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KOTL Big Island = FUN! https://www.chess.com/club/kotl-big-island

prolog- sips tea there was a man. sips tea. man (to himself): "interesting." he is out of tea. man (to himself): "this is so sad, alexa play despacito." he broke his teacup. man (to himself): "you fool, you absolute buffoon" chaptah 1- bying anothah teacup the man buys another teacup. he goes back to his house. he is out of tea. he buys another tea. sips tea. man: "ah. this is good tea." suddenly, the tea turns into a coffee. man: "nani" coffee: "you fool. you absolute buffoon. you muffinhead. you potatobrain. do you realize what you've done? you've been utterly and absolutely bamboozled by the absolute mastery that is me executing this play. you thought you even had a smidge of a chance, but you never have. i've been running circles around you the whole time. bow down to me peasant. for you have just been outplayed in every way imaginable." the man dies to death this is very sad chaptah 2- bagels there is another man who happened to live in the other house right next to the original man the another manbuys a toaster, a bucket of cheese, and whipped cream, and an infinite pot of bagels the another man toasts 2 slices of bagel the another man opens the bucket of cheese the another man applies the whipped cream, creating cream cheese using the power of magic the another man consumes the bagels using his mouth the another man feels his body morphing the another man is now the reincarnation of Jesus "ALEXAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" chaptah 3- i don't like pahties a fashionable man with a big freakin mustache who is swirling a glass of fine wine sits at a table with two chairs. on the table lays a board of chess, where he plays chess. there is a window in front of him, showing a wild disco going on. the fashionable man takes a long breath. almost a sigh. "i don't like paaahties." "this town always sponsors discos. dancing. alco-" he looks at the glass of wine in his hands and cuts himself off. "it is childish and immat-" he pauses and pulls out a big freakin thesaurus, flipping through the pages. "ah! it is childish and INFANTILE to me." he leans forward, inspecting the chess board with 4 queens and a king for white, while black has a lone king. "i always bring my chess and gomuku set there. most of the time i find someone to play with. doesn't matter the skill level." the fashionable man swiftly moves one of his four queens to checkmate black. he smiles and looks up, having finally beat his opponent (nobody is there). "we play... sparring games. when you play well, even if you lose, you get a certain type of... respect." he takes back two moves, moves the black king, and checkmates it again. "myyYYyyy concept of fun... which I do at a picnic I hold every year... i play chess, and that gives me a platform to talk about culture, philosophy... and life..." the fashionable man swooshes his wine around more, taking a sip. "i feel very... alien on this planet." the disco rampages in the house he sees. everybody is cha cha sliding. "i am smart enough (189 IQ on the Mensa online test, if you'd like to know. the free version, of course.) to know that different people have different interests. but loud music... mechanically produced..." the fashionable man seems to say mechanically with a tone of disgust, "'dancing...'" the fashionable man says that with air quotes, "and dri-" he looks down at the wine in his hand again, and quickly skips to the next line, "are not even interests in my book. "dancing as an art form dancing is an interest, like to you go to a school and learn to dance, even if it is break dancing, that's an interest, that's an art." says the moustached fashionable man, as the disco ramps up in insanity, as molotov cocktails are thrown around. "martial arts is an art. music that you play yourself is an art. crocheting, sewing, gardening, breeding puppies, those are arts. literature, even movies are art." he hears the blipping of c4 and the explosion of grenades. the house in front of him is going wild. "if i look around and i see bars and discos, i see a big version of babies, instead of shaking their rattles and drinking milk, they're rattling their boom box and drinking from their alcohol bottles." the house he's watching is destroyed now. he sips his wine. everybody in it seems dead. pff. the fools. they should've been playing chess like a fashionable person. "i don't like the world I am surrounded by. that's my polite saying of i don't like the people i'm surrounded by. at least most of them are dead." suddenly, that Jesus guy from chapter 2 descends from the heavens and resurrects everybody by giving them bagels. "Jesus has granted you a second life. use it wisely. maybe take out the pompous guy over in that house." then Jesus floats away, to be seen again another day. chaptah 4- cha cha real smooth a tomato, a pin, a small child with a knife, a bird, and a minecraft note block stand in a circle. suddenly, DJ casper magically spawns in the center of this circle. "THIS IS THE START OF SOMETHIN' NEW! THE CASPER SLIDE PAHRT TWO!" ~in progress~

