Areacaught - Another SBURBan Adventure

[Trish]

> Stop calling the other kids by their text colors you DUMB PIECE OF TRASH.
> Examine one of your favorite books.

[ninjamaster1991]

> Caw like a crow and eat your room.

[r.fLowers]

> Examine map of Earth on wall.

[owleh]

> Examine map of Earth on wall.

It's your pride and joy. You want to be able to make maps like that someday, but not as widespread.
This one's pretty sweet though. What you really want is a map from one of your internet friends, particularly RL, who said he lives very far away from you. You hope it's not too much trouble, though. In fact... Nah. You'll ask him later.

> Caw like a crow and eat your room.

How does one eat a room? You can eat your curtains maybe, and maybe the box you got SLAND in, but not your room.
Whatever the walls are made of probably don't taste good anyway.

> Stop calling the other kids by their text colors you DUMB PIECE OF TRASH.
> Examine one of your favorite books.

You don't understand. They all haven't been introduced, and neither have their Pester/Trollian handles. Do you want them to all be introduced at once instead? That would be hell in a forum. There would be colors everywhere and someone would end up dying in the first minute. Sloppy makeouts of the love and hate variety, explosions, and a possible optic blast or two would take place. Oceans would rise. Cities would fall. Some poor soul would cry at the sheer stupidity of all eight kids at the same time. The adventure would end, right then and there because of their stupidity.
Granted, it would be awesome. But everything will happen in due time.

> Examine one of your favorite books

With pleasure! You love The Deathly Hallows. The Potter nerd in you can't resist. JK Rowling is a beautiful writer and you cried with the ending of TDH. It was just amazing.

You could go into a whole speech on why you love Harry Potter (The books!), when someone Pester/Trolls you.

Oh, you like her. She made you a few scarves and sent you the weird laptop thing!
How it sprouts legs and scuttles over to you will forever be a mystery. It's cool though.

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silkSpinner began Pester/Trolling cartographyBookworm at some point right now
SS: gale!
SS: can - i - play - sland - with - ya?
SS: please?
CB: Oh! Sure, Aradne!
CB: But I'll have to be your client though. You should've contacted me earlier, I'm playing server with Aira!
SS: oh...
SS: that - bitch.
SS: anyways.
CB: Uh... You really need to get over her and stuff.
CB: As the official and unofficial group mediator, I want you to.
CB: Please?
SS: sure.
SS: when - she - gets - over - you.
SS: suns - risin - anyway.
SS: gotta - go.
CB: Uh...
silkSpinner ceased Pester/Trolling cartographyBookworm at some point in time

Girls are really weird sometimes! Anyway. You'll install the disks when Aira contacts you later.
So, what now?
> Reader: Enter command

[r.fLowers]

> Be SS.

[owleh]

> Be SS.

Shoot, you're fickle when it comes to characters aren't you?

You are now SS, and things are going to get a bit weirder.
Anyway. What is the name of this alien chick?
> Enter name

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If the first character selection screen and the hints I tried dropping didn't clue you in, there will be fantrolls.

[r.fLowers]

> Aradne Somethin-or-other

[owleh]

> Aradne Somethin-or-other

Well, close enough.

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Your name is Aradne Girare, and you are currently standing in your room. You really enjoy spinning and stitching things out of your lusus' silk cocoon, which she gave you after emerging out of it. You can spin anything out of that silk, minus things that aren't clothing. You take requests from all eight of your friends, minus Aira. Heck, you even made a few hats and scarves for RL, even though he's not interested in that stuff. He never was.
You also like gardening sometimes, but most of the things you tend to die. The only exception is a small little tree that actually seems to grow when other plants in your care die. Which is weird.
But anyway. What will you do? You can't go outside, though, unless you want to go blind.
> Enter command.

[r.fLowers]

> Sew something awesome.

[owleh]

> Sew something awesome.

WARNING: SCRIBBLE MODE HAS BEEN-

Woo! You made a beanie. You better get this to it's recipient, but...
You don't want to talk to the messenger. Not now.
> Fuck it, talk to the messenger.

You do so. You also time yourself to see how long it takes for one of you to get a migraine, or how long it takes for the messenger's computer to explode.

