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[springforth]

Who: Persephone, Zetta
Where: Mostly Game Coach
When: Fiddlesticks Day 20
What: Gaming and blatant flirting within
Warnings: None so far


It's a quiet day, not much to do after her real chores (laundry) and her personal made up chores (going the greenhouse plant by plant, making something to eat if there's only meat on offer, reading something vaguely educational). She's even mostly done with her entirely personal things (stringing up shells on a vine in her cabin).

So it's reached peak boredom and it's either fight for a chance to pick a movie in the cinema or bug a certain someone about the VR games. Hair, up in a bun for 'out of her face'-ness. Finally out of her orange--not that the denim shorts and top have much color to them. She wraps on the coat, ties it loosely around her and decides it will have to do. Anything but orange. Wandering up and down the cars, she finally finds him--or rather one of his minions. Who can hopefully lead her to him.

"So where is he lurking at?"

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[badassfreakingoverlord]

Zetta was never ridiculously hard to find -- particularly since he'd claimed the garden as his personal domain and stationed minions at the door. On her approach from there, the guard minion saluted, and directed her inside.

That was how Persephone got a rare treat: the sight of the Overlord floating in midair, fast asleep. She didn't get to enjoy it for long, though; a minion nudged the Overlord, who woke up and fell out of the air in the same moment.

"What the...?"

[springforth]

Honestly, she didn't know that he slept. It seemed like a thing he shouldn't need to do but maybe he just liked to. She's about to turn and leave him to his nap when he wakes with a sudden drop. She scrambles to catch him, bumping her knee in the process

"You didn't have to wake him!" She loudly whispers at the Prinny, as if he is still asleep.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Hey, if it's a choice between boredom-napping and you, wake me every damn time." That almost sounded sincere, perhaps because Zetta was distracted by yanking himself back up into midair and a proper float once again. "So hey, hot stuff, what's got you here?"

[springforth]

Flattering as it might be, he loses point with what comes out of his mouth next.

"I have a name, you know." She steps back enough to brush off and glance around the car. Why anyone called it a garden, she'd never know.

"I was bored and wondered if you wanted to teach me the game like you suggested?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

A minion sauntered over to scoop Zetta out of the air and into the usual grip. "I'm all for it, 'Sephe!" the Overlord said brightly. There, he used her name (sort of).

[springforth]

"Sephe? That's a new one. Well as long as it's not Persie."

She brushes back a wisp of hair and smiles crookedly and gestures back to the next car.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Huh? You're not a 'Persie'." Don't ask him why; Zetta hewed to all sorts of opinions he'd never examined but would defend to the death anyway.

But, leading the way! By now the sight of a minion carrying a book had gotten downright mundane...

[springforth]

"You don't have to tell me that. I definitely know."

The opinion wins him a warm smile as she follows him through to the next car and up the stairs.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"How could anyone else NOT?"

The idea that Persephone might be less aggressively sassy to other people than to him never crossed his mind.

Anyway, though -- Zetta led the way up the stairs, and thence to the consoles in the roped-off area. "Okay, so you gotta wear these headsets and then grab the controls."

[springforth]

"Some people don't actually care what I think about it."

But really who wants to think about that asshole. Not her. Persephone wanders over to the headset and makes a face, tugging her hair out of a bun when she figures out where it will sit. She puts it on, reaching for the controls only to realize her mistake and tugging it up again

"Are you doing to play with me? Can you even?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Hyaaaha ha ha ha ha! Witness the power of an Overlord! ...who picked up this particular power on becoming a god involuntarily, but still!" The minion set Zetta in midair, then popped the headset onto him. Not comfortably, because it wasn't designed for a book, but hey, what's one more indignity?

Then, the minion grabbed the controllers, taking up a position next to him.

[springforth]

With a giggle at his ridiculousness, she picks up the controller and pops back on the headset, immediately looking around. It--disorienting at first, but quickly, she's turning and looking to find what's behind her, like it might be in real life.

"What--Which game are we playing? Please tell me there are instructions."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Knight Quest," Zetta said, already prompting his minion telepathically to go through the selection screens. "It starts off really simple, there's a tutorial."

[springforth]

"Okay, sounds alright?" What's a knight. Never mind, she'll figure it out.

"We could try the racing game sometime. I've driven a car." Once. Based on reading books. She really wishes there'd been a book about how to play games so she didn't look like a complete idiot.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Yeah, but in this one we work together. Figured that'd be a better start for you."

PLEASE. Ignore the fact that Zetta had a considerate thought and even acted on it. It was just so he could score! Honest! Definitely no other motive there!

[springforth]

"Oh. Thanks. I was positive you were going to try to wipe the floor with me." She grins, not that he can see it. Not that she can see him. When it comes up with the option to skip the tutorial, she denies, settling in to learn how this silly thing works.

"Okay--so I..." She presses the tutorial forwards, taking it in quickly but not exactly with any skill. There's a lot fumbling if he can see her, five wild whacks of a digital sword to get it connect. But it does! Eventually!

"Why didn't someone make any people with powers? I could just sit here and restrain things, no walking right up to them required!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You can do that in real life too," Zetta said, right now merely spectating since he'd been through all this before. It was a little boring, mostly because she hadn't gotten to character customization yet. "Gaming's all about playing by new rules and new limitations."

[springforth]

"I thought it was to beat things up in the most silly way possible. That's how Hermes always talks about it."

Her attention on him is middling at best while she tries her best to learn, but finally--finally she gets through the tutorial. When the character customization screen pops up, she pokes through the options.

"Do I make myself as a human or go wild? Seems like I should go wild, right?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Of course! Go freaking wild, 'Sephe!" She can't see him spin happily in midair thanks to the goggles, but rest assured it happened.

[springforth]

"Of course." She might not be outright laughing, but there's certainly a giggle in her voice. Tall as she can possibly make it. Just let her be tall. And of course she's that person who spends ages making sure the outfit is right. Too many options.

"Did you go looking like yourself or did you have fun with it? Quick, black or red?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Red," he blurted, caught off guard by the sudden questions. "I kind of look like myself, but that's because I'm gorgeous, and haven't looked like myself for a few years now. Kinda miss it. The game can't come close, but you take what you can get, y'know?"

At least she sounds like she's enjoying herself. That's a good sound.

[springforth]

"I thought you might. I am enormously curious what you you like, I admit. Just because I can't picture what you might look like from a voice. You're tall, right? Everyone is taller than me. Mostly." Not Della or children but PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE ELSE.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You're gonna miss the real glory. The flaming hair, the mana power swirling around my feet, the endless universe within my cloak! I'm telling you, you're missing OUT!" Of course he was in a hurry to talk himself up.

"Being short's nothing if you've got the attitude, though, you know."

[springforth]

"Flaming hair seems like overkill. If you have the power, flaunting it in ALL the ways seems like a bit much. Please tell me you just do that for effect, not all the time."

Of course, she can't help but poke at his bragging. It's hard not to.

"Being short got a lot easier once I learned how to fly. I just can't help but think it helps with the presence. I want to be someone you take seriously someday. Easier with height."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Hey, when you're so powerful mana literally sloshes around you because there's so much of it, stuff happens..." Zetta trailed off, then, a thoughtful look on his face.

"Uh, is that a generic 'you' or a 'me' you?"