly thing that reeeeallly sucks about this game. There’re safe zones ’n stuff out there though. And you can save…and re-spawning points….so if ya die, all is not lost!” There were a lot of games like that where you couldn’t really save, but just re-spawned once you died. The good thing was that you never truly ‘lost’ the game…the bad part was how frustrating it was dying all the time.

But…well, if she played her cards right, the Kristina wouldn’t have to depend on a re-spawn to get through this ‘dungeon’. “Awesome! Now get the other one!” Brooke watched the action pass by on the screen with a big grin on her face and pumped a fist into the air when the second one finally went down. “Good job, mi amiga bonita~” she praised her lovely roommate, giving her a dainty pat on the head.

“There’s still more! Hurry, hurry, next room, up those stairs!” Brooke moved her character across the screen, down the hall they were stuck in, around the corner and up the stairs that were at the end. “Oh, yeah. Don’t get hit by the boulder,” she warned, as she quickly descended back down the stairs and out of the way.

[Kristina Novak]

"That's helpful too." Kristina quickly agreed, not wanting to break her concentration from the screen in front of her. Safe zones and respawns would probably end up being her lifeline later on when the video game levels got harder and harder. Because although luck was on her side right now, the game was only just beginning.

She beamed as Brooke praised her forming video game skills, a grin settling on her features. "Thank you." While Kristina didn't 100% understand the last part of what Brooke said, she had to assume it wasn't anything bad.

"More?" These video games really left little time to celebrate victories, especially the small ones in her case. The grin slipped from her expression as she followed Brooke's character down the hall. Up the stairs she went...

Then, the boulder warning. "Wait, what? Boulder?" Kristina's eyes widened with panic, a massive boulder appearing on the screen She tried to catch up and get out of the way but it was already too late; her character got hit as she neared the bottom of the stairs. Now what?