Voicetesting and PSL with thegreatninja

[wanna_bash_heads]

What: Just some voice-testing fun for Casey here, with Yuffie.

Setting: A modern 21st century urban city, that acts as the base 'level' for a Game of Champions held by cosmic entities. It's essentially like a giant video-game, aside from real pain/death for the participants. The city is populated by various 'npcs' who provide basic services (like in video-games), as the PCs (Champions) live and practice, and ultimately survive, in this city-setting.

Ultimately designed for up to 50 people, there are currently 20 in residence from the original group brought in. (Casey and Yuffie were/are both among these first arrivals.) Challenges happen every month for 2-3 weeks, and so far have featured relatively simple challenges. (Examples include a free-for-all-survival-battle against combat-robotic NPCs, a retrieval-mission through a dungeon with stereotypical monsters from DnD, and various escort-assignments of a target versus armored-warriors.) Each Challenge offers the opportunity to earn points, unique to each individual champion. These points can be used to upgrade their equipment, buy extra 'lives', or upgrade their housing.

Death is not permanent, but does cost the champion when it happens. They are given a limited number (3) of 'freebies', before a special ability or a memory will be taken from them every time they die after that. Not counting that for all this is like a live action video-game, they actually can get injured for reals. Anyone maimed/wounded grievously is side-lined for a month to 'heal'. Anyone sidelined in this way forfeits any points earned for that challenge.

What purpose is this ultimately all for, from the cosmic entities? Who really knows? They haven't revealed yet, and while most of the challenges have been primarily action and fighting-based, that COULD change...





The city wasn't as comfortable as New York for Casey, but it had sort of become a second home. Also a training ground, since when he DID get back he'd have to help fight the invasion of the Kraang. Good thing this place had its share of monsters and mutants and other baddies to deal with as well. Now if they just could figure out how to get people back to where they came from, Casey'd call it a done deal.

He missed April. He missed Raph, and Mikey. Was Leo recovering alright? What about Don? Hell, he missed trading snark with Don while they worked on things in the old barn.

It wasn't like he didn't have friends here--he had a few. But it wasn't 'home', no matter how much it became like it in some ways. Still, winter here at least wasn't too different than the city he knew.

Including ice-skating. Maybe he'd see if anyone else has heard of Hockey. For now, he'd arranged a meeting with one of his sorta-friends at the frozen lake in the central park. He's bundled up in his usual gear, and already gotten two sets of skates. Now he just needs the Princess.

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[thegreatninja]

Yuffie arrived late, if only to make Casey wait. He was so insistent to meet and like anything else she can't really bring herself to say no. She agreed and then regretted it but she couldn't help but be curious.

She had her usual ninja gear on which included a tank top and a hood. A pair of boots and short-shorts. She has her hand band and arm warmers and she should really be cold. Her gaze locks on Casey and then the ice skates in his hand.

"What is that?"