LLAS Ch45

Player presents rules to gang before competition starts. 48 hours to code, need to follow theme, whole thing has to be live streamed. Gang wants to stock the room w/ food and water, so they don't have to cook or anything later. School clubs + friends + rest of school offering various forms of support like guides, compiled info, food, etc. Flashback to Tsumugi (new npc) saying that cheering is imposing your own ego on other people.

Day of competition, Ayumu reassures Player once again and gives us homemade food. Competition is starting. Theme for contest is... Dreams. Dog, judges are trolling. We decide on a rhythm game that includes all Nijigaku songs. Something something Fulton already made the joke something SIF haha.

Rina makes reasonable decision to make a single song for testing first. Everyone wants their song to be the test, but make MC choose. Something something Fulton already made the joke something selfinsert coward can't choose. Ended up randomly picking one. Out of food from Ayumu, hungry, go out to eat, Rina and Mia want burg.

Lanzhu, Emma, & Karin meet us at restaurant. They praise Rina for being a good leader, a job usually delegated to MC. After food, Rina recommends to take it easy since made good progress. Pace themselves since 48 hours. Tsumugi's watching the stream of the game jam and she wonders how far they'll get. ??? Anime villain speech.

"Don't you feel like something's missing in all that support? Don't you want more? How long can you keep holding onto your beliefs?"

Rina asks MC if they can help w/ balance since they're ahead of schedule. While working w/ Rina, MC takes her aside and asks if she's having issues. Rina ends up admitting she wants to make another game, but it's not like this one is bad. She wanted more of a cooperative game, a strandlike if you would. Okay that's not true. She said something easy enough for anyone to get into, but you gotta team up to do stuff. Something to connect w/ everyone and where they can all enjoy themselves together. Anyways MC says lets talk to Setsuna and Mia.

Setsuna and Mia feel like they did kind of roll over Rina initially when giving their thoughts on the theme. And about 1/2 way into the gamejam, we decide to trash our progress and make a new game. Pretty psycho. I don't think this is inherently bad for game dev, but in a 48hr game jam? GL. As for the type of game, they discuss what genre fits Rina's desires. MC brings up the match 4(3) mikan game Chika recommended. A falling object puzzle game. Setsuna starts actually huffing and puffing for the details and background setting for the game. Everyone's a hero protecting earth, giant monster portal in sky, work together to fill gauge that unleashes giant beam to destroy it. Tsumugi says mfw they're starting over just cause Rina asked. Says how can she bring herself to do this.

Everyone's hyped to see whether the train wreck will succeed or not. Things going decently, but we're at 35% prog by MC's guesses and less than 24 hours to go. Decide to take turns getting 3 hours naps and not pull an allnighter. Kinda weird once again. As someone who's worked on projects that were tied closely together w/ others, this is just silly. If you're going to sleep at all, just all sleep at the same time. I mean obviously sometimes you gotta compile shit and can't do anything, but more likely you're gonna want immediately response for things.

MC heads out to nap, Tsumugi stops us on the way to talk. Says pretty risky to toss out the almost completed game. Asks them how/why they can give so much supporting Rina. It's a game jam. Chill. Worse case is the game is uncomplete/a little stinky. Rina has the popularity base it won't really matter anyways if she just works and completes the game afterwards. Anyways MC says they're friends w/ Rina and loves school idols. Tsumugi asks what if they stop wanting to be idols and do something else. MC says they'll support em anyways cause they're friends and not just a basic bitch. Tsumugi goes emo, and says she should have been this supportive and leaves after giving them some food. Ayumu calls MC and says hopes she's not interrupting their rest, but wanted to give them her support and not push too hard even though she knows they will anyways. MC says not to worry, she still has a secret weapon, one last cookie from Ayumu saved up. Ayumu and MC schedule a date after this.

Prog report, they've just cleared Double Dragons and there's only God King Thordin left w/ 3 more lockout sessions (80% complete, 6 hours left). Everyone's hyped for world's first. They finish final checks 5 minute before submission, struggle to login into Canvas to submit their assignment for a minute and then turn it in 30s before the day changes and the professor marks them late.

2nd Place. Neverland stole the clear. SMH dirty cactbot abusers. After, Rina ends up holding another game tourney w/ the game they made. Everyone's fangirling for her and Rina thanks MC for all her help, support, and emotional therapy. Slide back to Kanata wondering what to do about the baking contest. Tsumugi walks in and implication is that she's about to ask if she can partner up.