Chapter 10: The Impossible Game (and Bertholdt's Sweat)
titanscientist started a conversation with fuzzypeaches, hooverdam, hrgoddess, jeanchevaljean, lionheart, marcopolo, mikasassasin, potatopotahto, strategicpoint, titandestroyer, wreckingball and ymirror.
titanscientist: Guess what, my dearies of the 104th legion?
titanscientist: The tech guys have come up with a virtual simulator for employing titan-killing strategies!
titanscientist: You'll be controlling an avatar of yourself, and using the 3DMG and surrounding buildings or trees
titanscientist: You have to kill the nearby titans!
titanscientist: They'll start up several games, which will each have 2-3 people playing
titanscientist: I look forward to seeing how you soldiers do :)
wreckingball started a conversation with hooverdam and lionheart.
wreckingball: You guys want to be partners for the titan sim?
hooverdam: Sure, Reiner.
lionheart: Okay
A couple hours later...
wreckingball: I think we should plan out a strategy before going for the titans.
lionheart: Don't we just have to follow whatever strategy the captains give us
lionheart: It's that simple...
wreckingball: Come on Annie!
wreckingball: Let's try and think outside the box!
wreckingball: I want to look good in front of them
lionheart: Why?
lionheart: Looking for a promotion?
lionheart: Like that'll ever happen once they find out who you are
hooverdam: Annie! Not so loud!
lionheart: Bertholdt, we're texting, not yelling
lionheart: And why not
lionheart: No one knows anyway
hooverdam: But you guys can get careless...
hooverdam: I feel like they already know who we are...
lionheart: Stop being such a paranoid sissy
lionheart: Sometimes I can't believe you're the-
wreckingball: Let's start, shall we?
titanscientist: Okay soldiers!
titanscientist: I hope you're ready to start the simulation soon.
titanscientist: Get started on customizing the settings to your preference.
titanscientist: Make sure you're on the training map on normal setting.
titanscientist: We'll be starting in five minutes.
wreckingball: It's called Attack on Titan Tribute Game?
wreckingball: Interesting...
lionheart: You know what's not interesting?
lionheart: The amount of fucks I give for this pointless game
lionheart: And the amount of fucking options there are on this damn thing
hooverdam: Oh my God
hooverdam: How am I supposed to remember all the keys for jump, dodge, left hook, right hook
hooverdam: BOTH HOOKS
hooverdam: Lock, attack, special attack, salute, flare red, flare green and flare black?
hooverdam: WHY
wreckingball: Bert calm down!
lionheart: I bet he's sweating all over his keyboard too
lionheart: Wow...his avatar's even sweating as well
lionheart: It's glistening...
wreckingball: Annie...
lionheart: Just stating a fact...
wreckingball: And now I know why you don't have any friends
wreckingball: Bert, just stay cool, okay?
wreckingball: It's just a sim
hooverdam: Right...okay
hooverdam: It's just really frustrating
wreckingball: It's frustrating for all of us...
lionheart: What a heartwarming moment
lionheart: Btw why the hell is this in Japanese...
wreckingball: There's English on here
lionheart: No shit Sherlock
lionheart: I can read
lionheart: But no one here can read Japanese
hooverdam: Mikasa might be able to
lionheart: Just cause she's part Japanese doesn't mean she can read those damn pictographs
lionheart: She's the only one left inside the walls
lionheart: How the hell do you even write that fourth character
lionheart: It has a hundred lines in there
hooverdam: I never knew you could be so talkative...
wreckingball: No one cares Annie!
wreckingball: Let's just start the damn sim already before I blow a gasket
titanscientist: Okay, get started now!
titanscientist: Try to get someone to distract the titan while the other kills it!
titanscientist: Good luck, soldiers!
lionheart: What the fuck is this
lionheart: These controls are impossible
hooverdam: I told you!
lionheart: Shut up Bertholdt
hooverdam: I can't jump onto the building
wreckingball: Try pressing jump while you're flying up there with your 3DMG
hooverdam: ...
hooverdam: Still failing
lionheart: Great, this is completely retarded
lionheart: Why can't I just have a virtual titan form like Eren
lionheart: At least I wouldn't have to use half of these dumb controls
wreckingball: What? Where?
lionheart: I can see him on the other side of the map
hooverdam: How about we finish this as quickly as possible
hooverdam: So we don't end up killing each other?
wreckingball: Right...good point
wreckingball: Let's get this over with, Annie
lionheart: Fine
wreckingball: Huh...you can see the others in here somehow
lionheart: Did we not establish this when I said I saw Eren
wreckingball: Sorry I forgot Ms Congeniality ._.
lionheart: ...
hooverdam: Sooooooo
hooverdam: I see Connie and Sasha
lionheart: What the fuck are they doing
lionheart: She's just standing on top of Connie's head
wreckingball: I guess they can't figure out the controls too
lionheart: Morons...
hooverdam: Well we can't figure them out either...
hooverdam: I wonder how the others are doing...
strategicpoint: EREN!
