How Strange...?
Entry posted by Merch Gwyar
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This morning I nipped into the cooking guild for my breakfast. As I busied myself moving between bank and range, another player kept getting under my feet. Odeon was dressed almost identically. Both of us were clad in our Varrock 3 armour (ideal for getting through the door) and our quest capes, but we didn't initially speak. It was that awkward shuffling of strangers, both intent on sizzling fish without burning them, and anyway, I was chatting in Canting.
Then Odeon went, 
. I glanced at him, then around the room; I had a quick reccy over the wall at the wider cooking guild, but nothing untoward appeared to be happening. I responded with a >.>. Odeon replied with >>? To which I ran out of emoticons and resorted to speaking. 'You said :D, so I was looking to ensure that we weren't being invaded by orks or something.' Odeon assured me that there were no orks in the vicinity. In fact, it was highly unlikely that there would be so far south. After a moment, he added an afterthought, 'except maybe in Zanaris.' To this, I had to smile, as I've only recently dealt with that particular infestation. In fact, Zanaris is now completely ork-free, because I went on a bit of a mission there to help out the Fairy Queen. I couldn't resist smugly telling Odeon that it's ok, I've dealt with the orks in Zanaris.
This caused a bit of consternation, as he paused in his fish cooking to look at me with a puzzled frown. The weird thing was that he too had done just that. In roughly the same time frame too. In fact, as we compared experiences, it transpired that the Fairy Queen and her general, the Tooth Fairy, had set us both the same task! We had each, individually, taken out the Fairy Godfather. Even more bizarre, when I mentioned that I'd been given a self-filling watering can as a reward, he gasped and said he'd received the same!
We both cooked in silence for a few seconds, taking this in. I resolved to see the Fairy Queen ASAP and have this out with her. Why on Earth is she making both Odeon and I save Zanaris? In fact, that's got terrible implications insofar as she must have reinstated the Fairy Godfather, opened the rift and let the orks back in, in order for both of us to do that. Odeon was thinking along the same lines. "Perhaps it's some kind of tourist trap," he mused.
And that's when things really got weird. It's best if you just read the conversation of us comparing notes here:
Before we could get to the bottom of it, a black cat appeared. In an obvious pointer towards some kind of Gielinor wide conspiracy theory, Odeon was abducted right in front of my face! In utter shock, I just mindlessly finished cooking my fish. I was considering marching over to Draynor right then and there to confront the Wise, Old Man. After all, something is happening with all of these quests if both Odeon and I are having to separately rescue the same people and relieve the same places. And now for him to just be taken like that!
I was about to rush out and kick bottom, when Odeon was suddenly returned. He stared at me wild-eyed and informed me that he'd just been taken to a parallel dimension. His eyes narrowed in suspicion, as he accused, "Perhaps YOU are from a parallel dimension!"
This did seem a likely explanation, especially since my next quest was already lined up. I told him about it, "I'm having to go to a parallel dimension now. I've got to find a place called Real Life."
Odeon nodded, sagely, "I've heard of this place."
"Then find a place called Work."
"Good luck." He said. I thanked him and we said our goodbyes. Bit shocking for first thing in a morning though, wouldn't you agree?
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