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stormdogDanae are playing a game called AI: the Somnium Files together. It's a murder-mystery plot set in modern Japan. It has its funny moments, but tonight was the best one yet.
An 18 year-old girl who's something of a Youtube (except it's not called that!) idol is involved in the goings-on, as are some Yakuza. The Yakuza boss, Moma, has some info that we want, but in order to get it he wants the chance to meet the idol (Iris, or her performing name A-Set). So we bring Iris to see him and the tough mob boss turns into a complete fanboy. We ask for the information because we held up our end, but he pulls us aside where Iris can't hear and says that before he tells us, he wants us to ask Iris if Moma can shake her hand. We say sure, no problem.
The two of us go back to where Iris is and our character, Kaname, says to Iris "Moma was just asking if you could show him your boobs."
Moma explodes "The FUCK dude?! I didn't say that!!"
Kaname then says "Actually, he just wants to shake your hand. Is that ok?"
Danae and I can't decide if Kaname is doing that thing where you ask for something ridiculous first to make your real request seem more reasonable, or if he just wanted to fuck with Moma, but we both had to take a break from the game until we could stop laughing.
On a different note, another thing I love about this game is Mama, a fairly obviously flamboyant genderqueer person (her in-game character file says she's gender neutral and prefers female pronouns) who owns and runs a bar. We end up talking to her semi-regularly and for a while, her gender and/or sexuality are, like, not even a thing to anybody. That's really cool. Here's her page on the game's wiki: https://somniumfiles.fandom.com/wiki/Mama
An 18 year-old girl who's something of a Youtube (except it's not called that!) idol is involved in the goings-on, as are some Yakuza. The Yakuza boss, Moma, has some info that we want, but in order to get it he wants the chance to meet the idol (Iris, or her performing name A-Set). So we bring Iris to see him and the tough mob boss turns into a complete fanboy. We ask for the information because we held up our end, but he pulls us aside where Iris can't hear and says that before he tells us, he wants us to ask Iris if Moma can shake her hand. We say sure, no problem.
The two of us go back to where Iris is and our character, Kaname, says to Iris "Moma was just asking if you could show him your boobs."
Moma explodes "The FUCK dude?! I didn't say that!!"
Kaname then says "Actually, he just wants to shake your hand. Is that ok?"
Danae and I can't decide if Kaname is doing that thing where you ask for something ridiculous first to make your real request seem more reasonable, or if he just wanted to fuck with Moma, but we both had to take a break from the game until we could stop laughing.
On a different note, another thing I love about this game is Mama, a fairly obviously flamboyant genderqueer person (her in-game character file says she's gender neutral and prefers female pronouns) who owns and runs a bar. We end up talking to her semi-regularly and for a while, her gender and/or sexuality are, like, not even a thing to anybody. That's really cool. Here's her page on the game's wiki: https://somniumfiles.fandom.com/wiki/Mama