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silkSpinner began Pester/Trolling recluseLibrarian at 9:10 AM
SS: hey!
RL: oh my fuck.
RL: what do you want now? cant you tell im bu-th-y trying not to go blind.
SS: well - excuse - me - troll - sleepin - beauty!
SS: but - i - need - you - to - deliver - somethin - for - me.
RL: if it-th another th-carf i th-wear i will eat the damn thing.
SS: geez!
SS: no. this - time - its - a - beanie!
RL: th-igh.
RL: okay. who-th it going to and at what time in the timeline.
RL: al-tho th-op making tho-th-e twenty for th-even.
SS: you - cant - tell - me - what - to - do!
SS: its - going - to - the - myra - girl - at - this - moment - in - time.
RL: fuck.
RL: okay ill try.
RL: but th-omething-th me-th-ed up with thi-th.
RL: im looking at the timeline th-ender thing and it-th all gliched.
RL: like th-omeone de-th-royed it or whatever.
SS: what?
RL: it-th nothing important i gue-th.
RL: anyway. i th-arted playing TH-LAND about two minute-th before you th-arted talking to me. my th-erver-th alright though they may be a bit annoying.
SS: i - bet - it - was - zach - wasnt - it?
SS: you - two - are - completely - black - for - each - other!
RL: no fuck you.
RL: it wa-th myra.
RL: anyway. it-th weird.
RL: i think i ju-th th-crewed u-th over.
RL: but whatever.
RL: th-end me the package and ill make th-ure it get-th to it-th de-th-tination.
SS: uh - okay - but - what - about - SLAND?
recluseLibrarian ceased Pester/Trolling silkSpinner at ?:?? AM

You aren't sure what just happened. Boys are weird sometimes.
> Enter command.

[r.fLowers]

> Pick someone to be your server client and pester them.

[ThunderJolt]

> Examine lime-green package

(unless that's the box that she's sending the beanie in?)
If so:
> Examine other objects on the floor behind you

[owleh]

> Examine lime-green package

(unless that's the box that she's sending the beanie in?)
If so:
> Examine other objects on the floor behind you

Color coding is very very good, which is why you put the beanie in there! Your messenger will get it using the appearifier at his hive later. If he's alive and stuff.
Other objects? Which ones?
There's a mess of things you made for either practice or the actual intention of sending in the future. The box marked 'SLAND' is, obviously, your copies of SLAND.
Yours are special though. You managed to appearify a copy of one of the human's disks and copied all of that onto a game grub due to your sheer stupidity and curiosity. Also you were doing it to spite Aira, but that's nothing. You're not sure if that's good though, considering there was a lot of question marks in the files.

> Pick someone to be your server client and pester them.

Ugh. The only one you can even think of is the worst person ever.
Beggers can't be choosers though.

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silkSpinner began Pester/Trolling eightbitInsanity at [ERROR 148: NOT FOUND]
SS: hey.
SS: i - didnt - want - to - ask - you.
SS: play - SLAND - as - my - server?
EI: Yes.
EI: Hell fucking yes what did you think i would do say no oh my god this is going to be amazing just you wait aradne i will be the best server player youve ever had and YES.
SS: uh.
SS: okay. were - you - contacted - by - cartai - lately?
EI: Cartai?
EI: Ohhhhhhhh. Him.
EI: No i havent heard from the little bastard for a while.
EI: Why?
SS: he - may - be - dead...
EI: What?
SS: he - said - and - i - quote:
[quote log from: ERROR 148 NOT VALID]
RL: it-th nothing important i gue-th.
RL: anyway. i th-arted playing TH-LAND about two minute-th before you th-arted talking to me. my th-erver-th alright though they may be a bit annoying.
RL: anyway. it-th weird.
RL: i think i ju-th th-crewed u-th over.
RL: but whatever.
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SS: then - he - just - hung - up - on - me!
EI: The little tards probably just being a dick like usual.
EI: I swear the day we meet i will kick him in your equivalent to a nutsack until hes on the ground crying and writhing in pain.
SS: hed - end - up - hatesnogging - you.
SS: but - whatever.
SS: do - you - have - everything - installed?
EI: Yes.
EI: But my server player's being a dick.
EI: This may take a while and-
eightbitInsanity has lost connection to silkSpinner at [ERROR 148: NOT VALID]

Okay, what the fuck was that?! At this rate you'll never start the game!
Better check on RL again. In case he was just 'being a dick like usual'.

