Major Event Dusk; Game Night

In the heart of the Dusk, in the most prominent piece of the land, the 'Entertainment District,' many of the kids from the 'School District' would have come from near and far for respective 'Game Nights' for whatever reason. It was common for the Dusk Citizens to partake in many virtual reality games and sharpen their mental prowess through playing them in all their forms, be it on joysticks or complete simulated reality. There was hustle and bustle in the 'Entertainment District' tonight, particularly, because of a new game.

The Tabrynth System had just started up and Tabrynth appeared in a stream of data after being isolated within the Testament Palace for so long teaching his wife how to use the Veritas through his system. Everything had to be logically correct and managed properly, from his wife's hand over the land to his daughters'. To all of them, he had given their own part of the planet to manage equally among all the Tensei, whilst he, himself, overlooked all of the management and assisted in guidance through it. Tabrynth was both the system and its guide, but he hadn't worked out all the minor kinks. Some definitely needed to be beta tested.

Having heard there was a Game Night in the Dusk, and this was where he ended up after being booted up, then perhaps there may have been something important to resolve that was getting in the way of the flow of the system during startup. That, or this was simply a simulation.

The System's manifestation of itself would have appeared in the 'Game Night' area because of where the Veritas 'Navigator,' Tabritha, had predetermined for him before his initial booting. Once he did, Tabritha, in her 'Sprite' form, would appear before him as thin streams of data manifesting into her body, with Tabritha shouting "Surprise!" happily, having a smiling face that was different from her normally grim and sarcastic extression. "I brought us here so you could unveil the Veritas and we could have our own 'Game Night.'" Tabritha would suddenly shift from her 'Sprite' form and into a more teenagerish-adult form, grasping her father, Tabrynth's hands and smiling big and wide, eagerly and with an incredible amount of excitement. "What do you think!?"

Tabrynth hadn't been out of the Testament Palace due to all the maintenance that had to be done on the Veritas frequently, so this was his first time out experiencing this place rather than simply viewing, updating and programming from within his ivory tower. He was very pleased that upon his initial start up and test run, the first thing he was doing was spending time with his daughter, Tabritha, who had been out whist Tabrynth and Tetris were practicing with the Veritas' many systems. "Tabi!" he cried out affectionately, "You set this up as a surprise?! Aw!" Tabrynth looked around and saw all of the Dusk Citizens all gathering and enjoying the atmosphere and the night air. Everything seemed to be functional so far, and Tabrynth felt like he was in a dream with all of his thoughts and blueprints coming together around him. It was enjoyable being the system, but it was also important to test and debug the system, of which it seemed like his daughter had already taken into account for the two of them to do. "I am deeply moved by your display. I'm actually glad you brought me here, because now I get to have fun with you!" He appreciated any Daddy-Daughter time that he could get with his girls, since he was generally always busy with the Veritas. "Let's have fun!" He smiled at her, just as eager to play games with his dearest heart.

All the machines in the Dusk keeping the Game and the entire Technological City running were working tirelessly and effortlessly to bring entertainment to the 'Entertainment District' of La Crysta. Within the Arcade of specification, there were the latest consoles and systems on display both for playing and for viewing purposes. They were all present as conscious Mechanica, and were streaming a high concentration of the Dusk's own consciousness all at the same spot presently. Therefore, the Mechanica in the area went from their 'Automatic' modes to their 'Manual' modes, regaining their sentience when it was time. Now all of the once normalized machines would have suddenly become conscious, like a human, even if they had not shown any signs of it. The presence of the consciousness was maintained and known primarily to the Mechanica themselves as a single unit, and not anything outside of that strict code of logic unless necessary. Therefore, the children played the games without knowing that the Mechanica had become self-aware.

"Shweet~!" Tabritha exclaimed, immediately shifting into her 'Sprite' form and going inside one of the gaming machines to become linked to the actual games going on themselves. There, she would wait for her father to follow her into the Data Realm so that the two of them could play whatever the hell the servers were running at the moment on any of the Arcade Mechanica.

