018 - Starytube Stream

[nastyboy]

[First of all, there's a link posted on the Pokegear network from one Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd. As in, literally posted, you might have to copy paste it into the address bar? He's doing his best, bless him.]

Gremlin is doing streams for charity on his channel. Please support him. Thank you.

[And those who follow the link will find a stream shortly starting up on Staryutube, for a user called DABrat! Gremlin the Rattata is set up on, like.... so many little cushions on what looks like a tried and true gamer's chair, squeaking happily as Dimitri gingerly makes sure his little Rattata-sized headset is fit on perfectly.]

[Did you know that they make headphones just for Rattata? Now you do!]

[With that done with, Gremlin excitedly waves both of his tiny little rat hands up at the camera, and Dimitri smiles as well.]

Hello again, everyone. Gremlin has decided to make this month's series of streams very special. Since it is October, he has thought that he would do a horror game playthrough every day. All donations he gets from these streams will go right to charity!

[Gremlin gestures ENTHUSIASTICALLY.]

[....Behind both Dimitri and Gremlin, in the neon-lit gloom from the rest of the room, a shape begins to form, with the faint red glow of eyes towering there in the shadows.]

For those who managed to send their donations in during specified times, they will even get to put forth what horror game that they would like to see Gremlin play. He has managed to amass a bit of a collection just for this month, and we are also not afraid to buy things if they are readily available.

[The mysterious shadowy figure slowly fades away. Dimitri and Gremlin remain none the wiser.]

Chat, you know that you must behave as is proper while we finish setting up, and then we will be taking the first suggestions!

[ooc: WELCOME TO GREMLIN'S HALLOWEEN CHARITY STREAM please ignore the chat and what they say about Dimitri, because he sure is

Basically how this will work is that you can assume that - so long as they donated! - your character can suggest whatever horror game they like for Gremlin to play, and that can be threaded out to varying degrees! Alternatively, they can just comment and chill as Gremlin plays games with Dimitri there to offer commentary, and make sure his rat is doing well.

This will basically happen for long hours during all of October, so you can have your character comment whenever. This also ensures anyone can suggest whatever game and be guaranteed Gremlin will play it.

Suggested games can be completely made up, or Poke-parodies of actual horror games. If you're having trouble thinking of them, I have a whole spreadsheet of various horror games that you can riff off of.

Happy October!]

Comments

[shiro2hero]

Just like real life...

[Said with the weariness of someone who has spent much time in real life. Too much real life.]

[He's about to suggest Gremlin head in a certain direction when... Dimitri starts Doing That. Please hold. Shiro is processing.]

Dimitri, what. Are you doing with your pokemon...?

[nastyboy]

[Oh shoot yeah they're still streaming]

[Dimitri freezes in place, still holding up the very chill Typhlosion, even as Gremlin contintues to do his things and sprints right back after being blocked in his little video game street.]

....I apologize for the interruption, everyone. Please ignore this.

[shiro2hero]

Is everything all right?

[He's going to ask. He's got to ask.]

[But oh - did Gremlin get to the objective?] That's the most ominous convenience store I've ever see.

[nastyboy]

...Yes.

[There was nothing suspicious about that pause at all. Please ignore it if it was.]

Typhlosion are simply... helpful. With. Things.

[Specifically Hisuian Typhlosion. Please stop looking at him now and he half-drags this large weasel across the floor.]

[Gremlin is still contentedly ignoring everything happening around him save for the game, pausing to handsmack before he continues what is apparently a jog around the place.]

ALLSTORESLOOKSCARYATNIGHT

[And then he abruptly stops, coming around the back to where a dumpster is, and also a part of a wooden fence, leading to some dark grassy area.]

OKAYNOITISBADACTUALLY

[shiro2hero]

... things.

[Do you hear the skepticism here, Dimitri? There is so much.]

[More importantly, Gremlin is playing, and zooming. Right into what looks much more threatening than the nice, brightly lit convenience store.]

