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Harley Keener (sixyearsago) wrote in somerealityrpg,
@ 2020-03-07 20:13:00

Entry tags:

inactive: harley keener, inactive: jason todd

Who Harley Keener and Jason Todd
What Beta of the VR and just hanging out
Where Stark Industries and Harley's work area
When Saturday afternoon cause Harley hates fun
Status/rating On going and tbd

The movie was something else and some part of Harley had actually enjoyed the stupid thing. He had hated the club and being around so many people though. He was currently exhausted after socializing with far too many people. He still wasn't even sure why he had gone to the group hang out, but now he could at least he could say he wasn't being antisocial. Abbie was always on him about not having a social life. She might be a kid, but she was overly concerned about how much he worked back home. She wasn't here and Tony wasn't stopping him from working so he was content to chug a can of his Kickstart as he walked down to the front desk to gather up Jason. He paused in his walking to tip his head back so he could chug the last of the orange energy. It was his second one of the day, but he didn't care. The empty can was crushed between his fingers before he hurled it at a recycling bin. Score! Landed it on the first try.

Harley continued on to the front desk and spotted Jason easily enough. "Hey, think fast," he threw the second unopened can of Kickstart at the guy. "Come on, follow me." He turned on his heel without another word and started heading back to his lab. He only pulled his phone free to look at a message from Peter before snorting with mild amusement.

Peter was such a dork.

"This is us," he said finally as he pushed open the door to his work area. "I made some adjustments since the difficulty wasn't at the right level. It is still just a beta so sorry if shit renders sometimes. Everything is pretty realistic until it fucking pixels on me. Figure work out mechanics and I'll sort the graphics out later." Harley threw himself into his chair and wheeled himself over to a corner of his desk. For a kid that had bitched about taking a job at Stark Industries he sure had made himself at home at his desk. There were various pop culture figures and images around the desk. "Snag that visor over there, the green one. Controls are over there." He grabbed his metal water bottle as he turned fully to his computer to boat up the program.

"Try not to break my shit," Harley was an acquired taste for a lot of people. He threw up walls fast to protect himself and he didn't care if it upset people. He didn't care if Jason liked him. This was a business arrangement where Harley got to work on virtual reality, and he used it to spend time with Tony. The second plus side was he got to at least look at Jason while he fought. ...for science.

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sixyearsago
2020-03-08 03:46 am UTC (link)

Harley actually laughed and had to catch his Red Vine before it fell out of his mouth. "Noted," he spun back to his computer as he ate the candy. "Alright, round one," he typed in a command and let the first swarm of ninjas spawn. "Once we get further along you'll be able to start this on your own. Right now I control your fate."

His fingers flew across the keyboard as he started each program he needed to capture the data from this run. His extra harddrive was backing up the stream of the VR so he could rewatch if need be, to find glitches and such. Harley spun in his chair slightly so he could watch Jason fight.

"If you want I can set it up so you and Tim can fight side by side or some shit. Make an old school dungeon crawler for when you are bored. Save the princess, punch the bad turtle in the face." He didn't care if Jason answered right away, he was merely voicing his thoughts at the moment. Harley was really only animated thanks to the fact he was actually excited to see how well the program he worked on with Tony performed.

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jayyybird
2020-03-08 04:08 am UTC (link)

The simulation was realistic enough that Jason felt a surge of adrenaline when all those ninjas popped up. His grin twisted into more of a smirk, fingers flexing around the controls as the first one came at him and he took it down. Nothing outside of actual reality would give that satisfaction of what it felt like when a hit landed just right, the crack it made when his elbow drove into a cheekbone.

It probably looked ridiculous from the outside, though most VR had to, right? Jason didn’t give a shit, because it was fun.

“Dunno if that’s a good idea,” he finally replied with a huff, fists flying in quick succession. “Something’d probably get broken.”

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sixyearsago
2020-03-08 04:57 am UTC (link)

It looked a little ridiculous, but Harley was amused and maybe a little impressed. "Good point. If you two broke my shit then I'd ban you from my workroom and block your numbers." He threatened to block Peter's number weekly and still hadn't actually done so. "You'd have to find someone else to code and build you a VR and to be honest? No one is as good as me."

Oh, right, Tim had suggested adding to the difficulty. The young mechanic turned back to his computer and booted up operation 'The Floor is Lava.' The simulation started losing chunks of ground as lava appeared, resulting in safe spaces Jason and the ninjas would need to figure out how to get to while fighting.

"The floor is having emotional feelings," was the only real warning Harley gave with his twisted dry sense of humor.

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jayyybird
2020-03-08 06:04 pm UTC (link)

“Better at hacking than coding,” Jason said absently, ducking a punch and throwing one of his own. If he needed something seriously coded, his best bet likely would be Babs. Or Tim. But neither, actually, because he wasn’t about to ask either of them for shit. He did pretty well on his own, hadn’t come across anything he hadn’t been able to figure out yet, but he hadn’t attempted to do anything like what Harley had made.

He caught the movement of the floor around the same time Harley mentioned it and jumped onto a larger piece that broke off, steady on his feet. His gaze flicked up to the right, opening the menu and switching from hand to hand to weapons, a gun in each as he started picking off ninjas coming toward him, one shot each.

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sixyearsago
2020-03-08 08:49 pm UTC (link)

Harley leaned back in his chair and half watched Jason and half watched his computer monitors. Nothing seemed to phase the guy. He was already thinking up things to throw at him to try and make him stumble a little. No good video game was just a breeze, right?

"You are like fucking Mad Dog McGee," he finally remarked with a snort of laughter. Not many people got that reference and he didn't care. He was just impressed Jason had such good aim. He let the level go longer and found himself swearing as things started to render, causing the frame rate to drop. Harley spun back to his computer and yanked the code up to see what was causing the issue. "If shit gets weird, sorry." His fingers flew across the keyboard as he tried to get one step ahead of some broken code. He winced as he watched the ninjas on the other screen kind of mutate. It was hitting Silent Hill levels in his game.

"Shit, sorry. I was working on this instead of sleeping and I went horror movie it seems. Like I said work in progress."

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jayyybird
2020-03-08 09:06 pm UTC (link)

Jason paused when the images went wonky, not enough to be vulnerable but enough to adjust. He reloaded his guns, an eyebrow raising as the zombies changed. They looked freaky as hell, but nothing about their appearance changing did anything to their approach, how they were coming at him. He hopped from one piece of floor to another, then a few more to get to a better vantage point. There wasn't exactly higher ground but at least he had eyes on the whole thing.

“This is hardly the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen,” Jason said dryly, corner of his mouth ticking as he pulled the trigger, hitting a zombie coming up on his right and sending them into the lava. “Gotham’s like a fucking breeding ground for freaks that decide to go bump in the night.”

Then again, he probably counted as one of those too, huh?

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