Chapter 4. A Dross worksite date.
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Chapter 4
A dross worksite date.
It was finally Friday night.
This should be it!
The Weekend Blondie gets to silver and would be able to turn professional!
At the entry-level, she would only be making less than full time packing groceries, but she would still be getting paid. She would technically still count as a professional gamer!
It was a start on the road to all her dreams.
All she had to do it make space on her filthy floor for boxes of snack and high caffeine drinks.
Camp in the chair in front of her PC
And play at her best for as long as she could up too early next Monday morning!
She took a final deep pre gamer binge breath…
Then sat down.
Blondie Beam was NOW Kindness127!
Over the weekend the gaming went well!
Very well!
We as readers now fast forward to Mondy morning.
College was at 9am, it was now 2am.
Kindness127 was only 10 point from silver rankings.
Only 10 points from making money from professional gaming.
Blondie made a quick self-assessment and felt that she could get away with only five hours of sleep before college.
There was time for one more game.
(There always seemed to be a justifiable reason for “only one more game”)
Kindness127 AKA Blondie Beam looked at the 3 Avatars on her roster and made a choice.
Gerdy ‘Pen’ Notra
Normal build, Office manager.
Cuteness bank: 400
Looks: 40/100
Personality: 75/100
Loneliness: 20/100
Ego: 75/100
Confidence: 80/100
Social action slots: 6
Total social actions: 10
Condescending voice: 1 loaded
Cute comments: 3 loaded
Icey Yet Sexy Stare: 1 loaded
Good digestion: 3 loaded
General flirting: 2 loaded
Strengths.
Vs arrogant
Vs foolishness
Weakness’s
Snobbery.
Likes
Fine Wine
Classical Music
High Brow Books
Hates
Stupidity
Low education
Strong bullying date
The little circle span on her screen as she waited to see who the opponent was going to be.
“PING!”
FOXYMAN88.
The person that always beat her.
The person that always stopped her from getting to silver rank!
“s**t!” Shouted Blondie Beam at the computer screen.
She dived onto the floor knocking and scraping everything out of the way in a blind panic.
Her veins ran cold as she desperately searched for what she desperately needed.
With a relieved sigh, she found it and returned to her seat.
A deep breath was taken as she composed herself.
She opened what she had been looking for, her notes on FoxyMan88’s Avatars.
She had met two of his avatars, Hall the Mall, and Joey Jack Hammer but never the third.
She gave a silent prayer that he had loaded Joey Jack Hammer, as she had worked out most of that avatars build.
The FOXYMAN88’s Avatar load was revealed…
“s**t! s**t!” shouted Blondie Beam again
It was his third Avitar, Doss Rombard, she had no notes at all about this one!
Another deep breath,
If she got to choose the location of the date, it would help a lot!
“s**t! s**t! s**t!” she shouted yet again.
FOXYMAN88 won the digital coin toss and got to choose the date location.
Blondie Beams mouth was dry, her fingers paused over the computer keyboard.
She so desperately wanted to win, she did not dare reach for a sip of water.
“YES!” she yelled
She now relaxed and took a deep drink from the one-day-old water glass.
He had chosen a picnic at some construction type worksite!
A place of noise and dust!
No way could Kindness127’s Avitar Gerdy ‘Pen’ Notra, fall in love on that sort of date!
This game should be too easy.
“Silver, here we come” She grinned delightedly.
She just slapped Gerdy ‘Pen’ Notra into her default smart business suit and started to relax.
Gerdy ‘Pen’ Notra, left her limo and disdainfully looked around.
When she heard that the picnic would be here she had expected, cranes, sweaty workmen and a terrible first date.
All she should see was a pleasant green field and her date holding a picnic basket.
She had, as always had made an effort with her appearance.
However her blind date, Doss Rombard had not.
He seemed to be dressed in work overalls, admittedly they were clean work overalls but still!
“Let's get this over with,” Gerdy told herself.
Loss Rombard smiled,
“High,” he said cheerily.
“Hello” Gerdy responded curtly.
“Let us take a short walk over this rise, I have found a great spot!” Loss smiled.
There was still no sign of the worksite.
As they got to the rise here was a single beautiful tree.
Gerdy’s business heals were not suitable for this ground and she stumbled on the way.
Her dates arm shot out at lightning speed and caught her arm.
Luckily Doss Rombard gently steadied her with his arm.
Kindness was about to make her Gerty affronted… then…
Dross’s hand was gentle yet firm, he let go immediately and looked embarrassed. He looked away, averting his deep brown eyes.
“Sorry,” he said, “It was just my reactions”
Then he half-turned away before suddenly turning back,
“You are ok, aren't you?” he smiled almost shyly
“WHAT!” said blondie beam, as Gerty gained half a heart for Dross.
“Please blame her for having the wrong shoes”
“Please blame her for having the wrong shoes”
“Please blame her for having the wrong shoes” Blondie chanted under her breath
But Dross said nothing.
