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He stopped, trying to peer through the jungle of beds and saw it again, something brown moving, this time closer to the tunnel leading under the city. Curiosity at the force that had pulled him to this room temporarily forgotten, he took a few steps towards whatever had been stirring near the wall. Suddenly what seemed a mix between a large hill giant and a troll lumbered up from where it had been crouching behind a bed and made a break for the tunnel, letting out a tremendous belch at the same time. Long after the scaly creature had disappeared into the black depths the belch lingered, ringing in Mr. Happy*s ears. He stood shaken, wondering what on earth he had seen. Were there more of those things down here? For a second he contemplated leaving the room but then his curiosity crept up on him again and he swiftly made his way to the source of the pull.
It was coming from a cot, one far removed from the light and thus blanketed in shadow. Like many times before, (C)Mr. Happy recognized the figure before he reached it. In the darkness he couldn’t pick out the stubby nose or the short brown hair, couldn’t see the white robes that clothed it but he recognized it nonetheless. Hesitantly his fingers stretched down towards the resting form. It would disappear, he knew. There was no plausible reason why Cheezit92 would be lying in a cot down here in this drab backroom of the testing facility. But his trembling fingers met cloth, and beneath that cloth the heat of a living body. Shakily he felt his way up to the face and the familiar features revealed themselves beneath his touch. Still, (C)Mr. Happy was not satisfied until he had carried Cheezit92 over to the glow in the middle of the room and set him on the ground. Bands of amorphous light from the candle raced over the naïve face of what was unmistakable Mr. Happy’* nemesis.

27-May-2006 22:20:42

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Mr. Happy let out a small giggle. What to do now… His first thought was to leave Cheezit92 here and frequent the testing building for some ‘experimentation’ over the next few days. But then he remembered his plans to escape. The tunnel suddenly sprang to his attention. He could disappear into that darkness! Run away and never look back again!
No, he decided soon, Base4 wanted to flee with him and besides he didn’* want to meet whatever that creature had been, especially in the dark. What to do…
After a while the dark seemed to creep in on him, the desensitized murmurs of the sleepers becoming more than just whispers. He could hear words in them. ‘Why do we hate the darkness?’ came from one side, and the reply ‘because in the darkness anything can happen’ was breathed from the other. Shadows danced about the room and suddenly a whole chorus of whispers broke loose from every direction. Eyegouge27*s voice seemed to seep out of the burrow that extended darkly into one wall. ‘Leave’ she chuckled ‘leaves are pretty, you should leave’. And suddenly the edge of a light flashed into existence in the tunnel, a glare no doubt from a torch that was not yet visible, held by someone climbing the incline at the end of the passageway. All the whispers stopped.
From within the tunnel the echoes of a few voices resonated.
Oblivion:****, you know there’s no one up here.
Cinnar:It doesn’t matter if there’s no one.
Oblivion:But it gives me the spooks…
Oblivion:To think, no one knew there were tunnels beneath the arena!
Veshio:Shh, there’s a light.
Their voices had been coming closer and Mr. Happy guessed they had just seen the glow of the candle’s light. Heaving Cheezit92’s body over one of his shoulders Mr. Happy quickly made for the door out of the…what would you call this? A dormitory? Storage room?

27-May-2006 22:20:57

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Reaching it, he was faced by the troublesome task of balancing Cheezit92’s weight on one shoulder and opening the door with his other hand. He thought he got through alright though. There were no sounds of commotion in the room behind him before the door closed with a soft snap. They had not heard him exit.
Religious statues spun by him as he scurried through the testing facility’s entrance room towards the building’s front door. Jon123jon123 was nowhere in sight. For that Mr. Happy was thankful. He felt like a criminal, creeping through the empty temple with a senseless body slung over his shoulder.
The front door was likewise deserted. It was larger than the one to the storage room and Mr. Happy had to set Cheezit92 down to open it. His ears listened carefully for the click and soft scrape that would mean whoever had been coming up the tunnel had found the door out of the noob room. No sounds came. With a large effort Mr. Happy dragged the stone door inwards to reveal a sliver of the dark landscape that lay beyond. He reset Cheezit92 over his shoulder and managed to squeeze through the door and into the simulated night.
Xanadu bursting into flame had become so common to Mr. Happy by now that he paid no attention to the brilliant fires that blackened and cracked the stones of the city’s major buildings and happily consumed its beautiful gardens. Neither did he pay attention to the screams or the figures chasing and burning each other beneath the light from the eye on the ceiling. Currently he was too caught up in thinking what he would do to Cheezit92. Carrying the noob up to his room wouldn’t be hard. Storing him in a closet would be tricky but he’* manage. And all of the things he could do to Cheezit92 after that…
Mr. Happy turned to close the door, fumbling in the shadows for its edge and that’s when he did notice something odd. There was a knife pressed against his throat.

