Room 229 - Saturday Evening

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo was going to be teaching Graham how to play video games and as the evening got closer, he was trying to not feel so nervous …he had gotten out a couple consoles for them to play, choosing the Nintendo 64 and a Playstation 4 as consoles to start with and then had agonised over what games to play.

He decided to wait until Graham got there before choosing what games they could play that evening.

He did have a quite a few empanadas left that he’d made for the room following his baking sessions and he’d gotten soft drink as well.

Now that everything was set up and the room was ready for a gaming session, all he had to do was wait for Graham.

It was fine. This was going to be fine.

[for Graham but can be open before he arrives!]

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"That sounds like it could be kind of nice, too, though," Graham pointed out. "Kind of...meditative, you know? A little peace and quiet, to focus on all your amazing food. Are you sure I wouldn't end up just being a distraction?"

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo was reasonably sure but well didn’t exactly want to reveal the reasons why Graham could potentially distract him, he went even redder.

“It’s nice cooking on my own but some company would also be nice,” he tried to assure Graham, “you wouldn’t be a distraction,”

He hoped.

[pun_king]

"Well, then, in that case," Graham declared, "I would be happy to keep you company while you cooked! And not just because that just means I can enjoy the fruits of your labor even quicker!"

Although that was a nice bonus.

"Now," he said, his eyes lighting up for the thing that brought him here in the first place, "how about those video games?"

[guillermothegreat]

“Then I’ll definitely let you know when I do try to make those recipes,” he promised and turned his attention to the video games he had selected for the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation 4, “we do have a lot of games,” he admitted with a grin, “I haven’t decided which ones to play, are there any that you think you’d like to try from the totally moddable games we have?”

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"I could definitely take a look!" Graham said, tilting his head a little at all the games and also wondering how anyone would even know where to start. "There's so many! Which ones are some of your own fav--"

Graham stopped, suddenly, blinking a little as his eyes caught on something that he immediately reached for.

"Ohhhhh!" He said, brandishing the box victoriosly for a moment before going in for a closer look. "I actually know this one! We watch this movie just the other day in Espionage class!"

And you can't pull out an N64 and not have meta for GoldenEye!

[guillermothegreat]

“That is a great choice,” Guillermo smiled at Graham’s choice, “it’s one of my favourites,” he revealed, “and it’s not too complicated to learn to play either,” he added.

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"Not too complicated to learn sounds pretty promising," Graham said with a grin, and then went to pass the game over to Guillermo with a little bit of a sweeping bow, and his tone went oh-so-seriously. "Guillermo, I am ready for you to teach me the way of the video game, show my your video game ways!"

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo smiled brightly as he took the game, still blushing bright red as he went to sent up the console and load the game.

He passed one of the controllers to Graham as he waited for the game to load, “I thought while we were waiting I could teach you how the controllers work?” he offered.

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"That would probably be a good idea," Graham admitted, after watching Guillerno set everything up with a fascinated curiosity, a curiosity that transferred then to the controlled, which he turned over in his hand and inspected.

He particularly liked all the buttons, especially the one that moved around in a circle.

"I don't think I'd even know how to hold this correctly!"

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo watched Graham look over his controller with a smile to see him so fascinated with the controller and examine it as he picked up his own one, “its not really that hard to learn,” he assured him and he began to very handwavily since its been years since I’ve played the N64 go over what each button did in relation to the game, “did that make sense? he wasn’t sure it did, “I can go over it again if you’d like?”

[pun_king]

Graham was trying his best to listen carefully to all the instructions and explanations, but, by no fault of Guillermo's, it was all sounding a little foreign. Simple enough, that should help, and what started as mouthing the controls to help him remember better quickly great in to repeating them quietly under his breath.

"I think I'vr got it?" he answered, with uncertainty. "Maybe? I think it might be one of those things where I just need to jump in and try it and just see how it goes."

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo nodded understandingly at that, “we can also set the difficulty level so that’s it not too hard,” he offered, “that should also hopefully help as well,”

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And Graham opened his mouth as if to say something, stopped, then frowned a little bit on thought as he considered it for a moment.

"Is the hard difficulty," he wondered, "really hard? Because maybe then, we should actually start with the hard, and that way, when it's too hard and we go to easy, it'll be a breeze, right?"

Totally how things worked!

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo hadn’t thought of it like that, he tilted his head as he considered the settings, “i think once you get used to the controls, it shouldn’t be a problem, we could try and see how things go?” he suggested, “you do get more options to you playing the harder levels but if it gets too hard then I can change the settings back to easy?”