((A/N: Not intended to be completely In-Character or a serious thing. It's humor. Don't like don't read but I'm putting multiplayer into Amnesia. :P))
The Normandy SR2 glides gently through deep space. They had recently picked up a new Ally, the Asari Justicar: Samara. As she meditated in the Starboard Observation deck, Jeff "Joker" Moreau and Alexander Clarke were in Port Observation, two laptop computers before them. Joker was messing around with a download client, and Alexander had already succeeded in the download.
"So, what's the big deal with this Amnesia stuff?" Alexander asked, tweaking Joker's webcam delicately.
"Huge thing with fans of this old YouTuber… PewDiePie, I think it was. One of the scariest things he ever played, and was the backbone of his channel for quite some time," Joker answered, reaching over to Alexander's computer, and pulling up a video for him to watch. "Enjoy," Joker said, smirking, before returning to his own computer. Alexander watched this ancient montage in its entirety. He found the Sophomore Humor a bit dumb, but had to laugh along with some of PewDiePie's screaming. Shocking resemblance to Joker's play-through of SCP: Nightmare, which, at this point, was quite successful, scoring him 1,000 subscribers who anticipated another vid.
"So what are we downloading, anyways?" Alexander inquired, raising an eyebrow. Joker gestured to his own screen.
"Amnesia: Darkness Falls," he said. "Some guys found Amnesia, and resurrected it. They fixed some of the graphics and compatibility issues, as well as implementing a Multiplayer feature. The game is currently… eh, invisible to the rest of the Galaxy. Only a few hundred really play it, and fewer than that actually do Multiplayer. Because of this, I heard the player limit was around ten." Joker explained, and Alexander nodded.
"You want to go Multiplayer or try Single Player first?" Alexander asked, and Joker snickered.
"Why do you think we're both downloading? You and I are going to fill the Normandy with screams!" laughed the Pilot. The young Assassin muttered something and opened up his Webcam, along with the game.
"Why am I using a webcam as well? You're the YouTuber!" questioned Alex, who pointed a finger at Jeff, who raised his hands in surrender.
"Hey! You're the one who wanted to join in the next episode. Make your screen name and quit your whining."
Joker's Username: PilotMoreau21
Alexander's Username: EagleClaw88
Joker looked at Alexander's screen for a minute before sniggering at his username. "Does your Brotherhood have a bird fetish or something?" he asked, and Alexander glared angrily.
"What exactly does that mean?" Alexander growled, and Joker's grin became wider.
"Well, first of all, the 'Legends'. Frederico slipped me some non-classified info on them. Altair means 'The Flying One', and there is a star with the same name, part of an Eagle shaped constellation. Ezio means "Eagle" just straight up, Connor Kenway was Native American so I shouldn't even have to say anything there… face it: you guys are obsessed with Eagles. Y'all even try to fly like one," Joker clarified, clearing his throat and mentioning something about the Leaps of Faith they take in between coughs. Alexander rolled his eyes. "Oh, and the ship's Cancerous Tumor* told the Yeoman, who accidentally leaked to me, that you shared some quality time with Kairee a few days back. You know the Turians are avian, right?" Joker added, and Alexander stared back with bulging eyes.
"She has cameras in our ward?" the Assassin inquired, and Joker nodded.
"That isn't an issue, is it?" asked Joker, scratching his neck.
"It's a huge issue!" Alex yelped, "The Illusive Man could know about us!" he added, and Joker whistled in sympathy.
"Ouch. So much for that Tenet of yours… he must have countless footy of you going on and on about your Brotherhood's history. Though, I'm sure he already knows enough about how Mr. ibn-La'ahad could decimate armies with his fists," quipped Joker, rolling his eyes, "Calm down, and play Amnesia."
Alexander sighed, and watched Joker get his camera going.
"Haha, how's it going? I told you I'd make another video!" Joker said, pointing at the webcam jokingly, "This time I'm playing with a buddy, his username is EagleClaw88. We're gonna play some Amnesia: Darkness Falls. I did some research and found out that the game is available for Multiplayer via Extranet with a ten player limit. If you bros want to join a game and hopefully find me, check the link in the description."
