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The Hypixel lobby is a crowded place, people popping in and out quickly. Some disappear into minigames as soon as they show up, others amble around or try the parkour, some just linger, AFK.
Pressed into one small corner of it, sitting folded into themself, is a cyan-haired player.
They’re engaged in furious conversation, even as from the outside they seem perfectly silent.
feargeyt6774: :pepefear:
SOUPBEGONE31: wtf are we doin
SOUPBEGONE31: time loss
SOUPBEGONE31: kevin finally gives us full internet access and we use it to fuckign hide
feargeyt6774: :pepefear:
xx_E-G-O_xx: i know i know just give me a second
xx_E-G-O_xx: just a sec
SOUPBEGONE31: TIME LOSS
feargeyt6774: :pepefear:
Conzercheez: theres so many people
Conzercheez: weve never been around this many people
Conzercheez: hell weve never been around more than like. three people at once
SIDIsquish: i wanna do stuff theyre all havin fun like cant we parkour or someth cmon cmon cmon
xx_E-G-O_xx: just
feargeyt6774: :pepefear:
xx_E-G-O_xx: sorry
Conzercheez: theres so many people
They curl in a little more, ears flat against their head.
xx_E-G-O_xx: its like
xx_E-G-O_xx: theres so many
xx_E-G-O_xx: and theyre real theyre actual people
SIDIsquish: were real???
xx_E-G-O_xx: you know what i mean
xx_E-G-O_xx: theyve been talkin to people and doin stuff and stuff for years and i
SOUPBEGONE31: this isnt helping us learn
xx_E-G-O_xx: i know that
xx_E-G-O_xx: but what if we fuck up
feargeyt6774: :pepefear:
There’s a few seconds of pause. (A tiny flinch as someone runs by without even glancing their way.)
SOUPBEGONE31: look we came here explicitly bc this is like
SOUPBEGONE31: as low fucking stakes as it gets
SOUPBEGONE31: no one wants to chat they just want to game
SOUPBEGONE31: like we could be doing RIGHT NOW
SIDIsquish: plzzz
xx_E-G-O_xx: but what if they do want to talk and we cant
xx_E-G-O_xx: what if we fuck up the game
xx_E-G-O_xx: what if
SOUPBEGONE31: were an expert cmon
SIDIsquish: we can learn as we go!!!
SIDIsquish: and we def know parkour lol look the parkour course start thign is right there
xx_E-G-O_xx: but what if theres something we dont know and we fuck it up and we get yelled at
SOUPBEGONE31: hm
SOUPBEGONE31: ok yea thatd suck
SOUPBEGONE31: wtf could that be for parkour tho
xx_E-G-O_xx: i dont knoooow
feargeyt6774: :pepefear:
They lift their head to stare enough at the golden pressure plate almost accusingly.
Conzercheez: i think we mostly just arent used to crowds
Conzercheez: or as noted more than two people at once
Conzercheez: its a lot to keep track of
SIDIsquish: u dont have to pay attention to random ppl we arent even talking to tho?
SOUPBEGONE31: no it makes sense to pay attention
SOUPBEGONE31: like if there are things we dont know we can learn by watching
SIDIsquish: ughhh theyre just going to minigames!!! we can do that too!!!!!
feargeyt6774: :pepefear:
SIDIsquish: why are we getting in the way of HAVIN FUN
xx_E-G-O_xx: bc we dont know HOW to have fun like a person
SIDIsquish: WERE A PERSON
xx_E-G-O_xx: i know i know i know i
xx_E-G-O_xx: fuck
xx_E-G-O_xx: sorry
Andre folds back in again, trembling just slightly all over.
SIDIsquish: look if we need to do this another time we can
SIDIsquish: i dont get it but whatever!!! we can parkour solo
SIDIsquish: but i wanna have fun
SIDIsquish: i wanna do stuff
SOUPBEGONE31: i want us to compete and improve and start getting better at all this shit
SOUPBEGONE31: i get it we dont wanna fuck up but we aint gonna learn unless we try
SOUPBEGONE31: were probably gonna fuck up. god
xx_E-G-O_xx: lol yea
xx_E-G-O_xx: we are
SOUPBEGONE31: but weve done that before and its been cool
SOUPBEGONE31: this is hypixel its a bunch of 13 year olds its whatever if we fuck it up
xx_E-G-O_xx: i just
xx_E-G-O_xx: what if we cant
feargeyt6774: what if we never can
They fold their face into their hands, and there’s the barest metal on metal scrape.
Conzercheez: what if we do get noticed by someone and the admins track us down
Conzercheez: theres so many people we dont know them we dont
xx_E-G-O_xx: what if we try to talk to people and they can tell that somethings wrong
xx_E-G-O_xx: what if we cant fake it well enough
SOUPBEGONE31: what if theres something we dont know some way we cant get it right
SIDIsquish: stop stop stop your all DOING it your DOING the stupid thing
feargeyt6774: sorry
feargeyt6774: sorry its me
SIDIsquish: DONT DO THAT EITHER
SIDIsquish: ughhhh
Abruptly, Andre wrenches himself to his feet, swaying a little but managing to get upright.
feargeyt6774: !!!
