The Consequences [Concluded]

[Subotan]

Yep

Witty.


Sarcastic.

I was making the point that playing this nice and conventionally, so it's like the Sims in italics is boring.

Seriously, though, what exactly is to be gained by hassling this old geezer? Unless we're going to rob him of his $50 (which hardly seems worth the risk of getting busted), I don't see what he could have to offer us. I'd guess that, in the best-case scenario, he might offer us a meal, and possibly even let us sleep on his couch. But if he's got any sense about him, he'll get away from us asap.

We've got nothing to lose. And grandpa hassling/helping is fun.

It strikes me that there are three things we need to do: (i) look after our immediate interests by getting some supplies, (ii) look at ways to make more money, and (iii) try to figure out what happened to us. Right now, I reckon we should cut out the grandpa-bothering, and go spend some of our hard-earned cash on food and other useful items.

I did suggest that earlier, but nobody listened.

[Winston Hughes]

I was making the point that playing this nice and conventionally, so it's like the Sims in italics is boring.

I agree. It's just that spending days (RL time) helping some old bloke buy a video game for his nephew strikes me as both boring and unlikely to get us anywhere very helpful. But, hey, maybe I'm wrong about the latter part. In any case, it seems our bizarre interest in helping him buy this game has failed to give him any doubts about our motives or sanity.

Of course, it's always possible that this is just a ruse on his part, and gramps is actually planning on luring us back to his place so he can eat us for his dinner...

[Double A]

Then we get $50 and can write a book about it

[Subotan]

Calvin Hobbes: My Story.

I'd buy it.

[Double A]

You have to write it first.

[Subotan]

With $50 I'm sure we could get a half decent ghost writer for Calvin, especially considering that his life amounts to not 30 pages on an internet forum.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You get in Hayes's car and the two of you drive off to the nearest mall. As you enter the parking lot, you notice a large sign that says "Welcome to Metrocenter". After parking, you exit the car, enter the mall, and look at the site map provided. There's a Gamestop on the first level, a few doors down from the Old Navy.

Would you like to accompany Robert to the store, or explore a bit on your own?

[Beefy187]

Accompany Robert to the store

We can explore later.

[pevergreen]

I wonder what would happen if we yelled out "AMERICA SUCKS!"

[Double A]

We'd get shot.

[Beefy187]

We'll get some more laddies following the old man.
Hungry for blood.

[Winston Hughes]

We'll get some more laddies following the old man.

laddies = young scottish boys?

[GeneralHankerchief]

You decide to accompany Robert to Gamestop, paying attention to the stores you pass on the way there. These include several smaller clothing stores, an Old Navy, a Macy's, a candle shop, a boardgame store, an airbrush store for your shirts, not to mention the countless locations in parts of the mall you haven't visited yet.

The two of you enter the Gamestop, where all of the salespeople/cashiers are busy.

[Greyblades]

Uh yeah I dont want to be ignorant but what are those shops?

[Double A]

Old Navy - sells a lot of blue jeans and other clothes
Macy's - women's clothes store. There may be men's clothing, but no men have actually been in there to look
Gamestop - formerly known as EB Games.

[Beskar]

I have to be honest, I heard of a Robert Hayes before...

[Chaotix]

Macy's - women's clothes store. There may be men's clothing, but no men have actually been in there to look

Gamestop - formerly known as EB Games.

Actually, they're two different stores. EB and Gamestop were around at the same time, but eventually Gamestop wound up buying EB entirely, hence the name-change in the EB stores.

As for Robert Hayes, Beskar, you may or may not be thinking about the US president Rutherford Hayes. Then again, "Hayes" is not particularly uncommon.

[Subotan]

Walk over to the FPS Section (If we assume this is some mythical paradise Gamestop where games are arranged by genre rather than platform) and observe the slection of titles

[GeneralHankerchief]

This is not some mythical paradise Gamestop where games are arranged by genre rather than platform.

[Subotan]

Oh.

[Beskar]

Go to xbox360 section.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You arrive at the XBox 360 section. Awaiting you there is the usual assortment of games: Madden 10, Modern Warfare 2, Halo 3, etc.

[Double A]

Crap, kid may have, kid already has, etc.

Alright, my vote goes to Mass Effect 2.

[Beefy187]

We can always get him a total war game. I think thats the spirit of this forum.
But otherwise, Mass effect should be good

[Subotan]

Mass Effect

[Joooray]

But which rating has Mass Effect 2? If I remember correctly the kid is only 15, so if it is PG-16 we might get into problems with the grandpa.
I suggest to ask if he is into a certain type of sports and maybe get him the newest version of this sports simulation.

[Jolt]

This is retarded. I got an idea. How about we ditch the grandpa, and listen to the music we have on the MP3 we encountered in the beginning to look for clues or hidden meaning that have something to do with our life? Sounds much better than running around helping an old person.

[Joooray]

Yes, you are right, but the problem is, that we got to the mall we are at with the car of the grandpa. So we have little to no clue how to get where we started out or anywhere else.
I think we should help him and then ask him to drive us back into the city, or tell us how we got there and explore the mall for a bit.

[Double A]

We got a free ride to the mall, didn't we?

Now we at least know where it is, and we won't have to go around asking random people going "Can you tell me where the mall is?" before someone calls the cops.

And we've almost got the "assisting the elderly" badge, don't ruin it! We have to get enough so we don't look bad when the soapbox derby comes around!

[Chaotix]

Ask Hayes whether his grandson's mother has any qualms about excessive violence in the video games her son plays.

The last thing we want to do is get this old coot's daughter/in-law pissed at him.