Attention: The following text is a work of fiction(!) for entertainment purposes(!) and does not(!) represent what I really think regarding certain historical events and geological/astrological features! Please keep that in mind!
And yes, this is technically common sense, but there is always that one person who takes things too seriously and thinks I'm some kinda flat-earth tinfoil hat who's believing all kinds of conspiracy theories.
'twas a cold December day.
Yes, I'm pulling out the 'twas thing again, it feels appropriate given the time of the year.
The sky was hidden behind mildly gray clouds, snow flakes slowly cloaked the windows of the TWR HQ, and the smell of hot chocolate filled the lobby.
Hiimhereandboredtalktome, coordinator lissi and Itsjustmudkipz discussed which maple syrup brand was the best, Minish sat in an arm chair, knitting a scarf (it was black of course), ExLight battled TheCapsFan on Pokémon Showdown, showing him his favorite Cottonee FEAR strat, and noctiluca, JamieIsBored, beryllium and Quasar_Catfish watched a compilation video of playing kittens as suddenly...
beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep
Midorikawa and FinalArcadia rushed to the kitchen where black smoke was coming out of the oven.
„How is this possible?! We've followed the instructions precisely like they were listed in the book!“ said FinalArcadia while opening the oven.
She took out a tray of what originally was supposed to be cookies, but now it was more resembling a tray or coal chunks.
Midorikawa grabbed the recipe and checked the instructions, mumbling: „...let bake for 35 minutes at 360°F... That's exactly what we did, why di-“
Midorikawa stopped and looked at the oven scale.
„Oh no!“ she screamed „Which idiot installed this oven? It's in Celsius! Who even needs an oven that can achieve over 400°C?!“
FinalArcadia looked at Midorikawa with a confused expression on her face, as suddenly ExLight's voice could be heard from the Lobby:
„I remember Raven mentioning something about that, he told me that he often had those midnight munchies but kept falling asleep while the pizza was heating so he arranged a high powered oven to reduce the cooking time!“
FinalArcadia and Midorikawa looked at each other, simultaneously saying „One day I'm gonna kill that g-“
The ringing of the door bell interrupted their death threat and shortly afterwards a BPS (Bulba Postal Service) delivery man with noticeably long hair dropped off a parcel at the lobby.
Everyone summoned at the conference table to find out what the mysterious parcel contained.
TheCapsFan opened it and immediately looked disappointed.
„It's a black feather and some kinda smoke grenade, probably a toy.“
Quasar_Catfish got excited immediately.
„Let me see!“ he said and grabbed the smoke grenade.
ExLight suddenly panicked and screamed: „Did you just say black feather?! Quas nooo!“
But it was too late, a hissing sound, an off-putting smell, then darkness...
As our group regained consciousness, they realized a noticeable change in the surroundings.
The area was kinda barren and full of craters.
Suddenly they heard a sound...
swooooosh-whack
A creature of fairly humanoid appearance with grey skin and big, pitch black eyes, wearing shorts and a Hawaii shirt just hit a golf ball with a nice swing, sending it flying, and flying, and flying, and flying...
„That one was awesome mate!“
Raven approached the creature and gave it a fist bump.
Then he turned to the around, looking at our friends and said: „Glad you guys woke up already!“
He stretched his arm out to the horizon, moved it from the left to the right and said:
„Welcome to the moon, my friends!“
Silence.
„OK, I know what you guys are thinking, but let me explain...
There are some misconceptions when it comes to the moon.
Number one: The moon actually has an atmosphere, and it's very close to the one back on the earth.
Number two: The statement that there is no intelligent life on the moon is a lie - and quite offensive towards my friend over here. The NASA and the government know of this since the moon landing, they just keep it secret to make sure people won't freak out and/or try to travel to the moon on their own.
And finally, number three: The moon...“
He stopped, looked around, grabbed a rock from the ground and continued „the moon is made of cheese!“ before placing what seemed to be a rock in his mouth and started chewing.
To everyone's surprise the sound of teeth and rock crushing each other was missing.
„As most of you probably can imagine, you are here for a reason - but this time it's not my fault! I promise, I'm nothing more than a loyal servant this time. The reason is the same as always though... You're here to play mafia in the virtual realm! And you won't be able to leave until it's over, so you better enjoy your time here.“
Minish was the first one to find her voice.
„Well, that's fine I guess, but who the hell gave the contract, why the hell did you drug us again, how the hell can you afford this and why for crying out loud are we on the moon?!?“ she asked.
Raven smiled, then he answered:
„The first question will remain unanswered, the answer to the second question is "because I'm pretty sure some of you guys would freak out during the journey, it's just less stressful, even if not for you then certainly for the crew members", the next answer is "krypto, we got a sh*t ton of money by mining BulbaCoins" and regarding your last question...
What the hell is wrong with you, we just gave you a opportunity for which other people would die! You are on the damn moon! We are treating you to a one-of-a-kind experience! Now let's frigging go and play mafia!“
„Fair enough!“ said JamieIsBored.
Raven showed them the way to a small single-room building with 12 glass boxes resembling coffins in it.
Each of our group members lied down in one of them respectively and therefore entered the virtual realm.
„You guys have no idea what you're up to...“ said ????? while watching all of this on a big screen...
AL001 - Mind Against - Gravity
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@beryllium
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@FinalArcadia
@Minish
@Midorikawa
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@TheCapsFan
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Living Players:
1. coordinator lissi
2. Itsjustmudkipz
3. ExLight
4. noctiluca
5. beryllium
6. JamieIsBored
7. FinalArcadia
8. Minish
9. Midorikawa
10. Quasar_Catfish
11. TheCapsFan
12. Hiimhereandboredtalktome
It is now Day 1!
Hammer Rules are deactivated!
Day 1 ends on Saturday, 16th of December 2023 at 12:00pm (GMT+1)
We have an Innocent Child:
YES, this means DawningWinds is ?????
