No Candy for You

Note: The first part of the story is completely true. The second part is all made up.

Part 1: No Candy for You
I logged in to Animal Jam one day, and I decided to play Bitter Sweets. Now Bitter Sweets almost never worked for me, as it was too laggy to play.

The first time I entered today was with my red and orange pet peacock named Megaton. The game didn't load correctly, and the map only half loaded the swamp. Only half of the stepping stones loaded, and you could walk on the water. There were no trees on one side, and you could see the square edges of the purple ground of the graveyard. I snapped a few pictures and reloaded the page.



The glitches that I saw here were only the beginning.

The second time I entered the adventure today was a bit different. I entered with my dark and light green pet platypus. This time it wasn't the map that was glitched.

As I progressed in the adventure, the lag got worse and worse. I started out being able to collect points from the candy, but as the lag worsened, I couldn't get points. Suddenly I saw a text bubble pop up in the corner of the screen. "COME HERE AND GET 75 FREE CANDY!" The bubble said. The lag was at a crawl, but I made the long journey to the pumpkin patch where the pet saying this was. When I finally arrived, There was already four pets there, but only three were on the stepping stumps. I stepped on one, but it didn't work. I looked at the screen in dismay. The lantern on the stump wouldn't rise. Then another pet stepped up to the stump and it worked. "How is that fair?!" I yelled at the computer. The chest then popped up, and I clicked the paw symbol repeatedly until it disappeared. I didn't get a popup. I put up the crying emoji... then something happened. It went back in time?! The chest popped out of the Jack o' lantern, but the paw only appeared for a second, and the chest just sat there, untouchable. The other players were now putting up smiling emojis and I just put up another crying emoji. Suddenly the loading symbol appeared on the screen and I got 75 candies! Could the lag turning around? No, it didn't. The score didn't increase. I tried exiting the adventure, but when I clicked the button, nothing happened. I clicked the button again, but then again, nothing. Not even a loading symbol on the browser tab. I reloaded the page.

Part 2: No escape
When I reloaded, instead of spawning back in Jamaa Township or another land I spawned back into the adventure. This time it wasn't laggy. Everything was as clear as day.

WIP