ellernate had been stuck in the banlands for days. he’d gotten banned by some random admin after being caught at his newest hacking ruse. it originally wasn’t much more than a small prank, just messing with a few peoples’ avatars, namely telamon’s & builderman’s. he’d only planned to maybe tweak what items they were wearing & maybe some other menial stuff of the sort, like flying in some certain games & servers; but no. one of his best friends, itrapped, had been invited to this event as well. ellernate had called it “may madness 2012”, which itrapped had said was unsuitable for an event such as menial as this. therefore, itrapped, being his usual self, turned what was supposed to be a small hacking session into a full-blown crime spree upon the games of robloxia. & ellernate? well, he’d loved it. he had loved it while it had lasted, because of quite a few reasons in particular;

1. it had been fun.
2. it was wonderful watching the admins panic amidst all of the chaos.
3. he’d gotten closer to itrapped during that time.

of course, ellernate had gotten closer to all of his friends during that time, over shared hacking scripts & late night coding sessions spent composing brand-new hacks over call in their respective college dorms. however, ellernate had grown particularly close with itrapped over that time, spending countless hours & nights cooped up in his dorm room with the latter, sharing energy drinks under poor lighting & with itrapped even ending up crashing on ellernate’s bed when he was too tired to walk the two flights of stairs back to his own dormitory. but now, after the climax of their whole hacking scheme had been busted by those pesky admins, ellernate had been unfortunately sent to the banlands due to an admin’s banhammer striking his arm whilst he was trying to drag itrapped out of the area, & therefore, he’d been banished to the banlands ever since. itrapped hadn’t seemed to have gotten banished alongside ellernate, so he could only hope that itrapped had gotten out of the area safely. life in the banlands was boring as hell, ellernate soon realised. with no itrapped to chat to, nothing to code nor hack, he spent all of his time wandering around the foggy banlands aimlessly or just sitting down, contemplating his life choices that had gotten him up to this point. he was doing that right now, actually. ellernate was sat down on the damp ground, his back against a wall with no other structures to connect to as he rested his head on the back of his palm, mindlessly drawing some people into the ground with his finger.