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"An RPG is a role playing game. It's a bit of a vague term but it's just a way to categorise the game. Kind of like shooter. It's just a convient way to label the games." Allegra was a complete noob at this stuff and it was hilarious. She had so much to teach her little padawan.

"Woah there Allegra, I thin k I didn't explain something right here. You're playing her adoptive father, it's her real dad that's the creepy one. He's and emperor and wants all the pure bloodline nonsense, you're actively trying to stop that happening." OK, it was hard to explain a complex plot, to the third game in a series, but boy she'd not done a good job, if her new friends thought Geralt was the creeper.

"The main point is it's a look at the grim reality a medieval world would be. It was s---, for pretty much anyone not a noble and you have to live in that world. Sometimes that means your choices are between two unpleasant options." It was part of why she loved it, it showed morality as far more than black and white, it was grey and ugly. It was hard to be a good person.

Ah, looks like her punk image put across a little of the wrong image. Honestly as wealthy as Allegra's family were, chances are hers were kind of a lot more. "No I was never on the street, I had some savings and bought a tickets here, used my power to find Serena. She took me in." Thank god for that. "but yeah, it my my grandmother that was the issue. She was caring for me while me mum was abroad working. She kind of tried to push me into an arranged marriage. To a guy."

"Thank you, really. I appreciate how kind the offer is, but I'll be good. Once I get in touch with mum I'm sure it'll all be sorted out. She's a lot less controlling than that old b---- is." She hoped. Ugh that conversation would be a long and painful one. Thank god she'd found so many kind people, especially Allegra. The girl had a heart of gold wrapped up in that valley girl shell. She was a good person.

Super sexy? Count her in. "Oh I am in, got to look good if I want to find a girlfriend over here. Can't be leaving all this," Gesturing at all her pale, skinny glory, "Off the market long." It was so good to joke around with someone again!

"Now, now  we meet the boys, and you see which one you love the look of. We've got the slightly nerd one, the hunky sportsman," giving a sidelong glance, "the dashing bad boy and more. Just talk with them, get a bit of a feel for them then reel him in."

Oooo good choice of words, "Oh my, want to see me all hot and bothered now? You sure you're all straight there girl?" she teased, really getting into it now. Sure Allegra was a bit weird, but she was good weird. The dogs were kind of cute too, as she reached down to scratch ones ears idly.

It was very tempting to do, and something she'd wanted to do at home but she'd never had the opportunity. Her grandmother policed that stuff harshly, an heir couldn't be embarrassing themselves with silly videos. It would bring their precious family name into disrepute. "Maybe, It'd be a lie if I said I didn't want to, but the back end stuff with those channels I also love, being able to mess around with all that tech."

"Sweet, I'd love to check out your skills, always like creative stuff." She was just really bad at it, even her attempts at making costumes were pretty poor so seeing other peoples abilities was really cool."

"There anything you like drawing in particular? Any cute guys or sexy girls you've sketched?" He seemed the type to like drawing people, an hell, if he was any good he might have some good pictures to check out. Purely for science.

Thank God Nessa was so nice, she was entertaining the fumbling nerd and even joking with her. It was so cool to be in this position, her friends back home would freak when they found out where she was interning. "Boss it is then," she grinned back, She'd never shake that now. Nessa was the boss, no matter who her actual supervisor was.

Wait what, did Nessa just call her, Alice Rivers, her Padawan? OK, she must have been dreaming now, there was no way this was actually happening, right? It was just so, normal and fun. Like it was real life. Was this real life, or maybe just fantasy. Stifling the chuckle at her really bad internal joke and looking Nessa back in the eyes, "Oh you are not getting away now, If I'm your Padawan, you'll have to teach me your ways. Not just the gaming ones either." It wasn't exactly flirting, mostly. Sure Nessa was beautiful but Alice kind of wanted someone to teach her the way of the gay, how to be so self assured with herself, and so open about it.

Alice wasn't a closet case by any means, she was open about her sexuality but Nessa just, lived it. And she talked about it so often on her show and issues regarding 'Gaymers'. It was pretty inspiring.

Glowing under the praise and moving from around the back of the computer, until she was standing near the other woman present she gave the set up one last, longing glance before the sudden words shocked her out of her trance. Wasn't she done for now? Alice was sure her kind of actual boss would have tasks for her.

She was all up for doing favours and when it was asked, there was no way she was leaving without doing that. "I'd love too! Just tell me if anything needs adjusting or if somethings not working." Taking the seat and with, admittedly shaky hands, taking the headset and adjusting it to fit her head. This, was no doubt her favourite day ever. Nothing could top it. Ever.

Turning the camera on and checking it was working, she gave it a wink, "How's it looking then boss? It a good view from there?" Seriously Alice, she's obviously out of your league and probably already has a girlfriend. Not to mention HR wouldn't exactly be happy about such flirting. She was still technically a minor after all.

"There anything else you need from me while I'm here? Anything looking wonky or iffy?" Now she was just hoping, chances are Nessa was getting a little sick of her fangirling and would be glad to have the intern gone. She wouldn't want to hang out with some random nerd after all.

