"Wow," Sirin said sarcastically, looking down at the pie. "Very impressive. Pie in the sky, ha ha." More pies rained down from the void, thunking against the ground. One thumped Sirin on the shoulder. She yelped. "Okay, that is not normal."
"Wait, are we literally inside a chatterbox?" Quill said. "That's kind of awesome...well, depending on the situation."
"Never imagined the CB to be in a big dark void, though," said Win.
"Yeah...but still, kind of awesome," Luminescence said.
"It's not entirely dark, too," Indigo Feather pointed out, gesturing to the neon-green void. It promptly turned blue. "Uh..."
"Are we in the chatterbox or is this just a Void?" said Peregrine, softly. Her hood shadowed her face. "I don't know," Luminescence said. "Ack. More pie?" Pies were now falling in numbers, landing at their feet. Some tumbled away and splashed into the void (waaaaiiit, splashed?).
"Wow," said Mary. "Are we sure that's a void? I don't think voids splash..."
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submitted by Sirin, age nil, the Void? (July 3, 2020 - 7:18 pm)
"Wait..." Mary pondered. "If we're in the chatterbox, we must on some sort of pie throwing thread. Or a food fight thread!.."
"You're right!" Win exclaimed! "Were trapped in a dark, pie-yeeting thread!"
"So we have to find another thread that can help us escape?" Luminescence asked. "I don't know where we'll doscover that."
"THE ULTIMATE GUIDE!!" Multiple CBers proclaimed at once. Mary hadn't actually thought of that, but it seemed reasonable, so they all went running through the void in search for the ultimate guide. They were huffing and puffing, trying to catch their breath when hay started falling from the sky.
"Wait - I thought the hay war died" Win said.
"It did..." Mary replied.
"We must be in the back pages! That's why it's so dark!" Sirin said decidedly.
"You're right!" Mary shouted. "We have to keep going" All the CBers groaned, but they picked themselves up and kept running.
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submitted by Majestic Mary, In the void (CB?) (July 4, 2020 - 8:03 am)
“Maybe this is part of the Chatterbox that hasn’t been imagined yet,” Peregrine said. But no one answered her. She frowned beneath her hood. “Is anyone here?” she asked. Nothing, only silence.
Far in the distance a voice called, “hello?” Another voice called, “anyone there?” All around her voices called. They were far away and barely audible.
Peregrine sighed and decided to attempt something. She closed her eyes and thought of stars filling the void. Filling the void with their soft light. Peregrine opened her eyes.
Stars covered the void and she could dimly see herself when she looked down. The voices were gone and she seemed to be alone.
”Hello?” she called. Nothing but echoes of her voice came back to her. Did I make a new thread? she wondered.
Heroes wondered why she was falling. She had leaned forward to look at something on her computer screen and now, look where she was, falling through inky darkness.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" she called, landing with an OOMPH on the ground. She looked around. a few feet away, she could see faintly glowing words that read 'Hello?' She called. ... Peregrine, July 4 2020, n/a. Heroes shrugged and ran toward the words, leaving a soft shout behind. She seemed to pass through a veil and suddenly stars were shining brightly all around her. Heroes spotted a cloaked person slowly lowering their shadowy hood.
"Peregrine!" Heroes shouted, and ran over.
"Oh, HeroesOfOlympus, is that you? How'd you get here?" Peregrine said, her eyes drifting toward a purpley-blue color.
"yeah, its me! i just commented on your thread!" [for indeed, the words now read 'Hello?' she called. ... Peregrine, July 4 2020, 1, 3 minutes by HeroesOfOlympus.]
"Oh! Do you know where everyone else is?" Peregrine said, coming closer. Her eyes were a sunset pink now. Heroes shrugged.
"what others? i heard a shout, if that helps." she replied.
"OK. there was some other CBers down here... I think we're in the back pages of the CB..." Peregrine shuffled her feet. Heroes looked up. Suddenly, a pie slammed into her face, covering her blonde hair in vanilla frosting.
"oof" was the only thing she had to say. Wiping frosting off her nose, she realized that over her pajamas, (hey, its the fourth, freedom for all) she was wearing a long, sweeping black cloak, knee-high boots, and a gigantic hat. okay, what? she thought, then licked some frosting off her chin.
"Hm, this is actually pretty good." Heroes muttered, and then realized that Peregrine was gone.
