[Closed] NU's 2nd Anniversary Celebration - Unofficial Writing Contest (submission thread)

jzar · Jul 23, 2017

Title: The Forum
Genre: SciFi / Humor
Words: 6,936
No Meat Friday needed an online account, although desperate was a better phrase as it was his only escape from his horrible everyday life. No Meat Friday didn’t know that this simple pleasure would turn out to be a big problem. He was very surprised to find that the world needed saving...and they were looking at No Meat Friday to be the hero.

No Meat Friday didn't have clue one what he was going to do about it...

The Forum

No Meat Friday like things to be simple and practical.

What No Meat Friday didn’t like was his current life, which was a sort of daily torture.

No Meat Friday worked at the Spin Turn Recycles Warehouse Factory run by the local university. No Meat Friday had started attending the university and had gotten a job at the recycle center part time. He had some issues with money and so had to drop out of taking classes for this year and and switched over to full time work. No Meat Friday was planning to save up money for school, then go back to school full time next year.

It was a simple and practical plan. The issue with the plan was that No Meat Friday had somehow ended up always having to do the worst job at the Spin Turn Recycles Warehouse Factory. At twenty-two he was no old man but the factory was full of rich eighteen year old college kids whose parents had a great deal of influence with this university owned business.

At work No Meat Friday was the odd man out.

No Meat Friday had no rich parents and no connections with the university. He was just a plain student with no background at all. The others were full time college students that worked at best part time, they took all the easy work and since they were bored took a lot of time to make fun of the ‘old’ guy. No Meat Friday seemed a bit slow to the other students and thus was an easy target to abuse.

No Meat Friday hated the fact that he was always the one made to dump and clean out the giant filter bin for the paper masher machine. This could sometimes take many hours.

The work though not hard was however rather nasty. The recycling machine known as ‘the masher’ was feed old paper and it would mash this old paper into a pulp which was then used to create new paper. Some of the old paper couldn’t be mashed and those bits would end up in the filter bin. The worst part of the filter bin was the unusable leftover goo which had to removed from the filter and then thrown away. It smelled like rotting toads in the hot sun.

You also ended up smelling like this goo since no matter how careful you were some always got on you and stayed with you all day long.

Saying it was unpleasant was a huge understatement. It reeked and left you feeling like you had just run a marathon through the sewers.

So life was a daily miserable experience for No Meat Friday until he had discovered the Wuxia stories online.

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No Meat Friday now had a way to leave behind his daily grind and find an escape using the deep and exciting world of Wuxia online novels.

Having a story to read No Meat Friday would rush home every night to his small empty apartment then log on to Update Novels to read the latest release from the translator.

No Meat Friday’s first story was, ‘Sovereign World Demon Dementia’. The Hero of this online tale had the memories of his past life to guide him, he would met all problems with a smile and take out enemies like a bowling ball takes out the pins. This online Hero could verbally spar like the devil on fire. It was just too easy for the Hero to out-talk both the young snots and the sect’s ancient powerful seniors who tried to suppress him.

No Meat Friday, who was so quiet that some thought him to be mute admired a talkative quality in a main character. No Meat Friday thought this was the best story he'd ever read.

After finishing ‘Sovereign World Demon Dementia’ No Meat Friday was desperate for more. As an addict he was very dedicated in his search of the next Wuxia stories to fill his desperate need.

This was why No Meat Friday loved the Novel Updates site, it made it very easy to find plenty of material to follow daily. The Novel Updates website was No Meat Friday’s constant companion. Always logged in at home and in constant contact via his mobile phone. He would sometimes sneak away from work and find a quiet corner to go read the latest release. This made No Meat Friday’s work day pass in a heartbeat. He even stopped noticing the smell.

His latest favorite online novel was a brand new story called, ‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’ by an upcoming author using the byline ‘Oak Leaf Falls’.

This story centered around a young female physician . She was cold but had a warm heart. This Little Miss took on all challenges with clever plots and many amusing twist of fate. It was a wonderful story and No Meat Friday was in love with this world and it’s heroine. No Meat Friday was very excited about the new story, he couldn’t wait to get home and read the next chapter.

That night he noticed a post on the forums of Novel Updates [NU]. The title of the post was;

‘‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’ is Awful. ‘

Awful !?
Outrageous!
Unbelievable!

The idea of someone bashing the story dear to his heart made No Meat Friday tremble. Sweat beaded on his forehead like a hundred tiny crawling ants. No Meat Friday felt like someone had just walked over his child.

No Meat Friday clicked on the link and started to read...

‘‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’ is Awful. ‘

You’ll want to avoid this one. Too short for one, also too hard to read. No real plot just a never ending mishmash of why the main female is better and smarter than everyone else. Just a bad formula type of writing. Missing this one will give you time to read the good stuff.

-terrible tuesday

No Meat Friday looked at the name of the poster. Underneath Terrible Tuesday’s name was a large animating pink snail that slowly crawled off the screen leaving behind a snail trail of hearts.

Double Ugh.

Seeing the animating snail made No Meat Friday feel like smashing that cute pink snail with a large hammer. No Meat Friday had nothing against snails, right now he just hated everything that had anything to do with the Terrible Tuesday.

Terrible Tuesday had crossed No Meat Friday’s bottom line.

No Meat Friday began to see red, war drums started pounding inside his head with a heavy thud thud thud. No Meat Friday began to type, his fingers matching the beat of the war drums without him noticing.

terrible tuesday,

I don’t think you’ve given LMBFP a very fair reporting. It’s a wonderful story full of humor and drama. It draws in the reader into a wonderful and clever world of a young heroine who overcomes great oppression to win against all the odds. You really need to read it again.’

-no meat friday

No Meat Friday felt amazingly better after writing those words. After a while he noticed an email. He had a response to his posted reply. He clicked on the link.

no meat friday,

Are you an idiot? I already said I read it and it was awful. I’m not surprised you thought it was good as your reading comprehension is clearly sub par. You should read it again, this time wear your glasses.’

-terrible tuesday

No Meat Friday read this reply twice.

He wanted to be sure he hadn’t mis-read anything. While he could read very well he had a great deal of worries about getting things wrong.

terrible tuesday,

I’m an idiot? I don’t even wear glasses, so who’s the idiot? I think it’s pretty clear. I only wanted you to give it another chance, instead you lash out at me.

Wait, never mind...

Please don’t re-read the story. I’m happier knowing that I don’t have to share this wonderful tale with a person like you!

-no meat friday

With this reply No Meat Friday was feeling not just better, he felt like he was a king of the world. He felt like an army that had crossed the alps with elephants and trampled his enemy with big bloody boots.

The next day No Meat Friday had more email from Novel Updates with more replies from Terrible Tuesday. No Meat Friday was almost singing with joy as he typed out his reply full of passionate punctuation's. No Meat Friday was feeling better than he had in months.

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The Alien Blob had been stuck in the warehouse since July 3rd, 1947, which was a Thursday. The Alien Blob hated Thursdays, it could never seem to get the hang of them.

This Alien Blob had only wanted to get out of the hot sun and had slipped into a nearby open warehouse doorway and headed to the deepest darkest corner it could find. The alien blob’s saucer space ship had wrecked in the desert. The blob had only enough strength to reach this warehouse and so it had decided to stay in the warehouse until it had recovered.

Years went by. A lot of years, the blob stayed, it ate old newspapers which while keeping it alive didn’t allow for enough energy for it to try to leave. However, the real truth was that the Alien Blob was very depressed.

For the Alien Blob it was as if every day had now become a Thursday.

One day a local college Professor was looking for a few reams of paper in the university warehouse when he stumbled upon the Alien Blob in a dusty dark corner. Of course the Professor didn’t see it as an Alien Blob but rather he only perceived that it was a simple organic blob of a some kind. The Professor utterly failed to see it as a higher lifeform.

This was not his fault. Alien blobs are just not something humans are able to recognize. Doubly so for Alien blobs from outer space. It’s not something humans have to deal with on a daily basis.

Alien Blob's from outer space just don't register on the human perception filter.

However, the Professor did note how the stacks of paper around the blob had been eaten. The Professor also noted the there was a residue of sticky goo created by the organic blob from eating the paper.

Taking a close look the Professor could tell that the residue of sticky goo was perfect for making new paper.

This sticky goo only needed a filter to get rid of the odd chunky bits and it would then become the perfect material to create new crisp white paper. The smell was much like a dead toad on a hot day but the Professor didn’t take the smell to heart. The Professor made plans.

The Professor convinced his school to open a recycle shop. They placed the Alien Blob into a big metal box they called the masher. They feed the Alien Blob with old paper, the Blob would then process the eaten old paper turning out the sticky goo that made the finest new paper. It sold quite well. They just had to dump out the filter once or twice a day to get rid of the odd chunky bits. It was very successful.

No Meat Friday was the low man on the totem poll at Turn Spin Recycle Warehouse. Thus he was the one always assigned the nasty task of having to dump the reeking unusable odd chunky bits. It was almost impossible to avoid getting some this sticky goo on your clothes and other workers would make comments about how bad No Meat Friday smelled. The other part time employees wouldn’t let No Meat Friday eat in the cafeteria claiming the stink made the food taste awful.

No Meat Friday was forced to eat in the basement, alone with only the cobwebs for company.

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The Alien Blob had a name, which it didn’t like. Since It had ended up on the small dirty blue planet it had adopted much of small dirty blue planet's culture. It had then picked out a new name from this adopted culture. The name this blob decided on was Marvin.

The only reason Marvin was still sane after all these years stuck inside this metal masher box on a small dirty blue planet was that he had been able to go online and find stories to read.

These stories kept him from going insane.

These stories were of course Wuxia stories. Marvin was also a registered user of Novel Updates. He was the oldest member online.

Getting online was easy after the Turn Spin Recycle Warehouse Company added in a computer workstation to help run the masher unit. Marvin just co-opted a few items and used the work station built into the masher. A few twist and turns with a few tiny blob tentacles left Marvin with full admin control.

Stories from Wuxia quickly became Marvin’s only pleasure in life. He lived on Novel Updates by necessity since he was following 200 plus stories. Marvin even started to post in the Novel Update forums.

This made Marvin very happy. Marvin even found Thursday were a bit easier to deal with. After a while simple posting and reading stories didn’t hold enough interest for an Alien Blob’s over active brain.

Marvin started to write his own Wuxia stories. He wrote in Chinese under the author byline ‘Oak Leaf Falls.’ His first story was not great but gathered enough interest to allow him to do a second story. This new story was gathering quite a lot of attention. The story even had a translator working on posting this novel in English. It had also just gotten a review posted on the forums of Novel Updates by Terrible Tuesday.

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Missy Sanders worked the night shift at Holden’s Food and Service warehouse. It was a restaurant supply company that supplied restaurants with bulk food supplies around the country. Missy took the night orders and packed the boxes that would be shipped out the next day. It was a long shift and tedious work but the pay was good. So when Missy got back to her apartment she would sleep for a few hours then get up, eat and go online.

It was the bright spot of her rather dull life.

She had recently found a site called Novel Updates which linked the kind of stories she liked to read. She even read the forums and started to participate. Missy was a bit lonely and soon found herself posting more and more in the forums.

Missy Sanders had a very determined outlook on life and didn’t like to change her mind once she’d decided on something. She also didn’t mind saying so clearly and precisely. Missy had often felt the call to be a writer, yet somehow the stories she wrote were never very good. She did write well but it never turned out the way she thought it should.

Still she enjoyed a good long debate online as that gave her a chance to feel she was writing something and connecting with other people.

Missy had read the latest story,’ ‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’’ by Oak Leaf Falls.

Missy had wanted to like it. However the more Missy read the more she found she just couldn’t go on with it. In fact, Missy thought it was an awful story.

Missy wanted to let other readers avoid her painful experience so she made a post in the Novel Updates forum. She quickly got a reply which she looked forward to reading. Missy was thinking that perhaps this reply would praise her and give thanks, or perhaps they might just say they too couldn’t read such a terrible story. Missy clicked on the link.

The reply was not what Missy expected. There was no praise, no kindred soul wanting to talk about the awful story. The reply to Missy’s well intentioned posting was some bozo clearly wanting to troll her. Who was this blithering fool?, Missy looked at the name of this jerk. No Meat Friday it read.

“No Meat Friday?”

“What kind of weird name is that? Sounds more a church rule than a name.”

Missy was very clear about what made a good story. It was also very clear to Missy that this ‘No Meat Friday’ was completely clueless.

Missy was quite ready to type out a small novel if that was what it would take in order to teach Mr. No Meat Friday what made a good story and why ‘Little Miss: Baby Face Physician’ was awful. Missy was very determined about the standards of right and wrong.

Missy couldn’t help it that she was right.

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Arthur ‘Scowly’ Rode didn’t wear a scowl on his face. Most days Arthur’s face wore a look of slight confusion, nowhere near a scowl.

Clear orders and firm decisions never came from Arthur, so the young college kids that worked for him, walked right over him with big muddy boots and didn’t even say ‘sorry’.

Mostly the college kids didn’t care or even give much attention to Arthur even though he was the manager of Turn Spin Recycles Warehouse Company.

This was of course very frustrating for Arthur. Arthur didn’t dare say anything rude or become too angry sounding, even a firm tone was a stretch for Arthur. Any one of these college kids could put a word in with the Dean of the college and Arthur would be out of a job. Arthur didn’t dare risk that. He had a family to support.

So ordering around the lowest full time employee was Arthur’s way to vent his frustrations. It gave Arthur no end of pleasure to see that quiet kid hauling out the stinking waste filter on the mauler and having him end up looking like dogs vomit from the over spill.

Arthur even had this kid clean out the filter when it wasn’t necessary just to make himself feel better.

The other thing Arthur had for pleasure was lurking about online and posting on forums.

Arthur delighted in creating huge postings full of outrage. Arthur would feel important when he got such attention and happily continue to fan the flames of anger for as long as possible.

Arthur’s latest joy was a site called Novel Updates. It was a popular site and the many users of it posted in the forums with a lot of happy passions. This was an easy place to get a reaction from and Arthur felt he had struck gold after accidentally finding such an easy site to troll on.

Arthur even ended up reading some of the linked translated Wuxia stories in order to find subjects he could troll about. Nothing was better than finding a popular novel and then pointing out every small fault he could find or invent about the story.

One of the oldest and most active moderator from Novel Updates, @AlmostTony, would often send him warnings but Arthur didn’t care. Arthur would just create a new account and as he only posted from an internet cafe he had plenty of IP’s to use.

Currently Arthur was reading a story called ‘‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’‘ by ‘Oak Leaf Falls.’ It was a new online novel and Arthur had been attracted by the odd title.

As Arthur read he found himself surprisingly drawn into the female lead of the Wuxia story. The young female lead had many problems that Arthur felt he also experienced in his daily life.

The young girl heroine of the story had to go through many heartbreaking life experiences which centered on the fact that she was being ignored by the people around her. They would laugh at her and make nasty snide remarks about how much of a loser she was and some would even treat her like a slave to be ordered around.

Even though the ‘Little Miss’, was supposed to be in charge, the young nobles that surrounded her just walked over her. The young nobles had the ear of the King and could easily make trouble for ‘Little Miss’ causing her to end up married to the old minister or worse.

Little Miss would find clever ways to use her deep knowledge of medicine causing each and every snot nosed young noble to end up looking like fools. The more Arthur read the more he was captured by the drama of overcoming what Arthur could never achieve in his everyday life.

This was the first story Arthur had ever read that made him feel like this.

This made Arthur fall in love with the character Little Miss of the Wuxia story 'Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician.’

When Arthur found a post on Novel Updates with the title ‘‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’ is awful.’ Arthur was drawn in like an angry hornet that was looking to sting.

Terrible Tuesday,

You frozen slab of rancid bacon backsides. You dare to call yourself a reader? Not only do you fail, you fail in a way that even a six year would be hard pressed to match. Your failure is of such epic proportions that mere words fail to describe the epicness of your failure. There are small floating turds lost in great oceans that can easily understand the genius of ‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’ better than you have.

I hope my words of reason will persuade you to abandon your current negative stance and that you will retract and apologize to all of the many fans of ‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’ for your spurious statements.

-lord a rode

‘Lord A Rode’ was Arthur’s current online account. Feeling he had done a good job he logged off.

Missy had to reply.

Lord A hole,

Failure is only a dirty little label that you have chosen to use without any resemblance to the real world.

In your clearly nearly empty small mind I suppose it’s the best you could do.

Since you have only made statements of opinion and not of fact. Let me enlighten your opinion with the light saving grace of fact...

1. This story is posted daily with a chapter that has at best three or four paragraphs.

2. Calling a paragraph a chapter is a deep insult to Wuxia readers.

3.Compounding this crime the author post one or two of these hideously short ‘chapters’ on a daily basis, claiming that this makes up for the short style of the so called chapter.

4. The storyline of a genius young doctor is so heavy handed with author driven plot holes that it becomes less of a story and more of a joke.

-terrible tuesday

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These forum debate over ‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’ soon attracted the attention of the thousands of readers of the Novel Updates Forum. It rapidly took over first place in hot topics. Other sites too began to link to the postings there and soon it had over a hundred thousand readers. These links and readers were creating unusual demand on the servers for Novel Updates

This immense amount of activity caused the server to send out an email warnings to the IT admin. Activity like this was early signs of having a site be attacked.

The admin main moderator of Novel Updates went by the online name of AlmostTony, [@almostTony], he never went by AT, those who called him ‘AT” would quickly find he became very unresponsive.

AlmostTony was sitting in a cafe when he started seeing the Novel Updates website alerts. The numbers were spinning upward in a very alarming fashion. AlmostTony didn’t have access to the admin account from his laptop and getting to the main account computer personally would take some time.

AlmostTony was a bit worried but he figured that not much could really happen in the few hours it would take him use an auto car to reach the main server location.

