[Date: Wednesday, March 27.] ( Playing some FFXI, bitching about SC4 to some people, watching some YouTube, and playing Trauma Center 2.] ) ( And eating a sammich! ) (I've been having fun with SC4, but the story mode feels unfinished.) ( Everything seems unfinished. ) [Two days after their last mission, Rose decided to take Jamie shopping. She told her ward that it was because she's been performing incredibly well of late, and that she's overdue for a reward. So here they are! In a relatively nearby shopping mall, with all of the standard stores and normal German people.] [It's early afternoon, and Rose is leading the way.] [Mini Start!] * Jamie follows Rose, because, if there was ever a person born to lead men through the courage of her heart and the strength of her will... It wasn't Jamie. She's wearing one of the simple white dresses that Ten picked for her and looking around nerviously at all of the stores. She looks more than a little overwhelmed. (I think the combat system feels finished, but the instakills are still as unnessisary as the were in Soul Edge.) * Roseli smiles at Jamie's overwhelmingness as she leads her through the mall. "Today, we're going to get you some new clothes and maybe a few other things you like. You deserve it, after everything that's happened." * Jamie looks ahead at Rose and clenches her hands. "Uhm, okay." ( It plays fine. I just don't like how they took out all the features that made 3 awesome. ) Try to relax. Nothing bad should happen. ( Oh man! Talk about an invite :O! ) * Jamie nods and unclenches her hands. * Roseli looks around, then leads Jamie to a department store. Yay for clothes! And maybe other things. (They've still got create-a-character, it's just a bitch to unlock clothes!) ( And a lot of the clothes are incompatable anyhow. ) ( And many have clipping errors. ) (The only incompatabilities I've run into are with full length dresses.) (And the last game was FULL of clipping errors too.) * Jamie follows Rose in, gawking around the store with both her own pair of eyes and the security cameras. You've never been in one of these before? ( Full length dresses WERE compatable in 3, though. And there's things like hairbands that are buried under the hair and stuff. Hair which is mainly taken from the main characters. ) * Roseli heads for the women's clothing section! Preferably an area with clothes that probably fit Jamie. (All of the P2 outfits are create a characters.) ( So I noticed. ) * Jamie follows Rose to early teens section. (What's the current fads Brett?) ( Skin tight shiny leather pants and low-cut tees. ) (Heheh.) (I'm sorry I asked) * Roseli starts pulling a few different options off of the racks. Some from the current fads, yes, and some alternative stuff. "What do you think of these?" she asks. ( o/~ ) ( Chinese clothing is also somewhat popular. ) ( Though more for the older group. ) (A skin tight leather cheongsam?) ( So far you've run into three women wearing Chinese clothes, none of whom were actually Chinese :P ) (Stop giving the man ideas) * Roseli also did pull out some Chinese clothes, yes. ;P ( also popular are a thong and nipple covers! ) (This is why you can't have nice things.) (You're just upset because Keiko's tremendously out of the loop when it comes to fashion.) (I don't get those. >.>) (She's just fine with that.) (Pasties are weird. But not something you'd wear normally.) (Well, for normal people values of you.) * Jamie runs her fingers along the edges of the low-cut shirts, feeling the fabric, she avoids the pants compleatly, and smiles when she touches the artifical silk. (Clearly some people want to show off that they've modded their bodies into some version of perfection.) > (And I mean as outer clothing.) ( They can't be both weird and normal, after all. ) (And also some sort of immunity to cold.) (Showing your ankles and/or neck wasn't something you would do normally a few decades/centuries back either.) ( K, I was kidding about that last one. :X ) (We know. :P) ( But if you want to, hey, feel free! ) * Jamie suddenly draws her hand back and looks at Rose, and not just to see what she's wearing. * Roseli nods. "Do you like the silk?" * Jamie nods. "It's soft and smooth." ( Clothes are lame. You should shop for weapons instead. ) (I spend all of mine buying off defects!) * Roseli picks up the shirt and holds it up. "How about the shirt? The way it looks?" [It looks like a shirt.] (That one of the low cut ones, or one of the chinese ones?) ( I dunno. Rose picked it up. ) (It was the one Jamie was looking at, so uh... a low-cut Chinese one? ;P) ( Do they even make those? :O ) ( Maybe they do in the future. ) (The one she showed the most interest in was one of the "chinese" ones... It's march, so probably spring colors + red and black...) (Okay, so that!) * Jamie gives Rose a worried look and balls her hands up again while she tries to come up with the answer Rose wants from here. "I, I... uhm it's." She ultimatly retreats to the safe answer. "I don't know." * Roseli holds it out to Jamie. "Why don't you try it on and see if you like it." She looks around, then points. "The dressing room's over there." * Jamie takes it and goes to the dressing room. When she returns it's fairly clear that the it was designed for somebody with slightly longer arms and more bust than she currently has. It's also clear that light green and yellow arn't horrible colors on her anymore. * Roseli looks Jamie over; she'd moved closer to the room and gotten some other shirts made out of the same or similar material. "What do you think?" * Jamie freezes up. "I ah.. I..." She starts to tremble a bit, but finaly swallows and tosses out an answer she hopes is acceptable. "Too big?" Hm. Okay then... * Roseli separates some clothes out from the ones she'd picked out. "These