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[freshprints]

Are you recommending I cheat? How nefarious of you.

[hierophany]

Oh, absolutely. Or you could take Hierophant with you and let him help.

If you're not sure of the specific game you're going to play, the best course of action would be to find a game that appeals to you to get the hang of the very basics. Most games on a given console will tend toward a specific set of buttons for common actions shared between genres - inputting selections, cancelling them, opening menus, that sort of thing. The specifics will change between games, but the important part is getting the hang of the things people might expect you to know before going in.

You know. The porridge in the microwave things that people just know so well that it doesn't occur to them that they need to explain. Those things are what you'll need to know to start playing games in a social setting. If you want to win with any consistency you'll need to cheat or to practice with the specific games in question. But an understanding of the basics will let you play in a way that makes you an entertaining piece of the game. Making the game more entertaining as a result of your presence is your main aim in a social setting.

[freshprints]

I didn't. Ah. I didn't realize you were able to loan Hierophant-kun out like that.

I suppose winning isn't all that important. Winning and good aren't inherently synonymous, are they? You can play a good chess game and still lose in the end. So I suppose I need to learn...menus and inputs.

[hierophany]

It would depend how far away you were. He's my usual opponent in multiplayer games, so he knows them well enough. Someone would probably notice if your controller was just floating near your hands instead of in them, but he can help to tell you what to do or

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There isn't a way to say what he can do that isn't weird.

[freshprints]

You exercise him in a hamster environment and you're worried I'm going to think the video games are weird?

[hierophany]

He can climb into people's bodies and manipulate their nervous systems to use them as puppets.

[ What the fuck how dare you imply that he isn't weird he needs to be extra weird now just to prove a fucking point. ]

[freshprints]

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Have you been introduced to Kishibe Rohan-sensei?

[hierophany]

Why the fuck does everyone want to introduce me to Jump's ★Shining Young Talent★ winner.

I don't like children.

[freshprints]

You just told me something unsettling and bizarre about your Stand and I immediately engaged in a seeming non sequitur to try to introduce you to a mangaka you've evidently been told about before.

Why in the world would I do that.

[hierophany]

I recognise the significance. I just don't like him. Have you seen his manga? It's clearly not penned by a nine year old and yet the awards committee not only believed that he was the one who submitted it, they decided to give him an award for it even though it's obvious that an adult draw it and submitted it under a child's name to get attention and

[ An editorial decision has been made to cut this short, but rest assured that Kirigiri has to sit through five paragraphs of this shit. ]

and he doesn't draw spiders anywhere close to accurately.

[freshprints]

No, I don't think you recognize the significance.

I've never identified you to anyone else.

[hierophany]

[ Oh. Oh. ]

You're right. I misspoke. I understood the implication but not the significance.

I maintain that his spiders look like a child drew them.

[freshprints]

I'm telling you because he wants to show it to me. I'm going to do it. But I'm not reckless enough to do it without someone else knowing my intentions.

I'll make sure to form an opinion about his spiders, also.

[hierophany]

I appreciate the trust you're placing in me. I hope you won't think it ungrateful if I ask for more.

I want to put Hierophant inside you. I won't use him to spy or control you. I'll just pay attention to your heart rate, so that I know you're safe, and intervene if things go wrong.

[freshprints]

Is he capable of making me forget we ever had this conversation?

[hierophany]

Assuming that's a genuine question and not a creative way of expressing disgust, no. He wouldn't even if he were capable of it.

[freshprints]

It's a genuine question. I'll have to try to suppress it myself and hope for the best, then.

I contacted you to talk about video games. I asked you about Kishibe-sensei because I thought the two of you would annoy each other and I was right. And I'm not aware of anything you may or may not be up to, independently, without my having recognition of it.

[hierophany]

I see. I will act independently, then.

My knowledge of Rohan Kishibe begins and ends with his (probably fraudulent) achievements in the world of up-and-coming mangaka. A boy by that name won several prestigious awards traditionally given to new college graduates at the age of nine, a few months before I came here.

[freshprints]

I may have to turn you down for a date someday. That sort of thing is inevitable if I have plans I'm not otherwise able to break. It's not possible for me to be in two places at once, after all.

I hope you'll understand, in the event that I'm forced to turn you down like that.