011 – Monkey Gallery # 3
011 - Monkey Gallery # 3
011 - Monkey Gallery # 3
「Monkey Gallery」
An internet community popped up.
Monkey photo (1) Anonymous(992.201)
What species of monkey is this? (3) Anonymous(321.31)
It seemed to literally be a community chatting about the animal called monkeys.
However, whether it wasn't very active, the gaps between posts were long.
A month, or as long as a few months.
And understandably so, since it was hard to view monkeys as popular animals.
If it were a puppy or cat gallery, posts would have been uploaded constantly.
But monkeys were....
If asked whether they were mainstream, they were not.
I recalled once again the words of 'Oseonjok Exterminator,' who had handed me the link to the 「Monkey's Paw Site」.
━"It's the 「Monkey's Paw Site」. It's a Q... QR code to access it. It's a re... reward you can only get if you serve as a Monkey Gallery Moderator for a year."
It seemed that becoming a wizard changed one's constitution or something.
I vividly remembered every single trembling of his voice and look in his eyes.
I definitely felt like my memory had improved.
'He definitely said the Monkey Gallery. Is this the right gallery?'
Oseonjok Exterminator.
Was it really true that he was a Moderator in this community?
For context, Moderator is short for 'blue badge'.
It's slang referring to the administrators of the community.
Depending on the rank, an orange or blue badge would be attached next to the nickname.
To compare it to a restaurant kitchen, the orange badge 'Head Admin' is the overall owner chef.
The blue badge 'Moderator' would be something like the sous-chef.
What these arm-band-wearing managers do is ban trolls or delete macro posts that don't fit the community's purpose.
'Oseonjok Exterminator' must have done such things as one of those arm-banded mods.
However, I doubted whether the 'Monkey Gallery' he said he managed was really here.
Could there be something else?
Just as I was frowning while thinking that.
Sssssssss─.
The letters of the posts displayed before my eyes began to come alive and move like ants.
It felt like all the pores on my body burst open and my head went blank.
The letters, squirming like living creatures, rearranged themselves to lay out new sentences.
In the following manner.
「Anonymous(321.321)」
Fuck, how many digits is the quarantine code? (3)
Writing a single post requires doing all kinds of fucking circus acts
└12-digit code entered due to Ghost-jok trolling www
└Seeing the anomalies running wild, it seems the rumor that Witch Nguyen died is true www
└└It's not Nguyen, it's Thailand, you dumbass
「Sillim-dong Magic Claw」
Don't like the prevention code? If you're pissed, make a fixed handle hehe (2)
Of course, average 'Juice Magicians' like you won't even see the 'Create Fixed Handle' button though hehe
└Don't you know that making a fixed handle brings monitoring from the Management Foundation? I intentionally don't make a fixed handle
└Ah, typical Juice! Making excuses is pa-the-tic!
「My Neighborhood Shaman King」
I made a new aluminum foil hazmat suit this time, how is it? (97)
(A photo of a coat plastered with aluminum foil)
└ww Looks fucking hot to wear in summer
└If you wear something like that, aren't you advertising "I'm a magician"?
└Monkeys will probably just see you as a crazy beggar wwwww
└My Neighborhood Shaman King : No, but seriously, the effect is insane? It blocks almost all anomalies from approaching
「Anonymous(44.44)」
I see a ghost, please save me (3)
「God Ruling the Korean Peninsula」
That post above is a troll post by ghost spies, so don't click it (5)
It'll be deleted soon
└This Moderator works well www
└IP address 44.44, what a joke www
└They set up 12 anomaly prevention code digits, so what kind of bastard is an anomaly that breaks through it?
└Curious? If you're curious, click it yourself go go
└Looks like the three guys who commented already got hooked wwwww
"O-Ohhh!"
Thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-.
My heart beat faster than at any other point today.
The secret revealed after pulling back a single thin curtain.
The 'Monkey Gallery' actually existed!
Were all these people posting here just like me?
Were they wizards like me who could see things others couldn't?
