Touching Something (Day 3705 - 1/16/20)

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Stephen and Mallory have Lunch Bunch at Five Guys with Michael, Roland, Dan, William. Lindsey already left. Stephen talks about how he and Mal reacted to the Nintendo Direct that came out today where they released Byleth as a character for Super Smash Bros: Ultimate. He mentions that Mal had asked him if people would know who that character was. Stephen told her that he was the character you play as in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Mal thought that you chose one the three houses and you played as a character from the house you chose. Stephen mentions that Emile and Masae would arrive later today.

They go home and take a nap. Then, they work on cleaning the house to prepare for Emile and Masae's arrival. They had cleaned the house not too long ago when Nick and Paul came for the New Year's party 2 weeks ago. Both of them were able to finish all of their work.

Emile and Masae arrive and hug Stephen. Masae is really excited to see Kepler. Mal has to wash her hands because she's been touching garbage. Stephen says that everyone needs to do something new for the new year. He jokingly says that Mal's new thing is touching garbage and asks Emile what his new thing is. Emile says that he was thinking of answering along the lines of "touching something", but he couldn't think of anything other than "touching himself".

They go to Hickory Tavern for dinner since there aren't a lot of places that are open late. They had also previously came here with Nick and Paul. When they went with Nick and Paul, Stephen had recommended that they get the buffalo fried chicken sandwich which he also recommended to Emile and Masae. Masae says that she usually doesn't get chicken sandwiches, but it was really good.

Back at home, Dan and Lindsey came over to join them for a game of play Flash Point since they recently got the 2nd story expansion. Everyone has only played one turn, but both of the boards are full of fire tokens (basically the building is on fire). 3 of their characters have already died and 2 people they were supposed to save also died. Masae says that her character instantly died when she went into the building. Stephen says that everything starting going wrong on Emile's turn when he rolled and 3 hazmat tokens ended up in the same room. Stephen's role is the hazmat tech, so he made a ladder and was going to take care of it. However, the room exploded before he got to it and it killed Stephen and Mal who was on the ladder with him. Dan says that about half of the spaces have fire tokens. Stephen explains that the black cubes represent the stability of the structure, so when you take one away it represents damage to the building. When they run out of black cubes, the building collapses and they all loses.

After Stephen turns off the camera for 5 seconds, he picks it back up and says that another character already died. Dan's character is the only one who hasn't died yet since he's been standing outside the building in the ambulance. They were able to save 1 person and 5 people died. However, they need to save 7 people and there are 6 people left in the building. They would need to save 6 more people without losing any of them with all the fire in the building. They ended up losing because the building collapsed. Last time, Dan was the only one who died, but this time he was the only survivor in the game. After the game, Emile reads King of the Hill fanfics aloud.

Later, Stephen talks about how they have some fun stuff planned for this week. Mal throws something at him which hits him in the nose. He tries to throw it back at her, but misses.