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Bab 42: Chapter 42

"Hey, guys."

[blacklily: "Oh he's finally back."]

[LoafOfBread: "We missed you, Charlie."]

"Alright alright, stop being dramatic it was just 10 minutes."

[Yvettel: "You haven't even been talking to us since Saturday! What is wrong with youuuuu?!"]

[bzoomster: "Do you not care about us?"]

"Okay, I'm sorry I'm sorry."

[blacklily: "Losers. Haha, we talked earlier today."

[Rykun: "The favoritism is real here. I bet it's only because she plays the piano too."]

I smiled at their friendly banter.

"Yes, yes, of course."

[Juliamn: "I feel like Charlie is just treating this like babysitting annoying children."]

[Redde: "Hahaha."]

[wipL: "What are you laughing about, huh, Redde?"]

[Redde: "Pffft. Haha, nothing."]

[Yvettel: "He's totally laughing at our misery. Uh dur dur dur, I'm Reed and I'm superior because I know Charlie personally."]

[Redde: "Haha wait, that's not true!"]

[blacklily: "Yeah, I bet he thinks he's better because he knows Charlie personally."]

It's starting to feel a little uncomfortable.

[Poodlefluff: "Let's meet up all someday!!!"]

[Juliamn: "Yeah, let's! By the way wip, I heard what you said in a clip about zoom."]

[wipL: "Wait what?"]

[bzoomster: "Wow! You're talking behind my back?"]

I detected him trying to hold his laughter in and just grinned to the chat.

[wipL: "What did I say?"]

I check the time. 8:10 PM.

Hmm. I might have done an error in planning.

I'm going to be eating dinner soon and I do want to spend some time with my family.

Maybe play some Chess with dad and plan with them to someday go play tennis as a family.

[Juliamn: "By the way what are we doing today?"]

[blacklily: "I dunno, what do you guys want to do?"]

[LoafOfBread: "Videogames?"]

[bzoomster: "I disagree with Bread. Let's not play videogames and instead just chat for the rest of the night."]

[LoafOfBread: "What a great idea!"]

I think their inner cracksters are beginning to come out.

[Yvettel: "How about a horror game?"]

[Poodlefluff: "How about, no!"]

She practically yelled.

[wipL: "Yeah, let's play a horror game."]

[blacklily: "Agreed."]

[Rykun: "Yup."]

[Poodlefluff: "LILYYY! LAST TIME WE PLAYED A HORROR GAME YOU WOULDN'T LEAVE ME ALONE BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T SLEEP!"] She cried miserably.

[blacklily: "Hahaha. I've gotten over it! This time I definitely won't get nightmares."] I could hear her pump her fist in motivation.

[Yvettel: "That's also what you said last time…"]

[Redde: "You begged us to not leave the voice channel…"]

[Poodlefluff: "Yvette! How do you never get scared of the horror games?"]

[bzoomster: "Yeah, I piss myself every time lol."]

We all laughed at his comment.

[Yvettel: "I do get scared."]

[Juliamn: "Lies. You don't even react to jump scares."]

[Redde: "If you get scared why do you play them? Is that your form of entertainment?"]

[wipL: "I mean, they're kind of fun…"]

"Yeah, horror movies and games are fun to do with friends."

I voiced my agreement with them. Though I get scared and look away from the screen whenever I feel like there's about to be a jump scare, it is pretty funny to react like this with your friends.

[Redde: "Oh god, Charlie is also like them."]

[Juliamn: "Let's get out the pitchforks and torches!"]

[Poodlefluff: "Okay okay, let's all agree on something."]

[blacklily: "Yup! But it's raining right now and it's dark outside. It's the perfect time for a horror game!"]

She yelled with enthusiasm.

[Poodlefluff: "How about later? I'm actually feeling a little scared now."]

[blacklily: "Aww, it's okay! I'll stay up all night with you because I'll probably have nightmares too."]

[Yvettel: "Yeah, me too! We should definitely play a horror game."]

[Poodlefluff: "Please no. I don't want to pee myself live on stream."]

Ah, here come the incoming weird comments. I really don't want to read chat right now.

[wipL: "It's ok, no one will know."]

I glance at chat and immediately regret seeing anything.

"Ugh, someone please get me eye bleach."

[Chat:

Thancienone: LMFAOOOOOO THIS GUY

Shooghttbebthha: oh god someone get me some too

Bedwaaaaaaaaalt: some people are just disgusting

Honeyypill: lol ill go who wants]

Ah, I really should not have looked at the chat.

