Disclaimer: What does the fox say? Do we really want to know?
AN: Okay, looks like I have some apologies to account for. The reasons I haven't updated in a month are as follows: 1. Two days after my last update, my computer broke. It got better. 2. High school sucks ass. However, I'm going to try and keep updating this. And if I don't, constantly bug me about it. On a lighter note, does anyone smell that? It smells like… CHARACTER INTRODUCTION!
Quinn Harper (14)
I am a bit of a pushover. I know it, my friends know it, everyone knows it. It's not that hard to get me to do things without any benefits on my part. In Maddie's words, I am what she would call a "butt-monkey."
Being the butt-monkey that I am, it always has been slightly hard to make real friends. And when I do, I'm still useless unless I'm being told what to do. But I guess it never really matters in the long run. Most of my friends are Internet friends anyway. It's hard to judge someone when you've never met face to face.
I think about these things a lot. It's not like there's really anything else to do. There's never anything else to do. An entire world full of interesting people and exciting places, and I had the unfortunate pleasure of being born in Nebraska. Oh well. It's not like I'm leaving any time soon. Or ever. Grandma can't run the farm herself, and I'm not heartless enough to leave her alone.
I'm sitting on the floor reading when the Pesterchum icon flashes on my computer.
- lemurEnthusiast [LE] began pestering fictionalGallop [FG] at [12:34] –
LE: Dude. Quinn.
LE: Seriously I need your help.
LE: Please answer!
LE: Do you want me to die Quinn? Is that what you want?
LE: Answer!
FG: Okay im here
FG: Whats wrong
LE: Long story short, I need you to set up the game and help me before meteors crush me!
FG: Meteors
FG: Whats going on exactly
FG: Are you okay
LE: Okay fine.
LE: I'm going to let you in on what's going on.
LE: At least what I've picked up from various conversations with various people.
LE: This game is not a regular game.
LE: And at this point, I'm questioning whether it's simply virtual reality or if we actually are dropping things into people's houses.
LE: But what I know for sure is that the two of us that have installed the server disc have had meteors head towards his/her house.
FG: Wait what
FG: Whose houses
FG: Are they okay
LE: It was Molly and Michael's. They're okay.
LE: But I don't know is if running the game causes the meteors, or if they come regardless.
LE: So I'm going to listen to Alice, who by the way is the only one who seems to know what's going on, and get my ass into the medium!
LE: BTW, before you ask, the Medium is this place you go if you survive the meteors.
LE: So yeah, I need you to run the client disc now.
FG: Okay
FG: It arrived about an hour ago so i can actually do that
LE: Wait you believe me?
FG: Yeah
LE: Huh. That was actually easier than I expected.
LE: That's what I like about you. You do what I say, and ask questions afterwards.
FG: I still kind of want to know whats happening
LE: Install the client disc. I'll fill you in as we go.
FG: Didnt you say something about being my client player earlier
LE: I did, but little miss paranoia would like to have otherwise!
LE: So just install the game.
I grab the disc and slide it into my computer. Maddie's red text grows longer and longer as she informs me of our friend's recent exploits.
LE: Basically, here's a summary of what has happened so far today.
LE: Molly got tranquilized earlier this morning, woke up, and messaged me.
LE: By that time I had been grounded for cleaning the living room with a leaf-blower.
LE: Please save all questions until the end.
LE: So anyway, she tries to play the game with me. However, as stated above, I am grounded.
LE: So she decides to play with Michael instead.
LE: While Michael drops thing in her house, she notices a meteor heading for her neighborhood. Her house, in fact.
LE: So she goes through the necessary steps to ensure her survival, and gets transported to the medium.
LE: Molly then ends up in a place covered in jasmine and hot springs.
LE: According to the people-sized birds that inhabit this land and can apparently talk, that place is known as the Land of Jasmine and Hot Springs.
LE: So she's there right now.
LE: While all this is going on, Alice begins screaming at people, so Michael and I connect in order to shut her up.
