swinging from the castles [MIMI]

[ADRI COOPER]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true] ==> Adri: Enter. You are in the process of doing just that. But first, you figure you should explain how exactly it is you got here. Years in the past... But really only hours... ==> Dig up bones. You are sure that could have been worded better but it is what you are doing. Epiphany has a tendency to bury her slobbery wet doggy bones right in your EVERGREEN SHRUBS. You are thankful she leaves the less hardy SNOWDROPS alone, but you really wish she would just stop altogether. Your GARDEN would be in a much better shape if that was so. But you can't stay mad at Epiphany for too long. She is family after all. ==> Hear doorbell. You are in the backyard there is no way you can- Well you take that back. That is the doorbell and it's going like crazy. This makes little sense since you live much too far from normal civilization to have guests and your GODBRO didn't say anything about leaving. A glance at Epiphany and a nibble from Quiescent tells you something's not right. You tighten your grip on the SHOVEL in your hands and wait. ==> Investigate. You had intended to leave it up to your GODBRO but it's been nearly five minutes now. You equip the SHOVEL to your STRIFE SPECIBUS and make your trek through your house. Your thoughts are filled with the terrifying concept of HOME INVASION, but as you get to the door the ringing stops. Despite the threat you are more curious at the BROWN ENVELOPES that must have come through the mail slot. You double check the locks before retrieving the MYSTERIOUS GIFT. ==> Be ecstatic. You do so as you turn the envelopes over to reveal the SBURB LOGO across the front. You weren't expecting to get them the same day as everyone else; shipping to your house is always a pain that can sometimes take weeks longer. This makes things a lot better and way easier to play with your friends. You need to share this information immediately. You CAPTCHALOGUE the SBURB BETA DISCS to your SYLLADEX and take the stairs two at a time up to your room. You manage to arrive surprisingly uninjured. ==> Attack computer. You decide to be pointedly less violent and simply take your computer out of sleep mode and bring up PESTERCHUM. You immediately set your status to AMAZED before checking out your chumroll. There aren't many people on right now but you do see exactly who you want to talk to right now. She'll be so excited for you! Your mouse hovers over the chumhandle melodiousMistress before you start up a pester. SPOILER: Click to show [style=width: 350px; background: #eeeeee; border: 1px dashed #808080; color: 5c83a9; font-weight: bold; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; padding: 15px;]-- cognizantAnalgesia [CA] began pestering melodiousMistress [MM] at 11:49 -- CA: mimi CA: mimi mimi mimi mimi mimi mimi mimi mimi. CA: you will never guess what just happened- mostly because i'm about t tell you but it is kind of a hard guess CA: i got the sburb beta! <33333 CA: that means i get to play with all of yu today rather than years later- did you get yours yet?

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As you await her no doubt prompt response you fire up your web browser SANGUS.[/center][/style][/td][/tr][/table][/center]

[MIMI FARRIS]

==> SKIP

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Skipping around the penthouse humming sweet harmonies and melodies you head into your bedroom. Your pet dog Blu is sitting on your bed, a large Pink and Glittery princess themed style with Unicorn print on it. She lets out a few brief barks of excitement at the site of you, she shares a special pet master bond with you that most Dogs and their owners don’t. You head over to your bed and sit down next to her, the mattress slowly engulfs you into the fluffy cloud like comforter until you are sprawled across the bed with your body partially covered by sheets enjoying the coziness of it all. You stroke your dog happily and sing that new Taylor Swift song, but replacing some of the lyrics with Blu’s name like all crazy dog lovers.

==> Ignore Your Sister

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You can hear the murmur of your sister over the speaker system she has set up in the apartment, most likely she is trying to get you into a strife as usual. Though you won’t let her get away with it and retreat deeper within your covers, with Blu on your lap. Oh incase your wondering Blu is a Papillon a rather small breed of dogs which commonly are called “lap dogs”. Though your hypothesis about your sister is shattered when she gives a brief knock on your door and slides a manilla folder under the door. You cautiously approach the folder then snatch it up and scamper to your bed as if she were to burst in and attack, you never know with her.

You open up the folder and notice a picture of the two games disks and a ransom note posted next to it. Just great... figures that she’d do something like this, if only you had gotten to them first. Now you need to go figure out what she has done with them, probably and elaborate strife attempt. But just as you are about to head out your computer beeps, it appears that someone is pestering you. It’s not like you're playing the game now, so you figure you can hang for a bit before taking any measures.

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]MM: that’s great adri!!! :D
MM: uhhh, yea :?
MM: funny story though...

