A Real Kingdom

It was Sunday morning, and as usual, I am bored. I do nothing but play with my computer, open my Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Keeping myself updated with the news from the outside world, I was chatting with Kevin, my friend, and he invited me to play a game called Habbo.

He said “Mark, let’s play this game! I’m so bored... ”

Since I don’t know what the game was all about, I asked him about it.

“What kind of game is that?”

“I don’t even know, I just saw it on Facebook, let’s try to found out by joining it!”

Since I’m bored, I went with it and made an account there. It was fun because I made my own avatar look ugly, and me and my friend trolled a lot of people. We went to the different rooms of the hotel, breaking rules and making fun of people.

The next day morning, luckily we didn’t have any class because of the bad weather, so I logged into Habbo. Kevin is not online, so I just played around the hotel rooms by myself. I was busy scrolling through the navigator of the hotel looking for rooms I can troll around, when I saw the unique name of a room.

“UNLIMITED DAILY PAY KINGDOM OF HABBO”

Kingdom of Habbo? Hmm, let’s try this out.

I clicked the room and I saw what’s inside.

Inside the room is a medieval themed place: brown chairs, brown tables, fancy statues, fancy red sofas. Everything looked fancy, and the people there are chatting with the things that they know about. I was intrigued in knowing what their reaction would be if I trolled around... so I did what I always do.

I used capital letters as my avatar screamed around the room, and I used different types of color chat. And suddenly all the attention went to me. Every member seated at the front desk kept asking me to stop, but I didn’t.

A guy suddenly talked, “Sir, please don’t use caps. Use only white chat and stop spamming the room.”

Wow, such strict rules here. I replied “Whatcha gonna do If I don’t? HAHAHA.”

The guy replied, “You will be muted for 2 minutes if you do that, sir.”

But I still continued, and suddenly I couldn’t seem talk... whenever I talked, a white italicized chat showed up. It seems I was really muted! They were really serious!

“Mark123, you have been muted for 2 minutes for using white chat and capital letters, and using colored chat even though you were asked not to,” a girl’s avatar spoke up.

What the?

So, even though I was muted, I just sat there at the lobby and observed their kingdom.

All of them seemed to be having fun, so different from the other agencies I went to. They greeted their fellow members whenever someone walked in. This place looks nice!

After two minutes of being muted, I approached a front desk. A girl named safia149 said to me:

“Sir, please don’t troll again, you’ll only get in trouble.”

“Oh no, I actually want to join.”

A smiley face was her reply, and she said:

“Of course! First please do this..”

And I went through the process to be able to join, and my rank was a Peasant at first. As days went by, I became addicted to playing Habbo because of KoH. I kept ranking up, and I stayed in the base for hours just so I could be promoted to a higher rank. And I also made a lot of friends there; we have theme days, a lot of activities which made the place even more fun!

One night, I was in the FTF (Fill the Front) sending out welcome messages, I checked the clock on my laptop and it was already 3:37 AM. I was getting sleepy and felt as if my eyes were going to drop any moment... but I endured it and kept my eyes open, and suddenly darkness consumed my consciousness.

“Mark123 ATT! …” I hear a blurry voice .. but sleep is still in my system. After a few seconds I heard it again:

“Mark123 ATT 2x!” What? Why do I keep hearing that?

“Mark123 ATT 3x” The voice I hear now is louder and sharper, and I suddenly jumped from my chair.

And that’s when I saw it. I was in a different place, a place somehow kind of familiar... The brown chairs, the brown tables, the fancy red gothic sofas and fancy statues… and then, I looked at myself, I was wearing the same clothes as what my avatar in Habbo is wearing. What is happening here?

“Mark123 ATT 4x!” I turned around and saw a girl who I didn’t know.

“Where am I?” I said in a confused voice.

Then a guy beside me nudged me and said, “Dude, face her, wave and say yes ma'am, rip” Why would I do that? I only do that in the game!

“Wha-?”

