DE-AG-Convo-BetaSignup

-- absenteeGamer [AG] began pestering dauntlessEngineer [DE] at 15:49 --
AG: ((Are you ready?))
DE: ((Oh yes XP)
AG: Hey Jess.
DE: Howdy...
AG: Is there a problem?
DE: Well...I'm just not in a good mood right now, hombre. Some yahoo rubbed me the wrong way and I'm all more messed up than a dog after losing a fight to a bull moose.
AG: Well that sucks.
AG: Well hey, here's a bit of good news.
DE: What might that be?
AG: I've been checking the SBURB Beta site, and apparently they've started shipping out copies.
DE: Yee ha! That's a good thing indeed!
DE: But...
DE: Oh shucks, I forgot.
AG: What's the matter?
DE: Pops might not approve of me gettin' this here beta.
AG: Really?
DE: Like I said, he doesn't like "modern" technology.
AG: Oh.
DE: If he sees the disk and my name on it, he might just chuck it.
DE: I gotta make sure he doesn't!
AG: So just run out and check the mailbox early. Try and get to the mail before he does.
DE: That's the problem. The mail's always been delivered at the exact time for as long as I can remember, and pops always goes out and gets it.
DE: He's a very punctual man, too.
AG: Hm...
DE: Up at the crack of dawn, no matter how early, always in bed before it's too late.
DE: And heaven help ya if his schedule's out of alignment!
AG: Hm...
DE: I may have to get into cahoots with my brother and Balthazar to secure this here beta.
AG: Hm.
AG: I'm sorry to say I can't really relate to your dilemma.
DE: Why's that?
AG: If my mom hasn't left in the morning to go to her job, she just sends me out go get the mail.
DE: Sounds like she's a busy lady. What does she do for a livin'?
AG: It's pretty easy to hide certain envelopes and such if I really want to.
AG: And my mom works as a nurse.
DE: That's mighty fine of her to do that. Medical folks are always all right in my book.
DE: Pops doesn't always trust them on the count of there bein' corruption and bad practices and whatnot.
AG: He has no reason not to be suspicious. But my mom's good at what she does.
DE: You're better at hiding things than I am, pops is like a bloodhound. He can sniff out trouble from miles away.
AG: Wow. That's a pretty sense of... trouble... detection? I'm not entirely sure how to put that.
AG: *pretty good
DE: I'd have to agree with y'all on that. It comes from workin' on the farm.
DE: Out in these parts, you can't always rely on the police to save your skin.
DE: ((Silly question: Have you worked out your quirk yet?))
AG: ((Oops, I forgot to add the lisp. Let me do that.
AG: ))
DE: ((Great, now we have to redo the entire conversation XD I kid.))
AG: ((There, that'ss better))
DE: ((Cool, continue onwards
DE: ))
AG: Syracusse iss a pretty nice place. But not nice enough that we don't lock our door at night.
DE: Yeah, I say you always lock your door. It's just common sense and all.
AG: Indeed it iss.
DE: Or if that fails, set up a sentry! =D
AG: And pray it doessn't get ssapped.
DE: Haha, too right!
DE: But I doubt we get any SPAHS out in these parts.
DE: Nowhere to hide, and I doubt that fancy cloakin' don't last long enough for them to get too far.
DE: Unless it was somethin' like that that watch that hides you as long as you stand still.
DE: I forgot what it was called.
AG: Not really. Your ssafe to POOTISsSsPENCERTHERE.
-- dauntlessEngineer [DE] laughs --
DE: Oh, my apologies. Your lisp is just so darned adorable.
AG: Heh.
AG: Well, at leasst I find it lessss annoying now that you've ssaid that.
AG: Nice to know SSOMEBODY enjoyss it.
DE: I don't find it annoyin' at all!
DE: Y'all get used to it.
DE: I know I had to get used to my guardians' accents.
DE: In fact, I had to.
DE: I told y'all I woke up on their doorstep one day, didn't I?
AG: Yeah, you did.
AG: It'ss a pretty interessting sstory.
DE: Well, when I woke up, I couldn't speak properly.
DE: So I just started takin' in what they said, and I guess their accent just grew on me.
AG: Yeah.
DE: It was like I was a baby again...If I ever was one.
AG: But you kinda grew into your accent. I jusst sstarted off with thiss lissp.
DE: I see.
AG: SStupid one in a million sswollen tounge...
DE: Where do you think babies come--from?
DE: Oh shoot, I didn't know about that.
AG: Nah, it'ss fine.
DE: Did y'all think about a tongue transplant?
AG: I dunno, never sseemed worth it.
