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[faceguy]

You know, I never got to do the big road trip thing. I never thought this is how I'd get to do it, but hey, new experiences!

[It's good to look on the bright side, right?]

So what fun road trip games do you guys know? There's gotta be some good ones! Some of you guys are from totally different worlds, right?

Here, I'll kick us off. I spy with my little eye something... blue!

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[undyingcrow]

[I Spy, of all things... It's so mundane. So... almost childish, but he might as well humor Leonardo.]

Let me guess. The sky?

[faceguy]

Yeah!

[Akechi can't see Leo make a face here, but he can probably hear it in his voice.]

That's like the only thing with color out here. Unless you count brown...

[undyingcrow]

There's been quite a bit of foliage. That at least adds some green to the palette.

[Oh, he can hear that face. He's also allowed to be a nitpicky little shit.]

[faceguy]

Yeah some. Like the evil trees.

[Ugh.]

But a lot of stuff is dead, too.

[undyingcrow]

So it is.

[He could continue the game of I Spy, but this is Goro Akechi. He has other thoughts in mind.]

I've wondered if it's part of a cycle. Other vehicles, lost in the foliage. Old recordings... Clearly, something went awry within this world before our arrival.

[faceguy]

Well yeah, it's real apocalypse city here.

[Though he's turning over what Akechi said in his mind. It is strange, and when you add in the mysterious summoning circles...]

We're not the first people to try to make this trip. And most people don't get very far.

[undyingcrow]

My thoughts exactly.

[He heaves a heavy sigh. No doubt this is discouraging news.]

But I refuses to be like whoever came before. We've already made it further along, so we just need to brace ourselves for future adversity beyond the more feral monsters.

[bufudine]

[Road... trip? Is that what you call this?]

I don't know any games.

[Other than the one video game he got goaded into playing by a teenager. ...Occording to her, he was very bad at it.]

What game is this? How do we participate?

[faceguy]

[Close enough!]

You just guess what thing I'm spying that's blue. If you get it right, then it's your turn to spy something.

[bufudine]

[Hm.]

The sky.

[He's only been staring at it every morning while other people ate breakfast.]

How do you... spy something?

[faceguy]

Yeah!

[It's the main blue thing out here, besides Leo's mask.]

You just pick something you can see and then describe it! Usually with a color, but you can pick something else. Like, "I spy something tall," or, "I spy something fast."

[bufudine]

[Hm. Maybe this could be an opportunity to expand his lexicon? There are a lot of things he has never seen before here.

Alright.]

I spy [he doesn't quite realise he's supposed to say the "my little eye" part, too.] something green.

[faceguy]

[That's fine, Leo understands.]

Hmmm... the bushes?

[Voice]

[constantvrunning]

[V comes back to this post after having burst through one of the stasis traps. Listening to the other replies-]

If someone else has guessed the answer, is it acceptable to start a new round?

[Because they don't especially want to hear 'the sky!' too many times - though V is doing their best not to let their tone be too colored by this opinion.]

As for other suggestions - counting games, mostly. Or trying to create word combinations based on what we encounter.

[These are... old memories. From before the Empire. Thinking about them isn't so much upsetting as instilling a profound sense of nostalgia. And a bit of gratefulness that the Synth can still recall them.]

[faceguy]

Yeah? I'm not the fun police.

[Obviously you can do whatever you want, V.]

Counting games, word games... like what?

[He's genuinely interested!]

[constantvrunning]

Counting games - more like mathematics games, solving a puzzle or equation the fastest, or finding the most answers. But counting how many of a given kind of tree or animal we saw came up as well.

[A pause; it takes a few moments for them to pull away from just feeling the memories.]

And word games - if something was brown, or green, or red, we'd combine those words with the name of the actual thing we were talking about. The more absurd the result, the better.

[faceguy]

Wow. Both of those sound... incredibly nerdy.

[He is not spending his time solving equations.]

But I guess the word game one doesn't sound too bad. Give me an example.

[constantvrunning]

[V manages to keep any eyerolling strictly theoretical. Just because Leo is accurate doesn't mean he deserves snark!]

Start with 'skuu' for sky-blue, and it's fairly easy to top.

[faceguy]

Oooooh, so like... treen?

[Actually, this particular game might feed into his love of puns.]

[guidemyway]

[Hey. She recognizes that voice.]

Oh- Oh! Is it your bandanna?

[faceguy]

[Well, that's not what he was thinking, but hey, since everyone is apparently tired of the sky...]

Hey, nice! Can you see me right now? Or was that just a real Leon Fan guess?

[She probably doesn't think of herself as his "fan", but he can dream.]

[guidemyway]

It was totally just a guess.

But who knows? I could be warming up to being a fan.

[She definitely doesn't think of herself as one, but she's willing to gas him up for a little.]

Plus if I wore one like that, it'd totally be the first thing I picked in an eye spy game.

[faceguy]

[Don't encourage him.]

Heh, well, it is my signature color! [She can't see it, but he just flipped his mask tails over his shoulder like it's hair.] Can't complete the look without it!

Let me guess, your color is red.

[guidemyway]

[She can't help it. She's an enabler.]

It's really important to commit to the bit.

[And then a surprised gasp.]

Woah.

How did you know?

[faceguy]

I'm just that good. I can spot a Red a mile away.

[Her name being Ruby and the color of her outfit might have helped too.]