♕ entered the town seeing what was once her tiny guild base became a small city.

Outside the gates stood Bonifcaius, Bromy and XxFoxlyxX.

♕: What the f#*k have you people been doing while I was away!? Why is there a city at the base now!?

Bromy: That's a great question, it just kind of happened.

Bonifacius: Indeed, we allowed the few NPCs JohnWillStab dragged here to settle down and... well... now this is a city.

XxFoxlyxX: More importantly, where the f#*k have you been!? XxFoxlyxX demanded.

♕: Well, here and there. she shrugged.

Lorb: We've been to the festival!

Bonifacius: What a coincidence! So were we!

Bromy: yeah, we even had a food-tasting competition with some NPC.

♕: Good to see you guys kept yourselves busy. she replied.

XxFoxlyxX: Also, who is that guy behind you?! XxFoxlyxX demanded.

Lorb: As my name would suggest, I'm Lorb, nice to metcha.

XxFoxlyxX: ...

Lorb: What's up?

XxFoxlyxX: ...The Lorb

Lorb: At this moment in time, the one and only.

Bromy: I didn't expect any of the devs to still be playing in the game! Bromy exclaimed.

Lorb: It's not like that, you see it's more like existing in this world in a constant state of suffering. he explained followed by a thumbs-up emote.

Bonifacius: In any case, we need thy help, Crown, we must defeat JohnWillStab before he does something terrible!

♕: Like what? Take over the world, lol?

XxFoxlyxX: ...

Bromy: ...

Bonifacius: ...

♕: Jesus f#*k, what did he do?

Bonifacius: So... pray tell... have thou heard the rumours about the mind-controlling player up north?

♕: Yeah, I saw something about it in the global chat, why?

Bromy: ...

Bonifacius: ...

XxFoxlyxX: ...

Lorb: ... (idk what's going on but I want to fit in)

♕: Don't f#*king tell me JohnWillStab is doing that s#*t!

Bonifacius: It would seem so...

Lorb: He's probably got the Tenecirus sub-class. Lorb announced with a shrug.

Bonifacius: ?

Lorb: Y'know, tentacle evil guy, can mind control and do tentacle stuff, I remember I left the mind-controll ability really OP just to see what would happen since the sub-class was so rare. he laughed.

Bromy: ...

Bonifacius: ...

XxFoxlyxX: ...

♕: ...

Lorb: :D

XxFoxlyxX: Evil tentacle... tentacle... OH F#*K IT'S DEFINITELY JOHN!

XxFoxlyxX remembered that time JohnWillStab was talking about tentacles they just made fun of him.

Bonifacius: Does thou know how to defeat such a power?

Lorb: Nope :D

♕: Hold on, I could tweak the ability so he can only control 1 character, or even better 0!

Lorb: Good luck doing it without admin privileges!

♕: Fine, you do it!

Lorb: Screw that, I don't want to be mind-controlled!

♕: You won't, just pretend to be an NPC (which you basically are) and when you get close, set his maximum characters controlled variable to 0!

Lorb: Mmmm.... but I don't wanna ruin my favourite class!

XxFoxlyxX: This is going to take a while, isn't it... I'll go get something to eat...

Lorb: Watch out, frog-people can't eat too much salt! he called out.

XxFoxlyxX: I meant IRL he replied.

Lorb: ...oh, you didn't notice yet?

XxFoxlyxX: ...notice what?

Lorb: ...nothing...

XxFoxlyxX turned to ♕.

XxFoxlyxX: What is he on about?!

She shrugged.

Lorb: Sooo, you know the way you can taste stuff in the game?

XxFoxlyxX: Yeah...

Lorb: So you're kind of, maybe, a little bit, slowly morphing to resemble your character IRL.

Bromy: ...

Bonifacius: ...

XxFoxlyxX: ...

♕: ...

Lorb: :D

A while of complete silence came upon the group as they realised what Lorb said.

XxFoxlyxX: I'm going to be a frog-person IRl!?

Lorb: Yup.

Bonifacius: AND WHAT ABOUT ME?!

Lorb: You will become a human in the real world too.

Bonifacius: Oh no! Bonifacius grabbed onto his head, worried.

Bromy: You're already human, dumbass!

Bonifacius: Oh, thou art right!

Bromy: So Pedecree will become a wolfman IRL?

Lorb: For a short while before the animus-shift.

Bonifacius: And the fish-people will be fish people too?

Lorb: Correct!

XxFoxlyxX: AND I'M GOING TO BE A FU#*ING ABOMINATION! XxFoxlyxX was still not over it.

Lorb: Yup.

♕: And can we just log out and not be freaks of nature?

Lorb: Nope, it's too late, though I suppose it could slow things down.

Bonifacius: Hold on, JohnWillStab is an undead, correct?

Bromy: Yup, he's a corpse.

Bonifacius: So.. shall JohnWillStab become a regular corpse?

Lorb took a second before playing the shrug emote.

Lorb: I dunno.

Bonifacius: We must warn JohnWillStab, perhaps we can figure something out together!

Lorb: I mean, we specifically designed this so you can't avoid the level-2 animus shift. he explained.

XxFoxlyxX: Do you think I could switch my race real quick?

Lorb: Mmmmm, nope.

Bonifacius started pacing around the town gate.

Bonifacius: We must make haste and tell him!

Bromy: How much time do we have

♕: And can we just log out and not be freaks of nature?

Lorb: Well, the full shift would take... three weeks? But you'll become your respective races in about... four days? More or less.

Bonifacius: We have no other option! We must get there ASAP and warn him!

Lorb: Can't you just text him?

Bonifacius: He has privated his friend's list! And he has only read the global chat... perhaps 6 times in the past.

XxFoxlyxX: Wait, there has got to be a better way to do this!

XxFoxlyxX turned to ♕.

XxFoxlyxX: You still have his IP, right?

♕: Foxly, that is illegal and morally wrong.

♕: Of course, I do, why?

XxFoxlyxX: Just send him a letter!

♕: We have no idea how long the delivery will take.

Bonifacius: Hold up, could we not go pay a visit to JohnWillStab in the real world before he becomes JohnWillNotStabBecauseHesDead?

Bromy: A ROAD TRIP!?

♕: Why's he so excited?!

Bonifacius: Bromy really likes road trip...

♕: Wait, we can't track down his EXACT house, it's more... like the neighbourhood.

Bonifacius: Tis enough!

Bonifacius: I cannot expect all of you to travel on this journey across the world together, however, fear not! For I shall reach JohnWillStab for us!

Bromy: F#*K THAT, I'M COMING!

♕: As much as I don't mind sitting at home before I turn into a froglike-midget, I might as well kick Jonh's ass before I'm an amphibian.

The party turned to XxFoxlyxX.

XxFoxlyxX: Sure, I'll ignore the fact my life is about to get flipped, turned up-side-down!

♕: Which leaves us with one question...

XxFoxlyxX: And that is?

♕: Who's going to drive us?

Bromy: I mean, I live in the middle of god-knows-where, so I was hoping to catch a plane to your general area.

XxFoxlyxX: I can't drive for another two years here.

♕: DUI, can't drive.

Bonifacius: I lost my car...

XxFoxlyxX: Lost?

Bonifacius: Indeed, you see I parked it outside of the wrong house and was too embarrassed to ask for it back, anyway, now I walk to work.

The party fell silent for a while before Bonifacius had a great idea.

Bonifacius: I know!

The whole party looked at him awaiting his idea.

Bonifacius: Hold up!

Bonifacius entered his friends list and selected Pedecree.