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Ask me your own HypQuest! And once I answer, you can ask me a follow-up question based on the answer! And when I answer that, you can ask me another follow-up! And when I answer that... you probably get the idea.

Here are a few of my own for you to answer:

1. What would you do if your mom left you at home for a meeting with the neighbors across the street saying she'd be back in about half an hour and that you could eat anything you liked excepting the off-limits stuff and handed you a list of rules for you and your sibling, and about forty-five minutes later, she called you to say, "Hi, (your name here), I somehow got lost in the woods, and I don't have cell service so I can't call someone to help! Will you let someone know? Thanks honey."?

I would say, "Uh... if you don't have cell service, how can you call me?"

2. What would you do if you woke up wearing your pajamas in one of the Admins' house leaning on their computer table with the computer open to the page where the Admins read and approve our comments?

I'd hide until the Admin left so once they did, I could leave. If he or she caught me, I'd say, "I really don't know how I got here, and I swear I'm not here so I can use your computer to slip through stuff you won't let me post! Just let me go and I'll probably never see you again!"

3. What would you do if I called you and said, "Something urgent has happened that calls for a drastic in-person meeting of the Cricket Chatterboxers! Hurry to my house! My address is **** ****** *****, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and my zip code is *****!"?

I'd say, "Hi, me! I'm already at our house, so you've no need to worry. And how are you talking to yourself? Are you a clone?"

4. What would you do if a vampire was hanging around on your porch waiting for you to come outside?

Figure out what he wanted from a safe distance. If he says he intends to bite me and drink my blood, stay away and call the police. If he says he wants to help me somehow, stay away and still call the police to be safe.

submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, age 14, Your HypQuest Vortex
(July 17, 2013 - 5:54 pm)

back to the Blab about Books

1. There isn't any off limit food in the house... (Well, there's a bottle of vodka in the pantry, but really) and I doubt my sister would obey (she doesn't live with me anymore) any rules... I'd say "What? Mom, are you okay?" Actually, I'd be suspicious if my mom gave me a list of rules... I'd suspect that she was going to run away from my dad. But she says that if she ever needed to get away from my dad she'd take me too. (Don't worry, my parents don't have marriage problems, they just fight a lot.)

2. Freak out. I'm at a weird person's house with a creepy smiley-faced computer in front of me! (Say what you like, I find that smiley creepy!) Run. Hide. Say something like, "Do I know anyone in Chicago? No, I don't know anyone in Chicago. Chicago is in Illinois. Do I know anyone in Illinois? No, I don't know anyone in Illinois. I'm running back to California!" This would take about three seconds to say. And then I would run off somewhere. My pajamas I'm wearing are warm, so I'm not too worried... Chicago's cold. I'd probably freeze to death. Of course, if the Admin found me in the room, I'd probably attack the Admin (sorry. I do strange things when I'm scared.) and you might have to literally tranquilize me to calm me down. Yeah.

3. I wouldn't answer the phone. Unless you said you were Joe the Stickfiddler. Then I'd probably say, "It's a trap!" (I should really change my name to Admiral Ackbar. I say that about 10-20 times a day, depending on how much Naruto I watch.) But I might pick up the phone and say something like, "Joe, how the heck did you find my phone number and how do you know who I am? That being said, do you know Red's phone number?" Allright, what's your response to that, oh master of HypQuests?

4. A vampire hanging outside my house waiting for me is probably one of my friends.

Question for you all: What would happen if you found yourself in a giant sugarbowl with a bunch of other people and every day one of you was taken out by a giant and they were never seen again?

 

It's not cold in Chicago right now!

Admin

submitted by Ruby M., age 14, Somewhere
(July 17, 2013 - 10:31 pm)

Yes, of course it's not cold in the summer! I should know. I've been there.

It gets cold in the fall and winter, but in the summer it's SIZZLING HOT! According to the Internet, today it's 91 degrees down there. Tomorrow it will be 77, partly cloudy with a 10% chance of rain.