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Marvin was from the planet Qud.

They were the Qud race. Their Planet was called Qud. Their galaxy was called Qud.

This is typical Qudian behavior. Names were sort of tricky for Qudian’s, they just didn’t like to use too many.

Each and every single one of the Qudian’s were named... Qud. It was a bit confusing as you might imagine. This was why Marvin had decided to change it’s name. Well that, plus Marvin didn’t like the way Qud sounded.

The Qudian’s had finally sent out a space force to bring back Marvin.

Marvin’s family on the home world of Qud was somewhat important. Marvin’s family had enough pull to make the Qud military get out and track down Marvin. The Qud Military then found him on a small dirty blue planet. This had taken a long time. Which made the Qud Military very unhappy.

The Qud knew Marvin was on the small dirty blue planet but not exactly where. They didn’t want to waste anymore time and so made a decision that was easy and would get them back home sooner.

The Qudian’s hated space travel.

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Marvin was currently focused on reading the current debate on the Novel Updates forum. He was of course following the ‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’ is Awful’ thread.

At first Marvin was happy to just seeing that people were interested in his work.

After a while this pleasure began to pale. The postings were getting seriously long and hateful. Pointless too is what Marvin thought.

Marvin didn’t want people to fight about his work, he just wanted them to enjoy it. The bitter and angry feelings on display were making Marvin feel terrible. It was like all the pleasure he had felt while writing the stories had been sucked dry.

Marvin was starting to think that something needed to be done, Marvin just wasn’t sure what that was going to be.

That was when the Qud Military in orbit around the dirty small dirty blue planet sent out a message.

This message was carried by every speaker on the planet. It was loud and impossible to ignore.

“PEOPLE OF...**small dirty blue planet**...YOU HAVE ONE HOUR. DELIVERY PROMPT B TWO THREE. RATHER MIND BIG. COUNTDOWN TILL DEPLOY”

After the one Qud message all the clocks in the world were reset.

00:59:00

..it was clearly a countdown and though the message was odd it certainly wasn’t saying that they hoped everybody had a nice day. This was a threat to the whole planet.

Behind the scenes the political leaders listened to the experts give out what they thought it all meant. Talking heads sprouted on every channel with each one giving out a clear message that no one was sure about anything. However everyone was sure about one thing. This was a disaster, aliens had at last come to earth and they were in a very bad mood about something.

Why they were in a bad mood wasn’t very clear. Aliens with the technology to reach Earth from lightyears away had to have the ability to do very destructive things to Earth. No one disagreed about the danger from the Aliens.

Debate around the world was focused on how to avert the Alien disaster. People sent thousands of messages to the Alien space ship. They were all ignored.

The readers of Novel Updates Forums only had eyes regarding the ‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’ by Oak Leaf Falls novel. They had all shared a school of thought that said ‘even if the world were to end, which was more important? The earth or the story.

Novel Update forum fans would only choose the story. They just couldn’t help it.

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00:43:27 the countdown continued….

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No Meat Friday was the one who broke the wall to the outside. His post was the only one so far to deal with the outside Alien disaster.

WAIT A MINUTE!

Did anyone else see the message from space just now?

Oh my god, turn on your TV’s….it’s an invasion from space!!!

-no meat friday

Missy was the first to respond after a long long pause.

Really?

-terrible tuesday

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Yes! Really!

-no meat friday

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Your serious? This isn’t a joke right?

-terrible tuesday

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Look at your d*mn TV!! For f**k sake!

-no meat friday

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Er...I don’t have a TV

-terrible tuesday

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(…..)

-no meat friday

It was at this point that Marvin was feeling very afraid. Marvin knew just how stupid and nasty the Qudian’s were. This was one reason Marvin had been enjoying his time on the small dirty blue planet. Marvin had no real interest in going back home.

Those idiots from back home had finally arrived to rescue him! What terrible timing, Marvin had just started to get the hang of Thursdays.

Marvin needed to get in touch with them. It was only then that Marvin realized. He didn’t have any way to reach them, he was stuck inside this metal box deep inside a warehouse. Marvin was ready to panic. Marvin didn’t have clue one about what to do. If his people blew up the small dirty blue planet, which seemed to be the direction they were going, Marvin too would die.

This was a twist of fate that Marvin would have never used for one of his novel plots.

Umm, hello there

this is the author, Oak Leaf Falls.

I was hoping if I could ask for some help?

Is that ok?…..

-oak leaf falls

p.s. it’s super important to the survival of the human race. Really!!

In complete desperation Marvin posted to the ongoing thread about his novel. Even though he had quite a big brain it just didn’t have any idea of how to avert the upcoming disaster. All he could think to do was to ask for some help online. So he posted.

Clocks around the world continued to count down.

00:28:21

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Listen, I’m not just the author Oak Leaf Falls, I’m really an alien!

My people from the planet Qud have arrived. If I don’t show up before the countdown runs out they will blow up the earth!!!!

They MEAN it!!

My people never joke around, they have no sense of humor and they are all named Qud. Which says all you need to know about them really.

The problem is...

...I’m stuck in a metal box inside a factory called ‘Turn Spin Recycles’. I can’t get out !!

I need someone to come over and get me out.

RIGHT NOW!

I will then need to go to a broadcast station so I can then send a message to my people. That’s the only way to stop the destruction of the planet and save the human race!

Please Hurry!

-oak leaf falls

p.s. I’m totally serious, you have to believe me!

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(….)

-terrible tuesday

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Are you serious?!!??

-no meat friday

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YES! Your planet will be destroyed!

-oak leaf falls

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Are you really the author oak leaf falls? I mean that’s so hard to believe.

-no meat friday

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THAT’S NOT IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW!

Look I’ll prove that I’m the missing alien IN THAT MESSAGE.

I’ll create a problem in the warehouse!

Then you can call the warehouse and get a confirmation!

-oak leaf falls
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Marvin had not been feeling too well. So getting his digestive system to overload was not an issue. Marvin let go with a bang.

It was like the 4th of July firework show. The fluids and chunky bits burst out through the filter door of the masher machine. The waves of goo flooded outward, while chunky bits shot about the factory. The students working there were quickly covered in the nasty smelling goo and pelted with the chunky bits. They freaked out and headed for the exits. Within seconds the factory was emptied of workers. Except for the manager Arthur.

Arthur could only watch as the factory in less than 3 seconds was filled with stinking flooding goo with chunky bits flying about. Arthur knew he was in for it now. So Arthur did the only sensible thing he could think of. Arthur made a phone call.

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No Meat Friday's phone rang.

“Hello…?”

“There’s an emergency at work. You need to get down here right now!”

“Hello, who is this?”

“It me! Arthur, your boss!”

“Who?”

Arthur slowed down and explained more, No Meat Friday finally got it.

This was all Arthur could think to do in his panic. He’d get the one employee he could abuse down to ‘fix’ the problem and then claim that the kid caused the problem. A nasty idea but Arthur felt pretty sure it would work.

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Sorry, I’ve got to go, there’s a problem at work. Bye.
-no meat friday.

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What!! no wait !! that’s me, I caused the problem at the warehouse!
-oak leaf falls

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Ha ha, listen it’s not much of job but I need it. Please stop.
-no meat friday.

Marvin was getting really desperate. He had one more idea and then he would just give up and wait for the end of world. Marvin had many years of time to play around with the computer connections.

Till today he hadn’t seen the need to hack into a phone system since he had no one to call. So he was a bit out of luck there. Still, there was another system he had hacked into that might prove useful right now.

Fine!!

I’ve been able to hack into the auto car transport system, I’ll make a car crash into the warehouse and prove to you that I’m really an Alien and yes I really need help!
-oak leaf falls
p.s. yes, I’m really the author oak leaf falls
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Really? Hmm….ok. That would be cool.

I can call my boss to confirm, so this in your only chance…
-no meat friday
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Are you sure? I mean, do you think that’s a good idea? What if somebody gets hurt?
-terrible tuesday
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Oh….well, only my boss is there right now so it’s fine.
-no meat friday
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AlmostTony was sitting in his auto drive car in a sort of stunned state. AmostTony could only watch as at that exact moment the auto drive car changed directions.

“Hey!! What!!”
“Car!! Stop AND End program!”

AlmostTony shouted quickly. This was the built in verbal command that all cars had to listen to. Unless somebody had hijacked the software of the auto car this command would allow the passenger to safely stop the car and exit the vehicle.

Nothing worked, the car was headed at full speed straight into a warehouse roll up door.

00:14:32

Arthur only had a moment's warning as he heard the screech of tires on pavement. A car burrowed its way into the factory, not stopping until it hit the masher unit. The masher collapsed.

Arthur who was on the phone, could only watch with his mouth open.

Marvin jumped in the back seat of the Car. The human in the front seat looked like he had fainted. Another human with a scowl on it’s face who was yelling loudly also jumped into the car. Marvin gave instructions. The car backed up and took off toward the nearest broadcast station.

00:12:09

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Ok, I’m going to head over to the station right now…..
-no meat friday
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Really? Ok….I’m going too!!
-terrible tuesday
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Hurry!!!!
@almostTony
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Marvin had found AlmostTony’s laptop and quickly logged on using AlmostTony’s admin account.

00:02:42

Marvin, AlmostTony and Arthur raced into the broadcast center. Marvin had explained things on the way. AlmostTony had then called ahead and the station had agreed to let them use the equipment.

00:01:34

They sent out the broadcast.

“It’s me! It’s Me! It’s MEEEEE!

Marvin was screaming in panic as it stood in front of the stations camera’s. No Meat Friday had also arrived and gave Marvin some helpful advice.

“Just tell them your really ‘Oak Leaf Falls.. really it's ok. I’ll vouch for you”

Marvin boggled. This made Marvin realize, Marvin had been screaming in English!

00:00:23

Once again all the speakers in the world carried the alien voice response. Some words were not clear but the message itself was.

“[[[[{[[{[***##*]}]}}}]]……….**….???

CONFIRM. ROGER. COPY. SYSTEM SHUT UP. CONTACT, CONTACT, CONTACT.

[[[***]]]{{[…]}} ENVOY CON END”

The whole world heard the Alien’s reply and saw the countdown clock stop at...

00:00:07

Seven seconds. That was all the time left on the countdown.

There was a world wide sigh of relief. This sigh caused a weather pattern to change. This in turn, caused the coffee growing nations to suffer a sever drought. This would lead to a gigantic loss in coffee bean productions worldwide. Leading directly to the coffee riots in 2019.

-----

Marvin was kind of embarrassed. He was after all an Alien Blob with a very big brain. Yet in his panic and never ending days of Thursday, Marvin had failed to see the obvious solution to his stuck in a metal box problem.

It was only after he read the last post from No Meat Friday that his brain had finally seemed to fully engage.

The last post No Meat Friday had written was of course completely idiotic.

oak leaf falls

[ if you really are ],
um... why don’t you meet me at the broadcast station?….
I have to go to work right now so I can’t drive you.
just use an auto car, ok

-no meat friday

This made Marvin realize, he could just use the auto car and take himself to the station.

Marvin left the small dirty blue planet without saying much more. Marvin did promise No Meat Friday that Marvin would continue to write for the ‘Little Miss; Baby Faced Physician’ series. Marvin told No Meat Friday that the extreme distance might delay the release times but it should be on track within a week.

Missy tried hard to persuade Marvin to give up writing the series altogether.

Marvin ignored her.

Missy then invited No Meat Friday out for a drink. She thought she could easily convince him how wrong he was with the help of a few beers.

Arthur was on the phone to his boss, the Dean, he stood like a statue made of very white marble. Arthur had just been fired.

-----

Some time later…

AlmostTony went on to write a number one best selling book called ‘The World In Seven Seconds.’ He chronicled the events leading to Earth’s first contact. At the request of No Meat Friday and Terrible Tuesday, he changed their names. No Meat Friday didn’t really understand why but he went along with it at the advice from Missy.

Even with fame and fortune AlmostTony continues to this day to admin Novel Updates with no plans to change.

AlmostTony also founded the Seven Second Club, which was a club devoted to enjoying life and not worrying about the small stuff. After all what would you do if you only had seven seconds left to live? It was a very popular club and it sponsored many charities.

-----

Arthur ‘Scowly’ Rode after being fired went on to become a popular writer for Wuxia. He wrote gentle stories, full of love drama and compassion. He wrote under a female pseudonym ‘Falling Blossom’ and had millions of female fans. ‘He’ was called the ‘mother’ of the new Wuxia ‘love type’ stories and it spawned many imitators.

-----

Missy and No Meat Friday started dating and are currently looking for a place to live together.

No Meat Friday is now the manager for Turn Spin Recycles Warehouse Company. He got rid of all the useless college kids and they are now looking to become a multi-galactic business. Marvin is a silent partner and they export a huge amount of paper off world.

Missy tried writing again and failed. However she is still continuing to try. Her latest work uses the style of ‘Falling Blossom.’ She still works at the warehouse and continues to fight online with No Meat Friday. She is still very determined and is happy. She has many followers on Novel Updates.

No Meat Friday won’t ever trust an auto car again, he insist on a manual car or he walks.

-----

Marvin continued writing and has started a new novel; 'Little Miss; So Innocent So Mean.' Which was currently loved and hated by millions.

Marvin also became the first ambassador for the Qud race. As part of a trade agreement between Earth and Qud, Wuxia stories are exported and used as a form of galactic currency.

Many people thought was going a bit too far and that somehow now the Wuxia stories had lost some of their charm. People said it was now different, not as pure; far too commercial.

-----

A protest moment group called Wuxia Belongs to the People [WBP] was also formed. They claimed that Wuxia should be free and without charge. It’s a small group but the members are very loyal.

-----
Almost the end.

Arthur’s real name and gender was exposed, he was then forced to emigrate to the planet Qud. There he now works at the only job he could get; emptying the stinking waste bins of the Qudian’s. He was quite good at it.
-----
Seriously, almost the end.

Marvin’s name change was a source of great unrest amongst the people of Qud. They felt like they too needed a way to break free of convention. They all decided to change their names. They now all go by the name ‘Marvin.’

The end, yes, really.

Action · Jul 7, 2017

Title: KIDZ BOP: NovelUpdates Edition
Genre: Comedy, Parody, Slice-of-Life
Words: ~2500

Track List (songs are linked)
1. Happy Birthday NU ft. @Koalala
2. Viva La Blackjack ft. anonymous
3. Don't Stop Me Now ft. @Action
4. Always Gonna Update You ft. @Action
5. Danmei ft. @Action
6. Tonylicious ft. @Action

Happy Birthday NU

to the tune of Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to you
NovelUpdates, you’re two
We’re proud to grow with you
Here’s to year three’s debut!

Viva La Blackjack

to the tune of Viva La Vida by Coldplay

I used to roll in dough
Nuffies more than you’d ever know
Now when I login I weep alone
Lost my shiny gilded throne

I used to hoard my pay
Watch the cash come in every day
Earning money for what’s said
Now my bank’s in the red, Nuffies have bled
One minute I’m in the green
Next my bank was wiped so clean
And I discovered my finances stand
Upon pixels of salt and pixels of sand

[Chorus]
I lost my money to blackjack gambling
Now I’m salty and sad and rambling
Justabot is a clone of Satan
Well either that or they’re in bed and datin’
For a reason I can explain
Once I play I will always
Always will lose the game
My bank account’s never been the same

I blame it on the RNG
My luck was bad and that’s the key
Drawing twenty yet the bot will win
Bible, why is it not a deadly sin?
One day I hope to win it back
Buy the shop’s baller status plaque
Though the day is maybe years away
Oh I should never even have played

[Chorus]
I lost my money to blackjack gambling
Now I’m salty and sad and rambling
Justabot is a clone of Satan
Well either that or they’re in bed and datin’
For a reason I can explain
Once I play I will always
Always will lose the game
My bank account’s never been the same

Oh oh oh oh ohh oh [x5]

[Chorus]
I lost my money to blackjack gambling
Now I’m salty and sad and rambling
Justabot is a clone of Satan
Well either that or they’re in bed and datin’
For a reason I can explain
Once I play I will always
Always will lose the game
My bank account’s never been the same

Don't Stop Me Now

to the tune of Don't Stop Me Now by Queen

Tonight I’m diving into my favorite stories
I feel alive and the world it all just washes out – I'm
Daydreaming about how I’m another me

So don’t stop me now, don’t stop me
‘Cause I’m having a good time, having a good time

I’m a protagonist getting my revenge
On the bad guys. Let’s see if they all bow down to me
I’m overpowered now. Don’t you dare to challenge or fight me
I’m gonna beat you up
There’s no stopping me

I’m climbing to the top yeah
You’ll be under me
That’s why they call me an OP MC
I’m justice that you cannot flee
I’m gonna smack some supersonic sense into you

[Chorus]
Don’t stop me now I’m having such a good time
I’m lost in the role
Don’t stop me now
If you wanna have a good time, give reading a go
Don’t stop me now (‘Cause I’m having such a good time)
Don’t stop me now (Yes I’m havin’ a good time)
I don’t want to stop at all

Yeah, I’m a modern chick transmigrating back
Into the dynasties
I am a concubine, who lost all her love
I’ve got assassin skills, and a magic cure
Call me doctor please. Yes I’m a
genius MC that’s for sure

I’m scheming to the top yeah
Don’t fall for my trap
The one who loses face will not be me
I’m justice that you cannot flee
I’m gonna smack some supersonic sense into you

[Chorus]
Don’t stop me now I’m having such a good time
I’m lost in the role
Don’t stop me now
If you wanna have a good time, give reading a go
Don’t stop me now (‘Cause I’m having such a good time)
Don’t stop me now (Yes I’m havin’ a good time)
I don’t want to stop at all

Always Gonna Update You

to the tune of Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley

Been reading books on the web
You can’t keep track of all these sites
NovelUpdates is what you’re looking for
Delete your bookmarks and kiss ‘em all goodbye

