Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

by **Shari** » Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:10 pm

But Shari isn't listening for Natalie's linguistic device, she's busy making her way into the arena, blinking her eyes as they shift into ones more suited for the dim lighting and rushing ahead with her laser-gun at the ready.

by **Natalie Denisov** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 1:47 am

Natalie tries to keep up, not at all used to this sort of thing as her posture and the way she holds the gun clearly shows.

by **Shari** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 6:34 pm

To Shari's credit, she doesn't rush too far ahead, sticking with Natalie.

"Hey, psst, Nat!" she stage-whispers. "Can't you use your computer-mojo to sense where their gear is?"

by **Natalie Denisov** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 6:46 pm

"I could," she whispers back, "but that would be cheating!"

by **Shari** » Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:05 am

"So's having opposable thumbs. It's Alien Assault, not Fair Match."

by **Natalie Denisov** » Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:10 pm

"But... Alright, fine." She stretches out her senses, losing track of the game around her for a moment. The vests are pretty rudimentary as devices go, but they do need to communicate a central hub. And because they're laser tag vests, no one gives a shit about their communication security. "Two ahead, second opening on the right."

by **Shari** » Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:25 pm

Shari grins and does a completely unnecessary combat roll and blasting away at the two completely startled people.

"Cower before the might of the Skrull Empire!" she laughs.

by **Natalie Denisov** » Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:27 pm

Natalie shrugs and follows after, taking a few shots at someone who tries to come at them from another direction. "Having fun?"

by **Shari** » Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:36 pm

"Yeah, it's silly and harmless. Are you?"

by **Natalie Denisov** » Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:39 pm

"Yeah. Not a lot of challenge in it when I can tell where their vests are though." Foreknowledge doesn't mean reflexes though as she turns to level at someone incoming and they beat her to the draw, making her vest buzz.

by **Shari** » Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:05 pm

"Aww dang!" Shari exclaims, spinning around and firing wildly at Natalie's attacker.

by **Natalie Denisov** » Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:17 pm

The person's vest buzzes in response just as he's drawing a line on Shari. "I can sense the reset," Natalie says, "Have to back up and wait for it. Gun won't work until that happens." Then she whispers, "Another one sneaking around from the left."

by **Shari** » Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:15 pm

"Ha-hah!" Shari startles the guy as she's blasting. And sure, they're cheating a little but it's all in good fun and Shari leans hard into playing the role of, well, Alien Invader and soon they have people running scared. That, combined with Shari's general loudly goofing around soon has people teaming up against them as she continues to play the role of, well, alien invader, getting tagged plenty of times before the lights come on.

by **Natalie Denisov** » Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:33 am

"That was a thing," Natalie says, a little winded from keeping up with Shari. "You did good."

by **Shari** » Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:15 pm

"This is pretty fun when it's not for real." Shari grins.

by **Natalie Denisov** » Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:59 pm

"More like it is in the movies, I guess," Natalie smiles.

by **Shari** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 4:05 pm

"Something like that, yeah. Alright! What's next? Anything you wanna do? I looked up some places that play the kinda music you like..."

by **Natalie Denisov** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 4:34 pm

"I think I'd like to find some place to sit for a bit," she laughs.

by **Shari** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 4:23 pm

"Well, that's easy. Come on, we'll find a park bench or somethin'." she says, taking Natalie's hand and tugging on it as she walks backwards.

by **Natalie Denisov** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:22 pm

"Okay," Natalie says, readily allowing herself to be led, since Shari obviously knows London better than she does.

by **Shari** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:42 pm

Shari leads her to a small park, almost a little wedged between buildings with a small metal gate that's really more decorative. It's a weirdly cozy kind of path, trees and bushes mostly obscuring the sides of the buildings.

by **Natalie Denisov** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:03 pm

"This is a nice place," Natalie says, looking around. "How'd you find it?"

by **Shari** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:19 pm

"I slept here for a while till it got too cold out."

by **Natalie Denisov** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:35 pm

"Oh," Natalie says, a little subdued, "I should have known that. Sorry."

by **Shari** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:52 pm

"Hey, what, no, it's fine. I like this spot. Sleeping outside on the grass is great if the weather's nice with the wind blowing through the leafs."

by **Natalie Denisov** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:06 am

"Okay, if you say so," Natalie says, "Mum tried to take me camping once. It wasn't my cup of tea."

by **Shari** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 6:11 pm

"It's about the freedom. Do whatever you want, no one expecting anything of you or yelling at you or anything."

by **Natalie Denisov** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 6:14 pm

"I can kind of get that. I just didn't like having my stuff around."

by **Shari** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 7:07 pm

"You just need to build yourself a camping body then that has, like, a mini-workbench fold out from your torso and some tools in the fingertips." Shari chuckles.

by **Natalie Denisov** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 7:14 pm

"Not a terrible idea, if I could get the design right," Natalie says with a smirk.

by **Shari** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 7:22 pm

"Ooh, can you make it also transform into an off-road motorcycle?"

by **Natalie Denisov** » Fri Jan 31, 2020 7:28 pm

"I think I'll save the transforming for a phase four or phase five prototype," she quips.

by **Shari** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 5:44 pm

"Fiiiine, but what's the point of a mobile workbench if it can't drive around?" she chuckles.

by **Natalie Denisov** » Mon Feb 03, 2020 1:52 am

"I mean, it could fly instead."

by **Shari** » Mon Feb 03, 2020 4:16 pm

"Okay, I'm listening!" Shari laughs.

by **Natalie Denisov** » Mon Feb 03, 2020 4:32 pm

"Well, I could..."

What follows is a long, rather technical explanation of how one could rig a robot body to fly.

"... but right now, the power requirements are the major problem. I can't stuff enough batteries in the body to make flying viable."

by **Shari** » Mon Feb 03, 2020 4:51 pm

Shari nods along even though she follows roughly none of the specifics.

"So the problem's the power source if you wanna brute-force it or gravity if you wanna be clever."

by **Natalie Denisov** » Mon Feb 03, 2020 4:57 pm

"More or less, yeah. Gravity's a big part of the whole 'problem' no matter which way you come at it," she says, adjusting her seating on the bench to be a bit more relaxed.

by **Shari** » Mon Feb 03, 2020 5:05 pm

"Well, I don't know how it works, but I do know our ships use some kind of gravity bullshit for atmospheric flight cause everything else is just a waste of reactor power that could go into weapons, shields and cloaking..."

by **Natalie Denisov** » Mon Feb 03, 2020 5:13 pm

"I would *love* to get my hands on something like that," Natalie says wistfully. Then she shrugs, "But I'll work with what I've got."

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