Tabrynth smiled and followed Tabritha inside, digitizing himself casually as he lingered along. He would stream his own consciousness into the Mechanica, just as his daughter Tabritha was, and trail her into the Data Realm so that they could have at it. "What's on the menu?" They could choose from any of the games that were listed in the Arcade's Memory, which was the collective consciousness of the Mechanica's shared Storage Unit at the time. Thus, Tabrynth and Tabritha, who were like 'NetNavis' so to speak, could choose any of those games. He would wave his hand and bring up the 'Menu' so that the Mechanica could show him their pooled System Memory.

A variety of different games, both retro and brand new were available on the directory's listing. There were some popular titles as well as things that were not as mainstream as to also try to allow other things to have the chance to become popular and fully even out the flow of the stream of data. Thus, the menu would display the following games and their derivatives.

Street Fighter
Pokémon
Tekken
Marvel Vs. Capcom
Dead or Alive
Soul Caliber
Naruto
Blazblue

Tabritha, who was dressed now in a digital aerobic skin tight black body suit with what looked like many zippers on it, would immediately float over to the main menu and press one of the game buttons. "Blazblue! Blazblue!" She really liked that game and its mechanics in general, so she wanted to play it with her father. "Is that okay, Dad? You don't care if we play 'Blazblue,' right?" She looked up to him with big shiny eyes. "Please say no."

Tabrynth stared blankly for a moment as Tabritha went on, but smiled once she was finished, giving her a soft pat on the head and ruffled her hair a bit, "No problem, kid! Let's get to it!" Since Tabritha was so eager to play Blazblue, Tabrynth didn't see why not. "Start Sequence," he muttered, tapping the game selection promptly. Soon, all around them, Blazblue type graphics would be uploaded around them, and the two would turn back into their Technology Sprite forms to be loaded into the game properly. From there on, the 'Mechanica' should have been set to 'Blazblue,' and the game mechanics should have followed. "Loading.."

Mechanica set the Game mechanics to 'Blazblue,' causing the area around Tabritha and Tabrynth to become one of the predefined variables given them via the 'Blazblue' universe. The two of them would meet in a predetermined or 'Fated' game event and the 'Wheel of Fate' would begin to turn again at the greeting of 'Destiny.' There, Tabritha and Tabrynth would stand face to face, ready to face each other in whatever 'Destined' event came from their interaction.

The stage was set around them as the 'Lakeside Port,' where Tabritha, the young girl with jet black hair and a gothic lolita dress of the same color would meet at the stone bridge where the rails were, with the water out in the distance. Tabritha's metallic soled heels clicked loudly against the stone pavement as she strolled in, throwing her hair out to the side nonchalantly whilst sipping some soda. The large bell would gong loudly at the stroke of evening heading into night. "He sure is late," Tabritha said, sipping loudly. "He said he would play this game with me and now he's late." Tabritha puffed her cheeks out, but her dull and sunken eyes remained dark and bleak. "... Growing a beard down here..." Tabritha tapped her heel against the ground a few times, waiting leisurely.

"Yo, kid~!" a masculine, yet lighthearted voice called out from the distance, walking up the stairs to the height of the port. When the man, who was relatively tall, clad in different shades of violet and with pointy hair to match climbed the staircase and came into full view, he would have a jovial smile on his face and lackadaisically throw up two fingers as a sign of both peace and victory. "Ya miss me~?"


This rather swanky, but extremely lucidly chill man was none other than Tabritha's own father, Tabrynth, who had finally made his way to the designated meeting spot. "Daddy's been a little busy working on the streaming and the debugging of code and whatnot, but I made a way for ya, daughter dear!" Tabrynth walked up to his daughter, placing his hands in the pockets of his velvet smooth violet slacks, waiting to see if his little girl was ready for action.

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The 'VS. Image' came up before the two of them, and the 'Game' would begin in 'Blazblue' format after the 'Mechanica' had finished 'Loading.'


Suddenly, the two of them would be pit against each other, as were the instructions of the game. The Scenery panned by and the two were given their chance to exchange their words to each other before they confronted each other.

Once Tabritha's father was ready to duel her in card games, she rode in on a motorcycle that was fabricated of data she felt like assembling for whatever randomized reasoning came to her sentience at the time, as anything else would. "What took you so long... Old man?" She was trying to sound cool for her catch phrase that you say at the beginning of Blazblue engagements. She thought she was quite clever and smirked chiefly. "I was born to play this game." Sparkles glittered in her eyes, but her tired lids were hung low. "Show me your moves!" she shouted, saluting him like a dreary patrol officer, something like one of the Servicemaids that were out operating La Crysta.