I just want to tell you how it’s awesome
Gotta make you understand

[Chorus]
Always gonna update you on the latest books
Always gonna house translated fiction
Always gonna make you check and F5 refresh
Always gonna feed your novel addiction

So whatcha even waiting for
Just register and then, you’ll see what I’m saying
Go start creating your own reading list
Just add the books you read, and you’ve got it

So, while you’re waiting for updating
Join NovelUpdates, ‘cause it’s free

[Chorus x 2]
Always gonna update you, on the latest books
Always gonna house translated fiction
Always gonna make you check and F5 refresh
Always gonna feed your novel addiction

So whatcha even waiting for
Just register and then, you’ll see what I am sayin
Go start creating your own reading list
Just add the books you read, and you’ve got it

I just want to tell you how it’s awesome
Gotta make you understand

[Chorus x 3]
Always gonna update you, on the latest books
Always gonna house translated fiction
Always gonna make you check and F5 refresh
Always gonna feed your novel addiction

Danmei

to the tune of Ghost by Ella Henderson

[Chorus]
I swear I didn’t know that book was BL
But I read the story, then was hooked on the spell
And so now, the danmei room is where I hang out
If you know, know any BL
Link me and tell

My friends thought I was insane
Said I needed a better brain
They thought maybe I wasn’t straight
Until they let me then explain

These books, they don’t make you gay
They’re not morally in the grey
Just love, so what’s with the hate?
It’s guy love and it’s pretty great

One day I said, “Hey guys, check out this awesome book”
Without telling them the danmei turn it took

That’s how they got perverted
I mean converted

[Chorus 2x]
I swear I didn’t know that book was BL
But I read the story, then was hooked on the spell
And so now, the danmei room is where I hang out
If you know, know any BL
Link me and tell

Each time that I take a stroll
Down the deep danmei rabbit hole
The hot guys, oh it takes a toll
on my innocent mind and soul

Oh I guess I’m fully
Soaked in the danmei scene
My mind’s no longer clean
Guess I’m now a different being

[Chorus 2x]
I swear I didn’t know that book was BL
But I read the story, then was hooked on the spell
And so now, the danmei room is where I hang out
If you know, know any BL
Link me and tell

Give it a try
Give it a try
Give it a try
Join the dark side baby

Give it a try
Give it a try
Give it a try
Join the dark side baby

I swear I didn’t know that book was BL

[Chorus 2x]
I swear I didn’t know that book was BL
But I read the story, then was hooked on the spell
And so now, the danmei room is where I hang out
If you know, know any BL
Link me and tell

Tonylicious

to the tune of Fergalicious by the Black Eyed Peas

[Backup]
Listen up y’all, ‘cause this is it
You paid a million bucks just for this shit

[Verse 1 – Tony]
Tonylicious definition make the kids go loco
They paid to see me tease Parth, now their bank account is zero
They’ve been saving, they’ve been slaving
Now the time has come to pay them
With a teasing I’ve been craving
After all this goddamn waiting

[Hook 1 - Tony]
Tonylicious (so delicious)
Yes, I’m so ambitious
And Parth I’m coming for you
Guys please, be my witness
I’ll blow kisses (mwuah)
I’ll put my mod on the spot
Will he be blushing like I thought with cheeks redder than hot? (four, tres, two, uno)

[Chorus]
Tonylicious (I’m hot, hot)
Tonylicious (I’ll put my mod on the spot)
Tonylicious (does he want what I got)
I’m Tonylicious (t-t-t-t-t-tasty, tasty)

[Verse 2 - Tony]
Tonylicious def-,
Tonylicious def-,
Tonylicious def- (def def def def def def def)
Tonylicious definition make my mod go crazy
Parth always claims he knows me
Till he’s seen me hot and racy
I’m the T to the O to the N and then the Y
And I can tease Parth like no other guy

[Hook 2 - Tony]
I’m Tonylicious (so delicious)
My lines are bodacious
I be writing at my desk, perfecting the salacious
I’m flirtatious (oh, wee)
I’ll put my mod on the spot
Will he be blushing like I thought with cheeks redder than hot? (four, tres, two uno)

[Chorus]
Tonylicious (I’m hot, hot)
Tonylicious (I’ll put my mod on the spot)
Tonylicious (does he want what I got)
I’m Tonylicious (hold, hold, hold, hold, hold up, check it out)

[Vamp - Tony]
Parth, you’re such a cutie
Don’t you dare refuse me
Free your inhibitions
Maybe then you’ll get a taste
C’mon don’t be so shy
Come and give me a try
I’m so tasty, tasty
It’ll make you crazy

[Backup]
T to the A to the S T E Y – boy, you’re tasty. T to the A to the S T E Y – boy, you’re tasty
D to the E to the L I C I O U S, to the D to the E to the, to the, to the, hit it Tony

[Rap – Tony]
Every time I log on now,
users gather ‘round
always chatting with me up and down
looking at my crown
I just wanna say it now
Psyx already has my heart, but yo Parth
do you wanna be my man?
And I know that you might feel
That I’m doin’ a little cheating
And deserve a little beating
But you know I ain’t retreating
And I’m tryin’ to tell, that you won’t be treated like clientele
‘Cause they say he…

[Hook 3 - Tony]
Delicious (so delicious)
Yes, I’m so ambitious
And Parth I’m coming for you
Guys please, be my witness
I’ll blow kisses (mwuah)
I put my mod on the spot
Will he be blushing like I thought with cheeks redder than hot?

Four, tres, two, uno

Special shoutout to @Tony @Parth37955 @iampsyx @OverlyFriendly @Nom de Plume @crimsonwolf8439 @Koalala and anonymous for giving permission for name usage, for singing, for helping me find people, or for just being part of the process. This wouldn't have been as much fun without you guys, so thanks!

Nahrenne · Jul 8, 2017

Title: Playful Goods
Genre: Romance, Horror
Authors: @amilhs, @Nahrenne
Editor: @Nahrenne
Word Count:Main story - 3562 Extra/song - 220

I like her
I'm wounded
How will I ever heal?
...so deeply wounded...
I...lo..ve...s..o...mu...ch...Bla...nc...F...ro...s...t
...bloo..d
*cough cough*
...so...mu...ch...bloo...d...
plea...se...he..ar...m...y...la...s...t...wor...d...s
I'm dead...
"Amilhs! Wake up!"
What's...that...sound...?
"Do I have to do the kiss of life?"
What...was....that?
...sounded like...kiss...of...life...
life...of...kiss...
...kiss..."Kiss!"
The young man's eyes opened wide, almost popping out, his breathing heavy and moving oddly - as if it weren't his own. Thoughts of wanting to consume the young woman before him began to take hold.
My...brain...mess...words...hear...eat...eat...eat...
...is this...what a...zombie...is?
The young woman injected a substance into his system, his consciousness returning.
"You're alive!" She hugs him...bringing his face to her shoulder as she weeps in happiness.
What...is...she...saying? She's mum...bling...some..thing...
!?!
"Nngh!"
The young man felt something invading his body. His eyes grew wide as pain washed over him in waves.
My heart!
He grabbed at his chest and felt his heart pumping for dear life, beating as one with the woman's. He began to regain his senses, realising who was holding him:
*gasp*
"NAHRENNE!!!" He shouted.
"AMILHS!!!" She replied.
Both of them hugged and sighed at the other's warm embrace.
"Welcome back!" She said, looking both relieved and happy at his presence.

****

In a quiet little village, where people lived in peace and harmony, sons and daughters were helping their aged parents, making their lives peaceful with no worries - just taking care of their grandchildren while their own offspring were working. In the distance, at the center of the village, a large sturdy tree resided, having stood strong for millennia.The elders claimed this tree was the foundation of the village, without it, it would never have formed. Even through the numerous violent storms of the past, the tree stood tall and undamaged. Because of this, the villagers worshipped it as their guardian deity, paying their respects to it when walking past, and offering their best food. Children were kept away, so as not to anger the tree. Past records told of a calamity befalling the village if something happened to the tree. However, the children still sneaked over to play, and over the generations, this number increased due to no consequences.

After many years of nothing happening, the villagers decided this meant the calamity was just a hoax and they allowed the children to play, thinking it was a child-loving deity. Numerous children played games, but over time, the question came, would technology develop so much that children would stay in their homes? Playing on their computers, tablets, consoles and phones? For now, they play around the tree, enjoying the sunshine and getting dirty from mud and sweat...but will that always be the case?

In his room a young boy was smiling and laughing facing his PC or Phone browsing the internet viewing in the screen novelupdates.com. NovelUpdates was a site for lurkers to congregate within the F5 Sect, waiting for refreshing updates to their novels. A young-ish boy (if he groomed himself), an old beggar (in reality), had looks not paint-worthy, water bags under eyes - ready to pop - and messy hair. If he took a bath every day and dressed well, he would be "called" handsome, but alas, he is still wearing a t-shirt worn for an unknown amount of days.

Reading Invisible Dragon, he laughed, smiling in his own world. After finishing it he posted on the forum thread. *alert*, *alert*, @L4 and @brasca123 welcomed him to NUF on his profile. Surprise struck him at their welcoming him, a quick response to his first ever post of 5 months a member of NUF. Such hospitality was shown, especially from the more active members. His thread post was replied to by @kaitenX and, together they discussed the TTNH Drama, whether it was a hoax or not. Not long after, @BlancFrost posted as well, joining the discussion, deviating to talks about the Ze Tian Ji Drama. Their discussion went on and others members left the thread, leaving him and @BlancFrost alone. Using the thread as their personal chat group, they continued on until being warned of spamming the thread. Embarrassed, they made their way to pm-ing instead. The boy's name was @amilhs, and he'd taken a liking to @BlancFrost! Everyday he checked for her replies, loving their chats, growing interested in her and expectant. Always thinking of good topics, they would talk and talk...but one day, she stopped...

A week went by with nothing, anxious he thought: Has she forgotten me? In a bid to cheer himself, he scanned NUF and saw a new topic posted - being on the deathlist of @Shem. Intrigued by the post, he visited her profile and discovered her to be a loli who described herself as having a sh***y personality. Does she really have such a personality? He thought to himself, before discovering that she was a fellow countryman and proceeded to comment on her profile. They talked for a while and she introduced him to fellow countrymen, but to the sheer amount, he forgot their names except for @Shem's. He tried playing a game @BlancFrost mentioned, 'The Piñata Game', and met many more people there - like @Axiel, a very good guy. He'd caught sight of his name due to his title of [Shem's minion] and thought he was also a fellow countryman, but was mistaken. Another person he met there was @Aiiee, a quiet type of person who didn't really talk much, but whenever her post was quoted he would always land a !hit, eventually leading to him naming her 'My Lucky Star'. Whenever he quoted her post, she would like it and sometimes reply, a very mysterious person...

Another two people he met were the girls: @3rd Rate Hikikomori and Green. The first he would always tease and argue with for fun...the other was always quoted after hitting the piñata. Once he grew bored of the game, he noticed 'males vs females [dclxvi version]' and met @kuu0hakuwho asked for his aid in winning the game. He wanted the females' winning streak to end, and so they worked together to lower the count - @DualModulus arrived soon after and they eventually won the game. As they played the game together, discussions arose about things and private lives, until some girls arrived to claw back a victory. In the end, the boys still won the game. The real reason why he joined the male vs female game was due to @BlancFrostmentioning it and him accidentally discovering her activities on it. He wanted so desperately to meet up with her again and find out if she'd forgotten about him or not. He wished she would notice him whilst playing in one of the games. One of those games being Black Jack, to which he accumulated a massive debt from borrowing nuffies from other members, the shame was quite embarrassing...

After a while of being active on NUF, he woke up one day and began to notice a bad, stinking smell. He soon came to the conclusion it was him and realised he hadn't showered in days...he quickly went into the shower to remedy that. After cleaning and grooming himself, he wore some clean clothes, thinking to himself: I should probably go outside and breathe some fresh air! And so he decided to take a walk outside...

When he walked outside, he passed by the tree deity and saw children squatting, listening to the story: 'Cinderella and the 8 dwarves'. Upon hearing the melodious voice of the speaker, he couldn't help but look and gaze his eyes upon the jewel of the village, Lady @Nahrenne. A beauty so rare and refined in her manner, her very existence another deity - a goddess - to the young men of the village. All males were attracted, all males afraid of rejection, treating her as the most precious treasure within their home. Many of them gave attempts at wooing, all but one failed.

This young woman was not born of the village, but had moved here with her rich and well-known family - at least, that was what the elders had said. She was such a kind and gentle woman, always visiting and playing with the children by the tree, telling stories while they rested.

Stepping on a tree branch, the sound brought their attention, and all looked upon his figure. A girl came up to him, clinging onto his arm, calling his name in a sweet, innocent voice: "Big brother @amilhs!" Her face full of smiles and giggles. Patting her head in greeting, he responded:
"@Nod chan, have you been a good girl?" She clung even tighter when she noticed his gaze on the alluring woman further away, smiling at him as he smiled in kind, nodding to her.

A young, handsome man approached her from behind, wrapping his arms around her waist and kissing her on the cheek. @amilhs saw @Nahrenne become shy and a bit nervous over the situation, but her heated gaze and blushing cheeks implied other thoughts on her mind. The young man was @Faisal, the one to succeed in wooing her, as well as the grandson to the Elder of Finance. Many girls had been known to swoon over his looks, and his serious, yet cheerful demeanor only served to gain him more adoration from the girls. The men of this village were envious of him, but stayed silent on account of his kindness, sincerity and eagerness to help and have the talent to do it.

@Nod chan released @amilhs' arm in a jealous fit of annoyance once she saw him stealing looks at Lady @Nahrenne. In a bid to gain his attention once more, she shouted: "Big brother!!! Big brother!!!" to him, but he continued to view the scene before him, not minding the child's nagging and pestering. Enraged for being ignored, she puffed out her cheeks and pouted, before declaring to all who were nearby: "In the future I will make you mine and you will stare only at me! You will be begging for me to become your wife!" At this, she ran away in a hurry, crimson cheeks and neck showing signs of her embarrassment. Unfortunately, however, the young man failed to hear, as he watched the scene from films playing before him. A really good match of Heaven and Earth, he thought to himself, unaware of his surroundings.

Seeing the couple leave, he regained his senses, returning to his room to go back on NUF. He played the game Black Jack and lost lots of nuffies, gaining an even larger debt, so he switched to play the gender game and met new people: @Lonelycity, @Uno and @ninish. Together they acted as if in a BL, lightening up the mood, not knowing a fujoshi was playing, excitement and anticipation taking hold over her senses.

As the time passed by, they had a good time, his crush turned up and they chatted the hours away, her apologising for her lack of response, saying she hadn't forgotten about him. As their conversation wrapped up, he heard a noise from outside his home. He heard screaming, shouting, pleading and crying.

Checking what the noise was, he was overcome by a nightmarish scene. Blood was everywhere, weapons were scattered on the ground, many people were wounded, and there were strewn bodies all around. No! He thought to himself. I know these people...they're from our village!
"What happened!?!" A lady shouted, approaching coated in blood and carrying a metal pole. At first, he was scared of such a sight, but after a moment, he regained his senses and realised it was the granddaughter of the village Chief, @LaDyViL .This mature woman held a beauty close to @Nahrenne's, having the bearing of a future village Chief, she had an unwavering gaze, a wise looking face, a curvaceous body, as well as long, flowing hair tied into a bun on her head. This woman's appearance was quite often forgotten, largely due to the fact that she was often absent form the village, performing duties that her grandfather could no longer do. The blood smeared across her face did nothing to detract from her beauty, her bright eyes shining, full of life, vim and vigour.

She looked upon @amilhs and grabbed his hand, examining him for wounds before dragging him away from their location. A group of villagers began approaching from behind, full of wounds, moaning and dull-faced. One such villager caught up to them and, without showing any hesitation or mercy, @LaDyViL smashed their face in with her long metal pole, and rushed away from the growing crowd - the young man following behind in confusion.

As they approached the tree deity, his eyes widened in shock at the scene. Its tall towering figure was surrounded by fallen, broken branches, blood soaked into its bark with scars marring its once pristine trunk. Thinking back to the teachings of the elders, he thought to himself: is this the calamity caused by our deity's current state? Remembering how the children used to play around its woody arms, he turned to his companion and asked:
"Where are the children? Is @Nod chan safe!?!"
"Upon realising our situation, thevillage elders led them to a safe place, you need not worry about them, they are out of harm's way." She picked up a metal pole from the ground and pointed towards the gate to the village hall.
"Take this and pass that gate, you will be safe as long as you stay there. I'm going to look for more survivors, so this is where we shall part ways." With that, the woman began to leave, but paused a few moments to add a little more to her instructions:
"If you see anyone with bite marks, use that pole to smash their head in, unless you want this 'illness' to spread further and endanger the little ones. Do not hesitate, my own grandfather fell victim to such people when tending their wounds..."
She fell silent at that revelation, before looking into @amilhs' eyes and saying, "even if it's a loved one, it must still be done!" Upon hearing her words and seeing the sorrow in her eyes, he came to the conclusion that she had done the deed herself to her kin. Leaving after seeing him nod in acknowledgement, he was soon left alone, moving towards the gate.

As he made his way to the Hall, he saw some wounded villagers and moved to help them. However, they were breathing heavily and turning deathly pale, that was when he remembered @LaDyViL's warning, check for bites and destroy thehead. Cautiously, he examined their wounds and noticed several bite marks on all three people. With great trepidation and sorrow, he swung his hard metal pole into their heads, making them burst like watermelons, their flesh spraying all around. A tear fell from his eyes as he looked upon the mosaic of red and grey matter, having recognised one as a resident of his street, another the mother to a child who used to play by the tree. How long must I do this for? he thought tohimself, wiping the evidence of his carnage with his wet hands, smearing the liquid over his cheek and brow. Will I ever get to confess to my crush, @BlancFrost? No, I must survive! If not, then she'll forget me! I will survive so I can confess!

