Wee! Part two is done! Now I'll release them weekly, or something like that.
Part 2
“The greeting process”
“Hey! Hello…?”
“Huh,” Adam said while shaking out of the flabbergasty zone he was in.
“Hey! I’d just like to say welcome to OWF!”
“Oaf?” said Adam, still not looking away from
It.
“No, not oaf. OWF,” the stranger pointed to a large sign in the middle of the complex that seemed to just float in mid air.
“Odd World Forums” was on it, revolving around for all to see, like some sort of huge monument to their society.
“Odd Word Forums?” Adam asked, squinting to see the letters before they went around the edge of the sign.
“No, silly! OddWorld Forums!”
“What’s an Oddworld?”
“That’s a pretty redundant question, if I do say so meself!”
“Yeah, guess so… Who are you?”
“Me? Well I’m no one important! Just a fellow friendly forum mate.”
“What’s that?” Adam asked while pointing to
It.
“What? You mean you don’t know who Alcar is? He’s the leader!”
“Leader… As in a cult or something?”
“No! Well, I guess you could call him a religious leader… He is Alcar, after all.” “Right…”
“And now if you don’t mind, here come some more great greeters.” The stranger pointed to the large crowd coming to greet Adam. They are pretty great at greeting. Adam couldn’t have been here more than… what, thirty seconds? And they’re already running at him!
Adam felt an adrenaline rush from all the people heading at him. He turned his head to look at the stranger, but he had vanished in to thin air.
He fell as the people collided with his mooshy-meat-sacky body. A flurry of “Hello!”’s and “Greetings!”’s and “How do-you-do”’s fell all over his ears, like the Three stooges trying to fit through a door, except 10x that.
He was picking himself up as the greeters left, when he saw a short woman dressed in all black, with medium length blonde hair running up to him, out of breath.
She uttered “*pant pant* Wel-*pant* Welcome to the *pant* forums! *pant pant* I’m Ambi. Whew, do you know how long it is from the top floor to here?” Ambi looked around, then added “I’m late again, aren’t I?”
“I guess… I’m-”
“The Gate Keeper, I know.”
“How did you-”
“Name tag.” Ambi pointed to just below Adam’s shoulder, pointing out that he was wearing a name tag with “The Gate Keeper” on it.
“When did that get here?” he said as he attempted to remove it.
“Don’t try it, it won’t come off.”
“Well, can you explain to me what’s going on? I mean, where am I?”
“If you need any help, Any at all, just go to the F.A.Q. It’s over there,” Ambi said while pointing to a large building with F.A.Q. written in big red letters on the front. “Oh, and two things you need to know that you won’t find in the F.A.Q. First one, this place is bigger than you think. Alcar estimates we’ve only found 4% of it. Lemme put it in perspective for you. We’ve found several thousand floors, and it’s only four percent. Secondly, when you’re lost, use your map. It’s in your back pocket.”
Adam reached into his back pocket, and pulled out the first thing he felt. It was a PDA looking thing, with all sorts of buttons and levers and gizmos and hoodads and thingy-bobos.
“Don’t mind all the buttons, they’re just for show. It’s a touch screen.”
Adam touched the screen, and it zoomed in on the level he touched.
“Floor 67, Mess Hall, current amount of users : 36” It spat out.
“I though you said this place was huge, it just looks like the apartment I had once.”
“Well, the entire complex is divided into sections, and the map will switch sections when you go into them. But anyways, welcome to this mystical land we call ‘home’.”
Adam was about to ask another question, but he then realized he was alone. The sound of someone rushing off to greet someone else could be heard faintly. Adam walked over to the edge, expecting to see a 15 foot drop, but what he saw amazed him.
It was a pure drop, well over several hundred feet. He was so high up, he could see clouds forming over large bodies of waters. His sense about how the place looked was almost completely destroyed when he saw this sight.
He backed away, instinctively and tried to take it all in. It was too much for him to handle, and he started to black out. His vision started to clear, an unknown time later, and he saw someone looking down at his face. He was in some place different, someplace more calming, and disturbing at the same time.