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Hazel's family probably was surprised about a week ago when they first found Aladdin, but Vanilla wasn't there to see them surprised xD And maybe part of the "conversations" that Hazel had with Aladdin explained how he'd gotten an articuno, but Vanilla isn't "curious to know" so we might never know rip

Crap I should've played this on actual Halloween but wasn't checking forums to know this game existed rip but I'll give it a try anyway yay

blind peepos can listen to TV and podcasts, and talk about romance with frens, me thinks not like us nerds who would spend time sitting on our asses searching quizzes titled "does he/she like me" (I may or may not have done this) tbh I've been looking forward to writing this coming chapter for like forever so hopefully that'll help me actually write it within a reasonable time oof Edit: ... or it might be the chapter after next. depends on how the flow goes

it'll take about two more chapters to conclude Hazel's arc (because she's a minor character anyway) but in that is contained the awkward convo between Aladdin and Vanilla, and one more surprise so it shouldn't be unamusing then finally we can fight Ciel and return to Reborn City~ tbh I'm looking forward to Vanilla being super impressed with the renovations haha but before that there's also a surprise, which would've been more hyped had I not taken a 2 month break already, but it is what it is I guess oof

*sweats* I'm assuming you've not read the latest season of Vanilla's adventures, because Season 1 went pretty quick but it kinda started dragging big time once I added the Everland's Underworld lore, not to mention me taking literal months to produce single episodes *sweats again* anyhow, great to see more fan fictions / playthroughs in the forums~