Starter Island| Tutorial FIRESTORMTHIEF 2 min ago#1 Here's Starter Island. You will have a tutorial. Tutorial: Hi! My name is KAI. I am an AI generated voice tutorial. I will teach you how to do KOTL. You are going to spawn in Starter Island. I'll teach the basics now. First of all, you spawn with $1000 and 0 gems. You need resources like wood and stone. Go on! Destroy this tree to get wood! Awesome! Collect the wood! Great! You got 6 pieces of wood. Now let's craft something! In your inventory on the side, there is a list of items you can craft. It's called the Crafting List. Any item in the list that is green means you have all the items to craft it. Any one that's red means you don't have all the items to craft it. In this case, you can craft a wooden axe. But that's what we need. Click on it to craft the axe. Good job! Now we can chop down trees faster! Try it out! Nice! Another 4 pieces of wood! Now chop down 5 trees! Wow! Amazing! Now go back to Crafting the List! We're going to craft your first weapon! We'll save the pickaxe for later. Anyways, click on the text! Great job! A wooden sword! Now go test it out on a monster! Kill that goblin over there! Great job! Looks like this monster dropped some loot! Whenever you kill a monster or another player, they will drop stuff. Same goes to you. Let's see what the goblin has! Cool! You got Goblin Bones and ew, Goblin Guts! Now you know there are some items that can't be crafted. The only way to find them is by going to the island's Island Merchant! Come on! Let's go! Great! You found the Island Merchant! Let's see what he has for sale! Looks like the merchant has a Wooden Sleeved Chestplate. Their are also chestplates. Their difference is that they don't have sleeves. Anyways, click on the sleeved chestplate! There you go! Now you'll be showing off your new armor to your friends! Put your new gear on! You should put it on in your Chestplate Box like this! Great! Now you look too cool! Oh, but you still have a few things to do! Maybe you have something you don't need! Try selling the rest of your wood just for an example! Nice! You sold it! Looks like you earned $50! Sweet! Now I'll tell you something new! If you ever want to trade, go to the Island's Island Trader! Let's see what he has for us to trade! Like the Crafting List, anything that's green is tradable and anything that's red isn't tradable! Right now, we can trade our wooden axe for a stone axe! Now we can chop trees even faster than a wooden axe! There are two more things left to do. Ever felt like you wanted to get cool rewards by not just buying things? Go to the Island's Island Quest Master! He has all the quests for you! Let's take a look at what he has right now! Looks like we have to kill 2 goblins to complete the quest! Click on the quest to start! I'll wait once you've finished killing the goblins! Nice job! You killed them! Now go back to the Island Quest Master to receive your reward! Nice! $50! Alright! One last thing!There are always boss fights in games, right? Well, we have boss fights too! In fact, look behind you! "ROOOOAAAARR!!!!" It's a giant Cyclops monster! Fight it! Once you kill it, I'll congratulate you! You killed it! Great job! He dropped 2 gems! Save them for buying an Island Membership! He also dropped $500! Wow! He dropped a club, too! Now you have two weapons! Oh, you leveled up too! I forgot to mention this! You can level up by killing players, bosses, and other enemies to gain your level up. Every 100 levels you pass, you get Prestige. You keep your items. Once you get to Prestige 100, you are called Champion! Okay, now that you know how to play KOTL: Big Island, I'm going to send you to Big Island, where all the players are! Good luck and have fun! YOU ARE BEING TELEPORTED TO BIG ISLAND...