“Mark123 ATT5x!”

Then I did what the dude said. I faced the girl, waved awkwardly and said “Yes ma’am!”

She looked at me sharply and said, “Do you realize you were sleeping during work?”

“Umm... is this a dream?”

The girl looked confused and said, “What are you talking about?”

This is definitely a dream; everything looks exactly the same as what is in the game!

People were talking and looked like they are having fun with one another, the statues are even bigger than I imagined! Especially the Stone Knight and Miss Olympus! The sofas looked so fancy, that if you sat there, you’d feel like you belong in royalty. The people were magically teleported to different stations with different switches that were being used! In the lobby, people magically appeared with glittery effects on them, showing that they had arrived in the kingdom. And in the VIP area sat the Royal Family, seated in the sofas and observing their people!

In the FTF, people were screaming welcome messages to the visitors of the kingdom, inviting them to join. “Welcome to the Kingdom of Habbo! Unlimited Pay Daily!” and the others helping the ones interested in joining prepare for their training. In the FTT, or the training station, the trainers were giving out instructions to the trainees on how to start their training. In the WS, or the welcome station, the person giving out the Welcome said out loud the guidelines of KoH. In the Help Desk, HRs were answering the questions of some members and others claiming their pay or promotion, and at the transfer desk, some high rank members of some other agencies were being prepared to be transferred here.

Everything looks exactly the same as what is in the game! But the difference is that this is A REAL KINGDOM!

“Mark! Are you paying attention?!”

I turned around and saw the annoyed look of the girl.

“S-sorry ma'am.. I was wondering if this is a dream ..”

“I don’t understand what you’re talking about, but please don’t sleep next time! Or you will get a warning, understand?”

I firmly replied, “Yes Ma’am!”

She went to the FTB area where most people are sitting and observing us.

The guy that nudged me earlier talked to me and said, “Dude, what’s wrong with you? You’re acting all weird?”

“No, this is.. this is nothing.”

Still looking confused, he left me alone on my front desk and went to his own.

How did this happen? Why am I here? Where are my family?

I thought that the best thing to do was to wait until everything is going to go back to normal, and so I did what the others were doing. I invited people to come to front desk and join us, and I was able to recruit many!

Then suddenly a guy with weird clothing came into my desk.

“Hello bobba!”

I was shocked with what he said; this must be a troll. But I kept myself calm and cool and handled the troll professionally.

“Hi sir, how can I help you?”

“Shut up!” the troll said. I rolled my eyes internally - he’s a troll, all right. I myself was once a troll too, and now I’m in the place of the victim. I felt guilty for all the idiotic things that I’ve done.

A 2iL approached my desk and talked to the troll, “Sir, please be respectful.”

But he ignored her and kept trolling.

Suddenly, a giant statue moved towards the troll and hit him until he teleported into the lobby. My mouth fell - the eros statue just suddenly erosed a troll, and it looked scary!

“You should not troll around,” the 2iL officer said.

Phew, thank God I quit being a troll, or I might have become one of them.

Days pass by and my experience here at KoH was very magical. Everyone is a member of the family and we have theme day competitions too!

I was laughing with my friend beside me, when suddenly, we heard a troll screaming around the base. We all rolled our eyes and let the HRs handle the situation. I saw eros move but not towards the troll, but towards me! Everyone moved out of the way, except for me: I was too shocked!

The 2iL officer screamed, “Oh no! Im sorry Mar-“

Her words were cut off and I gasped from my sleep.

I was sweating so hard and my heart beat was pounding so fast. What happened?

I realized that I had slept on my study table with the laptop in front of me. I looked at screen of my laptop and saw that my Habbo avatar was being ATTed because it was idling. I looked at the time... 3:47 AM

I only slept for 10 minutes, but it felt like I have been gone for days.

Was that real?

But then, I knew the answer to that.

With a smile in my face I moved my Habbo avatar, faced the officer typed in my Habbo: “Yes ma’am!”

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