AG: I've gotten ussed to it, honesstly.
DE: Johnny, anything can be replaced with a little enginuity and alchemy. At least, that's what I think, but I see your point.
AG: apparently it'ss ssome rare genetic defect that sswellss up my tounge. It'ss pretty normal otherwisse.
AG: It jusst givess me that lissp.
DE: Really? Huh. At least y'all can taste better!
AG: Heh, yeah.
-- dauntlessEngineer [DE] chuckles --
DE: Y'all should be a taste tester, get a golden spoon and ensure that thing for a cool million!
AG: Ha, yeah.
AG: That'd be quite ssomething.
DE: I saw that on TV once, it's pretty impressive.
AG: Except i jusst can't SSTAND sspicy foodss. It makess my tounge tasste like it'ss bleeding.
DE: That's a shame, my brother makes a mighty fine chili.
DE: Chili dog, even!
DE: If y'all are southern and don't have a degree in spicy foods, you can hardly be considered a proper southerner at all!
AG: Heh, yeah.
DE: Of course, I exaggerate a bit, but that's the truth.
DE: One of these days you should get your tongue trained to withstand the heat, Johnny.
AG: I ssupposse I sshould. It'd certainly be a good idea.
DE: ((Happy 4:13!))
AG: ((Yaaaaaaay!))
DE: ((not that it means much, I say "Happy 4:20" to a friend of mine on MSN all the time))
DE: Heck, doesn't New York have a lot of fine eats?
AG: Yeah, it doess. Nothing like a sslice of New York City pizza.
AG: Or, heck, SStaten Issland pizza.
DE: I'm sure you can find something you can eat that's within your colerance zone.
AG: I could. I jusst need to find it.
DE: Huh, y'all need to send me a slice of that stuff, I'd like to try it.
DE: Now if only we had one of those transportalizer doohickies...
AG: Yeah.
DE: I heard only the rich can afford tech like that. I'm a bit jealous.
AG: SSame here.
DE: It's like...These guys have all this money, but not always the brains to use it right!
AG: Indeed.
AG: Hey, you sshould probably check your e-mail. The guyss who made SSBURB have sstarted ssending out Emailss with rough esstimatess of when the beta sshould arrive.
AG: Apparently I'll be getting my copy on December 7th.
DE: Really, now?
-- dauntlessEngineer [DE] checks her email --
AG: Yup.
DE: Hoo doggies, you're right!
DE: I'll let my brother know of thise little development.
DE: This, even. Shoot, I'm having terrible aim with my keyboard today.
AG: Meh, it'ss fine.
AG: I wissh I had a keyboard. Apparently my mom can get me a microphone, but sshe can't get me a keyboard. I'd certainly be able to type everything out without my lissssp.
AG: At leasst Pessterchum hass a rather decent Voice-To-Text program.
DE: Oh, y'all are using that? Wow! How do you play TF2 then?
AG: I jusst usse the voice chat. SSurprissingly I haven't been ridiculed... Too much.
DE: So...It's voice controlled?
AG: No, I have a gamepad.
DE: Oh, like an Xbox controller?
AG: ((Or iss TF2 not gamepad compatible?))
AG: Yeah, ssomething like that.
DE: ((It is, but most use the mouse for accuracy and speed))
AG: Which makess me all the more confussed ass to why I can't jusst get a keyboard.
AG: I have a mousse, a microphone, and a gamepad.
DE: Shoot, you must be pretty good to have aiming ability if you're using a controller.
AG: But not a keyboard. Go figure.
AG: It'ss okay. Notice how I tend to die a whole ton when I try playing sscout?
AG: That'ss becausse I tend to run into enemy fire by accident.
DE: I thought that was because you keep running into things that kill you. =P
AG: Becausse of the controller not being ass precisse ass a keyboard.
DE: Oh, right.
DE: Yes, most of the players use the keyboard and mouse.
AG: ((Okay, unfortunately the lissp makess a certain word look much more vulgar.
DE: Hmmm.
AG: ))
DE: ((Yes XD))
DE: ((It's not a big deal))
AG: I alsso can't really mention that I play touhou.
DE: ...Come again?
DE: Toe-hoe?
AG: Oh. It'ss a "Bullet Hell" game.
-- dauntlessEngineer [DE] tilts head --
AG: There are enemy attackss flying everywhere.
DE: Y'all have to explain that to me, Johnny. I'm familiar with bullets and familiar with hell, but not both put together.
AG: And there'ss thiss huge thing among ssome of the fanss that you can't usse game-padss.
AG: Bassically, it'ss a top down sshooter where the enemiess and bossssess fire a whole ton of bulletss at you.
