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*Somewhere in StarDawn Mall, on the fourth floor, a pair of teenage players (both male, 14 and 15) are dashing across the grayed-out hallways as they pant somewhat tiredly, one of them is recording on his phone*

"Which... which hallway, dude?!"

"We're almost there..!!"

*Almost two minutes pass, they reach a slightly-glitched out grayed-out hallway, to which they stop near one of the empty, abandoned gray shops, the 14 year-old boy points up*

"Look up!"

*Confused, his friend does so, and spots a strange-looking, half-glitched-out monitor above them, it's tilted a bit downward*

"What..? Is that a computer monitor? W-what's it doin' up there?"

"I don't know, but when I first saw it, it was on for some reason...! Now, it's like that."

*Before he could ask what he means by that, all of a sudden, the eerie floating monitor turns on by itself as static-like sounds are heard, startling the two teens, then... text begins to appear on the screen, reading: 'yOU... FamIlIAr...', they're puzzled now*

"Huh..? I-is it talking about you or me...?"

"Um, I d-don't know.. I didn't see any text on it before."

*As they nervously chat about the odd glitchy monitor, without warning, a 'bolt' of strange, static-y lightning very nearly strikes one of them when a weird guy abruptly appears to tackle the 15 year-old player to the ground to prevent it from hitting him, the latter is slightly groaning in pain, his friend is horrified*

"Oww... thanks, weird guy.. but... I-I can't move..!"

"What!? Holy shoot, you've been paralyzed!! Is it because of that bolt-looking thing!? L-let's go to the hospital now, weird guy!"

*Nodding once in response, he proceeds to hold both of the colorful boys' hands and off they teleport away as the monitor glitches out for a moment, text pops up on the screen before the video ends abruptly: 'No....'-*

Posted Jul 5, 2026, 12:18 PM UTC

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