What's this?

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

[ it seems there's something new in the DR. a huge vending machine stands in the middle of the main room. it has many different globes, filled with all sorts of trinkets and candies - gumballs, chocolate, alien men, sticky hands, you name it. the non-candy items are encased in tiny plastic capsules with multicolored caps. each one has a little door and a slot for money to go in, reading '25 cents' for the smallest things and '50 cents' for the bigger.

a Roxas is standing in front of it, mouth hanging open like he's never seen a vending machine so big.

...Anybody got a quarter?


[ ooc// alright, kiddies. here's your entertainment for today! xD try to find a way to get the stuff in it. use money, try to trick it with counterfeit, shake it, beat it up, even smash it if all else fails. you can control if your methods work or not. :3 have fun! ]

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[wouldbe-hero.livejournal.com]

What's a quarter?

[hi this kid is staring at the vending machine.]

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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It's a type of money. It's small and silver and round, and it fits in there. When you turn the dial, one of the things inside will come out of the hole.

[wouldbe-hero.livejournal.com]

Cool.

...Is there any way to get the stuff in there out without one? 'Cause I don't have a quarter.

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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I'm... not sure. We could try taking it apart, but I don't have the tools...

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

[hi Roxas, there's a quarter in your face now. personal space what is that?]

Found it on the floor.

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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Awesome! Try it out!

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

[oh silly Roxas, please don't be too confused when you figure out he's a walking Struggle bat. |D]

Kay! Uhh- which one should I pick?

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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Whatever you want.

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[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

[it'll come up eventually, I'm sure.]

Hmmm. IIII think I want one of those weird mushy things.

[sticky hand, he means. in goes the quarter!]

...'M I supposed to do anything else?

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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You just turn the knobby-thing there, and it comes out the hole.

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

Oh! That makes sense.

[turns the knob with more enthusiasm than is probably necessary.]

...I didn't get a mushy thing. Am I doing it wrong?

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

Make sure you turned it all the way - it should make a sort of clicking sound. Then you have to open the flap so it can come out...

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

But I diiiiid thaaaat. It clicked and everything!

[opens the flap, closes it, and repeats a few times to emphasize the lack of sticky hand.]

Nooot heeeere.

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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I dunno... Maybe it got stuck?

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[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

[peers curiously at the machine.]

I think it doesn't like us. Should we hit it? I wanna hit it!

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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Sure, hit it!

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[and by 'hit', he means poof into bat-form with enough energy to swing his foam self into the side of the machine.

...of course, foam isn't very effective on big glass-and-metal objects. now there's a Struggle bat lying on the floor.]

Aw, darn.

1/2

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

Wha - ?

...

2/2

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

...Okay, that was weird.

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You okay in there?

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm fine! I'm--

[if Struggle bats could wiggle, he would be doing it. instead, another poof and there's your Hayner-lookalike sprawled on the floor now.]

Ticklish! Dooonnnn't poke me there.

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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W-Woah! How did you -?

Oh, wait! You must be a bat in human form...

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[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

Yep! And you're a Roxas, right? 'm Antoine. You know what Struggle is riiiight?

[beams!]

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

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I love Struggle!

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Not enough people around here even know what Struggle is. I've had to explain it soooo many tiiimes.

[actually bothers to get up off the floor now. still beaming!]

I talked to another Roxas about having a tournament! 'Course, we'd need to teach people how to play and uh, get another bat, buuuut- You wanna have a tournament? [vending machine < Struggle.]

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

Sure! Sounds like a lot of fun.

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[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[and Ant is pleased with this development. oh, and then-]

Do you like camping?

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

Camping?

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...I'll try it out.

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

[bing! commence huge huge grin.]

Awesome! Thennnn you totally need to come camping with me and whoever else goes 'cause I'm gonna have a camping trip to the garden or whatever the room is with the trees to sleep under in those silly bags and- Yeah!

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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Yeah! Sure, I'll come.

[batofawesome.livejournal.com]

[it's his thing.]

Yay! 'Kay I'll totally let you know when uhh, when I actually decide when it'll be.

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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Okay.

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I guess we won't be getting anything out of that...

[wheresmynotes.livejournal.com]

Whoaaaa...

[and here's a kid Demyx staring at this big shiny thing.]

Where'd that come fro-- Wait a second. Roxas?

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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Hey. I don't know where it came from, it was just... here.

[wheresmynotes.livejournal.com]

[and he's summoning his sitar out of reflex.]

When'd you get so old?

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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Um, I'm from a different world...?

[wheresmynotes.livejournal.com]

[it's just for defense really (maybe), and he pauses, staring him down.]

You sure?

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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Yeah, I've never even met my... version of you.

[wheresmynotes.livejournal.com]

Oh.

[in that case, he'll set the sitar down and lean against it, grinning.]

I'm Demyx! If you're a different Roxas then I guess you're not so bad.

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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Hi Demyx. Want to figure out how to get stuff out of this thing now that we're introduced?

[wheresmynotes.livejournal.com]

Sure.

[walks up stare up at it, looking like he's trying to solve a difficult problem, and then starts checking his pockets.]

Huh... Maybe we can just kick it.

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

Don't think that's enough.

[wheresmynotes.livejournal.com]

Well... this always works back home.

[bringing that sitar up to smash it into the vending machine now.]

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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[wheresmynotes.livejournal.com]

[smashing it now, but will it break...?]

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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Looks like it's cracking!

[wheresmynotes.livejournal.com]

[b-blinks and opens his eyes to look at it again.]

I'll get it this time!

[and here he goes to smash it again.]

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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[wheresmynotes.livejournal.com]

[apparently he is! Just ignore those shards of glass everywhere, he'll be tip-toeing over to reach in now.]

[4thwonder.livejournal.com]

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Wow.