My pizza arrived. I tried my best to appear cheerful to the delivery driver. While inside I just wanted to yell “Mine Go Away!!” But I digress. A fake smile forced on my face. I handed a him a five credit tip to hurry the encounter along. I politely closed the door regardless of how loud the slamming sound was. I raced to devour my fresh kill. I know pizza isn’t an animal, that I hunted in the sacred hunting grounds. But my delusions are fun in my mind, and that’s all that matters. So before I dug in, I jokingly dedicated my kill to the godess of salty goodness. That’s when things started to get wierd again.

My vision got blurry. My head tingled. Than suddenly I felt exhausted. My body felt like I had run nonstop fifty miles uphill. As suddenly as it happened It was gone. “I must have low blood sugar, or something.” I croaked. Besides me a light feminine voice spoke suddenly. “Or something."

I jerked my head toward the intruder while my body involuntary jumped the other direction. Funny story, bodies are not meant to jump sideways blindly. My knee caught on the armrest of my recliner. Than my body tilted very quickly towards the ground. Luckily my head was turned to the side so I didn’t get to see, the sudden oncoming hit. The puke green monster got a second life threatening attack of opportunity today, on the side of my head as I crashed down.

I swam back to consciousness wondering why my vision kept tilting back, and forth. That’s when my ears finally heard the wirring of the demon attacking my ear lobe. My arms thankfully worked well enough, to peel myself away from the green skynet in training. I looked around dizzily looking for who had broken into my apartment. There was noone around. “OK now i’m hearing voices. I’m also hallucinating. As long as I don’t have full arguments with myself, I should be ok." I shifted back, to settle on the recliner. I started to take a bite. When my phone rang.

“Hello Chock-ees Chicken can I help you?” A familiar feminine voice replied. “That joke is getting old Oby. What happens if it’s something, or someone important is calling?” The voice of my guildmate Katie was annoyed. Thankfully I could hear the amusement behind it. “But Andrastel you are the most important druid healer in the world!” I said with mock excitement in my voice. In a deadpan voice she replied. “We are not in-game you can use my real name” I countered saying. "Says the noob who called me Oby” a couple seconds of silence followed than she responded with. “Ok yes, you got me there. Why did you log out so soon? We were supposed to group up, I needed your help to farm materials for my new gear recipe.” I facepalmed, than screamed. The hand hitting my face had fresh hot pizza in it. “Are you ok?” Katie asked alarmed. “Yes, I just burned my face” I said through gritted teeth. “Oh good! so nothing important was damaged” the snark was strong with this one today. “Ha ha very funny.” I replied. Just to feel out if maybe, she had experienced anything like I had. I tossed out my line. I hoped it wasn’t obvious.

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“So Katie after you logged off… umm.. did you happen to notice anything…odd?” Was that lame? Was it subtle? Did I totally sound creepy?…probably. “Odd how?” she responded confused. I took a couple of internal breaths, continuing. “Strange like glowing…things…” the silence on the other end was deafening. Finally she responded with. “Well my daffodils bloomed. I thought they were only a one time bloom, but im not much of a gardner. So what would I know?" I wasn't a gardner by any stretch of the imagination so i was puzzled. “hmm” i hmm'ed. The quick response had me internally groaning. “Hmm what? You sound like your thinking deep thoughts. I don’t want you hurting yourself”

I took a couple of calming breaths “I am not trying to sound like i’m crazy, but some wierd things have been going on since I logged out today." The smile in her voice was very pronounced. “You trying not to sound crazy? Is that even possible?” I sighed knowing I wasn’t going to get a serious conversation going. Not that anyone can, while peeling melted cheese off your face. But dang it I was trying!

“Nevermind your obviously in one of your beat up Oby moments, so there is no point to continue." The hurt sound in her voice was obvious. “Oh come on, you know how long it’s taken me to get comfortable with sarcastic comments." Now I felt terrible, because I usually got the upper hand in all our snarkfest conversations. Here I was ruining her good time.

“I’m sorry it’s just wierd things are happening. I think i’m hallucinating about them. It's hard to handle I'm legitimately scared. I’m not sure which would be worse, the weird things being real. Or that I am really going crazy." There was a seconds pause “Wait your being serious? That’s not fair, I’m on my way over now.”