27-May-2006 22:21:06

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Something spiky also pushed against the small of his back. A silken voice hissed into his ear –
Silent2784

on’t move.
(c)Mr. Happy stood rigidly, feeling the steel against his jugular and fighting an urge to swallow. Cheezit92 slid off his shoulder to fall with a muffled thump to the ground.
(c)Mr. Happy:What –
Mr. Happy:I wasn’t stealing him
And now the screams penetrated his ears but he could only wonder at what created that cacophony. His eyes remained riveted on the blank wall of the testing facility before him and the door, which he hadn’t been able to close all the way.
Silent2784:Noob or elitist?
Mr. Happy:What?
It came out in a squeak.
Silent2784:Who do you follow?
Mr. Happy:Um…
Why did his orientation in the war always come up? A block of fire sailed by overhead, briefly lighting the testing facility wall a bright red. And then a muffled crunch of leaves came from behind and a voice Mr. Happy recognized spoke out.
Sethcat:He’s with us.
The dagger at his throat eased a little.
Silent2784:Are you sure?
Sethcat:Yeah, put down the dagger.
The blade eased a little more, but then it pressed sharply back down again.
Silent2784:If he is an elitist why was he saving a noob?
Mr. Happy became conscious of the body of Cheezit92, which must be lying on the ground beside his feet.
Sethcat:He was?
Mr. Happy:I wasn’t.
Silent2784:Isn’t this here a noob?
A slight change in pressure on the dagger and a thud indicated that Silent2784 had kicked Cheezit92’s body.
(c)Mr. Happy:Yeah, but I hate him.
(c)Mr. Happy:I would never rescue him
Mr. Happy:I found him in the testing room and I want to torture him.
Judging by their silence, this was not what the people behind him had expected to hear. Silent2784 spoke up soon again, however.
Silent2784:Then why were you carrying him around with you?
Sethcat:Yes, you could have just left him in the building and tested on him…

27-May-2006 22:21:26

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Sethcat’s voice carried a questioning tone as though he was no longer convinced that Mr. Happy was a Zezimanite.
(c)Mr. Happy:Umm…
He had to think of something good. The dagger tickled at his skin.
(c)Mr. Happy:Well, I saw something else down there near Cheezit92.
(c)Mr. Happy:Some brown creature, and I thought it might be trying to get Cheezit92 too
(c)Mr. Happy

r eat him.
Sethcat:Was it a troll?
Mr. Happy:I guess it might have been…
Sethcat:Lol, that would be Grogg,
Sethcat:He supplies the noobs to the testing facility.
Silent2784:You’re not actually going to believe his story…
Sethcat:I think we can trust him.
Silent2784:But…
Sethcat:No, I know we can trust him.
Sethcat:We’ll bring him with us and if he doesn’t torture that noob
Sethcat: Then we’ll know he’s no Zezimanite.
(c)Mr. Happy

on’t worry, I’ll torture him well.
Sethcat:Lol, I never thought you had a dark side (c)Mr. Happy.
Sethcat:Silent, put the dagger away.
Reluctantly the dagger was withdrawn, leaving a tingling sensation where the blade had rested. The spikes in his back were retracted aswell. (c)Mr. Happy tried to turn on legs weak with relief and almost fell onto the body of Cheezit92, which lay sprawled, senseless, on the ground nearby.
Two dark shapes stood before him, one the outline of Sethcat, the other looking large and bulky in full Guthan’s armor. Silent2784 slid a dagger back into its sheath while a brief burst of fire to their east threw the spiked gauntlets he wore into stark detail. One of those had been placed along Mr. Happy** spine…
Mr. Happy:Those fires are real?
Behind the two figures walls of flame wove their way across Xanadu. (c)Mr. Happy had seen the fire before in what he had guessed were visions but he had never heard the screams or seen the running people. Many seemed to be fleeing towards a large group that was massing at Xanadu’s southern wall.
Sethcat:Yes…
Mr. Happy

Silent2784:Well I’ll be going then,

27-May-2006 22:21:42

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Silent2784:Lots of noobs over there to attend to

