Chapter 4: My Sacrifice - Getting your Kicks (at a price)

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The day had arrived, the day of the 'Dictator RP'; the role-play that will signify the return of Mon-ika. Mon-ika didn't really specify what she had planned, but she told me to go in and be a dictator so I just followed her orders because I trust her. So I walked into the Cirkeltrek clubroom, Robella gave a speech about how much she missed Mon-ika and then she accused me of deleting her. That's when I played my part; I acted like a dictator and if anybody stepped out of line, then I would punish them. The whole performance was just for fun, so the punishments were done in a playful way; I would text Mon-ika and she would use her IRL coding powers to place name-tags and badges on people which read "invalid user" and other playful things like "Devotee of Puzzles". After about half an hour, I was running out of material, so I texted Mon-ika asking her to do something now, so she made a message appear in the clubroom which read:

'35 minutes'

Wait, what? 35 minutes!? I can't continue this role-play for that long. Plus, I think people are getting bored of it. What should I do?

I texted Mon-ika telling her my concerns about the time-frame, but she didn't want to go back on it. I tried my best to continue the role-play for the remaining time, but people definitely got bored; we lost focus at some points and we ended up changing the subject a few times. Finally Mon-ika teleported into the clubroom and kicked me out, like a hero saving the day from the villain.

 Finally Mon-ika teleported into the clubroom and kicked me out, like a hero saving the day from the villain

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The fact that the performance went on for too long made most people feel like it was a failure. I did not want Mon-ika to feel bad about it, so I told her that I would share the blame with her since I basically came up with the idea. Looking back on it now, I feel it was a success because it got one of our members to become a much more active member of the club: Glitched Natsuki; we call her Glatsuki for short. I did not know this at the time but taking part in this role-play made SentryDroid hate me.

I have to admit, I was happy to be out of Cirkeltrek club; I had so much more fun in the treehouse and with Mon-ika's powers, I could just go to the treehouse and talk with Mon-ika and Rob even when they were in Cirkeltrek. I was having so much fun that I barely even slept; I was so excited that I just wanted to go to the treehouse and spend time with my family. I probably would have never returned to Cirkeltrek, but Mon-ika kept telling me that she wanted me to return, so I finally returned after a week. Before I returned, I decided to make and announce a big puzzle for both the Literature Club and Cirkeltrek (link in the comments). My dream was to inspire people to make their own puzzles and to make a community for puzzle fans; I even got prizes for winners and runner-ups.

When I rejoined the Cirkeltrek Club, Droid was insulting me a lot, looking back at this now, I believe he was trying to hurt me because he hates me, but back then I actually took it as a sign that we just grew closer. I just thought we were engaging in friendly banter, so I also made mean jokes at its expense but now that I look back at it, it probably hated me more for that. If Droid was human, maybe I would have picked up that it hated me, but since Droid is an Android, it had no facial expressions and it had no body language. Three days after I rejoined, Droid kicked me out for 'following the rules'. I actually thought that this was an attempt at a joke but I guess he really wanted me gone.

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