strategicpoint: You suck at controlling this thing!
titandestroyer: i'm sorry!
titandestroyer: i guess they made the sim too realistic
strategicpoint: Obviously
strategicpoint: Look at Mikasa breezing through all this
titandestroyer: sigh...
titandestroyer: well at least i can still kick some titan butt with my titan form
titandestroyer: or else i'd be in a titan's stomach right now XD
strategicpoint: ...
strategicpoint: Don't joke about that
titandestroyer: oh right...sorry :O
marcopolo: I think I'm getting better at this
jeanchevaljean: yeah
jeanchevaljean: it was difficult at first but i'm getting the hang of this
marcopolo: Titan on your right
jeanchevaljean: thanks marco
jeanchevaljean: i got this
marcopolo: No you don't...
jeanchevaljean: ...
jeanchevaljean: WHO TOOK MY TITAN KILL
jeanchevaljean: YOU ASSHOLES
fuzzypeaches: sasha!
fuzzypeaches: i was gonna take jean's titan!
potatopotahto: too slow ya snail ;)
fuzzypeaches: come onn
fuzzypeaches: you gotta pay me back for standing on my head when we had no clue what was going on
potatopotahto: but i wasn't even standing on your actual head!
fuzzypeaches: give the next titan kill to me
potatopotahto: NEVERRRRRR
fuzzypeaches: POTATO GIRL
hrgoddess: Come on Ymir!
hrgoddess: Go for it!
ymirror: you kill it
hrgoddess: No way! You've given me the last three kills
ymirror: it's too late, just go ahead
hrgoddess: Ymir...
hrgoddess: If you don't kill it I'm going to end the simulation right now
hrgoddess: And get myself killed by the titan
ymirror: ...fine
ymirror: but we're talking about this after the game's over
hrgoddess: Okay
hooverdam: This is a lot easier now
wreckingball: Agreed
wreckingball: Annie, you need any help with killing those titans?
lionheart: ...I'm fine
lionheart: Stop distracting me
hooverdam: Sigh...lone wolf
hooverdam: I can't seem to jump onto the building for some reason
hooverdam: Even when my hooks are on the stupid building
wreckingball: Try a running head start
hooverdam: ...still can't
hooverdam: Oh crap
hooverdam: I'm dead now
wreckingball: :(
wreckingball: You can still see the screen though, right?
hooverdam: Yeah
wreckingball: Just stay back and watch then, and some advice too
hooverdam: Sure
humanitystrongest started a conversation with titanscientist.
humanitystrongest: Hey shitty glasses
humanitystrongest: How's the sim going
titanscientist: Pretty well I'd say
titanscientist: It's been half an hour
titanscientist: And there's still quite a few left
humanitystrongest: Who are the lucky bastards
titanscientist: Eren, Mikasa, Armin, Jean, Reiner and Annie.
humanitystrongest: Hmmmph...not bad
humanitystrongest: Get them started on extreme
titanscientist: ...seriously? O-O
humanitystrongest: Crank it up.
titanscientist: Right...okay then
lionheart: This is getting fucking boring
wreckingball: I think we're almost done
titanscientist changed the difficulty from "normal" to "abnormal".
hooverdam: ...what the hell was that
wreckingball: I dunno...it doesn't seem to be any different...
wreckingball: Oh crap
wreckingball: How the hell did it grab me already?
wreckingball: Annie where'd you go
lionheart: I got kicked across the map...
hooverdam: O.o
hooverdam: OHMYGOD THEY'RE ALL GANGING UP ON YOU
lionheart: I can see that
lionheart: Fuck this
lionheart: I'm ending the game
wreckingball: NO NO NO
hooverdam: Reiner...
hooverdam: Please tell me that I just didn't hear you break the keyboard
wreckingball: I didn't break the keyboard.
lionheart: Liar.
wreckingball: He told me to say it!
humanitystrongest: So how many keyboards did they break?
titanscientist: Four.
titanscientist: Care to guess who they are?
humanitystrongest: Jaeger, Kirschstein and...?
titanscientist: Reiner Braun and Bertholdt Hoover.
humanitystrongest: Interesting...they seems like the calm type.
titanscientist: Hoover broke his by sweating too much and messing up the wiring in the circuits.
humanitystrongest: ...
titanscientist: Btw you're compensating me for the broken keyboards
titanscientist: They are NOT cheap
humanitystrongest: Whatever Hanji.
wreckingball: So I heard you broke your keyboard too...
hooverdam: SHUT UP DON'T MENTION IT
Author's Note
So I based this chapter on the online game, Attack on Titan Tribute Game. It's fun, but very frustrating at the same time. I gave up after a few minutes of swearing and table slamming. This chapter isn't as humour-packed, but I needed to vent my frustration on here XD Maybe I'm just not meant to be a gamer. I'll stick to my Pokemon X then...
Can you believe this is the tenth chapter already? Cause I can't! It feels I just started the fic yesterday...and I now have over a hundred reviews and followers :D
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