and so it begins....

[third_alternative]

[Today Rex has managed to fashion a basketball hoop and attach it to the side of the Ermis Suites. He has also managed to acquire a truly preposterous quantity of basketballs. He figured he'd need them after the first couple rebounded out of the city and somewhere into the forest a few miles away.]

Alright... Get in the hoop...!

[He holds his breath as he tosses the basketball. It soars through the air, touches the rim of the hoop...and rebounds! Rex groans, but then he sees the basketball simply...vanish into thin air.

Stunned, he tries again. Same results.

Again. The ball disappears like the others.

...Well. Might as well keep trying. After all, he does have a preposterous amount of basketballs still left.]

Comments

[life_is_megas_wonderful]

Ooh, really? That's great! You look like your'e having a little trouble hitting the basket though!

[third_alternative]

[....He really can't deny it.]

Then how about you try it, huh?

[life_is_megas_wonderful]

Huh? Well okay! Betchas I'll do just as bad, though!

*She shoots. It's not the CLEANEST basket...*

Oh hey! I got it in! I got it in! Hooray!

[third_alternative]

[Rex gapes for a moment, but he tries not to make it obvious. He recovers quickly, though.]

Lucky shot.

[He aims with another ball that rebounds off the far edge of the hoop, flies back at him, bounces off his head, and flies off into outer space.]

Ow!!

[life_is_megas_wonderful]

Aww. That's okay! I'm sure you'll get a basket eventually! Just keep practicing!

*She turns away; it's at that exact moment that a totally different ball that doesn't look like a standard issue basketball appears and flies in, nothing but net. Tsuruya hears the sound and turns around, thumbs up.*

See? What'd I tells ya?

[stinglikeabat]

[A ball rockets out from the treeline far away, descends rapidly, and clonks Rex neatly in the back of the head.]

[third_alternative]

[Rex gapes at the strange ball that goes through the hoop cleanly, but before he can comment on it, he gets another basketball to the head. This one rebounds off his head and into the hoop, just as cleanly as the first one.]

Great, what now?!