"wha..." and then she twisted into space, sucked into the void and spat out in a circular room. Agent Winter was there too, as well as Arithmancy.
"Uh, hey guys. Anyone know why we're here?" she said, her voice echoing around the gold-walled room. they both shrugged shrugged. Agent Winter picked up something on the floor and showed it to them.
"Its a piece of paper... should i read it?" she asked, and Heroes nodded.
"Okay... Hello, CBers. This is a round robin, but a peciliur one. Three CBers in each room, and one piece of paper. The message is the same. Do you have confidence in the toppers? Only they can get you out of this. You must escape this room, meet up with the other CBers, and find the Topping Lair. That is where the toppers live, and where they operate. Once you arrive,the toppers will gladly help you, I suppose. good luck, my friends. Signed, The Helper." Win looked up.
"Thats weird..." Arithmancy commented, taking the paper to look for herself. Suddenly there was a grinding noise and a door emerged from the wall. actually, nine doors, spaced two feet apart. Then the walls began to spin, spinning, spinning, spinning, until they stopped. every door looked the same. How on earth would they escape?
-=-
hopefully i didnt take over too much... have fun everyone!
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submitted by HeroesOfOlympus, age eternal, somewhere-everywhere (July 4, 2020 - 2:19 pm)
Arithmancy yawned and stretched. "Well, kiddies, I've gotta take a nap. But I have some stuff in my pockets that might help you..." At this she proceeded to dig a Swiss Army knife, a charcoal pencil, notebook, large ball of twine, and a camera from her pockets. She reclaimed her notebook and closed her eyes. Agent Winter and Heroes exchanged confused glances. "Arithmancy? Sure you don't want to come with us?" Asked AW. Arithmancy sighed and pulled out a machete. "For safety."
They left Ari then. She was glad for the quiet.
”Heroes?” Peregrine said, stepping towards the place where Heroes had last been. It looked like Heroes had disappeared. Before she had much time to think about Heroes mysterious disappearence a large glowing shape descended from the sky.
It landed on the ground next to Peregrine. “Luminescence!” Peregrine said. Luminescence smiled at Peregrine. “Where am I?” she asked. Peregrine answered, her eyes changing to a light green. “I believe I made a new thread and that you fell into it.”
”Is there a way out?” Luminescence said.
Three to each room. So we need one more person since so far there is only Luminescence and I. Luminescence, if you want to be in a different room feel free to change this.
Luminescence screamed. Where was she? "Indigo Feather? Agent Winter? Peregrine? Mary? Strawberri? Quill? Sirin? Arithmancy? Humminbird? ARE ANY OF YOU THERE?" she asked nervously. "Luminescence? Is that you?" came a voice from the corner. It was so dark, Luminescence couldn't see anything, except the glow of her cape. She tugged it off, closed her eyes, and tossed the cape into the dark void. When she opened her eyes, the void was a glowing blue. "Um... yes? It's Luminescence. Who's there?" she asked. When no one answered, she panicked a little bit. "Indigo? Win? Peregrine? Mary? Strawberri? Quill? Sirin? Arithmancy? Humminbird? Heroes? Mahriel? NoOneKnows? Wait you aren't even in this. Are you?" Luminescence asked quickly, her voice unnaturally high pitched. She burst into humorless laughter. "Where is everyone?" she wondered, a little scared, and very panicky. There was no one there. Luminescence sat down, waiting for something to happen. "Luminescence?" a familiar voice called.
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submitted by Luminescence, age XI, California (July 5, 2020 - 11:40 am)
"Peregrine!" Luminescence almost sobbed. "I'm so glad you're here!" Peregrine smiled calmly. "Are you okay?" she asked. Taking a deep breath, Luminescence answered, "Yes. Well, now I am- EEK!!" Peregrine's face still showed little emotion. "Are you sure?" she asked, her voice sounding a little worried. "Y-y-yes I th-think?" Luminescence squeaked, pointing at something fluttering around, which in her panicked state had looked like a giant moth. Peregrine caught it and laughed. "It's just a piece of paper!" She handed it to Luminescence, who calmed down enough to read it. It said:
Hello, CBers. This is a Round Robin, but a peculiar one. Three CBers in each room, and one piece of paper. The message is the same. Do you have confidence in the toppers? Only they can get you out of this. You must escape this room, meet up with the other CBers and find the Topping Lair. That is where the toppers live, and where they operate. Once you arrive, the toppers will gladly help you, I suppose. Good luck, my friends. Signed, The Helper.