Sethcat:K
Sethcat:Keep those above level 70 for questioning, though.
Silent2784:Kk
With a last doubtful glance at Mr. Happy, Silent2784 set off at a jog towards the group of Xanadians.
(c)Mr. Happy:What is going on?
Sethcat:Well, remember how I told you earlier that something needed to happen?
Mr. Happy:No…
Then he recalled that Sethcat had said something like that at the dance.
(c)Mr. Happy:Yes
Sethcat:That the election was rigged against the zezimanites?
Mr. Happy:Yea, yea, I remember.
Sethcat:Well I got something to happen.
A group of figures rushed close by the spot in which Mr. Happy and Sethcat were standing, water missiles and crystal arrows biting into their flank. Sethcat started walking along the testing building wall to avoid the second group of people, most of them clad in barrow or dragon armor, that hounded the first, whooping and shouting. (c)Mr. Happy, still in the process of staring speechlessly at the massacre occurring before him, didn’t follow.
Sethcat:Come, we should go somewhere more secure.
Sethcat:I think we can gain entrance at the southwestern tunnels.
(c)Mr. Happy:What’s happening?
Sethcat:I’ll explain on the way.
(c)Mr. Happy started walking mechanically alongside Sethcat as his brain tried to comprehend what he saw.
Sethcat

k, well you might not like it,
Sethcat:But it was the only way for the Zezimanites to gain control of Xanadu.
Sethcat:You see those?
He pointed towards the small army of expensively clad Runescapians that could now be seen firing mercilessly into the crowd to the south with a barrage of colorful bursts.
(c)Mr. Happy:Yes…
Sethcat:Those are elitists
(c)Mr. Happy:?
Sethcat:We informed the mage arena just east of here about this base’s whereabouts.
Sethcat:They were eager to come and exterminate any threat to their army.
(c)Mr. Happy:But they’re going to kill you then.

27-May-2006 22:21:54

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Sethcat:Lol, our part of the bargain was that all zezimanites could join the elitist forces.
Sethcat:Anyone with a combat of 70 + will merely be captured
Sethcat:Except for me and the select few who were in on alerting the elitists.
Sethcat:We are allowed to travel where we will, unimpeded
Sethcat:And we will determine which of the level 70 + people survive after this skirmish is over.
Sethcat:

Mr. Happy:They’ll still kill you at the mage arena.
Sethcat:I don’t think so, I have my own plans.
Abruptly something clicked in Mr. Happy’* mind and he stopped in horror.
(c)Mr. Happy:But what about Base4, Wolf0122?!
Mr. Happy

r Sinusoidal?!
Sethcat:What about them?
Mr. Happy:They’ll be killed!
Sethcat:Ah, (c)Mr. Happy, this is a war.
Sethcat:And in any war you have to be prepared to make sacrifices.
(c)Mr. Happy suddenly hated the passive expression on Sethcat’s face. Hated the small grin that curled his lips. The eyes that seemed to hold knowledge beyond Mr. Happy’* grasp.
(c)Mr. Happy:They’re dead?
Sethcat

ead or going to be, I’m afraid.
Sethcat:No one will make it out of the tunnels.
(c)Mr. Happy:You’d kill Base4 just to be an elitist?!
Sethcat:It*s more than being an elitist.
(c)Mr. Happy was thinking back to his discussions with Base4 by the lake, how intelligent and friendly she had always been. She could still be alive...
(c)Mr. Happy:I have to find her!
But Sethcat grabbed Mr. Happy by the arm and restrained him. The Xanadian’s calm and calculating face looked into Mr. Happy’*, that irksome smile still decorating it.
Sethcat

on’t be foolish, you’d be –
And Mr. Happy’* fist, the one that wasn’t keeping Cheezit92 on his shoulder, crashed into Sethcat’s smile. Sethcat staggered backwards a few steps, hands coming up to his mouth. (c)Mr. Happy didn’t give him any relief. Letting Cheezit92 fall to the ground, he dug a fist into Sethcat’s stomach and doubled him over. His next kick took Sethcat in the knee.

27-May-2006 22:22:07

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And then something smashed into the back of Mr. Happy’* head and for a moment the dark world about him flashed with extraordinary colors before he fell to the ground unconscious.
Silent2784 stepped over the inert bodies of both Cheezit92 and Mr. Happy, rubbing one of his gauntleted fists. Extending a hand down to Sethcat, he pulled the zezimanite to his feet. Sethcat stood, groaning and holding his stomach.
Silent2784:I think my spikes only grazed him.
Sethcat sat back down, heavily. He exhaled raggedly.
Sethcat:G-good.
Silent2784:You really still want him alive?
Silent2784:He tried to kill you.
Sethcat:He was-
Sethcat:Just a li –
Sethcat:Tle upset.
Sethcat:That’s all.
Sethcat:I saw you following us.
Silent2784:I thought you did

Unsteadily, Sethcat used a hand to help himself to his knees, then his feet.
Sethcat:I’m feeling a little better.
Silent2784:I don’t know what your obsession with this man is.
Sethcat:Neither do I.