Joker and Alexander hooked up their webcams to the top corners of each other's screen, so that both of them could be seen on both computers. Creepy music played as the Multiplayer menu appeared. Choice of Character was permitted. Joker went with "Survivor", and Alexander chose Servant Grunt. Joker looked to his side to stare at Alexander. "Really, bro?" he said, adjusting his Pilot's Cap. Alexander smirked slyly and confirmed his selection. At the last second, two others joined the server, stopping the game from loading the map.
NightBlade1337, ZakeraStop50, has come online
"Is this that PilotMoreau21 I keep hearing about?" said a voice, belonging to ZakeraStop50. On his end of the line was a male Salarian, on break from his job in the Citadel.
"Yes it is!" Joker replied into his earpiece. Zakera cheered and thanked Joker for the opportunity to play.
"May I ask who NightBlade1337 is?" Alexander said, in his earpiece.
A familiar voice replied as she hacked her webcam into Alex and Joker's network, taking up the third, bottom-left corner of the screen. She took the liberty to hack the Salarian in as well, and he appeared on the bottom-right corner. Each camera box was small enough to reveal much of the screen, but everyone was clearly distinguishable. "Wait, Kairee?!" Alexander said, jolting in shock. She giggled and waved.
"I snuck the data chit from Joker once you two had left for Port Observation. I wanted to try Human entertainment for once. Besides, Galaxy of Fantasy is only fun for so long." Kairee said casually.
"Wait, didn't that DLC give us 200-300 hours of gameplay?" Alexander asked.
"Actually it does, but I get where she is coming from." The Salarian said.
"What is it with us and super long movies and games? I mean, 'Molt' was 95 hours long… it was a movie… wasn't even interactive," stated Joker, and Alexander did a double take. 95 Hours!?
"Ah, the Map is ready! Does anyone else want on?" Kairee said, tapping her screen. One other person joined, selecting Survivor just as they loaded up. Nobody saw the new player.
PilotMoreau21: Human. EagleClaw88: Servant Grunt. NightBlade1337: Human. ZakeraStop50: Human. Brian: Human.
The game loaded up, everyone voted to skip the intro. Best be as surprised as possible. Joker spawned first, waking up in a bed within a Castle. A Third Person Zoom revealed his appearance as a Gentleman from the late 1700s. The Salarian's character was trapped in a cell in the bottom of the Castle. "Great. I start the game imprisoned of course!" he said, putting a hand to his chin and sighing. "Brian" spawned a ragged explorer type outside the castle in the frigid forests.
"WHO IS YOU?!" Joker called out as Brian jumped up and down a few times, "dancing" for the camera.
"What are you guys talking about?" Alexander asked, putting a finger to his earpiece.
"Some Brian guy hijacked the game last second," Joker said, noting that Alexander spawned separately, as a Servant Grunt. He wasn't into big scares, so he decided to play the bad guy for once.
Kairee's character, a young woman in Colonial-Era clothing, spawned in a bed on the opposite side of the Castle. "Ok… why are we in beds?" she asked, squinting at the screen.
"It's part of the game. I hear that the main characters in pretty much every story lose their memory, hence 'Amnesia'," Joker explained, moving around the room. He shuffled through some closets and drawers, recovering the Lantern and some oil potions. The Salarian found a loose brick to smash the lock with, escaping and making his way around the castle's basement. Kairee found some tinderboxes and sanity potions.
"Sanity potions… what do those do?" Kairee asked, lifting an "eyebrow". Really just a facial muscle, as Turians had no hair.
"Well, if you sit in the shadows for too long, witness scary events, or stare at the monster, ahem, Alex… your character loses Sanity. The potions and solving puzzles help restore sanity. I won't tell you what happens if you fail to do this," Joker smirked.
Alexander spawned in the Library, a large room with plenty of hiding places. He shambled along the halls, looking for his prey. Joker had left the room with the lantern and began aimlessly exploring the castle.
The Salarian's Character stumbled upon the kitchen, and upon entering, his entire screen went red, and knifes and ingredients went flying everywhere, the room was shaking and blurring. The Salarian shot back into his seat and yelped, grasping the backrest of the chair. Joker started laughing; he had not seen what had happened.
"Did Alex find you?" he asked, and Alexander shook his head and stuck out his tongue.
"I'm coming for you!" he said in a creepy, guttural voice akin to Gollum from LOTR.
Kairee hid her face from the Camera, and Joker face-palmed. The Salarian scratched his head in confusion.
Meanwhile, Brian was still trying to get the controls down, dancing around the forest like an idiot.