Which is it? i believe it's KOTL:The Island

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https://www.chess.com/tournament/the-chicken-wing-tournament

2. Kotl: The Original (118.5k | 9/22/18) @HorribleTomato: The original, and the best. 3. King of the Ladder: The Flipside (15.2k | 3/22/19) @hitthepin A fine kotl. 4. The Bad KOTL (13.1k | 4/16/20) @ChessNerd1320 The name says it all. 5. Kind of the Ladder: Season 2, the rise of Harold (10.7k | 12/8/18) @rychessmaster1 A very good kotl. 6. KOTL: the sky battlefield (9.2k | 4/16/20) @toxicnessmain The kotl that introduced me to KOTL. 7. King of the Ladder run by Angel9505 (6.9k | 2/22/19) @Angel9505 Meh. 8. Virtual Reality Battle Arena! (4.2k | 1/18/19) @HolographWars Very cool. 9. MOAR 2: Electric boogaloo! (2.9k | 4/6/20) @AustinXJet HMMMMM 10. KOTL: Music Madness: The Story (2.5k | 2/3/19) @thegreatauk A very NICE kotl. 11. King of the Noobs (King of the Ladder by Nubby) (2.5k | 5/19/20) @NubbyCheeseking I only posted 5 times there. 12. KOTL: The Unoriginal (926 | 5/18/20) @MrOOF600 I won't say the BEST kotl, but... 13. The Awesome KOTL (596 | 6/13/20) @rickzhang1977 Not very 'awesome' 14. KOTL of Death (481 | 4/13/20) @Chessnerd1320 Bruh. 15. KTOL (420 | 5/23/20) @Lightning148 srsly? 16. Modern KOTL (412 | 5/5/20) @chessiship Yes, modern. 17. extremedragons KOTL (310 | 11/3/19) @ExtremeDragon2 Maybe you should think of a new name. 18. The Nerdy KOTL (241 | 5/26/20) @Morgoth6 Went well for sometime, died the next. 19. Journey to the West KOTL (228 | 5/22/20) @Chinese_Person Revived and died 2 times 20. King of the Ladder: The Shattered Dimension (by Leo) (209 | 5/19/19) @Hawaiian_King Nice name, not that successful. 21. Kotl BUT run by moi! (203 | 12/9/18) @eryxc moi???! 22. The Dead KOTL (196 | 6/18/20) @ExtremeDragon2 Yes, the kotl is dead. 23. KOTL-Life in a nutshell (158 | 5/6/20) @Jebediah_mushroom Never heard of it. 24. Woof's KOTL (143 | 11/11/19) @woofydog105 Hmm. 25. Monarch of a rock (MOAR) (131 | 3/25/19) @AustinXJet Is this even a kotl?? 26. KOTL: The Battle Frontier (115 | 6/8/20) @togepi2468 What 27. KOTL : Yandere Version (109 | 6/11/20) @x_KaraAyaka_x What is 'yandere' 28. Crazy kotl (102 | 5/19/20) @ExtremeDragon2 yes dragon, you were crazy to create this kotl. 29. KOTL: Alliance Edition (59 | 5/19/20) @Felis_Domesticus only 59 posts. 30. The stupid KOTL (39 | 4/24/20) @Duolingo_is_under_u yes, this is stupid. 31. KOTL: The Horror (35 | 6/20/20) @Felis_Domesticus not horrifying. 32. †ØXIC BREACH- Game of Toxics and Breaches (32 | 5/26/20) @FIRESTORMTHIEF Not successful. Sad. 33. KOTL: zombie apocolypse, run my mr_alex_pims (22 | 3/6/19) @Mr_Alex_Pims ????? 34. Crazy KOTL V2 (19 | 5/26/20) @ExtremeDragon2 Again? 35. Kotl: The Alpha and The Omega (18 | 4/16/20) @Usad_Ormad what does this mean 36. The oofy kotl (18 | 5/12/20) @MrOOF600 let's not talk about this 37. KOTL: The Variables (16 | 5/25/20) @MrOOF600 neither this 38. Be the last person standing KOTL (16 | 6/4/20) @MrOOF600 neither this 39. KOTL A special KOTL (16 | 5/17/20) @The_Chess_Winner_Boy not special. 40. KOTT: the actual (12 | 6/11/20) @tourlDchess10kp Only 12 posts? ACTUAL?? 41. the satisfaction kotl (10 | 6/14/20) @tourlDchess10kp doesn't satisfy me. 42. KOTL- The KOTL (6 | 6/20/20) @1Nc31-0 Ah yes, this 43. KOTL:The Island (2 | 6/14/20) @Bangledashcricket i feel so sorry

