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Who ☀ Hector & "everyone"
What ☀ It's Hector's birthday!
When ☀ August 5
Where ☀ Lumina Cloth. Surprise!
Content Warnings ☀ drunk people, will add as needed

[ Arrive at Mac Anu, where the welcome party was held, to find it...empty? A quick look on the forums shows a little edit to Hector's post:

We're popping Lumina Cloth's cherry! See you there :-)

So that's where he is.

In the center of the brightly illuminated nighttime city, Hector's set himself up for his little get together. But since he doesn't have any tables or plates or anything fancy like that, all the alcohol and food he bought from various vendors are just...strewn around the floor. The food is probably still good to eat, though. It's fine. Take what strikes your fancy!

Hector's wearing his outfit again. He lounges on the steps of that funky spinny thing in the center of town, and anyone who gets close enough to hear him will hear music coming from his mic. Give him a break. He's doing his best.

When enough people have gathered, he might actually get up and drag everyone into a drinking game.

So enjoy—eat, drink, mingle, and smack your friends! PvP is enabled here, after all :) ]

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Uhh...

[help he doesn't have his Levi cheat card in line of sight]

Play the game, and... report things that aren't working right?

Basically, but more than that, a beta tester's job is really to try and make things not work right. When you release a game to the mass market, people are gonna try and break it on purpose. They need testers who are gonna try and put the game into those fringe use cases to see if it breaks. Ordering a stupid amount of food to see if the game can handle it is exactly what you should be doing.

So... I can buy a thousand chicken wings?

Wait. No. No, wait wait wait wait--

I can buy TEN thousand chicken wings? A hundred thousand?? And I won't get kicked out?

[He sounds way too excited about this all of the sudden.]

If you have enough gold for it, sure. But even if it's fake food, that's an unfeasible amount of chicken wings to eat, paly.

[Just like. Time wise. It would take forever.]

Sounds like heaven to me.

Almost, anyway... heh.

[maybe he could swim in chicken wings if there were that many... heheheheheheheheheh]

[Dear god. He reaches out to firmly grip this himbo on both shoulders.]

Listen. I need you to be completely honest with me. Are you secretly a hyper intelligent golden retriever they taught how to talk and type?

[Hello he is very tall and made of muscle.]

Eh?

You think I'm a dog? Why?

[Gross why are you some sort of real life Ken doll.]

Because at this point it feels equally likely as you being a human being that is this emotionally available while also clearly being stupid and extremely food motivated.

[He flinches slightly, tensing under Pete's hands. Something in that mess of words hit a nerve. But it's here and gone as he lets out a breathe, an almost long-suffering look taking its place.]

No, I'm not a dog. I play football. Collegiate. Pacific conference.

...

[He looks like he wants to say more, but it never comes.]

[Pete's inner monologue: oh my god he's a jock. He does finally let Beel go.]

Well now you're improbable for entirely different reasons. Like, in a positive way, don't get me wrong. Every other college ball player I've ever met has threatened to grind me into a paste if I even look at him wrong.

[Oh hooray, freedom. He rolls his shoulders a bit, glancing towards wherever Levi just started popping off before ruening his attention back to Pete.]

That just sounds like some guys that need to work out their issues.

[But Pete doesn't sound like he's very young, so Barrett can't begin to guess what kind of environment the mod was used to. So he figures flipping the topic back would be safest.]

Thanks for correcting what I thought about the testing. Maybe I can find new ways to play around here that might help. Even if it isn't a ton of chicken wings.

[UGHHHH He hates this. He hates these vibes!!!]

Yeah, of course.

... Listen, don't get all gloomy on me. You ain't stupid. I'm sorry if I hit a nerve or something, I wasn't saying any of that for serious.
[Everything about how he's holding himself in this moment is awkward and a bit irritated, like he's not used to being this sincere or apologetic about anything ever.]

[Yeah, he can see that, and this is kind of a public event. Barrett's eyes graze the ground for a second, thinking as Pete stumbles through his words.]

...Mn.

Don't worry about it, Mr. Pink. I didn't take it as an insult, and my feelings aren't your responsibility. I appreciate the apology, though.

[And that's that, as far as he's concerned.]

If you have something strange you want us to try and break, would you let me know? I might not know a lot about how to test it like you want, but my brother does. We can figure it out.

[That sure is that. Let's pretend none of this ever happened.]

Honestly your idea with the chicken wings is a good one. Items in your inventory have a capacity limit, meaning you can only have so many stacks on an item, but there's not a limit as far as I'm aware of items you can spawn into the environment. It's possible they didn't account for that. This game is pretty data heavy to begin with so seeing if you can put a strain on the rendering is a solid idea.

Hey, don't call him stupid.

[The dog comment was funny at first, but dude. Too far.]

[GOD HE CAN'T EVEN ARGUE BECAUSE THIS IS SOME SORT OF CHRONICALLY NICE YOUNG MAN.]

Hey, there's way worse things to be, honest. Didn't mean anything by it.

[Barrett is an anomaly, it's true.]

That's the sort of comment most people take at face value, soooo. Maybe don't make it if you don't mean anything by it? Just a thought.

You've hurt his feelings.

[GOD!!!!!]

Just because he ain't got a mean bone in his body doesn't mean the rest of us can just adjust to be on that level!
[HE'S MEAN TO EVERYONE LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!]

It also doesn’t mean you have to be mean to him!!

[But Barrett interjects after this, and he backs off with a huff.]

I'm fine, Levi.

[Like, very visibly unhappy, but he's still shaking his head at his older brother. It's ok man, just drop it.]

[He’s a bit taken aback, but he does stop.]

If you’re sure.

[He just nods again.]

I can't let every comment get to me.

...Thanks for speaking up for me, though.

Guess that goes for both of us now.

[Sigh. He knew this party wouldn't be fun.]

NP. Just...returning the favor.

[So he says.]

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[A briefly withered glance is shot toward Levi once Pete's finally let him go.

Thanks, man.]

[Oh this is getting a good laugh out of the brother over here. Sorry, Pete.]