I had just recieved a mysterious game from my friend, Chris. I'd already begun installing it, since it couldn't be that bad, right? I'm Jake Kentucky, and I'd recently moved from said friend's neighborhood. The game finished installing, so I figured 'may as well play it, right?'
I started up Sburb, and a menu with two options showed up. I clicked on te one that said "server", since I figured that Chris would wanna teach me how to play in real time. 'best to learn as fast as I can, if this game can really save us.' The game seemed to automatically connect to someone. Just as an image appeared of Chris in a bedroom, a message popped up onscreen.
XF: "I see you connected. Now let's get started."
EP: "This is a bit weird. Your room is actually clean."
XF: "Oh shut it, now follow these directions: first, look in your 'phernalia registry' for a cruxtruder, and place it down in a corner or something."
I checked the location that he mentioned, and placed the machine that he said to place.
EP: "Wow, just like the Sims."
XF: "Yep, now drop something heavy, like my bookcase, on it."
I did so, and a ball came out of the tube. It began giving me a headache after a moment.
EP: "Ahh, what is that? It's giving me a headache."
XF: "That, my friend, is a kernalsprite. You will end up with one when you play the other half of the game too. Anyway, place as many of the other items that are in the registry as you can, and give me the punched card."
EP: "Ooo-kay?"
I placed all of the machines that I could down, still confused about everything, and dropped the card near Chris. He picked it up, before messaging me once more.
XF: "By the way, if I were you, I'd go to the main menu and hit 'client'. I set up your copy so that you'd automatically be connected to your server."
XF: "-and I'd work quickly if I were you. There's a meteor heading your way."
Getting more weirded out by the second, I went and checked outside. Sure enough, there was a large meteor heading straight at me. It was still decently far away, but still unconfortably close. I went to the main menu of Sburb, and clicked "client".
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Rosanne's POV
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Jade had just reached the airport, and we were surprisingly able to get in easily. The staff must've evacuated due to the huricane.
Melina: "Why are we in here? Isn't this breaking and entering?"
Jade: "Because of the hurricane, there won't BE an airport to break into soon."
Rosanne: "Plus, with everyone gone, we have no other choice."
Melina: "Oh, alright. But what can we do at an-"
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Melina: "...airport."
Melina then looked horrified, as she had probably thought we were gonna go and fly a plane ourselves, or something crazy like that. 'As if that would ever happen.'
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Kim's POV
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I held the now broken blade in my hand, staring at what used to be my front door. It had disappeared as soon as I had broken the machete, and was replaced by a brand new world. The land was littered in small shacks, with remnants of what used to be cities. Above was a giant star, and the gates that I read about. Once I was sure that I did indeed enter the medium, I reentered my home in order to prepare a weapon. I went over to the alchemiter, and alchemized another cruxite machete. I made sure to grab it before the stone appeared. Welp, I guess I now have a weapon.
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Rosanne's POV
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'I can't believe it's actually happening.' Jade really was planning on stealing a plane. She had already entered the cockpit, and (after looking up the closest airport to the American friend's location) inputted the coordinates in the navigation and set it to autopilot. Don't ask, I had no idea how she knew how to work this thing. Before anyone knew it, we were all being flown to the states during a Homestuckian apocalypse.
Melina: "I can't believe we're actually hijacking this plane!"
Rosanne: "You said it."
At that moment, Jade had entered the main part of the plane. As soon as she entered, all of us stared at her in disbelief. I think we all were thinking the same thing at that moment.
Rosanne: "How did you know how to fly a plane?!"
Jade: "Underappreciated flight simulators, why?"
Melina: "...what?"
Jade: "Yeah, as bad as the controls for the hands were, the plane's cockpit actually wasn't that different from this plane's controls."
Melina: "..."
Rosanne: "..."
Both of us just stared at Jade in disbelief. She actually happened to play one of the only games that resembles an actual plane's controls?
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Ymke's POV
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I've been traveling around the local area, making sure that I could still see my home. I've been using the knife that I used to "enter" this place. I've been attacked multiple times by little black creatures, that drop what looked to be candies at the time. But I could hope to pick them up, as they disappeared as soon as I came to touching distance. I began my trip to my home, to figure out how to make better weapons.
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Kim's POV
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I opened up Sburb again, curious to see if I could possibly check on Ymke again. Lo and behold, it still worked. I noticed that Ymke must've been busy, as she had gather a lot of something called grist. 'I guess that's the money for stuff in this.' I deployed the punch designix, and decided that, since I had a sword, may as well begin grinding some imps. (I read up to about halfway through ACT 2.)
