XXXVI ☤ Holy sugar-rush, Batman! ☤ Hermes [Video]

[msg_ina_bottle]

[The screen clicks on to a very wide-eyed youth, the sounds of a dozen or more arcade games filling the air around him as he lifts up an orange, plastic gun before looks at the camera with as much seriousness as he can muster.]

I have to kill all the things on the screen, why don't stand still? How do you win, why doesn't it work!?

[He jumps,

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[the_daybreak]

Uh, Hermes?

[msg_ina_bottle]

...[He peers at the fountain machine for a long moment, before turning to look at the faciliberry on the floor with wide eyes. What did it want? Did it want his drink of the gods? It could have it. It was his. It would just have to find it's own drink, for not god things.]

What do you want?

[the_daybreak]

Are you okay?

[msg_ina_bottle]

....[He peers at the screen a little more, finally focusing on Riku's face.]

Uh...I'm fine. Just fine. I'm playing games. You can hit things, you know. I can't kill the...things though, I keep losing. I have to be right back. You just...

You just wait right there.

[He'll be back, as he carefully disappears with is drink in his hands. He has more dinosaurs to try to kill in the Jurassic Park shooter game.]

[the_daybreak]

...

You want some help, Hermes?

[msg_ina_bottle]

....

[His face is suddenly on the screen again, nearly spilling his drink all over the screen.]

You can do that?

[the_daybreak]

I used to beat Sora at video games all the time.

[msg_ina_bottle]

Mm. Fine.

The coke is mine. You can't have it.

[He starts to disappear off the screen, before suddenly popping back into view.]

Do you have ice cream?

[the_daybreak]

That's fine, I'm not a sweets fan.

Mm? No, but I can stop and pick some up.

[msg_ina_bottle]

Bring ice cream.

[He pauses, before nodding to himself. He has to go kill some dinosaurs now. Hold on.]

[the_daybreak]

Okay, okay.

[And he's going to bring one of those big two-gallon tubs, just for you. <3 Stepping out of a dark corridor about ten minutes later, ice cream and pets in tow.]

[msg_ina_bottle]

[When Riku arrives, Hermes is stuck between trying to shot people in mask in a 007 game, and heading the little moles that kept popping out of the holes.]

Why won't you stay down!!?

[the_daybreak]

It'd be easier if you just focused on one game at a time, you know.

[msg_ina_bottle]

...But there are so many games!

Is that the ice cream?

[the_daybreak]

That's ice cream, yeah.

I got chocolate, cause I wasn't sure what kind you'd like.

[msg_ina_bottle]

.....what is chocolate?

[He peers at the tub in a sense of awe. He's never seen it before, only read about it.]

Why is it cold?