"Yeah, it's a game of telekinetic war to control all the balls and score the most points. Most often played with sixteen or twenty balls. In Combat Kineball the balls explode on impact. The real event's been done at SenseFest - this is the videogame version."

"Hehehe, sounds like great fun let's goooo."

Hannah gives her a headset and a pair of controllers, one for each hand. They start the game with four balls. Hannah goes easy on her while she's learning the controls; gestures to change the direction of a ball, button presses to flip through the list of balls. It's pretty tricky.

She's in a great mood about it anyway and is not super competitive. She has played vidya before, just not this one. She improves quickly.

Hannah cranks up the number of balls once they're evenly matched at four. It goes all the way up to 20; they'll probably settle out somewhere in the teens if she's good at this.

She's got excellent reactions but, "Mouu, it's so annoying to swap which one you're pointing at, wish I just had tee kay. Frustrating. I'd dramatically flop on the couch if we weren't in VR."

"I can give you a charm and we can go play nonexploding kineball in the back yard if you like."

"Yeah that sounds more fun! I've never liked vidya that's, like, trying to replicate real experiences too closely. Walking simulators and sports games."

"We've got a lot of real experiences to play with out here. I'll be glad to introduce you to kineball." 

She fishes out a star-shaped necklace from her pocket dimension, and passes it to Changeling in return for her VR headset. Then it's out the back door to a small enclosed yard amid simulated stars. "Mind you don't fall off the edge, yeah? It's a pocket universe, you'd get spit out into some random location in Arcbright. Maybe land on somebody, maybe show up high in the air - you get the idea."

She whistles a low tone. "Not fun, got it. Not that a broken neck or fall from terminal velocity'd be enough to kill me."

She experiments with the charm. Does it allow her to TK things? Intuitively?

It allows her to TK things quite intuitively! It seems to be will and intent based. 

Hannah picks up a fist-sized orange ball with her own TK and kines it over to Changeling. "Here, catch."

She catches and holds it still. She starts bouncing it, eyes tracking it.

"A little trippy. At least I'm used to new senses and limbs."

Hannah softballs two more balls at her. "Can you keep up? We need at least two balls to make the game make sense, four is best to start with."

She's juggling three now. "Yeah, no, this is way way better than the VR game."

She pulls out more balls and keeps tossing them until Changeling fails to catch.

She manages seven, but a moment later picks up the eighth where it fell.

"Alright, now let's fight over 'em." 

Hannah proceeds to demonstrate some basic techniques by using them against Changeling.

This is fun!!! She has really fast reaction times and less practice than Hannah.

It's a pretty fair fight! Hannah is going easy of course, but Changeling's faster task-switching time forces her to play a little more seriously than she expected. She gets tagged by a ball and laughs. 

"Nice one! Think you can move up to ten?"

"Lemme get more practice in at eight! You keep like managing to send five at me at once how do you even-" Bopbopbop.

"It's like playing the piano with both hands, you learn to develop secondary concentration and move in concert. Catch."

She 'hits' two off in different directions at the same time, tries to leap to the side to avoid the third, drops all the other balls, starts laughing, tail wagging.

Hannah grins. "Nice try. I think you're getting it. Want to keep going or switch to something else?"

"Up to you! My scatterbrain isn't bored yet, kining is fun!"

"Let's do some more rounds then, I want to see if I can train you up. That reaction time of yours is really something."