Ohh, I see. Sounds like it should be worth giving a shot, then.
[Now for whether they would be playing as a team or against one another... maybe even both depending on how many games they decide to play with the laser tag.]
If your aim's at least decent, you might put up a good challenge.
[Of course he's taunting him. If another group wants to go in there as a team vs team, then they'll kind of not have a choice, but if it's just them, then they can either 1v1 or go versus AI opponents.]
[Manjoume wouldn't want someone potentially going easy on him just because it's his birthday anyway, as he also blows off the training offer pretty quickly too.]
Pfft, I don't need training lessons. As long as I know how to use the laser tag gun, I'm sure I could figure it out pretty easily from there.
[That'd be a sucky waste of time to have Manjoume screw up a minute after getting in there. Bakugou ducks his head slightly to check the lot number as he pulls his car into the entertainment sector's parking lot. It's a pretty big place, even if he's mostly focusing on the game and rec centers.]
Out.
[Time to see what Manjoume's got. Once they get in an all.]
[Manjoume doesn't need to be told twice--upon realizing they've arrived, Manjoume has already begun unbuckling his seatbelt, already hopping out of the car just as Bakugou tells him to get out.
So maybe he is a little excited, like any teenager probably would be on comimg here as opposed to being completely indufferent. Sue him. (Or don't, he has no money from the Manjoume family to pay off lawsuits right now.)
And okay maybe he does get a little distracted as they go inside the game center, looking around at what's available, but thankfully not so much in a way that he tries to drift off somewhere away from Bakugou's side to look closer at said games just yet.
They have laser tag to try first, because Manjoume was in fact serious about playing and proving himself here. Not that it should be that difficult--he managed to figure out how to use a harpoon gun when they were fighting those whale kaiju a few months back, so this should practically be a cakewalk in comparison!]
[Tch, it's good to see the guy get excited about something like this. Manjoume always tries to carry himself proud and broody, but Bakugo's seen he's got plenty of stupid goofy under his surface. Given his history, the duelist never really got to have "fun" as he grew up, huh. Stuck living in someone else's demands for him. Bakugo knows someone else like that...
The game center's pretty large, with sections for various games all over the place. Sports games like basketball and bowling, racing games with those big plastic motorcycles and car seat setups, shooters with both rail-types and free gun handling, fighting arcade games (generic or knock off series...), skill games for massive points, the VR corner for fully immersive experiences, a physical section with rock climbing walls and obstacle courses, and a lot more. Anything and everything to distract people from the struggles of living in Neo Tokyo.
Bakugo heads for another large section in the back where they house the laser tag fields.] They have two physical courses and the rest are all VR for augmented play.
Well, if we're going to do VR, then we should do a setting we haven't done yet before from training in the VR courses back at the base to keep things interesting... but, if we do the physical course, I guess that wouldn't really be a concern at all.
Lets do the physical course first. [Let Manjoume get a feel for how it works before throwing in the distraction of multiple landscapes and obstacles.
Bakugou heads up the stairs, taking them to another bunch of games and entertainments. There's even a theater to the side, but it's only an offshoot of the main theater elsewhere.] They've got a good court downstairs if you wanna eat there.
[Physical course it is! Manjoume follows Bakugou up the stairs and takes in all of the games and the theater that they pass on the way... does the theater have anything good playing? Maybe he will look later. As for the food court--]
If we work up an appetite while we're here then yeah, we can check it out and see if they have anything good, even if it is probably junk food.
[There's plenty to do here for someone bored or looking to get away from the stress Neo Tokyo can bring out. As for the theater, probably? Don't expect to find any disaster films or monster films though. (Assuming.) Bakugou isn't a big movie person. He's picky if he's going to spend two hours doing something like that...]
If you wanna go to another restaurant, we can. [Junk food would help the soul, not the body. Still, it's Manjoume's day, so he calls the shots. The laser tag is up ahead, sporting a gaudy wall of lights and shapes covering the entire area. With two small doors on either side of the contained entertainment.]
[Manjoume also doesn't actually watch that many movies... at least not any that don't end up involving Duel Monsters. The exception to this is romance movies because Fubuki got him to watch some as part of his "teaching the ways of love with Fubuki-shishou" nonsense lessons, but he sure as hell not going to be looking for any to watch here while he's with Bakugou.
