A Daytime Nightmare

The Jamaaliday season is probably my favourite time to come online, I get to see all of the new colourful items, and I can excitedly dress my animals with them. I'd always spend so much time logging into different alt accounts in an attempt to see all of the colours new and old items came in, it was a good time waster, and I'd normally get something nice in the end. Occasionally, I'd be pleasantly surprised next Jamaaliday to see a colour I had gotten and spiked in rarity since it had not returned. I'm certainly not a rare trader, but I do enjoy the reassuring feeling that my past planning had paid off and now I'm just a little bit more rare. However, this Jamaaliday was different.

I logged into my account in the morning like usual to claim the item in the calendar, it worked fine for the first week, which made me feel confident in my Jamaaliday plan yet again! This didn't stay the same as time passed... Day 19, the first Monday of my summer break, I was allowed to be left home alone while my Dad had gone to work, I had the house to myself, a perfect day to blast my favourite song and play some Animal Jam. I had woken up late, everyday I had logged in at around them same time, but the 19th was different. When I tapped in my password and claimed the gift I noticed a glitch pretty popular around flash games, the glitch where all of the frames overlay one another. This made my main animal, my sweet Lynx, into a jumbled mess of frames an pixels. This was a bit off putting too me at the time, as I had never seen this display glitch happen on Animal Jam before, however, I let it slide. I had seen it happen with items before, why couldn't the same thing happen with animals?

The server I was on was dead, making my jumbled up Lynx look very lonely. I decided to check my inventory for the new item I got, but sadly, the glitch over took my inventory as well, I frowned and refreshed the page, assuming it would help. When the page reloaded, I was in a busy Jamaa Township, but everyone had the frame glitch going on, and nobody was saying a word. The once lively and talkative Jamaa was a mess of frozen animals and jumbled frames. I decided to just hop to my den, maybe that'll help calm the game down, being in a high energy area was probably hurting my game.

The frame glitch was fixed, and my den looked fine. I smiled to myself and to my animal. I had been playing this game for so long I almost felt bad for my little animal avatar, crazy, I know! I walked him into the den, and sat him down on one of the sofas I had placed. "You deserve a little break," I said to my screen and opened my inventory. The item was safe in my inventory and I was happy to have it, I tried it on my animal, then took it off to replace it with his normal attire. Strange.. When I closed out of my inventory something was off, my animal looked slightly darker than usual, and when I stood him back up the frame glitch started happening again. At this point, being tired and home alone, I audibly groan. The visual bug was just so ugly to me, I didn't wanna play if Animal Jam would just bug out like this! I hovered over the log out button when I was stopped but something very strange, the game, it was typing on it's own....

I was stopped in my tracked by this, frozen in fear as my hand was still hovering over the log out button. "hey! dont go," my animal typed. I could hear my heart beating from inside my ears, this isn't