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April Fool's Chapter - A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World
🕑 Added 2025-04-02 08:09:08 +0000 UTCAlice looked at the typo-ridden, error-laden script, and frowned.
What the heck was even going on?
She turned towards one of the Sigmusi troops, who she was supposed to be fighting, and then gestured towards him. “Wait a minute, I’m not quite sure what we’re supposed to do with the scrip,” said Alice.
“Is there a problem” he asked, dropping his ‘fierce’ expression.
“Well, there is,” said Alice. “Look at this.”
She gestured towards the script.
“It looks like a regular battle scene, doesn’t it?” said the Sigmusi soldier. “I try to stab you and miss, you fling a tree branch at me and impale me, then after that I die? Then you go fight the next guy. What’s so odd about it.”
“Well, that looks logical… but look later in the scene,” said Alice.
The Sigmusi soldier blinked, and then scanned the bottom of the page.
“Oh,” he said.
“Yeah, ‘oh’ is correct,” said Alice.
“Why am I attacking you again three paragraphs later if I’m already dead?” he asked.
“Who knows?” said Alice.
“Maybe I just nearly died, but I’m supposed to be relying on some kind of Perk to survive?” said the [Actor] disguised as a Sigmusi soldier.
“Maybe?” said Alice, as she eyed her own [Actor] Class.
“Let’s just try it,” said the Sigmusi soldier.
The two got back into position, before they glanced at the [Director]. Seeing that the cameria was rolling, the Sigmusi soldier charged at Alice, a ‘fierce’ expression on his face.
Alice ducked underneath the man’s clumsy sword swing, then lifted up a nearby tree branch and launched it towards him using kinetic mana.
The branch slammed into the steel armor underneath his body - but before bouncing off, it landed on a pouch of fake blood, causing it to look like the man had just been impaled. The man gasped in pain, as {Realistic Death} kicked in and created an illusory tree branch, while simultaneously hiding the real one. The man stumbled back, fake blood oozing from his chest, and slumped to the ground.
Alice nearly missed the projectile launched towards her head as it whistled towards her, but her vision-related Perks saved her. She ducked to the ground, and then fired another tree branch at the hostile [Kinetic Mage]. The man used a magic tendril to bat it aside, easily nullifying her attack, and then threw another chunk of dirt at her.
The ‘dead’ Sigmusi soldier, gasping for breath as he died, picked up his sword, one last time, and then dashed towards Alice. Alice ‘noticed’ the man’s charge, and then nearly got beheaded as the man sprinted towards her - but her foot slipped as she was trying to duck, and {Adrenaline Rush} activated .Time slowed down, and Alice took advantage of the bullet time to fire another tree branch at the [Actor], nearly decapitating him. The man twitched out of the way, but a second branch clipped his neck, neatly beheading the man.
{Realistic Death} activated again, as the ‘corpse’ spun to the ground and the real actor expertly rolled out of the view of the camera before his Perk wore off. The other Sigmusi mage growled in hatred as his dead friend’s corpse drooped to the ground, before he fired a projectile… towards himself.
Alice froze.
“What?” She asked.
“That’s what the script says!” The mage said, sounding rather defensive.
“That can’t be right,” said Alice, as sheglanced over her own version of the script.
The Mage was correct. The script stated ‘the Sigmusi mage fired a projecilte towards towards towards himself, and Alice cowered in fear.’
Alice blinked in surprise. She was supposed to cower in fear now? Why didn’t she just deflect it with a magic tendril? She had done so many other times in previous chapters of the story, so it made no sense that she couldn’t do so right now. Also, why had the author misspelled projectile and used the word ‘towards’ three times in a row?
She sighed. The dumb author’s terrible writing really grated on her nerves sometimes, but she was just an [Actor]. She shook her head, and did her best to cower in fear as the Sigmusi mage attacked himself for some reason.
A moment later, the now-beheaded corpse of a Sigmusi soldier charged towards her, and Alice twitched.
“What the hell? That can’t be right!” she said.
“It is,” said the [Actor] puppeteering the dead corpse. Alice glanced at the script and sighed, before she once again attacked the headless corpse charging at her.
The corpse, which was probably a zombie or something for all Alice knew, died for a third time.
“Cut! Nice scene everyone! We’ll just edit out the confusion,” said the [Director].
“I really wish this dumb author would stop making typos and spelling mistakes,” said Alice, as she walked over to the food table and tried not to sigh.
Author’s Note:
Happy April First. Uhh… I might have been a few hours off, at least according to my own timezone. Just pretend that this was still released on April first? Or pretend that you live in a timezone where it’s still April first. Ahem.
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Rain
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Stephanie Washburn
I'm fine with it. Fun chapter