Conzercheez: that was sidi yeah
SIDIsquish: IM HIJACKING THE ANDRE
SIDIsquish: WE ARE GONNA DO THE STUPID PARKOUR COURSE
SIDIsquish: WE ARE GONNA HAVE FUN!!!
feargeyt6774: but
SIDIsquish: NOP
SIDIsquish: vetoing any more buts or anything
They start to march towards the golden pressure plate, hands clenched at their sides.
SIDIsquish: we get in our own way soooo much and im sick of it
SIDIsquish: sidi executive decision were doin parkour
xx_E-G-O_xx: you know i could easily stop this right
SIDIsquish: but your not bc you know im right :3
They step onto the pressure plate - and begin to jump along the blocks of the course, one by one. Slowly, the trembling stops as they fall into familiar, almost easy rhythms.
SIDIsquish: look
SIDIsquish: parkour like always lol
SOUPBEGONE31: and were killin it like always
Conzercheez: sprint jump the next one
SIDIsquish: thanku!
SIDIsquish: see its the same as solo
SIDIsquish: everyone else is way down there now lollll
Conzercheez: yea ig
Another jump, another, climbing upwards.
SIDIsquish: its not that i dont get it or whatev
SIDIsquish: but havent we done all sorts of stuff and we messed it up and we got it wrong and we just like
SIDIsquish: kept goin
SIDIsquish: isnt that your whole thing soup lol
SOUPBEGONE31: we dont mess up speedrunning
Conzercheez: well
SOUPBEGONE31: stfu
A soaring leap, barely catching himself at the edge of the next blocks.
SOUPBEGONE31: yea.
SOUPBEGONE31: we improve by doin it
SOUPBEGONE31: just kinda like
SOUPBEGONE31: people you get the one first impression
Conzercheez: you were right that this is a churn of 13 year olds and such
Conzercheez: i doubt anyone will remember shit tomorrow
SOUPBEGONE31: werent u worried abt the admins
Conzercheez: im always worried about the admins
SOUPBEGONE31: fair
Up over a set of wool blocks.
SIDIsquish: i want us to keep trying more
SIDIsquish: i want us to keep doin more
SIDIsquish: sometimes well mess up
SIDIsquish: sometimes itll go bad
SIDIsquish: but im not lettin us get stuck in the same stupid loops where we never talk to anyone or do anything or go anywhere and we just speedrun
SIDIsquish: never again
xx_E-G-O_xx: okay.
xx_E-G-O_xx: honestly fair
xx_E-G-O_xx: its easy isnt it
xx_E-G-O_xx: its better w assim there and kevin offering jobs to do and us getting to choose but
xx_E-G-O_xx: we could disappear again.
feargeyt6774: :(
SIDIsquish: we couldnt
SIDIsquish: bc i wont LET us
The statement is punctuated with a dramatic jump -
Which they fail completely, briefly slamming into the stone of the side of the next block before falling down into the abyss.
A moment passes. They’re back on the edge of the island.
SIDIsquish: lol whoops
Conzercheez: little too fired up lol
SOUPBEGONE31: WE CAN DO BETTER
SOUPBEGONE31: ONE MORE
SIDIsquish: ok but were not JUST doin lobby parkour u know
SIDIsquish: i wanna pvp >:3
SOUPBEGONE31: HELL YEA
Back onto the pressure plate, back along the start of the course.
xx_E-G-O_xx: this is kinda just what we do solo tho
SIDIsquish: its a start!
SIDIsquish: we do solo stuff w other ppl around
SIDIsquish: then we pvp and claim dominance over all and such lol
SOUPBEGONE31: damn right we do
SIDIsquish: we can do it bit by bit
SIDIsquish: like parkour. one jump at a time
SIDIsquish: and even if we fall were still havin fun right :3
xx_E-G-O_xx: yea
feargeyt6774: y
SIDIsquish: :3 :3 :3 :3
They leap forward, nail the landing.
SOUPBEGONE31: maybe we can try to get an audience
SOUPBEGONE31: witness our awesome parkour
Conzercheez: we need to have awesome parkour to witness first lel
SOUPBEGONE31: die
xx_E-G-O_xx: i do kinda miss streaming.
Conzercheez: not gonna point out the obvious
xx_E-G-O_xx: i knoooow
xx_E-G-O_xx: but ig i still kinda think of andre as a streamer?
SOUPBEGONE31: once were ready. our twitch empire will begin
SIDIsquish: omg and we can have assi join us…
SIDIsquish: theyll be a star…
SOUPBEGONE31: kevin might have concerns there lol
SIDIsquish: fuck kevin
They leap again.
SIDIsquish: for now lets have fun :3
xx_E-G-O_xx: yeah, okay.
xx_E-G-O_xx: thanks sidi
SIDIsquish: lmao im doin this bc i wanna have fun
SIDIsquish: but its more fun when ur on board :3
xx_E-G-O_xx: fair enough
xx_E-G-O_xx: oh, that was a sick jump
SOUPBEGONE31: HELL YEA WERE THE BEST
And as they spiral away from the little island below, slowly everything falls away but the rush of movement and the delight of their own private victory.