[bzoomster: "Well, three people want to play a horror game. Wip, Yvette, and Lily."]

[Juliamn: "How about we just play a peaceful game? Like Lily said, it's raining. It's the perfect time for a relaxing game. Maybe Terraria?"]

[Poodlefluff: "Oh my god, Terraria sounds so good right now."]

[LoafOfBread: "Oooh, I'm actually kind of feeling Terraria right now."]

[Redde: "Yeah same."]

[bzoomster: "Yeah, that would actually sound really good."]

[Yvettel: "Yeah I change my mind. Sorry Lily and Wip, but Terraria's really fun."]

[blacklily: "Dangit Yvette! Of course you'll want to play the game you're the best at."]

[Yvettel: "It's okay Lily we'll play next time. You really want to get nightmares that badly?"]

[blacklily: "No! But I want to hear people yelling!"]

[LoafOfBread: "The screams of other people will be drowned out by yours."]

[blacklily: "Okay… but let's play Modded! Normal is a little boring."]

[Rykun: "Yes yes, but this time don't spend the entire 3 hours killing bunnies and birds."]

[Yvettel: "Kay, I've got the server. What mods?"]

"I'll join later guys, I've got to go do something real quick."

I heard their okays and said goodbye to them and chat.

I disable the camera and on the software put the words 'AFK' on a black screen.

[Achievement Points: 2,721 {2,886/3,000}]

So close! I think I'll be getting it tonight or the next morning.

Oh well.

I exit out of my room into the dining room where my parents are just now setting the food on the table.

"Heyyyy."

"Good evening, Charlie."

I reach to them for a hug.

"Smells nice. Who cooked this time?"

My dad pointed to himself, "Not me."

Mom laughed and slapped his elbow. Inside joke maybe?

I help them set the plates on the table while chatting with them.

"When will you two be free?"

"Probably Tuesday."

"Tuesday?" Mom stared at him.

"Yup. Tuesday. What's happening?"

"Oh, well maybe we can go do something next Tuesday. Maybe play Tennis?"

My mom's eyes instantly lit up. I could see her grip dad's hand very painfully with a very bright expression on her face.

"We think that would be amazing!"

Dad smiled at her and gripped her hand to remind her that she was crushing it.

"Yes, let's go Tuesday. We already have the rackets and a few balls. Do you want to go to the Tennis Courts over in the park?"

I nodded at them and they smiled back at me.

Dad poked me as we watched Mom cutely prance around the kitchen happily.

"I think she's gone coo-coo."

His frame shook in amusement.

She looked back at him and threw her arms out to begin chasing him.

He turned at her and began running away.

Haha, they're literally just like children.

I watch them move in circles around the table.

Charlotte poked my shoulder from behind and just looked at them with mirth.

"Done your homework yet?"

"Yup. There's still a project that my groupmates haven't finished, though…"

I pat her back, knowing full well how it feels to have incompetent group mates.

We see the small frame of our mother chase our dad until at last she catches up to him and jumps on his back.

How youthful.

He catches her and begins piggy-back riding her as she shamelessly snuggles deeper into his back.

They really look like a young couple right now… Is this some place where you should be flirting openly? In front of your children?

I scoffed jokingly, how irresponsible.

"So uh, Charlotte are you free next week's Tuesday? We'll be going to play Tennis." I awkwardly ask her while trying to ignore our parents.

"Yup... I have exams that day, though. You'll have to wait for me after class." She says, also a little concerned about how our parents are behaving.

"No problem."

I got back to streaming and they had made a new Terraria world with very, very difficult mods.

Of course, being the complete noob gamer I was, I walked around cutting trees and getting killed by the overpowered zombies and slimes that were 20x harder to kill than before.

[Chat:

Vieweex: charlie get a yoyo n theyr rlly easy to kill

terrax: lol whats the death count at]

Our death count probably was at more than 100 deaths. Most of them from the beginning when they were setting up for survival and had no items.

Of course, I didn't have to go through much suffering since by the time I had come back they already had a few weapons.

I was still getting demolished by the occasional zombie and explosive bunny that my friends would kill me with.

[Yvettel: "Charlie, guess what?"]

"Yeah?"

[bzoomster: "Charlie just run away."]

[blacklily: "Don't. She has a really nice present for you."]

[Redde: "Charlie it's a good present."]

