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The Gold Saucer Meme

You're at Gold Saucer. Gold Saucer! One of the most famous amusement parks ever, filled with games and adventure and party members and secrets just waiting to be discovered! This is going to be awesome!

"But what can you do here?" you might be asking. Well, let's check out the map...

Alright.

1. You can chill at Wonder Square. That's where you'd find the bulk of the arcade games, get silly prizes...like, if there's a stuffed chocobo plushie you're trying to win, you'll probably win it there. It's also a good place to meet new people and/or get your fortune told. You know, it's one of those good meeting places.

2. Or you could go to Battle Square. For the low, low, low price of 10 GP you get to enjoy an intense and really realistic fighting game, in which you go through subsequent rounds of fighting with escalating difficulty and arbitrary status effects being dropped on your party for no particular reason. For the more active types.

3. Or you could go race chocobos. Are you a jockey or otherwise involved in racing chocobos, like a chocobo stablehand, or are you more of a spectator? Either way, it's cutthroat and there's rumors that less savory people are racing in a bid to win their freedom, but that's obvious nonsense. But it's still very competitive.

4. Or you could go to the Event Square. Generally speaking, nothing's going on, but through a wacky set of circumstances we know as meme magic you'll find that your arrival timed perfectly and you'll be asked to participate in a silly play. The default is Princess Rosa being kidnapped by the Evil Dragon King Valvados, and the hero Alfred is sent to rescue her. But...well, that's just the default option. Go with whatever sort of play makes you happy.

5. If you're tired there's also Ghost Square, aka the haunted house/obligatory hotel. Yes, it's a haunted house hotel. Ill fated phasmophobiacs beware. You will not sleep.

6. But hey. If you're unable to sleep there's always Round Square, with gondolas, scenic fireworks, a pristine view of Gold Saucer in all of its glittering glory, maybe some...kissing?

7. There's also Speed Square, which consists of a roller coaster shooter that's basically what you get if you mix a roller coaster with laser tag. Good times!

8. And finally, there's dodging security because you pissed them off just that much. Had problems with the exchange rate? Screwed up the play at Event Square that much? Took Battle Square too seriously and accidentally assaulted an employee? Whatever the case may be...run. Run!

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[All options are perfectly okay -- even the Ghost Square, which he'll undoubtedly find terrifying.]

[Whoop, Gold Saucer! Good times, good times.]

[ Tifa has entered the Battle Square several times before. She knows how the game works. The key is to avoid the handicaps and she's not doing bad so far. She was poisoned after the first round and now she's lost her summon materia. But it could be worse.

She steps forward ready for the next round, raising her fists. ]

[Quistis was never much for sparring, always preferring to take out monsters in the training center over potentially hurting others (particularly after she became an instructor; it just wasn't becoming to whip someone you'd see in class the next day). This was challenging for her on several levels; she was used to status ailments, but rarely would she or her comrades let them stick for long. Not being able to use magic had taken a bigger toll on her than she had thought and she was starting to feel exhausted. A Cure or two could do wonders.

She has since decided that handicaps sucked. Handicaps sucked and she much preferred the other games that this place offered. Still, she'd been here for a while and there was no reason to just quit. Some of the prizes looked pretty good, too...

Entering the arena, she already has her whip out and gives it a menacing tug. It's more to psych herself out than anything else.]

[ Tifa takes a moment to size up her new opponent. A blonde with a whip. She doesn't look as menacing as some of the monsters Tifa has faced, but they're getting to the later stages of the battle. Nobody is a pushover. Her opponent must be tough.

Tifa's style so far has been aggressive, and she uses the same tactic now: she rushes her enemy, aiming an upper cut at the other woman's jaw. ]

The basics! Any age, your choice or leave it up to me.

I'd be especially interested in the Battle Square and on the run from security, but anything is possible.

[Bonus points if it's chocobo racing.]

Eh...?

Cissnei! Hey, Cissnei, that you?

[He waves to her through the crowd.]

[They were there, officially, on some kind of SeeD business. The others were at the hotel. Unofficially, though, unofficially...you gotta have some fun, right?]

Hey Quisty! You got ten GP I can borrow? [Dude needs to place his bets! (He's well aware of what the probable answer will be.)]

[She looks down at her hip, reaches into her pocket to the money purse she brought with her. She shakes it a little, opens it up, makes a show of how full it is.]

We were given a stipend for this assignment, Irvine. [She appears pretty unimpressed.] A more than ample one. Before I open my purse to yours, I'd just like to know exactly where yours has disappeared to.

[A pause. And, because her sense of humor is always just a little strange, she adds.] And more importantly, how you intend to pay me back if you're broke. I didn't come here unarmed, you know. [She's probably still joking.]

[...that was pretty full. Incredibly full, in fact.]

I spent some on games. [After a pause this was sheepishly amended to.] Some on Selphie. [She really wanted that one plushie, okay?

That didn't account for all of it, he knew. Or even most of it, even accounting for horrible Gil-to-GP conversion rates.] You really want to know more?

So, what you are suggesting, is that I cover a gift to impress your girlfriend? Is that it, Kinneas? [Oh, it sounds like someone is about to get the smackdown! But she pauses and dips her thumb and forefinger into the purse and hands him some.]

I expect 30% interest, which I think is more than fair. [Yet here she is, standing alone and not using what she has. Is she saving up for something, or what?] I'd go for number three, by the way. [Or maybe someone's been racking up points on the down-low.]

[Very, very interesting. He may not have been one of his students, but he can tell when there's a lesson to be learned and he aced most of his classes for a reason. (Most, not all, and no, he wasn't a model student. Far, far from.)]

Deal. [And he was going to go for six, but...] Be right back. [Taking care of the betting formalities. If three won he'd be demanding all of her secrets because this place had taken an embarrassing amount of his money and he needed to know.]

[She'd be colored an awfully strange shade of surprised if that ever came out into the open. He does often seem careless and like something of a flirt (she often considers it on the cusp of embarrassing to watch, but then again... he does seem successful at it, hm...), but she's noticed something more. Every now and then there's something rattling inside that pretty little head of his.

She pauses for a moment. Sometimes, she felt like she wasn't quite part of the crowd. They weren't all exactly paired off, but... well, Rinoa had Squall, Selphie was almost always followed around by Irvine and Zell... Zell had hotdogs. She chances a try at being more social.] Would you mind if I tagged along? Everyone else seems a little busy.

Edited (extra letters, shoo.) 2013-08-28 21:33 (UTC)

((Rita Mordio may require Dragging. She'd be great at Wonder or Battle Square.... While Ghost Square would just plain be hilarious, as would Event Square - just watch out for the "Princess Rosa" setting Valvados on fire...))

bah. He has no problem with - what again? OG available on request

Be careful of forgetfulness. Your lucky color is...blue?

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#2 alright with you?

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FISTPUMP wait it didn't occur to me if this would be a teamup or not whoops

well let me know if you'd rather they teamed up!

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Cissnei | Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

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