The Longest Thread (Misadventures)

[NameIess]

Not get often though. Imagining friends was a bit too close to insanity for its tastes.

[The Wandering Wizard he/him]

He played it once a ghanderflaffle.

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

Bookwyrm noticed the two legged stool.

[NameIess]

But it was just an ordinary, inanimate stool. Nothing odd or interesting about it. Bookwyrm really should get back to finding Eof and doing his part to save the universe.

[ThroughTheLivingSequence she/her/they/them]

In fact, the room seemed to want him to leave the stool alone and continue his quest.

[The Wandering Wizard he/him]

The world tried to force him out of the room, but failed.

[NameIess]

The thread itself beckoned Bookwyrm away, promising that the fulfillment of the prophecy was just around the corner.

[ThroughTheLivingSequence she/her/they/them]

It promised much more than that as well. I promised fame and glory for being savior of the thread, it promised eernal happiness, it promised infinite knowledge, and yet... something seemed... wrong.

[The Wandering Wizard he/him]

The stool felt the most off, more than the whole universe.

[ThroughTheLivingSequence she/her/they/them]

It was the fact that the entire room felt off, and the stool didn't, that made it feel the most off.

[The Wandering Wizard he/him]

The universe started trembling from the pain of the contradiction.

[NameIess]

Then the wrongness faded, and Bookwyrm knew that he needed to leave the room, and the useless stool.

[The Wandering Wizard he/him]

The wrongness was going to strike again, paired with it's buddy anxiety.

[NameIess]

But not yet.

[EmulatonStromenkiin he/him]

The problem was that the stool had only one leg.

[NameIess]

Where had the other one gone? No one knew.

[ThroughTheLivingSequence she/her/they/them]

The stool cried out in pain. It had lost its third leg over 60,000 years ago, and losing its second leg was a painful reminder of such dark times.

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[NameIess]

As well as an extremely painful event in and of itself.

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

Bookwyrm, fighting the conflicting feelings, grabbed the stool, summoned a Wyrmhole, and returned to the normal universe.

[NameIess]

The stool disappeared from his hands, turning into mist.

[The Wandering Wizard he/him]

It could not exist in this plane of existence without the tear of the lonely king, a ghanderflaffles' fourtieth claw, and a seed from the Zyen tree.

[NameIess]

And those ingredients had been lost for years.

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

Bookwyrm went on a long side quest to gather the Lost Ingredients. Then he took them back to the stool and infused the stool with the ingredients.

[NameIess]

By this time, the stool was long gone, forgotten along with all the other insignificant side characters.

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

Bookwyrm narrated the stool back into existence.

It sat in front of him. 

He infused it with the ingredients.