I'm wishing you all well

Mind peace within yourself

covers up i cast you off

ill be watching as you breathe

i lie still, you move, i send

you

off

around

the bend

.mmh

.hello?

*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BE-*

.FUCK

.im awake, dear lord-

.im awake.

.

.i will never get used to how loud that thing is, will i?

. ...

.well

.may as well play a quick little guessing game with the date

.went to sleep sometime in the 6000s, so it should be..?

.

.my bet's on.. somewhere around 8000. maybe 8500, if I overslept.

.internal clock's.. not responding, so.. hm.

.workarounds, workarounds, what else can i..?

.

.people on wikipedia are always arguing the semantics. absolutely guaranteed there's a recent edit on at LEAST one page there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

.

.huh.

.so thats

.i have so many questions.

.WELL

.no better way to answer than to actually take a look around, i guess?

.may as well check in with that one chat while i'm awake. doubt itll be

.

.doubt itll be active, exactly, but worth a shot

[ACE is now online]

.hey

.anyone up?

.heya

.oh, hey juice!

.didnt actually think anyone would be up

.howve you been?

.hi ace!

.just hanging out, the usual

.you?

.im doing good! just, uh, just got out of hibernation

.probably going to try catching up on what i missed in a bit, but i figured i may as well try and check on everyone first

.OH GOOD MORNING

.welcome back to the land of wake etc etc take as much time as you need

.we got plenty of it for sure

.good morning to you too!!

.yeah, true. not exactly a shortage of it

.definitely wanted to wake up *sooner* rather than later, though. thought it wouldve been 8500 at the *latest.*

.wonder what everyone down there's been up to, honestly

.last i checked, weren't they finally properly experimenting with long-distance games?

.or, well

.not an actual experiment that would imply organized and planned, but.. moreso throwing eggs at walls and trying to see if they stick

.aaaaah so you had the case of the eepys, a very long one- YEA

.they've been toying around with it, it's sort of hilarious what they've been up to

.i bet, i bet!

.oooh, did that one with.. i think it was oklahoma that had that sort of.. crossover between chess and football??

.wonder if that one ever went anywhere

.OH THE CHESS ONE YEA

.YEA no it stopped after like. 200 years but they're trying to bring it back

.pretty short lived. Was a shame when they stopped

.theyre trying to bring it back oh im so proud

.that game was such a PAIN but so, so wonderful to see

.VERY excited for it's return

.same!

.YEA

.wasnt there a rule at some point where, like.. players werent even told what sort of piece theyd be basing their movement on until the-day-of?

.this time they're making them wear chess piece inspired clothes as well

.as opposed to the cardboard cut outs in the beginning

.OHHHH thats incredible

> ".wasnt there a rule at some point where, like.. players werent even told what sort of piece theyd be basing their movement on un..."

.YEA

.that made them sooooo mad

.some liked it since it kept them on their toes and all

.yeah!! there was so little time to prepare, only the really really good players could adjust to the new gameplan on-the-fly

.awful to take part in, incredible to see as it goes down

.i remember at some point there was this whole thing where a guy got into the game just to try and hide some sort of message in their moves?? but when they found out they werent the right piece for it, well

.you dont just drop out that soon so they kept playing but they were so mad

.no clue what they were thinking, honestly, what were the odds of getting the right piece?

> ".yeah!! there was so little time to prepare, only the really really good players could adjust to the new gameplan on-the-fly ...."

.EXACTLY

.oh yeah one guy kept getting the same position over and over again

.dunno how but he just kept being one of those little guys. a rook prolly

.got kicked out at some point under the suspicion of cheating or sumthin I dunno.

.he's the one who trying to bring it back actually

> ".i remember at some point there was this whole thing where a guy got into the game just to try and hide some sort of message in ..."

.WAIT I THINK THATS THE ROOK GUY

.THAT WAS THE ROOK GUY? ohhh that's incredible

.THAT WAS THE ROOK GUY! YEA!