[wipL: "Charlie, don't it's horrible."]

"How bad could it be?"

I walked over to Yvette's character. Of course, I think she's going to try to kill me but she'll probably give me a few items after killing me in compensation for making fun of me.

I'll probably include this in the highlights and just edit in Yvette's facecam into the video.

To my expectations, she places a bunny down on me and explodes it with her boomerang.

'Charlie was cut down the middle by explosive bunny.'

"..."

[Yvettel: "HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA—"]

[blacklily: "He's just so innocent."]

No. I just want free items.

[Juliamn: "That's how I learned to never trust them again. Probably 20 of my deaths so far have been from explosive bunnies."]

[Poodlefluff: "Hahaha, look Charlie."]

Her character walked over and placed an explosive bunny right next to Yvettel.

While Yvette laughed her nose off, Poodle took revenge for me by exploding her.

[Yvettel: "Hahaha, wait nooo!!! Poodle!!!!"]

'Yvettel was turned into dust by explosive bunny.'

"Thanks Poodle. At least there's someone here I can trust."

[Yvettel: "Hahaha okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was actually going to give you something but I got an explosive bunny on the way here."]

[LoafOfBread: "You can always trust me Charlie."]

[wipL: "Yeah, get away from these fake people."]

[Redde: "Yeah, they're so rude."]

[Rykun: "Haha, Redde you were one of the people telling Charlie it was a good present…"]

[Redde: "What? No clue, honestly."]

'Redde was chopped up by an explosive bunny.'

[blacklily: "PFFFFFT— Hahahahah."]

[Redde: "Sigh…"]

I smirked at Reed's sigh of resignation.

[Yvettel: "Okay Charlie, here's a little gift."]

I ran away from her.

[Yvettel: "Haha wait, it's not an explosive bunny this time!"]

I reluctantly went back to her.

[Chat:

Boxman1: cant trust anyone here

Yvvvx11: bro i dunno i kinda ship them

laltr: bruh they kinda cute together ngl]

Uh, okay then.

A little strange.

"Thanks, Yvette."

[Yvettel: "Do you like my gift?"]

"Yup. It's a nice gift."

[Yvettel: "Okay, do you want to live together?"]

[blacklily: "Wait no, I want to live with you."]

"Why not just make a really big house?"

[Redde: "Yeah, I'm already building it."]

[Ding!]

[The Host's Achievement Egg is cracking!]

We were all gathered around the build Reed had made when I suddenly heard this message ringing in my head.

Holy!

We got 3,000 achievement points so quickly!

I immediately go to the system tab and click on the Achievement Egg symbol that was situated next to my total achievement points.

The golden egg had cracks around it which emitted rays of light from within.

Do I just… wait?

Oh, of course! Let's tap it!

[Author Note: oop. it's cliffhanger time LOL.

Well, did you guys enjoy? I really did enjoy writing this chapter and their interaction. I've never played Terraria before but I've watched YouTubers play the game and honestly, it looks really fun.

Is the story feeling a little slow right now? I feel like it is a little bit right now.

Please leave your thoughts in the comments. Thank you very much, once again!]


Bab 43: Chapter 43

The golden egg began shining rays of light.

I quickly looked to the camera to turn it off but no light was reflected so I just let it be.

I stood still staring at the egg that was vibrating intensely.

The egg vibrated for a few seconds until it abruptly stopped.

My breath paused with it and I watched with anticipation.

Little by little, the cracks began shining and expanding throughout the entirety of the egg.

It shook a little and as I watched it in anticipation.

Uh... Click it again?

I tapped the golden egg.

Immediately after, the egg exploded with golden light

The golden light shined my entire face, but the brilliance did not feel uncomfortable at all, rather very warm and comforting.

I basked in its light until trickles of light began condensing into itself.

A golden pearl was formed and a silvery glint radiated off of it.

Silver cracks appeared on the golden object and the Achievement Egg tab moved to the statistics tab.

The golden silver pearled floating around and settled down right next to my titles.

[Title: Trending, Hot Topic!

Silver Pearl

Stats:

Luck: 1

Intelligence: 14

Charm: 11

Total Achievement Points: 3,001]

[Ding!]

[The System congratulates the host! The Host is now an Achievement Rookie.]

[Achievement Rookie:

10% more achievement points.

10% Stat point effectivity.

10% Skill point gain.

Silver Points unlocked.]

Goodness, gracious.