"Who's the third one?" Luminescence asked curiously. Peregrine shrugged. All of a sudden, they saw someone flying- or falling- from the sky of luminescent blue. "There's our answer!" Peregrine said, grinning.
It was... "Majestic Mary!"
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
@Mary, if you don't want to be in this room, feel free to change this.
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submitted by Luminescence , age XI, California (July 5, 2020 - 2:02 pm)
Quill was falling again, and this time there were no stars. She landed on her feet in the darkness. She looked around to find the other CBers, but they were gone.
"Hello?" she said. "Anyone? Where are you?" She walked forward a few tentative paces and saw someone emerging from the gloom.
"Quill!" a voice said, and she saw that it was Hummingbird. "Is that you?"
"It's me!" she responded. "Thank goodness, everyone else disappeared!"
"I know! Where could they have gone?"
Quill moved forward, but stopped as she stepped on something. She picked it up and squinted at it. "Look at this paper," she said, and Hummingbird moved closer to read it.
"Three CBers?" she said, confused. "The Topping Lair? I guess we are in the back pages."
"Well, you and I make two," Quill said, "so I guess we wait on someone else before we try to get out of here."
Sammy just sorta stared at the void in front of her. Hearing voices inside, she threw food, water, the full Percy Jackson series, a Nintendo 3ds, and The Legend of Zelda games in.
"Aight, Ima head out." she said simply, as she disappeared to her mansion with 'poof'!
Sammy was happy the authors in the Inkwell would survive now. She'll check in on them another day.
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submitted by Sammy E, age Who cares, None of your business (July 5, 2020 - 3:29 pm)
Feline Fantasy (you can call me FF for short) blinked and shook herself off. A moment earlier, she had been simultaniously petting a cat, eating a watermelon, and reading a CB thread . . . something about threes?
"Where - where am I?" she asked. She appeared to be floating in a bright blue void, with a few very faint glowing shapes in the distance which she had to strain her eyes to see, then disappeared. Sudennly, something soared past her, something rounded like a frisbee . . . a pie? Another flew past her and she tried to catch it, but thanks to her bad hand-eye coordination and the speed at which the object was going, she failed. Another smacked her in the face and it turned out to, indeed, be a pie. she tasted it. Lemon marange! Her favorite! But even that didn't solve the problem of where she was, why, and how to get out. She heard faint voices below her. Was that . . . Quill? And Hummingbird? She proppelled herself down, and soon stopped floating and started falling. She plopped down next to them, although there wa no ground that she could see. Pie still covered her face, but she didn't particularly care.
"Where are we?"
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submitted by Feline Fantasy (July 5, 2020 - 3:30 pm)
Hummingbird turned around to see Feline Fantasy standing behind her, looking confused. She was covered by lemon marange pie. "Welcome! We're in Chatterbox." Hummingbird said.
"The back pages." Quill added.
"Yeah. There were a bunch of other people here a moment ago, but then they disappeared and we got this." Hummingbird ducked another pie and handed the note to FF.
"What..." FF asked after she finished.
"We have noooooo idea."
"Toppers." Hummingbird said thoughtfully. "You know, I never understood the purpose of Toppers until very recently. They bring..." She paused, and her face lit up. "They bring threads up to the top! Guys! That has to be the answer! Someone has to top all of the threads!"
Quill nodded. "Okay, that makes sense. But--"
"Duck!" FF yelled. Quill glanced around just in time to be hit right in the face by a chocolate cream pie.
Unfazed, Quill continued. "But who will Top?"
"Can't anyone top a thread?" Hummingbird asked.
"Yes..." Quill said, wiping whipped cream off of her face.
"So, can we just yell 'TOP'!!!?" Hummingbird asked. Nothing happened.
"People don't always say Top, though." Quill said.
"Yeah, they usually put Top in the name place." FF said.
"So we say that our name is top?"
"Why don't we reread the note?" Feline Fantasy suggested.
"'Escape this room, meet up with the ther CBers and find the Topping Lair.'" Quill read.
"Okay, so first we have to find other CBers." Hummingbird said. "How do you locate CBers?"
"Sometimes you write your name @cber." Quill suggested.
"Let's do that, then. Who should we try to find?" Hummingbird asked.
"Let's try Agent Winter or HeroesofOlympus." FF suggested.
"Okay." Hummingbird said. Um . . . @AW? @Heroes?
