Teleporting Blues [Open to Anybody*]

[cuteandquarky]

The day had started off normally enough. It was a wonderful spring day, and Jade was spending her time outside on campus, basking in the sun and warm air. The winter was fun, sure, but the snow got tiring after a while, and having the freedom of walking around outside in a tank-top and airy skirt was so wonderful!

The only thing slightly less wonderful about this was the fact that with spring came flowers. And flowers were great! Their pollen, considerably less so.

"A-CHOO!"

Very suddenly, Jade was no longer on campus, but somewhere in the woods, with nobody else in sight. She blinked, surprised, before her nose started to tickle again.

"A-CHOO!"

Now she was on the roof of a very, very tall building, the wind buffeting her hair around. Naturally, some of it brushed past her nose, and she could feel that encroaching, tickling sense in the back of her sinuses again.

"A-CHOO!"

Where would she end up next?

((*OOC Note: While this is open to anybody who wants Jade to appear very suddenly in their vicinity (as she will keep teleporting somewhere new with every sneeze) I'm gonna put a soft cap of five different threads resulting from this.))

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[pendulumbeat]

He'd moved to find a second remote when one flew past him into Jade's hands. He couldn't help but grin like a giddy child. "That is so cool," he beamed. "You know every kid has that dream at some point, to be able to move things with their mind. Anyone who says they haven't tried at least once is lying. Focus on your sibling's ice cream, try to make it fly into your own hand by staring real hard at it."

Dave flopped back onto the couch on his usual side and patted Dirk's spot beside him for Jade to sit down. "Anyway, just hit 'A' on the controller, the big round one that says 'A', it'll connect you."

[cuteandquarky]

"Well, I didn't have any siblings with ice cream to steal!" Jade said. "But it is very convenient. I just can't use it as often as I'd like to, because most people would be freaking out about it."

Jade plopped herself down next to Dave and hit "A." She'd used a Wii before, so it wasn't as though she didn't know how to connect the remote, but Jade figured there was no reason to tell Dave that. If he wanted to explain it, then he was free to explain! "Okay! I am connected. How do I pick a character?"

[pendulumbeat]

"That's too bad, you are missing out," he said with a grin. "Stolen ice cream tastes the best." Mind you mostly he didn't steal it, Dirk just shared when he'd gone out with friends and Dave had stayed home.

"Sweet, hold it sideways," he instructed. "Use the d-pad to move around the screen and hit '2' to pick someone. I've got all the characters unlocked so no one's missing. This kid is mine, though." He selected Pit and cycled through his colour schemes until he got to the red one.

[cuteandquarky]

"Okay, I will not take your kid," Jade assured him, maneuvering with the D-pad to find her perfect character. The first few characters were a bit boring - she knew Mario and Luigi were classic characters, but she didn't want to play as them! Yoshi was a good backup if nothing else... Toon Link was cute... Palutena had pretty hair at least... And then she saw it. Her face lit up, and she immediately hit "2" to make her choice.

"I'll take him!"

Naturally, Jade had picked nobody other than Fox McCloud.

[pendulumbeat]

Dave withheld a groan as she unpredictably chose the furry. He knew her well enough to see that coming a mile off. It just so happened that Fox was his absolute least favourite character to ever grace the like of Smash Bros. Well, what could he do?

He gave her a rundown on how to play: the various attacks, items, and how to name her character. Then he chose an easy stage -- Final Destination -- so she wouldn't lose track of her character among a larger stage, and hit start.

[cuteandquarky]

Jade remembered playing Street Fighter in an arcade with some of the local kids back when she was little, and her knowledge from that informed her gameplay strategy here - button mash and hope for the best. What resulted was Fox crouching, shooting his weapon, shielding, punching a couple of times, then crouching again before doing a very elegant backflip off of the stage and into the shadowy abyss below.

Jade laughed as he hit the bottom of the screen and exploded, evidently having fun despite her incompetence. "Whoops! I didn't even get time to try one of the cool items!"