by Blablob » September 4th, 2010, 4:19 am
Chapter 1
I sat in my chair, shocked at what I had just heard. At first I couldn’t wrap my mind around the news. So I asked, “MOY….he what?”
Suyo shook his head. “I’m afraid it’s true” he said. “We found his body on the floor of his cabin early this morning before anyone was awake.”
“Someone killed him?”
“Well,” said Four, “actually….”
“What is it?”
Four looked around, as if searching for an answer. “We don’t know if he was killed.”
I looked wide-eyed at him. “What do you mean? Of course he was killed! You found his body on his cabin floor!”
“Blab,” spoke Suyo, “There was no evidence.” Suyo scratched the back of his head. Then he looked right up to me. “There was nothing to suggest he was killed or killed himself. No markings, bruises, cuts, weapons, fingerprints; nothing.”
“Wait wait!” I said. “So you’re implying that he just died? No reason given? He’s just…dead?”
“Well,” said Four, “That‘s what the evidence suggests.”
“What evidence?”
“Exactly”.
I just looked down. Really, MOY just died? No reason given? That’s simply impossible. There must’ve been something we were missing. Something…and I was going to find out what.
“Alright,” said Runouw as he stood up. “We needed to tell you the news before anyone else knew about this. I will inform the rest of the forums. Meeting adjourned.”
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I was the last to walk out of Forum 23. I closed the big heavy, orange door behind me, and locked it.
Looking back, it really makes me wonder how I’ve come so far in such little time; how I’ve gone from such a dumb spammer to one of the most respected people around. It impressed even me.
“Attention Runouw.com!” I heard over the speakers in the building, as I walked back to my cabin. “I have a very important announcement to make.”
As I walked into my cabin, which I shared with Avolerators--he became my first friend on the forums--I looked at Avo. He thought he had problems, like taking care of Avotropolis, maintaining his good attitude, his art topics, and other things. He had nothing on Mods.
“It saddens me to tell you”, continued the speaker, “that we have lost one of our best members.”
Avo stared at me. I looked at him back. He whispered to me, “Who?” I didn’t answer him. I pointed to the speaker, advising him to listen.
“Everyone, we have lost our Moderator, MessengerOfDreams.”
Avo gasped. I looked down at myself. Could I have done something to prevent this? That’s what I thought. Maybe that’s what everyone was thinking at this point.
“The cause of death is unknown. The funeral for him will be held this coming Sunday, at 1:00, in the main lobby. That is all.” And then the sound of the speaker hanging up was heard.
I sat down on my side of the room, on my bed. “What happened, Blab?” asked Avo.
I sighed. “I don’t know.”
Avo fidgeted with his thumb, showing he was disturbed. “So….he’s gone? Dead?”
“Pretty much”.
“Well, I can’t say I’m too sad by it. Pretty shocked, but more or less kind of relieved”.
I stared at him. “Say what?”
“Oh wait, I didn’t tell you the PM he gave me and the rest of the forums the other day, did I?”
“PM? To everyone on the forums?”
“Well, except for Mods and stuff, from what I understand.”
“Wait wait wait! If everyone got a PM, then why am I hearing about it just now?”
“Well, you would understand once you read the PM. And now that he‘s….well, gone…I can tell you.”
I nodded to him. “Tell me.”
He went up to a cabinet on his side of the bed, and pulled out a blue sheet of paper. He gave it to me. “This is the PM every normal forum member got from MOY.” I read it:
Hello Runouw.com.
Starting right now I am not accepting anymore out-of-line attitudes. If I see you acting up, it will result in an auto-permaban. NO EXCEPTIONS! Do not tell any Mods about this issue. This will result in an IP ban. NO EXCEPTIONS! Do not attempt to argue with this, it is the final decision. If you do, it will result in a permaban. NO EXCEPTIONS! Now maybe the forums will act a little better. Stay good and stay safe. With high regards,
MessengerOfDreams
I stared at the letter, flabbergasted. I was too shocked for words. But I managed to croak one thing. “Okay.”
I lied down on my bed, thinking. Suddenly someone ran into our cabin. It was alucard. “Blab! Come here!”
I sat up, and got up, and followed alucard out the door. Avo followed.
We walked down the long hallway, toward the two doors that read “The Forums” and “For Mods/Admins only”. When we got to the doors. We went through the Forum Door.
Everyone was cheering MOY’s death.
And then I got out my whistle, and blew it. “SETTLE DOWN, EVERYONE!”
Everyone stared at me. “Blab,“ said James35, “you would understand why we cheering if you gotten the same PM we did, so you don’t know__”
“ I read the PM.” I said.
“Oh.” Said James. “Well then, why you tell us to stop?”
“Because really,” I said, “You are going to cheer the death of one of our greatest members? One of you should’ve told us about this PM. We could’ve worked it out one way or another. This probably has something to do with his death. I‘m sure MOY was just confused or something.”
And the forums went silent.
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A lot of questions still bogged my mind. What was the cause of death? Why would someone act like this? Why are the whole forums so happy about MOY’s death? Why would MOY send such a horrible PM to anyone?
That last question, though, I knew the answer to. It wasn’t the real MOY.