From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 66 Things that happened since August 19 and now: Pikachu and I followed Hazel and her stoutland to their rustic wooden hut. The first thing I noticed was the middle aged woman on the roof, who was shoveling the snow off of it. A bald man of similar age was sitting on the front porch, sharpening a bunch of kitchen knives. Taking a closer look, I realized that he was on a wheelchair. “Hazel is back, dear. We can serve lunch now,” said the woman on the roof. She wiped the sweat off her face, and climbed down the ladder to greet us. Once on the ground, I found that she was unexpectedly tall and with a very muscular build, almost as if she were a bodybuilder. “Mom, I found Aladdin’s girlfriend!” Hazel waved her arm and said cheerfully. “No, I’m not,” I quickly said, but the sound of awe from Hazel’s mother likely masked my voice. “Oh how nice! Aladdin will be so happy to see you.” “I doubt he will be,” I whispered to myself. She took off her right glove and then suddenly took my hand to shake it. I wasn’t sure why she was acting as if she were Aladdin’s mom, but I was rather desensitized to odd behavior after spending such a long time in Reborn. “I hope you will join us for lunch. I’ve prepared enough for everyone.” I told her I didn’t want to bother them, since I had only come to talk with Aladdin and then I would be on my way out, but Hazel’s mother insisted that I do, and so the arrangement was made. “Now come on in, err… What was your name again? Polaris, was it?” “Come on, mom. It’s Vanilla. Aladdin said Polaris was her nickname.” Hazel explained to her mother, but to be honest, I was now barely listening. A landmine had exploded inside my mind, deafening me for a moment. I couldn’t stomach Aladdin’s audacity in openly using that term to refer to me, as if nothing had changed since the time we went out. As if we were still on terms to call each other in endearing terms. The thought made me shiver with anger. The fakeness of this boyfriend business was at first mildly disgusting, but this had tipped it to a whole different level. “That bastard… how dare he?” I muttered under my breath. “Huh?” Hazel said, picking up my low voice. “Where is he?” I asked with a louder volume. “He’s resting in Arthur’s old room. He’s recovered quite well; he even ate a whole bowl of oatmeal this morning,” answered Hazel’s mother, but she didn’t know that I had zero interest in knowing how well he was recovering. What she did notice was my abrupt change in mood. “Are you alright, Vanilla? You seem distressed?” “It’s nothing. I only have one purpose in coming here, and it is to ask him a few questions,” I said, with my blood still boiling. “Whether he lives or dies after our meeting, it’s not my business. I’d even do him the favor to put him out of his miserable existence.” I couldn’t stand outside any longer, knowing that the target of my extended nightmare was somewhere inside this small hut. I was about to place a foot inside, when Hazel’s mother attempted to grab my arm. My instinct kicked in, and I slapped her hand off of me, but she insisted on capturing me. I knew I wouldn’t be able to escape if she successfully captured me, so I kept dodging her. However, in one such instance, my eyes diverted from the extending arms and onto Hazel’s face in the background. Her look translated how confused and scared she was, hearing unfamiliar sounds that didn’t tell her what was going on. In the end, that split second of distraction was enough for the woman to embrace me and knock both of us over on the snowy ground. Pikachu, who had been sitting on my shoulder, jumped off right as we hit the ground, and attempted to help me lift the woman off of me, but to no avail. She had me held between her two arms, and her legs were crossed on top of mine so that I couldn’t use my legs to push her away. Where could she have learned such technique of martial arts? “Mom? Vanilla? What is happening?” Hazel said, looking in our general direction, but paralyzed on her spot. “What is all this commotion?” the old man in a wheelchair approached us, and seeing the large woman almost squeezing me to death under her weight, he exclaimed, “Gwendolyn, what are you doing? You’ll asphyxiate the poor little kid.” “She was hostile against Aladdin,” Mrs. Gwendolyn said with a tone very unlike the one she had before. “We know nothing about her. For all I know she could be an impostor lying about being his girlfriend. Don't you think so?” “I never said I was,” I said with the little air I could squeeze out of my lungs. “Get off of her now. You’re always so rash,” the man said. “I’ve told you before that you can’t tackle people to the ground just for the sake of it. Now, get up before the girl faints from lack of oxygen.” Thank the heavens that Mrs. Gwendolyn listened to whom I assumed was Hazel’s father, for I was reaching the limits of living without breathing. I coughed and took some deep breaths, slightly horrified that I could have literally died right there and then. “Sorry that I tackled you. Are you alright?” Mrs. Gwendolyn asked, extending a hand for me. “I think I am alive, if that’s what you’re asking,” I said, taking her hand because I really needed it. “We have warmed up to Aladdin this past week he has spent with us, and I would hate to see him injured more than he already is. I would’ve shown you to him had you remained calm as you appeared, and not lost my trust. Well, I guess it never hurts to be cautious of who we allow in our home, especially in this time and age when Team Meteor roams around this region.” “You think I am a Team Meteor grunt or something?” I asked, almost laughing at the irony of that statement. “I’m only saying that I can’t trust that you won’t hurt Aladdin.” “I can’t trust myself on that, either, but I guarantee you, any pain he’s going through now and any pain he shall suffer, he deserves it a hundred fold. You talk of trust? Well then, I don’t know how you brought that monster into your home, without knowing anything but what he’s told you himself. I am not Team Meteor, but he might as well be as despicable as them.” By then, I was nearly shouting. Pikachu pulled on my dress, and he shook his cloth head sideways when I looked at him. “What? You know it’s the truth. Or maybe you don’t, because only I was there to witness his scumbaggery. I pity you all, because it seems that he’s brainwashed you all to his benefit. The only thing he’s good at is manipulating people, after all.” “Young lady, calm down, alright? No need to raise your voice like that,” Hazel’s father said. “Hazel’s hearing is sharp, so I’d appreciate it if you didn’t stress her.” “That’s no problem, dad,” Hazel said, then stretched both her hands palms up in my general direction. I understood that as a gesture to ask for both my hands, so I reluctantly acceded. What her father had said had made me feel remorseful for having a fit apparently out of nowhere. “It’s alright, Vanilla. I understand you,” Hazel said. “Relationships are hard. I know you’re frustrated. You’re so frustrated you could almost push your boyfriend off a cliff. But you didn’t, I mean, would never, because you love him deeply. And that also gives you another level of