Yesterday, IGEBM, Si, and Storm hung out with the ghost of Chaos and many other deceased PMCers. After spending the rest of the day exploring the woods of Shiver Island, they are ready to head home around midnight.

IGEBM leads the trio through the woods. Despite having taken several naps throughout the nighttime portion of their adventure, they are all sleepy and ready to go to bed. Their sweaters can only do so much to keep them warm, but at least the leaves of the dark forest are protecting them from the heavy rain. "At least we go to hang out with Chaos and co." Si says, followed by a yawn. "Yeah, that was really fun." Storm adds. He spots a purple glow up ahead. "Am I so tired that I'm hallucinating or do y'all see what I'm seeing?" "No, I see it too." IGE answers. He turns towards the glow, and his friends follow. After walking for a few minutes, they find the source of the glow to be the ghost of Peter, a friend of theirs who was killed by the Maddened One (an alternate universe version of IGEBM that was driven crazy with the infinite knowledge of the alien Underbase) in May!

"Peter?" Si asks, surprised. "Is it really you?" Peter hears them and turns around. "Holy Cyprezz, you're here!" he cheers. "What a coincidence!" "So it is you!" IGE says, excited. "Darn right it is." Peter responds. "Again, what are the odds that we'd be visiting the same island and run into each other?" "Close to zero." Storm comments. They all chuckle. "Why are you here anyways?" Peter asks. "Well, we received an invitation to stay at Shiver Mansion for the month." IGE explains. "And then we found out this whole island is haunted and may have accidentally unleashed evil spirits because someone used the wrong color chalk while drawing a pentagram." He glares at Storm. "We were just hanging out with Chaos and a few others ghosts yesterday." he continues. "The rest of the day was spent exploring more of these woods. What are you doing here?" "I figured I'd come down to PMC this month while I had the opportunity." Peter answers. "So, what's been going on here lately?"

"First of all, we defeated the guy that killed you." Si says. "It took a few days, but we stopped his plot to take over the multiverse, prevented a global apocalypse, and, oh wait, that's it." "Some other crazy stuff happened too." Storm says. "Emmin's release, Anonymous hate messages, including one that called IGE some really derogatory things, Arian's brief arrest, and Greief's accidental creation of countless Blue clones." "Yikes." Peter says. "IGE, what about Sodaville?" "Sodaville's in a weird place right now." IGE responds. "After we stopped the apocalypse, Si suggested I go fix things up there, since it was basically left unattended by us after we split up a bit. I met up with Taco and Kiwi there - Pig and Ella were busy - and we did spend all of July making the town a better place, but come August and we left again. Taco and Kiwi disappeared, but Taco recently contacted me and said he's moving back to there for now, and paired with my periodic visits there, I think things are gonna be okay." "I'm glad things are okay." Peter says. "Oh yeah, while we were there, we erected a memorial for you in the town square." IGE adds. Peter smiles.

"It's been great seeing you guys again, but I'm gonna have to leave soon." he tells them. "I'll try to visit again, but it probably won't be until next year. I'll come to PMC City next time, though. Good luck with your vacation, if you can even call it that now." "Bye!" IGE says, waving at his friend. "See you on the flip side!" Si says, also waving. "'Til we meet again!" Storm says. Peter fades away, his spirit returning to the afterlife. IGE, Si, and Storm start walking back to the mansion again, talking about Peter the whole time.

TOMORROW - "THE SCARECROW LIVES!"

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Cast (in order of appearance)
IGEBM as IGEBM
LegendarySi as Si
Stormy as Storm
@OrderOutOfChaos as Peter

Mentioned (in order of mentioning)
The Maddened One (not mentioned by name, but rather as "the guy that killed you [​Peter]")
Emminlk12 as Emmin
Arianwyn as Arian
Greief as Greief
BlueBoyBuilds as Blue
TacoFromTheSkyz as Taco
2000sindie as Kiwi
TheMcPig as Pig
Pixella_9487 as Ella

Writing began 10-9-2023 at 10:31 AM EDT
Writing completed 10-9-2023 at 11:02 AM EDT
Published 10-16-2023 at 5:00 PM EDT
Written by IGEBM
Cover art by IGEBM

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Two Random Things

Random Thing #1: Si, if you weren't planning on doing it already after you saw this, can you show it to Peter for me?

Random Thing #2: I was listening to Avantasia's "The Great Mystery" as I finished writing this, and the song finished just as I was finishing writing the story.

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