You all want to know which kotl is the best. But this is not possible without arguing. Debating, maybe, as this is calmer. Whoever wins each debate can climb on a leaderboard which will soon be posted here. You can offer a debate to somebody else, and then you 2 can argue who's kotl is better.

Hello @WearyRaven has been glitching all kotls. Lets all pls report her so her account will get closed. Comment if u agree with me.

As we all know, all us KOTLers have nicknames. @ChessNerd1320 becomes CN, and @thegreatauk becomes auk. But the real question is: How were these nicknames created? Here, we will see how. 1. Initials, leaving out numbers. Let's take @ChessNerd1320 as an example. We leave out the numbers, which becomes ChessNerd. If we 'split' the word into 2 real words, we get Chess Nerd. The initials are now CN. Another example is @HorribleTomato. There are no numbers, so we just split the word into 2 real words. Horrible Tomato. If we take the initials, we get HT. However, HorribleTomato is also often called Tomato, as we will see in the next example. 2. Part of the name. @HorribleTomato is a good example here. Since he is a person, which is a noun, it's not appropriate to make 'Horrible' as his nickname. So we take 'Tomato' as his nickname. @rickzhang1977 is another example. Since he is a person, which is a noun, we do not need to include numbers. We get rick zhang. However, it's still pretty long so we just take out the 2nd ( it's the last name, i believe, if i'm wrong, correct me) and we get Rick. Rick is now his nickname. So goes with @Jebediah_Mushroom, @EthanTan2509 and many other people. I guess that's it. Thanks for reading this stupid forum.

Chapter One Oromis walked along the beach. This beach was considered to be one of the best beaches in the world. The big white cliffs helped to define it beyond just understanding how that came to be. As he walked, he thought about stuff. Stuff that might be childish. Stuff that might be better thought about later. Stuff that was happening. He was seen running toward the sea from the cliffs and he thought frantically, sweating frantically as he thought. He had his one gadget but he knew that wasn’t going to be enough. A few seconds was all he had to come up with a plan. He turned and... Chapter Two Let’s start at the beginning a few days ago, shall we? It all started when he saw the judo building on fire. He was witness to a terrorist group burning all the fighting places around town so no one could fight back. Oromis hid behind a trashcan and watched in horror. The leader yells, “Let’s get this back on track men! Light the wooden boards here too!” The men did these and left the place burning down in flames. They drove away in black shiny cars like government vehicles. Oromis went around the trash can to hide but he cracked a stick and one of the men turned toward the trash can. Oromis froze and waited. The man said to the rest, “I’ll go look, you all go.” The rest of the men leave and the lone man turns toward the trash can menacingly. Oromis knows there’s no way to hide so he steps out and acts like a little kid. “Hi, I kind of got lost. Can you help me?” The man chuckles. “There must be no witnesses.” The man swings his fish hard toward Oromis’s head and Oromis dashes backward. “Hardball, are we?” The man grabs a knife he had hidden in a iPhone case and snaps it open. Oromis started to run away when he notices the knife but the man is too fast. So Oromis grabs the trash can lid and uses it as a shield to run away as the man dashes toward him. The man grunts and rips the lid out of Oromis’s hands. Oromis looks on in horror as the knife comes toward him. Chapter Three Oromis closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable. And waited. And waited. Slowly, he opened his eyes. A group of street thugs were there and the lone man was on the ground, dead. A boy in the gang that appeared to be the leader said “Well what are you waiting for? It took you this long to open your eyes.”