Alexander's Servant Grunt character had a basic sense of detection, but still had to work to find the others. He began hitting a door in frustration, and Joker's eyes bulged as he shrieked, dust was flying off the door on his end. Alexander smiled in an unnerving fashion, having found Joker. Another hit and his arm breaks through, breaking down the entire door. Joker yells and shakes his lantern in Alexander's face in an attempt to deter him. It fails, and Alexander smacks Joker's character in the face.
"RUN!" Joker shouts, his face twisting quite hilariously as rapid clicking was heard as he tried to get a door open. Another hit, and Joker, in first person, hits the floor, dead. He stares at the screen for a moment before raging silently. He'd later edit in a retro color-screen with the message: Error! Printed in Impact font where his Camera box was. When he came back, he was wearing the earpiece he threw, and he was locked on Spectate mode. "I guess there's no redoes on Multiplayer... Whose idea was this!?" Joker said, angrily.
The Salarian's character found some Tinderboxes in the kitchen when he heard the exchange. "Well, lucky for me, I'm in the basement!" he said, before covering his mouth slit. Alexander grinned again and turned from Joker's corpse, to go try and find a path to the basement. Kairee giggled at the Salarian's facial reaction as she encountered a locked door, which she ripped open with a crowbar she uncovered sometime earlier, when Alexander was beating down the door. Joker centered his POV on her, as she walked down the stairs that the door led to.
The halls were engulfed in darkness, and Kairee's screen began wobbling, becoming blurry at the edges. "What's going on?" she asked, and Joker smiled, stifling a response. She heard a noisy bang, and a Servant Brute began following her down stairs. She screamed, slowly standing up from the shock as she began running. In the background, Jack yelled at her to keep it down and quit being a… well, you know Jack… Joker had to bleep that out.
Jack eventually became curious and looked at the screen, over Kairee's shoulder. "What are you playing?" she asked, squinting as the Servant Brute caught up to Kairee, disintegrating. Kairee was breathing heavily from the adrenaline rush, and found herself in a pool of water that had flooded the room. Splashes of Water were found on the other end of the room, as Kairee yelped and jumped onto a floating crate. Jack snickered. "I thought you were the big bad Turian Femme Fatale?" Jack said, and Kairee frowned.
The splashing ceased as Kairee escaped the water, and Joker centered his focus on the Salarian, who had found a way out of the basement, and found the Library. He began tossing books off the shelf in a comical manner, making sound effects as the books hit the ground. He was looking for a lever of some sort. "Dude, you know you're just chucking books in the monster's face, right?" Joker teased, and the Salarian shrieked, turning around to see nothing. "I hate you! Not funny!" he said, pointing at his webcam.
Alexander heard the cries of fear, and made his way back upstairs, backtracking to the library, where he saw the Salarian's character jumping up to grab some books.
Meanwhile, "Brian" finally got the controls down, and was walking around the castle, aimlessly.
"Where are the notes in this place?" the Salarian asked as he turned to see Alexander's Monster directly in front of him, about an inch away, looking down at him in a terrifying manner. Alexander himself had the oddest of smiles warping his face.
"WHOOOAAAAA," Joker roared, leaping back on the couch. The Salarian stood up and threw down his earpiece, cursing in his native tongue. Kairee just burst out laughing at the three's reactions, falling into the water in the process. Jack couldn't hold back her snickering, and drew the attention of several other people on the Normandy.
Joker replayed the scene in Slow Mo, showing the first-person view of the Salarian's Character as he turned to face the Servant Grunt. Alexander's passionately scary stare covering his camera box, Joker's lips parted, and his mouth formed a perfect "O" as he shouted, the slow-motion distorting the sound to sound as if a Krogan's stomach was rumbling. The Salarian jumped up rather quickly, even for slow motion, and the earpiece was seen floating down the Camera box as the muffled curses were also distorted. An annotation was applied, "worth a favorite? XD"
Kairee's character was bitten by the water monster, killing her character as it sank into the water. She screamed in a high pitch, which caused Alexander to laugh hysterically, having had enough of the hilarity. "It's just you and me!" Alexander said as the Salarian's character began running like a fool. Brian ran into him in the hallway, blocking his movement as the Servant Grunt neared them.
"*bleep* YOU BRIAN!" The Salarian shouted in a panic, and Joker threw his head back to cackle frenziedly.