Once they reach the physical laser tag course, he's looking over the equipment with interest, and seems to actually be listening intently enough when the (probably not paid enough for this judging by their bored tone) employee explains the rules and how the game is meant to be played while not even looking up from the magazine that they're currently reading. But that's fine, since it looks like it's just going to be the two of them playing right now, and thus they don't need to really be that concerned about whether or not other people around them are bothering to pay attention to the rules either when Manjoume turns his attention to Bakugou once they've been given the all clear to enter and start.]
[Bakugou's the same, wanting to watch movies that deal with heroes and/or go for action or thrillers. He likes to be invested and excited when he's waiting a film, not rolling his eyes or feeling like it's stupid. Count him out on sappy romance films or even most comedies and dramas. Those'll get him snarling and abandoning it in a moment.
He's played before so while the employee is droning on about his speech, Bakugo helps Manjoume with the equipment. In that he throws it at his face and expect the duelist to catch it. A vest over the shoulders connects around the waist and chest. A belt about the hips with fasteners hooking around the knees. Sleeves from shoulder to wrist with similar ties. Along each of these clothing items are strips, and adorning those strips are small flat lights. Beneath the vest, two corded wires plug into the battery pack and sensor unit sewn into the back's underside. These cords link from the back to the elbow and down the forearm to a separate wristband. Before protruding out to be plugged into the laser pistols in each hand. Dual wield, hell yeah.]
One more thing.
[A visor headset and mic attaches to the vest under the collar, linking up all three sets of items. Sensor fields tie in everything, allowing the guns to fire lasers and be picked up by the lights on the clothes. The headset displays the status of the opponent, including how many lights (targets) they have remaining and the time, as well as how many opponents there are. The gun has three settings: a normal pistol shot for medium range, a rifle for sniping long range, and a shotgun blast at short range.]
[Thankfully, Manjoume does catch the equipment being tossed at his face without whiffing it. He watches Bakugou and copies with how to wear said equipment and headset, and once he has his own gun in hand (singular, for now, as he's keeping one of the laser pistols holstered instead of dual wielding just yet...), he speaks.]
Good. Let's do this.
[At the green light to go, Manjoume doesn't immediately rush into the designated area guns blazing, but is immediately looking for a good place to scope out and strategize from once he has a layout of the laser tag area. Basically, playing in a similar fashion to how he tends to duel: making sure he's watched his enemy first and setting up the right cards that will set off the most explosive finishing moves against a target. Whether or not this pays off in laser tag, however, remains to be seen...]
[Rather than set the up to go against each other, Bakugou elected for a targeting round, where robotic guns pop out of different areas and take shots at the two of them. If a shot lands, it'll light up the nearest light on the target's clothing, but only once per shot. No splash damage. Their score results in how many of their opponents they take out and how many shots they took in the process.
Once Manjoume takes his spot to scope out the area, Bakugou opts to duck behind cover and give the hallways a quick scan. With the black lights and neon paint, he can't see any "holes" where the guns would pop out. Apparently they change locations between games, so no point in trying to remember where from his last time here. He abruptly bolts out from his scoping spot and blitzes down the hall. Guns emerge from the darkness almost as quickly and Bakugou rebounds off his hands to jump through the air, twisting as he snaps off shot after shot before landing and vanishing behind another shelter.
[It's after Bakugou dashes behind another shelter that Manjoume makes his own move, taking this as an opportunity to move from his own shelter to shoot at the two targets that have yet to retract back into the holes and score points from those before they can redirect to aim toward whim..
The next round of targets proceed to pop out as a result, and Manjoume quickly tries to scatter several shots as he runs to the next shelter he spots to duck down behind.
3 out of 5 go down once more, not unlike Bakugou's prior attempt.]
[Hmph, Manjoume does have some aiming proficiency. Where the hell did he learn that? Or why. They don't have to throw their cards very far to land the Duel Disk. A hobby? As the two guns sink back into the wall, Bakugou pokes his head out to look into the following hallway, keeping a gun cocked in case he has to cover Manjoume's final evasion.
As soon as those targets spring to life, Bakugou snaps off shots at the guns swinging down to capitalize on Manjoume's target shots. Each one goes back into the wall before it gets a chance to fire at the duelist, though that prevents them from getting any further targets outside of Manjoume's group.]
