The Games People Play by Rhymer23 (Cake or Death challenge)

Aug 05, 2007 18:10

Title: The Games People Play
Author: rhymer23
Rating: PG
Words: 3600
Genre: Humour, mostly. Gen. No spoilers for anything.
Characters: Ensemble - esp. Sheppard and McKay.
Summary: A day of games. What could possibly go wrong?

This is my first post here. No, no, don't all run away at once...

The Games People Play )

author: rhymer23, challenge: cake or death

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sholio August 5 2007, 17:44:17 UTC
Heeeeee~! This is too much fun! I think my very favorite bit was Elizabeth's perfect fantasy afternoon being to play a game that involves living a normal, dull suburban life -- too perfect! And of course, Rodney *would* be the kind of nerd who'd prefer DOS RPGs, and Sheppard and Ronon would try to win a multi-player shooter by taking out their opponents in real life...

Also, given Sheppard's general disregard for authority, I can totally see him getting his hands on one copy of a multiplayer game, thinking, "Hey, the nearest copyright laws are a few hundred light-years away..." and loading it on every machine in Atlantis.

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ladyofastolat August 5 2007, 21:21:32 UTC
Hehe. Maybe I need a sequel in which the copyright lawyers do come for Sheppard and finally do what the Wraith, Genii, and other assorted enemies have been unable to do: defeat him.

Thanks for the rec!

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janne_d August 5 2007, 18:06:37 UTC
"Throw the knife. Drop the knife. No! No! Pick up the knife. Thrust with the knife." He typed furiously. "Stab it with the knife. Come on! How many synonyms are there for 'kill it.' Oh! Murder it? Smite it? Agh. No. What word do they want me to type?"

Oh God, the memories... *shudders* Games like that drive me nuts.

This was very funny. I especially liked Teyla trying to trade in the D&D game and Sheppard winning through cake.

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ladyofastolat August 5 2007, 21:23:37 UTC
Agh, yes, the memories.... I remember nagging my Dad to buy a 64K expansion to his VIC-20 (and doesn't that date me!) so I could play a particular text-based adventure game. Then I kept managing to kill myself, through typing things like "light dynamite" followed by "drop dynamite". Oops. Like Rodney, I never managed to find the right word to type to kill the randomly spawning gargoyle. Much childhood angst found its outlet in this story... ;-)

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janne_d August 6 2007, 04:07:21 UTC
Hm. "ask gargoyle about trade"

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ladyofastolat August 6 2007, 06:49:10 UTC
Yes! Teyla was obviously on to something, just playing the wrong game. If only Rodney had typed "Trade with gargoyle," victory and endless treasure would have been his. :-)

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dirty_smudge August 5 2007, 18:43:12 UTC
Oh, Ronon. You wonderful, silly Wookie.
It's a game. You're not supposed to shoot them in real life.

I thought this was going to be another "cake and death interpretation of the challenge, but you managed to find a legitimate situation in which there is a choice between cake or death.

And I love Teyla's approach to D&D. Trade with the goblins!

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ladyofastolat August 5 2007, 21:25:21 UTC
Well, strictly speaking it was "cake or killing," I suppose. Eating cake tends to lead fairly quickly to death. Not eating cake leads to more mindless slaughter of your friends.

I think I might try Teyla's approach next time I go role-playing. If nothing else, it will baffle the GM.

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dirty_smudge August 5 2007, 22:45:51 UTC
Yeah, I was taking "killing" to loosely mean "death". Killing is someone's death, even if it isn't your own.
See? You are a genius, even if you won't acknowledge it.

Teyla is a weapon against nerds. I get the feeling she's doing it on purpose. She's good at reading people and situations and can be quite devious in her own special way. Poor Radek - he doesn't stand a chance against her sexiness.

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ladyofastolat August 6 2007, 06:52:23 UTC
See? You are a genius, even if you won't acknowledge it.

Ah, you see, I've got this English modesty thing going. Privately, I know full well I'm a genius of more than Rodney McKay proportions - I saved the world yesterday from a terrible and bloody death, don't you know? - but it doesn't do to admit such things out loud. ;-)

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wildcat88 August 6 2007, 00:52:05 UTC
With a growl, Ronon stood up, sending the chair flying. He was across the room in a few swift strides, his gun already out. He felled them - one, two, three, four - then turned back with a look of grim triumph.

Sheppard swallowed. Carson's mouth had fallen open, though his mouse hand was still moving, controlling a character he was no longer aware of.

"That's one way of winning a game, I guess," Sheppard said weakly. Ronon returned and sat down with a grunt. Sheppard looked at him. "Please tell me that was set on stun."

"Of course," Ronon said, as he returned the flag from the corpse of his unresisting enemy. He had still not touched his cake. "It's only a game."

That was HILARIOUS! Loved every minute. But the bit with Ronon stunning the players to win is pure gold.

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ladyofastolat August 6 2007, 06:56:14 UTC
... And I do so wish I could use the Ronon approach next time I get murdered again and again by my friends. Sadly, all that's left to me is the Sheppard approach. I favour the "Can I get you a drink?" approach to cheating, rather than the cake one, though.

It is suddenly occurring to me that I'm probably not making the best possible first impression in this fandom. I hasten to add that, although I regularly invite friends round and cheat in order to blow their heads off, I'm quite normal, really, and wouldn't hurt a fly.

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Rodney's Computer Game anonymous August 6 2007, 04:30:49 UTC
Somehow I expected Rodney to be playing Moria. This was cute, though.

--Silverthreads

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Re: Rodney's Computer Game infinimato August 6 2007, 04:42:58 UTC
feh, moria. Nethack rules!!! :-P

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