The internet is a storm of URLs, wi-fi and strings of dangerous code, whirling and thundering. Out in the wilderness you can only survive so long unaided, but in here, behind the mellow yellow windows, a safe and comforting place awaits. This place is a respite from the internet; the fire crackles invitingly and alluring rainbow-coloured drinks are poured into glasses. Exciting chatter fills the rooms from tables bustling with friends, eating from trays of warm, rustic carum bread and hearty stews. Gentle music comes from the band in the background.
[image description: a busy tavern lit by orange light]
Come in, chat away, have a great time! The old location may have been overrun by the Codekind, but this new building has three-meter thick walls, three floors and turret bedrooms to rest in at the top! We’ve returned, free from the battles of the secret pages! A safe micro-community of equality and no judgement. Hang up your HTML-reflective suit at the door and settle in with a drink and a meal.
Notice Board: Free candy in the bowl on the counter! What types of candy are there? Yes.
Flamecloud wanders around, lost in thought. The discussion on the tavern about Wild Kratts has gotten the theme song stuck in her head.
“Yup I’m drowning in nostalgia now”
“WILD, WILD WILD KRATTS!!!!” Peb hollers part of the theme song.
Flamecloud shakes her head. “If we’re going to sing it, we should start at the beginning so that we hear all of it’s glory.” She clears her throat, then sings “On adventures with the coolest creatures, from the oceans to the trees,”
“That was the only part I remembered,” Peb laughed. OKAY,
I looked it upHERE GOES!”Peb gets up and sings the theme song properly.
“The brothers Kratt are going places
You never get to see
Hanging with their creature friends
Get ready, it’s the hour!!!!”
“We’re gonna save some animals today, with: CREATURE POWER!”
“Gonna go wild, wild Kratts
Gonna go wild, wild, wild Kratts (Wild Kratts)
Gonna go wild, wild Kratts
Gonna go wild, wild, wild!!!!!”
“CHEETAH SPEED, AND LIZARD GLIDE
FALCON FLIGHT, AND LION PRIDE
GONNA GO WILD WILD WILD KRATTS
GONNA GO WILD WILD WILD KRATTS
(WILD KRATTS)
GONNA GO WILD WILD WILD KRATTS
GONNA GO WILD (WILD) WILD KRATTS
GO WILD WILD WILD WILD KRATTS!!!!!”
“WILD KRATTOS!!!!”
Blackpaw gets tired of wild kratts. He stuffs cookies down flamecloud’s throat
“Blackpaw, don’t do that to people,” Emberdawn scolded. “You could hurt them. Also if you do it again, I’ll kick you out of the tavern!”
“Can I have cookies?”, asked Eagie. “Also what is wild kratts?”, she mewed
Ice tells Eagie, “A show on PBS Kids”
“Thanks, Ice”, Eagie mewed.
“The next step of your education,” Flamecloud mews, “Is to watch some of these videos.”
https://pbskids.org/wildkratts/videos/
“Oof, they don’t work in the UK!”, replied Eagie.
“Are you slightly obsessed with Wild Kratts?”, she asked, already knowing the answer.
“Bad videos,” Flamecloud growls, staring at the link. “And maybe. Just a little.” she pauses, thinking. “You know, I have many odd obsessions.”
“I thought so”, Eagie smiles.
blackie throws 10 cookies to eagie
“Thanks!”, Eagie catches them, grinning.
“Sssuuuuggggaaarrrrr”, she yowls, “I love sugar!”.
She starts eating the cookies.
“Be careful Blackie- Embix means business” Shadow advised from past experience.
blackie shrugs
“Hey!” Peb exclaimed. “I’m singing it too, not just Flamecloud. Besides, I started it.”
blackie growwwlllles
he stuffs cookies down peb’s mouth too
Peb spats the cookies out, the fur bristling on her spine. She growls low, prepared for a tussle if he insists.
she began to second guess spitting out the cookies and wondered if she shoulda expertly swallowed them like Flame“Gack!” Flamecloud yelps. Luckily, she has much practice at eating cookies, and is able to swallow them without choking. “Cheetah speed and lizards glide” she croaks, determined to finish the song. “Falcon flight & Lion pride, Gonna go wild, wild Kratts Gonna go wild, wild, wild Kratts, Gonna go wild, wild Kratts Gonna go wild, wild, wild Kratts!” she finishes quickly, before Blackie can shove any more cookies down her throat.
Shadow blinked. “well dangit we finished it at the same time”
“Great minds think alike”
“indeed”
Ice watches in wonder, clueless about how Flame did that.