[You can thank the training he's been doing in simulations back at base for Manjoume getting better at aiming, ever since the first Kaiju they fought that he needed to hit with a harpoon gun.]
Yeah, we are. [Manjoume looks around trying to remember where the remaining four are still located, before he turns his attention to Bakugou again.]
You wanna try taking the left side this time while I take the ones on the right?
[Bakugou's not going to rag on him for putting that practice to good use. Now that he's got his Duel Monsters back, even if not completely akin to his world, Manjoume's gotten better and better. Hell of the hero's ever going to say it, but he rather likes watching the duelist duel in battle. His options are pretty damn flexible.]
No. Those things will focus on the person moving. I'll go through and draw their fire. You take out the top two. [He'll handle the lower pair. Manjoume's good enough to snipe the upper guns. Bakugou waits for affirmation before blitzing down the hall again, twisting onto his back mid-lunge to fire at the guns taking aim.]
[Manjoume keeps an eye on the targets carefully, and once Bakugou takes off, Manjoume is quick to do the same when the best moment to do so strikes, the upper targets aiming as Bakugou quickly disposes of the lower targets first. Before the top two can take the chance to hit Bakugou in retaliation, Manjoume manages to shoot at them both, bringing both of them down!]
[Bakugou hits the ground and rolls, bounces back to his feet, and stands up, not even bothering to dash for cover, showing a distinct trust (and expectation) that Manjoume will cover him. He turns to glance at the targets as they retreat back into the darkness. No lights on either of their bodies. Not bad. Ten out of ten without a hit taken. That's what he likes to see.] We're gonna wipe this place out without a fucking strike.
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[Bakugo's played solo several times in order to get a workout of his reaction and aiming skills, as well as vent some irritation in the process.]
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[Now for whether they would be playing as a team or against one another... maybe even both depending on how many games they decide to play with the laser tag.]
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[Of course he's taunting him. If another group wants to go in there as a team vs team, then they'll kind of not have a choice, but if it's just them, then they can either 1v1 or go versus AI opponents.]
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[Taunting you right back!]
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[Screw birthday etiquette! Manjoume's going down.]
You better let me know now if you need some training lessons before you go in.
[Mature friends. That's what they are.]
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[Manjoume wouldn't want someone potentially going easy on him just because it's his birthday anyway, as he also blows off the training offer pretty quickly too.]
Pfft, I don't need training lessons. As long as I know how to use the laser tag gun, I'm sure I could figure it out pretty easily from there.
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[That'd be a sucky waste of time to have Manjoume screw up a minute after getting in there. Bakugou ducks his head slightly to check the lot number as he pulls his car into the entertainment sector's parking lot. It's a pretty big place, even if he's mostly focusing on the game and rec centers.]
Out.
[Time to see what Manjoume's got. Once they get in an all.]
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So maybe he is a little excited, like any teenager probably would be on comimg here as opposed to being completely indufferent. Sue him. (Or don't, he has no money from the Manjoume family to pay off lawsuits right now.)
And okay maybe he does get a little distracted as they go inside the game center, looking around at what's available, but thankfully not so much in a way that he tries to drift off somewhere away from Bakugou's side to look closer at said games just yet.
They have laser tag to try first, because Manjoume was in fact serious about playing and proving himself here. Not that it should be that difficult--he managed to figure out how to use a harpoon gun when they were fighting those whale kaiju a few months back, so this should practically be a cakewalk in comparison!]
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The game center's pretty large, with sections for various games all over the place. Sports games like basketball and bowling, racing games with those big plastic motorcycles and car seat setups, shooters with both rail-types and free gun handling, fighting arcade games (generic or knock off series...), skill games for massive points, the VR corner for fully immersive experiences, a physical section with rock climbing walls and obstacle courses, and a lot more. Anything and everything to distract people from the struggles of living in Neo Tokyo.
Bakugo heads for another large section in the back where they house the laser tag fields.] They have two physical courses and the rest are all VR for augmented play.
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[Or maybe it depends on how many people are around for them to decide on one or the other.]
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[The group has to agree on which one, but it won't matter if it's just the two of them.]
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Bakugou heads up the stairs, taking them to another bunch of games and entertainments. There's even a theater to the side, but it's only an offshoot of the main theater elsewhere.] They've got a good court downstairs if you wanna eat there.
