A young drake waits in their SLEEPCUBICLE. Though they were born some 12,000 aquatic cycles ago (1,000 aquatic cycles equals approximately one earth year) today is the day that they will be evaluated by the COUNCIL OF THE ELDER MALLARDS. Only the COUNCIL OF THE ELDER MALLARDS can judge whether this young drake should be accepted to join THE FLOCK or else be cast out into the DRY WASTES beyond the HOLY POND and a new fresh young drake should be brought in as REPLACEMENT. (They might even deign to give our young drake protagonist a NAME.)

In this section of the story you the reader play the role of the COUNCIL OF THE ELDER MALLARDS. So tell me esteemed COUNCILLORS, should we SWAP this DUCK?

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One COUNCIL MEMBER summons into existence a REALITY WARPING PRESENCE. The RWP is promptly escorting from the HOLY POND for CRIMES against EASE OF DRAWING and thus once again it falls to the COUNCIL OF ELDER MALLARDS to pluck a duck from the AETHER that is imagination.
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(03-29-2018, 05:10 PM)Dragon Fogel Wrote: »Can we just use that doodle on the wall, that looks way easier to draw.

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ALMOST TWO THOUSAND AQUATIC CYCLES LATER

THE GROBBLER, once just a FAIRY TAIL to SCARE YOUNG DUCKS into completing their FLOCK RESPONSIBILITIES, has become too dreadfully real. Since its PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION it has GROBBLED hundreds of ducks of all ages. Even the COUNCIL OF ELDER MALLARDS were unable to stand before this NIGHTMARE MADE FLESH. In DESPERATION the survivors PLEDGE GOOD BEHAVIOUR in an attempt to be spared their DREADFUL FATE.



A young duck awakes in her WRETCHED BOLTHOLE. Her name is PRINCESS ANNICH of the UTOPIAN ISLES. Once she had been the PUREST, SWEETEST, most WELL-BEHAVED young DUCK you could ever hope to meet. That was before her friends were GROBBLED one by one. Sensing that she had to DO SOMETHING she ran away from home, her goal to STOP THE GROBBLER once and for all.

Since then, lacking any CLEAR IDEA on how to proceed with her STATED GOAL, she has mostly hid in this UNPLEASANT SLEEPERCORP INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISPOSAL UNIT and PLAYED VIDEO GAMES. But today is the day that she FINALLY PULLS HER WING OUT and gets on with BANISHING THE GROBBLER once and for all.

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(02-15-2020, 07:56 AM)Dragon Fogel Wrote: »First figure out what the heck grobbling even is. You need to know what you're up against.

(02-15-2020, 07:48 AM)a52 Wrote: »stick your ass up on the air and do a funny dance. like you're searching for worms at the bottom of a trash bin pond

(02-15-2020, 07:56 AM)Dragon Fogel Wrote: »First figure out what the heck grobbling even is. You need to know what you're up against.

• If anyone is an expert on THE GROBBLER it is ADMIN RAZORDOWN. You could try to message her and find out if she has any useful information for you.
  
• Firsthand interactions with THE GROBBLED may give you some insight into the process of GROBBLING. You could try to find LOCAL INFECTED or if you don't mind a little travel perhaps visiting one of your GROBBLED FRIENDS would be less suspicious.
  
• You dimly recall the ROYAL STORYTELLER reading you THE FAIRY TAIL OF THE GROBBLER when you were a HATCHLING. Further research into the FAIRY TAIL may reveal more information. You know for a fact that the books containing the FAIRY TAIL have become something of a RARITY recently, though you would bet that THE UTOPIAN ISLES PALACE (your FORMER HOME) still has a copy. Going home would be RISKY though and perhaps it would be easier to try local libraries and bookshops and hope you get LUCKY.