AG: And there'ss a whole ton of precission dodging and ssuch.
DE: Don't you already have a heapton of bullets flyin' in TF2?
AG: ...
AG: Good point.
DE: This looks like another thing I'll have to add to my personal dictionary.
AG: But ssince it'ss an FPSS, it'ss not conssidered a "real" bullet hell game or ssomething like that.
AG: It'ss very closse though, I musst admit.
DE: What was that site you told me about? You Tub or something of that ilk?
AG: Youtube.
DE: Right, that.
DE: Hold on a sec.
-- dauntlessEngineer [DE] clicks on the first video she sees --
DE: =O
AG: Alsso, there are a whole ton of fan videoss out there that really have nothing to do with the game.
DE: Holy toledo that IS a lot of bullets!
DE: At least, I think those are bullets.
DE: They look like...Giant baseballs or something.
AG: Well, they're called "danmaku" becausse they're not real bulletss. They're more like... Bulletss made of magic.
DE: So...Magic bullets?
DE: ((RIMSHOT))
AG: Essssentially.
DE: And what is this about?
DE: Lemme just link you to what I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nb5Ohbt1Sg
DE: Some girl is fightin' another girl with horns here.
AG: The touhou sseriess iss very sstrange, honesstly.
DE: Shootin' what appears to be blue footballs.
AG: It'ss pretty fun, actually.
DE: I guess...
DE: Feels like something from another planet.
DE: And now she's shootin' these giant bubbles at the player.
AG: Well, it'ss a Japanesse game. I hope that explainss... Well even a little bit.
DE: Japanese, huh?
AG: Yeah.
DE: I know for a fact those people are just plain out of their minds.
AG: Well, I can't quite dissagree with you.
DE: Funny thing is, I know about Japan yet I don't know how I wound up here. How does that work?
AG: I honesstly don't know.
-- dauntlessEngineer [DE] shrugs --
DE: So y'all are saying Toe-Hoe is a series?
AG: Yeah. There are 13 gamess.
DE: or at least some other franchise?
DE: Wow, that's a lot.
AG: Indeed it iss.
DE: Just...Looking at this here movie, it just looks like there's so much going on...I can't keep up with it. =(
AG: Neither can I mosst of the time.
DE: Regular shootin' games I can get, but not this.
AG: I've alwayss found the gamess rather difficult.
DE: I can imagine...How am I supposed to dodge all that?
AG: I mosstly play them when I feel like I'm in the mood for getting frusstrated.
DE: Really, now.
AG: It'ss ridiculouss, I know, but ssometimess it'ss rather fun to be frusstrated.
DE: Personally, I play games because I get frustrated. Gotta unwind.
AG: Of coursse.
AG: I play gamess to relax ass well.
DE: Heh, you and I are a lot alike, it seems.
AG: Yeah.
DE: 'Cept you're a city boy and I'm stuck out here in the sticks.
AG: Well, I'm not ENTIRELY a city boy. But ssomething closse to it, I ssupposse.
DE: Suburban boy?
AG: Yeah.
AG: That ssoundss about right.
DE: All righty then.
DE: Uh...
DE: Question.
AG: Yeah?
DE: Why in tarnation is this girl firin' financial notes at the player?
AG: I guessss thosse are ssuppossed to be ssealss or ssomething?
AG: Like, magical binding cardss?
AG: Or ssomething like that?
AG: I honesstly have no idea.
DE: I wouldn't know anything about that. The only instance "magic" and "cards" were used in the same sentence was when someone in TF2 was blabbin' on and on about his collection of Poh-kay-man or somesuchs.
DE: Remove that last 's' there, Johnny.
DE: Sheesh.
AG: Bluh, I never got into that sseriess.
DE: How hard do I have to work to get proper punctuation to come out of my fingers here?
AG: I don't even know.
-- dauntlessEngineer [DE] sighs --
DE: Oh well. We're only human after all.
DE: Unlike these girls in this video.
AG: They're, like, sspiritss or demonss or ssomething.
DE: Oh shoot, now we're gettin' into the occult here?
DE: Pops would blow a gasket if he heard--
DE: Oh shoot!
DE: I gotta go, I'll be right back.
AG: Alright.
DE: ==> Later that day...
DE: So sorry about that, Johnny! Pops needed a hand with the tractor.
AG: Alright, it'ss fine.
AG: I figured out what the enemiess actually are.
AG: They're mosstly fairiess and "youkai".
DE: Fairies?
DE: Like in fairy tales?
AG: SSort of.
AG: Except they're immortal and ridiculoussly weak.
AG: And Youkai are Japanesse monssterss of ssome kind.