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silkSpinner began Pester/Trolling recluseLibrarian at [ERROR 148: NOT VALID]
SS: cartai?
SS: you - there?
RL: kind of th-ort of.
SS: what - do - you - mean?
RL: i think im th-leeping.
RL: it-th that weird feeling you get when youre half a-th-leep and at the th-ame time half awake.
RL: am i dead or what.
SS: you - cant - die - on - me - you - idiot!
RL: dont worry your-th-elf.
RL: im not dead yet.
RL: at lea-th-t i wont be for a while.
RL: remember when i th-aid the timeline th-ender thing glitched?
RL: well.
RL: i cant tell you ju-th-t yet.
RL: ju-th-t watch out for royal-th.
RL: and dont die.
recluseLibrarian has lost connection to silkSpinner at [ERROR 148: NOT VALID]

Well.
Watch out for royals? Does he mean like blood color? If the humans are going by text color = blood color as well...
Oh my. Not good at all.
But... There's no way. They're just too dumb for that.
You shrug the thought off.
Something's wrong though. You look back at your rather one-sided conversation and notice something weird. At least for RL.

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RL: remember when i th-aid the timeline th-ender thing glitched?

That's... A question mark!
Things must be serious if RL is using punctuation other then a period. Way too serious.
> ...?

[r.fLowers]

> Run Sland.

[ThunderJolt]

> Be EI (orange text guy)

or alternatively,

> Be Past Cartai before timeline sender incident

[owleh]

> Be EI (orange text guy)

or alternatively,

> Be Past Cartai before timeline sender incident

> Run Sland.

>Run Sland

Yeah, alright. Just one minute.

COMMAND OVERWRITTEN:

Well. That sucks.

You are now the stupid orange kid. What is this idiot's name-
COMMAND OVERWRITTEN:

> Be past Cartai before timeline sender incident...
You attempt to be past Cartai...
And succeed, to a point?

Uh. We should leave little 3-sweep-old Cartai to his own little devices. We have bigger fish to fry.
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There you go! This is about an hour before the timeline sender incident. Whatever that is or will be.
So. Who is this yellow blooded troll?
And no, don't make any jokes. I know you know what I'm talking about. I think, maybe.
You know what, just name the squirt.
> Enter name.

[r.fLowers]

Gunther Amorphas

[HexMix]

Dagar Pypeht (pronounced pipette)

[owleh]

Gunther Amorphas

Dagar Pypeht (pronounced pipette)

As impressive as those names are (You remember them. They may come in handy), that's not yours. We'll just get this over with so he won't make us switch to another character.

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Your name is Cartai Romita, and yeah.
You tend to think you're the only sane one in your entire group of friends. Well, friend. You don't like people. At all.
Or trolls for that matter. Everyone thinks you're antisocial or something. But who cares about them?
You have books on every fucking subject imaginable. Heck, you even have books sent to you by a certain human friend/possible moirail/acquaintance. You aren't sure how to feel about her.
For some reason everyone uses you as a mailman. Pfft. Who cares about them and their mail? You get it to them anyway. It's MAIL for frick's sake! Mail has to be delivered!
Also you're a bit of a psionic, but that's unimportant.
So. What the heck are you about to do?
> ...?

[ThunderJolt]

> Skim through nearest book

[HexMix]

> Is that a hamster (LUSUS??!?) cage on the floor?

[owleh]

> Skim through nearest book

Oh. You hate this book and its movie renditions with a burning passion. So much you lost the cover for the book.
'In which a young green-blooded troll finds herself in matespritship with a rainbow drinker who is possibly in kismesistude with her other matesprit, a troll that is somehow also a shapeshifter' was the worst trilogy ever. It was.

> Is that a hamster (LUSUS??!?) cage on the floor?

What? There is no cage.
You wouldn't cage a lusus! At least, not yours. Or anyone else's, for that matter.
What's a hamster? Is that one of Aira's things?
Nope. Totally nothing. There was never a cage there.
Ever. So just drop it.
> Hurry up and do something.

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bluh that is the worst drawing of a book i've ever seen sorry

[ThunderJolt]

> Check up on lusus

[owleh]

> Check up on lusus

Well okay.

Ugh. He's at it again, isn't he? Now you really don't want to check up on him. The sun's rising in an hour and you are not in the mood to deal with a lusus. Especially YOUR lusus.
You don't really give two fucks on whatever the heck he does. Which is usually do stupid things on his own accord.
But... There's nothing else to do.
Well... There's always contact on the scribble boards...
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It's much more convenient than Pester/Trollian. Plus you get to scribble messages on white boards, what's not to love?
Besides, you need a server and a client for SLAND anyway, why not ask the only living lifeforms to ever call you more than a stranger?
So, who is it you want to contact?

[ThunderJolt]

> Contact self

> Contact SK