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KOTL Arenas Other Cool KOTLs: Bad KOTL, KOTL the original, KOTL the flipside Cool Youtubers: Pewdiepie, Mr.Beast, Craftable Cobblestone, Grian, Dantdm This is not a KOTL but more of a deathmatch scenario where a few characters fight to the death. All you need is skill to win which nobosy has. May the luckiest human, vegetable or gamer win Here are the rules: Rules This is a modded game where you write an action and a moderator tells you what happens like D&D. Combat Combat is always allowed in this game and that's the whole point. You have to kill other players and be the last one standing but moreover, you need strategy. (Never been done before). You can do whatever you want but be warned if you do something stupid, you may die. Players In an arena, there can be a maximum of 6 players and there are 3 different formats: 1 v 1 v 1 v 1 v 1 v 1 2 v 2 v 2 3 v 3 In the first format of ffa, teaming is indeed allowed but take note that you will eventually have to kill your teamate to win so beware. In the next 2 formats, you cannot "team" with the other squads but you can kill your own teammates if you want to. Maps There are several maps that allow and don't allow you to lfa. Each map is a circle with a radius of 100 meters making the entire map 200 m in diameters. Each map is surrounded by a 25m tall wall that cannot be climbed in any way. If needed, the map will shrink to ensure battles are still fought. Here are the maps: Moonlight NI: This map is always almost dark with the only exception of the moonlight above. There are a few trees and a lot of hills with a flowing river down the middle. LFA: Allowed PMs: Allowed Misty EV This map is a bumpy plains with just a few scattered trees around the place. Oh! There is always mist in the bright yellow sun making this seem like a concert. Of death LFA: Allowed PMs: Allowed Skillfight DA In this arena, the entire land is completely flat without a single bump in sight. Skill is the only thing that it takes to get the victory. Here it is always day. LFA: Not Allowed PMs: Not Allowed Rocky NA In this final arena, rocks are everywhere sometimes forming big trenches. There may sometimes be caves and there are some mountains. LFA: Allowed PMs: Not Allowed Spawning You spawn in a random place in the map and dont know where you are nor do you know which way is north... You also spawn with a sword and a bag of 500 gold. THAT IS ALL YOU HAVE. Gold You will be able to purchase anything from the shop at any time but the only way of getting more gold is by killing other players so KILL THEM ALL!!!!! Shop 5 gold-1 arrow 35 gold-dagger 100 gold-Katana 100 gold-Small wooden shield 250 gold-Bow 250 gold-Big metal shield 300 gold-Crossbow 350 gold-Thermal goggles with 1/2 the map of range 400 gold-Grenade 425 gold-Plantable c4 with remote 525 gold-RPG 750 gold-Crystal (I had to do it lol) 1750 gold-Tank SIGN UP SHEEP @Oka1493 @PawnPusher1536 @Typewriter44 @Togepi2468 @Extremedragon2 @Chessiship WAITING LIST @rickzhang1977 @Goldenwriter MODERATOR: @MROOF600

this proves "a little can be a lot" This is told from my perspective. prolouge: One day, Jeb, Tomato, Toxic, CN, Hip, Pin, 10kp, togepi and I were walking calmly. Suddenly 10kp broke in: "KOTL will be dead AND WILL NEVER BE REVIVED!" I could only watch as CN's face twisted in anger and his eyes grow redder by the moment and almost burst. "You think the Bad KOTL will die? You ugly failure? You big piece of poop?" Everybody got angry. Especially 10kp. 10kp immediately launched onto CN, and attempted to gouge his eyes out. Chapter 1: 10kp was able to pounce on CN. CN managed to struggle out. "You fool!" "You ugly!" Pin and Jeb join in: "You booby!" "You buffon!" "You bufoon!" You buffoon!" The next moment, pin saw me and threw a sharp stone at my forehead. The next moment, everything was black. Chapter 2: When i woke up again, i found myself in a dark room filled with a musty smell and cobwebs. Then i turned around and saw a big screen. It was the fight that was going on! " Very cool, i thought. Pin fell.  

