The premise was unimportant, and I doubt I could tell it to you if I tried, it's been so long.

But it was a real promising game, and a bunch of my friends all signed up to play, and we filled out our character sheets and everything.

Then came... the post.

Something along the lines of "Mod here, I forgot to include on thing on your character sheets. Everyone needs to have a flavor."

What, exactly, was a flavor you ask?

Well, so did all of us.

... like a theme or like

skittles?

"You know, a flavor! What do they taste like if you lick them? My character, for example, tastes like strawberries!"

You never saw such an exodus of people fleeing a game all at once.

We never did find out if it was for smut purposes, or cannibalism, or what. We didn't know, we didn't WANT to know.

"my character tastes like strawberries" there's

Y e a h . . .

Really not a lot of directions that sentence can go in that don't end really, really weird

You said it. You REALLY said it.

...all I could think was just...if all characters tasted like something, there'd probably be a lot of people just chewing on their own hands...

from just the statement to like

I, personally, was of the mind that the mod probably had some sort of licking fetish or something. But like I said, I didn't want to find out. I didn't ask any more questions. I just LEFT.

ok, but why strawberries

For years, all it would take to do to send a shiver down my spine was whisper "Flavors"

my character tastes like strawberries

why this

This mystery is going to be stuck in my head all day now

and I hate it.

my character tastes like a clean human, please don't eat them.

You ask me for RP horror stories... this one will always LEAP to the forefront of my mind.

I've played with power gamers, god modders, purposeful perverts, actual online criminals, and more... but this one... THIS is what it always comes back to.

... well I think you win, babe. And I'm sorry.

You were wise that day

sips drink and stares into the distance