So, I did a little research and found that I did a chapter wrong with one minor detail. They ate Pizza on vintage video game night! Gasp! I remember when I skimmed over the whole chapter right before publishing it I saw at one point I said they were having pizza and in another area Chinese food, and I couldnt remember which one was the write one so I just made it Pizza. Just found out I chose wrong. Am I going to go back and fix it? Probably not. Am I aware of my mistake in case someone at some point planned on pointing it out, Yes I am. To be Honest I just started watching TBBT about a month or two ago so I figured I would make some mistakes along the way. At least my people seem to be in character still, however who knows how long thats gonna last right? Anyway! On to the story!
"Hey guys! So glad you could make it!" Julia greeted her friends.
Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, Raj, Bernadette, Amy, and Penny came in to the apartment in a row. Julia raised en eyebrow to see a less familiar face follow close behind.
"Oh, hello, who are you?"
"Ah, Julia this is Stewart. He owns the Comic book store not that far from here. I hope you don't mind if he joins us." Leonard explained.
Julia shook her head.
"No problem, nice to meet you Stewart, Im Julia." She greeted, holding out her hand for him to take.
Stewart being the slightly awkward person he is, hesitantly shook her hand and nodded.
"Hello."
Julia clapped her hands together and smiled.
"Alright! Im glad you all could join me this fine Monday evening, for a little taste of what I play in my spare time. Howard, I see you brought the food."
Howard nodded and Asian food from Golden Dragon down on the coffee table for people to grab what they ordered.
"And everyone has brought their laptops?"
In-sync everyone lifted their laptops into the air. Everyone, except Stewart.
"Do you not have a laptop Stewart?"
Stewart opened his mouth to explain why but nothing came out. Julia raised an eyebrow an continued to look at him for an explanation.
"It was stolen."
Julia blinked. Why was that so hard to say?
"By this crazy little old lady."
Oh.
"Um...okay. Well- "
"She was so strong..." Stewart continued, and the other watched as his expression took one of someone who was seeing Vietnam flashbacks.
Julia quickly placed her hand on Stewart's shoulder to take him out of the frighting memory.
"I have an extra one you can use, its all good."
Stewart gave her a weak smile and then nodded.
"Thanks."
"Can we please get on with this already, our food is getting cold." Sheldon complained.
Julia nodded and brought her attention back to the whole crowed.
"Yes right, well tonight I want to introduce you guys to Garry's Mod. Not just the mod itself but a game called 'Prop Hunt.' "
"I'm going to warn you now Julia, as much as I appreciate you inviting us to play, Amy and myself hardly play games at all let alone on the computer, I dont know how well this is going to turn out. I mean, at least Penny has played stuff like Halo with these guys for some experience." Bernadette confronted with a nervous smile.
Julia laughed at the small woman and waved her hand dismissively.
"Bernadette I have no doubt in my mind that you guys will do just fine. The game is very simple. This is how it works.
There are two teams. Hunters and Props. These teams switch from one to the other each round. The props team is simple, chose an prop of your liking, rather its a box, a shelf, a cup, ect. Be it and hide. Now as the prop you can move around, however if you chose to try and hide as becoming one with the environment, which is really how your supposed to do it, my advice is to be careful. In your vision, your prop will turn as you turn when looking around, however to the view of the hunter its always the same. For example, if you are a...file cabinet, if against a wall, you obviously want the drawers to be facing the correct way, however without another person on your team to confirm your position, you have no real way of knowing for sure which way you are facing. If you want to change your prop, you can at anytime by going near it and pressing E. Those who want to roam around can, but when hiding you have to be in plain sight. Not necessarily out in the open but, the hunts need to be able to get to you. Sometimes when on maps in the outdoors, rocks and other things have no mass to them and you end up being able to go inside them, thats something that would be considered cheating. Alright?"
Everyone nodded in understanding.
"Hunters, you job, is obviously, to find the props that do not belong. You do that by hitting and shooting them. Some objects can be picked up like chairs, cups, boxes. Use that to your advantage because every time you hit something that is not a prop team member, you lose health until you die. Ghosting is frowned upon. However you can watch from your teams prospective. You have a grenade, one, grenade. Only use it if your sure you know where someone is but not sure what they are specifically. The grenade will hit a lot of things and there is a high chance you will die right after you use it if you hit enough things that are not your target. Any questions?"
No hands raised and Julia continued to explain the simple controls. She then went into her room and grabbed her laptop along with the extra for Stewart. The group set up and with few problems began eating as well as playing a very competitive game of prop hunt.
(FYI Prop Hunt, much like Hide and Seek mentioned in a previous chapter are real things. Garry's Mod is an awesome mod filled with a number if games and maps to chose from. However it is not free. Its not really expensive or anything but it does cost about 10 bucks. For the sake of the story I am pretending it is free because I cant imagine everyone in TBBT to bother purchasing Gmod if they never herd of it.)
"The teams wont be even obviously, because there are nine of us but thats okay. How about we have Leonard, Raj, Penny, Amy and Stewart start as Hunters. Myself, Howard, Bernadette, Sheldon can start as props." Julia suggested.
"Why do they get the extra team mate?" Sheldon asked crossing his arms.
Julia shrugged.
"I didnt think it mattered that much, and besides, you got me on your team kid, and I am a pro at this."
"Kid?! I quite certain I am older than you."
"Dont over think it, I call most people kid, even my dad."
"Well thats just silly." Sheldon remarked looking back down at the screen.
Julia wanted to respond but chose not to. If there was anything she learned from knowing Sheldon Cooper, its when to pick your battles. This argument, simply was not worth the effort.
The game lasted a good hour or so. Teams switching off between props and hunters frequently.
"How did you find me! My spot was perfect!" Sheldon exclaimed with a frown.
Leonard smirked. "Im just that good."
"Sheldon...look at my perspective." Julia said with a smile. Sheldon squinted at the screen.
"What are you?"
"This." She said moving a bit. Sheldon looked from the screen to her with his mouth slightly open.
"Oh, you minx...thats rather clever." Julia was a thin pipe leaning against one of the brick walls on the map. It was something that was slightly hard to see, but even if you did you would never really think to check it.
"Where is she!?" Amy shouted in slight frustration.
"Look at em' over there. Yeah, hit those boxes." Julia taunted from afar.
"So she can see us." Amy clarified looking around. Howard who was also dead laughed as he ghosted looking at both Julia and the other team.
"How are you doing Berny?" Howard asked his wife.
"Im alright I think. The again they seem so focused on finding Julia that I dont really think I need to even worry about it."
Julia giggled. "Bernadette I almost want you to die just so you can see this. next round though...we should all just do this."
"Yeeees." Howard agreed.
"That would be rather amusing, watching them squabble about when we would be right near them." Sheldon stated amused.
"Thirty seconds guys! Can you do it?" Julia asked.
"Rahhhhhh" Amy yelled as she started to shoot everything in sight, causing death moments later.
"Damn it!"
Raj through his hands up in defeat.
"I was looking for Bernadette this whole time and still got nowhere."
The timer went off and the words props win came up.
"Yay!" Julia and Bernadette shouted, high-fiving.
Alright so this is a rather short chapter again. I try and make chapter around 2000+ words and this one is a tad over 1500. However I realized t has been over a month since I updated this and I felt bad. I do plan on finishing this but I am sure its going to take time, so Im sorry.