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Before them the entrance to the tunnel loomed darkly. Sparsely spaced torches provided only slight illumination to the corridor that delved forward into the earth, its walls eventually curving out of sight. Above, a dizzying vertical wall of verandas and balustrades stretched up towards Xanadu’s roof. Figures were skittering out onto those terraces to try and find the source of the screams that floated about the twilight landscape.
Jalabar:The invaders were coming out of the northern and western passages,
Jalabar:I’m hoping the south is safe.
He panted as he talked, long legs loping along. Jon123jon123 scurried next to him still wondering what in Zamorak’s name was happening.
Jon123jon123:Who’s invading?
An invasion in Xanadu was unheard of. No army had ever discovered the base.
Jalabar:Elitists by the look of them.
Jon123jon123:Wait.
They had reached the tunnel entrance. Jalabar stopped and Jon123jon123 stood, hands on knees, panting.

27-May-2006 22:22:23

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Jalabar:Come on, we have to get out.
But Jon123jon123 had had a sudden revelation. His time to be heroic had come.
Jon123jon123:You go ahead, I’ll stay here.
Jalabar peered at him, shadows on his face arranged in a look of disbelief.
Jalabar:What, have you gone crazy?
A Xanadian rushed passed where they stood and whisked off into the tunnel. Jon123jon123 carefully scanned the area surrounding the archway. There it was, a lever set near the base of the doorway, off to the left. In case of emergencies a heavy stone door had been built to slide across the opening to the underground passages, that lever operated it. Jon123jon123 did not know how the lever caused the door to move, but once it was pushed the door would slide inwards and seal the tunnel for hours. Pulling the lever again would not open it. A young Xanadian had pushed it for a prank once and been given a sentence of four weeks of isolation by the Xanadian council as a penalty.
Jon123jon123:No, I have to do this.
Jon123jon123 knew he must sound quite stupid, a tiny man like him trying to take on such a large task.
Jalabar:I don’t have time for this.
He tried to grab Jon123jon123 and pull him through the gap, but Jon123jon123 squirmed away. More Xanadians dashed past, into the tunnel. No elitists, or whoever the aggressors were, seemed to have noticed the southern escape route yet.
Jalabar:You’re serious?
Jon123jon123:Yeah, someone should stay on this side to block any pursuit.
Jalabar:And you’ll do that alone?
Jon123jon123:Yea, I’ll seal the entrance when its time.
Jalabar:You’ll…
He seemed to remember the lever.
Jalabar:****, someone else will do that Jon.
Jon123jon123:I don’t think so.
Jon123jon123:Anyway, there’s no use in arguing, go.
Around them, the flow of fleeing people had increased. Bodies flowed past in streams.
Jalabar:**** you, Jon.
Jon123jon123:

Jalabar:**** you.
Jalabar turned and started into the tunnel, then seemed to check himself and came back.

27-May-2006 22:22:39

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Jalabar:Take this at least.
He produced a poisoned addy dagger from a sheath at his side. It was an artifact Jalabar had bought a few years ago and one of his most valuable possessions.
Jon123jon123:You know I can’t –
But Jalabar pressed it into Jon123jon123’s hand and swiveled back to the passageway murmuring -
Jalabar:We’ll see each other again.
- before sprinting with the others down into the pools of light that lit the tunnel’s floor.
Jon123jon123 stood for a moment looking down at the dagger’s dim metallic glow, then he visibly gathered himself together and moved nearer the switch that would bar the exit. Within minutes a shouting, swarming mass of Xanadian’s were pushing past him in their attempts to escape the assailants. The tunnel entrance had become congested, a large crowd pushing and struggling against each other to force themselves into the narrow passageway. Jon123jon123 tried to direct the crowd but soon gave up. Men in expensive armors viciously cut into the the edges of the crowd now, laying about with dragon weapons and ancient magicks and the Xanadians each fought in an individual struggle for their lives. In that chaos no order could be instated. Was it time to operate the switch?
Jon123jon123 knelt beside the wall clutching the lever and watched as a crystal arrow passed through the stomach of a man next to him, smelled burnt skin and blood around him. His hands were saturated with sweat. He prayed silently to the Gods that had kept him company throughout his life that he might choose the right moment to work the lever. At any time he pulled it, hundreds of the Xanadians in that press of people would be trapped on the Xanadian side.
But then something amazing happened. Most of the aggressors pulled back, laughing as they dispersed to other parts of Xanadu. Only a few stayed to strike at the backs of the masses, stepping upon a carpet of bodies to do so.

27-May-2006 22:22:51

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