The Night I had a Catfight With A Gang of Pink Fairies
I just had my first ever fight with someone at the Internet. It started when I joined a virtual world game called Smallworlds. I find it extremely entertaining game and I love the graphics. I find it better than the other popular virtual game in facebook because you can do more things in Smallworlds.
Teleportation is a common ability. You are able to change your appearance in a snap. And when you are in a tight spot you can make other people’s head grow watermelon-huge, or turn someone into a vampire. Among others.
This is me playing a vampire
Earlier tonight, when I logged in, I was immediately brought to my apartment at SW. It was a newly renovated and furnished one. I admired my stuff for a moment before deciding to do a mission. By the way, the view from outside my window is amazing!
There were a lot of choices: A Halloween mission (I got to be classmates with Edward and Bella), be a character of a twisted fairy tale, go on a treasure hunt, clean apartments, make chocolates, paint, play quick draw, play pool or mini golf, be cursed, etc. etc.
In the end I chose to go on a friend finder quest. Making friends as you make money seems like a fantastic deal. The first stop was to a popular hang out, Rachel’s tea room.
Rachel’s Tea House (as Luningning)
I teleported near the entrance and saw a couple of people already partying. There were fairies, skater people, a guy with his head spinning, a purple guy, ordinary people. Colorful.
The place itself is very nice. Pretty rose wallpapers, teas served in china, antique furniture. One would think people who stay there are civilized.
But, as I navigated my way through the crowd I barely escaped a fire bolt thrown in my general direction. Rachel’s was turning into Mysterio’s.
You can’t get hurt when you get hit. So I was fearless in walking straight to the furthest corner of the room to observe the going-ons. I find people usually hanging out at Rachel’s friendly. Missions held there are not so hard, so people aren’t as uptight compared to other places.They are there to have fun and to make friends.
After a moment of being alone a woman with dark straight hair came towards me. We got to talking. I clicked on her avatar and saw that she was a newbie. Level 1 all the way.
I asked her if she finished her basic training yet. She laughed and said she canceled it. I asked her if she was on a mission. She was. She was on the same mission as I was. We immediately added each other up as friends, giggling.
While we were still chatting, sitting side by side, a guy with spiky hair came over towards us. He wasn’t sleazy like other guys. I know, because he was just minding his business, quietly sitting across from us. Unlike some of them that I’ve met.
All of a sudden a purple ray went straight to him. Hitting him directly to the noggin. The spiky haired guy turned purple all over and went rigid. I know how it feels getting hit. Aside from looking stupid with sparks going all around you turn into a single color, depending on the kind of ray gun that hit you. And worse, people usually laughs… at you. If you have an aversion of being a laughingstock you’ll understand.
That’s me.
I ignored it. My new friend also ignored it. It might only be harmless fun. We chatted some more about missions. Doing these mission stuff is very important. Accomplishing them means money. Money to buy those wands those couple of evil fairies are using, for example.
I think power had gone straight to their head.
Finally my new friend had to apologize to me because the rays and lightning bolts were were getting out of hand. Worst, the quiet guy was hit twice again. The guy stood up finally fed up with the attacks. He told the crazy fairies to cut out the zapping. It was really rude of them.
My friend said,” I’m sorry Bituin, there are a lot of dumb asses here. Its been going on for a while ever since I walked in.”
When you say something in the SmallWorld World it is posted as a bubble on top of our heads. My new friend who was still a newbie blurted that out not really thinking that that people could still listen in on our conversation.
There’s a “whisper” feature where you can say something without letting other people listen in on the conversation. But since she was new, my new friend didn’t know about it.
The moment she said it, two of the fairies, I mean three of them, rushed towards us, nearly bumping into the guy who was still shaking off the effects spell they cast on him. From what was a formerly quiet corner of the room, a crowd suddenly formed around us.
“Did you just called us dumb asses, Dok?” One of the fairies to my right side confronted my new friend.
I stood up. The both of us stood up. My friend was probably shaking to her pants in fear.
I remembered a story told to me by John, who is also new- about a woman who kept on hitting him with a similar contraption when he first played the game. It was one of the reason he was turned off from playing Smallworlds. With that in mind I got ready.
Seeing the three pink fairies (Who acted like hags) ganging up on us, newbies, I attacked first. I grabbed my one and only weapon, a clear bottle containing a man’s decapitated head inside, called a bubble head— targetted the hag who was waving her wand threatening my new friend and threw it towards her. My avatar did a pirouette, one hand extending a wand, turned towards my target then a bright light burst through its tip and Bull’s eye.
A dramatization
The pink witch’s head turned ginormous. Her short silver haired head blew up like an almost-to-the-brink-of-bursting balloon.
When one person turns you purple or make your head grow big, the unwritten rule is you laugh. Act as if it doesn’t bother you. No harm comes to your character anyway.
She laughed.
Her companions laughed.
She laughed some more saying that her head looks cool. It wasn’t really. Not only did she have a literally big head, figuratively she was also: A big head. A Guinness world record pumpkin sized head.
The situation could have been diffused right there and then. Laughing can calm down a tense situation… or maybe just adds suspense to it.
But I had to open my trap and said:
“You have a fat face.”
She flew closer towards me. Her wings fluttered excitedly. I don’t have anywhere else to go to coz I was sitting at the back of the room. I was trapped.
“Did you just call me a fat face?”
She was probably shrieking by then. If there was an emoticon for that I would have heard it right there.
She fired off one blast from her wand, which unfortunately, hit a guy wearing glasses that, in perfect cosmic timing, walked in front of me that very moment.
Things started to spin out of control and I panicked.
“Your head did grow big,” I said, before teleporting out in a hurry.
I’m sorry to say I couldn’t and didn’t stay to defend my helpless friend/s after that. I mean, what purpose would it do? Calling names is taboo (also hitting people with ray guns when they say stop) and I didn’t want to be banned at Rachel’s. Plus, that was my one and only weapon available. A one time deal. I feel bad I wasn’t able to check on my new friend after.
So that’s one exciting moment of my virtual life. I don’t think my heart could handle all the drama if it happens again.
P.s.
I cut short my hair, change the color of my shirt to stay underground.
Too bad my name is quite distinctive (Bituin), so I had to create another avatar who I used to buy all the armaments I could afford.
The End.
