Emergency DE Activate

[bjornwilde]

From herr_bookman :
Your pup is stuck in Chuck E Cheese's for eight hours. They can't leave, but they can be told by the workers to stop doing things, which may or may not work. What do they do, and how are they by the end of it?

ETA: Likely too late, but for those not in the US, Chuck E Cheese's is a pizza place that features a huge arcade with lots of video booths as well as more midway type game, like skee ball. Some have indoor jungle gym/climbing structures and animatronic puppets that sing horrible songs and likely would have inspired Steven King (much like the neighborhood dog did). They are usually the size of large gymnasiums and feature horrible cardboard based pizza and lots of kids parties.

Comments

[bjornwilde]

I think Jess spends the whole time either playing skee ball or rooming the ball pit.

More later, maybe. I am sick and loaded with work. Perfect day for a long meeting right?

[bbq_platypus]

Jim: No way is he going to be able to hold down that godawful pizza in the shape he'd have to be in to wander into a Chuck E. Cheese's. Actually, he probably can't do it sober, either. Not sure if I can do it sober.

Leela: Oh, God. This would only end in disaster. I'm imagining an excursion in the ball pit turning violent (oh, Leela, please don't hurt one of the kids - no it's not sparring and it won't strengthen them), or her trying to detach the club from the Whac-a-Mole machine so she can remove its padding (no, Leela, that is NOT a suitable weapon), or becoming suspicious of the animatronics and vivisecting them with her knife (okay, I actually approve of this one).

Kane: Endured in silence, mostly. Occasionally the thought crosses his mind to plant a small tiberium sample in the ball pit. It would make for an interesting experiment - unfortunately, it would probably spread throughout the building before he was allowed to escape this bedlam.

Caius: I think Caius would manage just fine, once it was adequately explained to him what exactly the place was. He'd make an adequate and reasonably responsible chaperone, and he's likely capable of faking like he's having fun. He's been in scarier places.

Garyn: Well, the kids would either be terrified of him or think he was the coolest thing they'd ever seen. Either way staff will want to keep him as far away from them as possible. Garyn wouldn't object to being kept more or less out of this nightmare.

[vance_prime]

Jim: No way is he going to be able to hold down that godawful pizza in the shape he'd have to be in to wander into a Chuck E. Cheese's. Actually, he probably can't do it sober, either. Not sure if I can do it sober.

I've been told that they do sell beer in Chuck E. Cheese, FWIW. (I say "I've been told" because I've never been to a Chuck E. Cheese and don't plan on going to one anytime soon.)

[bbq_platypus]

I remember going when I was about a year too old for it. Can't recall if they had beer or not - my chaperones were all teetotalers. If they do, it's probably just shitty macrobrews served in pitchers.

Whatever the case, any venture Jim made into a Chuck E. Cheese's would need to be cleaned up with sawdust. Though I've gotta imagine he'd shatter whatever the high score is on Lethal Enforcers.

[bjornwilde]

I remember the animatronic shows having a slightly Western theme (at least the one from the late 70s in Sparks, NV did), so I fear for Jim's reaction to them.

[bbq_platypus]

All I remember is an animatronic Chuck jerkily moving around and singing the same three or four songs over and over again. They weren't long songs, either.

[genarti]

[Here is where I confess that I've never been in a Chuck E Cheese's, so I'm going by commercials and general childhood osmosis here. For people who don't know this place -- is it just a US thing? -- it's an indoor arcade thing with games, jungle gyms, and I think some shows and stuff, along with terrible pizza and similar food. It's mostly aimed at kids, with the idea that you bring your kids there and then sit back and let them run around. A lot of kids have birthday parties there.]

Thor would have a blast, are you kidding? Assuming the Chuck E Cheese's was also filled with kids. He would basically be another part of the jungle gym for them, and everybody involved would have a great time. He wouldn't do too much playing on the equipment -- too easy to break, mostly -- but eager kids could talk him into a lot.

Enjolras, on the other hand, would do the same thing he does every night, Pinky: ignore all the fun stuff (and attempt to ignore all the shrieking children) in favor of reading and writing and thinking about the revolution. If he has no books and no one to talk to... he'd still probably spend the whole time off in a corner in abstracted thought, occasionally remembering that he ought to take a bit of terrible pizza. He's very glad to leave for more congenial scenery, though.

Trowa... it depends a lot on who he's with. Certain people could talk him into having fun with acrobatics on the equipment when the staff weren't looking. Otherwise, he'd probably read in a corner (if he had a book) until he got bored, do a lot of silent judging of the showmanship of the shows, and maybe, if sufficiently bored, decide to practice being convincing in a persona that fit in with the surroundings. That last would take a while to get to, though.

River, like Thor, would have a great time! Unlike Thor, she would be all over the slides and ball pit and stuff.

Regan would be torn between nostalgia and pining for grandkids and an eventual headache at the noise level. Nostalgia would mostly win, but by the end of eight hours it'd be wearing pretty thin.

Clare would be completely baffled. The kids, however, would love her, because kids love Claymores! She would end up being drafted into playing, which she would be singularly bad at. I'm pretty sure she would mostly end up boosting kids up onto jungle gyms and catching them if they looked likely to wobble off a slide, while looking bewildered-but-kinda-pleased the entire time.