Seriously, it's getting worse by the day. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

Only a creator's best KOTL (by posts) will be featured.  This information is calculated by using data from 6/14/2020. Any KOTLs and any posts after that time are not counted.  Numbers are usually rounded to the nearest thousandth.  Only the "normal" KOTLs are included, i.e. not the related games. Will be updated as the normal Directory is updated.  The Bad KOTL (13.1k posts/51 days) = 222.034 ppd KOTL: The Original (118.5k posts/631 days) = 187.797 ppd KOTL: the Sky Battlefield (9.2k posts/59 days) = 155.932 ppd King of the Noobs (2.5k posts/26 days) = 96.154 ppd KOTL: A Mystic Land (2.7k posts/31 days) = 87.097 ppd MOAR 2 (2.9k posts/69 days) = 42.029 ppd KOTL: The Unoriginal (926 posts/27 days) = 34.296 ppd KOTL: The Flipside (15.2k/450 days) = 33.778 ppd KTOL: (420 posts/22 days) = 19.091 ppd Kind of the Ladder (10.7k posts/554 days) = 19.314 ppd KOTL by Angel9505 (6.9k posts/478 days) = 14.435 ppd The Nerdy KOTL (241 posts/19 days) = 12.684 ppd Modern KOTL (412 posts/40 days) = 10.300 ppd KOTL: Journey to the West (228 posts/23 days) = 9.913 ppd VRBA (4.2k posts/513 days) = 8.187 ppd KOTL: Music Madness (2.5k posts/497 days) = 5.030 ppd extremedragon's KOTL (310 posts/224 days) = 1.384 ppd KOTL: the Shattered Dimension (209 posts/392 days) = 0.533 ppd KOTL but run by moi! (203 posts/553 days) = 0.367 ppd

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The Legend Of The Mystic Land Prologue Once upon a time in the distant mystic land, there were armies of many types each with their different weapons. Everything was peaceful and each army worshipped their weapons like gods in their temples filled to the brim with the ancient knowledge of their people and the secrets of using their special weapons. Each weapon was created to fit the hands of each warrior. These nations and warriors were: The Archidons: The way of the archers. "The enemies will fall before they have a chance to stand" The Swordwrath: The way of the sword. "Swords so sharp that the enenmy will be cut down like dust " The Speartons: The way of the centurion. "Shields so strong that they can hold like dragon scales" The Magikill: The way of the mage. "Magic so powerful that the enemies cannot attack" The Gargantuans: The way of the clubs and force "Clubs so big, the enemies are squashed instantly" In this land, there were miners everywhere in every nation with gold mines all around the peoples' villages. The gold served to become a warrior. One had to melt a certain amount of gold and consume it to get powers and skills along with the numerous hours of practice that came with it. There was also one more nation. It was different from all the other. It sought to bring peace and unite the nations. It did not worship any weapons but learned all the ways of the land. This was the order empire. Soon, war broke out between the people of the land. Nations forced other nations no abide to their ways of worship. The order empire had to do something. It was time they united the land of Inamorata!

a boy named Bo has a bow. His dad is named Ho and his mom is named Oh(Ho-Oh if you know it). They lived in a huge mansion called Ro-laxing Mansion. Every time Bo comes home he says "yo". One day, his mom buys a glue gun. He says,"Yo, what dat thing?" and his mom says,"tis' a glue gun." bo and his mom get Bo's bow. they use it in a cool crafting thing. Bo's mom glues the bow and a sword from Bo's dad's yo-yo sword collection. "Tis' will be good Bo-i yeet!!!" Bo's mom says. "eh, let's glue-gun dat yo-yo with dis' To and Tem." Course, the tem wasn't happy being glued. it screeched and wanted to go to the Underground instead. "no tos pres!!!!!!!(made this thing up it means no in a crazy way like shouting.) Bo's mom says. Bo's mom glues the To(it's a turtle with red lips) and tem together. the tem screeches in pain from Bo's mom's glue gun heat. Then, Bo's mom glues the glued to and tem to the yoyo. "like it? it's bo-ring(what his mom is pronouncing in is bo and ring not boring it's bo ring say bo ring like bo peep except it's bo ring. is bo's mom teasing him?)." "okay, bye bye. end of poem." Bo says. That's the end of the poem

