Alex ✬

[reconnective]

Comments

[chanteuser]

[ at least he knows what he's doing ]

... Maybe one of each kind? You wanted a closer look at the little yellow blobs, so might as well grab one of those first.

[reconnective]

Okay. Let's try the short round one first. [he pushes the button on the joystick and the crane creaks to life, starting to move across the top of the case as he lines up to hover over a minion.] There might be better prizes under these ones, too.

[chanteuser]

...

If you had to pay money for these games, this'd be a quick way to become broke.

[ putting the good stuff under the other toys? that's evil. ]

[reconnective]

Could be why they set it up this way. [he's laserfocused on the game, the tip of his tongue poking out as he leans in to watch the crane stagger and swing before he hits the button! the crane drops, claw opening as it dives into the toys and picks up a minion...

...that it promptly drops halfway up before the crane resets itself.]

Hey! [rude?] Let me try again.

[chanteuser]

[ she's a-watchin'....

and-- ]

Oh. That's unfair, you had it.

[reconnective]

We'll have to try again. [the crane settles at the starting point and he narrows his eyes briefly to look at the minions below.] Wanna give it a shot? Maybe your aim's better.

[chanteuser]

[ is this a manner of honour now.... they have to get a horrorific minion doll or their pride takes a beating? ]

I'm not sure about that, but I can try. I might shift some of them around a bit and make it easier next go.

[reconnective]

[truly. they're going to get a minion or die trying.]

That's okay! It'll be a team effort. [he steps out of the way and gestures to the joystick.] Your turn to drive.

[chanteuser]

[ alright then, she'll give it a go. she takes a moment to peer at the toys from either side of the cabinet before she starts though -- at least trying to make an attempt to see where to aim.

her motions are a little more unsure than sora's were, but she manages to get the claw to hook onto something!

...

unfortunately it just lovingly strokes the minion plushies as it slowly ascends again, taking nothing but air with it. ]

Hm.

[reconnective]

[he has his face pressed up to the other side of the cabinet, and he's grinning as alex starts to move the crane. that's it!!

...except then the crane is a tease and the minions are just out of reach.]

This is a lot harder than it looks. [what the hell :|] Maybe you had the right idea of moving some of the others out of the way.

[chanteuser]

We're catching them though. [ she frowns. ] It's like... the crane just isn't strong enough to lift them up?

[reconnective]

Maybe...you think they're that heavy? [hm hm hm.] Too bad we can't tip the case over to make it easier to grab 'em.

[chanteuser]

No... I just think the crane might be made purposefully weak.

The exit flap's positioned so we can't just tip the toys out even if we did upend the case. [ ... ] Right...?

[reconnective]

...if we tip it fast enough they should move right into the slot and out the exit. That way they don't get stuck in the middle.

[chanteuser]

[ she's moving around to see where it's plugged in.........

they can probably unplug it to make this easier.............





are they really doing this for minions and mlp? ]

[reconnective]

[hm...he follows her gaze but also seems to be directing the crane again.]

How heavy do you think it is? [they could stand to think about this for .5 seconds.]

[chanteuser]

[ no thoughts brain empty ]

... Heavy. Probably to stop people doing exactly this.

[reconnective]

Well that's lame. [let them cheat!!] Guess we're gonna have to figure out something else.

[or they give up. one of those two options is available here.]

[chanteuser]

You can still push heavy things over... it just might be trickier getting it back up again?

[ she doesn't even want the toys, but fuck this machine in particular it's a cheating git. ]

[reconnective]

[their pride is at stake!!]

With the two of us we can probably stand it up again if we don't let it fall all the way on the ground. [they are not going to be able to knock it over but losing isn't fun.] Or maybe we can just reach in from the bottom?

[chanteuser]

... You'd have to break your arm in a really weird way to get your hand anywhere near the toy?

[ SORA NO ]

Could we... tip it and shake some out...?

[reconnective]

That could work. If one of us is holding it from the front and the other's hitting it from the back that should help. [squinting...] Wanna give it a try?

[chanteuser]

[ this is going to end terribly ]

We could, yeah. Just be really careful!

[reconnective]

Okay! Here, I'll hold it up if you hit it from the back. Think you can tip it?

[he really thinks he'll be able to hold up this cabinet.]

[chanteuser]

[ ... ]

It might be a little heavy... if we go slowly, then we should be able to stop it in time if it is too much, right?

[ right?? ]