So much for not getting it.
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[ADRI COOPER]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true] ==> Surf the web. You go about doing just that. You are curious if anything else has come up about the PRECIOUS GAME you have just received. Even just details about how it will install onto your computer. You figure that your computer will be able to handle it no problem; you have a gamer's dream computer after all, but it would be nice to see the details as a sort of peek into the game. Of course you find nothing in your quick scope through it and give up with a defeated sigh. You are playing this game blind whether you like it or not. ==> Be pestered. You see PESTERCHUM flash in your computer's taskbar and immediately bring up the window with Mimi. You frown a little at that last line realizing it probably won't be a very funny story. But you're hoping you are misunderstanding. SPOILER: Click to show [style=width: 350px; background: #eeeeee; border: 1px dashed #808080; color: 5c83a9; font-weight: bold; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; padding: 15px;]CA: funny like haha what a great jke im glad it's caused no detrimental effects towards anyone or anything and everything is brighter with its existence- or haha this is really a tragedy but i swear it'l be funnier with time? CA: because im all for the former- i got my eyes all up and ready to read the best joke ive seen in my life with the knowledge everything will be all good in the end CA: i'm nt so sure about the latter though heh.

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==> Busy yourself so you don't think of worst-case scenarios.

You consider that it was probably eaten or shattered and poor Mimi will never got to play the BETA with the rest of you guys. You also decide you're not so good at distracting yourself. Thankfully you aren't alone. Quiescent seems to gleefully climb out of your pocket and FERRET SMACKS you across the mouth. By the time you recover and go to grab him he is on Epiphany's back. Sometimes you think he's a little too smart to be a ferret, and this only further cements itself in your mind when you go to grab him and he somehow convinces Epiphany to jump out of the way and join the game. Damn dalmatians and there long legs. You find revenge has gotten a little bit harder.

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[MIMI FARRIS]

==> Think

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Eeek, how are you supposed to deliver to Adri that her Sburb discs you need are being held for ransom by your sister!!!! Urgh, you suppose you will let her down easily. Then bust out and snatch them up whilst she is not looking. Your fingers unsteadily hover over the keyboard before making your normal clicks.

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]MM: hee hee
MM: uhhh
MM: it’s the latter ):
MM: my sister took them ransom
MM: and is demanding a strife for their return
MM: oh dear
MM: it appears she is leaving for grocerieys
MM: now may be my chance :DDD

==> Dash into Kitchen

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You slowly exit the room and scout the premises, it appears she has truly left. After a quick dash you find yourself in the kitchen with the disks lying flat on the island... too easy. Suddenly out of nowhere your sister Cael leaps down from the fridge in a surprise strife attack ready to beat you to a pulp. You quick do a youth roll over the counter and snatch up the discs. You briskly run through the winding halls of your apartment, sweat cooling your forehead. Suddenly your room has come into sight, you let out a breath of relief, but you can’t let your guard down. You dash to the door and slam it shut, blockading it with a chair. After a few pounds against the door she gives up, you’ve won... for now.

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #171717; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: 36D1AB; text-align: left;]MM: got em!!!! :DDD

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[ADRI COOPER]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true] ==> Adri: Defeat arch-nemesis Lord Essy. You can't, it's literally impossible. Quiescent is the greatest challenge in your young life. Plus he tends to be a CHEATING SCOUNDREL and somehow always ropes innocent little Epiphany into your deadly battles. Though you cannot say this is a deadly one. No, it's more like a dog pile with you being the unwilling participant at the bottom. You are left with one viable option. ==> Concede defeat. You damper your FIGHTING SPIRIT and allow yourself to go completely limp under the slobbering Pippy. However instead of doing the routine letting you go thing she continues to nip at your coat. To add to the chaos you can hear the pings coming from your computer. You idly wonder if this is the end, if you will never be able to continue again. ==> Stop melodramatic soliloquy and answer Mimi. Yea, you should probably get to that. You go to stand, allowing Pippy ample time to remove herself to prevent an unsolicited PIGGY BACK RIDE and proceed to read over the messages. By the end you find yourself crossing your fingers and hoping to whatever deity want to be nice that Mimi will be successful. You have a lot of FAITH in your friend, among other things, and have no doubt she will be capable in securing the DISCS. Your Pesterchum pings again as Mimi sends in a delayed message. ==> Be surprised Mimi retrieved them. You just explained that you had no doubt she would get them, so don't understand why you would be surprised. You ignore this thought and instead reply to your friend. SPOILER: Click to show [style=width: 350px; background: #eeeeee; border: 1px dashed #808080; color: 5c83a9; font-weight: bold; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; padding: 15px;]CA: haha!- the great mimi snatches yet another victry from her evil sister- though she's not really evi. CA: / victory* evil* CA: now with the power vested in my i do declare us sburb buddies- we will lay waste to all f our opponents with bubbles CA: which is pretty intense actually. CA: so yu're all ready to go right?- im going to start up my client disc.

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==> Put the in the Beta Discs!

