HIGH SPEED LIBRARY POST

[worldlyafflictions]

Who: Anyone
Where: IT MATTERS NOT TO THIS PEP but you guys get to be at the hotel or the library.
When: Day 41, midday-ish

[HEY IMEEJI, THIS ISN'T A LIVE!! (eta: jk it's a live now)

Instead there is a pink super-speed blur racing around the lobby briefly, definitely going more than fast enough to slam people with a strong breeze in passing, before it materializes into a pep!pep! when he slows down to drop a bunch of miscellaneous looking stuff next to him.]

'Morning-morning~! I found out not too long ago that we got that library people were wanting~! Soooo~ Let's say 50 points for an unbelievably quick and convenient ride over and back, but free ta anybody who can make a useful contribution ta this endeavor! You'll be heading over... in this! [Reaching down to pick up... AN EGG CARTON. Wiggles the egg carton. Yeah.]

My team is already riding for free, of course, as is AlcheME! for making this project possible.

Who's interested~? Outbound rides will be ending in two hours!


[You're free to ignore him and head to the library three hours away on foot yourself though, of course. Or possibly you were unlucky and already left and missed this ONCE(?) IN A LIFETIME CHANCE.]

Comments

[we_meet_again]

You're right, probably nothing to do with the egg carton.

[shutthefoxup]

Probably. The egg carton wouldn't bother me.

[we_meet_again]

Thinking of giving it a try?

[shutthefoxup]

Sure, why not?

[we_meet_again]

That's the spirit!

Ah, but before you do ... [rubs the back of his neck] ah...can I ask you a question?

[shutthefoxup]

Sure, shoot!

[we_meet_again]

Wild City, at the game... what happened there?

[shutthefoxup]

...

We were going to keep the water and send the antidote, but I insisted on drinking the poison if we got any. I didn't want to let anyone else on the team drink it. Our leader thought it was because I had bad self esteem and he didn't want to feed into that. It was all a big misunderstanding but we worked it out so that won't happen in the future. If you're mad then take it out on me, but my team was just doing what they thought they had to for my sake. Don't blame Wild City.

[we_meet_again]

Ah, no, I'm not mad at all. I'm actually... relieved?

[Rubs his neck again] When I saw the results, I didn't know what to think, but I wanted to ask you instead of jumping to any conclusions. You're saying it was because you wanted to protect each other, right? You guys didn't mean any harm... right?

[shutthefoxup]

Mm, it's my fault for being stubborn. We were going to send the antidote but then all that happened.

[we_meet_again]

Alright. Thanks for explaining it to me. Sorry if it's a stressful topic... It was difficult for me to believe that you guys did that out of malice or something, so I'm grateful to know what happened. Now I can stop thinking about it!

[shutthefoxup]

It wasn't malicious.

[we_meet_again]

Then there's no problem.

Are you okay, though?

[shutthefoxup]

Mm, I'll be fine. It was just a rough game. Were you guys okay? First game had to be stressful.

[we_meet_again]

We did pretty okay! I think everything went about as well as it could have. People were kind to us, haha.

[shutthefoxup]

Yeah, people here are pretty nice you'll see

[we_meet_again]

That's been my impression so far, too.

OKAY. One more question.

[shutthefoxup]

Sure, shoot.

[we_meet_again]

When do you want to try out double speed?

[shutthefoxup]

Haha, whenever is fine?

[we_meet_again]

Wanna try it now? Or are you already committed to the egg carton?

[shutthefoxup]

That egg carton DOES look cozy...

[we_meet_again]

Do it! When are you ever gonna get another chance to experience being an egg?!

[shutthefoxup]

A dream I never even knew I had.

[we_meet_again]

The day has come for that dream to be born and also fulfilled!