Anonymous text;

[nightyorb]

[An Anonymous message pops up on the network around 5AM. This is definitely a very normal time for anonymous messages to hit the network.]


Hi!!
My name is Penelope and like, wow, I was totally not supposed to be here at all!
I've got some like, *crazy* important stuff going on back home, so I can't stay and hang.
Can someone be like super sweet and tell me how to get off this plane?
I'm like really cute so you should totally help me which would be so rad.

PS. If anyone here knows anything about Crab Kings or Shrimp Parties they should definitely let me know.



[This is a super, totally genuine message, and not a deception being crafted by a goblin-but-not-goblin boy, currently up in a high tree, spiralling into levels of paranoia and stress that... actually pretty normal for him, but anyway, who is definitely not going to be putting his own damn name out there on this network cause he is not insane.

He's also already been up this tree for a day and a half, furiously trying to figure out where the hell he ended up, cause it sure isn't Arborly.]

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Text; not 5 am but still pretty darn early in the morning!

[fayblood]

whats a plane?

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[nightyorb]

[Does no one take Introduction to Planes 101 here?]

It's a realm of existence.
Like a world?
But it can be more than a single world. Planes are huge.

he's so bad at writing, I'm sorry XD

[fayblood]

so if ther can be more worlds how do you k now if its a diffrent plane?

it's okay. Riz is used to shitty teen texting which is not all that different

[nightyorb]

[By now, Riz has fully given up on the whole undercover, pretend to be a cute girl thing. He's no good at it, has let the cat out of the bag several times, and yeah. Might as well go whole hog on this.]

Well, I'm not green anymore, so that was kind of a big hint.
And if this was still the same plane, my friends would've been able to find me by now.

still makes me cringe to write, though! XD

[fayblood]

you were green?

you mean liek how magic things dont work here ?

[nightyorb]

Yeah. I'm a goblin. Green is our thing.

Yeah. And how there is only humans here.
The realm I come from is not like that.
We also don't have all these weird little animals running around.

[fayblood]

i havnt heared of a goblin before

you mean the pokemon?

[nightyorb]

You and everybody else.
I'm guessing you don't know what orcs or elves are either?

Yeah, those things.
And there is like, no normal animals around?
Like. I think I saw a couple of rats out in the forest.
But they were *huge*.
Even the rats at our apartment don't get that huge. Or purple.

[fayblood]

i dont know orcs

elve sounds a little like a

kind of fay

maybe

the big rats are rattata

i think everything here is pokemon

[nightyorb]

Great.

So, how long have you been held captive here?

[fayblood]

captive?

[nightyorb]

We all get brought here against our will, right?
And we can't leave.
So, we are captives.

[fayblood]

i dont know if someones keeping us here on purpus

if someone gets cot bt a army then that person gets tied or lockd up

but if someone gets made to go somewhere and then let go and the brige to go back got flooded then its no ones falt theres no way back

the people here are nice and if someone is keeoping people here on purpos i dont think they would be nice

[nightyorb]

A nice jail cell is still a jail cell.
I'd know, I've been in jail.
It was the nicest cell they had and all the cops were nice cause my mom is a cop too.
But it was still *jail*.

[fayblood]

you mena they were keeping you there and not leting you go riht?

so its still on purpos

[nightyorb]

Exactly. They made us sit on our hands all while a lot of shit was going down.
We could've been
We could've been trying to prevent things or gather more clues but we couldn't.
And all cause they thought we killed a guy.

[fayblood]

why did they think that?

[nightyorb]

I mean, we did technically kill him.
But it wasn't like murder!
It was adventuring stuff.
We were doing the stuff we were supposed to be doing.
And anyway, he was trying pretty hard to kill us too at the time, so if anything, it was self-defence.

[fayblood]

why was he trying to kill you?

[nightyorb]

Okay, so last year, several girls that went to my high school went missing.
My babysitter was one of them.
Turns out they were being kidnapped to fulfil some sort of ritual so our vice-principal could break free of some magical bindings that had been placed on him and try and take over the world.
Like, he had taken over the world before and got defeated and then as punishment was forced to be a vice-principal forever?
Because somehow people thought that was a smart punishment rather than just killing him and be rid of the danger?
But anyway, the guy I was talking about --his name was Johnny Spells by the way-- was one of the people involved.
He was the one who kidnapped some of the girls and put them inside of these crystals.
The reason why he was trying to kill us is because we found out he was in possession of one of the crystals with a girl inside.
We stole it from him, of course, and were gonna work on setting her free, but he caught us doing it so he tried to take it back by force.
There was this whole car chase and everything. It was pretty wild.

[fayblood]

you took the crystal to save the girl and he was going to kill you to get it back?

i dont know what some of the things you said are

[nightyorb]

Which things?

But yeah, that's about the shape of it.

[fayblood]

babysitter

viceprincipal

car

i know som of the words but i dont know what it means when you say it like that

[nightyorb]

Right.

A babysitter is someone who watches you when your parents are busy, like when they have to work and stuff. Penny was my babysitter and she was the best.

A vice-principal is... well, do you know what a principal is?

And a car is a
Jeez, I guess you are from a realm without much technology?
A car is sort of like a cart that can move on its own.
You don't need a horse or anything to pull it.
It uses an engine inside of it to power it.

[fayblood]

then someone who dosnt have parents wont have one?

no

thos are the things some people ride on the roads in the big towns?