A Nerd Club Christmas

-DECEMBER 24, 1999-

-MANHATTAN, NEW YORK-

"I do not very much enjoy Christmas."

It was Christmas Eve, and here a child with messy black hair hid under her sheets, grumbling to herself while peering at a book with a flashlight.

"Mother and father do not listen to me. I am certain I just got frilly girly things again. I bet they're pink."

The girl known as Viola Brown sighed, her cheeks puffing out. Long has she wanted to run away from home, start her own life where no one would make fun of her for liking the occult. She'd go far away and change her name. Viola was nice, but Brown was much too plain. Maybe something like... like...

She looked down at the book she was reading again. The Official Pokemon Handbook. She'd read it cover to cover many times, but she always came back for more. The pages were open to the two-page spread devoted to Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar, and she stared at those pages with wide, wistful eyes.

"I wish I could be a Pokemon Trainer. They get to go wherever they want and have adventures. Pokemon would not judge me."

Her eyes fell to the list of attacks the Pokemon could learn. The words "Night Shade" drifted over her vision.

"...Nightshade..."

Chatzy Madness Volume 289: Wake Up Get Up Date Nerds

All You Zombies: "Cast out from the sanctuary of Suramar, this nightfallen wandered the coastline as his body deteriorated, and his sanity along with it. Just as he was about to lose the last vestiges of personhood, he sensed a radiating energy from a nearby cave. Within, he found a shard of power originating from the Nightwell itself. It sustains and empowers him, but also warps the flow of time and space nearby. It has broken his mind completely. Now, no one enters the cave of Withered J'im. Even fools know better."
All You Zombies: So of course I did
All You Zombies: He had treasure.

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Bear Cuddler: bought some NX because nothing makes me happier than going on Diadem Simulator and making her look pretty
Bear Cuddler: gacha gave me interesting things
Bear Cuddler: i gave some to ivel
Bear Cuddler: and uh
Bear Cuddler: Dia is hiding it well, but she's actually very terrified
Bear Cuddler: so yeah Gino can transform into a monster Dia murdered
Gooper Blooper: hang in there dia
Gooper Blooper: the madness will end soon
Gooper Blooper: well, no, it'll all be in kuwahawi
Bear Cuddler: Magical Girl Mayhem: with more events planned than
Bear Cuddler: uh
Bear Cuddler: shit

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Jumpropeman: boip
Gooper Blooper: piob
Burpo joined the chat
Jumpropeman: =o
Burpo: Who summons me? BI
Jumpropeman: Burpo my liege!
Gooper Blooper: a kid his age should be playing outside, not sitting up in his room all day burping his burpo
Burpo thunder crackles.