And in reply to that question, I would freak out and try to find an escape. Thankfully, I would locate a hole in the bottom of the sugar bowl that was covered with tape, so I'd burrow down into the sugar and open the hole so I could get out along with the sugar and the other occupants.

submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, age 14, Chicago Vortex
(July 18, 2013 - 8:04 am)

1. What would you do if your mom left you at home for a meeting with the neighbors across the street saying she'd be back in about half an hour and that you could eat anything you liked excepting the off-limits stuff and handed you a list of rules for you and your sibling, and about forty-five minutes later, she called you to say, "Hi, (your name here), I somehow got lost in the woods, and I don't have cell service so I can't call someone to help! Will you let someone know? Thanks honey."?

I'd tell her that if she was trying to prank me, she was doing a really bad job; obviously, she the cell service if she was calling me.

2. What would you do if you woke up wearing your pajamas in one of the Admins' house leaning on their computer table with the computer open to the page where the Admins read and approve our comments?

I'd be tempted to talk to the admin, because it would be really cool to get to actually meet one, but I would feel that the fact that I happened to wake up in the house of someone I sort of knew was a really big coincidence, and I wouldn't be sure en would believe that it really was a coincidence, so I probably wouldn't want to let en know I was a ChatterBoxer. For that matter, it would be best if en didn't see me at all, because en would have no reason to believe me if I said I'd just happened to wake up here. Also, there are not many reasons I would wake up in someone else's home far away, and if that happened, I'd think there'd be a very good chance of that person having kidnapped me. I'd try and see if en was between me and a door out of the house. If not, I'd hide until en wasn't. When en wasn't, I'd run to the door, leave, run away, and realize that I would have to find out what city I was in (I'm not sure if all the admins live in Chicago), get to a phone (you didn't mention waking up with one, and I'm not in the habit of keeping one in my pajama pockets, when I'm even wearing pajamas with pockets), call my mom, tell her where I was, say that I had no memory of getting here and had probably been kidnapped in a possibly drug-induced sleep (because I'm not that heavy a sleeper, so it would be odd that I'd apparently slept through getting to another state if I hadn't been drugged) and arrange a place to meet her (because you also didn't mention waking up with having enough money to buy a plane ticket to Texas). Finding out where I was should be easy; I could just look at the names of stores. After I did that, I guess I'd have to go up to people saying, "Excuse me; I'm sorry to bother you, but I really need to use a phone right now, and my mom and I forgot to bring ours. Could I please borrow yours?" until it worked. (If I asked enough people, and it didn't, I suppose I'd have to make up a compelling reason for using a phone). My mom wouldn't be there, of course, but I wouldn't want to get kidnapped again, so if anyone asked, she was in the restroom. Also, I would be sure to ask in a public place like a store or better yet a library, so that if anyone did try to re-kidnap me, and en didn't gag me before I got the chance to scream, people would hear me. And the first people I'd ask for the phone would be the cashiers/librarians/whoever was in charge.
If the admin caught me before any of that had the chance to happen, I'd say something like, "I know this is your house, and I have no right to be here. The thing is, I do not remember coming here at all, nor can I think of any reason why I'd want to. I get that if you didn't kidnap me in my sleep, you have no reason to believe me, and if you did, you're not going to let me go because I asked nicely--so if you don't know why I'm here, either, it must look like I came here to rob you or something and am just making excuses--and I'm really sorry--but I just want to go home to my parents. Please, you can see I don't have anything."--provided I was calm enough. I'd actually probably be panicking.

3. What would you do if I called you and said, "Something urgent has happened that calls for a drastic in-person meeting of the Cricket Chatterboxers! Hurry to my house! My address is **** ****** *****, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and my zip code is *****!"?

I'd say something like, "Look, I'd love to meet another Chatterboxer, although I'm someone unnerved that you found my phone number somehow--but you can't actually expect me to go to Pennsylvania now? My parents would never let me. What's the urgent thing, anyway?" I'd also plan to ask how you got my phone number, but I'd want to know what was so urgent first.