You go to do that but quickly remember that you capchalouged them. You sigh wearily, and loud enough for Pippy to sense your distress and lay her head on your leg in a very PITY RIDDEN way (you are sure she just wants to be pet). Your fetch modus is not particularly difficult most of the time, but you don't want to deal with it right now. You decide to share the most evil of fates that have been cast upon you with Mimi.

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CA: ive ruined myself- my discs are in my sylladex
CA: i will never retrieve them- its too late fr me- mimi you have to go on
CA: start the dramatic music right now- without me.

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[cloe]

==> Introduce yourself

You stop doodling and turn your chair. Why would you need an introduction? Well, that’s because you are many different people. Ok, not really, for now you’ll introduce yourself with your real life name: Cloe Farris. In your room that you’ve entered into you’ve given your little sister a ransom note of her games, hoping to get into a strife with her.

And not a funzy strife, but a life growing on, to show her that she just needs to grow up a smidge. But it took her forever to get her game.

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==> Leave your room to see if she’s out

Spinning in your chair, you swiftly get up and walk out. You see a blur of blonde swiftly go back an opposite way. She wanted a room away from yours. Going to the kitchen you see that she took advantage of your boredom and took the discs.

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==>

You clench your jaw and start for the living room. Scanning the area with your sharp eyes, you find the item you want. You walk up to the wifi box, its little lights going off signaling the information it was receiving and giving.

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==> You aren’t…?

Oh, but you are. You pick the box up and start unplugging it before captchalogue it within your star map, you watch it become a random star system.

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[style=width: 450px; padding: 10 25; background: #FFF8C6; border: 1px dashed black; font-size: 11px; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold; color: royalblue; text-align: left;] CLOE: Well there’s nothing much you can do without wifi.
CLOE: But I’m pretty sure this’ll get you out of your room.

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You stuff your fetch modus away and bring out your strife weapon. The guitarkind was your item, and not any kind of guitar was near your side, this was the vintage modified mustang, six string, baby blue body guitar stood next to you.

But you stand in the large living room, strumming a few strings awaiting your little sister.

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[MIMI FARRIS]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 500px; background-color: #F1F1F1; padding:20px; border-top: 10px #36D1AB solid; border-bottom: 10px #36D1AB solid;] ==> MIMI: Dramatically Weep Oh no!!! This is the worst of news you can ever here, a disc lost in the great sea of Adri’s Sylladex. You wipe away a silent tear and bite your fist, turning the entire scene into a dramatic soap opera. Oh dear! What next! Then all of a sudden your evil twin bursts through the door telling you they’ve slept with your husband!!!! GASP!!!! “Dora!!! How could you!!!! I thought we had a bond! And after I found you lost in the Bermuda Triangle!” You then toss your spanish speaking Dora doll to Blu and carry on with life as if this moment of pure brilliance has never happened. Though “Mimiless in Seattle” is sure to come up again when Dora seeks revenge. You quickly log back onto pesterchum to respond to your pal only to receive a large flashing “NO WIFI CONNECTION”. That bitch. ==> MIMI: Speakercom Cloe You head over to the speaker system in your room, something hardly used by you. You look into it’s dark crackling speaker, having hardly used it you assume you speak into it as well as hear out of it? It’s worth a shot after all. You slowly press your finger daintily on to the big red button which you have bedazzled the shit out of. SPOILER: Click to show MIMI: ummm MIMI: cloe???? MIMI: is this thing on??? :o MIMI: test one two three!!! MIMI: cinnamon buns! MIMI: hee hee MIMI: anywhooo :P MIMI: would you mind taking a look at the wifi MIMI: i think it might of “accidently” got disconnected >:o

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[ADRI COOPER]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true] ==> Await Mimi's reply. You do so excitedly. Mimi always loved to play melodrama with you, one-uping you even with a talented flair. You don't mind it in the slightest, never seeing it as much of a competition. Besides she tends to make you laugh hard enough that your eyes are running and your sides are hurting. Obviously that would make you the winner in the end. ==> Freak out. You have no reason to do that, all that's happened in the last minute is Mimi ceased pestering you and went offline... Oh shit. You figure that can't be good. You don't know why she would leave anyway. Maybe you said something you shouldn't have? God sometimes you do that in the worst situations possible. You recheck the log a couple times, then a dozen more times, but you can't find a legitimate reason for her to have left. Well unless she just didn't want to play with you in the first place. You wouldn't want to force her to, she is allowed to do whatever she wants and you would never take that from her, but you still are a bit disappointed. Maybe a bit more than disappointed. ==> Slump. You proceed to do so and so well you are sure your computer chair has eaten you. Or you wish it would. Essy for once catches your vibe and hugs you. In the face. Suffocating you. But you figure it's the thought that counts.