((Made a mistake made a mistake made a mistake fix that mistake fix that mistake fix that mistake MINOR RETCON: Echidna is not TFN's browser, it's NAV's; TFN has Norn))
(The Froggy Ninja)
-===> Check the NEWS as well as WEBSITES of OPPOSING COMPANIES. Then ALLOCATE my trusty GADGETKIND ABSTRATUS and ROUND UP my PET.You go back to Norn and check the NEWS.
Someone in your COMPANY is leaking DETAILS about PROJECT ANTICOMPETITOR! DETAILS that even you didn't know are SHOWN IN THEIR GLORY. PROJECT INFRASTRUCTURE continues to remain LEAK FREE.
Your COMPETITORS are rolling out new PRODUCTS. One is advertising a FREE TO PLAY MMOFPS with RTS ELEMENTS. Another is advertising it's new RTS with FOUR DIMENSIONS. And a third is showing off a OPEN WORLD SOCIALITE GAME with RPG ELEMENTS, that can INTEGRATE directly with PESTERCHUM.
Sick of reading the NEWS for now, you grab a TASER ROD off your DESK and run OUT to ROUND UP your PET.
You find a TRAIL of TRACKS easy enough and start FOLLOWING them.
(Jack A T)
-===> Check for CANADIAN NEWS. Also, write QUALITY POLITICAL COMMENTARY about the PRESIDENT'S FRAUD on a USER-GENERATED COMMENTARY WEBSITE. Check EMAIL.You find that the CANADIAN NEWS is LESS EXCITING than the US NEWS for once:
A single SENATOR was ACCUSED of VOTE FIXING.
WILD FIRES in the WEST.
JACKALOPES discovered to be REAL.
The usual sort of stuff.
You close the NEWS and write QUALITY POLITICAL COMMENTARY on the day's EVENTS, SCOLDING PRESIDENT MCDONALD's choices and PREDICTING the COUNTRY'S FUTURE from it's CHOICE OF PRESIDENT. Once the COMMENTARY is up, you immediately start receiving PRAISE for a WELL DONE COMMENTARY.
Your EMAIL is as EMPTY as EVER. A few BIRTHDAY WISHES, but not much more. Oh, wait, forgot the SPAM FOLDER. GROW, GROW, GROW, ENLARGE, PLEASE, ENLARGE... it's all JUNK, same as always.
Hmm, seems a CHUM is PESTERING you.
--elephantParade started pestering deputyMinister at 10:03 01/08/2034--
EP: HAI! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I HAVE PRESENTS FORYOUCLICKHERE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
((If you would prefer a different CHUMHANDLE I will edit this right away!))
(Tiruin)
-===> Inspect the GAME and the KEYS: What was it CALLED and WHO SENT IT, and HOW? Also take the TIME to ADMIRE THE DECORATIONS. Check contacts in TABLET and who is AVAILABLE at the MOMENT. POSSIBILITY of TEXTING?The GAME is called SWURB by the LETTER. The KEYS are 32 DIGIT ALPHANUMERIC STRINGS that ENABLE the DOWNLOAD of SWURB. It appears to have been SENT by... the RETURN ADDRESS is a SPIROGRAPH, great. You take some time ADMIRING your ROOM, which is decorated in CALMING BAMBOO FURNITURE. It clashes a bit with the BRIGHT BIRTHDAY COLORS your SIS has COLORED your WALLS, but it presents a bit of BALANCE between CALM and CHAOS.
You check PESTERCHUM on your TABLET. AA and EP are on, as well as DM. The other THREE of your FRIENDS are not on yet, though you could PESTER them anyways and they'd see the MESSAGE later. It's basically HALFWAY between TEXTING and IRC, except it's FREE and has more FEATURES. You could TEXT your FRIENDS instead, but it costs so many BOONDOLLARS to TEXT, you don't see why anyone would.
(Dermonster)
-===> AGGROPEASE!You make up a NEW COMBAT FORM, and REFLECT your LEGAL GUARDIAN's STREAMERS and CONFETTI back at her while DANCING on her BACK. Your LEGAL GUARDIAN gives up part way through, and LEAVES your ROOM, but not before scattering GREEN and YELLOW STREAMERS onto your PLUSH CHAIR OF SCHEMES.
((I assumed that was meant to be something like Appease and Aggress, so I had you using her weapons against her))
(Elephant Parade)
-===> Examine VIRUS MESSAGE.You look closer at the NOTIFICATION. It seems to be the BIRTHDAY WISHES virus, one that gets into your PESTERCHUM ACCOUNT and starts hailing your CHUMBUDDIES with ANNOYING MESSAGES. Ack! Your PESTERCHUM is still OPEN!
--elephantParade started pestering deputyMinister at 10:03 01/08/2034--
EP: HAI! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I HAVE PRESENTS FORYOUCLICKHERE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!