A sequel to my previous post about your favourite character as your landlord. However, we all know actually living with someone is very different to being their tenant. So how are you finding things? Do you like your roommate? Do they irritate you? Are you getting on?
I’ll go first:
Progue (Blue Lacuna): I feel like this would be pretty good. He’d be interesting to talk to and Wood probably clean up after himself.
Now it’s your turn!
The Honored Guest from You Promise.
…so needless to say I’m screwed.
Having recently played Turandot, all I can say to this one is oh heck no.
The PC from Coloratura, as a roommate, is… somewhat odd, to be sure. It’s like they have a world perception that is completely alien to mine. But if you leave them to their well-defined space, and don’t interfere much except to share musical experiences, it works.
Shouldn’t let them open the door to anyone, though. The inevitable result is yet another “missing” poster in the neighbourhood. The police haven’t bothered us yet, and they won’t if I keep being careful.
It’s ok, because it’s the roommate who pays for all the expenses. I feel it’s fair.
Dunno where they get the money, but I think it’s an indie music gig thing. They do it all online. I should listen to their music sometime. Actually, no time like the present!
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The above was a post draft that was found on a computer, clearly meant to be posted on IntFiction. The author has since disappeared, his face up on another “missing” poster. His place was empty, save for, for some reason, an overbearing smell of the sea.
Disclaimer: I love this game extraordinarily much but I only played it once and that was many years ago. My memories of the PC may be somewhat off. I intend to replay it, and am relishing the antecipation.
Personally, I once shared a flat with the PC from Aisle. Rather infuriating; thed’d do something, then backtrack and do something completely different. Just getting out the door could be a chore. You had to nudge them along the ideas of opening the door and leaving, while he tried to listen to the door, lock the door, leave through the window, call a locksmith on their phone (with key in hand)… then after every time they’d come back and stand in front of the door again. And they’d start reminiscing out of the blue, which is fine in moderation, but it’s all Rome this, and Pasta that, and I mean, there’s only so much gnocchi a guy can take, ya know?
Oh gosh, imagine sharing with the PC from 9:05?
You wouldn’t be sharing it for long!
Floyd keeps telling me the same story about when he bruised his knee.
Considering I barely have room for myself, any room mate bigger than about the size of a housecat or more rambunctious than a lazy, well-behaved cat would probably cause issues… Even downgrading to house mates… Grunk from Lost Pig is the first character to come to mind… Not sure I could handle living with his lovable idiot energy all the time, but I’d probably get along with him better than I do with the bipolar nibling I share a trailer with, and at least he’s a strong pair of hands and a working pair of eyeballs I could probably rely on when my blindness and/or my not very strong body get in the way, which is more than I can say for either of my current housemates most of the time… Then again, Grunk doesn’t seem very literate, and reading printed documents is the thing that stonewalls me most often on the blindness front…
I’ve lived with Drew Cook before, and let me tell you, it’s no picnic
I can’t leave. The Troll is blocking all exits from the room!
Oh bless him, I think Grunk which try so hard, especially if you told him to do something but he’d always be screwing up and making messes. He also doesn’t strike me as someone who would remember, for example, to take out the bin or do the dishes on time. And I personally wouldn’t trust him to read printed documents. At least he would be sweet and probably would try and do sweet gestures, like attempt to make you a cake.
Hercules, from The Nemean Lion, would be potentially problematic. Can’t even have a meal wondering whether he’s going to follow an insane chain of actions that end badly.
Still, guy does have a talent for breaking a huge problem down into smaller achievable steps. Could be really helpful around the house. But you’d have to put up with a quiet evening potentially ending in mayhem. Granted, that’s pretty normal for IF PCs…
Yeah, I think IF PCs would make interesting roommates and you would… never be bored. I think one of the best ones you could have as a roommate would be the PC from The Bat, just because anything you would do would not be shocking at all. lol
I already have basically the protagonist of Violet as my roommate irl
Loool! Let’s be honest, we all know someone like that LOL. I would love to live with Violet herself though, and she would make cute little trinkets for the house/flat!