Tabrynth rolled his eyes, pouting a bit with disdain. "Work," he said bluntly yet also sharply, the data of what he had to undergo to even ensure that Tabritha and the Mechanica were functioning at all still flashing through his mind. "You wouldn't even be moving if Daddy hadn't done some maintenance." He sighed heavily and shrugged his shoulders, shaking his head. "Well, what can ya do? I'm here now, sooo..." He slipped one of his hands in his pockets and slightly extended his other to the side; elbow bent inwardly and not extending fully outward.



"So, are you going to continue to talk mess to your old man, or are you gonna put your money where your mouth is?" Tabrynth smirked at his daughter, sticking his tongue out at her slightly through his teeth and biting down on it a bit with a look of anticipation on his face.

After waiting for what felt like fucking -years- for the Argus Card System to boot itself -all- the way up, Tabritha, daughter of Tabrynth, could finally play a game with her old man, like she always wanted. She anticipated to beat him, like she always did when they fought, even when she was still Chroma. She was always determined to surpass her father, though she figured she never actually would. If nothing else, she wanted to be just as great as he is, and then perhaps potentially be greater than that, but for right now, beating him at anything was a priority before totally surpassing him.

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With the Tabrynth finally active in totality, and the Argus Card System finally merged back with its Creator -- which the Tabrynth was the avatar and host of -- then Tabrynth could complete its purpose of beginning the Veritas Game and Argus Card System, which was to be manned by the Joker as the Distribution System.

And so, the game began, and Tabrynth would 'Engage' his daughter, 'Tabritha', in honorable combat. They had been waiting a very long time to have this personal quality time, and all sorts of glitches happened that made all levels of timeskips occur when Tabrynth tried to boot up the old System.

But it was all good now.

The scenery changed, though, because 'Reasons'.

Anyhoo, the very first manifestation in the Argus Card System was the avatar that Tabrynth was using for itself, which was, surprisingly-unsurprisingly, one of his God Cards! He assumed the 'Secret' form of his and formed the form of himself in his 'First Restriction' form around himself, as he was initially, reinitializing himself as Tabritha would recall.

From there, everything would reboot the way Tabritha remembered, all except Tabrynth himself.

"Aw mayn, no fair," Tabritha brooded with a bluster of her bangs. "The game glitched." Clearly, she was metacognizant, just like her father, but not to the very same degree. "... I really wanted to do Blazblue, but it says '404' now." Reasons, she guessed. "... You took way too long, daddio." Tabri liked to make cute little lame remarks sometimes.

Something was different, and though she knew what it was, and that it was clear by the reconfiguration of the Game, it was about her father, and she couldn't tell. Already starting off clever, on some dad bullshit. Hmph. "... Well, let's see how you handle... Thiiiiis." Her dry, deadpan voice and less-than-dynamic dynamics would draw from her the first of the Cards at her command!


Using her 'Command Input' capabilities, Tabritha would 'Program' her own 'Card' from the 'Argus Card System' into the 'Game' as her own 'Player'. It was of herself, except in a higher 'Restriction' form, of which would be her actual own 'Master Control' unit personal to herself for the 'Argus Card System' -- the 'Grand Tabritha'. Though it was her own personal 'Master Control' unit, it was still subject to the influences of 'The Creator', which went outside of the bounds of the 'System' that the 'Argus Card System' was limited to.

But, since this was WITHIN the confines of the 'Argus Card System', then using the 'Grand Tabritha' as her 'Host' would be a 'Power Play', and she would become on a level equivalent or greater than her father's 'Secret Form'... She hoped.

Joker: "The Cyber-Security Of The Veritas And Its Integrity Are In Jeopardy! The Chomao -- The Veritas Security System -- Is Already Engaged For Dealing With The Threat To The Intellectual Property That Is The Veritas Through Stealing Straight From The Tabrynth! Use The Joker & The Tabrynth To Resolve The 'Intellectual Theft' From The 'Mind' By The 'Intellectual Thieves'." - Tabrynth