"He's not bad looking, got kind of a distinguished look to him. The main reason you can't choose is it's the third game in the series and they're based of some polish fantasy books. It's not one of those RPG's where you make a character, you're playing one. He's got his own personality and history." She liked customisation in games as much as the next girl, but some games were better simply due to the main character being so well developed. "Here, this is him."

Giving her a grin, "He didn't let her, she's an adult and left for another world with her power to escape her birth father who kind of wanted to marry her...it's a little creepy. You don't go through literal hell but you are fighting a magical army from another world that can raid across dimensions and lay waste to worlds so you know, not easy to deal with."

"The mum's doing everything she can to find and keep her daughter safe. It's not easy to find someone who can teleport around the world when she's in danger. Basically finding her is hard, you have to do some pretty hard and sometimes, immoral things to save her." The story was kind of hard to explain, it was kind of long and involved but there was a reason it was her favourite game ever.

"Woah, woah calm down, I can sleep fine, it doesn't affect me while I'm asleep or unconscious, only when awake. As for the food the mansion covers the cost at the moment, they just see it as having to deal with my mutation and frankly it's not the most they have to spend on a student. I've heard they had to build an entire cave for one, he was so big. But thanks for grabbing snacks, more can't hurt."

How was she going to get her stuff? That was a fair question, one she should probably consider when she talked to her mum. "I don't think Serena can get it, my grandmother doesn't seem to like her, but yeah, I want to see my mum again. Once she calls me back I'm going to have a long talk with her about stuff, she might not be happy with me but I think she'll be even more upset with Grandmother."

"I appreciate the offer, really, but I will be getting my own stuff at some point. But I won't say no to some free makeup, been itching to get some new supplies since I've been here. I'll stop by sometime soon then and we can have some fun?" That could be a laugh actually, especially seeing Allegra in her element.

Now she just couldn't hold it in anymore, she just had to laugh. Allegra was just so clueless about this stuff it was so adorable. "No sweetie, it's not a real person or anything, it's a type of game. Called a shooter because you shoot, stuff." OK, yeah that sounded a bit bad out of context.

"Exactly, you get to pick and choose among a bunch of cuties and try to reel them in. Thought you might like the premise." It's not like Alice didn't like girls as much as her friends likes guys. Just because she was tragically straight didn't mean her tastes were bad. Much.

Oh, was someone curious about her? That was sweet, but Alice didn't know if she had a type. Tall maybe? And graceful at least, but beyond that she couldn't really say. She just liked most pretty girls, regardless of body and build. "Maybe, if you want to switch later. There's some of the paths I haven't done yet."

All day.... ALL DAY!! "You've got to be pulling my f------ leg Jack, it can't be all day. That's just, cruel. And unusual. Thought you people had something in your constitution about that." Didn't they? She was hardly an authority on American legal documents and while she was playing catch up in history lessons, well the ones here were just soooo boring compared to back home.

She could understand doing a service, but did it really have to be cleaning loo's? Weren't there other, less disgusting jobs to be done. "Ah right, good to know I still get punished for the thing that shall not be mentioned." Which she was still glad about, to be honest. This just seemed like Chief was playing a joke on her.

OK so maybe Jack was messing with her, Christ she'd do the same if she was a guard and it sent a pretty powerful message. Don't get caught again. At all. Ever.

Following the prawns directions, with cleaning supplies in hand and dreading how this was going to go, at least the company would be cool. Sure Jack had sold her down the smelly river, but she was cool. Just doing her job if Alice could take a minute and appreciate it. "Fair warning, I might throw up depending on how bad they are. Oh and I'll need to stop for a snack bar about every thirty minutes." Yay for mutations. Why couldn't she have gotten something useful to counter balance the eating. Like laser eyes or exploding saliva or something.

"So apart from torturing poor innocent students, how do you spend your time. You know when you're not working." Alice was not probing for any specific information at all. Nope, she didn't want to know if the big blue beauty had a partner, or anything.

She really needed to find a girlfriend. These thoughts were getting out of hand.

Good, she would at least understand her explanation. It wasn't impossible to do otherwise, but if people knew what she meant by certain terms it really streamlined the whole thing. Also let her get away with not having to say as much, which was always awesome.

"Wait, are you serious?" Did one of the X's, no one of the X-men leaders think her power was cool? That was....amazing. Right? But really, it wasn't that useful, and had a way worse side effect than the benefits she got. "And yeah, it's kind of just there, all the time. Doesn't have an off switch so that's great fun," she added at the end a little sarcastically.

"But in all honesty, I doesn't distract me too much, kind of just gotten used to it. About the worst thing it does is limit my peripheral vision and mean I have to sit a bit further back from a screen or TV when I want to see without missing anything." Made gaming a little bit of a challenge, but she'd adapted. No way her stupid power was getting in the way of her play time.

Well, she'd given up a little information, maybe Maya would do the same. "What about you then? What can you do?"