With determination rising within him, he raised his arm up high, revealing his uplifted spirits over the situation....However, upon closer inspection of his arm, he noticed a most dreaded thing...there's a bite mark on my wrist...His vision going blurry, he felt his strength wane, not knowing what to do, he dropped to his knees and closed his eyes, forgetting where he was and drifting, while humming a mournful tune to a song from his heart...

****

Hearing @Nahrenne's words of welcoming back from the 'illness', he hugged her back before letting her go and asking, "What happened here? What did you do to bring me back?" A look of confusion resting on his face.
"Let me take you beack to my mansion, to tend to your wounds, and we can discuss the situation from there." She said, all smiles and gentle eyes upon her face. Helping the young man up, she led him to the edge of the village, taking this opportunity for the both of them to learn more about one another.

He told of his accumulated debt on NUF, but hastily explained it as a joke in embarrassment, telling her not to worry. She laughed at his strange iteration, and smiled, looking happy - the both of themtrying to forget what was happening around them, with screams echoing in the background. It was after speaking of his internet addiction, that he discovered her also being a member of the community, reading the CNs and JNs, enjoying the many stories found there. They spoke of the latest threads that @brasca123had posted; threads about @Tony, NU's creator stripping on the community of NUF. @Nahrenne laughed at this and @amilhs asked her: "Do you think we could raisesome nuffies to make him strip?"She laughed once more at the humorous question, stating @Tony was a girl, to which he cried allowed stating:"All the more to raise some nuffies then! It will be a feast for the eyes!" @Nahrenne giggled at this statement, and they both chuckledfor the rest of their journey, their stomachs beginning to hurt from the excessive laughter.

Finding the young woman easy to talk to, his mind eased and calmed, glad that such a beauty was willing to take him to her home to tend to his wounds. I wonder if @Faisal is okay...I haven't seen him at all...He kept this thought to himself, not wishing to worry the poor girl's heart. As they continued walking down the empty path, a big mansion soon came into view.
"We're here~" @Nahrenne said with a smile, looking pleased with herself for safely escorting her patient to her home. They approached the large, wrought iron gate and were greeted by two guards, who opened them in unison with no wasted movements. Soon some maids came and stood in a line, all wearing a clean cut uniform, looking dazzling and fresh in @amilhs' roaming eyes. They bowed their heads in deference at the same time and took the bloody metal pipe from the young man's hands. Not a word was spoken by these maids, but they gave welcoming smiles. How strange...why are their eyes so dull looking? He thought, noticing how doll-like they seemed.

Choosing to ignore this anomaly, he followed @Nahrenne through the mansion doors and was led through another door with steps going down to what seemed like a basement, or cellar. The corridor was brightly lit and the walls and floors were white. Not a speck of dust could be seen, and the many red doors were tightly shut with nameplates stuck on them. After a few minutes of walking, they soon stopped at the last door in the corridor, the young woman opened the door and urged @amilhs to follow. Looking upon the nameplate above this room's door, he frowned a little inside, not sure what to make of it, but once he looked at @Nahrenne's welcoming face and demeanor, he quickly put those doubting thoughts away and entered into the room...

Seeing the contents of the room left @amilhs in shock, a wave of uncertainty and fear creeping through him, crawling up his spine. The large room was filled with large containers of clear liquid, with vital organs floating within, neatly arranged by name and number. Hearts, eyes, livers, brains, lungs, kidneys and such were covering the shelves of her tall, towering bookcases. There were tables covered in apparatuses, latex gloves, instruments of dissection and syringes; in the distance a table with a sheet-covered corpse laid on top, bloodstains soaking the material all over. What kind of room is this!?! He thought to himself, feeling his body instinctively begin inching closer to the exit.*cough* Turning his head to the location of the cough, his eyes opened wide in shock, as he saw someone he knew all too well...

A man in his prime of youth, full of wounds, scars and burn marks. Blood dripping down into buckets placed beneath the now red bed. Chains placed around his wrists, ankles and neck, restricting his movement completely. A face that, not long ago, had once been truly handsome, was now marred with melted skin from acid, cuts made from scalpels, and lips peeled away showing perfect, but bloodstained, teeth.
"FAISAL!!!"
The young man shouted, shocked beyond belief over how he sustained such injuries in only a few hours. He looked towards @Nahrenne, to see an evil smile painted across her all too perfect face, holding a White syringe and creeping towards him. So this is why my state was cured so easily, she'd experimented on her lover. No, not a lover...He found it hard to come to terms with his enlightenment over the name of this room. This was a place for her to have fun with her 'toys', the place completely teaming with them.
"Don't worry, @amilhs, you'll only feel a small prick, before the good stuff fills you up~" She proclaimed as she crept ever closer. He felt resigned to his fate...he had become her new 'toy' or, if he went by the name of the room; one of her 'Playful Goods'...

Like (Knife) - Rockwell

You touched my life
With your softness in the night
My wish was your command
Until you ran out of love

I tell myself I'm free
Got the chance of living just for me
No need to hurry home
Now that you're gone

Like
Cuts like a like
How will I ever heal
I'm so deeply wounded
Like
Cuts like a Like
You cut away the heart of my like

Like
Cuts like a Like
You cut away the heart of my like

When I pretend
Wear a smile to fool my dearest friends
I wonder if they know
It's just a show

I'm on a stage
Day and night I go through my charades
But how can I disguise
What's in my eyes?

Like
Cuts like a like
How will I ever heal?
I'm so deeply wounded

Like
Cuts like a like
You cut away the heart of my like

Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh

I've tried and liked
Blocking out the pain I feel inside
The pain of wanting you
Wanting you

Like
Cuts like a like
How will I ever heal?
I'm so deeply wounded

Like
Cuts like a like
How will I ever heal?
I'm so deeply wounded

You cut away the heart
Of my like

@brasca123 @L4 @kaitenX @BlancFrost @kuu0haku @DualModulus @Nod chan @Novel otaku desu @Faisal @LaDyViL @ninish @Aiiee @3rd Rate Hikikomori @Lonelycity @Axiel @Shem Green @Tony @Shem @amilhs @Nahrenne @Uno

Hope all who read this enjoy!
(^_^)
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shad12ow · Jul 8, 2017

Title : A Short Interview With The Nuffian I Know~
Genre : Real, Comedy, Interview
Author/Interviewer : @shad12ow
Editor : @Pyoo
Interviewee : @Pyoo , @ExitedDeviljho , @Siostar
Word Count : 5.300 (more or less)
Disclaimer:
This is a true and non-scripted report and all came from a real life interview.

In a certain room inside an unknown building, there is only darkness. Then suddenly a light from the ceiling turned itself on and gave light toward the middle of the room, making a table visible. Then another light turned itself on, this time giving light toward the area to the left of the table. A figure is shown with his usual black outfit. As a smile on his face appeared, he gave a light bow.

??0: Welcome~! Welcome to today’s show~! And what’s the show’s name? Honestly, I don’t know. But I do know one thing~! We’re going to interview 3 random people from the land of NUF about their experience in NUF~!

*The man claps his hand and the sofa to the right of the table lighted up, revealing the 3 people*

??0: Okay, ladies and gentleman, I am your host for the night, Shadow~

??1: The shady guy!

Shd : The shady guy? Wait!? I’m not shady! *ehem*Let’s start wi-

??1: Bearly guy?

Shd : …That’s just so wrong. Okay~ Ignoring that~! as you might know~ NUF is having a short story. Competition~ And an idea struck me~! Why not interview people? And here we are~!

??1: A bad idea.

Shd: Oh, shut up.

??1: *laughs*

??2: *laughs*Good girl Sio~

Shd: Aw, look at the lovely couple~ Anyhow~ Let’s start! The first one is known to be one the many poet in NUF. She is a member of Adventurer Guild that joined in the middle of the game. Her character is known to be the rescuer of many low ranked members. But her most well-known achievement tells the story of a certain knight trapped in a perilous situation and almost get involve in a *ehem* questionable situation. Let’s meet and welcome, Siostar~!

Sio: Hello.

??2: Hello~

Shd: Not your turn yet, Sin. *whack the 2nd participant’s head* Okay, the 2nd one is known to be the trap knight in Adventurer Guild because of his rather androgynous appearance and feminine speech pattern. Has one of the most difficult name to type- for me, at least. And he is Sin, that one character in Sio’s famous story of *ehem* questionable situation. Let’s meet and welcome, ExitedDeviljho~!

Sin: Hello my name is ExitedDeviljho ~

Shd: That’s it? You two, that’s it?

Sio: *laughs*

Sin: I don’t know how to introduce myself. Too much to say~

Shd: Sheesh…moving on then to our third participant. Quite a famous one, she is. As for most ‘like received’, she is on the 3rd place. Known to have a cult of her own in the past. Let’s meet and welcome Pyoo~!

Pyo: Finally here~! Fashionably late~!

Shd: Yes, you are late. Anyhow~ Let’s not waste time and go straight to the question, shall we? First question! How did you know NUF/NU? Which one did you know first? Please tell your experience~ Sio, you can go first.

Sio: I kinda forgot? I think, I was mostly just looking for a novel…but I started officially in AG.

Shd: Oh, yes, I remember that. You are one of those AG members that go straight to AG with 0 post.

Sio: Jep. Foxy will remind everyone

Shd: Ah, Foxy here is none other than AG receptionist. Just explaining a bit. Right, right. Thank you for the answer. Kiddo, your turn~

Sio: Shadow, you’re boring.

Shd: Oh, shut up.

Sin: *giggles*

Sio: No way!

Shd: Kiddo, answer. Quick! We have 4 more!

Sin: For me it's maybe when I was searching for shield bro novel.

Sio: The funny shield hero, in another world~

Sin: *nods* First I was reading it at baka tsuki, but because it was getting harder and harder keeping up with the updates, I started using NU and its bookmark feature.

Sio: Oh~

Sin: It was becoming really easy to keep up with update after I registered at NU. I'm also finding other nice novel there.

Sio: And then you become a good member of NUF~

Shd: Then how did you find NUF then? Just on a whim?

Sin: Ah, actually I found some nice topic on NUF and decided to register because of it.

Shd: Oh? Do you remember what topic was that?

Sin: *averting eyes* I don't remember. I swear

Sio: Hope it's not shady. Like Shadow.

Sin: And it's definitely not shady topic or anything. *averted eyes*

Shd: Somehow that "I swear" part is making me worry.

Sin: *continues averting eyes*

Sio: Hmm? *glares at him*

Shd: Well, let's move on, shall we~? …before something bad happen to kiddo courtesy of Sio. Pyoo, your turn.

Pyo: SHAD! I have a complaint!

Shd: What? Complaint?

Pyo: You haven't been a good butler/chef recently! I had to bring my own snacks!

Shd:….shut up…

Pyo: Boo! Boo! Where are my snacks!?

Shd: Ignoring that….Pyoo, how did you know NUF/NU? Which one did you know first? Please tell your experience~

Pyo: NU! I first read WN through mushoku tensei! From there saw the comment section and found shieldbro and then some other stuffeses.

Sin: *eats cookie*

Pyo: *pokes sin*

Shd: Keep talking!

Pyo: Boo! And from the comment I saw people talk of NU! As a place to see other novels or whatnots. So I checked it out and fell in love with the tickmarks and reading list~ Love love it so much! So I used it for a longgg time. Made my account back in jan.

Shd: Go on.

Pyo: I've been seeing the 'hot topics' or whatever up top but have never really checked it out. But on my bored days, I decided to look into it and found the profile section and well, the rest is history! *looks with smug face*

Shd: Thus the start of your career as one of NUF celebrity.

Pyo: Ayee~! At first people thought I was a clone. *laughs*

Shd: Oh? Why is that?

Pyo: Now where’s my snack!

Shd: Sheesh…..*gives cookies and milk*

Pyo: Yays! *noms cookie with milk*

Shd: There, happy!?

Sio: Move on~

Pyo: Ayee! Cause I was NUF-savvy enough. I mean the interface is easy. You find things easily, you click things and find more things. Apparently I was too savvy for a new members. *laughs*

Shd: oh, I see, I see. Well, that was interesting.

Pyo: Ayeaye! Tell tony thanks for me and tell him, what I really love about NU is the reading list tickmark thingy. If possible I want manga and anime to have such the easy smooth flow NU has.

Shd:…Somehow your answer is more than the two's answer combined….not that I'm complaining…

Pyo: cause I’m a celeb! I’m used to this. *laughs pompously*

Shd: I see, I see. Next question! How long have you been a forum member? And how active you are now? Compared to the past, I mean. Sio, please~

Sio: Hmmm...

Shd: Or should we have kiddo answer first?

Sio: Well it was since August. I was less active in the first month or two.

Shd: After that?

Sio: Well I had a sudden bandit raid in AG. And then a dragon raid I think

Shd: Oh, that bandit raid, eh? I see, I see.

Sio: Somehow I got in the process.

Shd: Yeah, I remember Sio writing the part of rescuing a certain someone. Well, anything else to add, Sio?

Sio: Not much.

Pyo: The rescue thing was pretty early?!

Shd: It was pretty early.

Pyo: You clicked together fast then, huh~ The cool sword dancer and her bread loving prince(ss). *laughs*

Sio: It was Hikari that I saved.

Shd: Yeah, it was Hikari. When Shadow died

Pyo: OOOOOOOH! You’ve been saving people left and right.

Shd: Okay~ kiddo~! You're up~ Same question~

Sin: Okay then ~….Wait what is the question again?

Shd:……. How long have you been a forum member? And how active you are now?

Sin: Oh! It's been 1 year 2 month.

Shd: Haha~ you're looking at your profile, eh?

Sin: *averted eyes* I was really active back then.

Pyo: You was you was. You were a prominent profile poster before. As active as me and Epi, which is scary.

Sin: Because chatting on NU Forum was a pretty new experience for me.

Shd: Oh, new experience?

Pyo: I see.

Shd: You've never been to any forum before, kiddo?

Sio: 21 dare. Fufufu~

Sin: Hmmmm… I've been to a lot of forum but the one like NUF is the first time for me.

Shd: Ah, I see, I see. It was your first time.

Sio: Come on, Shadow! Be more funny,

Pyo: 21 dare?

Shd: Oh, shut up, you're the one that answered everything so short! Kiddo, go on

Pyo: What's 'one like NUF'? How’s it different?~

Sin: *mumbles softly* Getting adopted by a bear, somehow getting a lot of debt, almost married and become someone wife, and many more. *sobs*

Pyo: *laughs*

Shd: ...............

Pyo: *hugs little hoho*

Sin: *cries*

Shd: Somehow this make kiddo's memory resurfaced.

Pyo: *gives bread*

Sin: *noms the bread sadly*

Shd: Anything else to add? Or will that be all for now? I'll move to pyoo for now.

Sio: *hug Sin*

Sin: Nothing...I think *sobs*

Shd: Okay~ splendid~

Pyo: Me me!

Shd: Pyoo~ it's your turn~ How long have you been a forum member? And how active are you now?

Pyo: June I started my career XD

Shd:.....somehow I don't see the need of that last question

Pyo: I’m less active now believe it or not.

Shd: It's like Pyoo is everywhere!

Pyo: *laughs*no no. You only think that way cause you’re not an active profile poster. But if you see the current profile post~

Sio: Doubt it.

Shd: Doubt it.

Sin: *giggles* Pyoo is reaaaaaaly active back then ~

Pyo: I’m not there EVERYWHERE! See hoho knows~! I’m WAAYYYY more active then. I was as active as Shem. That’s the comparison.

Shd: Ah, another rising celebrity's name is mentioned~

Sin: More than Shem . *laughs*

Pyo: *laughs* MORE?? *laughs*

Shd: More than Shem even!

Pyo: Whew~

Shd: Wow~

Pyo: But yea, I was spending day and night here. Oh, I have a question you should ask!

Shd: Spending day and night there?

Pyo: 'what do you think being in NUF has done for you'. 'what do you think of NUF and its community'

Shd: Hmm? That's the last one. I already prepared 5 questions. Those are already included.

Pyo: Oh good. *claps*

Shd: Continue, please.

Pyo: Day and night aye. I was losing sleep for NUF

Shd: ...wait, what?

Pyo: *claps*

Shd: what!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Pyo: Because of NUF. Different reasons tho. Before I was losing sleep cause the talk was fun! Then I was losing sleep cause of Dungeons. Now I'm losing sleep to chat leisurely with people. I'm an excitable little birdie *laughs**noms more cookies*

Shd: okay......

Sio: How unhealthy…

Pyo: That’s how you become an anonymous forum celebrity. The amount of commitment. And dedication. Welp welp it’s better now tho. *laughs* I’m using NUF as heavy as normal people uses social media.

Shd: You even have a sect back then

Pyo: CULT!!!

Shd: Cult. Sorry

Sin: Cult. *laughs*

Pyo: And I still have it hmph!

Shd: The Pyoo Cult.

Sin: A reaaaaaly big one *laughs*

Pyo: It’s the Cult of Pyoo! *laughs* It died tho.

Shd: I was invited to it too.

Pyo: Wut? Really?

Shd: Yeah, invited. I refused. That's the logical action.

Pyo: Invited? By Nargol?~ *laughs*

Shd: Forgot. A few people did? Maybe?

Pyo: I see, I see.

Shd: It was a looong time ago.

Pyo: It’s that amazing huh

Sio: He too shady for that

Pyo: That more than 1 person invited. *laughs* Well it’s a shady cult. *laughs*

Shd: It is a shady cult.

Pyo: *laughs*

Shd: And I heard talk of it being build again. who knows? But that is a story for another time~

moving on~ To the more interesting question~ The one I've been waiting to ask~ What is your best experience in NUF? And worst one? How far did NUF affect you?