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submitted by Humming@AW&Heroes, Chatterbox (July 5, 2020 - 5:16 pm)
"It's Majestic Mary!" A voice called through the dark.
"Wha- huh? Peregrine, is that you?" Mary asked.
"Yeah, and Luminescence too," she replied.
"What's going on? Where's everyone else?" Mary asked, and then noticed a crumpled note in her hand. This is a round robin, but a peculiar one... She read it out loud. "We have to escape this room," she proclaimed.
"But how?" Lumi asked.
"Um, try feeling for the walls. Maybe there's a door around here somewhere," Mary suggested. They extended their arms out in front of them and bumped into each otehr more than a few times, but eventually Mary discovered the wall. She walked along the perimeter of the room and finally found a door, which she ran her hand over until it caught on the knob.
"I found the door!" She cried. "But it's locked..." She could hear Peregrine and Lumi sigh.
"Stay by the door so we don't lose it again, and Lumi and I will search for the key," Peregrine said. As Mary stood dutifully by the door and Lumi and Peregrine dropped to their hands and knees, a sudden light illuminated the sky. Words that spelled out Humming@AW&Heroes. They could hear Hummingbird's hopeful voice saying, "@AW? @Heroes?" It echoed throughout the void.
"Genius! We can @ all the CBers to figure out where they are!" Luminescence said.
"You're right! Maybe we can communicate with them through the name, age and location boxes," Mary replied.
"I guess there's only one way to find out," Peregrine decided.
Mary took a deep breath and thought of the best way to get her message across through the name, age, and location boxes. She needed more space, but she would have to make due. "Mary@ all CBers," she began. "age feel4wall, there's a locked door."
The three stood in hopeful silence.
"Do you think you got the message across?" Lumi asked.
"I guess we'll just have to wait and see."
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submitted by Mary@all CBers, age feel4wall , there's a locked door (July 7, 2020 - 9:31 am)
"Wow," Sirin said sarcastically, looking down at the pie. "Very impressive. Pie in the sky, ha ha." More pies rained down from the void, thunking against the ground. One thumped Sirin on the shoulder. She yelped. "Okay, that is not normal."
"Wait, are we literally inside a chatterbox?" Quill said. "That's kind of awesome...well, depending on the situation."
"Never imagined the CB to be in a big dark void, though," said Win.
"Yeah...but still, kind of awesome," Luminescence said.
"It's not entirely dark, too," Indigo Feather pointed out, gesturing to the neon-green void. It promptly turned blue. "Uh..."
"Are we in the chatterbox or is this just a Void?" said Peregrine, softly. Her hood shadowed her face. "I don't know," Luminescence said. "Ack. More pie?" Pies were now falling in numbers, landing at their feet. Some tumbled away and splashed into the void (waaaaiiit, splashed?).
"Wow," said Mary. "Are we sure that's a void? I don't think voids splash..."
(July 3, 2020 - 7:18 pm)
"Wait..." Mary pondered. "If we're in the chatterbox, we must on some sort of pie throwing thread. Or a food fight thread!.."
"You're right!" Win exclaimed! "Were trapped in a dark, pie-yeeting thread!"
"So we have to find another thread that can help us escape?" Luminescence asked. "I don't know where we'll doscover that."
"THE ULTIMATE GUIDE!!" Multiple CBers proclaimed at once. Mary hadn't actually thought of that, but it seemed reasonable, so they all went running through the void in search for the ultimate guide. They were huffing and puffing, trying to catch their breath when hay started falling from the sky.
"Wait - I thought the hay war died" Win said.
"It did..." Mary replied.
"We must be in the back pages! That's why it's so dark!" Sirin said decidedly.
"You're right!" Mary shouted. "We have to keep going" All the CBers groaned, but they picked themselves up and kept running.
(July 4, 2020 - 8:03 am)
After running for a while, the CBers paused to regain their breath.
"The- the void's still blue." One of them huffed.
"I-I'm sure it'll change." Another one of them panted.
All of them stood there for a while.
"Where am I?" A new voice asked. It was aqua.
"The CB." AW said. She had got her strength back, but just a few others were yet to.
"Inside the CB?? Oh gosh."
Suddenly they all heard a growl, coming from far away.
But it was getting closer.
"RUN!" Peregrine said. Behind them, the blue of the void was turning red.
They all ran.
aqua realized the red glow and the growling was nowhere near. She sighed with relief.
