==Nate: Oops
You cannot believe you may have just possibly killed your client player and/or ended the world. She is going to kill you. Oh god, she's not moving.
==Chel: Wake
You blink open your eyes slowly, trying to get used to the brilliant light flooding your eyelids.
==Chel: Examine surroundings
When your eyes adjust, you notice that you are somewhere you have never been before. It looks sort of like your bedroom, but a large number of objects are missing from it, like your books, which are placed neatly in the bookshelves that now line your walls, rather than scattered around the floor. Also, the colour scheme has changed vastly from a plain white to a shining gold. No wonder it's so bright!
==Chel: Look out window
You slowly get off your now four poster bed and walk over to the window. A vast cityscape stretches out before you with golden buildings towering above and busy streets winding through the city below. Crowds of people of a strange species bustle through the streets as they go about their daily lives. One of the strange, white shelled people waves at you from below. You wave back with stunned politeness.
==Chel: Look up
You look to the skies, only to see that there aren't any. Only a sprawling black void sprinkled with the tiny lights of stars and planets remains. Above your head and to your left, an enormous blue sphere hangs suspended in the black void, white clouds with flashing images of your future drifting across its surface. In the distance a deep purple planet similar to the one you are currently on floats into view, but with towers of obsidian rather than gold. The violet sphere floats just beyond a massive belt of meteors, barely within your line of vision. You have never seen anything so beautiful in your life.
==Nate: Wake up Chel
You poke her with your cursor. This action is a complete failure.
==Nate: Panic
Ohgodohgodohgod whatdoyoudowhatdoyoudo
You decide to ask your friend. Maybe he'll be able to help.
(telodynamicUtinam [TU] began pestering abscindedTach )
TU: ohgodohgodohgodohgodithinkijustkilledchelbutitwasanaccidentiswear
AT: whoa, wtf? slow down buddy. say again?
TU: i just threw something at Chel and i think i might have killed her!
AT: what happened
TU: she was looking for something to use as a sprite and i found something that might be useful to her so i tried to pick it up and give it to her because she wasn't answering me when i tried to message her but instead of me handing it to her something went wrong and it went flying at her head and then there was a really bright light and i couldnt see her and now shes lying on the floor bleeding but i cant tell where the bloods coming from and theres this weird floaty blue thingy hovering above her and you have to help me i dont know what to do
AT: whoa there, buddy
AT: first of all, calm the eff down
AT: secondly, u should probs talk 2 Michaelis
AT: shell know what 2 do more than i do
AT: or u could just, i dunno, poke her or drop something on her head
TU: okay, ill try talking to Kira. thanks for helping me calm down
AT: no prob bro
TU: oh god i really hope shes not dead
(telodynamicUtinam [TU] ceased pestering abscindedTach )
==Nate: Get help from Kira
(telodynamicUtinam [TU] began pestering candescantAcatalepsy [CA])
TU: Kira? are you there?
TU: please answer Chels dying and i really need your help
CA: (Chel's dying?! But I just talked to her! What happened?!)
TU: i accidentally hit her really hard when i tried to give her something and now shes bleeding a lot
CA: (Can you tell where she's hurt?)
TU: no. when i threw it at her this really bright light blocked out my viewport so i didnt see where she got hit!
CA: (Okay Nate, I need you to do something that may sound a little weird.)
TU: ill do anything if itll help save Chel!
CA: (I need you to grab a pen and a piece of paper with your cursor.)
TU: okay, now what?
CA: (I need you to write something very specific for me, okay?)
TU: yeah, what?
CA: (71400 Strawberry ct., Midian FL, 24087.)
TU: your address? how is that going to do anything
CA: (Just trust me.)
TU: okay, now what?
CA: (I want you to zoom in on the downstairs living room of Chel's house using your viewport feature.)
TU: okay,
CA: (Now I need you to put the piece of paper on Lyssa.)
TU: then what?
CA: (You're fine. Now I have to wait.)
TU: for what?
(candescantAcatalepsy [CA] ceased pestering telodynamicUtinam [TU])
TU: wait! i still need your help!
==Kira: Greet Lyssa
Lyssa teleports to your room using her omnipotent ability to bend time and space. You greet her with a hug to thank her for her help. You quickly explain the problem. She replies with a Meow.
==Kira and Lyssa: Teleportation shenanigans
You jump from place to place, time to time within a matter of seconds, catching only glimpses of the places where you pause momentarily, only to leave again almost immediately. You can see flashes of events in your past and future; someones hands wrapped around a past you's throat, squeezing every last bit of breath out of your lungs. A future you stands beside a dead body, their blood coating your hands as one of your friends collapses next to you, sobbing. A you of an unknown time and place, isolated, in the dark, and screaming for someone to help you. More pasts and futures blend together as you draw near your final destination.
==Kira and Lyssa: Arrive
You finally stop jumping through time and space after what feels like forever. You ungracefully crash to the ground and wait for the nausea to pass. You desperately try to make sense of the images that you have just seen.