Sin: Guh!

Shd: I know your reaction, kiddo~ *laughs*okay, Sio, first~ You don't need to mention name if you don't want to~

Pyo: That’s so many questions in one!

Sio: Best or worst first?

Pyo: Worst!

Shd: Worst first? Depends on you.

Sio: I guess it was a mess in Devi profile... or the one with a 21 dare...

Pyo: Mess? 21 dare?

Shd: A mess in kiddo's profile? do tell~ Since the person in question is here after all~ There's nothing holding you back~

Sin: Well there is a lot of mess in my profile *laughs*~

Shd: True, true.

Sin: "Fun" mess ~

Shd: But which one made 'the worst' for Sio? That’s the question.

Sin: umu umu. I'm curious too ~

Pyo: *laughs* ‘fun' eh~?

Sin: Yups 'fun'.

Sio: I forgot the user name, but there was one who wants to take me and Devi as wife, I think

too many was against us, and somehow I want to complain to Foxy....

Pyo: Against you?

Shd: Wow....I think I remember that time. I think that was when we almost went to adopt you two

just to protect you two

Sin: *laughs*

Shd: Not me, but the Hell Family.

Pyo: OH? I don’t remember that.

Shd: We don't talk much at that time, Pyoo. You were too much of a star for a commoner like me to talk with.

Pyo: Oh wait maybe. Adoption I see.

Sio: Well I was made to become a slave and Devi was in a fight? Somehow the one who made the mess, become Devi's father.......

Pyo: *pats Sio*

Shd: Well....that's a mess. A mess indeed. Okay, before this got censored~ let's move to the best one then~ Or else kiddo's dignity will be reduced even more

Pyo: Eehhh? There’s censoring??? What’s being censored?? Was it a dirty mess? *suggestive looks*

Sin: Our name ?

Pyo: Our name?

Shd: The whole story, you dolt!

Pyo: Oh. *laughs*

Sio: What about my best one?

Shd: Yeah, what's the best one?

Sio: Hmmm... too many good ones.

Shd: Pick one. Or a few ones. Three of them if you want to. Yeah, at max 3.

Sio: Let's say one time then Devi said he want to mess a girl up. I enjoyed to make a big mess of it. Fufufu~

Shd: Wait, what? What?

Pyo: Ara…Ara ara

Sin: *laughs*

Shd: Mess a girl up? What?

Sin: Ah that's a nostalgic one.

Shd: Do tell~

Sin: I think boss, Brasca and Sio involved in it.

Sio: You were even trying to help Devi. *laughs*

Shd: Too long ago, I forgot. Tell it again?

Sin: It's on my profile post. Hmmmmm I kinda forgot what I post tho

Sio: He used a dictionary to say what mess up mean. *laughs*

Sin: I don't know what mess up was mean at that time, okay. *pouts*

Sio: It was a big time mess. Another time will be the festival.

Shd: Festival? AG festival? Valentine festival?

Sin: The valentines one ~

Sio: Jep, I made Devi to dress up for me~ And a new nick for my Angel~

Shd: I see that your best and worst time is always with kiddo. How sweet~

Sin: *giggles*

Sio: I also had fun with everyone. Like the proposal~ *laughs*

Sin: Geh! That one!

Shd: *laughs out loud*

Sin: Don't laugh! Uuuuu

Shd: Why is the failed proposal your best one?

Sio: Coz I could see everyone protested?

Shd: Protested? Oh, right, right. Everyone protested that the proposal is not done properly

Sio: How it was too freak.

Shd: *laughs* Too freak~! Ouch~!

Pyo: *laughs* How was it done actually?~ To even have people protest?

Sin: *laughs* It's a funny one.

Shd: Wait, wait. Let her tell it~

Sin: Go on tell it ~

Sio: No flower or ring, just words.

Shd: It was not even that romantic. His poem is even more romantic, eh?

Sio: There are only a few people even.

Shd: *laughs out loud*

Sio: And no date before.

Shd: Wait, really? No date? Whatsoever?

Sio: Jep.

Sin: *nods head*

Shd: Just met, and 'bam', 'will you be mine', eh?

Sin: *averts eyes*

Sio: So as punishment, a date with cross-dressing

Shd: *laughs* Nice, nice~

Sind: Well…. I was young and stupid at that time….

Sio: And that how I could cross-dressed him, in festival~

Shd: Nice~ Anything else to add? Or should we move to kiddo?

Pyo: No reusing occasions!

Sio: In the festival I got flowers. From his pet.

Sin: Guh~!

Sio: Typical Sin.

Shd: *laughs* Okay, let's move to kiddo for now to keep the conversation moving~

Sin: Hmmmmmmm~

Shd: What is your best experience in NUF? And worst one? How far did NUF affect you?

Pyo: Oh , Sio didn’t answer the last one! That should be a separate question!

Sin: Yup there is no the affect one ~

Shd: Let them answer that question together~ Before you, Pyoo.

Pyo: *squeal* Kyaaa! I’m a third wheel *laughs* To help Shad not be a lone third wheel

Sin: *giggles*

Shd: I'm a fourth wheel. That will move the car nicely~

Pyo: Now were a four wheeler!

Sin: *laughs*

Shd: Okay, enough joke~ Kiddo~

Sin: Hmmmm the best one eh ?

Sio: Or worst

Shd: Worst one first

Sin: Hmmmmm the worst one .......? worst....

Sio: Cross-dressing is best!

Sin: Gueh!

Shd: What? Too many?

Sin:…..There is no worst experience for me ?

Sio: Eh?

Shd: Eh? Sure there is

Sio: Not even the tentacle one?

Shd: That might be his best~

Sio: Ohhh?

Sin: No comment ~

Sio: *smiles at him*

Sin: Well, there is no worst experience for me. Every time on NUF is never dull and always interesting.*laughs* But really tho. There is no worst experience for me.

Sio: Even when I stab you? In a raid.

Sin: *laughs* That's a funny one ~ Interesting i mean. The whole RPing on NUF is interesting and FUN

Shd: So, you have no worst or bad experience?

Sin: Well my only worst experience is the failed proposal *laughs*

Sio: Hmm, Shadow. I never knew he was a M

Sin: Noooo not M ~

Shd: Let's go with that~ And, no, I don't know that too. Well, best one then~

Sin: Best one is a lot !

Shd: Give us 3~

Sin: Meeting Sio on NUF and talked on PM *blushes* Have a private chat with Epi and Ave. And the new experience on Adventure guild especially the valentine raid~

Shd: Aw, how sweet~ And here I also expect Sio to say the same. I was hoping that she would say "My best experience is meeting Sin". But then again, I was wrong~

Pyo: *laughs*

Sin: *giggles*

Shd: But her best experience is always with you, kiddo. So, I guess that counts?

Sio: Hey, I'm not a shoujo manga heroine.

Sin: That's make me sound like shoujo manga heroine !

Shd: You are~ A shoujo manga MC.

Sio: Should I worry now?

Shd: Nah~As long as you have a tight grasp on him, everything is fine~

Pyo: Epi and Ave?~

Sin: Episodetus and Vrooave ~

Pyo: I’m amazed. You have a pm with Epi? I only have one when he’s going off NUF (temporarily)

Sio: But I don't know Episodetus and Vrooave.....

Pyo: And to have those 2 pms become your best. Sio! Grasp him tightly!

Sin: Nah not PM. More like chat on profile post with only those two. *laughs*

Pyo: Oh.

Sin: It's kinda dragged for days.

Pyo: Amazing. That’s a 'best on NUF’ tier?!

Sin: *laughs* there is a lot, but I only said the one I remember the most.

Shd: Hmm, nice, nice~

Sio: I kinda worry any males, who will take Devi away...

Shd: *laughs out loud. Very loud* That is worrying~

Sin: Nah Epi already has bride *laughs*And Ave does too I guess ?

Sio: And who can't have a harem?

Shd: Well, then for the lovely couple, how much has NUF affect you? What changes after you get to NUF?

Sio: The time I use my pc, and the fun time to talk with people online. I never really bonded with other in the net before.

Shd: Oh, nice~ very nice~ So it broadens your scope of people, eh?

Sio: I guess~

Shd: Kiddo?

Sin: Well it's quite an effect for me, I guess. It's help make me better at english and chatting. It's also really fun meeting various kind of people on NUF.

Shd: *nods* I agree on that too

Sin: My english is really terrible back then *laughs* But now it's gotten better and better. Well, I still do typo here and there tho.

Shd: But there's improvement, eh?

Sin: A lot ~

Shd: Okay~! It’s Pyoo's turn for now~ What is your best experience in NUF? And worst one? How far did NUF affect you? Worst first

Pyo: Hmmmm….when Dungeons was slowly crumbling…in my hands

Shd: And now it has turn into ruins

Pyo: To suddenly see it being bashed by people while I was struggling with busyness IRL. Bashed-ish.

Shd: Wait, bashed? Reeally?

Pyo: And talked of in pms I’m not in. Well it’s full of flaws. Not bashed bashed….just..

Shd: Badmouthed?

Pyo: Yea, also my mood at that time was very bad. They were talking of those in PMs apparently I’m not in. Some one month later I get included in a convo of 'renewing' dungeons with already 40 pages. And my mood was shit. And yea

Shd: Bah, that's bad as bad can be

Sin: *pats* Pyoo

Pyo: *hugs Sin* You know Rumanshi is also renewing dungeons now.

Shd: Yeah, I know. But I don't know how far

Pyo: Totally not inputting a subtle ad. Hmm who knows. When he has ideas it’s very thorough. But I can’t even be excited for it anymore.

Shd: I myself almost want to get to that game. But only play once.

Pyo: Oh shame~ It was fun. While it was fun.

Shd: It's good.

Pyo: Good?

Shd: It was with Ice as the dungeon

Pyo: *laughs* That super rats huh?

Shd: I took me MORE THAN A DOZEN TURN JUST TO DO SOMETHING!

Pyo: *laughs*

Shd: Left , nothing. Right, nothing. Left again, nothing. But it was fun

Pyo: YOU’RE LUCKY SATIATION DIDNT EXIST YET *laughs* Ginger’s was the most fun Dungeon I ever went to.

Shd: Okay, best one now?

Pyo: Hmmmm. Hard

Shd: I reckon you will say that

Pyo: Lots of small happiness. Poeming. Culting. Shipping. Dungeoning. Being addicted-ing. I think best is how an anonymous forum has such a huge impact on me. *laughs* That sounds cool.

Shd: Well, since you already start on that, what huge impact ?

Pyo: *laughs* nice transition, right?

Shd: Yeah, I wish my other guests are like that. Totally not a not so subtle complaint.

Pyo: Poems in and of itself is very powerful cause it’s a form of self-expression and I’ve never expressed much IRL. It lets out very deep thoughts and ideas, so that’s very good and all on getting me thinking of my feelings and all that jazz. But well, hmm half rant?

Shd: Go on, we don't mind.

Pyo: I’m more free in being me on NUF. It’s an anonymous forum after all. And in realizing that being me leads to being liked I got more brave in being weirder IRL. And I think it’s going well. And cause of things like that I actually get close to a lot of people here since I forum religiously anyway. And closeness and intimacy brings about very wondrous things, like friendship, companionship, fluffiness, supports and all that jazz. I think you know too, Shad.

Shd: Forum religiously? That's some term~

Pyo: *laughs* Forum religiously indeed~ My mood was shit as said before right? I call that my period of mild depression (I mentioned it briefly in some blogs of mine) and the first ones I seek was my forum buddies. And, well, I got back after talking with my forum buddies.

Shd: Ah, I see, I see. I get that

Pyo: You get that?~

Shd: Yeah. Like seeking support and understanding from forum buddies. Like that, eh? Not knowing where else to go and then just pour your heart to them. Stuff like that?

Pyo: Ooh you too?~ Hmm that too. But I’m also way more open here about my thoughts and stuffeses. So there’s the comfort of that. And the comfort of knowing that they won’t judge you (since you’re just forum buddies~) and the comfort of knowing what you say won’t affect your RL stuffs (like work n such).

Shd: Me? hmm....I am a much more closed person, I suppose

Pyo: You’re more open here? More open to pouring hearts?~

Shd: In here I'm still closed too, I think? Not sure.

Pyo: Hmm…

Shd: You'll be the judge~ All 3 of you~ Since all 3 of you know me for quite a while

Pyo: I zee

Shd: Well, let's move to the 4th questions then.

Sio: You are too boring, Shadow.

Shd: Well, I'm sorry for being boring!

Sio: And too shady

Shd: Thank you~

Sin: *giggles*

Shd: What is your usual activity in NUF/NU nowadays? Sio first, as usual

Sio: Lately I make poems, though it is less now, but I have fun make themed poems with two other. And I always check my alerts

Shd: Is your alert each day a lot?

Sio: Nope. Too few really

Shd: I see. You're also not as active in AG as before, eh?

Sio: Jep.

Shd: Will you become active again in AG?

Sio: I do hope so

Shd: Well, we all hope to see you again soon in AG~

Pyo: Come back in time for the AG Anniv Raid! Ah, reminds me I should finish my quest.

Sio: I will probably be in the raid.

Pyo: Shad, can you post on my profile when the Anniv Event thingy started?

Shd: Of course I will~ no need to remind me~ Kiddo~! your answer, please~

Sin: Hmmmm. nowadays I’m only checking PM and News topic. *laughs* And sometimes chat with someone ~

Shd: Anything else?

Sin: Nope ~

Shd: Not as active as before in profile posting?

Sin: Yups. Before I would post a lot of pun and jokes on my profile hahaha~

Shd: And you are rarely in tavern too

Sio: Too many people.

Shd: In tavern?

Sio: Jep.

Sin: Sometimes I go to the tavern I guess. But only sometimes

Shd: I see, I see. Pyoo, your turn, usual activity in NUF/NU nowadays.

Pyo: Hmmm…I have the summer icons poem challenge and MoShoStoWri (Monthly Short Story Writing) prompt making, Dungeons is being restarted tho I’m not involved….Hmm…casual and random talk in profile posts, 4.407 unopened alerts right now

Shd: Working on AG story. NOT

Pyo: NOT *laughs* See It’s not even in the list.

Shd: Go on~ Anything else to add? Or should we move to the last question?

Pyo: Hmm… I feel like I’ve been busier now and haven’t been able to keep up with the current wave of active member's intensity of activity.

Sin: 4.407…wow….That's a lot!

Shd: That's the difference between us, normal people, and celebrity~

Pyo: Celeb eh~ But I was told sometimes it’s hard for them to approach me.

Shd: Oh? That's news for me. I had people called me scary and shady all the time. But I didn't expect that from you.

Pyo: But your avatar is a fluffy bear. From me?~

Shd: Welp. Not from you. But for you, I mean the whole afraid to approach thingy.

Pyo: I have an.. aura

Sin: Aura ?

Pyo: Aura (?)

Shd: Vibe, probably

Pyo: Vibe yea. I don’t exude an easy to approach feeling.

Shd: As in, too 'experienced' member, stuff like that.

Sin: Ah just like when a normal bread look at french bread. Umu umu i understand ~

Shd: ...............why bread as the analogy? Scratch that, I don't want an answer. Anything else, Pyoo?

Pyo: Not just experienced. Hmmm I don’t have a fun kinda vibe.

Shd: Want to move to the next question?

Pyo: Sure. I was gonna use that half rant to say people should come to me randomly! And I’ll accept them. But then I realize people won’t read your long story. *laughs*

Shd: Dang you.... LAST QUESTION~! What do you think of NUF and its community in a whole? What is your wish for NUF/NU? Sio, you're up~!

Sio: I have no idea

Shd: Oh, come on~ Just anything?

Sio: I just go along with the flow.

Shd: ................any wish for NUF/NU in general?

Sio: Hmmm. More choice in icons? and background?

Shd: Icon choice, eh?

Sio: I'm quite fine with NUF

Shd: *laughs* Just as what I expect from Sio~ Well, moving on~ Kiddo~

Sin: Well I think NUF is quite unique *laughs*Hmmmmm

Shd: Hard to put into word?

Sin: Yep.

Shd: Well, try harder. Git gud.

Sin: The people on NUF is kinder than other forum, well there is a lot of shitposter here and there but is not as bad as other I guess. And although NUF is kinda slow, But it's also really easy to use.

Pyo: NUF is.. slow?

Shd: Slow as in?

Sin: Some said NUF site is slow to reload. But i think it's only in the past? I don't really feel it now

Pyo: Ooh…

Shd: I see. Slow as in reload time, eh?

Pyo: There’s now like 4 servers for NU & NUF, IIRC.

Sin: Okay scratch that slow part hahahaha ~

Shd: Then any wishes?

Sin: For NUF to get Bigger and Better as the time passes by

Shd: Splendid answer~! Pyoo?

Pyo: It’s nice~ people are having fun~ mods are doing well trying hard to reign in people in the rules~ Keeping the community not toxic~ The shitposts are still fun~ Many active members is good, for a community~ Many long term members too~

Shd: Wishes for NUF?

Pyo: My wish for NUF is to continue existing for 10 years so Ophi can be a mod by then, and then for tony to sell NU / NUF to Oly.

Shd: *Laughs*

Pyo: I wish it stays existing despite the move of many publishers

Shd: Brilliant~! Well, I guess that's all, folks. You all have given us great answers after great answers. And because of that, to all my great guests, I can only say thank you and have a nice day.

*Shadow claps his hand and Pyoo, Sin, and Sio vanished into thin air. The light also turned off by itself, leaving only the light that shines on Shadow*

Shd: Maybe I'll find another people to interview, maybe not. Who knows? For now, that's all.Good night to all, and to all, have a good night~!

