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Ari is currently standing on a broad plateau on the Plane of Gold making a very pretty statue of a woman he loved once. He's not thrilled with the fact that she put him in a coma and swanned about doing horrible things for the span of his natural life, but half a millennium is a lot of time to get over that, and Belinda made herself beautiful enough that he's willing to overlook her faults in order to use her as a model. She was stunning.
For this statue, he's elected to use various shades of corundum. He managed to get the violet in her eyes into a pair of sapphires, and is now deliberating over how to render her skin. She changed it every so often, so he's got choices here.
Ari welcomes Cam to Hell
bitterchill
bitterchill
"Around three-quarters are on or around it. There's some other landmasses, but this one's been around forever and it's pretty much the best game going."
from_scratch
"I wonder who decided Hell needed a gigantic plane of gold. It's not really a good substrate for a civilization. I guess you can put whatever on top of it."
bitterchill
"We have absolutely no idea, but feel free to curse their name for their role in the spread of demonic tackiness. I would've made the world out of a great sphere of multicolored corundum, myself. Much more tasteful."
from_scratch
"Well, that would... look like a level in a children's videogame... throw in a racetrack or something..."
bitterchill
"Racetracks, yes. Possibly a great big series of hoops for jetpack races as well. We're demons, my friend, the sky is the limit."
from_scratch
"Having realized that I could instantiate Mario Kart in real life doesn't make me want to actually do it."
from_scratch
"The video game character Mario is ostensibly a plumber but never seen plumbing. He and the other characters of his franchise spend most of their time doing other things, including racing go-carts through assorted colorful scenery. Do you want to play Mario Kart?"
bitterchill
"...Yes. Yes, I want to pretend to be a plumber racing around colorful scenery, that sounds like the invention of the damn century."
from_scratch
Cam laughs. "All right, how much do you already have in the way of video game hardware, let's not be redundant unnecessarily."
bitterchill
The TV is nearby! It is a ridiculous thing that takes up almost an entire wall. It's very, very modern.
"My most recent summoner was rich and knew things about technology and he wrote me up a list of his favorite toys," grins Ari. "I have no idea what half of them do, but whatever it is, they do it well."
"My most recent summoner was rich and knew things about technology and he wrote me up a list of his favorite toys," grins Ari. "I have no idea what half of them do, but whatever it is, they do it well."
from_scratch
"This TV will do nicely." Cam conjures up a Wii and its various hookups already in place, and controllers (the wheel kind, because why not), and a copy of Mario Kart. He goes briskly through various setup procedures while explaining the general phenomenon of Mario Kart to Ari, and then hands him one of the wheels.
bitterchill
Ari gamely attempts to Mario Kart! He is roughly as competent as might be expected of a man from 1426 who until fifteen minutes ago believed that video games were essentially Choose Your Own Adventure novels.
He does improve noticeably as time goes by, though.
He does improve noticeably as time goes by, though.
from_scratch
Cam doesn't play very fiercely, but he doesn't let Ari win anyway; the computer players won't.
bitterchill
After some rounds, Ari actually wins a round! He performs a victory dance, detonating several tiny smokeless fireworks around himself.
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