Gremlin, I think - I think you're supposed to go into the store, bud.

[nastyboy]

IWASSCOUTINGOUTESCAPEROUTES


[Gremlin carefully backs away from the scary murder alley looking place, until he can turn a corner and then book it back to the relative safety of cheap but obnoxiously bright convenient store lights.]

[And while he is going through a simple conversation with the employee who welcomes him back inside with a NPC Chansey who is so very happy to greet him...]

[Dimitri's tuning-Typhlosion finally stirs, and reaches out to smack air.]

[ - and oh fuck there's a Hisuian Zoroark being smacked out of nowhere with a yelp.]

[Ignore the ensuing yelling as Dimitri just throws a whole ass giant ferret at this fox.]

[shiro2hero]

Okay, yeah, I -

[Hold up.]

[What. Is he. Seeing. What is Dimitri doing.]

[Shiro pretty much gapes at the screen for the longest time. Processing this - unsuccessfully. The suddenly appearing pokemon. Dimitri throwing his Typhlosion. Gremlin acting like this is no big deal.]

Uh.

Is everything...? Okay over there?

[nastyboy]

[Since he's clearly in the middle of a simple conversation, Gremlin takes this moment to turn around and scramble up the back of the chair so that he can witness as Dimitri lunges forward to help wrestle the Zoroark down to the ground along with a happy Typhlosion. There's still screaming.]

[Gremlin's tail twitches.]

[He lets go of the chair and slides back down, wiggling until his hands can smack to the keyboard.]

WHATTHISDOESNTLOOKFINETOYOU

[shiro2hero]

The screaming? The wrestling?

Take your pick.

[Honestly, he kind of respects your chill here, Gremlin. How much of this does the little guy see? How chaotic is Dimitri's place?]

Does this happen a lot?

[nastyboy]

MONONOKEHASPROBLEMS
ANDMAKESTHEMOTHERPEOPLE'S
STARTSHITGETHIT


[So that's on that.]

[But while Dimitri hauls Mononoke up with his arms getting this pissbastard ghost fox into a headlock, Gremlin just gets back to his vidgames, trailing after the NPC who's on the way out and just bolting in the way that only video game characters can beat feet via Pokemon.]

THISISWORSE
LOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LEFTMEALLTHISSTUFFTODO
ANDTHATRAPIDASHISNOTDOINGSPEEDLIMIT

[shiro2hero]

... Right. Okay.

[Listen, he trusts Dimitri, and by extension, Dimitri's pokemon - at least the one who's got the keyboard. If Gremlin isn't terribly concerned, maybe he doesn't need to be. No, that's a joke, Shiro is still concerned.]

[He'll just. Privately message Dimitri later.]

That's part of having a job, buddy. You have to do stuff. And then they pay you.

But yeah - yeah that's not even close to the speed limit.

[nastyboy]

WOWRUDEANDILLEGAL
DOUBLETROUBLE

[But it's clear this is what the game is going to be about for now! Just... doing the regular sort of stuff you do at minimum wage jobs, liking putting things on their low poly shelves - at least with the help of the character's Leavanny too. So that's something.]

[...In the background of real life, Dimitri flings the Hisuian Zoroark out of the room with the Typhlosion slithering after it, before he makes his way back to the screen. Does he look tired? Don't worry about it.]

Oh, so we reached the store which serves as the namesake of this game? Did something scary happen yet?

[shiro2hero]

I think it's only illegal if they don't pay you. At least this way, you could buy snacks?

[If that's even allowed in the game? Frankly, he's not sure. He's just trying to figure out what's going on here. It looks perfectly normal so far.]

[... Unlike what's going on back there. With the Zoroark.]

The scariest thing was how easy you threw your pokemon out. Are you okay?

[nastyboy]

Oh. I am very strong.

[Even without his Crest, that's just... a thing he's good at! Constant exercise and training and insisting on doing things like carrying giant dogs will do that to a guy.]

But I apologize for that sight. Mononoke can be... troublesome.