*Shadow smiles and then flicks his finger. He vanished and then the last light on the room turned off by itself, making the room once again dark and empty.*

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Tags of mentioned people: @Pyoo @ExitedDeviljho @Siostar @shad12ow @episod3ux @vrooave @Shem @brasca123 @LittleFox21 @Tony

Links of mentioned things:

AG / Adventurer’s Guild. NUF’s very own role playing game who will be celebrating it’s first anniversary next week.

http://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/adventurers-guild.12760/

Dungeons: NUF’s very own D&D game (with some role playing), currently on hiatus and is in the middle of reconstruction.

http://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/dungeons-reincarnation.23253/

Poems: NUF has a lot of poets, gathered in many threads in Community Creations or in profile posts.

http://forum.novelupdates.com/forums/community-creations.1023/

MoShoStoWri / Monthly Short Story Writing: A challenge for the community to write short stories based on the prompt of the month

http://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/monthly-short-story-writing-prompts.19466/

Snowdust · Jul 8, 2017

Title: River of Light
Genre: ?
Words: 674

I expectantly glimpse through the slowly widening opening, as the massive golden door before me gently gives way.

“This…”

What unveils itself before my blank eyes is a scenery I’m likely to never forget. A calmly flowing stream of glittering embryonic entities, which looks like a majestic river of light, winds itself through an endless darkness of empty space. Alongside it exist rotating land masses in various sizes and matchlessly exotic creatures as well as other beings.

The river of light serves as a bridge connecting all of these, building a jumble of roads with only one place as the core. This core is the location I’m at, namely the opening to this brand new world, the gigantic golden door prophesizing a new dawn for creation, fiction and humanity.

I take a deep breath and take a step forward along the path outlined by the river of light. Step after step I near the entity closest to me, which happens to be a gigantic butterfly surrounded by mighty fluctuations.

Reaching the glorious butterfly I gaze at it and freeze for a moment, my jaw almost dislocating from dropping to low.

An endless landscape encompassing cities, mountains and seas presents itself before my curious eyes. Various beautiful men and women, looking like they were sculpted and capable of toppling nations just based on their looks, ride on flying swords. They cause the air to flash in various colours and they also create things out of nothing. There is even an old turtle with mountains and a sparkling sea on its shell swimming through the space above the butterflies back.

“A-amazing!”

This is the first time in my long life that I see something like this.

“Isn’t it?”

“Yeah. Today was a great treat as well!”

“Haha! I can’t believe that that thing happened!”

“Yeah.”

I look around me only to see several other humans like me. They also look at the big butterfly world and marvel about it, although they aren’t surprised about the things I’m surprised at.

“What is this all?”

Taking my courage I brazenly interrupt their discussion and ask what has been bugging my tired mind all this time.

“Oh. You’re a newbie? Haha! Welcome on-board!”

“A newbie? Did you finally awaken to the greatness of this world? Congratulations!”

“Hui hui! Welcome! Should I show you around?

Listening to the heartfelt welcome I thank everyone and accept the gracious invitation. Seeing how nice everyone is I feel that I’ve found the right place. A place that still thrives and is in full bloom.

As we walk along the glowing river of light, we visit many places. I got to see a world where time seemed to be frozen; only occupied by a single human and angel. Another world was enveloped in a great mist, seeming to be ruled by three almighty beings. Then there was a region where a young guy was pouring some strange liquid over unusual plants, which then started to grow at an inconceivable speed.

I also saw many other living beings in those worlds like for example an overly intelligent black crow, a rather unusual spider growing into a god, fiery-eyed aquatic apes and a big white talking dog.

I saw many miracles and learned quite a bit. I also interacted with a lot of other kind companions. It was a great time.

Taking this as my first experience I decide to temporarily bid farewell to my new friends. I then start to wander across the golden river of light, which apparently also serves as a tool of communication, again.

Here I ask others I encounter if they know of any outstanding worlds I don’t know yet or if they maybe know where worlds, for which I lost the coordinates, are located. I interact with many different people and always realise anew how great the all-encompassing river of light is and that I finally found a place which isn’t rotten but rather thriving.

I finally realize that good things also exist! I lastly find a place where I belong!

Siostar · Jul 11, 2017

Title: What Game Is This?
Genre: Crossdress, VRMMO, Comedy( I hope so), Net Chat
Words: 4709 (had never made a longer one)
Note: The story may be too rushed

A girl who had nothing better to do, the first thing she did was to open her laptop. Alone in her white, but dim room with nothing else but a weak lamp to light up her room, she stared at the screen with boredom. Jep, that girl was no other than me, plain and boring looking too. Maybe I should find a pair of nerdy glasses in the future, only to push it on the first one to call me four-eyes. Just for fun.

Well, somehow I found a new web novel in NU, something about another black haired MC on his adventure. I do wonder why Asian people love black hair so much... Black hair is pretty and all, but dark brown should be normal as well.
Anyway, the MC got to another world and some kind of cheat power. I hoped it was a good slice-of-life kind, for this one seemed to be an easy overpowered one.

Then I was done with the chapter for the day, I went into the usual forum to see if I got any alerts. Surprising enough, I got a PM from someone who had been away from NUF for the last 6 months. Well, he had time to be active on Discord since... When was it again? One or two months ago? I only come to know, that he was working on some grand project after he got a new work and never got enough time to visit NUF.
Clicking on the new PM called ‘Beta’, the page changed to the one for PM use. Unsure what to think, I read the first comment on the page, and soon the alert came every time he replied my comments.
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shadow:
hello
it had been a looooooooong while
how had you been? and had you been busy lately?

Sio:
hi~
I had been fine~ and never really too busy~ unless you novel reading is?
btw I thought you finally got the fated death, of a workaholic~
and maybe got the ghost as your girlfriend in the death~

shadow:
hey! I can take care of my health, and I am not even a workaholic
and my home is really not hunted

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Well surely a lot of blackouts in his house area and people don’t want to drive him home for the second time, are not included as problems. Especially with a famous ghost story. Not at all! And my answer is~
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Sio:
YEAH SUUUUUUUREEEEEE~

shadow:
…...that sarcasm
Shadow:
LOL~
Anyway do you like MMO?

Sio:
well, it had been a long time ago, but yeah, I like to play the fantasy ones
so the beta thing is a beta-test on a MMO?

Shadow:
that’s right, it’s something my place has been working on. Do you want to try our game?

Sio:
you been working on a game?! cool!!! sure! why not?
so what is the game like?

Shadow:
haha
that a surprise. anyway, I will send link and a code for the homepage to sign up as a beta-tester, another code for the game
and don’t worry about why we need you address, we will sent tools for ‘free’ to beta-testers!
HAHAHAHA

Sio:
sure~ I check it out, as soon as I can~
and what do you mean by tools?
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Afterward, I tried to ask him many other questions, but I only got shady answers like "it’s a secret" or "a surprise." Tired of his "shady uncle" manners, I moved on to the homepage to sign up with all the necessary info he provided.
Hmm... there was a special code on the bottom of the list? Ah! the code for the homepage, huh? I didn’t know what it does, but I sent it anyway! Annnddd Enter, done!

The next thing I know was the fact I have to wait for days, to know if I was lucky enough to be 1 of the 10,000 lucky people to play the game.
Strange enough, the game name was covered in black, so no one knows what name this game has. Why in the world is the game company so shady like that shadow the workaholic? Damn! It was probably his shadiness that invited him to this game company to begin with!

Anyway, as soon I was done, I was mostly surfing the net. I did nothing much and that was the end for the day.
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Some days had gone by... How many you ask? I got no idea! I've never count dude, even if I try, I forget it the next second! Who cares anyway! let’s continue the story!
One of the totally normal random days, I met up with my sweet, sweet boy (or as some nice people call him, shota), sadly not in real life, but in Discord. As bad as the name is, there are more chit-chat in there than discord you know?
And so we chatted about how we were doing, some teasing (he's too cute to not tease!), then games and that lead us to our topic now.
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Mr. E:
do you know about the new MMO lately?

Sio:
hmm~ maybe~
it’s depend on which one~

Mr. E:
the one with a blocked name!

Sio:
oh? the nameless one? I heard the beta will start soon, but there are too less information about it

Mr. E:
yes! that one! and guess what?
i was chosen as one of beta-tester, am i not lucky?! \o/
i still can’t believe it!!

Sio:
oh!?
congras!!!
*clap clap clap*

Mr. E:
ehehehe
thank you

Sio:
*sneaky kiss on cheek*
fufufufu~

Mr. E:
o///o

Sio:
fufufu~
so cute~
Sio:
so where will you start~?

Mr. E:
Adventure City, i think
the same name as our old guild base
XD

Sio:
lol~
somehow, the starting places have similar names like AG
I will die of laughing, if the game name was AG lol

Mr. E:
hahahaha
that will be fun, if that was true

Sio:
I doubt so~

Mr. E:
Sio, I going to sleep soon
good night

Sio:
night night~
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True to his words, I soon enough saw his icon turned into a gray light, a proof that he has gone offline or going into invisible mode.
Fufufu~
Soon, the game would start, and he would meet a surprise~ that is of course me~ I wondered if he was going to make himself manly? The healer would match him well, but he might try the paladin kind instead, even though he so cute in AG and NUF.
If you wonder what AG is, it just means Adventure Guild, a role play game with shadow as guildmaster. Yes, the shady and workaholic one. With him as leader and GM with other people, they did their best to make AG as fun as possible, sometimes I help them too.
Hey! just because I’m not a staff, I can still give some ideas, and I have a part in the emblem creation too!
A-hem! Anyway, it’s a role play in form of writing for noobs, you can make any character you want, as long it’s not too strong in the start or too slovenly made. Anyone can play in it, and I am one of them. If you need other details, why don’t you ask the staffs? I’m not! So don’t ask me!

So let’s move on the story.
A few hours later in afternoon I got a delivery! Jep, it was the tool, which shady man was talking about. With some difficulty, I opened the boxed mail with brute force, since I was too lazy to find the scissors.
There was a silver and white headgear inside the box. They look so damn expensive, like one made of the latest technology. At the front, a glass like protector in a blue color made it looks like a thing from a very well known anime. To clear my suspicious thoughts, I found a game manual about how I use the tools. And, to my surprise...
The manual said the tools are used to play VR (Virtual Reality) games, and not only you don’t need controllers, you in fact can play it just like Sword Art online! No, to be more precise, unlike Sword Art Online you can play even in your sleep without any problem! A thing every gamer would kill to play! Eh… as long the game developer is sane…

I started to set the game up, followed the manual step by step. I was done before I knew it, I let the thing to process all the data it needed for tonight. I went to eat, bathed and surfed the net, before I could sleep.
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The very next day, as soon I got home, I found something to eat. Hey! How can I play with an empty stomach?! No, I’m not stupid enough to forget the game.
Now then we are talking about the game, I forgot to mention that the beta starting officially 3 days later. However, thanks to the code shadow gave me, I became a beta tester without a need to wait! In a way I’m still lucky, and the second code would let me start earlier in the game! Jep, the moment I set the code in, I could game. But dude! I have work and money I need to get! Do you really think I was a shut-in without work? I will never be able to live to this day if that was the case.

I started the VR gear and set a timer to know when the dinner time nears. I also set the sleep mode off because I'd need to sleep later on, and then I said:

“Game start.”

So cool!
Oh? My vision slowly turned dark, I wonder how my first VRMMO will be?
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It didn’t take long, for the darkness to disappear into a white lonely world, only I alone stood here. That was until a sound come out, and two screens jumped out.

Ding!
[Welcome to AG (Adventure Guild) Free Fantasy!]

Ding!
[Please select a name.]

Seriously? Adventure Guild Free Fantasy.

Ding!
[Your name is too long, your name can only be up to 16 characters.]

........*sigh*.. Xio will be my username, X-I-O.

Ding!
[Please confirm, Xio will be your username. Once confirmed, you can’t change the username, until the beta end.]

“Confirm!”

Ding!
[Your name is confirmed.]

Ding!
[Please select a race.]

Just as l was done with the last window-like blue screen, the white world suddenly pop up with appearances of many races. And since the game shouldn’t change gender, all the races are female, huh~? Hmm... I don’t want to be a slime. And there was even a monkey race here.

“Only show the humanoids.”

Just like magic, all the races with strange bodies, that I doubt I could even move in, disappear just like smoke. With so many races, I could make one like my AG character and I maybe should make a surprise for Mr. E too~
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Mr. E P.O.V.

After my message with Sio, three very long days finally went by! If you still haven’t guessed yet, then you should know the beta official start today! I hope I can play with Sio and the others once the beta is over.

I didn’t want to waste the time, so I just made my character based on the character in AG. Long blond hair with honey orange eyes, since I heard the characters will be based on my RL face and height with subtle difference depends on the race characteristics. I didn’t change the small details, since I wouldn't look much different, and I would rather start the game soon.

When I was done with character creating, my vision turned dizzy and dark, but before I know, I was in a middle age city street. Everywhere I look, it seemed so real, the houses, items and even the people seemed too real. The only unreal thing in this place may be my HP, MP and SP bar at my upper left corner of my view. Excited at this new game, I almost ran around the city to check everywhere.

“Wow! This game is so cool!”

Seeing so many different races for players like me, I began to regret my choice as human, the same race as my AG character. It was either human or elf, though I like the elf more but I want to be manly and an elf is not. I just don’t want to be girly like the other say in NUF. In real life, no one will ever think I’m girly too, so I don’t have to worry here even with the long hair I have.

As I absentmindedly continue my walk, I didn’t pay attention to my surrounding and somehow bumped into the wrong kind of person, in the wrong kind of place.
In a dark alleyway, three thugs taller than me was looking down at me, as the one I bumped into began to speak with a nasty smirk.

Thug leader: “Oi, missy. Ya lonely without company.”

Me: “N..not r-”

Thug 1: “Gahahaha! To bump to us, ya suuure wanna a loooot of fun.”

Thug 2:“I'ma teach ya aaaall the hot stuff. Ahahahah!”

Uuuuuu. How did I end up like this? I’m not even a girl! The worst thing is that, I can’t escape with strength of lvl. 1, w..what will happen to me!?

???: “Hey. Your damn trash should let go of the girl. Or will you like some pain.”

The one who came out was a girl with dark blue hair, almost black to be honest. Her clothes reminded me of a xianxia character, and she seems to be quite a high level. Surely she was a NPC, the game has just started after all. And how in the world do people see me as a girl?!

Thug 1: "It gotta hurt at first, but soon ya gonna be in heaven."

Thug leader: "Little missy, wanna join ya friend?"

Thug 2: "I’ma make ya feel so good. Uhuhuhu"

Seeing my surrounding, the girl is still a lone person, It was me who made this mess, at least she shouldn't be mixed up in my mess.

Me: “D...don't about me, this is my own fault, so I don't want you to be hurt...”

Once I spoke my words, I realized that girl may just be a NPC, what was happening might also be an event. But it's somehow wrong to treat them like a computer controlled characters. In the end, I shouted out like tragic heroine, how embarrassing.
Hearing my words, the thug like people started to laugh. It made me feel miserable and weak, and it didn't help. That was all my own fault to be-begin with. If only I was stronger or just a bit careful enough, I wouldn't be in my situation now. If on-

???: “Hey… What is so fun, that you can't stop laughing? Should I cut that little thing, you can't help but to move around with, just for fun?”

As the girl was talking, the aura around her literally become dark, and the Hannya mask was just my imagination right? Eh... should I also protect my family treasure?

Thug 2: ”Boss! Shouldn't we teach the b**** a lesson?”

Thug 1: “Ha! That b**** will just enjoy it!”

Thug leader: “After, we gotta teach her a woman's joy. Gahaha!”

Done with speaking, the two thug minions ran out to the girl. The next moment I saw was within a second, the thugs was defeated with some martial arts. She didn't even use the sword on her right hip!

???: “Your guys is not worthy enough to even be killed. Now what will you do?”

She said as she glared at the leader, and as any sane coward will do, the leader run away with some words of revenge.

Ignore the words of revenge, the girl begin to stare at me, make feel really awkward.

Me: “Em…. Can I help you with something?”

???: “.....”

Me: “...Hello..?”

???: “........So...cute...”

Me: “Eh?”

???: “You are so cute!”

Me: “Wah!”

That girl suddenly hugged me!? Wah! I never thought hugging could be so embarrassing, in a virtual game! Somehow her small whisper, about me being cute and nice, make it worse.

???: “Ah! S..sorry…I kind of lost myself there.”

Me: “D..don't worry, I was just surprised. In fact, I'm very thankful that you saved me.”

???: “Hehe~ I just dislike people who bully others weaker than themselves. And you are even a nice girl~”

Me: “Em…I am a guy though….”

???: “Eh! Really?!”

Me: “Yeah. By the way, what is your name? Mine is Sin.”

???: “Nice to meet you! You can call me Xinna~ What will you do next, Sin?”

Sin: “I don't know, maybe start with some beginner quest?”

Xinna: “Then can't you do a favor for me first?”

Sin: “Sure! If it something I can do.”

Xinna: “Oh.. I'm sure you can~ fufufufu~”

Somehow, I have a really bad feeling now. I starting to regret, what I just said.
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A half hour later in Central Street…

Why?
Why why why why why why why why?!

Sin: “Why?! Am I in a dress?!”

Xinna: “Because, you are doing a favor for me~”

Sin: “It's could had been something else….”

Xinna: “But you look great in it~”

Couldn't even deny her words, I sighed for nth time today. Well you see, I had looked at myself in the mirror, and noticed the change I come in. My face got rounded and feminine, my body got slimmer and fair, and somehow I even got a feminine aura too. However, the most shocking thing was the game simply changed my gender?!
To think the very first bug I found is a gender bug, I'm too speechless to even complain
.

Xinna: “Hey Sin-chan~ How about we party up, and I will help you to be stronger~”

Sin: “D..don't call me chan... and how can I even fight like this?”

