[OPEN] ===> Nikkal: Check on meteors.

[starstorm]

Hurriedly, you ditch your conversation with Bharal to go and see if the meteors you'd seen before have drawn any closer. You scurry out onto the balcony of your HIVE, fully prepared to retrieve your ASTRONOMOSCOPE - but you realize almost immediately that it's not needed.

The forest surrounding your hive's plateau is on fire. The blue trees are completely going up in flames, and the scent of burnt wood is stinging your sniffnode. The meteors are now visible to the naked eye from your viewpoint; still, you think that there may be quite some time left...

...until a meteor crashes down right in the middle of the plateau, much too close for comfort. Your LUSUS, who has been peacefully resting on the bottom level of your HIVE, is shaken from her slumber and promptly gets up to go inspect it. As you watch the giant hopbeast emerge from her shelter, the full realization of the danger you're in comes down on you.

You're scared. You know what you have to do, but you're still scared. In any case, you'll be reporting back to Bharal now. You quickly make your way back inside and return to your HUSKTOP.

um
wewp
a meteow just cwashed down neaw nikniks hive
and de neawby fowest is on fiwe
so maybe we shouwd twy and get dis wunning now huh

Your hands shaking with anticipation, you double-click the scrib.exe program again.



Surprisingly, the game doesn't crash this time.

oh
oh OwO
niknik finks its wowking now
can bhabha twy and wun it yet

Comments

[twintimes]

oh hello other person rAndomly on my chumroll I hAven't tAlked to yet
who're you??
Are you hAvIng meteors where you Are too??
I hope not....

[starstorm]

oh hewwo owo
BG is niknik who is nikkal
heehee
uuummmmm
yep dewe awe wots of meteows
its getting scawy

[twintimes]

hI nIkkAl!!
I'm rIA
//o-o
I'm A bIt scAred of the meteors too
I thInk the plAce A frIend of mIne lIves got hIt but I'm not sure..
why Are they everywhere All of A sudden??

[starstorm]

hi hi ^w^ nice to meet wiwi
uummmm gosh niknik doesnt weawwy know why dewe awe so many of dem
she watches de staws evewy night and she neva saw any sign of meteows untiw tonite
its de stwangest fing

[twintimes]

And It seems lIke they're All over the plAce, too..
lIke All over the plAnet
you'd thInk someone would hAve notIced them AheAd of tIme
so, weIrd And scAry too!

[starstorm]

yep yep its supa scawy
niknik did feew somefing kinda weiwd about de sky before dis stawted happening
somefing just fewt off
but she couwdnt figuwe out what it was
and now she guesses dat dis is what was wong

[twintimes]

so you're A sky expert!!
thAt's Awesome, nIkkAl!!

[starstorm]

heehee yep yep
niknik woves studying de sky and de staws
and she tawks to de staws evewy nite
so shes supa confused about why dey didnt teww hew about dis
she finks it mite be somefing beyond deiw contwow
odawise niknik finks she mite have an idea of why dis is happening

[twintimes]

reAlly??
why????

[starstorm]

weww
meteow showas awe usuawwy caused when chunks of space wock enta de atmosphewe wite
dose kinda fings awe easiwy pwedictabwe
but nobunny saw dis coming
not even niknik
so she finks dat maybe de staws knew dat somefing was gonna happen and dey twied to wawn niknik
but dey couwdnt teww hew what was wong untiw it was too wate

[twintimes]

This goes unanswered for a minute. Just until Ria gets her giggling under control and had the chance to point the choice of words out to her sister. 'nobunny' is the cutest word she thinks she's ever heard.

so the stArs knew, huh
I've never tAlked to the stArs so I guess they wouldn't tell me thIngs lIke thAt!!
And It's A bIt dIffIcult to see them where I lIve AnywAy

[starstorm]

nikniks been tawking to dem fow a weawwy wong time so she undastands dem pwetty weww most of de time
but oh noooo
whewe does wiwi wive whewe she cant see de staws ;w;

[twintimes]

we lIve on the edge of A bIg cIty!!
It's All lIt up At nIght so not A lot of the stArs Are vIsIble

[starstorm]

oooohhhhhh ok
niknik kinda wives in de middwe of nowhewe so she can see de sky weawwy good fwom hew hive