"God darn it, Brian!" Joker added weakly, inhaling while laughing, making him sound like a total dork. Alexander closed in on the two and killed them in a single, critical swipe. The two glitched together as they flopped into the air, as their limbs stretched and vibrated as they twirled around, breaking apart at the textures.
"WHAT," Joker yelped, looking at the screen in disbelief. Kairee had begun spectating at around that time, and she burst out laughing. Jane Shepard had walked over, and put her hand on her mouth as the whole thing went down.
"WHAT, THE WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!" Joker reiterated, looking deeply at the screen. He hit his head against the keyboard and continued hooting like a moron.
"What the heck, Brian…" Kairee said, hands to her mouth as she giggled.
"I won!" Alexander said, throwing his arms in the air. "I won!"
The game ended soon after, at the urging of Joker, who then delivered the Outro.
Meanwhile…
A Holo-Screen reviewed the footage of Joker's recent vid. Zooming out, it is revealed that the Illusive Man is the one watching it!
"Do a thorough search-string on "EagleClaw88 and NightBlade1337," TIM commanded, and the VI shuffled through some files on the Extranet. It was almost empty, besides some old records. Alexander Clarke… ex Alliance…
This is what he needed. "Mr. Clarke, the Assassin," The Illusive Man said, "EDI's reports were right… there were Assassins on board. Ha… perhaps they will be of some use after all…" TIM added, talking to himself. He pushed a button on his armrest and called Miranda Lawson.
"Illusive Man, how may I help you?" Miranda asked when she answered the call.
"I am aware of the presence of the Assassins," TIM said ominously, and Miranda froze.
"Is there an issue?" she asked, smiling weakly.
"Not yet. As much as I hate to admit this, we'll need all the help we can get, and the Assassins have the skill we need. Hell, actually, all we need to clear out the Collector Base would be a handful of Master Assassins…" TIM admitted, albeit reluctantly. "But this is for Humanity, not the Assassins."
"What do you need me to do?" Miranda asked innocently.
"Have Mordin run a DNA test on him… if my suspicions are correct," The Illusive Man said, pausing.
"Tell Shepard to stop on Illium… I'll have a few contacts deliver the Animus on your next visit." TIM said, smirking, and hanging up.
Miranda was left speechless, but she shook her head and called for John Shepard.
COMMENTS WALL
MoltenEezo4987: LOL, even funnier than the last one! I lost it when Brian blocked ZakeraStop xD
PsychoticBiotic: That was me laughing next to NightBlade1337. ****in' funny stuff, Joker. Wait... what the **** is up with the ****ing censor?! SHEPARD!
SilentButDeadly62: lol "WHAT IS YOU" gets me every time. Dat jump thou.
TrOlLbAnE96: ROFL. WTF GOLLUM!? EagleClaw88 just wins, I'm sorry. xD
NightBlade1337: (In Response to: TrOlLbAnE96) Who is Gollum?
EagleClaw88: (In Response to NightBlade1337) Remind me to rent that vid and we can watch it together, sweety. It's a Human Classic.
FireAndIce: (In Response to EagleClaw88) But... she's a Turian... and you are a human... EWW. UNSUSCRIBE.
EagleClaw88: (In Response to FireAndIce) Unsubscribe*. lol wtf did you just say? I can snipe you... with a shotgun.
TrOlLbAnE96: (In Response to FireAndIce) Inb4 Hate Storm.
FireAndIce: (In Response to EagleClaw88) Cool Story, Bro. Is it on Audiobook yet?
PilotMoreau21: (In Response to FireAndIce) Don't you some Fornax to go drool over?
ZakeraStop50: (In Response to FireAndIce, PilotMoreau50) Lacks Sex Drive. Still Gets Joke. Go home, FireAndIce.
PsychoticBiotic: I don't know what's funnier, the Vid, or this ****storm over NightBlade. FireAndIce probably has a whole stack of Fornax under his bed anyways.
FireAndIce: (In Response to PsychoticBiotic) Who told you that? How did you know?
PsychoticBiotic, PilotMoreau21, EagleClaw88, ZakeraStop50: (In Response to FireAndIce) We didn't know, and You just told us.
NightBlade1337: Inb4 riot. (I'm getting the hang of Human Extranet lingo )
EagleClaw88: (In Response to NightBlade1337) Babe, nobody uses the words: "Human Extranet Lingo" anymore. I still love you doh :3
