madimpossibledreamer

(I’m mostly transcribing this to communicate how freakin’ hard it was to get this to work, and in the end…well, I won’t spoil it but our hard work didn’t exactly pay off even if we did manage to beat the game. That’s for later, though, ‘cause that wasn’t even this session. You can occasionally hear game sounds from my roommate jumping around and drinking water.)

I’m good; I’m okay. Move it; this one? Okay. Yeah, it looks like it’s plugged in; is it seriously not working? I’m not getting anything. {roommate}

Oh. Maybe it’s supposed to be in this one? Maybe? {roommate}

Anything? Nothing. {roommate}

Imma go get a flashlight. Okay. I’ll see if I can get— {roommate} Sorry about taking so long. *sigh* It’s— {roommate}

If it gets to ten I vote we try again next time. (It goes on for another fifty minutes after this, by the way, and, spoiler alert, we do end up giving up and trying again next time.) Okay. All right. {roommate}

Ow. Careful! {roommate} You’d think I’d remember that that was there. You’d think, but you did just get hit on the head, so. {roommate} This is true.

So. It is this thing. Okay. Okay, yeah, I’ll guess that goes to the purple plug. Okay. {roommate}

Oh hey! What? {roommate} The magnet part can go there. That’s cool. I don’t have to hold it the whole time.

I’m going to guess it has to go here… Is it working now? It does not appear so. {roommate} That’s weird. Yeah. {roommate}

Oh. He’s actually got a flashlight back here. Oh. {roommate} It’s a weird one. See? I see. {roommate} Also an Egg & I thing back here.

But. Is it pushed in? No…

As you wish. [Prince] Did you save? Yeah, I accidentally walked into the light. {roommate} Ah. Yeah, they do that.

Man, it is hard to get back here. Yeah. No, they did not make it easy. {roommate}

I wanna say…did you see where you pulled it out from? It was one of those two plugs, I’m pretty sure. {roommate} Okay.

I’m guessing it should be the purple one because it looks like the right port… It’s flashed every time you’ve done that. It’s flashing but it’s not actually working. Yeah. That’s helpful.

What about if I put it in here? Does it flash? I think it did briefly. {roommate} Okay. ‘Cause the picture back here actually looks like a keyboard. Okay. {roommate}

It’s not working right now though, right? Nope. {roommate}

This does not go like that…and it does not go like that…and it does not go like that. It’s entirely possible we broke it. *snorts* I don’t believe that. {roommate} I’m only saying that because it’s going in the only way it can into the purple one and nothing is happening. I’d say it’s also entirely possible that it was a bit old. {roommate} (My search for ‘does a keyboard have drift’ is only turning up results for a racing game. Thanks internet. You’re the greatest. I mean, we’re not experiencing drift but not registering button presses might be a factor. …Keyboard not registering button presses does turn up results, however, which is a good sign.)

We can always try putting in a different keyboard. Yeah. {roommate} For funsies let’s plug in that keyboard, if it’s here. Unless it’s wireless. Where’s the cord? Yes. Here’s the cord. It goes…here.

Save! Oh, no. Magic water! Right.

It goes there, unless… (I recognize that sound! That’s a good sound!) Okay, so it did qualify that one. {roommate} Now you’re using the controller and I’ve got the keyboard! Haha!

I mean, if you…I think you should probably have that. Okay. {roommate} (It’s possible I was briefly messing with him. It’s something I’d do.)

Settings. Okay, so that’s his. {roommate} Yeah. …What were we looking up? *chuckles* {roommate}

Oh, yeah, we were looking up the game settings… So...got to pull up the…got it. Insert. {roommate} Insert frequency. Oh. {roommate} It’s Forgotten Sands again. There’s Warrior Within but it could be…

Okay. I have an idea. Okay. I think we have two or three more attempts at most. {roommate} Okay. …It is 9:51. (still another 41 minutes on this one….)

Yeah. Go for it. {roommate} Okay. I need my Jotaro hat because I am saying “yare yare daze” right now. We are all “yare yare daze” on this blessed day. {roommate}

Sorry I need you buddy. And not even for a fun thing like a Mahjong game. It’s okay. At least you weren’t betting your life, right? {roommate} This is true. And then the Prince decides to be dumb.

Wait. It’s too late. {roommate} Oh no. Help. Help, I have made a mistake.

I have two ideas, one of which we didn’t end up trying because things came up. One is that the directions are screwed up on it. See, that part you’ve got down a lot better than I do, so. {roommate} Actually, it says you only use it once in it when you’re actually making the initial jump after the wallrun.

Really? Prince no.

We are getting you your stupid dagger back whether you like it or not. {roommate} Well, apparently there’s Massive Plot Things^TM that happen and turn him really angsty in the next—I mean, as if he’s not really angsty now, but. You know, even more so. In the next installment. Which I own but do not want to start playing until I know the plot things that happen in this one.

That was a lone…oh wait, the other one got lost. I was like, that was a lone bat… You got two of them though. {roommate} But no. The other bat got lost.

Oh! {roommate} What? …oh, is it working now? Oh. Hey, would you look at that. Also, capslock. That wasn’t what I meant to hit. It was exactly what you meant to hit. Capslock is cruise control for cool, right? {roommate} Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Totally tubular, dude. {roommate} I could start playing tubular bells for the next one. I strongly doubt we’re making it that far. {roommate} Yeah.

Now, see, Prince? Wasn’t that a nice easy set of things? {roommate} Talking about the perk? Mmmhm. {roommate}

Okay. What? Two ideas. Obviously idea Number One didn’t work. {roommate} Okay. That didn’t happen. [Prince]

I think I’ll get up there this time and then switch the keyboard back so our roommate doesn’t come back and go “where is my keyboard?” Yeah. {roommate} Okay then.