"Ah, so you've finally arrived!" A strange voice says. You don't recognize the voice or the image played out before you. You see you and your friends, weapons raised, facing an angel wielding a sword.

"Sadly, you are weak and must fall!" The Angel says as an evil smile stretches across his face. He swings his sword, most of the team ducks, Alex raises a flaming blade to block the strike, but Jon is to late. The blade slices through his chest and he falls to the ground bleeding profusely.

"Ha!" The Angel lets out slight chuckle as Jon bleeds, "See? You are weak creatures, humans. This is why you must die by my hand!"

"He's dead, there's no point in trying to help him up" you say in a tone that shocks you, a mixture of anger and apathy. You seem unsurprised by the event, almost as if you saw it coming from a mile away.

"But his dream self is dead!" Mark yells, "How are we supposed to win if we let him die?"

"I know that, but we have more pressing matters at hand!" You say with the same serious expression on your face.

You jump awake. What was that? Was that a dream? Did you fall asleep?

"Hey, Brandon, get up!" It's your brother, he looks down at you with anger in his eyes.

"Shit! What do you want, Duncan?" You ask still half asleep.

"Oh, nothing! I just want to know why, when I tried to go to work yesterday, there was a great black void where the street used to be!"

"Oh. That. Well, it's a long story."

"And you've got a short life span if you don't get started on it."

You explain to your brother how you got here, who else is here, and how to get out.

"So you're telling me that only you and your little friends can get us out of here?"

"Yes!"

"God, I fuckin' hate you!"

"Well, sorry, but at least you don't have to work anymore!"

"That is an up side! So, aren't you going to need a better weapon than that air-soft gun?"

"Yeah! Why do you have one?"

"No, but I know where dad keeps the assault rifle, the really big one madré got mad at him for buying."

"Sweet!"

"Come on, it's in the basement!"

You follow your brother to the basement and he leads you to your father's office. He removes some junk in the corner to reveal an assault rifle your dad bought one year ago.

"Be careful with that thing!" Duncan warns.

"Relax, I'm going to be using it to save the world!"

"You already destroyed the world!"

"I meant this world!"

"Yeah, that's so useful to us!"

"Hey, do you want to be invited to the new universe or not?"

"Fine! Now get out there and kick some ass!" He raises his hand and you put the rifle over your right shoulder and high-five him with your left hand as you exit the basement.

Skype Chat:

BS - Alright! Report! Who's up?

JB - Me

MC - I'm up to

BS - Is that it?

JB - Yeah I think so

BS - Well then we need to get down to buisness!

MC - What buisness

BS - We need to work on getting better equipped!

BS - I already have an assault rifle and Alex got his fire sword, but we need to get down to buisness!

MC - I think I have an idea!

BS - What?

MC - uRoBoRoS

BS - Fuck no!

MC - But we could make free zillium and I won't make the other one!

BS - No!

MC - I'm doing it!

JB - What is he doing to fuck is up?

BS - The item created with that code is a juju, a powerful magical item with immeasurable power when combined with another juju with an incredibly similar code.

JB - That sounds awesome!

BS - It's not, it's the equivalent to magic space drugs that make you so fucking happy and colorful but with one hell of a hangover.

JB - What's wrong with that other than the hangover?

BS - It makes you one of those people who are too happy all the time.

JB - Fuck!

MC - Hey, it will be fine. I'm only gonna make the one juju!

BS - But what if you lose the card, and put the wrong code in when you go to replace the card?

MC - How would you know what's gonna happen in the future!

BS - BITCH! I am a Doom player, it's my fucking job to see into the future and tell when you're gonna fuck up!

MC - You haven't even God-tiered! How could you possibly have your powers yet, have you had a vision?

BS - No! I haven't seen anything yet but I know damn well that you will fuck this up!

JB - You said no like you really have seen something, what is it Brandon?

BS - I haven't seen anything!

MC - Brandon! What did you see, we need to know!

BS - Fuck! Fine, I'll tell you. Jon's gonna die.

MC - What! You saw one of our friends die and you didn't find it necessary to tell the rest of the team immediatly?

BS - I fell asleep, I didn't know if it was a vision or not.

MC - You still should have told us!

BS - Look, just don't tell the others, especially not Jon. If he knows he's gonna die, then he might not be willing to keep playing.

JB - Wait, we know he's gonna die and we aren't going to tell him!

BS - How would you react if you were told you were gonna die by one of your friends?

JB - Good point. So what, how are we gonna prevent his death?

BS - First things first we need an alternative way to revive people as their dream selves, unless one of you likes the idea of kissing our co-player's corpses.

MC - No, nobody does.

BS - Then I will work on keeping the team alive, so I'll work on the new revival method.

JB - What should we do?

BS - Mark, I want you to build up my house more so I can reach the second gate. Jeremy, you're going to be keeping an eye on Jon, try to prevent his death, we need his dream-self. Now let's get to work.

Skype Call End

You all set out to complete these tasks. For now let's go to your fiery-headed older brother, Duncan.

You our are now Duncan Samuels. Your brother's stupid bullshit has pulled you into this shit-hole he calls "The Medium," because he has to work on getting everyone out of here and to a new home, you have decided you will provide for the family. He told you about his "player planet" the fact that he gets his own planet is bullshit. You did however take note of the fact that this planet has inhabitants called "consorts", and where there are living things, there is food.

You head up a set of stairs you were quite sure we're not there the day before. You walk up and up until you reach a room labeled: First Gate. You hop into the portal, because fucking YOLO! You step out onto the planet to be greeted by the great boom of thunder. The world is illuminated by great streaks of lightning and the faint glow of thousands upon thousands of stars, all clumped together tightly covering the entire, vast sky. You have made it to your brother's planet: The Land of Thunder and Starlight.

You walk along a road that starts at the portal for about twenty minutes and arrive in a large, walled city. As you walk into the great city in search of food for you and your parents. As you walk in you are greeted as a hero. The snakes who line the streets yell and cheer, a greeting you believe they were supposed to give Brandon as he is the patron hero of this land, but they seem just as amazed and ecstatic because of your arrival.

"The Knight! The Knight has come!" They chant. You are no knight, you don't know how they got this idea in their heads.

What you don't fully know yet is that Sburb is a game of bendable rules. No session of the game has EVER followed every rule to the letter. Some sessions have to scratch and start another session in order to win. Some, have all their sprites die and enter a Void Session. Some of the very, very unfortunate few try to play the game with only one person and enter a Dead Session.

The he simple fact of the matter is that the rules governing this world are about as useful as a poopy flavored lollipop. With the rules being so flexible, this session is no exemption from something being unsuspected. This session's first abnormality is an unexpected seventh player. You, Duncan are that seventh player and you will learn your destiny now. Duncan Samuels is the Knight of Heart.

END OF CHAPTER 8