The hunched, small figure of a man in a black cloak walked down the metal hallway, his footsteps very nearly silent. It felt as though the atmosphere all around him was about to burst, as though some terrible thing was about to occur.  The man reached a scanner. Adjusting the excessively large, white felt hat on his head, he turned and faced it.  “HAT AUTHENTIC. ACCESS GRANTED.” a robotic voice stated flatly.  The wall in front of him folded away, revealing a path forward, and the man hurriedly walked down it before it closed behind him.  The room was absolutely bizarre. Of course, considering how eccentric the owner of the room was, this was hardly a surprise. But still, this was quite a lot.  A bookshelf stood against one corner, crammed to the brim with what seemed like journals. To the other side of the room, a collection of extremely odd things were placed together on a table, including a hockey stick, a bowl of half-eaten ice cream, several sets of dice that one might use to play Dungeons and Dragons, an old laptop that looked like it was made prior to 2010, a white knight from a chess set, and a pink expo marker, among others.  Across the third wall stood the obligatory pile of hats. So, so many hats. The man recognized Freddy’s, a purple jester’s, a red one with wings attached to the side, even one that appeared to resemble the original Mad Hatter’s from Alice in Wonderland.  In the center of everything stood a pair of ordinary sunglasses on a raised podium. The fluorescent light in the room was placed directly above it, seeming to shine down on the unremarkable item.  But of course, the man didn’t really pay any attention to this. The thing he noticed was all of the messages carved into the walls, on the floor, on the ceiling, in every available crevice and nook that there was.  “Hello? Is anyone there?”  “I’ve developed a taste for this.”  “Please, can’t anybody help me?” “I’m scared.”  “I will always be there for you.”  “Celeste is a hidden gem.” What?  “The true monster was inside of all of us all along.”  “Everything he’s been telling you is wrong.”  “Some things are best left forgotten.” “Stop lying to yourself.”  “Nobody was paying any attention.”  “📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎ 📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎ 📁︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎ 📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎📁︎📁︎ 📁︎📁︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📂︎📁︎📂︎” “Things are never going to get better.”  These messages went on and on and on, and interspersed between them were a pair of letters. “MB.” “MB,” repeated everywhere.  “What does it mean, what does it mean?” the man muttered to himself. He popped a pill in his mouth - not an invincibility one, mind you. Just something to steady his nerves, keep him calm. So what if it was filled with enough drugs to kill four ordinary people?  “How can I judge something perfect?”  “Nobody should have to go through this.” “Shot through the heart, and you’re too late.”  “Take me, but leave these good men alive.”  “Nothing can save you now.”  “Better check the time, that’s what the clock is for.”  “Don’t pretend to know what’s going on.”   “It might be hard, but I can assure you that there’s no better place to rest.”  “Is this where you want to be?”  “Make it stop. Please.”  “Fancy seeing you here.”  The man whirled to the sound of the voice. There in the doorway stood the person who made the room they both stood.  “Tut, tut, tut, Doctor.” Sure, the word “mad” was in his name, but he’d never heard his companion this… angry before. “I thought you were supposed to be intelligent? Isn’t that your thing?”  The man didn’t have time to respond before feeling a sudden, sharp pain through his chest. He looked down to see the thin, incredibly sharp blade through his chest.  It came from the wall, he thought, just as he dropped to his knees, gargling blood.  The other fellow present walked over, an absolutely insane grin on his face.  “Please… don’t kill me.”  “Kill you? You should know that I can’t kill you. You’ll just respawn. Besides, you still have a role to play.” The other man drew near until their two faces were just inches apart, the light shining down on them.  “We’re going to have so much FUN together, you and I! HAHAHAHA!”