As they went approached the tree the worksite could be seen.
There were multiple ditches and loads of people milling around but no cranes or noise.
Lyrical sweet birdsong could clearly be heard.
“Sorry for having our date where I work,” Dross said sincerely.
“I don’t understand…” said Gerty.
“It is an archaeological dig I am running,”
“Oh come ON!” Exclaimed Blondie Beam!
“How is that fair!”
“Running?” Enquired Gerty
“Well I run it in as much as I am financing a lot of it and collating all the information, but most of the people below are enthusiastic volunteers… So saying ‘Running it’ might have been a bit of a stretch.”
“Why?” Asked Gerty
“I am a bit academically minded, I am afraid” Dross admitted.
“I hope that does not make me seem too dull”
“Not at all,” smiled Gerty impressed.
“What the HELL!” Said Blondie!
“What the Double HELL!” Said Blondie!
She quickly went through the dialogue options, looking for a weakness.
She needed to claw some sort of victory out of this mess!
“Is this some kind of tax break?”
“What are you getting out of this?” Said Gerty.
“Well, technically you are right because it will count as a business expense.”
“But I want to hear about you… Not talk about my dreary stuff”
Girty smiled, she loved talking about herself!
Blondie fiercely kept pressing the “override ego” button.
Blondie quickly pressed “Y” for “Yes” and return.
She needed to know more about Dross, find a weakness quickly before any more love points were gained!
“No really, I am a bit dull, we can talk about me later…”
“Tell me?”
Blondie used one of the loaded General Flirt moves but the flirt bounced off harmlessly.
Only two General flirts were left.
“I have some lovely vintage wine here, from the ex Canada region.” Offered Dross, attempting to change the subject.
Girty beamed, finally she could talk about herself now…
Blondie facepalmed herself.
Again she attacked to keyboard to override the ego.
Blondie quickly pressed “Y” for “Yes” and return.
“Yes thank you.” Said, Gerty
“Now please answer my question,” She continued politely, taking off her jacket”
“Dam, you FoxyMan88! You keep defeating me!”
“I only need THIS win to finally reach silver!”
It seemed blondie could only win by getting any of Dross’s six stats from Cuteness to Confidence below 25.
She needed to somehow go on the attack.
But the player could not see each other's scores.
“Are you just attempting to manipulate me as a cheap seduction attempt?” accused Gerty with an icy stare.
Then on the screen appeared,
And then again…
“Dam!” Said Blondie
That attack hit and damaged three stats.
Dross was looking flustered, shocked and panicked!
Obviously, the combination of the Sexy Icy Stare and other unknown factors had pretty much nuked him!
Unfortunately, Blondie had only loaded one Sexy Icy Stare, and had no others left!
“Come on.. Think…” Blondie promted herself.
Then it dawned on her.
All of Dross’s shy looking away and self-deprecation was genuine!
It was NOT an affectation to look cool or be seductive.
FocyMan88 had been very clever, almost no one else would have thought of having a date be genuine and honest!
If Blondie was right, then Dross would have a low self-confidence score with weaknesses such as "Self-Doubt" or "Poor Self Image"!
If she was right, she could finish Dross off fairly easily and win via Date Fail.
It was nowhere as good as making him fall in love with Gerty but it was still good enough to get profile Kindness127 to the paid, waged silver rank.
Blondie scanned her remaining loadout…
Condescending voice: 1 loaded
Cute comments: 3 loaded
Icey Yet Sexy Stare: ALL USED
Good digestion: 3 loaded
General flirting: 2 LEFT
Meanwhile, the sweat counter was STILL clicking up!
Blondie beamed and gave an evil grin…
“I have you now” she glared as she now launched “Condescending Voice”.
Gerty’s eyes narrowed
“Do you really expect me to be THIS gullible!”
“Really?”
“Ummm errr oh” Poor Dross was flustered and about to break the date.
Then the sweating started.
The warm business clothes started oozing stains under the armpits and along the neckline of Gerty’s sensible blouse!
“NO!” Shouted Blondie!
“I WAS DO CLOSE!”
“NO!”
There was a large bright flash of blue light from outside Blondie Beams window.
In the real world outside, There was a roll of what sounded like thunder.
Unlike thunder though, instead of dying, the roll continued getting louder.
“YES!” cheered Bonnie Beam!
“FINALLY!”
“I GOT YOU FAOXYMAN88!”
“I FINALLY DEFEAT YOUR ASS!”
The wall of constant thunder-like noise crashed against the apartments where Blondie Beam lived.
Her window caved into a million pieces of glass.
The force knocked her against the far wall.
The power went out.
But because Blondie was a serious gamer she had a backup capacitor in case of any power cuts.
So as she looked up bleeding from the floor, dazed and dizzy she saw on screen.
“TERRORIST ATTACK! TERRORIST ATTACK! TERRORIST ATTACK!”
“Noooooo!” Screamed Blondie Beam!
“My Game!”
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