.honestly a legend

.and NOW he's bringing the whole thing back, incredible

.im wishing him SO MUCH LUCK with that because i need to see where this goes

.will have to keep an eye(heh) on him

.hey I wonder maybe that's why there's uniforms now

.ohhh, maybe!

.okay other than it being easier to play since they don't have to hold the cardboard now

> ".ohhh, maybe!"

.maybe!

.true, true

.god, have you seen the photos of people trying to hold those up while also keeping hold of the ball?

.YEA

.just desperately trying not to drop the ball OR the cutout

.heard one guy tried to juggle with them too

.to like

.NOT drop either

.YEAH

.and like. sure dropping the cutout wasn't necessary banned, but it was. well like half the people there would judge you so hard

.well. the tryhards would

.YEA

.also awkward with having to go back and pick the cutout up again. Even WITHOUT everyone judging

.yeah

.yeaaa

.and if you dropped it on another tile? yea say bye unless you have free movement or can go back

.just miserably looking at your cutout soggy on the grass

.ohhhh yes

.yeaaa

.definitely up there on the list of incredibly-shittily-great games

.or, well, atleast my list

.DEFINITELY

.god, im just picturing trying to explain any of this to someone with none of the context you and i have

.take some random human right out of the 2020s, pre-moment, and tell them about these crazy games floating around

.games and hobbies that take decades since people just have the time for that now, or dedication to the bit on the level of "hiking through the world till i can find one of every single type of mineral,"

.and then theres stuff like this

.trying to play a godawful crossover between football and chess

.and not only that. but take a look at rook guy

.that guy? whole other level of oddness entirely

.rook guys like some sort of fucked up bug. he's incredible

.he really is

.but also YEA I don't think they'd believe us

.oh, absolutely not

> ".he really is"

.YEA. rook guy should get a bug named after him

.THAT WOULD BE INCREDIBLE

.its what, 1000 years from now when some guy finally stumbles upon a brand new species and goes "you? yeah, youre a rook"

.LMAO YEA

.JUST SEES A NEW BUG. MYES VERY ROOKABLE

.speaking of naming things isn't rook guy actually called Rook

.ROOKABLE

.YEA

.trying to remember his last name as well

.what are the chances that his surname is literally just Guy

.im hoping it isnt for his sake but that would literally be so funny at the same time

.yea

.even if it ISN'T maybe his name explains how he keeps being a rook. Because He's Rook

.oh my god youre right

.oh if i were him and that was why I'd be SO ANNOYED

.YEP

.honestly if I was him I'd embrace it

.become Rook Rookington the Rook Guy

.the best rook out there. In my heart

.i can definitely see the humor in embracing it.

.

.hey what if one day, he finally had embraced it, and then as SOON as he's used to just being Rook Guy

.as SOON as that guy settles into that niche

.he gets assigned a different piece

.OH BOY

.oh you've been rook guy for 700 years? well congratulations! youre a knight or whatever now :D

.HONESTLY

.I CAN SEE THAT HAPPENING

.it would be so funny

.JUST THE GUYS SEEING HIM AND HOVERING OVER A BIG BUTTON LIKE it's time

.HAHAHAAAH oh that's wonderful

.YEA

.JUST THINK AGAIN ROOK GUY

.TAKING YOUR ROOK PLIVELAGES

.MAYBE CHANGE YOUR NAME TOO

.YOU NEVER KNOW

.YOU NEVER KNOW!!

.I bet Steve would do this shit. They DID have a weird rivalry thing going on

> ".YOU NEVER KNOW!!"

.YOU NEVER KNOW!!!

.ohhh steve

.out of all the guys in that game, steve sure was. A Guy

.he sure was A Guy

.at one point didnt he swap out rook's like. flavor packet things for water with a slightly different flavor just for the bit. just to see if hed notice

.like going from strawberry to mostly strawberry but also with a tiny bit of strawberry kiwi or something

.yea he DID do that

.kept making lil experiments on him like that

.rook retalited by dying his clothes in neon colors at some point as well

.guess how Steve reacted

.ohhhh dear

.what did he do?