“WILD KRATTS!!!!!” Peb joins Flamecloud, adding on the climatic ending statement, equally determined to finish.
oh no :ooooo
Briarpaw laughs. “I memorized it when I was little and I still know all the lines. Activate creature powers!”
“ACTIVATE BASILISK POWEr!”
There’s an amber flash and Peb turns into a lizard.
“Um, where are the vests?” Seti asks, “I want to try!”
“Hmm… that closet!” Peb points with a liZarD fInGeR.
Flamecloud rushes to the closet, pulls on a fest. “Activate human power!” she mews, transforming into a human.
“Ooohhhhh,” Peb marvels.
“Wait,” wonders Flamecloud, “You know how the Kratt bros still keep their human faces when they transform?” She suddenly wishes she had a mirror. “I have got to look very strange right now.”
“Oh….oh no….”
“Yep,” Seti says, “You look kinda weird, not to offend you”
Seti pauses for a second. She grabs a teal and black vest.
“Activate Panda Power!” Seti yells, turning into a teal panda with a cat face,
“Cartoon logic at its finest. Also notice how their suits magically change their whole body. You are welcome, have fun nightmares”
“I will, thanks,” says Peb with a nervous laugh, thinking of what nightmares will haunt her tonight from this unfortunate imagery.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8C0E64i_P18
yOu dOn’T kNoW, oH oH, CREEPERS ARE TERRIBLE
who did my boy creeper dirty like thisNice tune, but I don’t know what I just watched 😛
“YO.”
…No purpose came with that.
“YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
“YOyoyoyo
YOYO.”
Peb does the floss.
Ice hands Peb a toothbrush
(I know what you mean, don’t worry 😛 )
Peb inspects the toothbrush. “Why thanks, I needed one of those!”
my humor is dead right now 😛Shadow turns on the forknife music.
what a pun
Seti starts playing What You Can’t See and turns up the volume all the way.
Ice starts singing. “I don’t know how we ended up here… any good we’ve done will all disappear…”
Seti is confused “Um, wrong song.”
Ice licks her tail, very embarrassed. “Oops,” she mutters. “I had a brain toot.”
Seti replies, “Sorry about that, I can play All They See next”
Ice kept licking her tail. “You have to admit, they’re very similar. All they see, what you can’t see.”
“While is All They See is good, What You Can’t See is just plain hilarious.”
Seti starts singing the rest of the song
“SUNRISE MOONHIGH THE’RE ALWAYS ON MY BACK!
I DON’T KNOW WHY I TRY,
IT’S NOT LIKE THEY WOULD EVER CUT ME ANY SLACK
YOU’RE TOO SMALL YOU SEE
WHILE ACTUALLY I DON’T
I LONG TO… BE… free.
Man, I’m tired of yelling the lyrics. “
Moon explains the concept of Vsco girl to her parents…..
BABY SHARK DO DO DODO DO DO BABY SH-
“SKSKSKSK DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO
SKSKSKSK DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO
SKSKSKSK DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO
SKSKSKSK!”
SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME ITS YOUR POWER TODOROKI YOUR MAMA BURNED YOUR FACE AND SHE LAUGHED
ehem.
SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WOOOOORLD WAS GUNNA ROLL ME I WASNT THE SHARPEST TOOOOL IN THE SHEEEEEED
So I took a big bite of a tree
Blackiiieee I just had a sugar cookiiiee (or two… 😛 )
Shadow ducks for cover.
Peb looks confused. “Why’d you do that?”
“I MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE WRATH OF THE SUGAR COOKIES… OH NOOES, IT’S HAPPENING!!! THREE, TWO, ONE….” Shadow hides even deeper, ready for the hyperactivity storm about to come after everyone eating so much candy- all it took was one more sugar cookie-
THEN IT HAPPENED
EVERYONE WHO ATE CANDY (including Shadow) BEGAN A HYPERACTIVITY DISASTER
so hiding was pointless .o.
Peb peers at Shadow.
She may even be wondering
whenif the sugar rush will take effect.“C:<"
blackie looks at peb. he gets ready to knock her out if things get serious as she is not a master of cookie eating like him
Peb puts her paws on her hips. “Excuse me?? I’m an advanced green belt in karate.”
i’m here for emergencies if a sugar rush does happen sooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnn……but i am better at eating cookies” says blackie smuggglyyyyy
“Wanna have a contest?” Peb replies loftily.
blackie lifts one eyebrow. “you dare challenge me?” he snarls (like in the movies 😛 ). He jumps off his stool and prepares for cookie batttttleeeeee
“You bet I dare,” Peb sneers back classically. She slaps piles of mint and chocolate chip cookies in front of her.