"Finally lost them, huh Win?"
But the void was cold and empty, and it gave no answer.
(July 4, 2020 - 10:00 am)
(Oops, didn't see the comment where it could've been just a void, not the CB)
(July 4, 2020 - 12:19 pm)
“Maybe this is part of the Chatterbox that hasn’t been imagined yet,” Peregrine said. But no one answered her. She frowned beneath her hood. “Is anyone here?” she asked. Nothing, only silence.
Far in the distance a voice called, “hello?” Another voice called, “anyone there?” All around her voices called. They were far away and barely audible.
Peregrine sighed and decided to attempt something. She closed her eyes and thought of stars filling the void. Filling the void with their soft light. Peregrine opened her eyes.
Stars covered the void and she could dimly see herself when she looked down. The voices were gone and she seemed to be alone.
”Hello?” she called. Nothing but echoes of her voice came back to her. Did I make a new thread? she wondered.
(July 4, 2020 - 11:58 am)
Heroes wondered why she was falling. She had leaned forward to look at something on her computer screen and now, look where she was, falling through inky darkness.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" she called, landing with an OOMPH on the ground. She looked around. a few feet away, she could see faintly glowing words that read 'Hello?' She called. ... Peregrine, July 4 2020, n/a. Heroes shrugged and ran toward the words, leaving a soft shout behind. She seemed to pass through a veil and suddenly stars were shining brightly all around her. Heroes spotted a cloaked person slowly lowering their shadowy hood.
"Peregrine!" Heroes shouted, and ran over.
"Oh, HeroesOfOlympus, is that you? How'd you get here?" Peregrine said, her eyes drifting toward a purpley-blue color.
"yeah, its me! i just commented on your thread!" [for indeed, the words now read 'Hello?' she called. ... Peregrine, July 4 2020, 1, 3 minutes by HeroesOfOlympus.]
"Oh! Do you know where everyone else is?" Peregrine said, coming closer. Her eyes were a sunset pink now. Heroes shrugged.
"what others? i heard a shout, if that helps." she replied.
"OK. there was some other CBers down here... I think we're in the back pages of the CB..." Peregrine shuffled her feet. Heroes looked up. Suddenly, a pie slammed into her face, covering her blonde hair in vanilla frosting.
"oof" was the only thing she had to say. Wiping frosting off her nose, she realized that over her pajamas, (hey, its the fourth, freedom for all) she was wearing a long, sweeping black cloak, knee-high boots, and a gigantic hat. okay, what? she thought, then licked some frosting off her chin.
"Hm, this is actually pretty good." Heroes muttered, and then realized that Peregrine was gone.
"wha..." and then she twisted into space, sucked into the void and spat out in a circular room. Agent Winter was there too, as well as Arithmancy.
"Uh, hey guys. Anyone know why we're here?" she said, her voice echoing around the gold-walled room. they both shrugged shrugged. Agent Winter picked up something on the floor and showed it to them.
"Its a piece of paper... should i read it?" she asked, and Heroes nodded.
"Okay... Hello, CBers. This is a round robin, but a peciliur one. Three CBers in each room, and one piece of paper. The message is the same. Do you have confidence in the toppers? Only they can get you out of this. You must escape this room, meet up with the other CBers, and find the Topping Lair. That is where the toppers live, and where they operate. Once you arrive,the toppers will gladly help you, I suppose. good luck, my friends. Signed, The Helper." Win looked up.
"Thats weird..." Arithmancy commented, taking the paper to look for herself. Suddenly there was a grinding noise and a door emerged from the wall. actually, nine doors, spaced two feet apart. Then the walls began to spin, spinning, spinning, spinning, until they stopped. every door looked the same. How on earth would they escape?
-=-
hopefully i didnt take over too much... have fun everyone!
(July 4, 2020 - 2:19 pm)
Arithmancy yawned and stretched. "Well, kiddies, I've gotta take a nap. But I have some stuff in my pockets that might help you..." At this she proceeded to dig a Swiss Army knife, a charcoal pencil, notebook, large ball of twine, and a camera from her pockets. She reclaimed her notebook and closed her eyes. Agent Winter and Heroes exchanged confused glances. "Arithmancy? Sure you don't want to come with us?" Asked AW. Arithmancy sighed and pulled out a machete. "For safety."
They left Ari then. She was glad for the quiet.
