Chapter 2. Far 2 Ezy!
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The object should have killed them all.
The object was black with a large yellow smiling emoji on it.
Underneath was written,
“Have A Nice Death!”
It was a military-grade, anti-personal, frag grenade!
Luckily for the entire class, one person did not freeze of panic.
The person was the young adult student Blondie Beam.
Blondie Beam had been idly chatting to her friend Noir Manners and fiddling with an unfolded paperclip when the attack had happened.
When the grenade landed Blondie Beam did not hesitate.
She slammed one hand over it to hold it in place and use the bit of wire she had been holding and stuck it where the grenade pin had been pulled out.
The charge must have had less than half a second left on its timer left.
Blondie Beam then slowly got up, leaving the grenade on the desk and motioned the entire class to move silently and quietly out of the college classroom.
Later, the bomb disposal team from the police came and made the area safe again.
Blondie Beams quick and calm thinking had saved the lives of the entire class.
She was now seen as a hero.
As much as being a real-life hero was nice, Blondie Beam really wanted to get home to be a hero on the leaderboards of Date-A-Holics.
To Her, that was far more important!
At home, Blondie had to force open the door to her room, slightly harder than she should need to.
Bunches of fallen takeout boxes and snack wrappers had blocked the door quite a bit.
Once she had squeezed in, she then tiptoed over the various piles of old caffeine drink cans and dirty plates and cutlery.
She very nearly hurt herself on a discarded unturned fork!
She quickly kicked that dirty fork under the bed to get it out of the way in future.
Oblivious to the mess and smell of stale food, Blondie Beam sat down in her gaming chair and prepared for tonight's match.
The game of Date-A-Holics worked as follows.
It was a virtual simulated date.
You had to get your opponents avatar to fall in love with yours, WITHOUT your avatar falling in love with theirs.
You could also win by reducing one of their scores to under 25.
Certain social action was ‘Cast’, almost the same way that spells were in other games.
Attack actions might include, making the opponent ‘break wind’, ‘burp’, ‘date food falling out of their mouth’.
This would put your avatar ‘off them’ as a romantic partner.
You also had defensive social actions to counter these ‘attacks’.
Such as ‘good digestion’, ‘good excuse’, or ‘cute self-deprecating humour’.
In-game ‘Cuteness Points’ could be spent on social actions and making your avatar more attractive.
You got ‘Cuteness Points’ by winning or taking on secret weaknesses!
Each player could have up to three Avatar running one their roster at a time.
But you could not play the same Avatar twice in a row!
This game combined tactics with soap opera!
Tonight Blondie Beam would play the Avatar Leisa ‘Chalk’ Watson
Leisa ‘Chalk’ Watson
A slim little blonde dressed in pink, but with a blue bow in her hair.
Cuteness bank: 1000
Looks: 70/100
Personality: 70/100
Loneliness: 40/100
Ego: 60/100
Confidence: 60/100
Social action slots: 5
Total social actions: 10
Opponent fart: 1 loaded
Cute comments: 3 loaded
Bat eyelashes: 1 loaded
Good digestion: 2 loaded
General flirting: 3 loaded
Strengths.
Vs arrogant
Vs Silly jokes
Weakness’s
Obese dates.
Likes
Junk food
Pop music
Fashion
Hates
Raw food
Rock music
Sports
Blondie Beams handle was kindness127 was facing the player Chiclit10.
She had not faced this player before.
DATE Lisa ‘Chalk’ Watson with Harold ‘coin’ Snoot.
Lisa looked at the watch again and grumbled.
Her date was late.
After about fifteen minutes Harold ‘coin’ Snoot sauntered in wearing a very expensive suit.
He was slim and trim and sat down giving a nod and a wink.
“Hi babe,” He smiled.
Lisa kept scowling at Harold, she was not impressed.
Harold continued to smile and went to reach for Lisa’s hand.
Lisa snatched her hand away in disgust.
Harold dismissively ignored the slight and called over the waitress and ordered the most expensive meal for both of them. Steak Diane, raw fillet steak served with plenty of beluga caviar.
Harold had not even asked what had Lisa had wanted.
While waiting for their meal Harold started to tell at great length about how rich and connected he was.
He barely stopped to pause mid-sentence for a response.
After about ten minutes Harold looked at his watch impatiently and angrily called over the waitress to complain that their meal had not arrived yet.
“I have an important meeting soon!” Harold scowled.
The whole café was stopping and looking at them.
Lisa cringed.
The poor waitress was almost in tears as Harold ranted on about how he could get all his important friends to boycott this place and that she should lose her job…
“Well!?” Explained Harold loudly.
There was a stunned silence from the café.
In the stunned silence of the café there was suddenly that unmistakable sound of a large vulgar breaking of wind coming from Harrold ‘coin’ Snoot!
The waitress went from being almost in tears to trying to suppress a shocked giggle.
But she failed and that giggle turned into an out-loud laugh.
The rest of the café started joining in laughing at Harold as well!
Harold furious, got up and stormed out of the date.
Thirty easy points got added to Blondie Beams handles kindness127 leader bored!
The Lisa ‘chalk’ Watson avatars cuteness bank went from 1000 to 1100
Only thirty-nine points needed not to get to silver now!
Blondie Beam logged out without even typing in a polite “Good Game!”.
That game had been disappointingly easy.
The silly noob did not deserve it!
- Writer
