video; un: lilmonix3 || #MerlinQuest

[peninhand]

[ Monika started the video feed on an impulse. She'd been spending hours trying to work up the courage to post the quest in text form, but to no avail. Best way was to get rid of it without thinking. ]

Hey everyone! So um, I'm here about that quest from Merlin. [Okay, she needed to clear a misconception first:] It's not like I need it or anything, but I kind of get completionist instincts when I see a time-limited quest reward. [There.] And besides it could theoretically be very useful if you had a crush on someone and didn't know how they'd react to your confession... If that spell worked on them, that'd mean they're also attracted to you, right? N-Not that I have anyone like that yet, but you never know... A-Ahaha...

[ Gosh. Why couldn't she have shut it up after she mentioned the completionist thing? ]

Um... Anyway, that's a pick up line first, right? [She cleared her throat.] Well, u-um... Are you an overdue book? Because you have fine written all over you!

[ With that said, she marked a pause and looked away, her face red as a tomato. That was the best she'd been able to come up with... Thankfully, her best was incredibly lame. Surprisingly, it was more embarrassing to say stuff like that to an open audience than to a single invisible player. ]

As for a line that'd work on me... When I look into your eyes, nothing exists for me anymore because I lose myself in them. [An agonizing pause. If lameness could kill, she'd be dead.] I-It's pretty good, right?

Comments

[rutilance]

I think so, too! Even if you don't write "fine" all over the book itself in real life. It's still written in the ledgers that way! I think? Probably anyway!

[peninhand]

Mhm! Well, a pickup line purposefully exaggerates. You want it to like, really catch someone's attention. For better, or worse.

[rutilance]

That makes sense. I always wondered what the point was because to me I wouldn't know they were pickup lines unless I was told first? They just sound like normal jokes to me, but either kind of adult or the kind that's saying 'wow I think you're pretty!' in a funny way.

[peninhand]

Yeah, I think that's something you catch on when you become older...

I've heard my fair share of pickup line. By the time you turn thirty, you're probably a professional in pickup lines.

[rutilance]

I hope so. I don't like not getting jokes, even if I've accepted that's the way of things.

Does a professional in pickup lines make up pickup lines to sell? Or is it professional in the skill way only?

[peninhand]

Oh, that was a joke too, ahaha!

I don't think there's a professional at this really.

[rutilance]

Oh! The non-literal meaning of professional.

I'm really surprised people haven't made books about pickup lines.

[peninhand]

Oh, that probably does exist, but mostly as jokes.

Or for people who think it's legit.

[rutilance]

That makes sense. I've read joke books before, even if I didn't get a lot of the ones that weren't puns.

I kinda feel a little bad for the people who think it's legit if everyone else knows they're just for fun...

[peninhand]

That's unfortunately very common...

I'd try cluing them in personally, but many are quick to just mock them.

[rutilance]

I suppose it is kinder to clue them in. I will try to do so in such a case. Normally I don't realise I can let people know they're in to get mocked for something until much later.