==Kira and Lyssa: Find Chel
Once you have caught your breath, you race upstairs. You have a friend to save!
==
You kick open the door and dash to your friend's side. Nate was right, there is a lot of sticky red liquid surrounding Chel, staining her clothes and clumping her long, pale, hair into knots. You don't see any wounds though... And the blood does seem to be a bit more pink than red... And is that an empty cup full of... Oh he has got to be joking. Is that... Kool Aid?
==FACEPALM x2 COMBO
Well, you guess all that panic was pretty pointless. You're going to need to shower now. You suppose you might as well stay until she wakes up to check for a concussion.
==
You clean up the Kool Aid as best as possible and try to figure out why your friend is unconscious. It appears that she fell after being hit with something and hit her head on her bedside table. . Most likely, she knocked over the cup of Kool Aid sitting on her bedside table when she fell. You wonder what she is dreaming about...
==Chel: Go outside
You discovered quite quickly that in this world, you have gained the capabilities of flight. You glide gracefully out your tower's window and down to the busy street below. The natives are very polite and are happy to show you around. They don't talk, but their friendly gestures have clear meanings. You quickly make friends. Through doodles and hand gestures they tell you that on this world, you are the equivalent of a princess, and that you are quite welcome to explore anywhere you like. You figure that if you are a princess, there must be a queen, and ask that they lead you to her. They say that they would be honoured to give you a tour of the city and take you to the Queen.
==Chel: Go to palace
Your new friends tell you their names and keep up a good conversation as you travel. One guides you by the hand, which is surprisingly warm considering the hard, white shell that protects it. They tell you that this planet is called Prospit, the golden world, and that while the atmosphere remains cheerful, they are, in fact, preparing for a war against their neighboring obsidian world, Derse. The war will take place on the central , Skaia. They say that seven heroes from both worlds are destined to kill the Dersite King and Queen and bring peace between the worlds. A hero of Time, a hero of Space, a hero of Light, a hero of Blood, a hero of Doom, a hero of Breath, and a hero of Void. As the carapacians describe these heroes, you can't help but think that they sound a whole lot like you and your friends. After what seems like hours of walking and friendly conversation, you finally reach the foot of the palace.
==Chel: Enter palace
You say thank you and goodbye to your new friends and step inside the palace. Golden arches support the entrance hall, which is covered in portraits of what must be their king and queen. To your surprise, you also find crudely drawn portraits of you and your friends as you walk slowly down the hall and admire the architecture. Eventually you reach the throne room, where a tall, female carapacian wearing a brightly coloured patchwork dress sits upon the throne. She stands and stretches out a hand to greet you with a regal but amiable expression. You accept her gesture of good faith and ask about the war. She tells you about recent events regarding the war, the recent arrival of the heroes, and your role in the game. You thank her for the information and her kindness before she summons a guard to escort you back to your tower.
==
Once safely back in your tower, you begin to feel tired. You stretch out on your bed and close your eyes.
==Chel: Wake up
You open your eyes to find that you are back in your bedroom. Something is strangely sticky and your head feels as if it were trying to escape your skull. You sit up groggily, clutch your head, and take a look around.
==
You figure out that the sticky substance covering your body is, in fact, Kool Aid. You are never going to get that out of your hair, and you might as well trash these clothes with their current state. A strange girl sits on your bed and pets your cat, who is curled into a ball and purring softly. The girl doesn't look familiar to you, but you can't help feeling that you know her.
==
The girl's head snaps up suddenly and she runs to hug you, saying something about thinking you were dead. Lyssa MEOWS in protest to having been moved. Then it clicks. Kira!
==Kira: Embrace your friend
You don't care if she is concussed and covered in Kool Aid, you are just so glad that Chel is alive.
==Chel: Be confused
You start to ask the girl, who you now know to be your friend Kira, what happened when Lyssa pounces on Kira and causes them both to disappear. Oh well. You shrug and go to take a shower.
==Nate: Have a stunning revelation
Kool Aid! It's not blood, it's Kool Aid! Now you feel kinda bad for causing all that panic... Oh well, you're just glad she's okay. You wonder what happened to the kernel sprite...
==Kira: Lecture Nate
(candescentAcatalepsy [CA] began pestering telodynamicUtinam [TU])
CA: (I hate you.)
TU: heh heh...? sorry?
CA: (You put me through all that grief for KOOL AID?!)
TU: i didnt mean to!
TU: as far as i could tell, she really was dying!
CA: (Well if you're done being a blithering moron, I'm ready for you to install the client copy. Chel only has one more thing to do before entering the medium, thanks to you.)
TU: okay. so we're good then?
CA: (I suppose so.)
(candescantAcatalepsy [CA] ceased pestering telodynamicUtinam [TU])
==Nate and Kira: Install
You place the disc into the computer and hit enter. You are determined to save the universe, even if that means destroying it first. Unbeknownst to you, you have only five hours, twenty three minutes, and forty-seven seconds before a meteor destroys Chel's house. You had better get started.
=====END OF ACT 1