Tree sat in the corner of the tavern, muttering something about italics, mods and 96 hours.
Peb suddenly dropped from the ceiling.
“Oof!” she yelped.
She scrambled to her feet. “Sorry! Continue.”
He glared at her and continued grumbling.
Peb gives him an eyebrow look back over her shoulder and saunters away.
He looks up and sighs. “Is there something you want?”
Peb smiles. “No. I just felt like falling.” She leaves.
“hello”
“You want italics?“, said Eagie, “Ask Pine.”
“Hello”, Pine said. “I hath been summoned.”
“HELLO!!!”
*echo*
“HELLOOOOO”, screeched Eagie, as a very loud echo.
“HEEEEEELLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO,” shrieks Peb.
“HHHEEEEELLLLLOOOOO”, screams Eagie, trying to be louder than Peb.
“HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOO,” howls Peb.
Fawnspots wonders how she has been allowed to stay here for an entire month without paying 😛
She then proceeds to read Into the Wild by the fire.
Eagie starts reading over Fawny’s shoulder.
“Are you enjoying it?”, she asks.
Peb puts on her headphones, listening to “Shake It Off”. She gets up and starts dancing, not caring if anyone is looking at her weird.
Eagie shrugs – it’s not that weird to her.
If she could actually dance she would join in, but she can’t.
“Aw I bet you can!” Peb says, totally not reading Eagie’s thoughts. She does a backflip and then does a hip-hop twirl. “It’s up to you though.”
Eagie shrugs.
I might as well join in, she thought.
Ooh, can Peb read this? she wonders.
She starts jumping up and down, her hair flying in a messy tangle, but she doesn’t really care.
Peb decides not to say yes and smiles as Eagie joins in.
Shadow smirks form the other side of the room. Those fools know nothing…
also hello peb
’tis seems i have taught you well
Flamecloud watches the dancing contently, with an open book sitting in front of her. Part of her wants to join in, but overall she is happy just watching. She reaches a paw out to turn the page, then pauses, slightly concerned, as an evil grin creeps across Shadow’s face.
Peb dances, a creepy grin on her face as she makes eye contact with Shadow.
As you have, fellow Mind Reader Shadow, though I may have taught myself, it can never be known…
of course,, never,, fellow Mind Reader,,
A seriously malicious smile was stretching across her face now.
Ivyleaf tries to hold in her giggles as she watches them.
which seriously I’m NO GOOD at keeping in 😛Peb’s evil smile showed all teeth and her visible eye was creepily piercing.
Yessssss…..
“Teach me your mind reading ways!!!”, mewed Eagie.
Hhhow do you do it??? she thought.
Focus, thought Peb.
Can you read this, Eagie, my friend?
Peb, dear, I’m afraid it’s not that easy. It’s much more… complicated… than that…
okay Shadow actually looked horrifying now
if she did it any more her eyes were going to start glowing white oh wait they already were
it is quiet in the hazelpage so blackie leaps up, and pins shadow to the floor because his mind reading is weird
Peb was about to respond to Shadow when she notices she’s pinned by Blackie.
Pebblepaw leaps up and throws Blackie off, though careful enough not to hurt him. “HER,” growls Peb, “And don’t do that to my friends.
“By the way, I am mind reading also. I started this, so fight me if you don’t like it.”
Flamecloud grabs her trash can lid, and begins edging her way closer to Eagie. Maybe this isn’t the best club for my apprentice to join, she thinks, then pauses. YOU HEARD NOTHING I’M NOT CONCERNED AT ALL! she thinks as loud as she can.
Seeing Flamecloud looking worried, Peb smoothes her fur. Sorry, she thinks.
Shadow freed, she turns her back. She goes to get a burger from the counter.
Eagie smiled gratefully at Flame.
Narrowing her eyes in concentration, she focused on Peb.
Instantly she was crowded with thoughts, almost like she was reading it of a screen.
Guys, please don’t fight, she thought.
Peb’s jaw drops. You’ve done it!
Moon walks in with a burger in her hand, “Wassup everyone? How bout some BABY SHARK!?!?!”
Peb thrusts both her paws out. “NO!”
‘No!’ Ivyleaf says from behind the Silent Thaw.
“Fine….how about some Newsies? (I’m currently obsessed with this movie)
Even though we ain’t got hats or badges
We’re a union just by sayin so…
And the world will KNOW!”
(does anyone else know this???)
I’ve seen it, but I don’t really know any of the songs.
I don’t 😛
Ok here’s the whole song then :
The World Will Know
“YES!!!” Shadow’s creepy smile from before was now just her regular crazy one.
“Yes!” Sandy yowls.