010 - Phone, no filters

[worstvikingever]

Okay.

So.

What was that.

I don't really... what's April Fool's Day, and why does it mean suddenly everything is... back to normal?

Well. You know. As normal as this place gets, apparently.

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[pants_yourmove]

It's a joke.

April Fools is a holiday we have back home too. Everyone plays tricks on each other. The fun is getting someone to actually fall for something on April Fools.

[worstvikingever]

...a joke.

So.

Wait.

The past three weeks. Was all a joke?

[pants_yourmove]

Yeah, three week long joke.

Hilarious.

[[He doesn't sound amused.]]

[worstvikingever]

Loki's fire! Why... what...

[He just... he can't process this.]

[kerorodearimasu]

April Fool's Day is a day when pranks are played and jokes are told, de arimasu. It's mostly a Pekoponian thing, but we aliens celebrate it too.

[Suddenly it finally dawns on him.]
Whoever put that sign up there means...the recent events were just a joke. Wh-what is this I don't even...

[worstvikingever]

I don't know, but... it's...

I really don't want to think about it.

[kerorodearimasu]

April Fool's jokes are meant to be funny and this is just low, de arimasu!

Just when we thought we could take a break this happens! That also means my crowning moment of delivering the final blow to the Milkman's mecha was for nothing!

[worstvikingever]

[He just sounds tired. Maybe a little angry. Or more than a little.]

There was nothing funny about any of it. It just... it doesn't make any sense.

[doublerinbow]

April Fool's is a day when you set out to make other people look foolish! ♪

[worstvikingever]

Well. I guess that just happened.

[Bitter? WHY YES, HE IS.]

[doublerinbow]

It really wasn't fair for them to start it up so early! You're supposed to do it for that day only, until April 2nd at most. ♪

Still, I notice everyone's really on guard for all holidays, so it seems they wanted to make sure no one ruined their punch line...

[worstvikingever]

Punch line? Punch line?

What punch line? "Oh, everything's destroyed, all the people are dead, might as well go home?" What kind of a messed up punch line is that?

[riastrad_ridire]

No idea, kid. I've never heard of it, and I definitely don't understand why it suddenly means the town can just screw with our heads like this.

[worstvikingever]

I just... wanted it to mean something, you know? Everything that happened.

[He sighs. He's just so tired of it all.]

I guess it didn't.

[riastrad_ridire]

Yeah, I have to agree with you on that.

If this is any indication of the kind of thing Mayfield does in general, I'm not exactly looking forward to staying here.

[worstvikingever]

No kidding. Maybe they'll at least be nice enough to give us a break before they mess with our heads again.

[hontobakabaka]

"April Fool's day was originally the pegan new year, but when the Christians took over Europe, they reduced it to a holiday about pranks. Its for immature idiots."

[She pauses a minute]

"You... Haven't seen Precis, have you? She seemed wrong at school."

[worstvikingever]

Precis? I...

[He thinks.]

I haven't seen her in the past few days, no.

[hontobakabaka]

"I see... If.. You still want to work on the mechanical things here... It may just be us then. But, April Fool's day is a holiday for idiots."

[worstvikingever]

...oh. Is she... is she gone, then?