Thread: Helping out the Noob (Vash x Morrighan)

Cathleen was at her wits end when she'd watched her son Adam drive off to school that day things were coming to desperate measures. She was facing the typical challenges of being a parent with an adolescent son and was having a hard time connecting with Adam. She rarely got two words out of him and had tried just about everything from cooking his favorite food to buying him video games. Whether it was misfortune or simply the way things worked, Cathleen was not having any luck. For what felt like the longest time it seemed as though the only thing Adam did connect with was that video game MechWars. Cathleen didn't know much about gaming, she hadn't been raised on it and couldn't quite comprehend the attachment some youths and even adults felt for the world of virtual reality. For a moment her brow knitted together in quiet thought as the tail end of her son's car disappeared and then her face lit up with an idea so far fetched that it might just work. Cathleen wasn't one for invading other's privacy, and no less that of her son's she respected his need for his own life. However, she really was desperate and would do anything to salvage what was left of their bond before it was too late. So, it was with a great deal of trepidation and perhaps some guilt that she went out to the stores that day and returned with a new version of MechWars and the store's guarantee that it wasn't hard to set up. Cathleen sincerely doubted her husband would approve of this plan, he'd tell her to simply let it go and that things would work out in their own time. So protruding into her son's virtual reality was a project he'd put an end to rather quickly. Consequentially, the worried mother decided she'd set up the game in her craft room downstairs that her husband and son both made a point of avoiding. Once the gear out of the box, it quickly became evident that installation wouldn't be so easy and it was only over the course of the next three hours -and through sheer grit- that the un-tech savvy mother managed to get everything properly hooked up. By the end of it all, Cathleen was feeling rather proud of her day's accomplishment. The rest of the day was spent anticipating her son's return home and cleaning up the place to calm her nerves. Soon enough the sound of a car in the driveway was heard through the house and she made her way into the kitchen to greet Adam. She received a passing hello as Adam made his way through the house and then heard the sound of his door closing. Giving her kid the chance to settle down, Cathleen finally made her way downstairs and into her craft's room. Here she plugged in her Ipod and turned to her Beatles playlist so that her husband would know not to bother her and then installed the headset as directed and let her mind go into the game. The experience of leaving the real world behind was frightening, but her resolve to carry her plan through kept her in the game. The avatars to choose from for females were rather scantily clad and it was by accident that Cathleen ended up choosing her outfit. She then chose Iris as her avatar's name and was launched into the game. Left completely unsure of where to go, Irish made her way towards a group of people around some kind of arena where some shouting could be heard. There were a few odd robotic contraptions around, she'd read about them in the instruction's manual, players used them for fighting it seemed. In the center of the arena two players had moved forward, one team sporting blue and the other red and though she didn't know much about either players, the one in blue appeared more approachable. Watching with mounting amazement, Cathleen observed the two fighting together, a budding sense of wonder for the skills being displayed. She didn't know much about fighting, but it seemed the blue player had more than the other. At some points she even found herself cheering on with the rest of the crowd, forgetting for a second the real reason she was in the game. Talking