Diary of a Phantom

One of the first stories I created, and one of my personal favorites. Enjoy!

Day 1: Just created. Now waiting in a large room to be assigned. I hope I don't get Attacker, they usually die. Don't know what happens to the thousands of Attackers that die each day, but lucky we can make more. We all milling about. I think I only one here who can read an write.

Day 2: Good news, I a gatherer! They not usually die too much. I gather the slime from the rivers an lakes of our Kingdom to make into more phantoms an machine stuff. Better job than Attacker, you get to run from Jammers. Those jammers are scary. I no like them.

Day 3: First day on job. Lucky I have river close to me. Some how the pipes keeping river slimy keep getting plugged an I have to call over more phantoms to pull out the corks. After that I got a bunch of slime from river an brought it to the guards. They took it into Tower 184. Wonder what happen to it. I went to get more. Day end.

Day 5: Did not write yesterday. One of my arm fell into bucket, needed repair. Today I saw jammers! It was a tiny little thing with flippers an a big stompy thing. They held some scary looking seeds. One of them saw me an threw one at me. I ran before big boom happened. I ran very fast away from them. Jammers real scary.

Day 20: Lost this thing in the river. Today I pulled it out with bucket. I was very joy. Nothing much happened but still fun to write.

Day 21: I am assignment changing! They said they need more phantoms in the King Factory. I am happy. It sounds fun. Don't know what they do exactly but it maybe related to the Kings? Maybe I don't know but I hope its fun.

Day 22: OK so King factory makes new Kings. It is a new thing but since our kings keep dying we need new ones. So far we have about 2 in storage but we need at least a hundred. I am making the tentacles with many other phantoms helping out. I know someone replicates the soul an transfers it to each new one but I have no idea how to since only experienced engineer phantoms get to do that. Someone else makes the body an someone else gives it weight. New job is fun though, I today made 4 tentacles with my cow workers.

Day 23: Equipment malfunction. Somehow the conveyor got jammed an we had to stop work till mechanic came an fixed it. Also today the finished Kings are being taken to a more guarded storage room.

Day 24: Now all our parts are being taken an we were told to evacuate Tower 184 an go to Tower 174. Do not know why. Now resuming work here in this new place.

Day 25: Today a message appeared at the door. The reason we left 184 was because about an hour after we left a big group of cat Jammers came an destroyed the place. They were disappointed nobody was there but a bunch of Gatherers came an took the ruins an transported them to a place where we can recycle them. Do not know why people think we are bad for environment. We love recycling an making the environment more suitable for life.

Day 26: Normal day, made many tentacles for the new Kings. They said they made a big progress with the soul of the Kings but I have no idea what it is. Maybe they will stop dying so I can do something else because I don't like this one phantom in my group. They keep stealing my arms so I can barely do anything.

Day 27: Made more tentacles. Some reason our stuff kept getting blown up. Then I saw a little Jammer bird hiding in the corner holding more blow seeds! I alerts the rest of my cow workers an someone zapped the Jammer. It looked kinda scared but it also blew our stuff so whatever I don't care now I can make more stuff. The jammer didn't disappear so they bought it to dungeon. Cool.

Day 28: I being promoted! They thought I did good work on tentacles despite my cow workers so I am now an Engineer Assistant which means I am on the path to replicating souls an other cool stuff like that! I so happy!

Day 29: Long one today. So assistants get to move to a new building, Tower 48. Big upgrade since tinier the number the more prestige it is whatever prestige means. So there I get an experienced engineer to teach me stuff about engineering. At first new ones had to go out into the field an run stuff but they kept getting blown up so now its a job where you stay in the kingdom. I go fetch stuff for him an do some simple engineering work. Me an my mentor are working on building a pipe. It is a really simple job but you have to start somewhere. So how you make one is you condense slime in machines into metal and then you shape it into the pipe parts, then you put them together and add the core that is made of super metal with tons of slime packed into a tiny area, then something in the pipe makes it back to normal slime that runs into the rivers to make them sludgy enough to gather from. Plus also Jammers cant cross sludge so it servers as a boundary as well. I dropped the core on accident so they have to clean it, an also jammed the pipe we were working on because I dropped the bolt inside it. I hope I keep my job.

Day 30: Finished our pipe. Starting a new one. We tested the first one an it worked real well! I so happy! But also for some reason some phantoms came around and started reinforcing the gate and I heard they are now making rivers around every tower. Do not know why.

