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On The Dangers Of Purple Essence [Flashfiction born of odd in-game bug]

On The Dangers of Purple Essence
The Journal of Phidias Penrose,
Theday, 70th of Fever

 Having enjoyed my first voyage on the gentle ship of Essence of Purple, I resolved to return again once the flowers bloomed anew in my companion’s garden.

At first, all seemed well – the initial self-doubt, wondering if I had a bad batch and thoughts of downing another and subsequent delayed departure all happened as it had on my first trip. I arrived safely, greeted his Madness, the Scion, and floated around to my heart’s content, when in the midst of my journey…

I suddenly began to feel out of touch with the world of the Giants, fuzzy, incorporeal, undefined. I began to fear the same fate that had befallen the ghosts of Ur would befall me. “Calm down,” I told myself as I ceased to hear even the Scion’s chattering, “this isn’t the first time. Take a deep breath, count to ten, reconnect to the world, and say ‘okay’.”

I waited for the world to resolidify around me. But how odd! No longer was I on that vivid violet street of memory, but on my companion’s porch!

“What? Why are you here?” my Magic Rock interjected. “Let’s get you back where you belong!”

A short while and gap in memory later, I found myself stranded in the middle of Groddle Forest, with no recollection of how I got there. The haunting strains of the street where I had been ripped from played in my head. A badge pushed into my hands by my Magic Rock was clearly intended to distract me; I had not drunk a third Essence of Purple. Not one I could recall, that is.

To the young indulging in their vials of purple; I beseech thee! Take caution, imbibe in moderation, lest thy own adventures lead to confusion, addiction, and ruin!

 -Phidias Penrose
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/OOCly, here’s what happened. About halfway through my Purple Journey, a prompt came up asking me to reload. I hit ‘okay’, watched Glitch start up again, and watched it start to load ‘Le Voyage Violet’. It abruptly changed to loading the street of the house I was in where I had drunk the vial, and my Magic Rock said as above, to ‘try getting you back where you belong.’ It then teleported me to Adanac in Groddle Forest, rather than the Voyage street I assume it was aiming for. The loading and teleport resulted in me being on Adanac street, with BOTH the ‘Purple Journey’ buff and ‘Purpled Out’ debuff, as well as looping the Voyage street music endlessly while in Groddle forest. I also ended up with the Elementary Penguin badge, but I’m pretty sure I only have drank two essence of purples as well. All in all, a very strange experience for my glitchen!

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