[hello_freak]

Sherlock would start the day incensed at not being able to leave, bitching about the horrible pizza, and generally having a tantrum.

By the end of the day, he'd have maxed out the high scores on all the shooting arcade games. He would have organized a hoard of children into his own band of miscreants, pilfering all the pizza they can and running cons to win the most tickets. He would have figured out a way to manipulate the currency scheme, causing the prize attendant to quit in a fury. And he would leave at the end of the day carrying the humongous stuffed polar bear under one arm, making quips about how he finally understands Mycroft's career choice.

[1nv1nc1ble]

I suspect that the No Smoking policy might cause problems, until he realized which employees were actually sneaking smokes on their breaks and blackmail them into sharing. (Because Sherlock Holmes most emphatically does not "bum" a cigarette. Especially from some schmoe in a polyester rat costume.)

[hello_freak]

In my head canon, when he's in the throes of a nicotine fit, Sherlock is absolutely not above bumming a fag off a schmoe in a polyester rat costume. Never underestimate the power of the nicotine fit.

Also, in my head canon, he's still only smoking once in a great while. And when he does, Mycroft makes that face and he can't stand that face.

[mnt_mike]

I think it says a lot about me that every single character I play would be pleased as punch to be stuck in side of a Chuck E. Cheese for a day.

Seriously:

Mike
Raph
Splinter
Bumi
Aang

Even Ida and the Loompas would have a field day in there.
In my mind they're having a skeeball tournament. It's awesome

[hello_freak]

I would pay good money to spend the day at Chuck E. Cheese with Aang.

[mnt_mike]

Which is good, because I have a feeling trying to keep up with Aang at Chuck E Cheese would cost good money.

[bjornwilde]

I kind of want a Milliways Chuck E. Cheese day now.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark would probably comment on how he remembered the pizza tasting better, complain about how they used to have more video games and fewer ticket machines, and end up hogging a single game until he either ran out of tokens or was asked to move by the staff so the other kids could play (probably either a racing game or Street Fighter).

Oh wait, that was me. :)

[aleister_author]

Hour 1: Terrible Pizza (& floor show?)
Hour 2: Skee-ball
Hour 3: Breaking into the employees only area having started a small child based riot as a distraction. ('Those mascots? They're actually pinata. Full of candy and game tokens. Here, have a bat.')
Hours 4-6: Running gun battle with the terrible magical mutant rats which actually run Chuck E Cheese through the maintenance spaces
Hour 7: Climactic boss battle with the Rat King (Actually, some sort of swarm intelligence. Only technically occurs inside Chuck E Cheese by being in a pocket dimension anchored there.)
Hour 8: Having escorted all civilians out of the building in the aftermath of the staff collapsing (Terrible, simple terrible. Must be some sort of gas leak.) steal and review their financial records and other paperwork. Doing this sort of shit is expensive, yo, and it works way better if the other guys pay for it.

Being a character from a table top horror RPG is like that.

[not_my_sandbox]

I think that Amascut would hate it at first. But she's pulled of longer cons than that. The pizza probably isn't that poor according to her standards, just boring. (Somehow pizza exists in her faux medieval setting. :D) The beer isn't interesting. The soda, maybe.

She would probably eventually teach the children to vanquish their enemies in the gladitorial arena that this giant rat set up... which... why are all the columns and environmental hazards all covered in sponges? Okay, those kids are learning how to throw those stupid plastic hollow balls hard and then they are going after the rat bastard dungeon master.

Fairy Fixit ... I think Catch the Fairy might become a thing. Thus, hiding in a high spot and misery. There's plenty of sugary water in many flavors, but it is gassy and... back to misery.

If someone loses a tooth there will be a tooth monster to either distract the kids or to break out of the restaurant.

Evil Chicken causes a freak windstorm inside the building.

[yakalskovich]

Lorenzo, Tamara, Tower and Sirona would have a great time (after the inevitable culture shock for the first two), Katrina would most likely be caught between culture shock and wistfulness, Margolotta would organise the kids into doing something sensible, Poins would find some way to cause unscheduled mayhem with a gang of older boys, Teja would sit in a corner and suffer in silence, Hannibal would grin and bear it (unless he found a way to turn the owner into carpaccio to amuse himself), and Krampus would try to collect all the naughty kids and collapse with overwork.-

[splash_of_blue]

...Um. Might be helpful to explain the completely US-centric reference?

Although I can't say much, because even after a good bit of googling to find out wtf a Chuck E Cheese is, my brain is gone and I'm of no help here. I blame all the Indian food I just stuffed my face with.

*flops*

Unrelated: how's everybody? I've not been paying as much attention as normal for the last week or so, due to RL and abroad-ness: what'd I miss?

[bbq_platypus]

Be grateful you don't have them. Unless you're between 5 and 9 years old it's a nightmare. And even then the animatronic rats are terrifying. Naturally, I was ten when I went.

I'm glad that I've finished what are very likely my last law school finals. Quite probably switching career paths now. I decided I'd rather do something useful.