Gaming Right Next to You

Today started out pretty weird. I tried waking someone up but they weren't responding. I messaged them again at 1:30 a.m. and they didn't really reply. I fell asleep by then but eventually woke up at 3 a.m. They invited me to play Sky immediately and I quickly got on to play the game. We did some daily quests and we even found a new area in the Vault of Knowledge that had a tie-in with The Little Prince. We had a fun time going through their in-game story and collected all of the winged lights in that area. We even collected the spirit of the Beckoning Ruler, a character that someone says was also in The Little Prince. We kept playing and talked in VHH until it was 5 a.m. then we both left VHH.

I messaged them in the morning and they kept sleeping until it was 10 a.m. and someone just woke up. They sent me a performance video of aespa's Hot Mess and we mostly talked through the morning and lunch. We took a little longer to get into VHH but at around 1:24 p.m., we got into VHH and just played Sky. We played Sky during lunch and even beyond it. We mostly did the trials in the Cave of Prophecies and they were hard. We first did the trial of water, then the fairly easy earth trial. During this time, a PM messaged me saying that I wasn't doing my part in doing OT for prod deployments of a project I was in. I felt confronted, but thankfully I stayed at this company for much longer than them and essentially played the "seniority card." They eventually backed off and I did my work for the afternoon. Someone got stuck on a part where pieces of land were rotating in the air and I helped them through it since I was used to this. Then we faced off against the trial of air and that had a lot of challenges. For the most part, someone was getting ahead of me. It was the case until the last part where we were both frustrated that we had to fly and maneuver to this place. In the background, someone was playing songs from NewJeans and we were both talking about how inappropriate their song Cookie was. They had given up and I was doing the remaining air trials and I eventually made it. We collected the winged light at the end and went to the last trial: the fire trial.

By the time we were doing the fire trial, the song "Next To You" by Chris Brown and Justin Bieber kept playing in my head. I even played it on speaker and someone sang along to it since the fire trial was mostly easy. We eventually completed it and got a lot of winged lights for Sunday. By that time, work was done and we were just playing Sky. We had new daily quests to do and they were in the Golden Wasteland. We around a bit and completed one of the daily tasks. Someone had to go to the bathroom and I did as well. I left our characters inside a building because it seemed safe and I've never seen krill go inside it. But when I came back, my PC had crashed and it took a long time for it to boot. When I got back, someone was mad at me because they had lost 4 of their winged light and their character's light had been snuffed. They got annoyed and frustrated at me and I offered to just get it for them. They enrolled one of my Facebook accounts as their login. I also checked my PC for problems and found out that it was a RAM issue but still talked to someone through chat. They quickly calmed down and by 6:48 p.m. we played a quick game together and got into VHH. After that, I completed their map a bit and recouped the winged lights, and I even got more than what they initially had by 7:50.

By 8 p.m., Exavier had already invited me to play Sons of the Forest with him and thankfully someone had to go out that night as well. Exavier and I explored through the various areas in the map and he eventually got used to using the chainsaw as their weapon. We easily wiped out 2 big cannibal camps near a waterfall. We cleared the area and suddenly had the idea to build a few structures there. At first, it was a simple hunting shed, then it was a small wood cabin, but by the end, we had built treehouses for each of us and collected a lot of wood for it. We even befriended Virginia and he saw how she can be a useful character. We kept playing and playing until it stretched to the next day. We were both shocked that it had already been 1:40 a.m. and we decided to call it a night and both left the server. I called it a day and it was a lot of fun playing games with my friends.