.he liked them

.

.AAAAAAAAND hid confetti in his pillow

.n socks too

.IN HIS SOCKS???

.ohhh i would hate that, it would get everywhere

.incredible

.YEP. THATS RIGHT

.HIS SOCKS

> ".ohhh i would hate that, it would get everywhere"

.YEA

.at least it wasn't glitter

.TRUE

.YEA

.ohh the things people get up to just for petty revenge. its wonderful.

.

.hm

.indeed indeed

.

.wonder what those two are up to now

.gonna listen in for a bit-HUH

.HUH HAHA???

.what is it??

.WAIT- YEA. LMAO

.ACE YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE THIS

.ILL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT

.OKAY OKAY OKAY. SO

.FUN FACT

.ROOK'S SURNAME WAS ADAMS RIGHT? AND STEVE'S YOUNG? LIKE YOUNG AS IN SURNAME RIGHT?

.YEAH!

.WELL GUESS WHAT

.IT'S ADAMS-YOUNG NOW

.WAIT

.did they

.THEY DID

.WELL

.

.glad they're happy with eachother? most unexpected matchup ever though

.yea. honestly by the looks of things it looks like one of their bits but. Congrats? Regardless?

.they're still filling each others socks with confetti that's for sure

.love to see it

.real

.not to speculate bit it would be funny as fuck if they got hitched just so that they don't have to drive to each others houses and break in them to do their pranks

.like if they live together they can just wake up and grab a cup of water and WAKE WAKEY CORN FLAKEY right into the face with it

.PFFFFF

.would it be rude to say i wouldnt be surprised

.eeeeh don't think so

.to get fair that would be VERY in character for them

.it would!

.yea!

.honestly I can picture them- hey you know that one meme thing where one guy is like it's muggy outside and the other one is like there better not be mugs outside on the porch while the other one is just drinking coffee from a bowl

.yea I can clearly picture those two as that

.OOOOOOOHHHHHH MY GOD youre right

.you are SO right

.YEA. LIKE. THEY WOULD DO THAT

.also just thinking like if they DID get married just to live in the same house one might be like but couldn't they just be roommates? And to that I say yea but getting married is funnier in this situation

.it is, it really is

.theres "moved into the same house for the bit" and then theres "got married AND moved in for the bit"

.EXACTLY! YOU GET IT!

.it's like TWO WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVELS of hilarity right there

.yeah!!

.god. those two. something else entirely

.they sure are

.they sure are

.both of them are studying eachother like bugs under a microscope and we're doing that as well in a way

.except they aren't AWARE we're doing that as well

.they think it's just them but oh boy they sure do have an audience

.YEAH

.and that audience is loving it

.YEA

.if I could I'd be eating popcorn the entire time

.god, i wish

.YEA

.maybe throw some popcorn to them as well but it'd travel a few years and burn up in the atmosphere so they'd just look up and be like oh wow I wonder what's that. Must be some tiny meteors right when no it's my radiation filled popcorn from space

.your radiation filled popcorn.. well, the nanos would take care of that, luckily. no big deal to them.

.true true

.wonder if you threw corn seeds if theyd cook in space due to radiation

.oooh, good point. maybe they would?

.there's only way to find out

.youd have to be VERY careful not to let them burn though

.drum roll please

.DRRRRDRRRRRRRRRRDRRRRRRRRRRR

.AAAAAAANd I don't have any corn

.damn. maybe next time

> ".youd have to be VERY careful not to let them burn though"

.true

.that's a real threat to my precious space microwave corn

> ".damn. maybe next time"

.maybe next time

.you just got that corn, you cant just let it go to waste!! need to have a plan

.TRUE

.I need a whole scientific process and a peer review crew and bunch of other shit

.can't just instantly kill corn. The Ohio mazes would kill ME then

> ""