Xinna: “Hm~ mm~ It may be a just a dress, but it's quite strong for one at your level, you know~?”

Sin: “Really?”

Xinna: “Jep, so don't worry~”

Ding!
[Xio had sent a party request. Do you accept?]
[Yes/No]

I accepted without thinking, but soon I realized the name wasn't Xinna, but Xio. A name similar to one I know very well, could it be!?

“Watch out!” “Move out!”

Suddenly two voices overlapped, I was pushed away, the next thing I saw was Xio being crushed by something. I fell on the hard stone ground, though it hurt, it's wasn't too painful. Knowing I was fine, I tried to go where Xio is, only to be caught by someone. With something held over my mouth, I could only watch her in pain before my vision darkened.
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Xio P.O.V.

It hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt!

I had asked myself before, why this damned game needs to have such a high pain level. Damn! It hurt! Once I got time, I have to send a complaint report, but first I need a health potion. Ugh I can’t move my hands, will I die like this? A slow death is truly painful I guess, a level 18 speed based character is like this. Really, what was I thinking? To block a horse-drawn carriage on full force, I was lucky to not even die yet, or in this case unlucky?

Someone was coming, is that Sin? No, Sin is not graceful and elegant, a twin? She held out a high quality potion. She should be rich. It seems she want to help me, so I drank her potion. Soon my wounds were healed and my HP bar was back to full. Haah! Good thing, it didn't hurt anymore.

??? 1: “Princess! You shouldn’t just approach a unknown stranger!”

Hah?! Princess?!

??? 2: “Olaf! You should know, it was our fault to hurt this girl. If I ignore this girl now, how could I ever be a ruler over our people?”

Olaf: “However princess, it’s dangerous to approach someone alone, special for someone with a unknown identity.”

??? 2: “You are with me, are you not?”

It’s seems he want to say more, but he soon give up with a sigh.

Olaf: ”...Haaah…. that’s right, princess.”

Xio: “Em…. sorry to disturb you, but can someone tell me what is happening, and had you seen my friend?”
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Xio: “So, long story short. Your highness hometown will soon be in war, so both Your Highness and Second Princess Edeline were on your way to safety. Unfortunately the enemy somehow knows and tried to kidnap you two, to force a political marriage. And now my friend may have been kidnapped instead, because she looked just like you. Now, because Your Highness don’t have enough manpower to look for the Second Princess and my friend, you want to hire me for help...”

Princess: “Yes. That correct.”

Ding!
[Quest: Damsel In Distress

The First Princess Sofia, from an unknown place, has requested you to save her younger sister.
To complete the quest, you have to let them meet outside the enemy base in safety. If either princesses die or married away, the quest will be considered as failed.
If your party member is discovered, the member may be killed and set the First Princess in danger.

If you refuse or fail the quest, your affinity with the princesses and their country will be low, your party member will also have to clear the quest alone.

Reward: Unknown
Difficulty: C rank]
[Yes/No]

Xio: “Well, I also want to save my friend, but how should I do that?”

Princess: “I have a plan, what we going to do is…..“
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Sin P.O.V.

As soon I was awake, I noticed I was in an unknown room, together with a girl I had never met. Seeing the quest log blinking, I checked the update to find out what that meant.

[Quest:???

You had been kidnapped by an unknown force, ask the girl kidnapped with you to find out the truth.

Reward: Unknown
Difficulty: E rank]

I couldn't even refuse this quest, I guess I could only ask the girl. From behind, I went to the girl as she was looking out to the sky. Sensing I was moving closer to her, she turned around and suddenly hugged me!

???: “Sis! You are awake!”

Sin: “Ehhhhh!”

***
A looooooong chat later.

Sin: “So I was mistaken for your sister, Princess Sofia?”

Princess Edeline: *Nod*

Sin: “And somebody want us both to be married tonight.”

Princess Edeline: *Nod*

Sin: “If someone find out, I may die….”

Princess Edeline: *Nod*

Sin: “What should I-”

Knock knock knock!

???: “Princesses! It's time to get ready!

I'm really done for tonight!
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A glittering room, people of high society, food of highest quality. Two princesses in bridal dresses walking into a grandiose room, catching the eyes in their surroundings. Yes, those two were no other than Princess Edeline and me. I just felt like dying of embarrassment in this very moment. Why did I have to do this shame play in my very first day of gaming?! Uuuuuu...

???: “Follow me, princesses. Don't try to escape.”

Ehmm...what to do? The very quest I have told me to escape, and should a guy like me really marry with another guy?

It seemed they were taking us to the marriage ceremony, and the place is not too far from here. Surrounded by guards, I don’t have a chance to escape, and I’m still level 1 you know.

As we arrived at a church, people whose position seemed to be the highest were seated in place. They might even be some royalties. Their eyes were so cold, it make me sure that this marriage wasn't for love. Setting the Second Princess aside, they started with me first, since I was supposed to be the First Princess. I was made to standing beside of a cold man, the priest read all the traditional things you need in marriage. And all too soon, the priest asked me if I wanted to marry the unknown man. I could say no, I could do something stupid, or just make some chaos. However, the people's eyes made me feel like it was too late that I could no longer do anything. That I was just too powerless, it was as if theirs eyes can control me. And the words just come out of my mouth.

Sin: “I.. I…. I-”

Crush! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Eh!? The windows broke, and some smoke bomb was dropped in! Ehhhhh! Why was I lifted princess carry! Uwaaaa, it's too embarrassing!

???: “Good evening everyone! This princess is mine, so please don't kidnap her again. Annnnd let’s begin the grand chaos!”

The person who was holding me was dressed like a magician in black; she was very manly with a cape and a white mask. But I know that voice! It was Xio!

With me in her arms, she ran past the weak guys easily. The Second Princess was taken away by an old man. There were also people who broke in from the windows, maybe they were players or mercenaries?
Screaming and yelling broke out, fighting scenes were everywhere and chaos was the only thing you could see. Flames, icicles or lighting, you could glance a little magic of any kind. Soon I also come to know, why this game was rated for 18. There was times Xio had to let me down, so she could fight too. A slash on the enemy and a bloody body will lay in front of you. Remember the game is realistic? It’s look like bloody murder until the corpse disappears, it’s kinda remind me it’s still a game.
Had run for awhile we finally got outside, where it will be safe. That was what we thought, until the cold man from before come out. With his cold black eyes glaring at me, my whole body shudder at his fearful eyes. Standing in front of me Xio shielding me from that man, in a voice only I could hear, she told me:

Xio: “It will be alright.”

Her words made me relax, as if it really will be alright. I step back so I wouldn’t get in the way, for I want don’t want to be a burden for Xio. After, the battle start without a sound, the sound of metal hitting for every time they crossing swords. I think Xio was quicker, but that guy… has expense? As the battle go on, that guy land more hit on Xio, if this going on Xio may lose! W..what should I do!?

Xio: “Aaaaah!”

Sin: “Xiiiioooo!”

???: “......!?”

I couldn’t help but scream Xio name as her shoulder got hurt, at the same time as that guy got distracted, Xio closed in to stab a hidden dagger deep in his neck. Too worried about Xio, I forgot about the blood and tried to help her. Good thing this is a game, a health potion from her bag, was all she needed.

Whenever I was with Xio, she will always come to save me, somehow with her I feel safe.
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Xio P.O.V.

After my talk with Princess Sofia, I came in contact with the Adventure Guild, after all, we are in the Adventure City. With the entire amazing fund the princess had, I was the one who hired all the adventures. The Princess talked with the guildmaster and then he helped us to find Sin and Second Princess. But even I didn't really know what happened in the background, the Guildmaster was too shady. Though it might have been shadow the shady uncle like man.

When we was safe, I explained what had happened on my side to Sin, while we enjoyed the view of the pretty night sky. What about the quest? I will just find Princess Sofia tomorrow. And since the game runs 3 times faster than in real life, we still have time to noon. And why shouldn’t I enjoy my very nice, cute and beautiful bride here? Fufufufu~

I can’t wait to our next adventure~ As long I am with Sin, another interesting mess may come on our way~

-END-

Note: edited and kinda proof readed with help (11 Jul, 2017)
the ending is a bit changed

BlancFrost · Jul 25, 2017

NU'S 2ND ANNIVERSARY SHORT STORY RESULTS

Thanks to everyone that participated and all those who took the time to read all the entries.

Winners for the Individual Entries
First Place:
@shad12ow's entry: The Strange Realm.
Genre: Fantasy, Slice of Life.
Word Count: 4058.

Second Place:
@jzar's entry: The Forum.
Genre: Sci-fi, Comedy.
Word Count: 7410.

Third Place:
@Siostar's entry: What Game Is This?
Genre: Comedy.
Word Count: 4367.

Most liked:
@AardwarkThe2nd's entry: Tony, the owner of NUF summoned to another world!
Genre: Action, Adventure.
Word Count: 602.

Winners for the Group Entries
First Place:
@Action's, @Koalala's and anonymous' entry: KIDZ BOP: NovelUpdates Edition
Genre: Comedy, Parody, Slice of Life.
Word Count: 1945.
Format: Song.

Second Place:
@shad12ow's, @Pyoo's, @Siostar's and @ExitedDeviljho's entry: A Short Interview With The Nuffian I Know~
Genre: Comedy, Real.
Word Count: 5154.
Format: Interview.

Third Place:
@Nahrenne's and @amilhs's entry: Playful Goods.
Genre: Romance, Horror.
Word Count: 3782.
Format: Prose + Song.

Most liked:
@Action's, @Koalala's and anonymous' entry: KIDZ BOP: NovelUpdates Edition
Genre: Comedy, Parody, Slice of Life.
Word Count: 1945.
Format: Song.

Individual Entries

@Kagami Ren 's entry: The Journal of a Demon.
Overall grade: 16

Judges' grading:

liked the ending

Grade: 6

Didn't really have anything that particularly charmed me on it, and I think a demon saying it was an artifact from god, and it being a good thing is a bit weird...

Grade: 5

This story had more of a fantasy feel to me. The flow wasn't bad and there were grammar mistakes which were pointed out by the author. Story was simple with complexities sorted out in a short sentence or two. Not particularly rememberable but it as least fit the theme.

Grade: 5

@AardwarkThe2nd 's entry: Tony, the owner of NUF summoned to another world!
Overall grade: 15 (Individual entry with the biggest amount of likes!)

Judges' grading:

It seems that it’s not complete… like there’s something missing…

Grade: 6

While I didn't particularly like the depiction of Tony, I do think it was an interesting premise... The entry was never finished though, so it's kinda... Lackluster.

Grade: 3

Rather hilarious story. Especially the setting and background given to Tony by the author. Writing is fairly solid and the author knows where they want to go with in. Feels more like a prologue and could do with a continuation.

Grade: 6

@Trane 's entry: A Dream.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.) @Jigoku Shounen 's entry: Intermission, The dream of a young girl.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry did not reach the minimum word count.)
@Dayfinder 's entry: Update.
Overall Grade: 20

Judges' grading:

I liked it! I want to find out what happens next!

Grade: 8

I really loved the idea of an alternate NU, a parody with lifeupdates and the like, it was really interesting to read through it and seeing how the MC viewed the lives of others... The ending was a bit of a cliche though, for a story that had such an unique premise, it left a bad aftertaste for me.

Grade: 7

An alternative world where NU is LU interesting concept but they got literally sucked into a new world. Grammar seems fine and the story isn't bland but doesn't catch my attention. More like a daily log of their life.

Grade: 5

@imsodone 's entry: Silent Existence.
Overall Grade: 18

Judges' grading:

It was ok

Grade: 6

Seems like the MC is NU itself, which is a nice premise... The execution didn't really capture me though. I liked the idea though.

Grade: 6

The MC was the system in which NU/NUF was in. An enjoyable read that doesn't delve much into plot.

Grade: 6

@BPLeon 's entry: Heavenly Lurking Technique.
Overall Grade: 13

Judges' grading:

It does have good points but storytelling is not smooth. It was a struggle to read the wall of text.

Grade: 5

I didn't like the premise, but that is my own personal bias.

What I really didn't like, was seeing someone say that they made 6000 words, only to find a small story though, this annoyed me. The lack of proper spacing also annoyed me.

I got somewhat salty reading this because of the 6000 words thing, the spacing and the fact that the story was quite bland didn't help one bit.

Grade: 4

They have read too many novels. The wall hurt too.

Grade: 4

@Hazery 's entry: The meaning of existence.
Overall Grade: 14

Judges' grading:

Did not really appeal to me

Grade: 5

I was liking it, it seemed promising even with the lacking English... The story wasn't finished though, so it's hard to give it a good grade.

Grade: 4

They forgot to update their post. XD

Grade: 5

@Arcadia Blade 's entry: My journey to Novel Updates Forums.
Overall Grade: 17

Judges' grading:

Kind of disjointed,did not really flow well...

Grade: 6

Not much to say... I just didn't like it much I guess, it didn't say much.

Grade: 5

Poem. Flow could be better but good effort.

Grade: 6

@gheist1234 's entry: Age of Gods.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)
@Nbhan101 's entry: Untitled.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry did not reach the minimum word count.) @Tramsloof 's entry: Damsel in Distress.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)
@Cyrus King 's entry: The Tragic Tale of the Cursed Manor.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.) @MasterCuddler 's entry: Me and Her.
Overall Grade: 11

Judges' grading:

not quite related to NU/NUF

Grade: 0

It was a bit cute, seeing the cat saying "impudence" was also nice... A small and simple story, but I liked it.

Grade: 7

From a cat's(?) P.O.V. Hmm~ Simple.

Grade: 4

@Yash 's entry: Dragon Emperor Tales.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.) @Underload 's entry: Interview with Bot-chan.
Overall Grade: 15

Judges' grading:

It was ok

Grade: 6

Making an interview with a bot was nice, but I feel like it would be a lot more interesting if it was an actual transcription of a talk with justabot through profiles...

This one was... A bit bland. A nice premise, but not as nice execution.

Grade: 6

I guess it is cute?

Grade: 3

@Osamaru 's entry: More to scratch that itch.
Overall Grade: 22

Judges' grading:

I like it!

Grade: 8

It was nice, it seemed to have a good rhythm, the flow was nice and it seemed very anniversary fitting, I don't have much to complain about it, but... At the same time, I don't have much to praise either, it didn't really evoke anything on me.

Grade: 8

Cheerful and simple poem depicting the growth of NU/NUF.

Grade: 6

@archduke 's entry: My Story.
Overall Grade: 14.

Judges' grading:

The narrative does not flow smoothly, needs polishing

Grade: 5

Seemed a bit strange to me... Didn't seem like a story, and more like someone talking to the judges... Kinda like a post in a thread... Wasn't much to my liking.

Grade: 5

They pretty much just regutitated their thoughts without editing their post.

Grade: 4

@GilgameshX2114 's entry: Boredom.
Overall Grade: 21

Judges' grading:

I like that it shows what NU means to the author

Grade: 7

I wasn't that fond of it... The poem's verses were too long for me, it was hard to get a good rhythm, and the rhymes felt somewhat bland...

Saying what NU means for you is nice though, very anniversary-like.

Grade: 7

Not a bad poem. Their thoughts down but with "thought".

Grade: 7

@Drakolous Maxima 's entry: What could have been.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)
@L4 's entry: I have less than 2 hours to write this story today.
Overall Grade: 2 (This entry was barely on topic for me, for the other 2 judges it was off-topic.)

Judges' Grading:

So... It was more about someone writing about the contest than about the theme of the contest itself?

Hmm... I guess it could count as on theme if I stretch a bit? But there wasn't much to the plot in the first place...

Oh, and words are counted by putting the text on MS word or something similar, it counts the words for you... >.>

Grade: 2

@Friickina 's entry: A change for good.
Overall Grade: 3

Judges' Grading:

I guess you tried? There isn't anything really appealing on the poem though, better luck next time, I guess.

Grade: 3

I agree with their last line.

Grade: 0

@Lost Panda 's entry: The wish to fly.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.) @faststomps 's entry: How I Discovered NU.
Overall Grade: 14

Judges' grading:

Unfinished.

Grade: 5

Well, I guess it basically shows how you found NU? It's not bad, but there is nothing interesting in it either... It's hard to like this kind of thing.

Grade: 5

Hmm...another diary entry about how they found NU.

Grade: 4

@Gitami 's entry: Day 720.
Overall Grade: 16

Judges' grading:

Did not appeal to me

Grade: 6

The parallel between the NU genres and streets is interesting... But the story doesn't have much of a plot...

And... Did I say that I hated people that put 5k as the word count, when the story actually has only 1k?

Yeah, I hate it, it really annoys me, because I think I'll need plenty of time to read it in one go, and I then discover that arranging my schedule to read a huge story was completely unnecessary... It's quite bothersome.

Grade: 4

Beginning wasn't that clear but you get the general idea that the character is within a NU/NUF world. Just descriptive of the functions in there. Could do with more development.

Grade: 6

@LoneSoul 's entry: Belief.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)
@kryner 's entry: Unbridled Grunt.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)

Judges' grading:

Doesn't follow the theme. But it was a surprisingly good read.

Grade: 0

@jmf028 's entry: "Five Seconds of Madness" aka "Everyone's A Chicken"
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)
@Myross17 's entry: I Fell In Love In My Favorite Character
Overall Grade: 17

Judges' grading:

Did not appeal to me

Grade: 5

It was really cute! I really liked it!

It didn't have much related to NU/NUF except for the fact that the character is a novel character though... I guess it's barely on topic?

I really loved the story though! It was really really cute!

Grade: 7

[No commentary.]

Grade: 5

@Slayerwolfx2 's entry: What has began shall seal the end.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry did not reach the minimum word count.)
@HumanSashimi 's entry: NU Guild.
Overall Grade: 14

Judges' grading:

seems unfinished

Grade: 5

I understood the idea of joining the different guilds meaning that you are actually joining new communities, but... Uhn... How to say it... Everything seemed all over the place? The story wasn't very coherent to me.