LE: While the meteors begin heading towards his house, I drop this thing called a cruxtruder in his basement.
LE: Then somehow, the kernelsprite gets out of the cruxtruder, and a mouse gets into it.
LE: So now he has a rodent as his mystical guide.
LE: He's not happy.
LE: And speaking of sprites, guess what Molly has?
LE: A dog.
LE: A dog she brought back from the dead.
LE: She has named him Pirate, and she claims she is never letting go of his face.
LE: So anyway, I get Michael into the Medium, and he ends up on this place with a bunch of castles.
LE: Then Alice tells me that she's, and I quote, "fairly certain we are not going to die, as none of us have died yet."
LE: And then she told me to tell you to connect to me and get me into the medium before I am annihilated.
LE: Btw, my game's done loading.
LE: How's yours?
FG: All done
I press the enter key and receive a view of an apartment building, rising above a busy city.
FG: Which ones yours
LE: The big one.
LE: The one at the top.
FG: You mean the penthouse
LE: Yeah that thing.
LE: My room's the one on the right.
I zoom in to the top apartment and find her room. I see three bright red walls with a mirror covering the fourth and the ceiling. In the center, a tangled mess of quilts and pillow woven around a mattress sits on the floor. A young girl sits cross-legged in the middle, typing away at a computer propped up by a florescent-pink lemur. Messy chocolate colored hair pulled into a high-ponytail juts out of her head and flops down to her back, and a pair of glasses frame her eyes. Maddie wears a strange combination of shorts and a large sweatshirt with sleeves that cover most of her hands. A red lemur face is stamped onto the shirt, and bright red boots reaching her mid-calf cover her feet.
FG: Are you wearing rain boots
LE: They are not rain boots!
LE: They aren't even made out of rubber!
LE: I just like the color.
FG: It is nice
FG: Now what exactly do you need me to do
LE: Okay. First, get the cruxtruder, the totem lathe, and the alchemiter set up.
FG: On it
FG: Okay I can fit the totem lathe in your room but nothing else
LE: Yeah, and I don't want to get my dad's attention by dropping anything else inside the house…
LE: Put the cruxtruder and the alchemiter of the roof. Also, release the kernelsprite from the cruxtruder.
LE: I'll head up there now.
FG: Alright
I've only just opened the cruxtruder when the first small projectile hits the roof. Several other small flaming rocks hit the surrounding city as the small, orange kernelsprite is released. A large crash shakes the building.
LE: What the hell was that!
FG: I think that was one of the meteors you were talking about
LE: They can't be here already!
LE: What does the timer say?
FG: 3 minutes
LE: damn it! I'm heading to the roof.
LE: SHIT!
LE: Shit shit shit shit shit what am I going to do now!
FG: What
FG: Whats wrong
LE: THE STAIRS
LE: TO THE ROOF
LE: ARE GONE
FG: Crap
FG: Can i lift you up there
LE: I tried that with Michael.
LE: You can't move me or anything I'm touching.
FG: Then what do we do
LE: Hmmmm…
LE: Okay. I do actually have an idea.
LE: But it is highly dangerous, and I could easily die.
FG: So youre going to do it
LE: Totally. Get me my spear.
LE: It's on the top shelf of my closet.
FG: And you need the spear because
LE: You can't do anything awesome without a spear. Everyone knows that.
FG: Alright here
LE: Awesome.
LE: I'm taking Mika with me to. There's something I absolutely need her for.
FG: What exactly are you going to do
LE: Oh, you'll see.
She slides open her window and steps back to the other end of the room. With a spear in her hand and a lemur tied around her waist, she stops and turns around.
LE: Take notes, Quinny.
I watch as she breaks into a sprint and takes a flying leap out the window.
AN: Okay. Like I said, I'm going to update more often now. Hopefully. Btw, my sister has made a fan art picture for this, so I might be able to set up links to it later. Don't forget to review!