The two spent the rest of the day playing Jenga, stopping halfway through to basically just chuck the bricks at each other. Dave had started this little war after losing for the fourth time in a row, and he was starting to get pissed off at Karkat's little smug grin. They had managed a solid few games after this before resorting to old habits, and by the time there was a knock at the door the two were basically buried from the waist down with Jenga blocks.

Karkat managed to brush himself off to get the door just before the visitor ran off. Opening their door he saw Jade bouncing on her heels.

"Hey Karkat! Is Dave here?"

"Yeah, Dave stop fucking around in the little wood blocks and come say hi."

"Little wood cubes?" Jade questioned, cocking her head to the side in utter confusion of this seemingly obvious statement.

"I was teaching him how to play Jenga and he got aggressive as shit," Dave said with a small smirk as he leaned over Karkat's shorter form. Jade laughed.

"When is he not aggressive?"

"I am right here you assholes."

"See! Proof!"

"So is that all you came for? Tormenting Karkat?" Dave asked, stepping aside to let the brunette girl in. She shook her head with a smile as she walked in.

"Nope! Not today at least, I actually came because I have some good news!"

"Lay it on me, Harley."

"Well so Jake and I were looking around at the outskirts of the desert when we saw this weird sparkly thingy, so we went to check it out."

"Naturally."

"Of course! So when we went over to the thing we saw it was a piece of metal. Apparently Jake got curious and he had your brother help him dig it out from where it was buried. Guess what it was!"

"A refrigerator holding a juggalo?" Karkat grumbled with the slightest bit of hope his friend was found. Jade frowned.

"No, it wasn't that… Sorry Karkat, it was actually a land mine of stuff from Earth before the game. For some reason it was mostly arcade games, like Whack-A-Mole or whatever. We got the mayor to make us a little dinky sign on an unoccupied can building so there's now this little arcade Jake and Dirk built to keep us from getting bored on our down time!"

Dave blinked and smiled a little.

"So is the place up and running?"

"Yep! I don't think anyone is there now though, maybe a few of the little chess guys are roaming around, but besides that yup. Dirk actually managed to get all the games on free play too, so you don't even need quarters!"

"What are quarters?" Karkat questioned, mostly to himself.

"Old Earth currency, basically what we don't have anymore. So that's awesome, Jade. You wanna head over there right now, because obviously we are killing each other with God damn Jenga bricks out of boredom."

"Oh gee, I'd really like to but I have some more exploring with Jake to do! Maybe I could meet you guys there later, but it's by the town hall if you want to go now… But you've seemed to make a really huge mess… So maybe you should clean these up first," Jade said with a knowing smile as she gazed at the newly founded Jenga ruins. Dave sighed and shrugged.

"Yeah yeah, we'll clean this up eventually. You go have fun making maps or whatever, but if you need us I'm going to smack some robot moles," Dave said with a smile. Jade giggled and nodded before walking back out and waving goodbye.

"Have fun guys!"

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Dave began to lead Karkat towards the mayor's office. They had not cleaned the Jenga blocks and instead resorted to playing with them more. Boredom was a powerful thing and Karkat wouldn't leave the goddamn house.

"Is this it? I can't really tell… Like at all," Dave asked, looking at a stack of can houses with a cardboard sign. Karkat squinted at it, trying to make out at least one word of it.

"This is longer than a fucking movie title. How do you and your brother name things?!"

"Not in a timely manner, that's how, but no I still can't read this. Do you think Jake wrote this?"

"Why do you say that?"

"He lived on an island, so did Jade and her handwriting is like a six year old."

"That is pretty much what that looks like huh?"

"Yeah… But anyways," Dave started before swinging the door open.

The room was dark and filled with old arcade machines. One of them had the weird Alternian writing on it, making Karkat really confused. Dave looked around to see most of the games did have a broken piece or two but they were up and working. There was an old Dance Dance Revolution playing shitty music in the back and there was indeed a Whack-A-Mole game next to it. He smirked.

"So what are we playing first? You seem to be an expert."

"While I did spend a lot of time in arcades after school to avoid strifes, I am no means an expert. Though that doesn't mean I'm not going to play DDR for the next hour."

"What the hell is a DDR?"

"Follow me, and you will see," Dave joked, making Karkat roll his eyes at the stupidity. He followed after Dave as he made his way to a previously seen corner with the giant as fuck machine poking out of it.

"Watch and learn, my friend, watch and learn," Dave said, hopping onto the flashing feet panels. Karkat was skeptical of the thing, noticing a second person should be able to play but not now. There was a giant hole through the second top panel. That probably wasn't safe in the slightest, but Dave seemed unfazed. The blond smirked.