Grade: 5

I guess it counts? NU Guild...

Grade: 4

@shad12ow 's entry: The Strange Realm.
Overall Grade: 26.5 (First Place amongst the individual entries!)

Judges' grading:

interesting. did not get the reference. which would have made it more enjoyable for me to read.

Grade: 7.5

Hmmm... I honestly thought that I should avoid grading this one because I'd be too biased when grading it...

Well, I decided against it, and I can't really give any other number aside from 10... It just touched me...

I don't have anything to add or comment, it just touched me, more deeply than I thought it would.

Grade: 10

I found it touching. Not being biased here but truly something to read and concentrate on, Memories really are a precious thing we have. Especially when we can first remember how we all came to know each other.

Grade: 9

@TheJackWrite 's entry: One Day Memory.
Overall Grade: 22

Judges' grading:

interesting

Grade: 7

Quite the wonderful story of entering NU world, it was simple, but really charming.

If I have any complaint, I'd say the transition between their goodbye, and until the moment they met again was too rushed. You could've developed that feeling a bit more, maybe also show how those experiences in that single day made their bond stronger.

You had up to 7500 words to play with, you could've developed them a lot more than you did... It was still really lovely though!

Grade: 9

Another into NU world but slightly different. Not bad.

Grade: 6

@SnowTime 's entry: Blue Bell Flowers.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry did not reach the minimum word count.)

Judges' Grading:

*pouts* I was really looking forward to your story, and even if it was really short, I loved it a huge lot, and would easily give it a 10! But... You're not following the theme, and you didn't reach the word count... Bad! Bad Snowtime! Read the theme properly next time! >.<

Grade: 0

@ducpika 's entry: Just another guy in another world kind of novel.
Overall Grade: 2 (This entry was mostly off-topic.)

Judges Grading:

I couldn't make head or tails of the story, what is the relationship it has with NU or NUF? I'm confused...

Seems like your idea was to make the protagonist be NU itself? But it didn't give that feeling, and there wasn't anything that foreshadowed that in the whole story...

In any case, there isn't much that I can say about it... Points for effort I guess?

Grade: 2

@Zek 's entry: NUF Writer.
Overall Grade: 13

Judges' grading:

Unfinished

Grade: 5

It was strange, I couldn't really get a grasp of what was happening... Way too rushed I guess.

Grade: 3

Seems to be unfinished but a good start.

Grade: 5

@Novela 's entry: Don't know but by me.
Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.) @jzar 's entry: The Forum.
Overall Grade: 26 (Second Place amongst the individual entries!)

Judges' grading:

I like it, i can picture the characters in my head, I like how it all came together

Grade: 8

It was a really weird story, but really nice as well! The characters are very alive and really well developed, I have no complaints about it! Great work!

Grade: 10

Very long but interesting. Keyboard warriors really do appear on NU XD Seeing how NU can occupy time is rather nice. Especially when you ought to be doing something else. Everyone just can't help but read.

Grade: 8

@Snowdust 's entry: River of Light.
Overall Grade: 11

Judges' grading:

Did not appeal to me

Grade: 5

Seems Off-topic to me, but... I guess it's kind of linking the idea of NU being a doorway to other worlds... The story didn't really have anything to it though...

Grade: 3

I wonder if this is a loose link to NU/NUF? A bit too short to know though.

Grade: 3

@Siostar 's entry: What Game Is This?
Overall Grade: 24 (Third Place amongst the individual entries!)

Judges' grading:

Needs editing, but interesting

Grade: 7

The story was nice, it's connection to NU wasn't through the story itself, but by the people involved in it. I liked it, it was a pretty sweet story overall.

Grade: 9

It's sweet so terribly sweet. >w< But I am a bit biased. Sio and Sin are adorable.

Grade: 8

Group Entries

@Action 's, @Koalala 's and anonymous' entry: KIDZ BOP: NovelUpdates Edition
Overall Grade: 28 (First Place amongst the group entries! Also the most liked group entry!)

Judges' grading:

its funny, i love it! very creative. extra point for presentation

Grade: 9

How to say it...? I loved it!

The singing was great, the lyrics were very well planned, the rhymes felt really in place, and you were able to follow the rhythm of the songs without making it feel awkward at all!

Absolutely no complaints to give, just great!

Grade: 10

Very creative use of words. By singing the story out instead of just writing it leads to a interesting depiction of NU/NUF.

Grade: 9

@Nahrenne 's and @amilhs ' entry: Playful Goods.
Overall Grade: 23.5 (Third Place amongst the group entries!)

Judges' grading:

What an ending! This is why I always check the reviews. I only read happy endings! Hahaha. I was rooting for the amilhs x blancfrost ship! >-<

Grade: 8

Hmmm... Well, it was a bit weird I guess, but well made at the same time...

The MC not even trying to run or fight back was unexpected though... And felt somewhat forced...

A good story overall, but I didn't fell very drawn to it at the same time.

Grade: 8

It really was a horror. Poor kid. Nahrenne sure is...

Grade: 7.5

@shad12ow 's , @Pyoo 's , @ExitedDeviljho 's and @Siostar 's entry: A Short Interview With The Nuffian I Know~
Overall Grade: 26 (Second Place amongst the group entries!)

Judges' grading:

I really like when people talk about how they discovered NU/NUF and what it means to them.

Grade: 8

It's not a story, it's a counting of stories... Geez, it's hard to read your stuff Shadow, I'm too biased, just take my 10 and be gone with it. *shoo shoo*

Grade: 10

Filled with memories. The interview didn't feel boring at all. Sort of nostalgic I suppose. In a good way though.

Grade: 8

Tony · Jul 24, 2017

I'm locking this thread since the contest is over and the winners has been chosen. If you wish to discuss this contest, please use this thread: http://forum.novelupdates.com/threa...cial-writing-contest-discussion-thread.40470/

Thank you @BlancFrost, @brasca123 and @blee8 for taking the time to run and fund this contest! I hope everyone had fun and remember to go thank them on their profiles! I'll sticky the contest winners post on NU for 24 hours for some exposure.

@Kagami Ren 's entry: The Journal of a Demon. Overall grade: 16 Judges' grading: liked the ending Grade: 6 Didn't really have anything that particularly charmed me on it, and I think a demon saying it was an artifact from god, and it being a good thing is a bit weird... Grade: 5 This story had more of a fantasy feel to me. The flow wasn't bad and there were grammar mistakes which were pointed out by the author. Story was simple with complexities sorted out in a short sentence or two. Not particularly rememberable but it as least fit the theme. Grade: 5	@AardwarkThe2nd 's entry: Tony, the owner of NUF summoned to another world! Overall grade: 15 (Individual entry with the biggest amount of likes!) Judges' grading: It seems that it’s not complete… like there’s something missing… Grade: 6 While I didn't particularly like the depiction of Tony, I do think it was an interesting premise... The entry was never finished though, so it's kinda... Lackluster. Grade: 3 Rather hilarious story. Especially the setting and background given to Tony by the author. Writing is fairly solid and the author knows where they want to go with in. Feels more like a prologue and could do with a continuation. Grade: 6
@Trane 's entry: A Dream. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)	@Jigoku Shounen 's entry: Intermission, The dream of a young girl. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry did not reach the minimum word count.)
@Dayfinder 's entry: Update. Overall Grade: 20 Judges' grading: I liked it! I want to find out what happens next! Grade: 8 I really loved the idea of an alternate NU, a parody with lifeupdates and the like, it was really interesting to read through it and seeing how the MC viewed the lives of others... The ending was a bit of a cliche though, for a story that had such an unique premise, it left a bad aftertaste for me. Grade: 7 An alternative world where NU is LU interesting concept but they got literally sucked into a new world. Grammar seems fine and the story isn't bland but doesn't catch my attention. More like a daily log of their life. Grade: 5	@imsodone 's entry: Silent Existence. Overall Grade: 18 Judges' grading: It was ok Grade: 6 Seems like the MC is NU itself, which is a nice premise... The execution didn't really capture me though. I liked the idea though. Grade: 6 The MC was the system in which NU/NUF was in. An enjoyable read that doesn't delve much into plot. Grade: 6
@BPLeon 's entry: Heavenly Lurking Technique. Overall Grade: 13 Judges' grading: It does have good points but storytelling is not smooth. It was a struggle to read the wall of text. Grade: 5 I didn't like the premise, but that is my own personal bias. What I really didn't like, was seeing someone say that they made 6000 words, only to find a small story though, this annoyed me. The lack of proper spacing also annoyed me. I got somewhat salty reading this because of the 6000 words thing, the spacing and the fact that the story was quite bland didn't help one bit. Grade: 4 They have read too many novels. The wall hurt too. Grade: 4	@Hazery 's entry: The meaning of existence. Overall Grade: 14 Judges' grading: Did not really appeal to me Grade: 5 I was liking it, it seemed promising even with the lacking English... The story wasn't finished though, so it's hard to give it a good grade. Grade: 4 They forgot to update their post. XD Grade: 5
@Arcadia Blade 's entry: My journey to Novel Updates Forums. Overall Grade: 17 Judges' grading: Kind of disjointed,did not really flow well... Grade: 6 Not much to say... I just didn't like it much I guess, it didn't say much. Grade: 5 Poem. Flow could be better but good effort. Grade: 6	@gheist1234 's entry: Age of Gods. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)
@Nbhan101 's entry: Untitled. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry did not reach the minimum word count.)	@Tramsloof 's entry: Damsel in Distress. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)
@Cyrus King 's entry: The Tragic Tale of the Cursed Manor. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)	@MasterCuddler 's entry: Me and Her. Overall Grade: 11 Judges' grading: not quite related to NU/NUF Grade: 0 It was a bit cute, seeing the cat saying "impudence" was also nice... A small and simple story, but I liked it. Grade: 7 From a cat's(?) P.O.V. Hmm~ Simple. Grade: 4
@Yash 's entry: Dragon Emperor Tales. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)	@Underload 's entry: Interview with Bot-chan. Overall Grade: 15 Judges' grading: It was ok Grade: 6 Making an interview with a bot was nice, but I feel like it would be a lot more interesting if it was an actual transcription of a talk with justabot through profiles... This one was... A bit bland. A nice premise, but not as nice execution. Grade: 6 I guess it is cute? Grade: 3
@Osamaru 's entry: More to scratch that itch. Overall Grade: 22 Judges' grading: I like it! Grade: 8 It was nice, it seemed to have a good rhythm, the flow was nice and it seemed very anniversary fitting, I don't have much to complain about it, but... At the same time, I don't have much to praise either, it didn't really evoke anything on me. Grade: 8 Cheerful and simple poem depicting the growth of NU/NUF. Grade: 6	@archduke 's entry: My Story. Overall Grade: 14. Judges' grading: The narrative does not flow smoothly, needs polishing Grade: 5 Seemed a bit strange to me... Didn't seem like a story, and more like someone talking to the judges... Kinda like a post in a thread... Wasn't much to my liking. Grade: 5 They pretty much just regutitated their thoughts without editing their post. Grade: 4
@GilgameshX2114 's entry: Boredom. Overall Grade: 21 Judges' grading: I like that it shows what NU means to the author Grade: 7 I wasn't that fond of it... The poem's verses were too long for me, it was hard to get a good rhythm, and the rhymes felt somewhat bland... Saying what NU means for you is nice though, very anniversary-like. Grade: 7 Not a bad poem. Their thoughts down but with "thought". Grade: 7	@Drakolous Maxima 's entry: What could have been. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)
@L4 's entry: I have less than 2 hours to write this story today. Overall Grade: 2 (This entry was barely on topic for me, for the other 2 judges it was off-topic.) Judges' Grading: So... It was more about someone writing about the contest than about the theme of the contest itself? Hmm... I guess it could count as on theme if I stretch a bit? But there wasn't much to the plot in the first place... Oh, and words are counted by putting the text on MS word or something similar, it counts the words for you... >.> Grade: 2	@Friickina 's entry: A change for good. Overall Grade: 3 Judges' Grading: I guess you tried? There isn't anything really appealing on the poem though, better luck next time, I guess. Grade: 3 I agree with their last line. Grade: 0
@Lost Panda 's entry: The wish to fly. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)	@faststomps 's entry: How I Discovered NU. Overall Grade: 14 Judges' grading: Unfinished. Grade: 5 Well, I guess it basically shows how you found NU? It's not bad, but there is nothing interesting in it either... It's hard to like this kind of thing. Grade: 5 Hmm...another diary entry about how they found NU. Grade: 4
@Gitami 's entry: Day 720. Overall Grade: 16 Judges' grading: Did not appeal to me Grade: 6 The parallel between the NU genres and streets is interesting... But the story doesn't have much of a plot... And... Did I say that I hated people that put 5k as the word count, when the story actually has only 1k? Yeah, I hate it, it really annoys me, because I think I'll need plenty of time to read it in one go, and I then discover that arranging my schedule to read a huge story was completely unnecessary... It's quite bothersome. Grade: 4 Beginning wasn't that clear but you get the general idea that the character is within a NU/NUF world. Just descriptive of the functions in there. Could do with more development. Grade: 6	@LoneSoul 's entry: Belief. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)
@kryner 's entry: Unbridled Grunt. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.) Judges' grading: Doesn't follow the theme. But it was a surprisingly good read. Grade: 0	@jmf028 's entry: "Five Seconds of Madness" aka "Everyone's A Chicken" Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)
@Myross17 's entry: I Fell In Love In My Favorite Character Overall Grade: 17 Judges' grading: Did not appeal to me Grade: 5 It was really cute! I really liked it! It didn't have much related to NU/NUF except for the fact that the character is a novel character though... I guess it's barely on topic? I really loved the story though! It was really really cute! Grade: 7 [No commentary.] Grade: 5	@Slayerwolfx2 's entry: What has began shall seal the end. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry did not reach the minimum word count.)
@HumanSashimi 's entry: NU Guild. Overall Grade: 14 Judges' grading: seems unfinished Grade: 5 I understood the idea of joining the different guilds meaning that you are actually joining new communities, but... Uhn... How to say it... Everything seemed all over the place? The story wasn't very coherent to me. Grade: 5 I guess it counts? NU Guild... Grade: 4	@shad12ow 's entry: The Strange Realm. Overall Grade: 26.5 (First Place amongst the individual entries!) Judges' grading: interesting. did not get the reference. which would have made it more enjoyable for me to read. Grade: 7.5 Hmmm... I honestly thought that I should avoid grading this one because I'd be too biased when grading it... Well, I decided against it, and I can't really give any other number aside from 10... It just touched me... I don't have anything to add or comment, it just touched me, more deeply than I thought it would. Grade: 10 I found it touching. Not being biased here but truly something to read and concentrate on, Memories really are a precious thing we have. Especially when we can first remember how we all came to know each other. Grade: 9
@TheJackWrite 's entry: One Day Memory. Overall Grade: 22 Judges' grading: interesting Grade: 7 Quite the wonderful story of entering NU world, it was simple, but really charming. If I have any complaint, I'd say the transition between their goodbye, and until the moment they met again was too rushed. You could've developed that feeling a bit more, maybe also show how those experiences in that single day made their bond stronger. You had up to 7500 words to play with, you could've developed them a lot more than you did... It was still really lovely though! Grade: 9 Another into NU world but slightly different. Not bad. Grade: 6	@SnowTime 's entry: Blue Bell Flowers. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry did not reach the minimum word count.) Judges' Grading: pouts I was really looking forward to your story, and even if it was really short, I loved it a huge lot, and would easily give it a 10! But... You're not following the theme, and you didn't reach the word count... Bad! Bad Snowtime! Read the theme properly next time! >.< Grade: 0
@ducpika 's entry: Just another guy in another world kind of novel. Overall Grade: 2 (This entry was mostly off-topic.) Judges Grading: I couldn't make head or tails of the story, what is the relationship it has with NU or NUF? I'm confused... Seems like your idea was to make the protagonist be NU itself? But it didn't give that feeling, and there wasn't anything that foreshadowed that in the whole story... In any case, there isn't much that I can say about it... Points for effort I guess? Grade: 2	@Zek 's entry: NUF Writer. Overall Grade: 13 Judges' grading: Unfinished Grade: 5 It was strange, I couldn't really get a grasp of what was happening... Way too rushed I guess. Grade: 3 Seems to be unfinished but a good start. Grade: 5
@Novela 's entry: Don't know but by me. Overall Grade: 0 (This entry was off-topic.)	@jzar 's entry: The Forum. Overall Grade: 26 (Second Place amongst the individual entries!) Judges' grading: I like it, i can picture the characters in my head, I like how it all came together Grade: 8 It was a really weird story, but really nice as well! The characters are very alive and really well developed, I have no complaints about it! Great work! Grade: 10 Very long but interesting. Keyboard warriors really do appear on NU XD Seeing how NU can occupy time is rather nice. Especially when you ought to be doing something else. Everyone just can't help but read. Grade: 8
@Snowdust 's entry: River of Light. Overall Grade: 11 Judges' grading: Did not appeal to me Grade: 5 Seems Off-topic to me, but... I guess it's kind of linking the idea of NU being a doorway to other worlds... The story didn't really have anything to it though... Grade: 3 I wonder if this is a loose link to NU/NUF? A bit too short to know though. Grade: 3	@Siostar 's entry: What Game Is This? Overall Grade: 24 (Third Place amongst the individual entries!) Judges' grading: Needs editing, but interesting Grade: 7 The story was nice, it's connection to NU wasn't through the story itself, but by the people involved in it. I liked it, it was a pretty sweet story overall. Grade: 9 It's sweet so terribly sweet. >w< But I am a bit biased. Sio and Sin are adorable. Grade: 8

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