Day 31: Normal day. Nothing much happened, although I am making big progress in understanding pipes and I am now moving on to understanding sprouters. Really fun, but more phantoms have come and are reinforcing the outside boundaries. I have no idea why but I am starting to feel a bit scared.

<span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;">Day 32: Normal day. More reinforcements. I wish I knew why they were putting all this stuff around the tower.

<span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;">Day  <strike style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;">33 34 35 36 37 38 39 <span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;"> 40: Really boring, but some of the phantoms are now leaving the tower and are going in the direction of Fort Tower #4. I am scared right now.

<span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;">Day 41: Oh no no no no no. Today I was working on a sprouter with my mentor and all of a sudden a bunch of out of breath engineers and mechanics came rushing past. They entered and told us that a really really really large group of jammers with all 6 of the Alphas and Mira are coming and decimating our kingdom. We were all hustled out and are heading for the Fort Towers. We ran really fast. I swear I could see a misty thing on the horizon and hear the shouts of invaders.

<span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;">Day 42: Arrived at Fort Tower #4. Tired, out of breath. Thousands of phantoms in each tower, one has millions. Everyone in each tower is making defenses against the Jammers. We put a ton of pipes around the moat, some phantoms are making the walls thicker, a ton of lookouts are being created, tons of sprouters everywhere. No Jammers in this one as prisoners since this is the engineer/mechanic tower so I hope that they just ignore us. Really scared right now. I hope I don't end up dying.

<span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;">Day 43: Every day I hear the Jammers getting closer. All the phantoms are really scared right now. Some of the top engineers, 4 Kings, some basic machinery and tons of unassigned phantoms are leaving via underground tunnels. We have finished the defenses and most of us are hiding in the main room in the center. Have you ever been hiding in a dark room, filled with fearful people, knowing that you will probably die and you can't do a whole lot to stop it? It is really really scary.

<span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;">Day 44: I can just about see the Alpha's staffs. A bunch of the jammers look to be carrying torches, corks, and boomseeds. Oh no, I think our defenses will be useless. I might see Mira somewhere in there. I really hope we do not end up dying. I wonder if personality is a trait I supposed to have. Am I supposed to be able to write at this age? Maybe if I not I can survive this. I cling to this as I see them approaching, closer every day...

<span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;">Day 45: Oh no no no no no no no no. The jammers are here. A bunch of us are being sent out to try to zap the jammers, we caught a few but so many of us are dying that it is really not worth it at all. I trying to blend in with the few good engineers left as they won't be sent out. Is that..? Oh no no that is Mira. And the Alphas. They are coming up the stairs. They are here. They are coming through this room and- will they notice us? Oh, they have...- killing all of us. I see so much smoke and smog it is not even funny. All around me my friends and cow workers are dying. This is the end... Wait. Is that a crack in the wall? Let's see if I can.. Oh yes, I can slip out. Maybe I can escape, I have a chance, a chance, a chance...

<span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;">Day 49: I have not written, I have been so still nobody can find me. Jammers are celebrating all around me as I hide in the mud at the edge of a now water filled river. All the phantoms but those who escaped with the Kings have died, our towers demolished, our land cleared, our society dead. I am waiting for a good opportunity to run. I know the Kings went in the direction of the Storage Tower #47, but I don't know where that is now..east? Yeah that sounds right. Must leave now... Night out. This will be perfect.

<span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;">Day 54: I have been running for the past several days, stopping to hide in mud whenever day comes. I get the sense that more phantoms are nearby... Following my sense, I hope I find them...

<span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;">Day 55: I see phantoms! But wait... I don't think those are phantoms. A bunch of jammers are throwing blow seeds at them, they aren't even moving... I think this is a training ground for jammers to practice attacking us. NO NO NO one of them sees me. Run... a blow seed, run away, run away...

<span style="color:rgb(196,196,196);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px;font-weight:normal;">Day ??: I have no idea how long I was unconscious. But when I woke up I saw a ton of phantom things on clean black purple pillars. I thought I was back home, I tried moving but I hit a wall. I quickly realized I was in a glass cage. I looked around and saw a lot of jammers looked at me, pointing and talking. A guide looking jammer said, "It appears the phantom woke up! When the Invasion happened, this one escaped somehow, but a rabbit from the Training Grounds threw a boomseed at it! Usually they die, but this one just fell unconscious. We decided to bring it back to put in the Museum of Phantoms!" The crowd cheered. I now knew that no matter what, I would be stuck here forever. Please help me, let me escape, give me freedom. I am no harm to you, I just want to be free.