Mike

Mike stretched out his back as he sat up from his laptop, a slight grumbling of pain as he mutter “Dam, I guess I overworked a bit today. Still, at least that’s another job done”. Mike stood up to stretch a little more before he checked his watch seeing the time. “Perfect, and still enough time to get ready before I go out with my friends” he said as he quickly got showered and dressed. He would not notice the message on his laptop until a few hours later when he got back.

“Do you seek Freedom? Do you seek escape?” Mike read the message aloud, thinking about it before saying “probably some cult trying to get money off me, I thought I had sorted that with my anti-virus. Thank god, everything saved and on back-up drives at least i suppose”. He went through his setting and reset his laptop hoping that would deal with the issue. He would switch it back on after a couple of minutes everything seemed to boot up correctly until once again the same message appeared. Mike mutter some curse words before sighing “I feel like this message isn’t leaving me anytime soon”

Mike debated with himself for a few more minutes before saying “I feel like I’m about to make a horrible mistake here but if I can get rid of this message before it destroys all my work, otherwise I’ll never hear the end of it from Navi since she brought me the laptop as a birthday gift”. Mike type Y and struggled to move as the bright lights and noise assaulted his vision and sense.

Mike slowly regained his sense as he heard two people talking, his muscle memory kicking in as he heard a young man yell about something which had Mike immediately roll backwards and get into defence position, though when he noticed it was a little kid he was silent as he took this moment to take in his surrounding and the fellow people who had appeared here. “I knew this was going to be a cult,” Mike said with a sigh.

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Sashia

Sashia had actually already been in the hotel for the past week, today was her last day in Hawaii before she was meant to leave tomorrow morning. She had needed this break to unwind, her V-tuber channel had been going from strength to strength and she had done non-stop recording last week so that her viewers had things to watch while she took a break. She was still somewhat active as she would reply to comment or advertise a few things on her bluesky Kitsuna account.

She had just finished a drawing of something she had seen in a dream, a humanoid looking fox with golden fur. She couldn’t really figure out why that image kept appearing in her mind when she slept, though she did compare it with another couple images she had draw as well that had appeared as well. A woman in a black fox looking armour, another woman with a golden fox mask and wearing a maids outfits. She had noticed that they were slightly different to her V-tube Avatar which was also a fox though it was more of a fox girl. She looked over at her necklace sitting next to her before she suddenly noticed a message on her bed.

“Go to the ballroom, hmm, maybe there’s an event going on?” Sashia wondered out loud before she shrugged and grab her necklace before getting dressed, despite the storm, it still felt quite hot so she wore a lit blue tube top and a long flowing traditional Hawaiien dress before making her way to the ballroom.

She was immediately met by a young man who she smiled at as he asked her if she did martial arts, “Indeed, myself and my two older brother decided to learn different style of martial arts as a way to keep ourselves fit, epically since one of my brother spends a lot of time infront of his computer as a software creator and I spend a lot of time sitting down doing my drawing and helping other with request and such” She said, before doing a curtsy to Danny. “My name is Sashia Fertar, may I ask your name?”

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