[Stats:

Luck: 1

Intelligence: 15 (14 + 10%)

Charm: 12 (11 + 10%)]

The tab appeared right as the notification for the Achievement Rookie dissipated and odd chills began trailing down my entire body.

I slumped down on the chair.

Hmm, it seems the stat effectivity does not take place for the luck and it is rounded to the base number instead of having decimals added.

[The System requests the host to stay still as calibrations are made to the host���s body.]

The chills traveled from the entirety of my body. The feeling was the same as when you wake up and you slept in the wrong position cutting off the blood flow to your leg, so now you can't move your leg at all, and feels like tv static.

That's the same feeling except in my entire body.

It felt very uncomfortable and whenever I tried moving I felt jolts attack the nerves I tried moving.

The TV static feeling remained chilling throughout my whole body and I felt even more chills travel up and down my figure.

The hairs in my body rose and my muscles began twitching uncontrollably. Under my clothes though, none of this was visible to the stream.

My upper torso slumped down and fell to my knees.

Oh man, my chat probably thinks I'm paralyzed now or something.

Chills traveled through my face now, and I felt some slight molding there.

[...21%]

Oh, it's good that I fell face-first into my knees though, if people saw my features being played like this randomly I don't know if I'd be executed or dissected by mad scientists.

Either way, none of them sound good.

It's something I'll have to keep in mind for next time, though. If I'm getting a stat upgrade or opening an achievement egg, do it privately with no one else to watch you.

That'll keep me from being locked in a cellar like an SCP.

I felt a little change finally. Now, I don't think there was much difference in my face except a few details so it probably will just very slightly bother the chat.

I hope it's not enough to make them check and compare footage two minutes ago.

Or instead, I could just turn off the facecam and tell chat that I was having some issues and then turn it back on after a while. They'll see a difference in my face, but I could be able to use any excuse such as cleaning my face, chugging water, or even use the lighting as an excuse.

I felt a cooling feeling inside my brain and spine travel upwards and downwards constantly which was somehow revitalizing my thoughts.

[...57%]

My brain was speeding up a little and my senses had improved once again.

I feel as if I just drank a whole lot of energy drink, because holy!

Something was pulsing inside my spine and feeding it something that then traveled to my brain and upgraded it.

[...70%]

This feels so strange but the feeling of having faster thoughts and responses from your body also makes it feel a little addicting.

The spazzing and pulsing began weakening and my face gradually began to do less intense movements.

[...96%]

Finally, it ended and my muscles stop spazzing and the TV static left my body.

I began gripping my fingers as the feeling slowly came back into my body.

Wew! All of this from opening an achievement egg.

Looking up at the monitor from below, I went to OBS and disabled the facecam quickly.

"Sorry guys, I'll be back in a few minutes."

Okay.

They'll obviously be suspecting something happened since I just randomly slumped in my chair and then fell face-first like if I went unconscious.

What do I tell them?

I was hot? Nope, it's cold and raining right now and also one of the reasons why I'm wearing baggy clothing.

I've got 15 points of intelligence, why am I making it difficult for myself?

My brain felt as if it was relaxing and taking a breath—which is oddly strange, and my thoughts began taking a more rational direction.

First, I'd prefer not to lie about anything because if I do it'll probably come back to bite me later in the butt.

I could tell them I was feeling a little sleepy and light-headed and then brush it off as a one-time thing that just occurred randomly.

Random things like this happen to human bodies so it wouldn't be unfeasible.

I could stay quiet, and make it seem mysterious but then I'd probably reach my family and friends and make them worry.

Eh, just a one-time thing that happened.

I stretched my arms and legs and walked to the mirror to look at my changes.

Not many differences honestly, they were all pretty internal and the only ones I can notice are that my eyebrows now look a little raised.

Usually, showing more expression will make you look a little more good looking and I can already clearly notice this.

My voice from when I talked to the chat just now seemed a little more… attention-catching and I have a small feeling of restriction that changes the expressions I make into better-looking expressions.

Say, I make a stupid face, I'll still make the stupid face but something will guide my facial muscles to look as charming as possible while making that stupid face.

There's a saying that says an elegant person's actions will always be elegant, and it is more or less now the case for me.

I roll my neck around and crack a few bones.

Not sure what repercussions I could get from this, but for now I think it's a positive.

I open the system shop and immediately look for the Stat boost.

[Host has purchased +1 Stat boost.]

