>be Anon E. Moose   "So what if I'm Canadian, huh?" >How dare they insult you based on your nationality! >"No such thing as a Canadian. You're just a feral Frenchie." >"Faggot."   >The laughter of two men reverbrates into your ears through the voice coil of your headset. >You stare at your screen, trying to come up with something witty. >People like you more when you act smarter than you are. >R-right?...   "I-I'm English! I-I'd rather die than be one of those disgusting four-legged abominations that are the French!"   >The echo of voices mocking you multiplies, as more people join in on the fun. >You knew you shouldn't have joined this damn server.   >"That doesn't make you any better than them, fag." >"Ha, this leaf's in denial!" >"Oof, ouch, owie, they hurt my pride with their meanie insults!"   >You hear people making spitting noises, laughter, and other generally kindergarten-tier stuff. >It is admittedly pretty funny, though. >So you start laughing with them.   >Being sure to press your push-to-talk pedal, too. >Your own greatest invention, a racing pedal re-wired to function as a push-to-talk key. >Ever since you made this thing you didn't have to dedicate a finger to activating your mic.   >Those open mic and voice activated plebs, ha.   >The second the afterglow passes, you notice something. >Two yellow dots, reflecting off of the gloss of one of your monitors. >Quite big ones, too. >You take off one half of the headset and slowly turn around in your chair.   >Just to meet the two yellow dots, flying in thin air, staring right at you, like two snake eyes. >Hm. >Right, Anon. >You're gonna try talking to it.   "What the hell are you?" >"Don't 'what the hell are you' me." >The voice appears to come from everywhere at the same time. >But the dots stay there, unmoving, following your darting eyes, as if they're actually in your eyes. >Like two extremely dark floaties. >But not really.   "I can't not 'what the hell are you' you."   >You hear mumbles in one of your ears. >"Where the fuck are you, leaf?"   >"You sure do have some loud friends there, Anon."   "I guess I do." >You take off your headphones. >Well.   "So what the actual hell is happening?" >How are you not even surprised? >You're acting like this kind of thing is normal. >Your face doesn't wanna move, at all. >Neither do you want to recoil in horror. >Even though your brain is freaking out.   >The big yellow dots become a pair of eyes, coupled with red irises. >A head appears starting with big, fluffy eyebrows, and continues down into a long, horse-like neck with a trimmed black mane. >Then it starts becoming a mishmash of other things, with different limbs belonging to entirely unrelated animals.   >Seems like the whole creature is now visible, and well... >It's not that bad, kinda?...   >Still weird.   >"Right." >The creature crosses its arms. >"Anon." "Um, yes?" >"We need to talk for a bit." >It stretches one of its arms out. >Wait. >D-did that arm just pass through the other one? >It snaps its fingers before you could say "What?" for what seems like the thousandth time today.   >Darkness hits you in the eyes. >A sonic boom blows your ears out.   >And a second later it all disappears, leaving nothing behind. >You see stars. >A sky dotted with little white spots, like a wall after a sloppy paintjob. >Inbetween them, skimpy blobs of earth, floating in mid-air.   >And the creature. >Also floating, seemingly the same as the islands, with it's little legs tucked under it's unproportionally long belly.   >Staring at you, bored, waiting for your consciousness to come back. >"Ah." >It assumes a friendly grin once again. >"You've alive. Good." >Your eyebrows shoot up.   >Was there a chance of that not being the result?! >You want to open your mouth, but something's preventing you from doing that. >The muscles around your mouth just refuse to move.   >"I have a proposition for you. One that you simply cannot refuse." >Its eyes light up, and cheeks puffen up a bit, as if it's trying hard not to laugh. >"Though I'd be surprised if you were to."   >It inhales deeply before continuing. >"You will partake in an, hm, adventure. With me." >It points at itself with its sharp talons. >"Just for a couple of months, maybe even less, if you'll do a good job." >It glances you over up and down.   >"So, what do you think? Any objections?"   >Actually, yeah. >A couple.   >You try raising your hand. >Doesn't budge. >You try wiggling your body. >Not listening.   >Ah, whatever. >It can't be that bad.   >"That's what I thought. Let's get you ready."   >It snaps its talons again. >Darkness. >Sonic boom. >Urgh. >You could get used to this, probably.   >"Time for us to meet properly." >You open your eyes. >The creature, in a top hat and a severely undersized tuxedo, enthusiastically shakes your hand. >Though you feel your hand moving by itself, rather than the thing's paw's tight grip shaking it. >You're trippin', dude. >Those shrooms you ate last night definitely weren't any good for you.   >"I am Discord, the spirit of Chaos, master of Disorder, blah-blah-blah..." >Yeah. >Definitely. >It's the shrooms.   >"And you, I presume, are..." >A long scroll with a list of names poofs into existence right between your faces. >"Hm..." "You've had so many candidates for this?" >There's like seventy people on the list. >You can't tell if those are names or just scribbles. >You imagine Discord's handwriting would be awful.   >Well. >'Cause he doesn't really have hands, does he. >Just a paw and a... >Bird toe? >What do you even call that thing? >Must be like a griffon's hand.   >Yeah. >Must be that. >Griffons are ought to exist in this place, right?   >"Ah, yes." >You shift your attention back to Discord. >The scroll disappears, leaving you two staring at each other rather awkwardly. >"Anonymous."   "But my name isn't--" >"No, no, nonono." >A paw just like his holds your lips shut. >Even though his own right arm is still in the same position it was in just a second ago, holding his chin. >"Your name is now Anonymous." >You hear clapping of an entire concert hall worth of people coming from somewhere, while Discord shakes your hand yet again.   >...   >You never thought you could fuck yourself up this badly.