From the excitement, my fingertips and toes thrilled as if an electric current passed through them.
The realization that I could learn more about things I didn't know made every hair stand on end.
There were so many things I wanted to ask them.
What I wanted to ask the most was, after all....
I glanced over at Boribori.
Boribori was huddled in the corner, staring at me.
He seemed to like the 30,000-won cushion I bought earlier today in his own way, sitting nicely on top of it.
The imp Boribori.
Wouldn't someone in this 'Monkey Gallery' know who that guy is?
So I clicked the create post button.
However─.
Enter code: Jde55123aasdzxc1213
When writing a post in a gallery, there were times when you had to enter something called a captcha code.
I didn't know well, but it was a system meant to prevent macro spam posts.
Usually, it seemed to be around 2 or 3 digits.
The prevention code visible in front of me right now was at least 15 digits.
After entering it character by character... Enter.
Tap.
And in that instant—all the lights in my house went out.
Oooong─.
"What the, all of a sudden?"
011 - Monkey Gallery # 3
The power came back on about 10 seconds after I hit enter.
Panicking, I turned the computer back on, and fortunately, my post was uploaded without any issues.
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Is this where wizards gather? (0) 「Anonymous(3.0)」
Is it also possible to exchange information and stuff?
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Now, what will happen?
I hoped comments would come in nicely.
Should I have added plenty of clickbait to the title or content to grab people's attention?
Just as I was thinking that, comments appeared.
└3.0? What the fuck is this IP www What kind of anomaly are you?
└First time seeing a single-digit IP www
└You guys above sure feed the anomalies well ww Visiting your dreams tonight, goodbye~
Anomaly?
By anomaly, did they mean things like Ms. Ming, who was a Thai ghost, or 'Wagijagi' in the basement of the building?
It seemed that even such strange anomalies posted in this community sometimes.
And I wondered if such anomalies were measured by IP address.
My IP '3.0' seemed a bit unusual in their eyes.
Soon, another comment was posted.
└God Ruling the Korean Peninsula: If you're an anomaly, fuck off, and if you're a transfer student, go read the notice first
Ah, the notice.
Digging further through the posts, I saw a post titled 'Monkey Gallery Notice'.
The content of the notice was simple.
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Never reveal your own name.
Do not write posts that could specify your identity.
No forming cliques.
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Up to the 3rd item, it seemed like reasonable common sense.
But starting from number 4, content that was hard to understand appeared.
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Keep daily posts under 3, including comments.
Thoroughly ignore whatever is written in the 6th notice item.
Turn off the gallery right now and look in the mirror.
Access the gallery only via mobile whenever possible.
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The rules ended at 7 like this.
Some of them were quite bizarre, giving a very strange feel, but thanks to that suspiciousness, it actually felt genuine.
Similar to how a truly delicious restaurant is often a shabby, rundown old shop.
Comments were also written under the notice.
└But why do we have to write fewer than 3 posts including comments?
Yeah, I was a bit curious too.
Under such a comment, there was another reply.
This was another very welcome nickname.
└Oseonjok Exterminator: Do you know about the monkey banana experiment?
Could it be the man who gave me the link to the 「Monkey's Paw Site」?
He left a comment like this:
Monkey Banana Experiment.
Put five monkeys in a room, hang a banana from the ceiling, and set up a ladder.
When the monkeys try to climb the ladder to eat the banana, pour a deluge of water on all the monkeys.
Replace one monkey.
When the replaced monkey tries to climb the ladder to eat the banana, the existing monkeys who took the water deluge grab him and beat him mercilessly.
Replace another monkey.
When the newly arrived monkey touches the ladder, even the monkey that was replaced just moments ago and never took a water deluge joins in to assault him.
Without even knowing why they are beating him, or why he shouldn't climb.
Now there isn't a single monkey in that room that has experienced the water deluge.
But no one climbs the ladder.
They just restrain and punch each other without even knowing the reason whenever someone tries to climb.