[shiro2hero]

Yeah... yeah I uh. Noticed that.

[Very much so, in fact.]

You don't have to apologize. I'm just worried about you guys out there.

[nastyboy]

I do appreciate it, Shiro. However, fortunately, our home is quite well defended in a variety of ways, so we are prepared to handle much.

[Sometimes that means violently assaulting someone with a stick because it's a home which houses, like, three war vets.]

[And other times that just means taking a giant fire weasel and holding him up to dark corners like a dowsing rod.]

[shiro2hero]

I guess the only monsters you need to worry about are the ones in Gremlin's game?

[He's so very funny. Please laugh.]

[But also, you're his friend, Dimitri, he's going to worry about you and your household no matter what happens.]

[nastyboy]

[Dimitri could say that the monsters which are men are also something to worry about eternally, but... that might be too dark, and he shouldn't do that to Gremlin's stream.]

Ha, I suppose. Are there monsters in this game...?

[He focuses back on the screen, where Gremlin has had to rush back to the counter to do orders for someone with a Primape on their back.]

[rat smacking]

THEMONSTERSARETHESEPEOPLEWHOKEEPRUININGMYSHELVES
WHEREISMYRAISE
ALSOIAMBEINGPRANKEDSHIRO
CHILDRENAREPRANKINGME

[shiro2hero]

Uh... Good question. I don't play a lot of scary games?

[Which means he's also looking back to the Gremlin Stream. And trying not to laugh at the pokemon's reaction to retail. Granted, Shiro's not... that familiar with it. He hasn't worked it himself, but - still. This seems like it's common.]

What children? [He saw no children, Gremlin!!]

[nastyboy]

THEREWASCHILDOVERATTHEDOORSBOTHERINGTHEM
OVERHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[To demonstrate his point, Gremlin just - promptly ignores what he was supposed to be doing, guiding the character over to the automatic doors that open up into the dark parking lot. Even does a little lap around the building, showing how there's no one around.]

[...This has him realize something, apparently, and he suddenly stops playing to lean over and start smacking Dimitri's arm.]

Hm? Oh, should I go, then?

[shiro2hero]

I... I didn't see anyone. Maybe it was a glitch in the game?

[Oh that's spooky. That's really spooky. Is it really a glitch?]

Oh - sorry. I got Dimitri talking, didn't I?

[Clearly this is Shiro's fault, Gremlin.]

[nastyboy]

Oh, no, I returned to the room myself to take care of Mononoke, so please think nothing of it, Shiro. Still, if Gremlin is telling me this, then I think I will take my leave. I will come back in a little bit for the snack break.

I hope everyone in the chat enjoys the game.

[Dimitri gives a little wave, and then steps outside of the room, once again carefully closing it so that it isn't too noisy.]

[With his trainer now having properly left, Gremlin goes back to slapping the keyboard.]

NOSCARYDISAPPEARINGBOYSFORDIMITRI
MAYBEITSAGHOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOGHOSTSFORDIMITRI
PUNKBIPCHZOROARKNOTCOUNTED

[shiro2hero]

[What a good man.]

[Listen, he knew that already, but sometimes it just hits him. Moments like this just hit him.]

See you - [And then there's Gremlin. One very good man, and one very good rat. Is Shiro ever going to be over how cute it is, the way Gremlin slaps the keys? No, he is not.]

You're already seeing ghosts? It's too early for that, isn't it?

[nastyboy]

ITSAHORRORGAME!!!!!!
GHOSTSSHOULDSHOWUP!!
ORMAYBEHESWORSETHANAGHOST
LIKEACHILD

[where do these rats learn such comments...]

[But oh right he has a job to do, so don't mind him going all the way back around inside the convenience store. Almost done with all his tasks!]

[shiro2hero]

Gremlin... buddy.

I don't think children are worse than ghosts. Especially in a horror game.

[A child is not worse than a ghost child, but - surely the game won't launch a scare that early, right?]

I wonder if they make you do this every time you come to the store.