Sasha stretched as he got up, cracking his neck. He’d been in there for hours, and he was already starving. But first, he had to take care of having not drank water in hours. With his mouth feeling as dry as the one time he smoked, he walked to the bathroom and drank water from the tap.

He was hungry too, but honestly going to the kitchen was so much work he considered not doing it. In the end he did decide to go down. It was just so much easier taking care of it that way, that way than to try to go to sleep on a hungry stomach. Besides, it’s not like he didn’t keep easy to prepare things.

When he got to the kitchen, he reached up into the cabinet and grabbed a packet of ramen, the cheapest kind. He also grabbed a pot, which he filled with water and began to boil. While that was happening he closed his eyes, listening to something through his headphones, slowly half drifting off and startling himself back into wakefulness.

When the water was boiling he tossed his ramen in, then pulled out a pan. He wanted a bit more than what a single block of noodles could give him. He cut up an onion, and began to fry it in oil. He loved watching them caramelize, their sugars falling apart and allowing the stiff onion to become soft and delicious.

At the end of his noodles heating up, he drained them and tossed them in with his onions, spicing them to taste. Separately he mixed his eggs up, and poured them in, making what was essentially a big crunchy mess that had a consistency based on stir fry. When he took them out and began to eat them he also cleaned both his pot and pan, clearing the area he’d used, and making sure to leave it cleaner than he’d found it.

Sure, it wasn’t much, but to someone starving and with no energy to do anything more, it was easy to scarf it all down in only a couple minutes. At the end, he was full, and able to walk back to his room.

Sasha passed out, not even brushing his teeth, and fell into a nearly dreamless sleep.

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The next day, Sasha woke up early with a headache. He grabbed some ibuprofen and began to edit his videos down. The only things he could remember from his sleep was an odd dream with two people’s bisected heads stitched together and used in his car like R2D2 was in star wars. It was an extremely odd experience.

While he was editing his videos he decided to hop on discord and message his friends, he really shouldn’t leave them in the dark for so long without any input. He knew it freaked them out sometimes, though only after he’d admitted he’d had… some problems with mentaly unstable thoughts.

[Rasselbock] - So, I just got into a new game.

[Cat Nap] - What kind of game?

[Rasselbock] - A pretty fun one, it’s still in Beta. I can’t say much about it.

[Cat Nap] - You have beta access to a game? How’d you swing that? Uncle at Nintendo?

[Rasselbock] - No. silly. I got invited. It’s kind of a special thing.

[Cat Nap] - So you lucked into it

[Rasselbock] - Yeah kinda

[Fluffle] - I thought you had work today.

[Rasselbock] - It was yesterday. Besides, I got fired.

[Fluffle] - You got fired?

[Rasselbock] - Yeah, it really feels bad

[Fluffle] - *Glomp*

[Rasselbock] - Heh, thanks.

[Fluffle] - You have any plans?

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[Rasselbock] - Kinda. This game is going to be big, well, once the right people start playing it. It takes advantage of the sensory input tech way more than anything else I’ve ever played.

[Cat Nap] - You’ve said that before

[Rasselbock] - Well I mean it this time…

[Fluffle] - And how do we get to play this magical game of yours?

[Rasselbock] - I guess be a part of the beta? I don’t really know.

[Cat Nap] - You’re lying aren't you.

[Rasselbock] - No Way, I wouldn’t do that.

Cat Nap] - Of course you would

[Fluffle] - You totally would!

[Cat Nap] - Remember that time I asked you to help me out and you said you were busy with writing?

[Rasselbock] - I was trying!

[Cat Nap] - You had writer’s block, we could totally have broken through that lol.

[Rasselbock] - Don’t be… Oh whatever, lol, ya crazy.

[Fluffle] - So you’ll be hanging with the big shots soon!

[Fluffle] - Make sure to get me Jennifer Pamapes’ phone number when you see her.

[Rasselbock] - That’s not how it works you damn horn dog.

[Fluffle] - Potato Potato. I think it’s fine.

[Horseplay] - Gotta mute, at work.

[Rasselbock] - Sorry Man.

[Cat Nap] - So what game is it anyway?

[Rasselbock] - We’ll, have yall seen the new announcement for Apogee Softworks?

[Fluffle] - PlastikOS? Yeah it looks really interesting.

[Cat Nap] - Hell yeah!

[Cat Nap] - I was totally watching the announcement at work

[Fluffle] - Ha, who cares?

[Fluffle] - You work at a fucking game store.

[Rasselbock] - Bet your boss was watching the announcement too, lol.

[Cat Nap] - Yeah, probably, but still

[Horseplay] - Yeah it really looked interesting.

[Cat Nap] - Morning sleepy head

[Horseplay] - Shut the fuck up, asshole. Lol.

[Rasselbock] - But yeah, That’s the game.

[Horseplay] - No shit?

[Rasselbock] - Totally true. You’ll see my first post about it up in a few hours. Anyway, I have to get back to that.

Coney Smiled as he looked at his messages. Shutting off notifications he got back to editing the rest of his video. It was important that he finished it quickly, because he knew the others would also be soon making their posts, and he didn’t want to get labeled a copycat. That’s just how it is for some people, the first person they see do something becomes tied to it in their head, and if he let everyone else take that title then he’d be losing out on a lot.

When he was done editing his video down to just the highlights, he made a post to go with it, then grabbed his helmet. It was back and he had to go.