Oseonjok Exterminator: That's why we are the 'Monkey Gallery'. We are just like the monkeys used in that experiment. They're weird rules, but if they tell us not to do it, it's right not to do it.
"Oh, that makes total sense."
Oseonjok Exterminator.
When I met him in person, he was a totally strange guy.
But on the internet, he spoke so well.
Anyway, I roughly finished reading the notice.
But looking now, wasn't there a pretty interesting post in the 'Recommended Posts' section?
「Making Holy Water That Even a Dummy Can Do (999+)」
「How to Make Anti-Anomaly and Anti-Magician Armor with Aluminum Foil (787)」
「How a Transfer Student Can Raise Their Magician Rank Must Read (999+)」
The titles looked useful at a glance.
Holy water seemed to refer to the kind of water used to drive away demons in movies and such.
Aluminum foil... I wasn't so sure about, but the word 'armor' really whetted my appetite.
Also, the title 'How a Transfer Student Can Raise Their Magician Rank' stimulated my curiosity in itself.
Raising the rank probably meant raising one's skill level.
'That's exactly the info I wanted!'
Making holy water. Making armor.
Since these two seemed to require materials, I decided to click them later.
For now, I clicked the post on raising a magician's rank first.
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Author: 「Get Caught in a Ghost Story」
Title: How a Transfer Student Can Raise Their Magician Rank Must Read (999+)
Transfer student magicians like us have a much later start compared to Originals.
Those silver-spoon bastards aren't just a few steps ahead.
So what should we do? Since we started late, we have to run faster.
Meaning we have to deliberately shove our heads into anomalies or mysteries, force our eyes wide open, and forcibly keep warming up and preheating our pineal glands.
If you want to raise your magician rank, deliberately click on posts where anomalies are trolling too ww
Also, if there are request posts for anomaly exorcisms on Hobak Market or the internet, definitely click all of them.
Using this method, I raised my rank from Eosureum-grade to Hohwan-grade in just one year.
└Oseonjok Exterminator: This is legit real, deliberately getting entangled with anomalies has the best effect
└But if you mess up, wouldn't you die or get corrupted by anomalies?
└Scaredy-cat bastard, if you don't even have that resolve, just go be a Juice Magician 🖕
└Once you reach Hohwan-grade magician, you can easily make 100 to 200 million won a year, can you resist this ww?
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If you want to raise your status as a magician, deliberately make contact with anomalies.
It sounded plausible.
It was also a perfect tip for me.
'The basement of the Dori Building.'
I recalled that space of bizarre phenomena in our neighborhood.
My ability to escape that place was entirely thanks to the magic circle.
So to speak, it was a bug play.
It was far from fair and square.
I wanted to grow stronger, acquire more knowledge, become an even more perfect and splendid wizard, challenge that place, and test myself against it─.
Such a thought occurred to me.
In a manner of speaking, a revenge match.
If I completely conquered that place, wouldn't my own level rise a notch higher?
Just like earning a Michelin star.
"Let's definitely make holy water and aluminum foil armor today."
Even though I was just a commis stagiaire, I was still a cook at a Michelin restaurant.
Aluminum foil was lying around everywhere at my place.
"Holy water is...."
I glanced over at Boribori.
"Boribori, can I try making some holy water?"
Wouldn't holy water and Boribori, an imp, be an obvious bad match?
Whether Boribori didn't understand my words or just wasn't interested, he merely wagged his tail gently.
I could take that as an OK sign, right?
But as I read these posts, I suddenly had a question.
'Why do they call themselves magicians instead of wizards?'
Magician.
Isn't that someone who pulls pigeons out of hats and finds shuffled cards?
So I wrote a post.
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But why magician and not wizard? 「Anonymous(3.0)」
Isn't a magician someone who does card magic and pigeon magic?
If you can make things like holy water, shouldn't it be wizard??
└Is this bastard saying this without knowing, or asking because he really doesn't know?
└There's no such thing as a wizard in the world www
└└An anomaly bastard is pulling clickbait and you guys feed it so well ww
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No such thing as a wizard in the world?
What did that mean?