The Kids
A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, is this young man's birthday...-- turntechGodhead [TG] began pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 16:13 --
TG: hey so what sort of insane loot did you rake in today
EB: i got a little monsters poster, it's so awesome.
TG: really
TG: hold on dude this is weird
EB: what do you mean?
EB: it's just a poster
TG: i know
TG: it feels like we had this conversation before
EB: y'know what? we totally have.
EB: dave, it worked!
EB: we're back on earth!
TG: no meteors
TG: no dead guardians
TG: everything back the way it was
EB: i can't believe we did it.
TG: funny thing is i still have those two copies of sburb
EB: i wouldn't go and run those just yet.
TG: i hear ya bro
TG: wouldnt want to provoke any cosmic bullshit into happening
TG: plonk that disc in there bam meteor comin at ya after all
EB: that'd be pretty bad. we'd have to play it all over again!
EB: when i get my copy, i'm going to take a good look at the disc contents first without letting it run.
TG: first good idea of the day prankman
TG: hey i just realized something
EB: what's that?
TG: you know how i had spent months in the game while you had only 24 hours
TG: well i guess thisd be as close to that experience as a non time player would get
EB: yeah... we get to relive april 13 all over again
TG: were all like bill murray up in this bitch
TG: only less utterly repetitive
TG: and its not even februari
EB: you would know.
TG: how could i forget
EB: hold on...
EB: dave!
TG: whats wrong
EB: the trolls! what do you think happened to them?
TG: i dunno man
TG: try contacting one i guess
EB: i think i will!
-- turntechGodhead [TG] ceased pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 16:29 --
John glanced at the list of handles on his Pesterchum. The various trolls had disappeared, since he hadn't actually added them to the chumroll yet. A dreadful feeling occurred to him -- what if the trolls were gone?
Still, he could always try to contact them by manually entering their handles...
-- arachnidsGrip is not on the network --
-- carcinoGeneticist is not on the network --
-- gallowsCalibrator is not on the network --
John was starting to feel very bad. In restoring their world, they had specifically made certain the trolls would have a good end too...
No. I won't... I can't accept this.
-- arachnidsGrip is not on the network --
-- ectoBiologist [EB] began pestering carcinoGeneticist [CG] at 16:42 --
EB: karkat?
EB: you there, buddy?
CG: HI AGAIN, IDIOT.