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The faint light from your PC illuminates your otherwise dim room, the only other source of light coming from the fairy lights strewn across the walls. You stretch out, the movement earning a curious squawk from your bird who seems to have woken up from the commotion. Sliding off your bed, you make your way over to her and cautiously slip two of your fingers into the bars of her cage, earning a nibble to your cuticles. You huff a little, reaching up just a bit to scruffle Girt's head feathers, to which she lets out a squeak of delight before you pull your fingers out.
You crawl back into your bed and snuggle under the covers just a bit, perking up as you see the little red circle next to the Discord icon pop up with a "1." You're not really sure what that thing is called and don't care to find out.
Oh! It's your dear wonderful friend Berdly!
Jesus Christ, why'd you say it like that. His silly way of typing is INFECTING YOU.
You shift off to the side just a bit and square your shoulders, as you'd like to maintain a GAMER POSITION when messaging him. (Also, cause you're certain she's about to ask you to play Monster Hunter.)
Morning, my feathered friend! :Proudhmph: (<- you know I am using this text as a placeholder for the actual emote, as unfortunately, I am plagued with not having Discord Nitro. Alas, even us GAMERS cannot have it all.) I assume you know already that I was about to inquire your state of being able to HUNT MONSTERS!?
Spot on.
UGGGGGGGH;LH;
ok!! fine just this once. its so early wtfwtf why are you AAAAAWAKE
who fo u need help grinding now huh
great jagras?
aKNosOM? :cheeky:
There's a bit of pause between messages from his end. She must be doing something. He usually responds quite fast.
Heh! Well, you see, I do NOT need assistance hunting those monsters, for those are WEAK STARTER MONSTERS!!! As a *PROFESSIONAL GAMER,* I am quite alright facing them, thank you very much.
But, Um. Yes, I do in fact need assistance fighting a particularly STRONG monster.
Hehe.. STRONG.. Equius. FUCK. NO.
You still think it's super funny that she talks like the actual Berdly Deltarune, and didn't know Berdly was an existing character when you showed her him.
WeIRd CoINcEdEncE.
youre working on riiise rn rightright
ill open it but youknow th deal
ONLY when u have one faint left OOOOOOOOKAY?
Urgh!! Alright, as long as you promise to use YOUR demon powder as well... you know very well how hard the crafting materials are to come by!!!
berd you literally NEVER GO GATHERING come onnnnnnNNNN its super easy iswear
not to mention the HARVEST BOXXXX ITS RIGHTTHEREEE COME ON BRO BRO BROO ITS RIGHTTHE
Hush!!! This is an Urgent Quest so we must be in tip-top shape. I simply do not have time to do such things; I am a very busy birdy.
uh huh uhhuh Mhm yes okayy sureeeeeeeeee
You take the silence that comes after as a sign to open Rise, waiting for Berdly to initiate the regular GAMING call that you've become accustomed to. You quietly watch the barrage of messages from mel because you're fucking playing Monster Hunter jesus christ shut UP I am playing with BERDLY DELTARUNE.
jk thats MEAN
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JESUSCRIST bugly is playing too get the FUKC IN HERE
OOOOOOOOOOOOKAY CHILLL IAM COMIGN UHGUH UGH ROLS EYES
You hear the telltale ringing and are booted from one screen to the next as Berdly initiates the call. Mel hops in almost concerningly fast, and you follow suit. You're greeted by a chorus of various screeching sounds, of which you hear the occasional bird chirp from someone's mic (probably Berdly.)
"Berdly you were on Goss last, right?" You say, leaning over to pick up your controller sitting on your bedside table.
"Indeed... that was not a pretty fight." You all internally shiver at the words, remembering the horrifying screams as Goss slowly inched towards Berdly, ice-hand-fist-sword-thing raised menacingly in the air.
"Well OH-KAY, you still at least managed to do him! And that's saying-" Mel was cut short by Berdly who, predictably, interrupted him with a squawk,
"You don't say 'and' after you've finished a sentence, MELIssa."
The call goes into deafening silence. You're used to this thing happening, but you couldn't help but giggle to yourself.
"WELL. BERDLY. YOU DON'T PUT ON A FULL FUCKING AKNOSOM SET WHILE YOU'RE FIGHTING A GODDAMN ROYAL LUDROTH, BERDLY!!!"
"Do NOT bring Aknosom's precious feathers into this discussion!!! Her armor is INCREDIBLE and SHE is incredible and you're saying a lot considering you wore your full set of Gore Magala armor during a fight with Teostra!!! We both know that armor isn't good at resisting the fire element, due to the fact that Frenzy Virus consists of heavily flammable spores that-"
"BITCH SHUT THE FUCK UP I BET YOU'RE GONNA FUCKIN DIE INSTANTLY TO WHATEVER MONSTER WE'RE FIGHTING NEXT BITCH I KNOW YOU HAVEN'T BEEN CHANGING YOUR DECORATIONS THE ENTIRE TIME WE'VE BEEN FUCKING PLAYING YOU DUMB FUCKING IDI-"
...Okay, that's enough of that. You quietly turn down your computer's volume and wait patiently for Rise to finish loading, humming the tune of Smart Race and glancing over to watch Girt fall off of her perch for the third time since you've woken up.
Your controller buzzes just a bit, notifying you that your game has finished loading. You turn up your volume once again, to find that they've started competitively humming at eachother.
...Okay??
"SO have your games finished loading or are they going to take forever?"
The two simultaneously affected a more relaxed tone and decided to agree to disagree.
"Um!!! Mine's still loading, give it a second SORRY."
You could tell Berdly was holding in a snarky remark about the quality of Mel's computer and thanked FUCK for it. But it was kinda funny still.
Without hesitation, you loaded your most recent save and started a new session. Berdly's name popped up in the corner of the screen and you watched as his player descended upon the Gathering Hub ANIME-LY. When Berdly had bought Rise, you'd decided to spend more of your time in Kamura so as to not make him feel left out.
Shortly after Berdly had posted the quest, Mel joined. Making your way over to it, you open up the quest board only to see... The Blue Apex. AH.
Okay, wait, you're not going to freak out or anything that's not crazy and that would be stupid.
You open discord briefly to see that Mel had messaged you.
ApEX>??? Bro UMMMMMMMMMM
U THINK HE CANDO IT. like i think he can but what if he dies and is like :<< yk ykyk
NAHHNAHH hes fine we jump in if he dies ykyk
ur ass BETTER FUCKING NOT hit fuckig yogi bear till he needs it
OOOOOOOOOOOOKAY
UGH!!!!!!!!!! SO rude
Briefly, you noticed that a stream was loading in the top right corner of your screen. There was no noise, did someone say they'd stream? What?
There was a squawk and a flurry of blue feathers from the stream. You sat there, silently for a moment as your mind processed what the fuck was on the screen.
Is that. Is that a bird? Woah why is it wearing glassesWAIT WAI
Berdly shuffled a little, his tail (TAIL HE HAS A TA) puffing out from behind him (HIM ITS HIM ITS HIM!!!) He readjusted his glasses on his beak and waved at the camera, which seemed to be a bit off-centered, you could tell he doesn't video-call much. The call was dead silent.
You glanced away from the feed to see Mel spamming you, already having sent 60 or 70 messages (of which literally ALL consisted of various misspellings of the word "Berdly.")
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DELTARUNE IS REAL DUDE DO UKNWOWATH THSI EA
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OH. RIGHT. Berdly.
shit ok idk if i can edit but im kinda lllllazy rn so ill just finish this later and if icant edit. Ummmm okay :3