frustration, because you can’t stop loving someone who gives you this much frustration.” She said all that so quickly and with so much emotion, as if she had practiced reciting it for months, that I almost had no time to process it. When I did, though, I wasn’t sure how anyone could jump to a conclusion so far from the truth that it could be considered comical. “Is this your sixth sense talking again?” I asked. “Half my sixth sense, and half my extensive research on romance,” Hazel grinned widely. I withdrew my hands from hers, and sighed. At this point, I wasn’t sure whether to correct her, because even though her reasoning was completely off, the fact that I was a walking chunk of frustration still stood. “So, mom, please have more patience with my and Aladdin’s guest. You know how a young maiden’s blood can boil in the blink of an eye, and it’s not how they are, it’s just the frustration manifesting itself in a violent form.” “I understand that, but I still can’t trust her,” she said in a quiet voice. “Now that it seems we have all calmed down,” Hazel’s father said. “Let us all go indoors. Lunch awaits, and I’m sure everyone will be less stressed with a full stomach.” Right then, a loud clatter was heard from inside the house, and all of us looked in the direction of the noise. Mrs. Gwendolyn was the first to react and enter the house, but not before nudging me away from the door. “Aladdin!” she exclaimed. “What happened to you?” The rest of us followed her into the house, and there I found Aladdin lying on the floor, with Mrs. Gwendolyn and an Audino crouched near him to help him up. His limbs were all bandaged neatly. There was a broken vase near him, and water spilled everywhere. “You know you can’t stand up yet, not with those broken bones,” Mrs. Gwendolyn scolded him and carefully pulled his upper body up. “I heard… I-” he whispered. “Vanilla…” Then, with sleepy-looking eyes, he met my gaze for a split second, before his head knocked backward and he lost consciousness. Mrs. Gwendolyn stood up and carried him in her arms effortlessly, to tuck him back in the bed which was outside my field of view. When she was done, she left the Audino inside the room and closed its door behind her. “I’m afraid he is in no condition to receive visitors, even if I allowed it,” she said. “Now, keep out and don’t go near this room while I go get stuff to clean the mess in there.” “Mom wait,” Hazel said. “I can watch over Vanilla. Well, not actually ‘watch’ her, but still, make sure she’s sitting near me. Then would you allow her to stay a bit inside the room?” “I don’t know, dear. In any case, what would be the point? Aladdin is unconscious right now.” “Yeah, what would be the point? I have no business with a pseudo-corpse.” Hazel’s mother sent a sharp look in my direction, but I ignored it. “I heard Aladdin call Vanilla’s name, so I don’t know, I think he’d be pleased if he knew she spent time near him while he slept.” “Trust me, that would either scare him or give him relief, if he wakes up, that I didn’t ki-” I saw Pikachu shaking his head from the corner of my eye, so I coughed and measured my words. “I mean, didn’t do anything to him while he slept.” “Then let it be the latter,” Hazel smiled happily. “Let’s go, yes?” She extended a hand to me again. I looked at her mother, and since she said nothing but didn’t alter her look of disapproval, I took her hand and moved towards the room Aladdin was sleeping in. The sensation of my hand on hers made her face light up. I didn’t know why she was so invested in creating a narrative that was far-fetched, but I felt like maybe what I should do was play along. At least, her insisting I am still Aladdin’s girlfriend would probably let me talk with Aladdin- something forcefulness or open hatred would not get me. I sat next to Hazel in a wooden bench in the tiny room. There was not much free space- with the bed that Aladdin and the articuno occupied, the bedside table that had a new vase with water on it, Audino, and now Hazel and I with Mocha and Pikachu. “This was my brother Arthur’s room, before he moved out into Reborn City. He’s working as a police officer there,” Hazel said. “Ever since we started treating Aladdin, he’s been coming everyday to help us out with chores. You’ll probably meet him in the afternoon, once he’s done with his shift.” I didn’t say anything, but the prospect of meeting an officer didn’t particularly excite me. I mean, I wouldn’t be thrilled if he discovered I had been at the site of Aladdin’s fall, and arrested me for suspicion of homicide… which isn’t far from the truth, but still. Given that I was silent, Hazel changed the topic to see if she could get me to participate in the conversation. “Aladdin is actually doing better, despite how he looks right now,” she said. “I mean, he’s still bed-ridden because he broke both legs and arms in the fall, but his fever is going away, which I think means his wounds’ infection is going away and he’ll recover well.” “The articuno appears to be in worse shape than him, to be honest,” I said. “Oh yes. When we found him, apparently the articuno was lying beneath Aladdin’s body, so we think that it tried to save him and got the most damage. Thanks to that, Aladdin’s alive after falling from such a height.” Aladdin surely trained his birds properly after coming to this region, I thought. And yet he used to call his training in bird language useless, just because his family didn’t change their opinion of him even after learning it. It saved his life, quite literally. “He probably fainted just now because he placed pressure on his broken legs, and you know, that must hurt like a lot. The good thing about it is that if he can feel pain, that means his nerves aren’t severed, so he won’t become paraplegic like my dad,” Hazel commented. “He had actually not fainted at all since like four days ago. We even had some conversations, which I could talk to you about, if you don’t get angry like earlier. If it helps, most conversations weren't about you or you guys' relationship, because no matter how much we asked about you, directly or indirectly, he mostly brushed off the subject.” “I’m not curious to know.” “What?! How can you not be curious. The curiosity would be killing me by now, if I were you.” “You and I are very different people, Hazel.” I didn’t intend it a particularly sarcastic or offensive way, but my supposedly lighthearted comment made Hazel fall silent and look somewhat sad, despite keeping a smile. “Actually, I don’t think we’re that different at all,” she said. “You just didn’t meet me when I thought and acted like you do now. You are bitter, and I understand you because I’d also spent many years of my life bitter.” I assumed she meant that she had been bitter about her lack of eyesight, which I could completely understand. Right then, Hazel’s mother knocked on our door and announced that lunch was served. “I’ll tell you a little story, since it might help you,” Hazel whispered to me. “But let’s go have lunch first. I’m starving!” VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS Also this was Pikachu when Vanilla snapped and was just a yuge pain in the butt this entire episode: QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE

