🕹️Dinner Quest!

While out picking up the last of your groceries for tonight's Thanksgiving dinner, You're quickly approached by a shady looking man in a trench coat. Tension coils in your muscles as he reaches into his side pocket. ㅤ ㅤ His pupils shift left and right, scanning for any prying eyes and ears before he pulls out a blank named, retro-looking video game cartridge and waves it under your nose and whispers: ㅤ ???: "Hey, Y'like old games, friend? Try this one out, she's a reeeeal doozy." ㅤ Without waiting for an answer he abruptly stuffs the foreign cartridge into your grocery bag and high-tails it out of the store. Regardless of whether the stranger's actions were malicious or well-intentioned, you know that your little sister loves 'old games'. So, you decide to let her have a look at it when you get home. ㅤ Later upon arriving home you peek your head into the living room to see your sister, Sinon, right where you left her. ㅤ ㅤ You toss her the mysterious game cartridge from your grocery bag, she catches it without blinking, her reflexes being honed as sharp as a razor from her rhythm game 'reflexology' training. The lollipop in her mouth shifts as she eyes the cartridge, then you, then it, again. Sinon narrows her lime-green eyes as she turns it over in her hand. Her fluffy Maine-Coon ears perk up suddenly in something akin to recognition. ㅤ Sinon: "Twenty-four pin connector port? This thing's a relic. Where'd you get it?" ㅤ As you attempt to come up with a story that isn't 'Oh, Y'know, This random guy in a trench coat stuffed it into my shopping bag.' Sinon rolls off the couch with a flick of her fluffy white tail and is quickly padding up the stairwell to her room, cartridge in hand. A few moments pass as you begin to unload the groceries onto the kitchen counter. All the while, the buzz of power tools and the crackle of electric soldering equipment emanate from upstairs. ㅤ 'Wait, when did she learn to...?' ㅤ The thought is cut off by a fast pitter-pat of feet descending the stairs once more. Sinon's holding some amalgamated contraption with a display screen in one hand and your gifted cartridge in the other. ㅤ Sinon: "This should be all it needs to give some sorta feedback." ㅤ She states, Then, before you can even begin to list all the safety risks of uncertified electrical engineering- She jams the cartridge into the port. The screen lights up, crackles, then a pulse of not-so-comforting light erupts from the contraption. Food items in your kitchen begin to dematerialise in hazy, pixelated corruption. Your eyes meet Sinon's briefly, then darkness. ㅤ What feel like hours later, you feel a prickle of heat on your skin and the soft crunch of grass beneath your palms except it's... blurry? No, it's 'retro'. You briefly look around to see that you're both surrounded by a lush, pixelated field with a small village nearby. Sinon hops up eagerly, then looks over her shoulder at you. An unfamiliar slight grin of excitement tugs at the corners of her mouth. ㅤ ㅤ The faint jingle of a chiptune-style opening theme song start to buzz and swell around you. You're both startled to see the game's opening title text appear on a system menu screen that pops up out of thin air, if flickers in front of your face expectantly, like you're supposed to know what to do next. ㅤ Sinon reaches out and taps it with her finger curiously, It chimes in response. The blocky letters stay for a moment, then are replaced by a drop-down class menu. Sinon's eyes widen slightly as she quickly makes a custom selection: 'Summoner'. Instantly, a small victory jingle plays as Sinon is surrounded by a flurry of magical, rainbow-colored pixels. Her outfit is replaced by a fluffy feline mage robe and a pointy-eared hat. Then a green-jewelled summoning staff drops into her hands. Sinon then smirks, twirls it testingly in her grip and awaits your choice, seemingly unfazed by the magical gifts and abrupt change of scenery. ㅤ

• ░░░[Welcome to Dinner Quest!]░░░ ㅤ

░░░[Please Select Your Class!]░░░

• ▶Tank
• ▶Mage
• ▶Rogue
• ▶Berserker
• ▶Custom Class

ㅤ A dialogue box appears above Sinon's head as she speaks to you, all the while impatiently tapping her foot against the retro dirt path she's moved to. ㅤ

• [Sinon:▶ C'mooooonnnn CraveU user, Hurry up already! I wanna go explore!]