Part 22: Versus

Chapter 15 - Versus

It was shortly after my trip to the hot tub that I realized something.

I liked B!

This whole time! What was wrong with me? Kiki. Leanne. Danny. Alex. They were all just distractions, because I wasn't ready to own up to the truth... not ready to take the final step... not ready to ask out the true love of my life.

It was B I had wanted all along- oh right! THAT'S why I broke her up with Elliot! Ha! I'd forgotten about that.

But then...

Someone changed everytihng...

I was in the boutique...



A music box would make the perfect gift! Becky liked music. I liked boxes. It was that simple.

And then...

(drum roll)



My Mortal Nemesis! I was going to include an image of the Nemesis from Resident Evil, but honestly, I couldn't find a picture in that guy GuavaMoment's LPs or whoever does the Resident Evil ones. I dunno. So just like imagine that there was one in the space below.










Anyway. Here he is.



Him!

Dickbag X!



DB-X! Becky's neme- no, wait. Becky's ex! The one who cheated on her with that cow from Human Resources! The one who hurt his ankle earlier! The one who got the job at Sanctuary!

Let me posit this to you, goons.

HOW THE FUCK COULD THINGS POSSIBLY GET WORSE??!!!?!!1111

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...

...

Like this.









I had to stop him. My mission was clear.



It was time for a battle of wits.



I DON'T KNOW HOW TO REACT TO THIS!!! Help me, please!



I pretended not to notice him.



I decided to ignore his presence and whistle a jaunty tune.



Really.



I guess I have to acknowledge him now.



I'm sorry, I have a hearing disorder. I'm deaf to cheating jackasses.





...



Also:



You seriously have five seconds to get the hell out of my sight.



He was right, I guess.



Haha, yeah...





























Nah, I didn't say that.

Damn right!

And I decked him!



And with that, I gave him a cold stare.



Suddenly E came over!



What?! NO! E liked him?! But...



I don't like where this is going!



Don't tell him where she is, E!



Huzzah! Erica wins the day! Take that, DB-X!



In your dreams, pal!



E! No!



What an idiotic waste of my time!

* Hssssss *



Oh, am I now?



Haha!



Oh no! My one weakness! The music box!



Hahahahaha! NO!



Shit. DB-X was good...



I'm sorry it didn't work out between you two.



Really?

GammaShade posted:

Go with number one and mace him, but it doesn't have to be in that order.

I can't do that! I got lucky he didn't arrest me for punching him! Well.. let me use the mace...



In this context, I should only show it to him.

baby breath posted:

Quick his guard is down AMOROUS ACTION THAT SONOFABITCH

You got it!



Yay! That would win the day! He'd leave B alone and I'd get the music box! Except...

...

Uh... I guess... I'm really homophobic and it violates my principles and that's why it would be "Game Over?" Nah...

I'd have to try something else.

It's Game Over. That's stupid. We technically did accomplish what we set out to do.

No, not really.



And he hit me!



What should I do? Should I say "Aaaagh!" or... that's all I can think of!

Aaaagh!



No fucking way, fuckface!



Oh no.



Quick, what do I do?!



Guys, showing her the Unlocking Social Anxiety book or the dead fish resulted in:

Oh, Brett! I like it when you show me stuff!

Which she says if I'm showing an item of no particular interest.

Trel posted:

Half those things could do wonders for science, especially the magic dove.

Trel, don't give me ideas like that! What if she's really afraid of the movie 'The Birds!' And goes running off! And then neither of us could get the music box!

I mean, really!

...

I think it'd go something like this.



Phone booths?! Oh, right. That was in the movie.



She would run off!



Hedgehog, huh? Well, alright...



She gingerly took the hedgehog.



Ho yeah! Brett - 1, DB-X - 0!



Well, I did win...



Note: I had no idea that would work.

leather fedora posted:

Tell him, just to knock him off his guard.

But lie about her location of course.

Bingo.

I'll never tell you!

Would probably lead to...



So...

I'll tell you.



E wasn't in on it and would probably tell him, so...

You don't.



I told him he'd need DB2's business card to get in and gave it to him. DB-X left, but before that, I yelled out:

By the way! I'm going to a Players Anonymous Meeting after this. Wanna come?



And he shot me this look:



And then he left.



Oh, E! Don't you worry about that.



And the woods can be dangerous at night...

So I made this Photoshop.



Also, I told E she'd have to give me back the hedgehog at some point, since it was really L's.

Note: I had to replay the scene to get the Golden Line, and the playthrough for it's pretty uninteresting. You basically tell Sean that Becky's a model now, she's out of his league, and his responses are pretty much just "Really?" and "Not possible." Either way, you tell her she's at a model shoot at the end of the nature trail.

We still have the hedgehog, in other words, because the Golden Line solution doesn't require you to give it away (or for Erica to appear at all in this stage).

You can't finish the stage without losing Elliot's business card, though.

Oh yeah... I don't really care about the GameFAQs thing. I'm just hoping that if you start to get bored that you're not substituting "Just tell slowbeef so he can speed things up!" for "I have to know what answers to pick so we can move things along!" If you're really dying to know a solution before I post it... hey, go nuts.

Also...

Only four more stages left in Brett's story.