I watched the price jump from 1,500 to 7,500 achievement points.

Dang, that's a pretty huge jump.

Well, getting achievement points isn't too hard to do anyway, especially with the streaming.

I go back to my stats tab and tap on luck.

Yes! It is now finally time to get my 2nd luck point.

I tap the luck stat, however, nothing happens.

Ah, might I have been cheated?

I tap it again. Nothing.

I look at my available stat points and see it is now at 0.

Okay, I don't think I was cheated. Maybe it's taking a while for it to load?

Hmm, shoot.

Nothing's happening right now.

Is there a system bug?

GM!!!! Have I been scammed out of my 1,500 achievement points?

Well, this is… not very pleasing.

Ah, am I going to have to buy another stat boost for 7,500 to put in luck?

What if that one glitches as well?

Aw man, I can't believe this happened to me.

System, have I been cheated?

I wait for a response, but the system still is not responding.

Well, that sucks.

I sigh and slump onto my bed.

Okay, well I guess at least I still got stat jumps from the achievement egg.

And why is the system not responding? Maybe it's having an error and I just need to wait for it to reload or something and it'll give me back my luck point.

Is there lag in the system? Hmm, very interesting.

Well, I'll just wait and keep asking the system for its response.

In the meantime, let's get back to streaming.

I sink back onto my chair and click the turn on the camera.

Hmm, I forgot to mute myself. So many errors that I'm committing.

"Hello, hello?"

I look at chat and wait a few seconds for their response.

[Chat:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx111111: dad is finally back

Tisxuep: bruh wat happened to u]

I saw some questions asking about my well-being and I just smiled and affirmed them of my current good health.

Ooh, I did play basketball for a few hours and then still do some extra workout today so I could also use that as an excuse.

I hear audio of people yelling coming from my earphones.

Oops, I forgot about them.

As I'm putting them on, I hear them yelling out my name.

[Poodlefluff: "Charlie????"]

[Redde: "Dude, what happened? Are you good?"]

[bzoomster: "Dude, what's up?"]

[blacklily: "Do we call an ambulance?"]

[Rykun: "Charlie?"]

"Ah, I'm okay guys. Thank you very much. I'm very sorry I don't know what just happened."

[wipL: "Dude, are you good?"]

[Yvettel: "Dude, Redde was just giving us a tour of the house and you randomly went AFK and my chat started yelling at me that you died or something."]

[LoafOfBread: "Same, what happened Charlie?"]

[Juliamn: "Charlie, are you okay?"]

Ah, it makes me a little warm that people care about me like this.

"Yes, I'm okay thank you."

Makes me a little guilty that I made them feel like this even though nothing bad happened.

"Don't worry. I think I'm just a little tired. I played basketball earlier today for a few hours and then did some workout at the gym."

[Redde: "Bro, Charlie. You've got to chill man. You shouldn't overexert yourself, you're still— sorry to say this, but not too healthy."]

[Poodlefluff: "Yeah, you look a little too skinny."]

[Rykun: "Dude I think you're even skinnier than I am and I'm not healthy enough to even run for a few minutes."]

[blacklily: "You wanna just take a break? I don't think it's too healthy to keep going."]

[Yvettel: "Yeah, we don't want you getting sick or hurt or anything."]

I smiled gently at the warmth I was feeling.

"No, I think I'm fine now. I just had to get a cup of water."

[bzoomster: "Dude, I don't know if it's too healthy to keep playing. Maybe you should go to sleep now?"]

[Juliamn: "Yeah dude. Health above all."]

"No, it's fine. Thank you guys very much."

I feel a little bad that they're concerned over me like this even though nothing happened to me.

I grab my mouse and see that everyone's gathered around my character.

I put an explosive bunny down.

[wipL: "Oh go—"]

All 10 of us were killed by the same explosive bunny.

"Hahhahahah. I'm sorry. Hahah I'm so sorry."

I apologized, while not really apologizing and with absolutely zero regrets.

They laughed along with me and the tenseness that could be felt in the atmosphere went away.

[Author Note:

Hehe, chapter late by 9 hours. I apologize. I did not wish to extend the cliffhanger for longer but I was given three essays for today LOL.

My teachers just love to give us long assignments.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter!

It might be a little sloppy since I still have not been given enough time to take a break, stock up on chapters, nor the time to revise them too much.

Also, I've been writing the entire day so it might be a little dull.

Thank you for reading, as always!]


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