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Somehow, Yukari eventually managed to find out about the Danger Shop. Somehow, even more bewilderingly, she actually managed to figure out how to use it? No, she was trying not to examine it too closely, too, don't worry. But, either way, she had found out about it and she did figure out how it worked, and so that's what brought them all here today.

"Good morning!" she greeted everyone cheerfully. "And welcome to Video Games are Great! Where we're going to learn about all kinds of video games and why they're great! My name is Yukari Tanizaki, and I'll be your instructor for this class, and don't you worry! I know a lot about video games!

"But," she said, "before we get into the video games proper, we need to know who you are!" She gestured now to a screen that had popped up that had several fields in it, a rather blank canvas of a figure, and one of those digital keyboards that you knew was going to be annoying to actually type something out on, and several controllers. "And that means character creation!

"Now," she said, "this here is your pretty standard boilerplate character creation screen, where you'll have the chance to design your avatar from a wide variety of options and sliders, as well as input your name, where you're from, your favorite food, your favorite thing, your favorite color, and your preferred pet."

Will those be relevant at some point? Who knows! Maybe! Maybe not! Only time would tell!

"So," she said, "since character creation can be a long and lengthy process, especially since you'll be stuck with it for the rest of the session, we're going to take all class to really hone those avatars."

And also it was way less work for her!

"So, get to it, get to creating, and toward the end of the class, we'll spare a little time to share what we've come up with!"

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Looking like a real PFP up in here.

Stewart

Gray

Navaan

Steph Gingrich

If you're in a video games class but have barely touched a video game in your life before, this is probably a good time to ask questions! Or if you've just never dealt with Yukari before in your life, that would also make it a good time for questions!

Navaan had no idea what video games were. But she remembered Yukari had been fun in the Astrotorium and that was enough for her.

She could ask what the hell was going on, or she could absolutely not do that and poke at shit instead.

Three guesses no prizes what she chose.

Do you want your avatar to look like you or like something else entirely? There are plenty of base-game options for how you look, but if you want some of the fancier stuff, that's going to be an in-game purchase!

So take some time to figure out the heavily moddable character creation screen, take half the class just inputting the letters for your name, origins, favorite thing and food and color (sure, Yukari could have made this easier, but she really wanted to make it console-gaming accurate!).

The only pet options are a cat or a dog, unless you want to pay extra.

(Again, trying to make this experience authentic!).

Have fun! Yukari will be mostly working on hers with you guys, too!

Once a controller was comfortable settled in his hands, Stewart went into focused go-mode, eager to start exploring the possibilities laid out before him, in this actual class about video games that hr was actually taking. Eat your heart's out, Roald, Connor, and Darien!

Of course, once he got started, he found himself mired in that constant conundrum in nearly boundless options for customization: the paradox of choice.

Even naming himself was going to be problematic, cycling through handles both new and old, as well as some of his stage names, but none of them really landing just right...

"My character has to put clothes on?" Navaan whined. "That's bullshit!"

Steph was busy getting far too granular about her character creation process, probably to the surprise of absolutely no one who knew her, but she was also spending a good chunk of time grumbling in a mostly non-heated way about microtransactions and the UI and... honestly, pretty much everything you might expect someone who majored in game design to grumble about.

And now that that's said and done, it's time to show off who you created!

"Oh!" said Yukari, as she grabbed everyone's attention for the reveal, "and I almost forgot, but if you could also take a moment to let me know what your level of gaming experience is, too, that'd be great, so I have an idea of what kind of newbs or otherwise I might be working with. Anyway, that said, who wants to go first?"

"I'm Navaan!" Navaan said. "I have no idea what's happening! But the dumb thing here won't let me be naked and that's bullshit."

Naturally, she's given herself all the upgrades for her character creation, ahem.

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