4. What would you do if a vampire was hanging around on your porch waiting for you to come outside?

I'd ask my mom why there was someone in a vampire costume standing in our backyard (as we don't have a front porch).
So... this isn't really a follow-up HypQuest to number 4, because I don't feel like I can ask one without knowing this, which is why I'm asking it: What exactly would you tell the police? That there was a vampire on your porch?
submitted by Ima, age 15, Texas
(July 17, 2013 - 11:27 pm)

...Oops. I didn't realize my answers would be quite so long. Sorry, admin.

submitted by Ima
(July 18, 2013 - 3:40 pm)

Follow-up answers to:

3. I'd say, "Then just set up your webcam and do a video chat with us over Gmail! My email adress is ******.********@*****.com! And hurry! The meeting is tomorrow at 7:30! By the way, my real name is J***** S*******!" Then what would you do, Ima?

4. I wouldn't call the police to begin with because I don't think they would believe me. But if they came because someone else called them, I'd tell them, "This suspicious character is either a vampire or someone dressed up like one. I didn't invite him, which is why he can't come inside, since if he's pretending to be a vampire, he's sticking to the idea that vampires can't enter people's houses without permission so as not to blow his cover, or he's really a vampire and has to deal with that disadvantage because it's real. Either way, something needs to be done about him."

submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, age 14, Responding Vortex
(July 19, 2013 - 9:26 am)

I'd agree and then ask what the urgent thing was and how on earth you found my phone number. 

I'd like to point out that your own answer to the vampire question was "Figure out what he wanted from a safe distance. If he says he intends to bite me and drink my blood, stay away and call the police. If he says he wants to help me somehow, stay away and still call the police to be safe." (I added the emphasis, of course).

You changed your mind, I guess? 

submitted by Ima
(July 21, 2013 - 3:39 am)

Oh yeah. I forgot about my answer. Well, I would call the police then, but instead of mentioning anything about a vampire, I'd just say there was a suspicious dude on my porch.

submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, age 14, Police Vortex
(July 22, 2013 - 8:38 am)

Re: The sugar bowl: I'd plan an escape with the other people in the sugar bowl. What would you do?

Oh, and Joe, I forgot to ask you how you'd respond to my response to the HypQuest where you called me. 

submitted by Ima, age 15, Texas
(July 17, 2013 - 11:58 pm)

1)

I would probably wonder how my mom was calling me if she didn't have cell service and call 911.

2)

I would close my eyes and hope I was sleeping.

3)

I would wonder how I was going to get to Philadephia fast enough.

4)

I would use that back porch. If there was another vampire, I would go out a window or the garage. 

submitted by Theo W.
(July 19, 2013 - 7:42 am)

1) Hang up becuz it was obvs. prank caller + if my mom was lost in woods she wouldn't call me but someone else. I woudln't be of much help.

2) I would explain situation to Admin. If Admin didn't believe me I would say, "Just look @ JS's latest HypQuest post! They must be related somehow."

3) I would say, "Gee, I sure am glad I'm already at  **** ****** *****, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania!

4) Uhhh......Think I was hallucinating?

5) Live on sugar. I would want to make the most of my life while I was trapped, right? Although, maybe being crabby and etc. all the time wouldn't be "making the most of my life".... 

Also, Ruby, it is only cold in Chicago in winter. Though, in winter, it is much colder than some other places are in winter. Joe, you only went in summer when you were 5!! That hardly counts. 

submitted by Daffodil, age The same , place where JS lives
(July 19, 2013 - 4:04 pm)

I know that Chicago isn't cold in the summer, but I'm thinking it would take a very long time to get back to California... I'd end up so lost!

Joe, what would you do if I told you what I did on Question 3?

The Sugarbowl thing: Well, I never said there was any sugar in it... You'd probably get ants! Here's what I would do:

1. Laugh manically. I am the master of the Sugarbowl! 

2. Wonder how I got in the thing in the first place. I must have been betrayed. Figure out who betrayed me and plan a good revenge for them.