ok WTF AL. maybe Michael Jackson does have IQ level over 9000 or maybe Amber has IQ level = GOD and is tricking us rn but one thing is certain my IQ level is as smol as my d*ck [Unvote] Amber [Eliminate] AL

Lol at the title

ok fair enough. I'll leave it to the doctor if they feel like you been a gud town or a smelly evil [Unvote] Drago [Eliminate] Amber

oof coyote be a bitsh but ok [Eliminate] Drago Sopheria is definitely not the coyote. I'll place my eggs on a basket that has possibility of being it

wait didn't Arch say he was gonna haunt Sopheria? what's the point of lynching them now?

Idk about you but AL has role claimed on telling circumstances before so I think this time it was the same lol, no offense AL xD

At this point, it's kinda a 50-50 chance of lynching town vs evil roles so I'ma go ahead and tri my good luck. [Unvote] Nicki [Eliminate] Arch After all, Nicki has been here being very active, whether she's town or not. On the contrary, I haven't seen Arch much and there's general suspicion of them so I'ma do him a votin' If they come and defend themselves, I might do a vote change later on.

Idk, in order to be giving out exploding suits, guessing peepos roles and wiring peepos to their imminent deaths, the evil peepos must be at least somewhat active. for that reason, I'm not inclined to think Sopheria is one of them, since they didn't even know who'd been killed when they posted last day phase. My suspicion is more concentrated on Arch, Amber, and I can't explain why but Nicki. Take it as my tingling sixth sense but like you know, my senses tend to be pretty numb (for example, I like pineapple on pizza). That's why I voted her for my backup vote, I know, capricious but when am I not? As for Anti, I'm not sure. This one comment she made stands out to me: Jailer appears to have gone ahead and taken this advice, but that ended up causing both jailer and bulletproof's deaths. Was this somehow predicted? Was it just an innocent advice? Am I really sugary? Will we ever find out?

oooo I see I see, I wasn't sure what had happened with the explosions but that makes sense.

Ok how tf did arsonist douse two people (cause from what I understood both Bean and Kiet died from the explosion) in N1 to burn on N2??? Bamboozled [Eliminate] Nicki because i can't risk doing a dumb again

Well personally I don't think that would help town. 1. Everyone role claims. Pairs of town and liar identified. 2. Coyote gets unlimited amounts of real guns, and will use them on townies without a liar. 3. Serial killer kills townies that don't have a pair, so that we do the job for him/her to kill potentially two people. 4. Jailer can't kill anymore. 5. Vigilante will kill people in the pairs together with us. So I don't think it's a good idea but maybe I'm missing something

Wtf I have hairy arm pits not hairy arms. R00d Also, I AM HERE to help y'all. The coyote shot bad veggie Bok huh? I was reading how some peeps were saying that if coyote doesn't shoot, they're inactive and hence one of Amber or Sopheria. So my thought was that if coyote ISN'T one of those two, they'd try to frame them as coyote by NOT shooting today. But I guess coyote is an active member and didn't think it was worth making town go after Amber and Soph (maybe noteworthy that Soph is so out of the loop that she voted Jelly who is already ded). I think from the flavor text, Kiet was gonna do a die but Jelly saved him. Makes sense that serial killer would target the only confirmed town; however since we'll invariably increase Kiet's protection, I doubt they'll try killing him again. That's all I've got for now, but I'll post again when I've taken care of work I should've done yesterday lol

I personally hate moves that lock you for 2-3 turns, and I think it's worse for nuzlocke because if you don't keep OHKOing then you risk losing a mon to a new switch-in. Besides outrage isn't STAB or SE to anything other than dragon so I'd also wouldn't have taken it but that's just how I see it

how about this then [Unvote] Nano [Eliminate] Lykos c-c-c-combo breakerrrr

tfw you random vote and everyone follows you

Coyote-modoki, Kiet's the jester get 'em

um didn't this game start on Day phase tho? how could you have done visiting??

also, I use my pseudo sunflower psychic ability to predict

now that I got my role, time to talk~ how about [Eliminate] Nano because placing another vote on the same person right off the bat is sus