(July 5, 2020 - 8:06 am)
”Heroes?” Peregrine said, stepping towards the place where Heroes had last been. It looked like Heroes had disappeared. Before she had much time to think about Heroes mysterious disappearence a large glowing shape descended from the sky.
It landed on the ground next to Peregrine. “Luminescence!” Peregrine said. Luminescence smiled at Peregrine. “Where am I?” she asked. Peregrine answered, her eyes changing to a light green. “I believe I made a new thread and that you fell into it.”
”Is there a way out?” Luminescence said.
Three to each room. So we need one more person since so far there is only Luminescence and I. Luminescence, if you want to be in a different room feel free to change this.
(July 5, 2020 - 10:53 am)
Luminescence screamed. Where was she? "Indigo Feather? Agent Winter? Peregrine? Mary? Strawberri? Quill? Sirin? Arithmancy? Humminbird? ARE ANY OF YOU THERE?" she asked nervously. "Luminescence? Is that you?" came a voice from the corner. It was so dark, Luminescence couldn't see anything, except the glow of her cape. She tugged it off, closed her eyes, and tossed the cape into the dark void. When she opened her eyes, the void was a glowing blue. "Um... yes? It's Luminescence. Who's there?" she asked. When no one answered, she panicked a little bit. "Indigo? Win? Peregrine? Mary? Strawberri? Quill? Sirin? Arithmancy? Humminbird? Heroes? Mahriel? NoOneKnows? Wait you aren't even in this. Are you?" Luminescence asked quickly, her voice unnaturally high pitched. She burst into humorless laughter. "Where is everyone?" she wondered, a little scared, and very panicky. There was no one there. Luminescence sat down, waiting for something to happen. "Luminescence?" a familiar voice called.
(July 5, 2020 - 11:40 am)
@Peregrine, it's fine!
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"Peregrine!" Luminescence almost sobbed. "I'm so glad you're here!" Peregrine smiled calmly. "Are you okay?" she asked. Taking a deep breath, Luminescence answered, "Yes. Well, now I am- EEK!!" Peregrine's face still showed little emotion. "Are you sure?" she asked, her voice sounding a little worried. "Y-y-yes I th-think?" Luminescence squeaked, pointing at something fluttering around, which in her panicked state had looked like a giant moth. Peregrine caught it and laughed. "It's just a piece of paper!" She handed it to Luminescence, who calmed down enough to read it. It said:
Hello, CBers. This is a Round Robin, but a peculiar one. Three CBers in each room, and one piece of paper. The message is the same. Do you have confidence in the toppers? Only they can get you out of this. You must escape this room, meet up with the other CBers and find the Topping Lair. That is where the toppers live, and where they operate. Once you arrive, the toppers will gladly help you, I suppose. Good luck, my friends. Signed, The Helper.
"Who's the third one?" Luminescence asked curiously. Peregrine shrugged. All of a sudden, they saw someone flying- or falling- from the sky of luminescent blue. "There's our answer!" Peregrine said, grinning.
It was... "Majestic Mary!"
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
@Mary, if you don't want to be in this room, feel free to change this.
(July 5, 2020 - 2:02 pm)
Quill was falling again, and this time there were no stars. She landed on her feet in the darkness. She looked around to find the other CBers, but they were gone.
"Hello?" she said. "Anyone? Where are you?" She walked forward a few tentative paces and saw someone emerging from the gloom.
"Quill!" a voice said, and she saw that it was Hummingbird. "Is that you?"
"It's me!" she responded. "Thank goodness, everyone else disappeared!"
"I know! Where could they have gone?"
Quill moved forward, but stopped as she stepped on something. She picked it up and squinted at it. "Look at this paper," she said, and Hummingbird moved closer to read it.
"Three CBers?" she said, confused. "The Topping Lair? I guess we are in the back pages."
"Well, you and I make two," Quill said, "so I guess we wait on someone else before we try to get out of here."
(July 5, 2020 - 2:24 pm)
Sammy just sorta stared at the void in front of her. Hearing voices inside, she threw food, water, the full Percy Jackson series, a Nintendo 3ds, and The Legend of Zelda games in.
"Aight, Ima head out." she said simply, as she disappeared to her mansion with 'poof'!
Sammy was happy the authors in the Inkwell would survive now. She'll check in on them another day.
(July 5, 2020 - 3:29 pm)
Feline Fantasy (you can call me FF for short) blinked and shook herself off. A moment earlier, she had been simultaniously petting a cat, eating a watermelon, and reading a CB thread . . . something about threes?
