[Jay starts off on his barely-a-plan, keeping his phone on him to catch any future messages. First order of business? Dragging a TV out of the closet and over to the tea room. The one he gets isn't huge, but holding a camera isn't the best way to build upper body strength. You wind up all lopsided. Still, it gets there, along with a Genesis and a PS3. Couldn't afford it back home, but that's the beauty of Wonderland. He returns from the library with an armload of games on loan: Sonic 2,Streets of Rage, and hell, sure, Toejam and Earl for the co-op.Guitar Hero, because he's the music guy, right? He grabs a few others, some single-player, some rhythm, some platformers. He even throws Neverwinter Nights on the pile, even though it'll require him grabbing his laptop if Tim actually wants to try it.]
[Next order of business: snacks. You can't introduce a guy to games without a snack that'll leave greasy cheese dust all over his hands. It'd just be missing something. He also picks up a pack of beef jerky, for familiarity's sake.]
[Speaking of missing something...]
[When Jay finally settles in upstairs, he's got a couple bags of snacks, a bottle of soda, and two slices of Publix (TM) brand vanilla ice cream cake. He hasn't had any kind of birthday anything since high school, and he hasn't had cake since before that, but he thinks he remembers being fond of ice cream cake.]
[There's also a persistent meowing from below the tea room table.]
[Jay sits hunched over the cake, arms forming a flimsy barrier in case Archie gets any bright ideas.]
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[Jay starts off on his barely-a-plan, keeping his phone on him to catch any future messages. First order of business? Dragging a TV out of the closet and over to the tea room. The one he gets isn't huge, but holding a camera isn't the best way to build upper body strength. You wind up all lopsided. Still, it gets there, along with a Genesis and a PS3. Couldn't afford it back home, but that's the beauty of Wonderland. He returns from the library with an armload of games on loan: Sonic 2, Streets of Rage, and hell, sure, Toejam and Earl for the co-op.Guitar Hero, because he's the music guy, right? He grabs a few others, some single-player, some rhythm, some platformers. He even throws Neverwinter Nights on the pile, even though it'll require him grabbing his laptop if Tim actually wants to try it.]
[Next order of business: snacks. You can't introduce a guy to games without a snack that'll leave greasy cheese dust all over his hands. It'd just be missing something. He also picks up a pack of beef jerky, for familiarity's sake.]
[Speaking of missing something...]
[When Jay finally settles in upstairs, he's got a couple bags of snacks, a bottle of soda, and two slices of Publix (TM) brand vanilla ice cream cake. He hasn't had any kind of birthday anything since high school, and he hasn't had cake since before that, but he thinks he remembers being fond of ice cream cake.]
[There's also a persistent meowing from below the tea room table.]
[Jay sits hunched over the cake, arms forming a flimsy barrier in case Archie gets any bright ideas.]