This ain't no Ancho-V Games

[woomy]

Who: Agent 3, people who want to play games or shoot friends with lasers
What: Location based log. Such a noisy place is great to have secret talks or just have some fun on the arcades and shooting friends with lasers.
When: flexible dates in the month of April
Where: Press Start Arcade and Laser Tag
Warnings: Excessive use of black light and neon?

The Press Start Arcade boasts a number of games to pass the hours. The standard set of arcade games are present, along with a few imported arcade cabinets in foreign languages. It's a noisy, vibrant place with lots of foot traffic during after school hours. However, there are also a number of older patrons ranging from college students to "team building" office workers.

The main attraction is laser tag. There are two teams, colors shown on the special numbered vests and guns people have to wear. Team are initially divided into two waiting lobbies before going into the arena. People shoot the targets on the front and back of the vest to score a point. Hitting other people earn points. Getting hit loses points. Getting hit too much "locks" your weapon until you go back to the team base and shoot a recharge target. Key areas in the arena can be strategically captured for more points. There is also an area that looks strangely like something Agent 3 would get up to. At the end of the match, the points are tallied up on a big flat screen. Both the team scores and individual scores (shown by what number gear the person is wearing) are showed. Fun for everyone!

There is also a small pizza and soda place and a party room because what self respecting laser tag place doesn't have pizza and soda and party rooms?

[[ OOC: Agent 3 will have a thread of her own if people want to interact with her. Otherwise, you can use this for whatever shenanigans you like. ]]

Comments

[maipokerface]

Good. It's about time Mai got to stretch her legs, so to speak. She'd rather do practice with her knives but beggars can't be choosers and it's not like she can go throwing them around without her label getting suspicious.

Once time comes though she's geared up and ready to go hunting through the course.

[woomy]

The pizza is gone soon enough, and 3 bounds to equip herself with the right gear. It takes no time at all for her to put it on. "Okay, so what kind of rules do you want? Are we going for most kills, or most points, or trying to take over each other's spawn points for the longest time?"

That last one is going to be hard to do with a one versus one. The other two are more doable.

[maipokerface]

After a moment of thought, Mai grins.

"How about most kills? Sounds pretty easy to do one on one."

[woomy]

"Most kills. Let's keep it to fighting in the neutral area, so no spawn camping. It'll be more fun that way and give a chance for the dead guy to do a comeback."

Otherwise, what's to stop one of them from following the other and just "killing" her again once the short respawn invulnerability wears off? That's incredibly one-sided. Neutral area only allows for more stealth and turn arounds.

[maipokerface]

"Works for me."

Mai's one of the types that would have kept her distance anyhow. In a real fight, sure, you want to hit when people are weakest. Or most would. There's no fun in that thought and definitely not when it's a game like this.

"Let's give each other a minute once we've gone in, just to get situated."

[woomy]

3 goes to fiddle something with the settings nodding along as Mai speaks. It's refreshing to have someone who's battle oriented and willing to have some fun while keeping skills fresh.

"Right, so there's a minute delay on the music, so when the music starts, the battle does. You can stay at the base near this door. I'll go to the one across the stage."

[maipokerface]

"Perfect."

And that's exactly what she'll do once the pair goes in. She wants to situate herself somewhere up high for now, given how she's best at longer distances anyhow. And the delay in music will give her just enough time to scope out what she hopes are some good vantage spots near her base.

[woomy]

Given that she works here and knows a lot of the stage already, 3 doesn't need to do any scouting. She makes it to the other side and waits for the music to start. It's a high energy techno song that fits well with the setting and all the neon.

She moves as soon as the music plays, charging forward to the neutral zone in a brisk walk. (No running allowed!) The ambush areas are often there and over there... she tries to avoid them to do a long flank.

[maipokerface]

Mai should have really counted on that. If anything beat her thoroughly during this little match it would be her lack of intimate familiarity with the terrain.

Agent 3 is keeping the ambush areas at a distance. Mai considers the advantage of trying to draw her towards one of the other spots. The violinist is tucked into one such spot and decides to fire off a warning shot. Not that it does a lot besides make noise and perhaps light up but it's definitely a good indication of where she is.

She tries to sneak off, counting on the possibility of Agent 3 coming closer to search. If she can move around the other woman then she might be able to score a good back shot straight off.

[woomy]

If it makes Mai feel any better, 3 gave Mai the closer base so that she would have time to look around while she crossed the stage.

3 presses herself against a wall when she hears the shot and waits a moment. This would be the time when she'd normally lob a Suction Bomb in that direction and charge, but laser tag is sadly void of such items. So instead, she opts to approach at an angle. It's not a direct approach, but she is coming closer. She'll fire when she sees Mai, but she is also partially open to a counterattack.