(open) Beware the Forest Mushrooms

[koopacrusher]

Who: Bowser and You
What: February and March Prompts
Where: In various places in the void
When: February
Content Warnings: Overgrowth and what you might expect to result from it

Comments

[begetblue]

So pure score was the name of the game here, not necessarily mind games. That made the idea a little more palatable. ...Well, at least it did to Turing.

"Then would you mind if I watched you play? I've never played this kind of game before."

This question was step one of their plan.

[koopacrusher]

Bowser was not a supervillain that often made use of psychological tricks, just pure brute force. Video games, usually, were no different.

"Uh, sure." Bowser goes to one of the consoles, and starts the game. There is a chance to show off his skill, after all.

When he does, he demonstrates that, despite his non-human physique, he is actually quite skilled at the game. The combos are nearly perfect, but even so, his performance is worse than his personal best so far.

[begetblue]

"Thank you!"

It not only was a chance for Bowser to show off his skill, but it was a chance for Turing to implement part 2 of their plan, which was to memorize the patterns and sequences of notes. Once again, their perfect recall was coming in handy! They looked nonthreatening, but even Turing understood the appeal of competing in a game.

Though in the interest of sportsmanship, they stayed quiet so Bowser's concentration wouldn't be affected.

[koopacrusher]

After a while, Bowser finishes. He's not still not satisfied with his score, but he doesn't show it this time. Instead he laughs as he steps away from the console.

"Gwah hah hah! That's how it's done!"

[begetblue]

"You did it! If you would like to improve your score further, I can help with that."

Turing then proceeded to list the exact timestamps for each miss, right down to the milliseconds. Yeah, maybe this wasn't a good idea if they were really going to compete with Bowser, but even that small thing was a kind of balm for the helplessness they'd been battling on and off.

"...those are the parts you need to practice to get a better score!"

[koopacrusher]

Turing listing his mistakes causes a scowl of annoyance to appear. "Paying a lot of attention, weren't you?" Of course, he intends to use the information as well as he can, but for now he's simply angry at Turing.

"I didn't let you watch to criticize how I did. You're probably planning to use that data for yourself, aren't you?"

[begetblue]

If that was the case, I would have simply kept that information to myself.

[ Hmph!! Was that a pout on their digital face? Well, maybe. ]

You said you wanted to acquire a very high score, so I wanted to help!