25th Joke - Laughter Never Dies

[pants_yourmove]

[[Aaron snaps out of it as he's doing his homework. Just writing away when suddenly it all rushes back to him.

What... Wait... how long...?

He get's up, feeling a bit out of it. Moving to the phone, calling the town.]]

[Phone | Everyone]Hello? This is Aaron Taylor... Or whatever my last name is now

Comments

[a_gentle_boy]

Aaron...!

Ah, you don't need to apologize or anything! It hasn't been too long. I'm glad to hear from you again.

[pants_yourmove]

Lucas?

I am glad to hear your voice.

Not too long?

[a_gentle_boy]

A few weeks. You've been gone since a little after that time when everyone was, um, killing each other, right? Nothing too much happened since then...

Except two days ago.

[pants_yourmove]

Yeah, a bit after that... that's the last thing I really remember.

What happened two days ago?

[a_gentle_boy]

... Almost everyone got droned to different degrees. It was really odd. I'm not sure if it was just Mayfield messing around with us or if they decided to give it up and drone us all.

[pants_yourmove]

[[Yep, that's not something he wanted to hear.]]

Maybe... maybe it was just another game.

[a_gentle_boy]

It only lasted a day. And no one got anything out of it, either... I'm not too sure what to think.

[pause]

Well! It's probably not too good to think too much about it. I'm just glad you're alright.

[pants_yourmove]

[[Yeah, probably not too good to think too much about.]]

Thanks. I am too.

I wish I knew what caused it... I'll just have to keep an eye out.

[a_gentle_boy]

If it matters, it happened on a holiday... Another American one. The Independence Day.

[pants_yourmove]

It's already after the 4th of July!?

Oh... yeah.. I remember I wanted to buys sparklers... it's... a bit weird.

Okay. I wonder if it had to do with patriotism or something, kinda like the surveys.

[a_gentle_boy]

Patriotism... ? ...How does brainwashing us into believing something we're not make the holiday any better?

[pants_yourmove]

It's a holiday about how great America is... or well... that's what I always thought. Maybe they wanted us all to play along.

Like brainwashing us during Valentine's day.

[a_gentle_boy]

...I see.

But it's strange that it was so much like complete droning rather than something a little... different.

[pants_yourmove]

Yeah...

I don't know what is going on with them. This town...

I think they are just doing this to laugh at us.

[a_gentle_boy]

I think they need to find a better hobby to occupy themselves. Maybe high dives.

[pants_yourmove]

[[Okay, he laughs.]]

Yeah, maybe they should!