3. See if anyone has any soda. Drink the soda. Use the resulting sugar rush to escape. I get insane sugar rushes from soda. I mean, insane. 

submitted by Ruby M., age 14, Somewhere
(July 19, 2013 - 10:21 pm)

1. That's probably one of the weirdest things I've ever heard my mom say. Get my dad and ask him what to do. Well, my dad's terrible in a crisis. My mom is the one who would march out there and rescue the person in trouble, but seeing as she's the one in trouble, that wouldn't exactly work. I guess would ask which wood and then go off to rescue her, humming "Into the Woods" the whole time.

2. Well, that's not awkward. Raid the Admin's fridge, obviously. I'm kidding. I would actually say "Well, this isn't awkward." And then wonder where the heck I was. If an Admin found me, I would say, "Hi, I'm really sorry, but I've just woken up here and I have no idea what I'm doing here. If you're trying to kidnap me, (this section would make no sense to you (I think) if I wrote it so I'm leaving it out), so there is simply no point. The Admin, at this point, would probably stare at me as if I was a lunatic, and then would say something like, "I just went out to buy a jug of milk. Who are you, random kid?" and then I'd introduce myself and then... I have no idea. Admins, do you work from home or at an office?

3. "Mom, can I have a plane ticket to Philadelphia?" Hey, wait a minute! "Something", you say? What is this something? Are you plotting with the chicken dinner to take revenge on all meat-eaters? 

4. Half of my friends are all vampires. I'm really not too worried if they know where I live.

Sugarbowl question: What? Again? I'm too young to die for the third time!!

Okay, question for all you guys! What would happen if you woke up in the last video game you have played? (Never played a video game? Imagine if you woke up in a land filled with Pokemon (hopefully, you should know what a Pokemon is) and you were told to go on a journey to train with Pokemon and get stronger?

The last game I played was Chrono Trigger. So... Go nuts! Steal the Epoch (*ahem* I mean borrow), the game's time traveling ship, and travel in time! I'd seee the future if Lavos (the *evil* final boss) hadn't wrecked it! I'd meet Cyrus, go through Ozzie's Keep, attend the Millenial fair, meet all of the game's characters. I'd also try to *ahem* borrow someone's giant scythe. Come on, I have at least five in my inventory! I could take one of the lesser ones! I'd really want to see how Crono and Marle turned out. I want to see Lucca's inventions and meet Kid. I really want to meet Schala, because she seems so nice. There's so many things to do in that game.  

 

I work from my home office. One Admin works from the publishing office. And one works from both places. I would welcome any Chatterboxer who woke up under my desk. I'm not scary at all. You're welcome to raid the frig. Tonight you'd find yogurt (peach, strawberry, or cherry), red grapes, spaghetti with homemade meat sauce, milk, and various juices. 

Admin

submitted by Red, age 14, Elsewhere
(July 21, 2013 - 9:28 pm)

What would you do if you woke up one morning and the entire population of the earth consisted of only two people: you and a crazy cat lady?

I would eventually die. But before I did so, I would teach the crazy cat lady's cats how to talk and be civiized and smart like people, then, once the two of us died, a new age would dawn in which the world was dominated by cats.

submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, age 14, Population Vortex
(July 23, 2013 - 2:42 pm)

...I think if cats were capable of all that, someone would have found out by now. I'm also not sure why you'd want the world to be dominated by cats... but oh, well.

Anyway, I'd cry a lot, and then I'd realize that not only would I have lost everyone I knew, there wouldn't be anyone to make food, and I'd cry some more. I'd get some cookbooks and in the meantime learn how to find food in the wild for when all the perishable food rotted. I'd also ask the crazy cat lady to teach me how to drive. Other than that, I guess my life would be more or less the same (except, of course, everyone I knew would be dead).

submitted by Ima, age 15, Texas
(July 24, 2013 - 1:35 pm)

The rest of the world's population wouldn't be dead. They would have been abducted by aliens overnight.

submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, age 14, Alien Vortex
(July 24, 2013 - 8:13 pm)
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