[Mostly junk food.]
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If we work up an appetite while we're here then yeah, we can check it out and see if they have anything good, even if it is probably junk food.
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If you wanna go to another restaurant, we can. [Junk food would help the soul, not the body. Still, it's Manjoume's day, so he calls the shots. The laser tag is up ahead, sporting a gaudy wall of lights and shapes covering the entire area. With two small doors on either side of the contained entertainment.]
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Once they reach the physical laser tag course, he's looking over the equipment with interest, and seems to actually be listening intently enough when the (probably not paid enough for this judging by their bored tone) employee explains the rules and how the game is meant to be played while not even looking up from the magazine that they're currently reading. But that's fine, since it looks like it's just going to be the two of them playing right now, and thus they don't need to really be that concerned about whether or not other people around them are bothering to pay attention to the rules either when Manjoume turns his attention to Bakugou once they've been given the all clear to enter and start.]
Alright, I'm ready. Are you?
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He's played before so while the employee is droning on about his speech, Bakugo helps Manjoume with the equipment. In that he throws it at his face and expect the duelist to catch it. A vest over the shoulders connects around the waist and chest. A belt about the hips with fasteners hooking around the knees. Sleeves from shoulder to wrist with similar ties. Along each of these clothing items are strips, and adorning those strips are small flat lights. Beneath the vest, two corded wires plug into the battery pack and sensor unit sewn into the back's underside. These cords link from the back to the elbow and down the forearm to a separate wristband. Before protruding out to be plugged into the laser pistols in each hand. Dual wield, hell yeah.]
One more thing.
[A visor headset and mic attaches to the vest under the collar, linking up all three sets of items. Sensor fields tie in everything, allowing the guns to fire lasers and be picked up by the lights on the clothes. The headset displays the status of the opponent, including how many lights (targets) they have remaining and the time, as well as how many opponents there are. The gun has three settings: a normal pistol shot for medium range, a rifle for sniping long range, and a shotgun blast at short range.]
Now we're ready.
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Good. Let's do this.
[At the green light to go, Manjoume doesn't immediately rush into the designated area guns blazing, but is immediately looking for a good place to scope out and strategize from once he has a layout of the laser tag area. Basically, playing in a similar fashion to how he tends to duel: making sure he's watched his enemy first and setting up the right cards that will set off the most explosive finishing moves against a target. Whether or not this pays off in laser tag, however, remains to be seen...]
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Once Manjoume takes his spot to scope out the area, Bakugou opts to duck behind cover and give the hallways a quick scan. With the black lights and neon paint, he can't see any "holes" where the guns would pop out. Apparently they change locations between games, so no point in trying to remember where from his last time here. He abruptly bolts out from his scoping spot and blitzes down the hall. Guns emerge from the darkness almost as quickly and Bakugou rebounds off his hands to jump through the air, twisting as he snaps off shot after shot before landing and vanishing behind another shelter.
Tch, only got 3 out of 5...]
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The next round of targets proceed to pop out as a result, and Manjoume quickly tries to scatter several shots as he runs to the next shelter he spots to duck down behind.
3 out of 5 go down once more, not unlike Bakugou's prior attempt.]
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As soon as those targets spring to life, Bakugou snaps off shots at the guns swinging down to capitalize on Manjoume's target shots. Each one goes back into the wall before it gets a chance to fire at the duelist, though that prevents them from getting any further targets outside of Manjoume's group.]
We're going back for those last four, dammit.
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Yeah, we are. [Manjoume looks around trying to remember where the remaining four are still located, before he turns his attention to Bakugou again.]
You wanna try taking the left side this time while I take the ones on the right?
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No. Those things will focus on the person moving. I'll go through and draw their fire. You take out the top two. [He'll handle the lower pair. Manjoume's good enough to snipe the upper guns. Bakugou waits for affirmation before blitzing down the hall again, twisting onto his back mid-lunge to fire at the guns taking aim.]
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[Manjoume keeps an eye on the targets carefully, and once Bakugou takes off, Manjoume is quick to do the same when the best moment to do so strikes, the upper targets aiming as Bakugou quickly disposes of the lower targets first. Before the top two can take the chance to hit Bakugou in retaliation, Manjoume manages to shoot at them both, bringing both of them down!]
We did it!
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