should be smaller. Do you like any of them?" * Jamie looks at pile of clothes and then up at Rose's face. She scrunches her eyes shut. "I ... What do you want me to say?" The truth. You've never picked out your own clothes before. I want you to have ones that you like. It'll make you happier. I... I... Just tell me what I want! * Jamie claps her hands over her mouth and drops to her knees after that outburst. * Roseli shakes her head, then crouches so she's at eye level with Jamie. "If I was going to do that, I wouldn't have asked you in the first place." * Jamie whimpers. Now come on. You figured out which material you liked. * Jamie raises her head to look blearily at Rose. "...Okay." ( Failing that, you could dress Jamie up in a maid outfit, as a catgirl, as a schoolgirl... ) ( Just watch you don't pick out clothes that cause clipping errors. ) * Roseli helps Jamie up to her feet and starts showing her the clothes. "Here. What do you notice about this one?" (... Just out of curiosity, and so that I know to avoid it next time I try to create a female char. which piece(s) of clothing are you talking about, Brett?) (I get to describe the clothes your char is picking for mine? Whee.) (Yes. ;P) (Because you're actually the one picking them!) (AHAHAHA) (I'm going to laugh my way all the way to the bathroom while I invent several things and then her reactions to them. Also thanks again for killing the proactivity out of this char >.<) * Jamie looks at the the shirt and relaxes, glad for a simple, request that doesn't require her to form an opinion and voice it. "It's green. Made of Sylk(tm). Has five buttons." She continues on with the size and price and a few other things. Mmm hmm. How about this one? * Roseli holds up the next shirt! * Jamie repeats her performance for the slightly smaller pink shirt. She continuing to relax, but if there was any feeling she held between the colors, you'd have to be Keiko to find it. * Roseli keeps on going, through a series of shirts, and then finally asks, "Do you have any preference concerning colors? * Jamie gets a deer caught in the headlights look for a moment, then it fades and she nods slightly. * Roseli smiles encouragingly. "Okay. Which ones do you like more?" * Jamie gives Rose a worried look and then points at two nearly identicle green shirts, a light yellow one and a white one. "These?" * Roseli nods, still smiling. "Okay, good. Now how about the different kinds of shirt - the cuts and designs." * Jamie nods slowly and looks at the shirts that Rose picked. She starts out looking at each one in turn, but before long her gaze is glancing rapidly around the shirts and even some of the ones on the racks. She brings her hands up to her face and covers her eyes. "I don't knoooow!" * Roseli reaches over to Jamie and rubs at her shoulder. "Shh, it's okay. Just try to relax. Let's try again, okay?" * Jamie starts at the pysical contact, pulls away a little bit, and then leans into Rose. She nods slowly along Rose's arm. * Roseli reaches around Jamie with that arm and gives her a half hug. "Okay... come on." She moves the shirts around with her other hand. "How about cut? Do you prefer ones that are higher or lower? Or ones in the middle? Here, like these three." She lays them out. * Jamie looks at the three shirts and then shakes her head. * Roseli mmms and nods. "Why don't you try them on and see how they feel and look on you." * Roseli gathers them up and gives them to Jamie. Ah, the fine art of shopping. * Jamie obediantly takes them from her and goes to the changing room. * Jamie returns a few minutes later wearing her white dress again and shakes her head. "I'm, I'm sorry." * Roseli looks up from sorting more clothes. "What's wrong?" * Jamie looks at Rose. "I... you... I I don't know which one you want me to pick." I want you to pick the one you like the most, as far as design goes. Do you have no opinion? * Jamie nods rapidly and relaxes. Okay. How about... something that looks like this... or like this? Any opinion? * Roseli holds up a silkish shirt with a Chinese design (easy enough to find, really) and one that's much more standard. * Jamie looks between the two several times, but when she points at the standard one, she's looking at Rose's own un-adorned clothes. * Roseli blinks. "Why, because I wear clothes like this?" She holds up the shirt. * Jamie nods and takes a step back. * Roseli smiles a little. "I'm flattered, and you do need a place to start. But it is okay if you like other things too, all right? You can tell me. I won't be mad or disappointed." * Jamie nods again and steps forward again. (- again, doesn't matter which one ^^;) Okay, so which one did you like more? (I am so tempted to just let her break down crying right here, but even this broken she's still stronger than that.) * Jamie points at the plain one again. * Roseli nods. "Okay, good." Pause. "Do you think you'd like pants in a similar material?" * Jamie nods and smiles slightly at the averted crises. * Roseli grins. "All right. Come on." She takes Jamie on a journey through the store, picking out simple shirts of slightly varied (but modest enough) cuts in greens, yellows, and whites, and shorts, pants, and skirts in the same sort of silkish material. After she pays for them... "So. How do you feel about getting some chocolate?" * Jamie lookes at Rose with hope in her yes. "Yes please?" (Shsh! You're not supposed to spoil it!) (See, Rose is going about this all wrong.) (She should have gotten Jamie chocolate clothing.) * Roseli laughs. "Okay. There's a *really* good chocolatier on the second floor." She hands Jamie one of the bags. "Here, help me carry these." * Jamie takes the bag and follows Rose deeper into the mall! * Roseli goes. For great German chocolate! (Annnd end here?) (I think so!) [END]