"Where - where am I?" she asked. She appeared to be floating in a bright blue void, with a few very faint glowing shapes in the distance which she had to strain her eyes to see, then disappeared. Sudennly, something soared past her, something rounded like a frisbee . . . a pie? Another flew past her and she tried to catch it, but thanks to her bad hand-eye coordination and the speed at which the object was going, she failed. Another smacked her in the face and it turned out to, indeed, be a pie. she tasted it. Lemon marange! Her favorite! But even that didn't solve the problem of where she was, why, and how to get out. She heard faint voices below her. Was that . . . Quill? And Hummingbird? She proppelled herself down, and soon stopped floating and started falling. She plopped down next to them, although there wa no ground that she could see. Pie still covered her face, but she didn't particularly care.
"Where are we?"
(July 5, 2020 - 3:30 pm)
"Where are we?"
Hummingbird turned around to see Feline Fantasy standing behind her, looking confused. She was covered by lemon marange pie. "Welcome! We're in Chatterbox." Hummingbird said.
"The back pages." Quill added.
"Yeah. There were a bunch of other people here a moment ago, but then they disappeared and we got this." Hummingbird ducked another pie and handed the note to FF.
"What..." FF asked after she finished.
"We have noooooo idea."
"Toppers." Hummingbird said thoughtfully. "You know, I never understood the purpose of Toppers until very recently. They bring..." She paused, and her face lit up. "They bring threads up to the top! Guys! That has to be the answer! Someone has to top all of the threads!"
Quill nodded. "Okay, that makes sense. But--"
"Duck!" FF yelled. Quill glanced around just in time to be hit right in the face by a chocolate cream pie.
Unfazed, Quill continued. "But who will Top?"
"Can't anyone top a thread?" Hummingbird asked.
"Yes..." Quill said, wiping whipped cream off of her face.
"So, can we just yell 'TOP'!!!?" Hummingbird asked. Nothing happened.
"People don't always say Top, though." Quill said.
"Yeah, they usually put Top in the name place." FF said.
"So we say that our name is top?"
"Why don't we reread the note?" Feline Fantasy suggested.
"'Escape this room, meet up with the ther CBers and find the Topping Lair.'" Quill read.
"Okay, so first we have to find other CBers." Hummingbird said. "How do you locate CBers?"
"Sometimes you write your name @cber." Quill suggested.
"Let's do that, then. Who should we try to find?" Hummingbird asked.
"Let's try Agent Winter or HeroesofOlympus." FF suggested.
"Okay." Hummingbird said. Um . . . @AW? @Heroes?
(July 5, 2020 - 5:16 pm)
"It's Majestic Mary!" A voice called through the dark.
"Wha- huh? Peregrine, is that you?" Mary asked.
"Yeah, and Luminescence too," she replied.
"What's going on? Where's everyone else?" Mary asked, and then noticed a crumpled note in her hand. This is a round robin, but a peculiar one... She read it out loud. "We have to escape this room," she proclaimed.
"But how?" Lumi asked.
"Um, try feeling for the walls. Maybe there's a door around here somewhere," Mary suggested. They extended their arms out in front of them and bumped into each otehr more than a few times, but eventually Mary discovered the wall. She walked along the perimeter of the room and finally found a door, which she ran her hand over until it caught on the knob.
"I found the door!" She cried. "But it's locked..." She could hear Peregrine and Lumi sigh.
"Stay by the door so we don't lose it again, and Lumi and I will search for the key," Peregrine said. As Mary stood dutifully by the door and Lumi and Peregrine dropped to their hands and knees, a sudden light illuminated the sky. Words that spelled out Humming@AW&Heroes. They could hear Hummingbird's hopeful voice saying, "@AW? @Heroes?" It echoed throughout the void.
"Genius! We can @ all the CBers to figure out where they are!" Luminescence said.
"You're right! Maybe we can communicate with them through the name, age and location boxes," Mary replied.
"I guess there's only one way to find out," Peregrine decided.
Mary took a deep breath and thought of the best way to get her message across through the name, age, and location boxes. She needed more space, but she would have to make due. "Mary@ all CBers," she began. "age feel4wall, there's a locked door."
The three stood in hopeful silence.
"Do you think you got the message across?" Lumi asked.
"I guess we'll just have to wait and see."
(July 7, 2020 - 9:31 am)