PUBLIC CHANNEL [D171, around 20:15]

[spaghettimonster]

Attention everyone! This is your Papyrus speaking. I have discovered... a library! By which I mean, I asked if there were books, and somebody led me here. Some of you, I'm sure, are saying to yourselves... "What's the point of this announcement? I don't read? Why are you telling us this, besides letting us hear your voice...?"

Well! That's really quite simple. Some of us don't sleep... at all?? Which makes the whole curfew thing kind of a nightmare. The not-dreaming, bored kind.

Thusly: I've decided to entertain myself, and all of you (who choose to tune in), with audiobooks! The kind where you can't fast forward, because it's just me, live, reading a book. But you can suggest books! I am open to whatever.

So catch me tonight! At curfew! On my channel! 172.79787!

Somniacs, disregard this whole message. The rest of you, I'm now taking questions and suggestions.

Comments

[wild_magic]

Then you should look for ones with adventures. You know, fighting and monsters and stuff.

[spaghettimonster]

Yeah! I'll look! And if I don't find any books... I could do my best to tell some story from memory.

[wild_magic]

That would be cool!

[spaghettimonster]

Cool, and also, an energetic, exciting contrast against the doldrums of sitting in one room all night. Good idea!

[Some responsible adults might say, "hey, aren't you a child that sleeps at night?" Papyrus is not one of those adults.

Partly because he doesn't know who does and doesn't need to sleep.]

[wild_magic]

Yeah! 'Cause, otherwise just having to stay in your room is boring... I don't even have a room at home. Just the whole forest.

[spaghettimonster]

Huh?! No room? But where do you keep your things, your stuff, your accumulated belongings... without walls clearly demarking their ownership?

[wild_magic]

Well, it's just me and Lauren, so, it's not that big a deal. And we don't have a lot, anyway.

[spaghettimonster]

Just you and... Wow! Two brothers, united against the world. Not even pranking each other with frogs in beds, or anything...

[wild_magic]

A frog in a bed isn't a very good prank! Especially when you live in the forest. Then there's just frogs in your bed sometimes 'cause they got lost.

[spaghettimonster]

It's a classic, it doesn't have to be good. Some of the classicest classics are terrible... And traditional. But! It sounds like nature has it covered! You're free to try new and better pranks as you like.

[wild_magic]

...Maybe if I turn into a frog and hide in his bed.

[spaghettimonster]

Oh my god! A fresh twist on a classic. I love it!

[wild_magic]

D'you think that would be a good prank? It'd suck if he just squished me though... I guess I'd probably turn back when that happened though.

[spaghettimonster]

That would spoil the prank... hmmm. Maybe the solution, in this case, is to put the cart before the horse. The bed before the frog! If you hide in a squishless zone, near his bed, you can jump on him! As long as he has the chance to see the trap, and still trigger it... he'll have the chance to regret falling for it!

[wild_magic]

I'm not sure it works like that.

[spaghettimonster]

Oh, well. I'll be honest, I've never hid a frog in a bed! Or turned into a frog. Maybe someone else knows how it works.

[wild_magic]

[Susan laughs at that.]

Maybe! Maybe I'll just... Not do it though. I'm not even in his room now, anyway. It's kind of weird.

[spaghettimonster]

These random room assignments... they really do mess ith prank plans. Save it for later! When we... get back.

[They will get back eventually, after all. No matter how full their days feel, and how many are scheduled yet, seeming to go on forever... Rather than dwell on that, Papyrus keeps browsing the shelves.]

'The Once and Future King'... hmm.