DE: So...They're like roaches.
AG: Yeah, bassically.
DE: Japanese monsters, huh?
AG: Yeah.
DE: Like Godzilla?
AG: No, though that would be hilariouss
AG: They're human-like monssterss that apparently eat humanss or ssomething.
DE: I'll bet. =P I personally would not want to be in that lizard's neighborhood.
DE: ...COme again?
DE: Darned shift key!
AG: You read that right. I ssaid thiss iss a sstrange sseriess.
DE: Yeeeeah...I think I'll just...Keep this game at arm's length for now.
AG: I don't blame you.
DE: If I wanna shoot some varmits, I'll do it on TF2 or in Ratchet and Clank.
AG: Yeah, ssoundss good.
DE: That boy's just a sweetheart.
DE: He's a big kitty with a big wrench and a heapload of guns!
AG: What'ss not to enjoy?
DE: The little robot's cute too I guess.
DE: Except that spy-fi adventure, I didn't like that too much.
DE: Too much sneakin' and not enough shootin'.
DE: As I stated before, I'm none too good at hidin'. It's like bad luck to me.
AG: Yeah.
DE: I sometimes wish I had a cloakin' device like the spies do, then I could hide all I wanted. =P But, I'm no coward. I'm a Callahan, and Callahans do not run!
AG: Heck yeah1
AG: *yeah!
DE: Or in the case we do run, we run while shootin'!
AG: Yeah, that'ss one example where you're different from me. I try to diplomatically work thingss out
AG: I've alwayss been good at befriending people.
DE: Really, now? That's mighty good to hear.
DE: Prolly why you and I seem to have kicked it off so well.
AG: ((conssidering the +11 to chumming...))
DE: ((lolwhat))
AG: ((I am entirely sseriouss here))
DE: ((How did you get that high, double training?))
AG: ((A +8 due to classss and asspect bonussess, combined with a +3 to Pulchritude))
DE: ((oh, so it is training bonuses, cool))
AG: I'd expect that.
DE: Not to say I can't make friends either...
AG: I know.
AG: I never implied otherwisse.
DE: But it's kinda hard to make friends out here in the middle of no man's land.
AG: Yeah, I ssupposse that'd be difficult.
DE: Say...How good are you with machines, Johnny?
AG: Not the greatesst, honesstly.
DE: Ah...I was thinkin' something mighty crazy. Loco, even!
AG: What were you thinking?
DE: I was thinking I'd make a heap of those transportalizers, and send them to all my amigos on pesterchum.
DE: Then I could see them whenever I like!
DE: Including you!
AG: That'd be nice...
DE: Does that sound...Too unfeasible?
AG: Ot
DE: I mean, I can fix things, but...
AG: BLUH HIT ENTER TOO SSOON
AG: It'd certainly be nice.
-- dauntlessEngineer [DE] chuckles --
DE: Y'all mean that? Honestly?
AG: Yeah. It would be nice.
-- dauntlessEngineer [DE] smiles --
DE: That makes me happier than a squirrel in a nut bin!
AG: That'ss good to hear.
DE: That tears it, I'm gonna scrap together these machines and make our own little transportalizer network thingamajig!
AG: ((Ass you can ssee, Johnny iss already sslightly infatuated))
DE: ((heh))
DE: ((and they didn't even see each other yet))
AG: ((Yeah. He really likess her perssonality))
AG: Yeah. I'll try and ssupport the effort however I can.
DE: Y'all are sweet, Johnny.
AG: Thankss.
DE: I'll see what I can find about how to make a transportalizer doohickey.
AG: ((SSo I'm going to assssume that Jessssie iss probably going to sserver Johnny. Or vice verssa))
DE: ((We'll see))
DE: ((I think we'll establish the server chain when we meet on the 30th))
AG: ((They certainly sseem to be closse friendss. Or ass closse ass two people on the internet can get))
AG: Alright.
DE: I'll ask my brother and see if he can help out any.
DE: Oh, and Johnny?
AG: Yeah?
DE: Thanks a bundle for your kind words. It makes me happy.
AG: No problem. I jusst try and be kind whenever I can.
DE: Well, keep doin' that, amigo. =)
DE: I'll talk to you later, aight?
AG: Alright Jessss.
AG: Talk to you later.
-- dauntlessEngineer [DE] chucles --
DE: chuckles, even
DE: You sound like a snake when you say that!
AG: Heh, I ssupposse I do.
AG: Bye.
DE: Adios!
-- dauntlessEngineer [DE] is now offline --
-- absenteeGamer [AG] ceased pestering dauntlessEngineer [DE] at 17:11 --