Level 12 [Video]

[rocketralph]

_{[For a long minute Ralph is content to let the 'gear take in a shot of the Lake of Rage.]}

Now this is nice! Reminds me of home only less...square. This whole time we've been on the road it hasn't felt like a camping trip, y'know? A camping trip needs a lake and boy have we found one!

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[video]

[exeggutorhead]

You lived in a square forest?

[What the hell kind of forest or lake is square? Some kind of really strictly-kept reservoir?]

...anyway, you should watch out in that forest. Especially for the Bidoofs.

[Envy hopes that the Killer Upside-Down-Face Bidoof went away with the end of the glitches last year, but that doesn't mean he can't scare random people with the story.]

[video]

[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph lifts a brow, angles his gear down at Sonic the Bidoof who's sitting happily at the wrecker's feet trying to shove an entire pinecone into his face.]}

I'm not worried.

[video]

[exeggutorhead]

That one's yours? Then it's nothing you need to worry about.

[He waves that off before saying in a more serious, dramatic voice. He really ought to have a flashlight to shine up his face or something.]

It's the vicious one with the upside down face you need to worry about.

[video]

[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph lifts his OTHER brow. Wow, what?]}

You're pullin' my leg...

[video]

[exeggutorhead]

I wish I was. But last time I was in those woods, that thing chased me and my friend for...I don't know, days. We'd just hear its teeth chattering and see those beady little eyes glinting in the darkness, and then we'd have to run for our lives.

It was pretty fast for something with an upside down face, too.

[video]

[rocketralph]

_{[He's seen Vanellope glitch...a year ago when the network was on the blink. But she'd never turned into some pixelated horror terror like Envy is describing...]}

I'll keep an ear open.

[video]

[exeggutorhead]

Probably a smart idea.

[He makes a face like he's just realized something else.]

Oh. And whenever it appeared, everything around it would go all...blocky and fragmented, like it wasn't real.

[video]

[rocketralph]

_{[Ralph's almost-smirk fades a little. Now that DOES sound familiar.]}

How long ago didja say this was?

[video]

[exeggutorhead]

About a year ago.

[Wow, had it really been that long?]

[video]

[rocketralph]

Huh...the game couldn't still be that buggy, could it?

[video]

[exeggutorhead]

[...?]

What do you mean? What bugs?

[Man Ralph has a Bidoof standing right there. That doesn't look anything like a bug.]

[video]

[rocketralph]

It's--it just means the game is messed up.

_{[He's been picking up more gamespeak from Vanellope. His game never had bugs because Fix-It Felix JR. was a great game.]}

[video]

[exeggutorhead]

Game? Like, the Tetris kind of game?

[Now it's Envy's turn to raise an eyebrow. He's heard people say that this world is like a game from their homes, but that doesn't mean it's a game now.]

[video]

[rocketralph]

Exactly, only with more levels.

_{[Though it had never been part of the arcade, everyone knew of Tetris. It was akin to prehistory children learn in middleschool.]}